India

Takeaway for a housewife from budget 2010
Saturday February 27, 2010 01:51 am PST
There is good reason for any salaried person to cheer the Budget 2010. The salary slabs for tax has been increased. Is there something for the housewife too? Let’s see how the monthly budget of a housewife will be affected by Union Budget [...]

RAIL BUDGET – HIGHLIGHTS
No increase in passenger fares
Rs.100 reduction in freight per wagon for fertilisers and kerosene
Free travel for cancer patients in 3rd AC classes
Cost-sharing in public-private-partnership (PPP) mode in some gauge-conversion projects
Further extension of Kolkata Metro on priority basis; stations to be named after Bahadur Shah Zafar, Tagore family
Karmabhoomi trains to be introduced for [...]

Mobile phones, books & toys = cool; Fuel, SUVs = uncool
Friday February 26, 2010 11:18 pm PST
As always, every budget has its highs and lows, FM Pranab Mukherjee’s budget 2010 presented today is no different. From a consumer’s point of view, here’s a look at the goods and services that are cool and uncool -
Cool [...]

A Road Map For India
Wed, Feb 24 02:32 PM
Sramana Mitra, Forbes.com
India has a critical decade ahead. Managed well, it will catapult India into a developed country with superpower status. Managed poorly, the opportunity will be squandered. I would like to believe that this time, India will manage its destiny well. And in my new [...]

Budget 2010 – May not make tax payers happy
Expectations are running high for the Budget 2010 to do many things – maintain growth, give employment, reduce the deficit, take steps to shift to the New Direct tax Code, take measures to implement GST, reduce inflation and increase revenue for the Government.
All this has to [...]

By Yahoo! India Movies
Wednesday Feb 17 7:43 PM
The fast, furious and fleeting appearance of King Khan in Gurgaon takes the revellers’ breath away. Even more breathtaking, however, is that SRK flew back to Mumbai the next morning, richer, reportedly by Rs 5 crore that was paid for his 10-minute cameo.
By: Dhiman Chattopadhyay and [...]

Pune terror attack: Nine killed, 33 injured; India on high alert
At least nine people were killed and 33 injured when a bomb blast ripped through the German Bakery in the upscale Koregaon Park area of the city Saturday evening. The improvised explosive device, kept in an unattended packet outside the kitchen of [...]

Valentines Day in India
Valentine’s Day celebration is a recent phenomenon in India but has caught the fancy of people to a great extent. Though some see it as a western import and hesitate to celebrate, there exist a large and growing number of those who love the feeling behind the beautiful and romantic festival. Especially [...]

Radicals protest against Valentine’s Day revelry across India
by Bhavesh on Thu 11 Feb 2010 01:22 PM IST |
Coimbatore /Bhopal: Ahead of the Valentine’’s Day, activists of a radical group gathered here to chart out their protest against the celebrations of romance by the courting friends and couples.
Under the banner of Hindu Makkal Katchi [...]

Indian-origin girl crowned Australia’s brainiest student
Mon, Feb 1 04:15 PM
Melbourne, Feb 1 (ANI): A
14-year-old girl of Indian-origin has been crowned as Australia’s brainiest student in a battle of neuroscience knowledge in Sydney.
Uma Jha, from Perth’s Shenton College, in inner-west Shenton Park, outsmarted more than 4000 competitors from across Australia to bag the title.
The 2010 Australian [...]