The 1.5 million Indian Americans in the US continue to top the US Census charts as the best-educated, highest-paid and top-placed community among the 38.1 million foreign-born population in the country. (more…)
The power of rewriting history is best seen in how the whole world attributes the discovery that the square of the hypotenuse of a right angle triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides to Pythagoreas in 6th Century BC whereas this same thing has been written down earlier in Sulba Sutra in India in the 8th Century BC as follows The diagonal chord of the rectangle makes both the squares that the horizontal and vertical sides make separately. So most probably this insight was taken by Pythagoreus and branded as his own.
I was watching the recent PBS show on India and was infuriated given in the program for the Aryan Invasion theory making it appear as if its crystal clear that ancient Indians were primitives and it was the invading Aryans who civilized them! Unbelievable that none of the theories which oppose this was brushed aside as it suits the western propaganda. Found this interesting video on this topic. Also check out this link
.hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } Please note that PBS (Ch 13 in USA) will broadcast an Interesting TV documentary on India on Mondays Jan 12 and 19, from 9 to 11 PM;
The world’s largest democracy and a rising economic giant, India is now as well known across the globe for its mastery of computer technology as it is for its many-armed gods and its famous spiritual traditions. But India is also the world’s most ancient surviving civilization, with unbroken continuity back into prehistory.
Please see following link for more info- http://www.pbs.org/thestoryofindia/
General Motors Corp and Chrysler have moved closer on Friday to offloading two niche vehicle brands associated with the era of cheap gasoline and big profits for Detroit, even as both sides intensified talks on a merger that would combine the struggling automakers.
GM will send out a sales prospectus for Hummer to possible bidders in the next few days and Indian automakers Tata Motors Ltd (TAMO.BO: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd are among those who will take a look, a source familiar with the matter said.
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India and China saw bigger growth in the millionaire population last year than anywhere else, and wealth in the Asia-Pacific is expected to grow nearly 8 percent a year to 2012 despite a slowdown in the world at large, a survey showed. (more…)
With hard effort and single-minded devotion, you can make possible what seems impossible.
That is what an 18-year-old has shown in Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh. With not enough to eat, and no money even to burn the midnight oil, in a village with hardly nine hours daily power supply, the boy managed to secure 453rd rank in the IIT entrance exam. However, he has won only half the battle yet. (more…)
Quick: Cochabamba is the third-largest conurbation in what country?
Your answer might be, “Huh?” But 11-year-old Akshay Rajagopal answered “Bolivia” to clinch the 20th annual National Geographic Bee on Wednesday.
A conurbation is a large, densely populated urban area — and Cochabamba is the third-largest one in the South American country.
Akshay’s correct answer capped a two-day event in which he got every question right. A sixth-grader at Lux Middle School in Lincoln, Neb., he won a $25,000 scholarship. (more…)
With the ‘India Shining story’ still going strong, coupled with recession in the developed economies, many Indian citizens are looking forward to return to India for good. Such individuals may have anxieties about the exchange control restrictions in India that could apply to them, their overseas assets and the facilities for opening bank accounts on their return to India. (more…)
Hidden Derivative Losses Spook India Investors: Andy Mukherjee
Commentary by Andy Mukherjee
March 25 (Bloomberg) — Investors in Yes Bank Ltd., an Indian lender partly owned by Rabobank Groep NV of the Netherlands, have had a turbulent ride amid an unraveling of corporate India’s risky, leveraged bets on currency movements.Yes Bank shares have tumbled 42 percent this month, making it the worst performer among 18 banking stocks on Bombay Stock Exchange’s Bankex index. (more…)