A few top-tier Indian schools, such as the elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), are often compared with world-class schools, but the American investors and businesses have finally learned the hard way that there is huge gap between the few tier one schools and the large number of tier two and three schools in India. Other than about 5000 graduates from the…
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Added by Riaz Haq on September 3, 2009 at 6:00pm —
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Jinnah was a great Indian.
Gandhi himself called Jinnah a great Indian. Why don't we recognize that?
Jinnah stood against the might of the Congress party and against the British who didn't really like him.
Jinnah was not against Hindus.
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Added by Riaz Haq on August 19, 2009 at 8:55am —
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My family and I arrived on a Saturday evening in late July at Beijing's international airport's beautiful and spacious terminal 3, the new massive glass and steel structure that was opened just prior to last year's
Summer Olympics in the city. I did not see it when I visited Beijing…
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Added by Riaz Haq on August 8, 2009 at 9:05am —
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Understanding the need to design for extreme affordability is giving birth to a new generation of entrepreneurs. These are entrepreneurs with a social conscience who are motivated by the desire to do good and do well at the same time. They are finding new ways to empower the poor by satisfying their basic needs for safe water and electricity in emerging markets.
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Added by Riaz Haq on April 6, 2009 at 7:05pm —
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Popular Bollywood filmmaker
MAHESH BHATT, known for films such as Arth, Saaransh, Janam, Naam, Inteha, Jism, Murder and Woh Lamhe, makes an impassioned appeal to save Urdu from extinction in India, the birthplace of the language, in an article published by the Hindu:
Man is memory, and memory is sound. The…
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Added by Riaz Haq on April 3, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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Tata Motors is set to launch its low-cost Nano minicar Monday, March 23, according to media reports from India. With a starting price of about $1,945, which doesn't include dealer markup and other charges that consumers will pay, the Nano will be one of the world's cheapest cars. This product launch comes at a time when the auto industry is facing a severe downturn, attributed to the worldwide consumer credit crunch amidst a serious global financial crisis.…
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Added by Riaz Haq on March 21, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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Not only has the low-budget movie
"Slumdog Millionaire" drawn big crowds in the West and taken in more than $ 100m at the box office, the movie has won eight Oscars last night, including the Academy awards for the Best Picture and the Best Director. The Best Music and Best Song awards went to…
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Added by Riaz Haq on February 23, 2009 at 8:26pm —
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Decried by many as "
racist poverty porn" and condemned by Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachan in his
blog for showing India as "a third world dirty under belly developing nation (sic)", the movie…
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Added by Riaz Haq on February 22, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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If Russia was the destination of choice in the 1980s and 1990s for Indian students who could not make it into medical colleges in India, China has now emerged as the hot favourite. Last year, for instance, nearly 3,000 Indian students took admission in medical colleges in China.
Still in its relatively early years, the trend has already hit a minor roadblock. After complaints from several students who went in the earlier batches about…
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Added by Riaz Haq on February 21, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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Suzlon, India's wind power giant, has reported a quarterly loss after years of expansion and profit growth. It was hurt mainly by the ongoing global credit crunch, slowing wind turbine sales, and by rising costs and a provision to do repairs stemming from the widely reported
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Added by Riaz Haq on February 5, 2009 at 6:03pm —
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China continued to outperform India as a magnet for US venture capital investments in 2008. This was particularly interesting in a year that saw the venture investors feel the pinch from declining values of their portfolios. It was also a year when a company based in Pakistan became the first to receive US venture funding.
In India, the…
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Added by Riaz Haq on January 25, 2009 at 7:30am —
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Menlo Park based
oDesk has ranked Philippines and Pakistan as the top two outsourcing destinations in terms of growth, value for money and customer feedback.
oDesk helps its clients with tools, technologies and services to hire and manage remote work teams. Other companies in its category, including…
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Added by Riaz Haq on January 16, 2009 at 10:00pm —
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By Air Marshall (Retd) Ayaz Khan of Pakistan Air Force
Unfortunately India and Pakistan had adversarial relations since sixty years. After the Mumbai carnage Pakistan is under threat of
pre-emptive strikes. The Fourth Indo-Pakistan war could be triggered by another terrorist…
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Added by Riaz Haq on January 15, 2009 at 12:37pm —
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Satyam Computer Services Ltd., considered the poster child of India's information technology age, has shocked the world with a scandal of major proportions. The chairman of
Satyam, a name that literally means "truth" in Sanskrit, said he cooked up key financial results, including a fictitious cash balance of more than $1 billion,…
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Added by Riaz Haq on January 9, 2009 at 8:28am —
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Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia has been seriously disrupted since Friday when three major underwater data lines were cut in the Mediterranean, according to media reports.
The main damage is to the four submarine cables running across the Mediterranean and through the Suez Canal. The damaged cables include Sea…
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Added by Riaz Haq on December 20, 2008 at 9:00am —
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Calls to
"do a Lebanon" to fight terror are being made vociferously by the Indian media as they have focused the national and international attention on Mumbai terrorist attacks that targeted two opulent hotels and a small Jewish center in India's financial capital. The need for war on…
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Added by Riaz Haq on December 15, 2008 at 9:00am —
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Based on Simon Beaufoy's screenplay adapted from a Vikas Swarup's novel,
Slumdog Millionaire is a well-made movie by a British director Danny Boyle. The early part of it reminds me of Dickens' Oliver Twist. But that impression quickly changes as the story develops into more than an…
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Added by Riaz Haq on November 30, 2008 at 8:00am —
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While the Indian Navy is going after the pirates in the Gulf of Aden, two Indian youngsters are joining the Pirates in the United States.
Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel are two 20-year-old pitchers with million dollar arms. Neither had picked up a baseball until earlier this year. Both have now signed free-agent contracts with the Pittsburgh Pirates,…
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Added by Riaz Haq on November 26, 2008 at 10:30am —
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21st Century Challenges of Resurgent India
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Riaz Haq
The pre-British, early 19th century Moghul India, described as caste-ridden, feudalistic and unmodern, was economically ahead of the rest of the…
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Added by Riaz Haq on November 22, 2008 at 4:09pm —
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In June 2007, the power cuts in Pakistan lasted no more than 3 or 4 hours a day. Today, in extremely hot weather, Pakistanis have to endure without electricity for 8 to 10 hours a day. Industrial production is suffering, exports are down, jobs are being lost, and the national economy is in a
downward spiral. By all indications, the power crisis in Pakistan is getting worse than ever.…
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Added by Riaz Haq on September 17, 2008 at 9:00am —
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