Monthly Archives: August 2007

Mumbai Bandh?

Posted on August 31, 2007 by

The PM M Singh is coming to Mumbai today to inaugurate the tps3 and 4 plants at Trombay, supposedly with 400 crores of public money (small crumbs if u compare it with actually what Mumbai will really get and the … Continue reading →

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Nokia Mobiles

Posted on August 30, 2007 by

Nokia is as valuable to to the Finnish as Fiat is to the Italians. It is the most admired of the mobile phone companies known for the quality and reliability of its handsets. No wonder India is its 2nd largest … Continue reading →

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Cheap Air tickets

Posted on August 30, 2007 by

The intense competition n airwars between all players like Indian, Jet, Spicejet, Go Air, Kingfisher and Air Deccan, has meant an overall fall in fares and a new class of budget travel.Most airlines have started selling their tickets online and … Continue reading →

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Indian Railways

Posted on August 29, 2007 by

India has one of the largest railway network in the world. Though the network is extensive, the safety, the service and the comfort standards are bad as compared to other countries. Positive being the very low cost of tickets in … Continue reading →

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ICICI bank Customer Woes!

Posted on August 28, 2007 by

Ive heard seen and sometimes faced first hand the woes faced by many customers of Icici group. Now ICICI is no tiny bank but the second largest and fastest growing bank- second only to the government mammoth SBI. It has … Continue reading →

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Technology – A Supreme Leveler!

Posted on August 27, 2007 by

Technology is truly a Supreme leveler, as shown by cracking of most encryption codes and barriers put up by most big corporates, Governments and MNCs . Be it the DVD code breaking DeCSS by Jon or Cracking the Region code … Continue reading →

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Entry Load in Direct Mutual Fund Purchases to go?

Posted on August 26, 2007 by

If sebi has its way, direct investments in a mutual fund should be spared the burden of an entry load, which goes straight into the pockets of agents. However, Sebi has not made it clear by what extent it wants … Continue reading →

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Tata Sky or ZEE Dish TV?

Posted on August 25, 2007 by

Here is the big question for paid DTH. What would u choose Tata Sky or ZEE Dish TV? From my enquirers id suggest Zee Dish tv if ur into Zee channels or regional language channels as zee certainly offers better … Continue reading →

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Role models and Hypocracy

Posted on August 24, 2007 by

I can never understand why most patriotic filmi role models who are known hypocrites are so revered in the media and in real life by most people. To give u an example :- In hollywood we have Frank Sinatra and … Continue reading →

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Credibility of Polls.

Posted on August 23, 2007 by

I just read a piece on Ibn about a poll they co-conducted with the pak news network Dawn called India/Pak at 60. Now we all know with whom their loyalties lie, but this poll makes it a bit more clear, … Continue reading →

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