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Go ooh, go aah, go gasp, go rotfl, go wtf, or any emotion that comes to mind, but none can do justice to the exclamation of surprise I let out when I looked at the auction, over and over again in disbelief. If this is the IPL’s idea of making cricket entertaining, it’s doing a great job - and is treading ...

When Manoj Night Shyamalan heard he'd got the Padma Shri, he didn't know how to react. Simply because he did not know the significance of the award. But when his friends and relatives from India and the US began to congratulate him effusively, he realised this was something very different. Today, he confesses, "it feels like a singular event in my ...

NEW DELHI: For a country crowing about its cracking growth rate, here is a fact that should make its head hang in shame. Over 53% children in India under five years - that is, 67 million - live without basic healthcare facilities. This means that India alone accounts for about one-third of all children in the world aged below five who ...

In a reverse trend, the UK government is interested in sending British students to study in India. "We want to set up a UK-India school to facilitate British students to come and study in India," informed Bill Rammell (pictured below), UK minister of state, lifelong learning, further and higher education. This is part of a slew of initiatives by the British ...

NEW DELHI: India has earned the dubious distinction of being the country where maximum number of murders takes place in the world, three times more than its neighbour Pakistan and double the figures in United States. There were more than 50 lakh incidents of crime reported in 2007- 08 which included murder, rape and drug offences, a government report said. There ...

"More and more of our women have been lured into the national flesh trade, taken away by job or marriage offers to all over India," said Sumitra Hazarika Gogoi , a senior member of the Assam State Women Commission. "We have rescued some recently and they all have very sad tales to say." Mrs Gogoi told the BBC in an interview ...

Over the past 18 months, executives from Hollywood studios have been reaching out to their Indian counterparts in Bollywood, Mumbai's answer to Tinseltown. Studios such as Walt Disney (DIS), Sony Pictures (SNE), and Paramount have signed deals with ambitious Indian entertainment companies eager to take advantage of the booming Indian economy. The No. 2 movie in the U.S., The Happening, was ...

I'm worried about Generation X and corporations. As far as I can tell, these two have a tentative relationship at best—and are likely headed for some rocky times ahead. Corporations really need Gen X—folks in their 30's to early 40's, who should begin to serve as our primary corporate leaders over the next couple years. But I fear many current corporate ...

The Indian general who commanded the military campaign that led to the creation of Bangladesh has died at the age of 94. Sam Manekshaw, whose career spanned four decades, was one of India's best known and well-respected soldiers. Under the British, he was decorated for gallantry in World War II for his part fighting the Japanese army in Burma. After India ...

Just six months ago, India was looking good. Annual growth was 9%, corporate profits were surging 20%, the stock market had risen 50% in 2007, consumer demand was huge, local companies were making ambitious international acquisitions, and foreign investment was growing. Nothing, it seemed, could stop the forward march of this Asian nation. But stop it has. In the past month, ...

These Web applications show how great design can make mobile mean more Google "great iPhone apps," and you'll find many Top 10 lists of the coolest applications out there. But in selecting our top Web apps, we focused on design. How does the page look on the 3.5-in. screen? Were the buttons big enough that we could easily tap them ...

A million people in northeastern India face famine after rats destroyed most of the rice crop in their state, the International Rice Research Institute has said. The 2007 infestation spread over to the border areas of Bangladesh and Myanmar in early

In a squat, gray building in Noida, a leading outsourcing destination 15 miles from New Delhi, is the headquarters of Mindworks Global Media. Here, 90 young men and women peer into their computers, editing copy, designing and laying out pages, and even re

Elizabeth A. Campbell was happy with the job offer from a top Houston law firm, but she wasn't itching to leave the comfortable life she had built for herself and her two teenage boys in suburban New Jersey. Other than a detour to Michigan for law school, she was a lifelong Northeasterner. Campbell drew up a table of the pluses and ...

Looking for somewhere to live where you can find a good job and enjoy a high standard of living? (Who isn't?) But some places are more likely to score on both counts than others—and you might be surprised to find out where they are. Working with Payscale.com, we looked at the 25 largest metro areas in the U.S. to determine which ...

There couldn't have been a worse time for Ujjwal Sen's home computer to crash: The high school student from the suburbs of Mumbai was buried in applications to U.S. universities in May. With deadlines fast approaching, a worried Sen ran to a cybercafé down the street from his home. The 10-seat café, squeezed between a grocer and a hardware store, was ...

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The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) is expanding its global footprint with a new office in Asia, the organization announced on July 31. It will be headed up by Eileen Peacock, who currently serves as dean of the Charlton College of Business and professor of accounting at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. The move by the AACSB, one ...