Year 2008 has been a quite eventful year. There are several things which actually happened in year 2008, but would continue to make their impacts felt beyond this year. This makes year 2009 a year from which several hopes are being attached. Simply put, 2009 is starting as a year of great expectations and it remains to be seen how it would unfold. In such a year even the most established astrologer may find it difficult to predict the things for coming year. However, that does not stop me from putting up my list of predictions for current year. Here it goes:-     In 2009 LS elections, a very w...

With the year 2008 coming to an end, this is the time to look back and re-live some of those memories. Though, 2008 would be always known as year when R-word finally became a reality, this post is not about that, its a brief roundup of Indian sportmen who did exceedingly well in 2008 and bought a smile to our faces in this rather dark and gloomy year.  Note that list is in Alphabetical order. Abhinav Bindra Abhinva Bindra became the first Indian in Olympics history to claim a individual gold medal. It was also the first gold for India after 1980. Abhinav arrived on national scene in 2000 and h...

  Telenor’s purchase of a 60 per cent stake in Unitech Wireless for Rs 6,200 crore, in this financial downtime could not have come at a better time for Unitech Wireless's parent company, Unitech. Real estate industries are the one who are feeling the pinch most. However, there has been unusual fallout of this multi-crore deal. Apparently, United Wireless has no assests aside from 3G spectrum license that it has bought from Telecom Ministry. So, based on the current deal, any 6th class student can tell us that Unitech Wireless has been valued at over Rs. 10K crore, just on basis of licence it h...

Just registered on this site after reading few articles.  Really liked them. I would have loved to write few articles on my own ,but then I am not really that good with words. So, I am starting this thread( note that it is not a article), where we would be posting news about recessions, layoffs, etc. Basically anything related to the current mess, the solution of which, nobody seems to have. Let this be a stream for all news related to current financial turmoil.   - EU and Japan are already in recession. Japan Ministers says he expect negative growth next year.  -  Summer placements down in II...