A historic moment for India as NSG gives it the nod

In a historic moment that ended more than three decades of nuclear isolation for India, the 45-nation
Nuclear Suppliers Group Saturday rewrote their guidelines to resume global nuclear trade with New Delhi.
The NSG’s decision to grant India a clean waiver from its existing rules, which forbid nuclear trade with a country which has not
signed the Nuclear [...]

Chronology of India’s nuclear journey

Following is the chronology of some key developments related to the landmark Indo-US nuclear deal:
1968: India refuses to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) on the grounds that it is discriminatory.
May 18, 1974: India conducts its first nuclear test.
March 10, 1978: US President Jimmy Carter signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act, following which US
ceases exporting nuclear [...]

Ganesh Rocks

Ganesha rocks!
Today, it’s that time of the year when chants of “Ganapati Bappa Morya” begin to resound across the country as long serpentine
queues of trucks carrying idols of Lord Ganesha inch their way into our homes and hearts. The elephant headed God’s back
and it’s time to rejoice, exclaims Viren Naidu Pandals with Ganesha idols dominate [...]

Ganesh chaturathi

Ganesha Chaturthi ( गणेश चतुर्थी) or Ganesha Festival is a day on which lord Ganesha, the son of Shiva and Parvati, is believed to bestow his presence on earth for all his devotees. It is also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi or Vinayaka Chavithi in Sanskrit, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu, Chavath ( चवथ ) in Konkani [...]

India 3rd on commercial spend list

Annual commercial spending in India clocked $2.3 trillion in 2007, an increase of 23% from
2006, according to data released by Visa, the world’s largest retail electronic payments network.
As per Visa’s Commercial Consumption Expenditure (CCE) index, India was third largest nation in terms of
the size of total business and government spend and the fourth fastest growing [...]

India-Next mobile superpower

According to a Gartner report, after China, India would be fastest growing mobile telephony market in Asia Pacific with revenues slated to increase at a CAGR of 18.4% to reach $25 billion in 2011 from current $9 billion.
Cellular penetration would increase to 38.6% in 2011 with 58% of rural population and 95% of urban population [...]

In Praise of India

WHAT WORLD SAY ABOUT INDIA
In 1835, even Lord Macaulay, the British historian and politician had to admit before the British Parliament: “I have travelled across the length and breadth of India  and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, [...]