Archive for June, 2008
Posted in June 16th, 2008
India is set for a wonderful monsoon this year with the meterological department predicting that the monsoon this year will be near normal which means a bountiful rainfall. Well begun is half won say experts. The monsoon has hit the India Capital Delhi a clear two weeks ahead of schedule , which is a 108 […]
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Posted in June 14th, 2008
Yahoo has made life more difficult for Microsoft, if at all it has plans to take over Yahoo, by signing up tie up deals with Google on advertisements. Under the complicated agreement, Google will have its advertisements on Yahoo site thereby creating a win-win situation. Lot of experts in the online advertisement business fear that […]
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Posted in June 13th, 2008
As of now India imports over 80% of its gas needs from other countries spending billions of dollars. With the Reliance Industries limited , which is the largest private sector company in India, starting the gas and oil production from its Krishna-Godavari basin in the next few months, the import bill of India is expected […]
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Posted in June 13th, 2008
China has hiked the export duty on Phosphorus ( that is used in the manufacture of matches,insecticides, pharmaceuticals, agro chemicals, lubricant additives and water treatment compounds etc) from 20% to 120% and this is expected to add to the cost of these items for India. India imports over 20000 tons of Phosphorous from China every […]
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Posted in June 13th, 2008
Indian government today announced that the latest Inflation rate is at 8.75 percent which is the highest figure since early 2001. This has put more pressure on the government to come out with more fiscal measures and export control measures. The inflation is expected to shoot over 9 percent in coming weeks, since the retail […]
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Posted in June 12th, 2008
China and Taiwan today agreed to open offices in each other’s countries to further strengthen the commercial ties in coming years. The talks began after almost a decade and it seems that both the countries are now realizing the need to leave their hatred baggage behind. They have agreed to leave aside the sensitive issues […]
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Posted in June 12th, 2008
The stock markets across the globe have fallen to lower levels with worries of inflation not going down and also the ever increasing crude oil prices. US markets fell by over 2% yesterday and all the Asian markets were seen in the red with the Indian market falling nearly 2% in the early morning trades. […]
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Posted in June 12th, 2008
Golf is an interesting and time consuming sport which indeed needs lot of area. Hence you find that only people with deep pockets can afford to play golf game. Quite a few people who love to play Golf, skip doing that only to avoid buying the tracking software and installing in their computer. The added […]
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Posted in June 12th, 2008
The Indian Premier League format of twenty-twenty cricket matches in India last month was a spectacular success both in terms of increasing the popularity of the game, increasing the revenues for the Indian cricket board by millions of dollars and also increasing the pool of young cricket talent in India. Now this fever has caught […]
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Posted in June 12th, 2008
Astronauts in US space shuttle Discovery were seen completing their end chores yesterday, for flying back to earth on wednesday. The 1 billion lab’s robotic arm was tested out thoroughly by the team in terms of movement of all six joints of the 33 foot arm. The arm was put in resting form after completion […]
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