Super Jumbo – dwarfing all! [Picture source] Upon touching JFK International Airport yesterday – another in Los Angeles later – Airbus A380 created an aviation history. Never ever before, such a huge aircraft of the enormity of A380 that can easily cover a whole football ground wing-to-wing has made a trans-Atlantic voyage. A380 is Airbus […]
Nandigram on the boil
After yesterday’s police action at Nandigram that resulted into death of several people, there have been many condemnations. Most notable of them was from the governor. He did not condemn as such, but was pained that the police opened fire on protesters who clearly were not militants or extremists or anti-national elements. He may be […]
Hassan Ali Khan
A few hundred crores to him must be like peanuts because Pune’s stud farm owner Hassan Ali Khan is no less a tycoon than DLF’s KP Singh, or perhaps worth more than him. That may be no big reason why Hassan Ali is making waves for the last couple of days. After all, India does […]
Bengali in British schools
When the sahibs came to colonize India and much of South Asia and elsewhere, there was onus on learning English, the then numero uno language. Indeed the British made a well-demarcated distinction between those who felt comfortable in English and those who didn’t. The natives who could confabulate in English (some even better than them) […]
And now, quaint locales
Fiji (8N+9D): Rs.37,414Bora Bora, Tahiti (6N+7D): €853 (approx. Rs.50,000)Lima (3D+2N): R.5,928Phnom Penh (3D+2N): Rs.15,000Seychelles (4D+3N): Rs.13,000 You may have by now guessed what these figures mean. These exotic destinations are now being increasingly promoted by travel agencies in Kolkata. With airfares becoming cheap and more travel loans being available, people are no longer constrained to […]
Singapore calling Indian students
Until recently, low-budget tourists from India would prefer Singapore among the foreign shores they would like to visit. Not without reason. Singapore is not only a charming destination that can be seen at attractive prices, it’s a shopping paradise too. Singapore also lets you have a taste of life like it would be in a […]
After Apollo, it’s Fortis
Are we to see this sign soon at many city places? Indeed so, going by today’s TT report. If you’ve no clue what Fortis is, well it’s the healthcare arm of Delhi-based drug makers, Ranbaxy Laboratories. With quite a few hospitals to its credit mainly in Delhi, Fortis now plans to launch retail health stores, […]
Tata Steel after Coca-Cola
For a change, today’s newspaper headlines are unanimous. They all hail Tata Steel as the new Indian champion – albeit in corporate sector. Expectedly, many hitherto unknown facts have come to the fore, among which is Tata Steel’s gatecrashing into Fortune Global 500 list. Fortune publishes the list once a year, so saying that Tata […]
Vista debuts
Guess how Microsoft launched Vista in India yesterday? It has been a superlative performance by a dance troupe, attired all blue, in front of Taj Mahal in Agra. Perhaps there’s a message in a blockbuster launch like that. Which is that Vista is second to none. [Image source] Released simultaneously in 70 countries for retailers, […]
Corus in Tata lap
It has been a long night of suspense in India, what with auction for acquiring controlling stake in Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus Group Plc getting underway a little after ten Indian time (1630 hrs GMT). In the end, Tata Steel emerges winner having bid 608 pence a share to Brazil’s CSN’s 603 pence a share. [Image […]