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Indian Railway Budget 2010 – 2011 : Complete summary, the Good and the Bad

..budget month. Railway budget was out a day back and the country’s Union Budget 2010 – 2011 is due now. For the past few years, Lalu Prasad Yadav was giving out a flashy railway budget promising tons of stuffs. Am Not sure, how many of them got the full shape. However this year, central Railway Minister Mamta Banarjee has come out with a quite possible and practical schemes. Before seeing the full highlights of the Indian Railway Budget 2010 – 2011, I would like to touch upon the few schemes of this budget that I like and dislike …

Notion Ink’s Adam tablet – Yet another Desi Challenge to Apple iPad / Amazon Kindle

As we predicted here, desi companies are following suit in rising up and fighting face to face with big pocketed mighty guns. Few weeks back it was Infibeam which swept the indian gadget space with its Pi device announcement. This time, another Indian company NotionInk is releasing a similar E-Reader touchscreen device. Is it really a tablet? or a book reader? Notion Ink wants to call it a news species of device and so the name “Adam”… NotionInk’s ADAM Tablet vs Infibeam’s Pi vs Apple iPad vs Amazon Kindle …

Batman: Arkham Asylum (game review)

.. Batman Arkham Asylum game review .. Batman: Arkham Asylum is a third person action game developed by Rocksteady. Let’s review what is Rocksteady have to give us via Batman: Arkham Asylum. If you think flying over Gotham, and save the city with hi-fi equipmentsn, bat-armour and batarangs, then get ready to be disappointed. The game is confined to an island called the Arkham Asylum. Oops! what a downturn…

MyDala.com – The power of Group Buying – save money by group deals

… With social media picking up steam in India, MyDala , which leverages the power of social networking to help find unknown friends who will group together to get deep discounts by buying in bulk – not meager 5% or 10% discounts, but a minimum of 35% and up to 80% off!… So, the theme is “Why pay more when you can bargain collectively?”Can you brief us on some of the possible deals ?What if you could get Rs 1500 worth of drinks, cocktails, wine and world cuisine at Saket’s upscale restaurant & lounge, Tabula Rasa, for just Rs 750?… Each of them can then use the ayurvedic spa any time in the next 6 months.Where does the famous Chi Restaurant offer you a cool 50% off on your entire food bill of up to Rs.1000/-?… Those are just some of the daily deal examples of how MyDala is trying to harness the power of group buying in this era of social networking – making possible huge discounts (generally 35% to 80%) on nothing short of the best-of-the-best brands in restaurants, shopping, health & beauty, optical, dry-cleaning, movies, events, and much more. While the retailer gets minimum guaranteed sales to be able to offer bulk discounts, the consumer gets the best discounts by joining that group of minimum number of people needed …

Indian Online Bookstore thestorez.com

We covered about thestorez.com in one of the articles earlier. We were trying to reach the founders to get some questions answered for our blog readers and also to all who buy books online. Here we go, we received genuine replies from Arvind (co-founder of thestorez.com)
As an online book buyer, I have a few questions [...]

Buy Books Online in India – Online Bookstore – thestorez.com

I am proud to write this article since 2 of my college seniors started this online bookstore – thestorez.com. Nowadays everyone goes online to buy things they need, especially people who are tech-savvy read reviews through social networking, get the latest information and buy books online with very good discounts & super saver shipping offers!

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Who is buying BharatStudent.com ? Reliance BIGAdda, MingleBox, Ibibo in race ? Northgate Technologies in trouble

Earlier this year it shut down many of the overseas offices in Singapore, China and USA owing to global downturn and incurred heavy losses.Back in May 2009, in a filing at Bombay Stock Exchange, the company expressed that its share value doesn’t reflect the real value of some of its highly popular web properties.According to them,1…. As per ComScore’s April 2009 report, NorthGate’s web properties are accessed by more than 25 million unique internet users.So, the company was looking out for alternatives especially for BhartStudent.com and Ziddu.com.. The report also says – termination of Northgate’s contract for sale of Free Commercial Time (sponsorships of programmes) with Kalaignar TV Private Limited…. … Also in the result report, the company claimed that it has three potential buyers for the web properties that it put up for sale. As per NDA, potential buyers are not revealed in the report, and we never know whether they are local or abroad companies and when is the sale expected.Can you make some wild guesses who are those potential buyers could be ?

RmKV – Order Traditional Indian Silk Sarees Online – Diwali Special!

Online market is still uncaptured or I would say its not quite successful in India except matrimony sites.
Diwali is on its way and I decided to get a surprise gift for my mom. I definitely don’t want to goto Ranganathan street (T.Nagar) and buy a saree. I want to do it online, but I am [...]

Life In India Sucks – Not So Incredible India – Top High Living Standards Countries list

India is not the best place for doing business – as per World Bank and IFC report. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report says India is lacking in various other aspects as well. India may be the fastest growing economy in the world. But, the same growth is not reflected in Common People Living Standards. 1.2 Billion people in India are still among the unlucky ones in the world…. Human Development Index) and India stands at position 134 out of 182 entries. Neighbouring countries China (92), Sri Lanka (102) and Bhutan (132) were ranked higher than India while Pakistan (141), Nepal (144) and Bangladesh (146) were ranked lower. Norway continued to top the chart. Top 10 High Living Standards Countries Norway Australia, Iceland, Canada, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, France, Switzerland Japan …..standards of our common people. The US is ranked 13, while Britain and Germany are further down at 21 and 22, respectively. So guys, if you want to live a heavenly life migrate to one of the European Countries ! What ..

Top 50 Government Engineering Colleges in India – 2009 rankings

If you are going to join any engineering colleges, the below rank list will greatly help you in choosing your college. As per a recent survey Engineering graduates still prefer Information Technology jobs over many other fields irrespective of their specialization. Lets hope the the current batch When they pass out there will be a different ecosystem to look at and Information Technology would just be one piece of it…. This year Top 50 engineering college list published by Mint should help you in choosing the colleges…. National Institute of Technology, Raipur and Government Engineering College, Thrissur are new additions to 2009 list.