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Music at Firehouse 13, Friday, November 21st
Firehouse 13 presents an evening of music! Opening will be classical sitarist Srinivas Reddy (www.srinivasreddy.org ) an amazing musician in a solo performance, you just can’t receive enough sitar in these difficult times. Next up will be the Boston-based Indian-Fusion band Bangalore ( www.myspace.com/bangaloremusic )fronted by legendary Men & Volts guitarist Phil Kaplan. Bangalore features traditional Indian vocals [...]
20 Nov 2008, 9:45 am | click here for more
Indian Copyright Collecting Societies and Foreign Royalties: Whither Transparency?
We have a rather provocative guest post from Nikhil Krishnamurthy, a dear pal and an exceptionally talented copyright lawyer ( I say this out of experience, having worked with him on several IP matters in my past life as an IP practitioner). Nikhil's post raises some serious issues about whether or not Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL: a sound recording collecting society registered below the Indian copyright act) has the right to collect licence fees on behalf of foreign sound recording c
20 Nov 2008, 9:03 am | click here for more
Miles Jupp: Plans? England don’t need plans….
Miles Jupp: Plans? England don’t need plans…. Posted in November 20th, 2008 by Miles Jupp in England, England in India, One-day cricket There’s an exchange in Blackadder Goes Forth when General Melchett is roaring at Captain Blackadder about every of Britain’s battle plans being leaked to the Germans: Melchett: “You look surprised, Blackadder.” Blackadder: “I certainly am, Sir. I didn’t realise we had any battle plans.” I’m not suggesting that Peter Moores and Kevin Pietersen share a great
20 Nov 2008, 7:51 am | click here for more
Rival of Gogle Earth from India Called "Bhuvan"
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), which is based in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of the sub-continent, will roll-out a rival to Google Earth, the hugely popular online satellite imagery service, by the end of the month. The project, dubbed Bhuvan (Sanskrit for Earth), will allow users to zoom into areas as tiny as 10 metres wide, compared to the 200 metre wide zoom limit on Google Earth. It comes as India redoubles its efforts to reap profits from its 45-year-old space programme,
20 Nov 2008, 7:42 am | click here for more
Give peace a chance. Or else, there’s always…
Underworld don turned language warrior turned social reformer Muthappa Rai, quoted in Star of Mysore: “Jaya Karnataka Organisation will achieve by revolution what is not possible through peaceful means. [It] will pursue peaceful methods for the welfare of the needy. However, if peaceful ways did not work out, the organisation will resort to revolution.” Also read: Look, who’s seeking the help of Muthappa Rai! A giant jump to cease the criminalisation of politics On Ugadi, a brand-new Kannada warri
20 Nov 2008, 7:11 am | click here for more
Accenture India: Biplane Model
Test your skills and touch the skies. Advertising Agency: Wunderman India, Bangalore, India Creative Director: Joydeep Biswas Art Director: Ajith Kumar Copywriter: Joydeep Biswas Released: 2008
20 Nov 2008, 6:30 am | click here for more
Infibeam.com acquires Picsquare.com
Infibeam.com acquires Picsquare.com By infibeam - Posted on November 20th, 2008 Tagged: Gifts Ahmedabad, India 20th November 2008: Leading online retailer Infibeam.com has acquired Bangalore based photo printing and customized gifts company Picsquare.com. Picsquare was founded in 2005 and continues to be the most preferred online destination ... Login or register to post comments •
20 Nov 2008, 6:25 am | click here for more
Infibeam.com acquires Picsquare.com
Infibeam.com acquires Picsquare.com By infibeam - Posted on November 20th, 2008 Tagged: Gifts Ahmedabad, India 20th November 2008: Leading online retailer Infibeam.com has acquired Bangalore based photo printing and customized gifts company Picsquare.com. Picsquare was founded in 2005 and continues to be the most preferred online destination ... Login or register to post comments •
20 Nov 2008, 6:19 am | click here for more
What Indians don’t Know when They say ‘A Sea-Route to Northeast Soon’
Sinlung Says: A Main Land Indian Perspective of What is Northeast India from the tables of Rediff News. When we say Northeast India. What does it actually mean? A different Country Connected by Land? A Diffrent Group of People Occupied? Where is Nagaland? Where is Manipur? Now, where are the lesson’s Taught in High School Geagraphy? This brings us back to the Shilpa Shetty Drama some Years ago on ‘Big Brother.’ When Indians who had a Voice shouted - Racism, Stereotypes… These same Indians
20 Nov 2008, 5:16 am | click here for more
Italian firm to invest euro 5.5 mn in Bangalore plant
Leading Italian integrated machines manufacturer Biesse group plans to invest euro 5.5 million (Rs.35 million) in capacity expansion of its plant here, the company said Thursday. “We will invest euro 5.5 million to expand our Bangalore ...
20 Nov 2008, 2:07 pm | click here for more
Gay novelist's debut Child 44 nominated for prestigious book award
Sweden removes transvestism and other 'sexual behaviours' from list of diseases The National Board of Health and Welfare in Sweden has decided to remove a range of 'sexual behaviours' from the official disease registry. Indian police accused of "social cleansing" after another attack on trans community Police in Bangalore reportedly forced about 100 transgender people from their homes last week, the latest in a pattern of harassment. opinionuk-newsworld-newspoliticslawhealthfina
20 Nov 2008, 1:26 pm | click here for more
AkzoNobel to set up Industrial coatings manufacturing plant at Hoskote
Bangalore: AkzoNobel is set to break ground on a new coatings manufacturing plant in India, signaling the company's ambition to become one of the country's leading industrial players.The new Industrial Finishes facility – which will produce coil and specialty plastic coatings – is being built in Hoskote close Bangalore and...
20 Nov 2008, 1:23 pm | click here for more
“Hindu” Activists Under Anti-Terrorist Scanner
By Nilofar Suhrawardy, MMNS India Correspondent NEW DELHI: The alacrity with which Indian authorities have turned their attention to nabbing Hindu suspects for their alleged role in several blasts has raised questions on why has it taken for them so long to accept that it was erroneous to hold only Muslims as responsible for terrorist operations conducted here. One of the accused, the first serving army officer to be charged for aiding the saffron-brigade, Lt. Col. Srikant Purohit revealed dur
20 Nov 2008, 1:21 pm | click here for more
Entrepreneurship and the Marathon
Entrepreneurship and the Marathon I know many people in their talks, essays and articles keep comparing entrepreneurship to running long distances or what we say marathons. Many a times I used to wonder why, I myself is a avid long distance runner – used to run 20kms and not I have sort of scaled down to 10, nevertheless long distance and I had an opportunity to do the same today too and this thought occurred to me again and I started drawing similarities. I do three different kinds of runs d
20 Nov 2008, 12:49 pm | click here for more
Italian firm to invest euro 5.5 mn in Bangalore plant
Italian firm to invest euro 5.5 mn in Bangalore plant November 20th, 2008 - 11:20 pm ICT by IANS - Bangalore, Nov 20 (IANS) Leading Italian integrated machines manufacturer Biesse group plans to invest euro 5.5 million (Rs.35 million) in capacity expansion of its plant here, the company said Thursday.“We will invest ... Posted in Business, | No Comments »
20 Nov 2008, 11:20 am | click here for more
Students remember spirit of Manjunath Shanmugam
Students remember spirit of Manjunath Shanmugam BANGALORE: One example of integrity started a movement among the youth and today over 400 students in Bangalore pledged to battle corruption and injustice. Manjunath Shanmugam’s story of refusing bribes from the oil mafia which resulted in his murder in 2005 ignited a concern against corruption in the youth’s mind. More than 200 IIM Bangalore students and 200 students at Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research held two candleli
20 Nov 2008, 10:59 am | click here for more
Chronology of Digvijay Singh’s accusations on Hindu Terror
Offstumped analyzed the timeline of accusations of Hindu Terror by Congress General Secretary and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh and it makes for an interesting analysis. Offstumped had earlier today shown that the first time Digvijay Singh claimed he had concrete evidence of bomb making by Hindutva groups was in Sept 2003 at a Minorities Conference on the eve of elections in Madhya Pradesh. Since Sept 2003 examined public news archives for references to this claim being
20 Nov 2008, 10:19 am | click here for more
Central Manufacturing Technology Institute (CMTI) recruits Apprentice Officers
Central Manufacturing Technology Institute (CMTI) Tumkur Road, Bangalore – 560022 ADVT.NO.09/2008 RECRUITMENT OF APPRENTICE OFFICERS (APO) Online registration will be opened from 17.11.2008 to 30.11.2008 (24 Hours) Last date for submission of DD is 05.12.2008 CMTI is looking for bright fresh Engineering Graduates and Post Graduates with good consistent academic record and aptitude for R&D : [Substance Name of Post - Apprentice Officer Qualification - First Class Engineering Gradua
20 Nov 2008, 10:08 am | click here for more
Journal accepts Parameswaran manuscript
RelatedWeaver talks on 'Global Journalist' at UNC (Nov. 20)Quill & Scroll publishes Dvorak article (Nov. 20)Stocking, Major work featured in upcoming book (Nov. 20) Associate professor Radhika Parameswaran and Kavitha Cardoza’s manuscript, Melanin on the Margins: Advertising and the Cultural Politics of Skin Lightening in India, has been accepted for publication as a stand-alone monograph in Journalism & Communication Monographs, a journal of the Association for Education in Journalism a
20 Nov 2008, 10:08 am | click here for more
Talisma CRM Business to be Acquired by Campus Management Corp.
Boca Raton, Florida - November 18, 2008 - Campus Management Corp. announced today that it has reached a definitive agreement with nGenera Corporation to acquire assets of its subsidiary, Talisma Corporation. The assets include nGenera's Talisma CRM software, its Talisma Higher Education business division based in Bellevue WA, and its Talisma Corporation Pvt. Ltd., an operating unit Bangalore, India. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Talisma CRM is a leading software product for stra
20 Nov 2008, 10:00 am | click here for more