PETALING JAYA — The government today promised full scholarships to the top 100 students from the Indian community who graduate with first-class honours from public universities.
Indian Americans are influential players in US media
March 18, 2012
With two of them governors, four billionaires and over a score sitting in high places in government, Indian Americans not only keep making news but have also emerged as major players in American media.
Take Indian-born Aparism Bobby Ghosh, for instance, who was last week named by Time magazine as 'Editor-at-Large'. In naming Ghosh, Time Managing Editor Richard Stengel, called him "one of Time's greatest assets and this past year was one of his best yet."
Tax proposals: How they will affect you
March 17, 2012
New Delhi: Springing pleasant surprises, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday provided reliefs for tax payers. Higher tax exemption limit for individuals, significant benefits for senior citizens, and retention of corporate tax to its existent level were some of the major tax-related highlights of Union Budget 2012-13.
However, a 2% jump in service tax from the current 10% came as a dampener.
Revisions in Direct Tax:
Income Tax
1) Individuals:
India: Education not a priority in the Budget 2012-13
March 17, 2012
Despite 2012-13 being the first year of the 12th Five Year Plan, there seems to be hardly any focus on prioritising public provisioning for education by the Union Government. There has been an absence of critical scrutiny with regard to the implementation of the RTE Act as is clear from the scant increases made in the programme operationalizing the Act, i.e. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. The budget largely disappoints with its policy prescription.
Bradman great but Tendulkar greatest: Hussain
March 17, 2012
In the never-ending debate on who among Sir Donald Bradman and Sachin Tendulkar is the greatest batsman of all time, former England captain Naseer Hussain on Friday said his vote goes to the iconic Indian.
Gujarat CM Modi on cover page of Time magazine
March 17, 2012
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi figures on the cover of the forthcoming issue of Time magazine which praises him in an article for development of the state he has been ruling for over a decade but wonders if he can become the Prime Minister.
Cricket: ‘Never done before, perhaps never after’
March 16, 2012
Reactions to Sachin Tendulkar's achieving the record of a 100 international hundreds
Former Rutgers student convicted in webcam case
March 16, 2012
Former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi has been convicted of a hate crime and invasion of privacy in a case involving his use of a webcam to spy on his college roommate kissing another man; his roommate, Tyler Clementi, later committed suicide.
Sehwag, Bhajji rubbish reports of match-fixing
March 16, 2012
NEW DELHI: Ace cricketers Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh Friday rubbished reports appearing in London's The Sunday Times claiming that the World Cup semi-final between India and Pakistan was fixed.
Software turns spoken English into 26 languages
March 16, 2012
Computer giant Microsoft has reportedly created a software dubbed the "Universal Translator" that can convert English language spoken to it into 26 different languages. Frank Soong and Rick Rashid -- from the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington --created the software which can also speak in the user's own voice, the Daily Mail reported.
