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Entries from July 2006

If anyone can do it Reliance can

July 11th, 2006 · No Comments

The latest international edition of Newsweek has a good article on Mukesh Ambani, the business half of the Ambani brothers. …”Reliance has all but secured 150 square kilometers of largely farm land east of Mumbai at prices, Anand Jain, Mukeshs’ right hand man, estimates at 1/1000th those in downtown Mumbai. The government holds some equity [...]

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Tags: Business · India

Mumbai Mayhem

July 11th, 2006 · No Comments

As you probably heard, Bombay was hit by 7 explosions on the local trains, which are the life-line of the city. I was in the office at the time and looked up to the TV’s at around 6:45pm, and they were talking about potential bombs going off at various train stations. Within 30 minutes, [...]

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Tags: India

Ugly bride gets sued

July 7th, 2006 · No Comments

My friend Anish sent me this link and at first I was like whatever till I read it, and it was hilarious - read it: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0706061uglybride1.html “…Claiming that the bride in an arranged marriage was too homely for his son, a Massachusetts man is suing friends who sought to set up the New Delhi nuptials. [...]

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Tags: General