Selectopedia.Org: Selected Web Contents: Tag: india Tata Group of India is in the last stages of buying Jaguar & Land Rover units from Ford Motors. ================================================================================ host on 02 January, 2008 11:32:00 Tata’s of India are becoming major player in international corporate world and symbol of India’s global aspirations and national pride through their acquisitions of global brands. Losing India’s islands in Sundarbans ================================================================================ host on 12 December, 2007 02:31:00 Eastern India’s Sundarbans mangrove region, listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site, one of most spectacular natural wonders, is loosing its’ islands rapidly due to rising sea levels from the effects of global warming. Thousands of people already displaced due to this are being called as environmental refugees. An AFP video report Blasts at Indian Courthouses Kill 13 ================================================================================ host on 22 November, 2007 08:34:00 A series of near simultaneous explosions ripped through courthouse complex Friday in three north Indian cities, killing at least 13 lawyers and injuring dozens of other people. When deadly cobra bites, don’t go for rituals to save your life ================================================================================ host on 23 November, 2007 08:17:00 In an Indian village, north west of Kolkata (Calcutta) villagers are seeking medical help from local hospitals for dealing with dangerous cobra bites, than getting treated by traditional Hindu rituals. A Wall Street Journal video. Jesus goes to India with Hollywood ================================================================================ host on 18 November, 2007 10:51:00 Hollywood is to fill in the Bible's "missing years" with a story about Jesus as a wandering mystic who travelled across India, living in Buddhist monasteries and speaking out against the iniquities of the country's caste system. Buddhadeb shakes hand with Henry Kissinger ================================================================================ Staff Researcher on 04 November, 2007 10:25:00 Communist Chief Minister of West Bengal, India, who once burnt Kissinger's effigy in the 70’s , shook hands with him and asked ‘How is life?’ Google goes to India ================================================================================ Staff Researcher on 23 October, 2007 11:32:00 Fortune Magazine has profiled Google's India Campus at Bangalore. Google's experiment in replicating its Silicon Valley workplace indulgences and luring back the Indian talent that helped fuel the dot-com boom in the U.S. is a deliberate strategy. This is not outsourcing in the usual sense of seeking cheaper labor. Rather, it's a brain drain in reverse. Bobby Jindal, 36, a Republican elected Louisiana governor on Saturday,the first Indian-American to win a governor’s race. ================================================================================ Staff Researcher on 22 October, 2007 12:04:00 The first Indian-American to win a governor’s race. A New York Times profile on Bobby Jindal.