Chinese Goods Threatening Indian Goods Dec. 22: The Indian business is now facing the Chinese onslaught with cheaper goods flooding the market. Chinese fans, batteries and bulbs as well as the automobile spare parts have taken the market by storm. Indian consumers now find Chinese goods to be more economical as compared to the Indian branded goods. This sudden advent of Chinese goods has triggered a shock wave to both the...

Mushroom Growth of NGOs is A Govt. Concern. Dec. 19: The recent mushroom growth of NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) is causing a serious concern to the government. A spokesman of the Ministry of Human Resources said that today everyone and anyone who has a political connection is floating an NGO without any social cause. Most of these NGOs are collecting money on the name of social cause and laundering it without putting...

Power Failure Cripples Life in City Kolkata Dec. 16: The power failure in the city for 12 hours starting at 10.00 am, threw the life out of order. All offices wore a deserted look as most of the employees left their offices by 11.30 a.m. The worst hit were the customers of computerized branches of the bank, as they could sustain power only for three hours. The scene of the daily...

Indian IT Cos Suffer as US Computer Market Slums Dec. 29: Signs of a slowdown in the US economy and the forewarning of slump in computer sales and shortfall in revenues by the US information technology (IT), is likely to bring its own set of woes for the Indian IT sector. And this time even the domestic software services firms – an important segment of the IT industry, which till so...

Dacoity Attempt Foild  Dec. 27: An exemplary act of courage by a housewife, all alone in the house, foiled an attempt to loot a house in Vasant Kunj during broad daylight. Around 1.30 p.m. three well-dressed youths, mistaken for being salesmen from some corporate, got down from a Maruti 800. One of the youths was carrying, what seemed to be a vacuum cleaner. They rang the doorbell, and when Mrs. Nivedita...