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- 07 Mar 2009 19:33
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Perspectives on the global economic meltdown
- Replies: 3894
- Views: 1145999
We can't blame President Obama for the mess he inherited. But we can definitely blame him for making it worse. Hussein's problem is he is shying from the difficult decisions. Take the automobile sector. The credit bubble has burst, and there is surplus capacity of 8 million cars in US. So they have...
- 07 Mar 2009 18:50
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Global Economy
- Replies: 2350
- Views: 649230
Trying to prevent a Sept. 1945
Ever Closer to 1982 http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/03/06/business/economy/joblossleonhardt2.jpg "So it’s still too early to call this the worst recession since the Great Depression. But it’s bad, and it’s still getting worse at a rapid rate." Putting a Month’s Job Losses in Pers...
- 02 Mar 2009 18:59
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
- Replies: 6031
- Views: 1340849
Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
So I read that Mahindra is looking to get into aerospace, and is investigating possible acquisition of an Australian aircraft maker for this purpose. Apparently, Mahindra would like to get into manufacturing small aircraft, which they feel they could do at a cost advantage. It must be the new trend...
- 02 Mar 2009 18:18
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: India nuclear news and discussion
- Replies: 2908
- Views: 500576
Farce
There seems to be no communication and co-ordination. And yet when the time comes to 'award' mine leases to private companies, these sarkari babus become very effective.RaviBg wrote:Uranium exploration in a mess
- 26 Feb 2009 06:07
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Global Economy
- Replies: 2350
- Views: 649230
Gaussian copula function
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
wired.com wrote: In the mid-'80s, Wall Street turned to the quants—brainy financial engineers—to invent new ways to boost profits. Their methods for minting money worked brilliantly... until one of them devastated the global economy.
- 25 Feb 2009 06:19
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Perspectives on the global economic meltdown
- Replies: 3894
- Views: 1145999
H-1B
How long can the H-1B visa program last? With job losses accumulating in the US, there will be tremendous pressure to give jobs to Americans first. And nothing wrong with that either. It should not be long before it is announced that no new H-1B visas will be issued. Correspondingly (but not recipro...
- 25 Feb 2009 05:51
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Global Economy
- Replies: 2350
- Views: 649230
Toyota
A Scion Drives Toyota Back to Basics Fair use excerpts: http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/P1-AO840_Toyota_D_20090223175628.jpg TOKYO -- Toyota Motor Corp.'s incoming president, Akio Toyoda, has a sobering message for the giant company founded by his grandfather: It has gotten too fancy for i...
- 22 Feb 2009 20:27
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Global Economy
- Replies: 2350
- Views: 649230
♪ We both go down together ♫
"China Must Continue to Invest in U.S. Bonds" : Hillary Clinton Fair use excerpts: BEIJING, Feb. 22 -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday urged China to keep investing its substantial foreign-exchange reserves in U.S. Treasury securities, arguing " we are truly going...
- 22 Feb 2009 14:47
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: BR Forums Feedback
- Replies: 1566
- Views: 348293
Copyright
Hello I would prefer a discussion about copyrights at Bharat Rakshak forum. Presently, only one forum moderator ( Gerard ) is diligently enforcing copyrights. Like this: http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/3687/copyqote.th.png Other moderators are more indulgent, and articles are copied and pasted in f...
- 22 Feb 2009 13:50
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Global Economy
- Replies: 2350
- Views: 649230
Re: Tax the rich. Help the poor. Cut defense expenditure.
Moderator note: Please don't editorialize press articles with your own political slant by replacing 'Obama' with 'Hussein'. This is the global economy thread; no petty domestic US politics here. The one way psy-ops are too much to bear. Common citizens like myself are forced to do this because the ...
- 22 Feb 2009 07:59
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Global Economy
- Replies: 2350
- Views: 649230
Tax the rich. Help the poor. Cut defense expenditure.
Obama Has Plan to Slash Deficit, Despite Stimulus Bill By JACKIE CALMES Published: February 21, 2009 http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/02/22/us/22budget.600.jpg WASHINGTON — After a string of costly bailout and stimulus measures, President Obama will set a goal this week to cut the annual de...
- 20 Feb 2009 10:08
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: India nuclear news and discussion
- Replies: 2908
- Views: 500576
How Long Before Uranium Shortages?
How Long Before Uranium Shortages? http://www.theoildrum.com/files/Uranium%20production%20vs%20demand%20Energy%20Watch%20Group.png Figure 5. EWG World Production vs Demand Adding new mines takes a long time--one often sees 8 to 10 years quoted as a reasonable time frame. Production in 2007 was only...
- 20 Feb 2009 10:07
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: International Nuclear Watch & Discussion
- Replies: 562
- Views: 46149
How Long Before Uranium Shortages?
How Long Before Uranium Shortages? http://www.theoildrum.com/files/Uranium%20production%20vs%20demand%20Energy%20Watch%20Group.png Figure 5. EWG World Production vs Demand Adding new mines takes a long time--one often sees 8 to 10 years quoted as a reasonable time frame. Production in 2007 was only...
- 19 Feb 2009 05:48
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Perspectives on the global economic meltdown
- Replies: 3894
- Views: 1145999
Re: Perspectives on the global economic meltdown
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- 18 Feb 2009 09:03
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Global Economy
- Replies: 2350
- Views: 649230
Re: GLOBAL ECONOMY
Another multi-billion criminal. Who knows how much more filth will rise to the surface as the churning continues unabated. The media are idiots, they keep addressing this creature as 'Sir'. US tycoon Allen Stanford charged over $8bn fraud Texan billionaire and cricket promoter Sir Allen Stanford has...
- 16 Feb 2009 16:21
- Forum: Military Expositions Archive
- Topic: Aero India 2009
- Replies: 1181
- Views: 462254
Re: Aero India 2009
Was Shiv Aroor on board? Must have exceeded MLW.Singha wrote:TOI has a pic of the burst tire F16 today.
- 16 Feb 2009 00:21
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Telecom Folder
- Replies: 1209
- Views: 379773
Re: Indian Telecom Folder
Is this true net increase? Or just new connections without any correction for lost business?Vipul wrote:India's Reliance Comm adds 5 mln users in Jan.
They will lose users from their own CDMA business, perhaps with some lag.
- 05 Feb 2009 07:54
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Autos Thread
- Replies: 3776
- Views: 708771
Re: Indian Autos Thread
Mahindra Profit Unexpectedly Tumbles 99% By Vipin V. Nair and Anil Varma Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., India’s largest maker of sport-utility vehicles and tractors, said third- quarter profit tumbled a more-than-expected 99 percent as currency losses mounted and sales fell. N...
- 05 Feb 2009 01:44
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: India's Power Sector
- Replies: 1712
- Views: 494266
Six reactors or two? And how many Megawatts in the future?
The newsreports are not clear. First: Areva, NPCIL in $12.3 bn N-deal Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) signed a memorandum of understanding with French firm Areva to set up nuclear power reactors at Jaitapur in Maharashtra here on Wednesday. “The MoU provides for engagement of NPCIL an...
- 05 Feb 2009 00:55
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Global Economy
- Replies: 2350
- Views: 649230
Re: GLOBAL ECONOMY
Japan's Panasonic to cut 15,000 jobs, shut plants By YURI KAGEYAMA – 6 hours ago http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5hYy3ctJG-uOOP_uyQ-tYhvjgBNjA?size=m TOKYO (AP) — Panasonic Corp. said Wednesday it will slash as many as 15,000 jobs and shut 27 plants worldwide, joining a slew of major...
- 05 Feb 2009 00:46
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Global Economy
- Replies: 2350
- Views: 649230
Terrible idea. How can anyone survive on 500,000 only?!
Hussain announces cap on executive pay The president says annual senior-executive pay must top out at $500,000, one of the new restrictions he announced for financial institutions receiving bailout cash. By Jim Puzzanghera and Christi Parsons 9:14 AM PST, February 4, 2009 http://www.reuters.com/res...
- 04 Feb 2009 11:18
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Autos Thread
- Replies: 3776
- Views: 708771
- 04 Feb 2009 10:44
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Autos Thread
- Replies: 3776
- Views: 708771
- 30 Jan 2009 03:09
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Missile Technology Discussion
- Replies: 518
- Views: 58069
Beyond the BrahMos failure New Delhi January 30, 2009 The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has done itself little good by claiming success in its test-firing of the BrahMos missile, till the media exposed the bogus nature of the claim. Even if the DRDO’s position is accepted tha...
- 29 Jan 2009 09:15
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Global Economy
- Replies: 2350
- Views: 649230
- 14 Jan 2009 22:51
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Telecom Folder
- Replies: 1209
- Views: 379773
Re: Indian Telecom Folder
I would not know otherwise!bart wrote:Nortel enterprise products are total crap and so is their support.
- 14 Jan 2009 20:43
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Telecom Folder
- Replies: 1209
- Views: 379773
Nortel to file for bankruptcy This is quite distressing. From what I have read in media, Nortel was and is considered the 'gold standard' in the enterprise IT segment, ahead of rivals like Cisco. Truly, no one is safe. The comments to this news are quite telling. The good side: While still North Am...
- 14 Jan 2009 19:57
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Geopolitical thread
- Replies: 3955
- Views: 612636
Europeans souring on Ukraine, Georgia Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:09am EST By Paul Taylor PARIS (Reuters) - Feted just a couple of years ago as heroes of democratic revolutions, the leaders of Ukraine and Georgia have fallen from grace among European policymakers. While there is scant sympathy in Europe for...
- 11 Jan 2009 17:49
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Navy and International Anti-Piracy Ops
- Replies: 1192
- Views: 297230
Re: Indian Navy anti-piracy ops.
However, how are these yahoos allowed to get into a small boat and ride to town? I would imagine they would be shot as they do that. Or do they have some other ransom-able item they carry with them? For sure the pirates must have evolved a protocol for these dealings. We also do not know which coun...
- 10 Jan 2009 23:11
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Navy and International Anti-Piracy Ops
- Replies: 1192
- Views: 297230
So near, yet so far
5 Somali Pirates Drown With Share of $3M Ransom http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/9760/loljm2.gif Saturday, January 10, 2009 http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/photoessay_6232_images/0109091300_M_010909_pirates04.jpg http://www.foxnews.com/images/491125/3_22_010909_pirates01.jpg MOGADISHU, Somalia ...
- 09 Jan 2009 17:25
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian IT Industry
- Replies: 3916
- Views: 623443
Offshoring pace to be hit post Satyam scam: Forrester Published on Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 14:51 , Updated at Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 16:32 Source : CNBC-TV18 Sudin Apte , Senior Analyst and Country Head, Forrester, believes employees as well as clients are going to desert Satyam for a range of factors l...
- 09 Jan 2009 17:15
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian IT Industry
- Replies: 3916
- Views: 623443
Latest on this Satyam saga:
Don't buy, Satyam may go bankrupt: India Infoline Nirmal Jain, CMD, India Infoline, said Satyam's business is not viable. "We won't buy any stock as the company can go bankrupt. I am surprised that trading in Satyam is still continuing." He feels money was siphoned off from Satyam. "...
- 09 Jan 2009 16:55
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Oil & Natural Gas: News & Discussion
- Replies: 1620
- Views: 456162
Re: Oil & Natural Gas: News & Discussion
This "normalcy" can't come soon enough. Here in Jaipur there is visibly less traffic on roads as people have either run out of fuel or are conserving what little they have. The regular restaurant (or dhabha to be more precise) has refused home delivery since there is no fuel. BPCL workers ...
- 09 Jan 2009 00:33
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian IT Industry
- Replies: 3916
- Views: 623443
Re: Indian IT Industry
I have received a bunch of resumes of Satyam employees working offshore in IL with Caterpillar.Seems the contract is being terminated wef January 31st. the titantic is taking on water... http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/6462/dominozp3.jpg Domino effect. The Satyam customers have to review their b...
- 09 Jan 2009 00:04
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Global Economy
- Replies: 2350
- Views: 649230
Re: GLOBAL ECONOMY
Obama Unveils Ambitious Economic Agenda In Midst Of Crisis, President-Elect Urges Quick Action; Focuses On Job Creation, Clean Energy http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2009/01/08/image4707724g.jpg (CBS/AP) President-elect Barack Obama warned of dire and lasting consequences if Congress doesn't pum...
- 08 Jan 2009 23:02
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Oil & Natural Gas: News & Discussion
- Replies: 1620
- Views: 456162
Re: Oil & Natural Gas: News & Discussion
Petrol pumps go dry, strike leaders go underground Thursday, 08 January , 2009, 20:52 Last Updated: Thursday, 08 January , 2009, 21:03 New Delhi: Most petrol pumps in the country started to run dry on Thursday , the second day of the nationwide strike called by employees of public sector oil compan...
- 08 Jan 2009 20:34
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian IT Industry
- Replies: 3916
- Views: 623443
I've heard this song before!
I talked to someone who knows RR. He says the chap took on all the guilt and tried to do his best to save the company. He is no crook at the bottom line. I think there is or was some political pressure at the back of all this. I dont know if its external or internal. I agree with hnair we should no...
- 08 Jan 2009 12:48
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian IT Industry
- Replies: 3916
- Views: 623443
Crux of the scam in Satyam Q: What is the crux of the scam in Satyam? A : In essence, what disgraced chairman Ramalinga Raju has now admitted is that the company had been cooking its books to show higher revenues and lower liabilities , thereby grossly overstating the profits of the company as well...
- 07 Jan 2009 17:45
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: BR Forums Feedback
- Replies: 1566
- Views: 348293
- 07 Jan 2009 17:40
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: BR Forums Feedback
- Replies: 1566
- Views: 348293
Re: Site Suggestions & Forum Feedback
Has posting been temporarily disabled? One of my posts -well, my only post since forums came back online- did not get published.webmaster wrote:Test post after server migration