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Hmmn….after days of high drama, it finally took a liquor baron to bring back home the personal artifacts of Gandhi – a man who was against liquor and its consumption. Anyways the irony apart, millions of Indians were elated today as business tycoon Vijay Mallya put in a bid of $1.8 million through his representative Tony Bedi and won the five precious [...]

Brenda Edwards, one of DCM's top collectors When most banks are desperate for another bailout and countless homeowners are unable to make their mortgage payments, it is amazing that the dead are paying their bills! Specially trained agents at DCM Services (the industry leader in deceased account recovery) call up the departed’s next of kin and [...]

Nobody wants to mince words or lace them with sugar-coated diplomacy when it comes to the future of international cricket in Pakistan. In a hurriedly convened news conference in London, Chief Executive of The International Cricket Council (ICC) Haroon Logat said “I think it’s difficult to see international cricket being played in Pakistan [...]

There’s been a lot of debate about IPL versus international cricket lately. More and more of international cricket’s best players are weighing up the tough decision of representing their country as against accepting huge payments for IPL matches, But former Test spinner Shane Warne is very clear about where he stands. He says cricket authorities [...]

Apple Inc is a very wealthy company — it sold 55 million iPods, 13 million iPhones and nearly 10 million Macs last year. Apple also is one of the most admired brands, both generally and among young people. In fact, Apple has done some good things. It has a good record on product power management. More recently it has improved on electronics recycling [...]

It seems that buying an energy efficient light bulb, switching to compact flourescent lightbulbs and using canvas shopping bags instead of plastic are not enough to save the planet. We need ambitious geo-engineering ideas in order to fight global climate change, such as those being shown on Ways to Save the Planet on Discovery Channel. One episode [...]

Versatile actor Mel Gibson shows time and again that he’s “finger-licking” good at surprising his fans. The double Oscar winner has had trouble finding acting work since he made a series of anti-Semitic remarks during an arrest for drink driving in 2006. Just when we were getting tired of feeling sorry for him, he surprised us with a very interesting [...]

If you thought that the poor quality of in-flight food, ridiculous compensations on delayed flights and airports that smell worse than state-run hospitals were pushing your limits and already making air-travel beyond a joke, listen to this. The head of budget European airline Ryanair Michael O’Leary unleashed a flood of public indignation last [...]

Understandably, the H-1B visa program has been one of the most controversial issues in the IT industry. High-tech firms argue that the visas are needed so they can recruit talented graduates from U.S. universities. But opponents say the program is being used to push down wages and enable the offshoring of IT jobs. The way the outsourcing market is evolving [...]

Okay we understand that companies making HR/payroll mistakes are not a big deal. But in a move of bad judgment combined with lousy PR, Microsoft Inc. wrote to some of the 1,400 employees it laid off last month, stating that because of an administrative error it had paid them too much severance and now wanted the money returned. Microsoft Senior Vice [...]