There has been a number of succssful China-to-Hollywood crossover stories recently - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, and even Jackie Chan co-starring with Chris Tucker in Rush Hour. Chinese-made movies go on to enjoy box-office success and Oscar nominations, while Bollywood movies continue to go largely ignored by the American film [...]
Unsatisfied with its current performance in India, Toyota Motor Corp announced today that it wouldn’t be able to reach its desired presence in the country without offering a compact car. Toyota has only obtained five percent of the Indian passenger car market since coming to India in 1999 and has some moves to make before [...]
The Indian government is considering a proposal that would prohibit foreign news channels downlinking into India from carrying any material targeted towards an Indian audience, which would hurt broadcasters like the BBC and CNN who are trying to expand into the country. The idea, spearheaded by Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee, is to differentiate between current [...]
It may seem hard to believe, but as India and China’s economies evolve and the world begins to depend more heavily on their products, we could see a shift of power to the East according to a special in Business Week. In India, Bangalore is shaping up to become the new Silicon Valley, with companies [...]
Rather than face 10 years in jail, Pramod Kumar Saroj is free today after his defense found a technicality which made his arrest unlawful. Saroj, who was caught trying to sell 1100 grams of marijuana in Mumbai in February 2004, is free because the non-police witness in his trial failed to note that Saroj had [...]
A Delhi Juvenile Court found NDTV, Zee TV, and the Times of India guilty for revealing the identity of a boy who was involved in a multimedia messaging system sex scandal with a female student, claiming that the two stations and newspaper tried to sensationalize the story for commercial gains. The court fined them Rs [...]
Two people have been arrested in Kolkata for distributing flyers and selling coupons to raise funds for an organization called “Mujahadeen al-Qaeda Pacific International,” which accuses RSS, Bajrang Dal, and VHP of trying to “discredit Muslims after the July 5th armed attack on the makeshift Ram temple in Ayodhya.” Police have remained tight-lipped about the [...]
A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Indian Supreme Court in an attempt to classify newspapers with content deemed to be “sexually explicit” with an “A,” meant to indicate that the paper contains adult material. PIL head Ajay Goswami accuses Indian newspapers of “[catering] to prurient interest of the public at large,” in [...]
In backwards news, a Jharkhand woman was declared a “witch” and killed with an axe in front of her son because she was believed to be responsible for a man’s illness. Salge Hembram of Ranikunder village in Jamshedpar was initially fined Rs 10,000 when she pleaded innocence to causing the sickness in a man named [...]
Rajdeep Sardesai, TV journalist and Editor-in-Chief of India Broadcast News criticized Indian news trends during the annual convocation of Pioneer Media School, stating that “News is increasingly becoming trivia, and trivia are being passed on as news.” Sardesai lamented that important news is often overshadowed by apparently less-important happenings like cricket and crime, stressing that [...]