In the next few years, you can expect to see automobile prices plummet, particularly in the subcompact classes. Thank Tata Motors for inspiring this rapid race to build cheaper cars, which could cause the cost of certain types of vehicles to drop as much as 40 percent in the next few years.
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In a recent article by Barrie McKenna for globeandmail.com, the columnist describes the popular Indian novel One Night @ the Call Center and its plot revolving around the “obnoxious American customer who makes the lives of the Delhi phone operators miserable.”
McKenna goes on to say, “it’s a refreshing flip side to the Western [...]

Asia Times reports that Telecom Regulatory Authority of India wants to implement stricter control over certain foreign Internet companies that serve Indian customers.
The agency wants providers of Voice over Internet phone services (VoIP) to register, pay a licensing fee, set up servers in India, and in other ways submit to the demands of the Indian [...]

India Times reports that American sportswear company Nike has signed a three-year, $3.5 million deal with ESPN-Star Sports for Nike-branded soccer programming. Much like America is heavily focused on baseball and football, Indians are heavily vested in cricket, while soccer is the big game in most of the world. Even if Nike fails to grow [...]

Advances in marketing and technology have propelled India’s book publishing industry forward into a rapid and glorious expansion. By the estimation of Shakti Malli, president of the Federation of Indian Publishers, the Indian publishing sector is currently “worth Rs.80 billion and it is growing by over 15 percent every year.” The country is seeing fresh [...]

India Inc.’s record profits for the first quarter of 2006 may have taken censure from the soaring prices of crude oil, but other reports seem to promise good news for employment. Though economic reports look with trepidation at the decrease of growth outlook from ’significantly optimistic’ to ‘moderately optimistic,’ the growth report from Q1 reveals [...]

Little India magazine put out a duo of articles in it’s January 26 issue about Bangalore. The first half of the partnership is called “Bangalored,” and is about outlying cities outstripping Bangalore as a world tech capitol. For years “Bangalored” has been a word used by American tech workers to describe the changing [...]

The November issue of Little India magazine is out with two page article on Indian ex-pats who return to India. Until recently, more and more Indians were going to America to find their fortunes. Now, many of them are taking their new skills (and money) with them back to their homelands. [...]

Long before Bordeaux, there was Kapisayani. And long before Napa, there was Harahuraka. A feature in the August 2005 issue of Little India profiles the Indian wine entrepreneurs of the world, telling about their background, experience, and why they do what they do. Calvin Sidhu of Freemark Abbey Winery in California’s Napa Valley sells 125,000 [...]

For the first time in a decade, state-owned Indian Airlines will buy 43 brand new Airbus jets, which are much needed seeing the current state of IA’s dilapidated fleet. The sale, still pending approval from EGoM, will include 19 Airbus A319s, four A320s, and 20 A321s, to be inducted into the fleet over the next [...]