Category: India
-
The Great Indian Elections of 2014
Coming soon is the great Indian Elections in year of 2014. So many of us have openly shared jokes and puns on the Congress and how their rule affected all of us for last 10 years. Many of us are seeing Modi as an icon who will help change all of that like magic. I…
-
Falling Rupee is a boon for some, bane for others
Somebody’s loss is somebody’s gain. The worst ever fall in rupee value has made a lot of people rich, more so for the ones that are involved in exports. These include the IT/ITES, Spice Traders, Bike/Car manufacturers, Builders etc. and many more. So when the results of some of the traded companies were announced, it…
-
Its a new domain! Indianomics gets its own domain name…
Hey Folks! I have moved my blog from hemalshah.net/blogs to https://v2.indianomics.in/ This move for me personally was somewhat challenging since my domain name housed this blog for a good 5 years, and today the move finally happened. In a way, I felt bad about moving the blog, loosing all the Google Juice I had been…
-
We will have 29th State now, Telangana
Yes, till yesterday we had 28 and today it has become 29 divided regions in India. The new State, Telangana was finally given the green light by the Congress Working Committee. A state that is being carved out with 41% of Andhra Pradesh’s population, but its contribution to state revenues is 76% of the total…
-
Air India again in bad news! This time it is companion tickets
Its barely been somedays since I posted last about Air India. But here I am again tempted to write about it. Air India’s companion free scheme was intended as a program to promote its flights to those common people or ‘aam aadmi’ who could not afford to take his family on a flight. Under this…
-
Why I cannot save the same money I used to before?
I am sure there are answers in your mind already. Cost of every thing from salt to flights have gone up. Err, salt still costs same for now, but you get my point. Middle class people are those who have the ability not to stay poor. And then you have lower middle class and upper middle class.…
-
Pilots do not want Air India to fly for long it seems
What’s with the pilots of Air India? They go on strike, refuse to let ex-Indian Airlines pilots to train on 777 Dreamliner, ground staff issues, lack of cost saving measures etc. have plagued the troubled carrier. An INR 30,000 crore infusion of equity from Government of India is by no means a small amount! And…
-
Money for Inter Galactic transactions now? What next?
Ruffling through the news paper today, I found a rather interesting piece of news. What will be the money used by Aliens / humans in space? Wait, what? I did not understand the need for us to think what money will we use for inter galactic transactions. Who needs them now, when we don’t have…
-
My First ever Xtreme Drive: Safari Storme
Call it the Call of Duty or Meeting a Beast. You can pick one, but both, I did with pleasure. The new IndiBlogger meet in Mumbai had something never seen or experienced before at any previous meets. As with every IndiMeets, I set off on my trusted and abused TVS Wego from Dombivali to Andheri…
-
Tracking Mr. Santa Claus – List of all places he went in 2012
Updated on an hourly basis (till I sleep :P) Ever since I knew that Google teamed up with NORAD to come up with an online tracker, I wanted to see it. But it always has happened I have missed it. However this time, I had someone special remind me about it. The program began on…