December Noise

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh lamented the other day that Indian science lagged China and promised increased GDP outlay for science and R&D.
When every child is brainwashed to become an enginner, doctor, or software engineer, and then settle "abroad" earning crores, who wants to be a scientist in poor and undeveloped India? Also, the establishment and the media still consider "satellite launches and Solar Eclipse" as the biggest science stories of the day!

"There is not only an absence of big ideas backed by political conviction, but there is also an intellectual vacuity," says an editorial piece in Deccan Herald.
It is not just in politics, in all spheres of Indian life there is a big hole. All we are bothered is how much skin has an actor displayed on our websites.Our media is hell bent to ensure we also have beauties who can expose just like Western beauties. Just like that!

Cannot help from saying that this is an excellent intro: "...a buyer is acquiring stake from a seller, largely using money lent by the seller, even as he benefits massively from an announcement-led boost in share price..." The headline is even better, Funded by RIL Trust, Network18 buys ETV channels — from RIL.
It will be interesting to watch these news channels from now on.
Bangalore police prove poor investigators with a dismal conviction rate of 12%
I don't think there would be many who might have thought otherwise. If the police take the same effort they employ to block traffic and clear the roads for VIP movement, Bangalore could have been a better place.