Blasts at Hyderabad

Yesterday's blasts at Hyderabad killing 41 people and injuring many more people are very disturbing. Just 3 months back, there was a blast in Mecca Masjid killing 12 people. Blast at important commercial centers targetting weekend crowd of Hyderabad creates panic and divides the people among communal lines. As initial investigation suggest Bangladesh based terrorist organization is behind the blast like in Mecca Masjid blast, two Muslim neighbour countries jihadi groups attacking Indian establishments especialy big cities and economic centers, trying to slow down our economic progress adds new dimension to our fight against terrorism. Hopefully all the culprits are brought to justice.

Illayatalapathi Vijay to get Doctorate from Dr. M.G.R Deemed University - bad trend

Dr. M.G.R Deemeed University, Chennai announced it will give Doctorate to Illayatalapathi Vijay for his service to art field and service to human kind. Recently actor Sathyaraj and Gnana famous Musician Deva were given Doctorate by Sathyabama Deemed University. No offence to these stars, as more and more private engineering college are becoming Deemed University, they started giving Honorary Doctorate's to celebrities. This is a unwelcome trend in TamilNadu, these universities are nothing but an engineering college which doesn't indulge in any research activities, did nothing to engineering, science or arts field, they just giving Doctorates to get the popularity. They should ask themselves how many of these universities produced Doctorates ?To earn a Doctorate, a person has to toil 5 yrs of his life, by these actions, Doctorate loses his dignity. This culture is not new to TamilNadu, politicians in TamilNadu right from MGR, Karunanidhi, Jayalalalitha got their Honrary Doctorate from universities in TamilNadu, this trend catching up with film starts is a very bad thing. Again this can happen only in TamilNadu.

New world class Cricket stadium in Chennai

As sub continent is slowly gearing up for 2011 Cricket World Cup, Chennai is going to get new Cricket stadium near Shollinganallur for the world cup. TamilNadu government had given 50 acres of land to TNCA for constructing new stadium. TNCA is even thinking of contructing this new stadium as indoor or retractable roof. Hope this ground is going to be top class

New York Vs London, Financial capital of world ??

Recently, there is a debate doing rounds, Is New York still financial capital of world, does London pushed NYC to 2nd place??. As most of the financial markets revolves around New York, London and Tokyo, London is clearly emerging as a leader as it attracts more international companies mostly from fast growing economies of world China, India. Because of lot of Securities Exchange Commission SEC regulation after Enron debacle / 9/11 incident, New York is not able to attract as much as London. In a recent finding from MasterCard survey, London finds the #1 spot for doing business.

There is a comprehensive article by Fortune magazine comparing 2 great financial cities of world. If interested, http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/08/06/100141310/index.htm?postversion=2007072306

Bridge collapses in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Aug, 1, 2007 - Bridge which runs across Mississippi river near downtown Minneapolis , collapsed during rush hour. Almost 100 cars were there when the bridge came down. Here some pics.