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...Finally, a delicious irony from India's Telegraph, a paper whose banner giddily proclaims it "unputdownable." The Calcutta paper reports that some 200 Mumbai (nee Bombay) restaurants had stopped serving Coke and Pepsi, offering only traditional Indian yoghurt drinks as a means of protesting U.S. air strikes against Afghanistan. Many more of the city's Muslim restaurateurs are expected to join the boycott of U.S. products. So the enterprising paper asked the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party, which has previously organized similar boycotts to protest globalization's onslaught on Indian culture, whether the party would be joining. The boycott makes...
...Winners RUDY GIULIANI NYC's mayor awarded honorary knighthood by the British. The package includes all-you-can-eat Welsh rarebit and tickets to Oh Calcutta! MATA HARI Lawyers say the French femme fatale was no spy, just a regular stripper. Taking no chances, Chirac orders strip searches of all cancan girls KEN FOLLETT Author gives $3,185 to charity so his name will be included in a fantasy novel. Our fee for his mention on this list? For $5 we'll call it even Losers PAUL STANLEY Singer's hip surgery causes KISS to cancel WTC benefit, proving that...
...Calcutta, India. I have family there and there is a great need for medical professionals...
...hands of the wrong people, however, it became lethal. For months Calcutta's brokers have been pointing fingers at a Bombay operator named Ketan Parekh, a.k.a. the Big Bull. Parekh is a major-league broker who, starting last September, was taking mammoth positions in several high-profile tech stocks. When his positions topped the maximum allowed by regulators, he allegedly began placing orders through a group of Calcutta operators, including Dinesh Singhania, a local broker widely disliked for his lavish tastes and arrogance. Since most of these orders were financed with gray money, they couldn't be traced back...
...people in Calcutta believe the heyday of the bourse, or its roguish charm, can be restored. The city's private financiers were burned by the crash and are less willing to take risks, even for a friend. "All the trust has been lost," laments Kanta Prasad Changoiwala. Volumes on the bourse are expected to take another hit after July 2, when SEBI plans to introduce new rules?including regulated futures and options trading?aimed at controlling market hijinks. Some brokers think the Calcutta Stock Exchange may cease to exist altogether in a few months. For Changoiwala it would...