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...Then the tide turned. Last March a labor-hungry Internet portal based in New Delhi gave Dubey a job editing online stories about women's fashion. He was hardly an expert, but, hey, it was his first work in 18 months. Within a couple of weeks, two other Internet-related companies tried to poach him. Today he makes $475 a month, three times the salary of a doctor right out of medical school, and his parents are getting marriage offers from families with available daughters. Dubey is the content manager for a portal providing crop and weather information for Indian...
...phenomenon. For years, the southern city of Bangalore has been a high-tech oasis where Indians write code for international tech giants and export software to the world. But the Net promises to push the IT boom into India's mainstream. Cities like Hyderabad, Bombay and New Delhi are promising telecom links and tax holidays to prospective business investors. "India always had the talent, but with the Internet, we've found the delivery mechanism to transport this talent around the globe," says Prakash Gurbaxani, who set up his own dotcom consultancy, 24/7 Customer.com, five months ago in Bangalore...
...Florida drama was greeted with a familiar shrug over in India, the world's largest democracy. "Even Laloo Yadav, the local politician whose name is a byword for corruption and electoral chaos, couldn't have dreamed up the spectacle we're seeing in Florida now," says TIME New Delhi contributor Maseeh Rahman. "It's given people here a sense that at a grassroots level, elections in the U.S. aren't that different from elections in India, particularly when it's a close fight - the victor is not always the guy who would have won in a fair contest." The suggestion...
...Florida drama was greeted with a familiar shrug over in India, the world's largest democracy. "Even Laloo Yadav, the local politician whose name is a byword for corruption and electoral chaos, couldn't have dreamed up the spectacle we're seeing in Florida now," says TIME New Delhi contributor Maseeh Rahman. "It's given people here a sense that at a grassroots level, elections in the U.S. aren't that different from elections in India, particularly when it's a close fight - the victor is not always the guy who would have won in a fair contest." The suggestion...
ARRESTED. RIPUDAMAN SINGH MALIK and AJAIB SINGH BAGRI, 53 and 51, suspected terrorists; in Canada, outside Vancouver, B.C. The two men are accused of plotting two bombings that occurred on June 23, 1985. One exploded on Air India Flight 182, en route from Montreal to New Delhi, killing all 329 people onboard in what is believed to be the deadliest terrorist bombing of an airplane in history; the other was apparently intended to crash an Air India plane leaving Tokyo, but it went off prematurely and killed two baggage handlers...