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...Everyone is smart enough to know the BJP didn't exactly cover itself in glory when it was in power," says Manoj Joshi, a prominent journalist. If they benefit from the situation, reckons political analyst Jyotirmaya Sharma, "it will not be because [the BJP] has done something right, but because the Congress has done everything wrong...
...international market for mobile adult content reached $1.7 billion, according to Juniper; 45% of that revenue came from Western Europe, where mobile porn is more widely offered by carriers. "There's less of a drive to regulate the industry in Europe," says mobile-industry consultant Chetan Sharma, who adds that U.S. and Canadian carriers have largely avoided carrying porn applications for fear of a public backlash. Before the new iPhone was announced, Juniper projected that revenue from mobile adult content would rise to $4.6 billion by 2012. With millions of 3G iPhones in the market, Juniper's principal analyst Windsor...
...Sharma's experience highlights one of the commercial spin-offs of the boom in dot-com dating - a massive growth in India's private-detective industry. "Business has skyrocketed since online matrimonial sites appeared on the scene," says Rahul Rai, director of Globe Group which is one of some 1,500 such agencies now operating in India. "Earlier, you'd marry someone your family knew well, or at least had vetted to meet their criteria. Now, with matrimonial sites, people are virtually marrying strangers...
...time for traditional village-style matchmaking in a fast-changing India, where the government estimates that up to one-fourth of the population has moved from the towns or villages of their birth? Not Vikas Sharma, a 28-year-old operations manager with an IT company in Mumbai. So, like many in India's mushrooming urban middle class, Sharma began dating someone online, using one of the dozens of matchmaking sites that have flourished in recent years...
...girl on a matrimonial site, and our relationship reached an advanced stage," he says, by which he means they had been chatting and meeting off and on for several months. Although they both lived in Mumbai, Sharma says he was worried that there was "no common link to rely on" to verify the claims she had made about herself online. Where traditional matchmaking may have relied on a mutual relative or family friend to shuttle between the families of potential suitors, verifying their status to one another and helping settle matters such as dowry, Sharma had no such luxury: Instead...