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This is not strictly a Business post, but I thought it would be interesting for readers, so putting it across... We have always been known to adopt things from the West from the fast food culture to the dressing styles to lot many other…

India is shining. The economy is shining and growth rates are shining too. Though FDI has gone down over the last year and there are many problems from inflation to black money and corruption, knowing our country, it will be fool hardy to…

To the connoisseurs of the game who are dead against players doing anything else other than playing cricket, this article isn’t for you. Obviously there is no discussion regarding cricket but instead marketing and advertising. And no…

Once bitten, twice shy! It seems this idiom is not applicable to Indians. Or how else would you explain Indian sporting authorities not learning lessons from the recent CWG fiasco? None of us can forget the collapse of the foot over-bridge…

Grand sporting tournaments can support a whole lot of industry around them – be it merchandise sales, infrastructure upgrade or ticketing revenue; and boost ancillary sectors such as tourism and hospitality. At first, it was the FIFA World…

Let us have a look at some of the buzzing posts of last week... If you are one of those who loves Starbucks Coffee like me, this piece of news will bring a smile on your face. Last week was no too bad for Indian stocks after it…

Every IPL throws up some big surprises and this time it is no different. Imagine shelling out more than 11 crore rupees for a single player for IPL season. This time the player prices hit the record and Gautam Gambhir got the maximum price…

Hey you! Its time for Indian Premier League (IPL) auctions again. Unfortunately, the IPL newsmaker of the year 2010, Lalit Modi, is no more associated with the good part of the game; but as they say the show must go on – the larger than the…

Let me be honest with you – Pune has one of the worst Public Bus transport service compared to many other cities in India. Not only is it very chaotic, connections between the buses are literally non-existent and timings are non-existent…

Tata Docomo has always been forefront in coming out with plans that make consumers drool over it. Tata Docomo has now launched exciting Blackberry Unlimited plan for both their Prepay and Post-pay consumers. For a fees of Rs. 399/month,…

The Festive season is on, and understandably the updates and have been slow on trak.in. however, we have had some buzzing posts and even 2010 review on various sectors. Lets have a look... In our Media Monday section, we had an…

We had an untoward incident on trak.in, which was actually quite dis-heartening – One of our very new authors wrote an article which was very similar to one published on Hindustan Times, and we were blamed from plagiarism. After I looked at…

DGCA has come down hard on Airliners following the recent incident where one of the private airliner charged exorbitant “Rs. 35k” airfare charge for a journey from Mumbai to Delhi. When this news was spread across the media, who made lot of…

India’s biggest media behemoth, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL), today announced the launch of India’s first 24-hour Food Channel called “Zee Khana Khazana”. The Food Channel will go on air on December 8th2010. After…

Jet Airways has been running in losses for quite some time now. And those losses are not running in few crores but instead in thousands of crores. These problems started from the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and have continued till today. SARS,…

After a dull previous week, trak.in had a great last week with some real good articles getting published. Here is a quick round-up of our Top posts. From this week onwards, we will also be including post from our sister blog The Gadget Fan.…

Disney Media Distribution India has extended its strategic partnership with Dish TV to bring Disney’s portfolio of world-class movies on-demand to subscribers of Dish TV, one of Asia’s largest Direct-To-Home satellite television…

Dish TV have been growing quite aggressively over past couple of years. There TV commercials as well as Outdoor advertising have been top notch. Today DTH announced a significant milestone of becoming Asia’s largest DTH Company and is now…

Last week was quite slow when it came to posting of articles, thanks to my visit to Japan. We did have few good articles published – Here is a quick wrap-up. This decade has witnessed a sea-change in Television programming. There has…

Sarpanches and gram-sewaks are creating havoc on the streets, rioting and striking, to protest against the half-yearly social audits that evaluate work done by villagers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme…