EDITORIAL:
India's Internet Shopping Boom
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There is some serious money to be made in the online space. It is projected that in the next decade India’s e-commerce retail market would amount to U.S. $60 billion. There is growing number of active Internet users in India, and that number is expected to cross 250 million this year. These users operate their bank accounts, pay bills, purchase insurance, invest and plan travel, all on the Internet. They buy online clothes that usually fit nicely, buy books much cheaper than at stores, music and movie CDs that work fine. Even fresh groceries well within expiry date are more conveniently available on the Internet, writes Siddharth Srivastava.
The electoral script of the 16th Lok Sabha which is estimated to cost a whopping Rs. 300 billion to the government, political parties and individual candidates is getting complicated by the day as political parties fish for partners and distribute nomination tickets. A continuous unfolding of scenarios and ambitions reveal an electoral battle transforming into a clash of personalities more than issues and something akin to a presidential style of contest, writes Priyanka Bhardwaj.
Faced with unrelenting pressure from various Asian American communities, California state legislators reversed course and pulled SCA-5 from being presented to the Assembly, a mere six weeks after it had passed with a super-majority in the State Senate. This amendment sought to allow race to be considered in recruitment of students to public universities and colleges in a bid to overturn Prop 209 passed in 1996. The blocking of a measure expected to pass with ease has demonstrated that Asian Americans can no longer be taken for granted, writes Manish Goel.
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