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Tamil Nadu exit polls : Swing is not a big thing

Tamil Nadu exit polls have sent many local magazines and news media to hiding. See the below take of popular media group’s predictions before election

Kumudam Group – Kumudam Reporter –

          AIADMK and Allies – 34  
DMK and Allies – 06

Vikatan group – Junior Vikatan  

          AIADMK and Allies – 30
DMK and Allies – 10

Nakheeran (Gopal)

DMK+ Allies – 18-25
AIADMK – 15-22

Thuglak
DMK – 00
AIADMK – 40

Hindu – N Ram

DMK – 00
AIADMK – 40

I was basically stunned by these numbers by all these magazines when I read them, Especially when Ram came on NDTV on election day morning and pronounced his wisdom(in a somewhat angry tone) that DMK and allies will not even get a seat from Tamil Nadu. But when the exit polls which came out after 12 hours tonite, Dayanidhi Maran was in call with NDTV with Ram Sitting in NDTV studio listening to call.

NDTV predicted something like 20 for DMK and STAR News predicted 25 for DMK and Allies. Dayanidhi Maran didnt take much time to let others know he watched the NDTV show the morning and that he was not in agreement with Mr.N.Ram. He basically said N.Ram being a Communist was being loyal to third front and thats why the tone of the interview in the morning.

But whether DMK alliance gets more than 25 seats might be a big question, but the way media projected a sweeping AIADMK victory was scandalous. It makes one wonder if at all media conducts surveys or they just go by what they think and what they want. Last three elections all the pre-poll predictions have gone totally wrong. The reason could also be because of DMK’s media outlet SUN Network. After Sun Network started magazines and dailies, other media groups were worst affected and probably they took sides with AIADMK. Lets see what really spans out on May 16th 2009.

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Chennai MTC Bus routes, timings , AC Bus timings and Fare List

I was quite amazed when I found the Chennai Metropolitan Transport Corporations Bus website with lots of useful information. This will be of great help for those looking for Bus Routes, connections, AC Bus timings, frequencies and various stagewise bus information of Chennai’s Local Bus service ie MTC.

In the stagewise route information you can select any starting (or boarding ) point and Destination and the site gives all the Buses covering the routes (even if your boarding point is in middle of a route). Also the expected time of journey, frequencies and map (under construction as of now).

Route List of All Chennai  MTC buses :  All Chennai MTC Routes

Time table Time List of All Chennai  MTC buses :  All Chennai MTC Bus Timings

Route List of All Chennai  MTC buses :  All Chennai MTC Bus Stops / Locations




Route List of All Chennai MTC buses : https://www.dexternights.com/mtc-route/all-routes

Stage Bus Stop List and Routes MTC : https://www.dexternights.com/mtc-route/all-stages

AC Bus Timings : AC Bus Timings

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Will IBM,EDS and Microsoft start firing their Indian employees?

After Obama’s very controversial bill aimed at stopping job losses to Overseas markets like India, many IT professionals in India are worried what will be the impact on them. Nasscom has come out and said Indian companies wont be impacted but this is a protectionist approach from Obama. To a certain extent this move wont affect India based IT companoies like TCS,Infosys, Wipro and others. But this will definitely impact the revenues of tier 1 MNC’s like IBM,EDS,Oracle and Microsoft.

The proposed tax changes if passed could increase their corporate taxes by 10% which is sizeable margin for these players. Though they will be affected many might not simply abandon countries like India. IBM can get the same work done in India for 10-20% of the cost in US. So in near term there wont be immediate job losses in India. 

But these companies might  rethink their aggressive expansion plans in India, If Obama gets his way in this bill, He surely will put more restrictions on Offshoring of the from US. Especially companies which are getting federal funds are already under tremendous pressure not to offshore any new work to India.

But then if Obama decides to go further down the same line, it can end up disastrous for US economy. These companies like IBM,EDS will lose out to their Indian counterparts by not able to match their low bidding prices/scalability. Other companies like Banks and Automakers if forced to hire local talent at 10 times more cost will again become uncompetitive against their  global opponents. Hopefully Obama will listen to some sound advice  else he will end up creating another country like USSR and fail completely.