11 "newsy" questions for the morning of 11 February
Sukumar Ranganathan -
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:06 AM
1. Will Nimesh Kampani come back to India from Dubai, where he is in self-imposed exile because he faces the threat of being arrested the minute he steps back on Indian soil, before the new government is sworn in at the centre?
2. Will the Andhra Pradcesh CID tell us how they have been able to get a confession out of almost everyone they have arrested in connection with the Satyam case?
3. Will Vijay Mallya fire Rahul Dravid as captain of his Royal Challengers team?
4. Will Slumdog Millionaire win an Oscar?
5. Will the government cut taxes in the interim budget it will announce on 16 February, thereby risking a vote of confidence it could possibly lose?
6. Will the global acquisitions it has made come back to haunt the strapped-for-cash Tata group?
7. Will the WTO survive the global recession?
8. How long will it be before the US realises that its big stimulus isn't enough?
9. Will India really grow by 7.1% this year?
10. Will Muthalik try to get some more publicity this Valentine's Day?
11. Will this blog ever be as popular as Boing Boing?