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Begins Foray into Supply Contracts with Chinese Companies BETHESDA, Md., May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As previously announced in a press release dated May 7th, 2009, India Globalization Capital (AMEX: IGC - News), a company competing in the rapidly growing infrastructure industry in India, announced that its first shipping hub is ready to export iron ore from mines in India to customers worldwide, and that it has initiated supply contracts with Chinese Companies. As outlined in the...

India Globalization Capital's CEO Interview Aired on American Scene Radio Show BETHESDA, Md., May. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- India Globalization Capital, Inc. (Amex: IGC), a leading infrastructure company competing in the rapidly growing infrastructure industry in India, is pleased to announce that its CEO, Ram Mukunda, will be interviewed live on Steve Crowley's American Scene Radio Show on May 19, 2009 at 10:34 a.m. EDT. Mr. Mukunda will be scheduled for future interviews on the...

An Additional $22 Million of Similar Claims are in Process. BETHESDA, Md., May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- India Globalization Capital, Incorporated (Amex: IGC) a company competing in the rapidly growing infrastructure industry in India announced it has won an arbitration award of approximately $2.2 million (approximately INR 109 million including interest) from an earlier "delay claim" made against the National Highway Authority of India. In October 2007, we filed a "delay claim"...

BETHESDA, Md., May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- India Globalization Capital, Inc. (AMEX: IGC), a company competing in the rapidly growing infrastructure industry in India, expands its business model. "We have expanded our business model to include the supply of materials to the infrastructure industry. Over the next five years, India expects to spend around $500 Billion on modernizing its infrastructure. We are expanding our business model, which currently includes construction, to...

"American Idol" meets "Survivor" in Art Contest Open to the World GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- It's the largest ever prize for an art competition. It's pop culture with money and the drama of "Survivor." It's "American Idol" taken to the streets; anyone can create, everyone can experience, and all votes count. It's called ArtPrize, a 16-day event that's being hailed from Washington to London as an exciting moment in art history. ArtPrize invites artists of all kinds from...

Globalization Partners International (GPI) launches a new search engine for international business professionals, travelers, students, researchers and anyone else who needs to easily search the web by language, by country and by search engine. WASHINGTON, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Globalization Partners International (GPI), a provider of website, software and documentation translation services in over 100 languages, announced today that it has launched a new search engine for international...

Hard times are pushing nations to retreat from globalization, U.S. economist Jeffery Sachs said. Nationalism is rising and our political systems are inward looking, the more so in times of crisis, Sachs said. A retreat in international trade is visible in the harbor at Singapore, where a shipping executive said space to park ships is hard to find, The Washington Post reported Thursday. We're running out of space to park them, Ron Widdows, chief executive officer of shipping giant NOL told...

By Stephen Holden Choke Directed by Clark Gregg * Reviewed by Stephen Holden * To visit the absurdist world of "Choke," the second film adapted from a novel by the "Fight Club" author Chuck Palahniuk, requires that you dive through the looking glass into a labyrinth where personal identity is fluid. At one point its cheerfully snarky narrator and self-proclaimed sex addict Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell), is half-convinced that he is cloned from tissue taken from the foreskin of a holy...

By John Beifuss "Choke" is the story of a depressed, smart-aleck sex addict (Sam Rockwell) who works as a costumed "historical interpreter" for tourists in a recreated colonial village when he's not visiting his insane, dying mother (Anjelica Huston); staging fake near-death experiences at restaurants to scam money from patrons who "save" him with the Heimlich maneuver; and wondering whether he really could be a clone generated from a particularly intimate anatomical relic of Jesus Christ....

By JEFF SIMON Chuck Palahniuk novels were written to be made into movies. That's true no matter how transgressive they are. We discovered that when one of them turned into David Fincher's "Fight Club" in 1999, one of the visionary masterpieces of movies in the past decade. The new movie of a Palahniuk novel -- Clark Gregg's "Choke" -- is assuredly no masterpiece. Indeed, as bleakly funny as it is sometimes, it's so droll that the director seems to forget both that it could have been...