1) Top 10 defining moments in India - U.S. relations in 2010: Barack Obama visit; Indo - U.S. Nuclear deal; Increased Strategic dialogues and high level visits; India - U.S. Counter terrorism Initiative; Frisking of Indian Diplomats like Meera Shankar and Hardeep Puri; Opposing views on Climate Change; Wikileaks; Bhopal Gas Tragedy Verdict; Anti-Outsourcing Policy; Fee hike for H1B and L1 visas.
2) Top 10 Gadgets of 2010: Apple's Ipad; India's first tablet - Olivepad; Samsung Galaxy Tab; Acer Aspire One D255; HP mini 210; Dell Inspiron mini; Samsung i9000 Galaxy S smartphone; Nokia N-8 smartphone; Blackberry Torch 9800; 3D televisions.
3) Biggest Scams of 2010: 2G (1.76 lakh crore); CWG (8000 crore); IPL (1200-1500 crore); LIC housing finance scam (1000 crore).
4) Top Strategic Trends in India in 2010: Cloud Computing {software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)}; virtualization; Mobile applications; Data center; Enterprising on Social Networking.
5) Best Business deals of India in 2010: GTL Infrastructure, provider of telecom infrastructure acquired Aircel Cellular's tower business in a $1.8 billion all-cash deal; Bharti Airtel acquired African based Mobile Telecommunications Company, Zain for $10.7 billion deal; British Salt which is a UK based manufacturer of pure dried vacuum salt products was acquired by Tata Chemicals for a whopping $13 billion; ICICI acquired Bank of Rajasthan for a deal amount of $668 million; Mahindra acquired about 70 percent of stake of auto major Ssang Yong of South Korea for about $ 463 million; After acquiring Hong Kong's Quality Healthcare Asia last month, the Singh brothers acquired the Dental Corporation of Australia for about $100 million. Fortis will acquire about 30 percent stake; Indian Investment firm Hinduja Group purchased stakes of Belgian banking and Insurance group KBC banking arm KBL European Private Bankers for about $1.68 billion; Infotel Communications, provider of Internet and leased lines sold 95 percent of its stake to Reliance Industries for about $1.07billion; Abbott Laboratories pharmaceuticals health care company acquired Piramal healthcare unit for about $2.12 billion. Also it will be paying about $400 million per year for next 4 years; Reckitt acquired Paras Pharma at a price of $726 million.
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