1/ Indian Blogs

Indain Blogs: The Indian Bloggers Directory is an ongoing effort by Amit Agarwal to showcase some of the best Indian blogs
- asr: this list is by Amit Agarwal , we vetted Amit site so this Indian Blogs site is Legit.

1/ Venture funding & Startups

Accel Launches Third India Fund; Will Invest $155M In Early Stage Startups

- Currently, Accel has 34 portfolio companies in India, including Flipkart, Myntra,Letsbuy, HealthcareMagic, Babyoye, and Exclusively.IN.

(asr: $155 M is lots of money , this makes india take-off Startups )

1/snapdeal.com -- raised $40 mil ( indian groupon )
http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/28/snapdeal-indias-fast-growing-ecommerce-platform-raises-40-million-from-bessemer-and-more/

2/ FLIPKart.com : Indian Amazon.com

- Educating INDIA on PRODUCT Review ( asr: with FlipCart 50 city Delivary network , I think India's Delivary problem will be solved soon, the one I was thinking about Last year when I visited HYderabad )

- total $30 million funding , having $50 million Run Rate ( Sales/year ) , may be valued at $100 - $125 million ( given TutorVista was sold at $150 million valuation with funding of $80 million )

- Founders : IIT - Delhi , worked in Amazon , 2006 Grads ...

- 30,000 items/day shipped , Own Delivary network in 27 cities .

3/ Redbus.in -- good travel tickets delivery , Photos and Video ... , Seat Layout

4/ TutorVista.com -- sold at valued $150 million after $80 million funding ...

India top 10 hot startups - by Business Insider

1/ E-learning India

E-learaning in India
http://tutor.edurite.com/

1/ Tablets and DataDownloads

$60 Tablet in India -- with Keyboard and skype , students start using for Class work and test preparation. Combine this with good content like EduComp SMARTCLASS to learn Visually , it is great .. E-learaning in India

CHEAPEST DOWNLOAD

The tablet market is expected to see a price war as Reliance Industries and Bharti Group are also gearing up to offer cheaper data plans on tablets. RIL may slash the cost of data download to as low as Rs 10 per GB on its upcoming Rs 6,000 tablet. Data downloads cost around Rs 100 per GB for most operators now.
(asr: this will spark people using Tablet and Skype to talk .... )

Delhi-based Bharti Group's Beetel is also gearing up. "We were the first to introduce a tablet (Magiq) at Rs 9,999, this year. From January we will be going fullsteam and launch a third version of the tablet," says Vinod Sawhny, chief executive of Beetel Teletech. Samsung India is also launching a third model of the Galaxy Tab next month.

Reuters on $60 tab