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  • Backup your email with DropmyEmail : 650K Users in 2 months, 20% from India

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    sinha
    16 May 2012 | 4:12 am
    Worried about losing all your email data? Well, Dropmysite, a Singapore based startup wants to ‘backup the Internet’ and Dropmyemail is their offering towards backing up one’s email. The freemium service is free till 500 MB usage and is charged at $9.99/year for 5GB usage. The service also support Exchange servers (not VPN though) and as far as the target audience is concerned, the team is focusing on consumers first and is working on a product for SME/enterprise needs. The Singapore based startup , Dropmysite has been started with a vision is to ‘backup Internet’ – and the first…

  • Inspiring Speech by Narayana Murthy at the Graduation Ceremony of FORE School

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    LiveMango
    10 May 2012 | 4:35 am
    XIX Annual Convocation of FORE School of Management, New Delhi, held on May 8th, 2012 New Delhi, Delhi, India, Thursday, May 10, 2012 — (Business Wire India) — Calling upon the graduating batch of FORE School of management, New Delhi, India’s most respected and powerful CEO of all times, Mr. N. R Narayana Murthy, urged the students to align personal objectives with the growth impulses of the country and to take up the responsibility of contributing to the society. In his inspiring and motivational speech, the Padmabibhusan award winner, Chairman Emeritus, Infosys Limited,…

  • PayTM deal on TimesDeal grabs 70,000 mobile recharge orders in a day

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    sinha
    16 May 2012 | 1:59 am
    PayTM recently did a deal on TimesDeal site enabling users to pay just Rs 50 and get a mobile recharge voucher from Paytm, worth Rs 100. The duo earlier did a similar deal, last year which resulted in 50,000 orders in a day (read: What Happens When You Give Rs.100 For Rs.50? Impact Of TimesDeal On PayTM). Paytm Traffic And the recent deal (on May 9, 2012) witnessed 70,000 orders in 1 day. As per the details shared with us – Timesdeal saw a huge traffic surge, with more than 3,00,000 unique visitors reported for that day (and the deal sold 70,000 orders in a single day, i.e. on May 9th).

  • IPL council suspends five players

    India news from ESPN Cricinfo.com
    16 May 2012 | 12:29 pm
    The IPL governing council has suspended all five players named by the India TV sting operation alleging corruption

  • A Good Book and a Book Club

    Emergic: Rajesh Jain's Blog
    rajesh
    13 May 2012 | 6:30 pm
    A good book can open up the mind in a way nothing else can. A book transports us into the mind of the author, and makes us see the world through the author’s eyes. I thought of this in a recent Book Club meeting. I had missed the past few meetings, so it was good to be back. I realised how much I had missed as I listened to the various books being discussed. I really think everyone should not just read good books, but also discuss them with a small group of people on a regular basis. Create a Book Club of your own. Pick people who are very different from you, so you will get exposure to…
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    NDTV News - India

  • Nithari serial killings: Koli cross-examines witnesses

    16 May 2012 | 1:14 pm
    Nithari serial killings prime accused Surendra Koli, who is arguing his case himself, cross-examined witnesses in a CBI court for the second day today.Koli, who was brought to the court from Dasna jai...Related StoriesIndians stranded in Angola do not want to come back: GovernmentCourt notice over Nirmal Baba's magic remedy adsAarushi case: Laughing cop upsets judgeGiving up nuclear power 'harmful', says PMNarayana Murthy receives awards from US University

  • Giving up nuclear power 'harmful', says PM

    16 May 2012 | 1:13 pm
    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said that his government was committed to ensuring foolproof security of nuclear power plants but it would be harmful for the country to pass an ordinance ag...Related StoriesIndians stranded in Angola do not want to come back: GovernmentCourt notice over Nirmal Baba's magic remedy adsAarushi case: Laughing cop upsets judgeNithari serial killings: Koli cross-examines witnessesNarayana Murthy receives awards from US University

  • Narayana Murthy receives awards from US University

    16 May 2012 | 12:56 pm
    Infosys Chief Mentor Narayana Murthy has been felicitated with the Global Leadership and Free Enterprise awards by the University of South Florida (USF) in recognition of his entrepreneurial spirit.Th...Related StoriesIndians stranded in Angola do not want to come back: GovernmentCourt notice over Nirmal Baba's magic remedy adsAarushi case: Laughing cop upsets judgeGiving up nuclear power 'harmful', says PMNithari serial killings: Koli cross-examines witnesses

  • Aarushi case: Laughing cop upsets judge

    16 May 2012 | 12:50 pm
    A special CBI judge, hearing the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case, today took exception to the behaviour of a woman police officer, who repeatedly laughed during the hearing. Judge Shyam Lal got infuriated ...Related StoriesIndians stranded in Angola do not want to come back: GovernmentCourt notice over Nirmal Baba's magic remedy adsGiving up nuclear power 'harmful', says PMNithari serial killings: Koli cross-examines witnessesNarayana Murthy receives awards from US University

  • BMW hit-and-run: Damaged investigation right from the start

    16 May 2012 | 12:22 pm
    Suraj Sherawat, the 19-year-old, accused of driving a BMW that killed a pregnant woman and the driver of her car, will be part of an identification parade.Related StoriesSupreme Court issues notice to centre, state on Kalighat Temple entryNepal crash killed three from a family in Peddar RoadIncome Tax official gets 3-yr sentence in disproportionate assets caseGurgaon BMW hit-and-run case: Court orders identification parade of the accusedTop cop takes objection to RGV calling cops bhai
 
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    India news from ESPN Cricinfo.com

  • BCCI begins corruption probe

    16 May 2012 | 12:41 pm
    The BCCI has begun its investigation of the corruption charges against five players, with Shalabh Srivastava deposing before its inquiry commission

  • IPL council suspends five players

    16 May 2012 | 12:29 pm
    The IPL governing council has suspended all five players named by the India TV sting operation alleging corruption

  • Mumbai restrict Kolkata to 140

    16 May 2012 | 12:04 pm
    Kolkata Knight Riders were stunned early by an atrocious umpiring decision and a terrific ball from RP Singh, and never quite recovered from the double blow, despite Manoj Tiwary scraping together a mini-recovery

  • Mishra admits to 'frivolous statements'

    16 May 2012 | 6:54 am
    Mohnish Mishra, one of the five players suspended by the BCCI pending an inquiry into accusations of corruption, has said that he made the statements recorded during India TV's sting operation casually, only with a view to 'develop his value'

  • Close race to finish in top two

    15 May 2012 | 11:13 pm
    ESPNcricinfo previews the IPL match between Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders in Mumbai
 
 
 
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    Reuters: Top News

  • J.Lo topples Gaga to lead Forbes celebrity power list

    16 May 2012 | 11:54 am
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jennifer Lopez has topped the annual Forbes list of the 100 most powerful celebrities in the world, taking over from fellow pop singer Lady Gaga and beating out media mogul Oprah Winfrey.

  • Apple readies iPhone with bigger screen - sources

    16 May 2012 | 11:44 am
    TOKYO (Reuters) - Apple Inc plans to use a larger screen on the next-generation iPhone and has begun to place orders for the new displays from suppliers in South Korea and Japan, people familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.

  • Sri Lanka to free jailed ex-army chief Fonseka: negotiator

    16 May 2012 | 11:29 am
    COLOMBO (Reuters) - A member of parliament in Sri Lanka said on Wednesday he believed President Mahinda Rajapaksa would soon order the release from prison of the country's former army chief Sarath Fonseka, revered by many of his compatriots for helping end a 25-year civil war.

  • Platinum jewellery grows trendy in gold-loving India

    16 May 2012 | 10:49 am
    MUMBAI (Reuters) - Platinum jewellery, promoted by Bollywood stars and newly trendy among younger consumers, is slowly beginning to take off in India now the metal is cheaper than traditional favourite gold, and Mumbai businessman Colin Shah is reaping the rewards.

  • Cannes festival opens with quirky comedy and a camel

    16 May 2012 | 8:43 am
    CANNES, France (Reuters) - The Cannes film festival kicked off on Wednesday with quirky U.S. comedy "Moonrise Kingdom", Wes Anderson's exploration of childhood and young love centred around two 12-year-olds who fall in love and run away together.
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    India Insight

  • Has India lost its ‘cartoon’ humour?

    Ankush Arora
    15 May 2012 | 4:47 am
    The Indian government’s decision to withdraw a controversial cartoon from a political science textbook this week couldn’t have been more ironic. Just a day earlier, India had observed the 60th anniversary of the first sitting of its parliament, seen as one of the pillars of the world’s largest democracy. While it is best left to our imagination as to why the cartoon, roughly as old as the Indian republic itself, created the controversy now, the government’s reaction to the row is alarming and sets a dangerous precedent. The cartoon shows India’s first prime minister,…

  • As the economy and markets struggle, India needs tough actions

    Aditya Kalra
    13 May 2012 | 10:46 pm
    Slowing growth, a falling rupee, sliding stock markets, a rising current account deficit, drying foreign inflows and policy paralysis at the centre. Things certainly don’t look rosy for India. With the rupee down 22 percent in the last 10 months and a 6 percent drop in stock markets so far in May (as of Friday’s close), is it time for the government to seriously rethink its strategy ahead of the 2014 general elections? From Mark Mobius, who said the Indian government has been making many big policy mistakes, to Lakshmi Mittal, who told The Times of India on Friday that decision-making is…

  • In optimism over India-Pakistan trade, a warning flag

    Myra MacDonald
    13 May 2012 | 4:57 pm
    In 1997, the business-friendly Nawaz Sharif was prime minister, relations between Pakistan and India were thawing and the two countries were trying to use improved trade  to put decades of animosity behind them. Or as the Indian journalist Salil Tripathi wrote at the time, "this sorry state of affairs may be about to improve - through commerce." Then came the nuclear tests in 1998, the Kargil war and a coup in 1999, mass military mobilisation in 2001-2002,  the Mumbai attacks in 2008, and now, finally, we are here again. Trade is the new/old panacea of India-Pakistan relations, moving…

  • Climate change means doing Asian development differently

    Nita Bhalla
    11 May 2012 | 8:47 am
    In the face of climate change, is it time to re-examine the way we do development in Asia? For years, many developing countries have believed it can be only one or the other - economic growth or reducing carbon emissions. But a new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says it’s possible for countries in the Asia-Pacific region to do both. "High human development usually means high emissions, but there are ways to do things differently," says Anuradha Rajivan, lead author of the report. Everyone agrees that Asia-Pacific - which accounts for one-third of the world's…

  • “Good that the jerk died”: When Web links go bad

    Robert MacMillan
    11 May 2012 | 8:01 am
    The Indian Express published a story, filed from Lucknow, about the son of a local BJP bigwig who died after a security guard at a hospital shot him. The gunfight began after another guard told him and his flunkies to move his car from an illegal parking spot. The situation escalated, the goons beat the first guard, somebody drew his gun and that was that. The Express told a straight story, but when the Web link (or “URL”) circulated on Twitter, someone made a change that made it look like the Express was expressing an opinion. Here is the…
 
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    News from India

  • Panel set up to examine political science textbooks

    16 May 2012 | 11:01 am
    The government has set up a panel headed by former UGC chairman SK Thorat in the wake of the cartoon row to review NCERT's political science textbooks for schools.

  • Jaya govt launches ad blitzkrieg to celebrate 1 year in office

    16 May 2012 | 10:41 am
    The Jayalalithaa government unleashed a massive media advertisment blitzkrieg across the country today listing the achievements of ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu on the occasion of its completion of one year in office.

  • Anna Hazare's vehicle was attacked : Sources

    16 May 2012 | 10:30 am
    The anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare’s convoy was attacked by some unknown miscreants near Chitnis Park in central Nagpur today evening. However, no one was injured in the attacked. Pradip Kumar Maitra reports.

  • 'Centre can't give special treatment to Bengal'

    16 May 2012 | 10:07 am
    UPA constituent Trinamool Congress-ruled West Bengal, which has been demanding a special package, today did not get any assurance from finance minister Pranab Mukherjee who said he could not give preferential treatment to the state even though he himself belongs to it.

  • Nithari serial killings: Koli cross-examines witnesses

    16 May 2012 | 10:02 am
    Nithari serial killings prime accused Surendra Koli, who is arguing his case himself, cross-examined witnesses in a CBI court for the second day today.
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    The Economic Times

  • Maha waives off loans to the tune of Rs 50K of weavers

    16 May 2012 | 1:01 pm
    Maharashtra Government today announced waiving off loans to the tune of Rs 50,000 borrowed by the weavers and handloom workers till March 31, 2010.

  • Google searches get smarter

    16 May 2012 | 12:51 pm
    Google on Wednesday began making its search engine smarter in a major upgrade that looks beyond query words to figure out what people are actually seeking online.

  • Par panel for stringent land acquisition rules

    16 May 2012 | 12:44 pm
    The panel headed by BJP MP Sumitra Mahajan has said that the government should not acquire any land for profit purpose.

  • Weak rupee actually helps India: CLSA

    16 May 2012 | 12:39 pm
    Weak rupee actually helps India: CLSAA weaker rupee at a time of falling oil prices would reduce concerns about inflation, while ensuing boost in exports could reduce India's trade deficit.

  • Spain sounds alarm, warns against Greek exit

    16 May 2012 | 12:34 pm
    Spain sounds alarm, warns against Greek exitUncertainties over Greece prompted investors to pour their money into safe-haven German bonds while fleeing eurozone nations seen most at risk such as Spain.
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    The Viewspaper

  • In Conversation with Devam Saxena

    @Hear0To3fVie0ws8Paper
    16 May 2012 | 7:54 am
    Devam Saxena is a marine engineer, a teacher, an MBA student from IIM-Calcutta and a budding entrepreneur. Hailing from Lucknow,Uttar Pradesh, Devam has done his engineering from MERI(Marine Engineering Research Institute) Kolkata. He is currently studying in Kolkata from where he is doing his MBA. His life is an inspiration of how a person can tread a path of his own by continuously introspecting what he wants out of his life and finally, finding means to achieve the same. Tell us something about your background and your family. Devam Saxena: I was born in a middle-class family, rather a…

  • A Blue Paradise

    @Hear0To3fVie0ws8Paper
    15 May 2012 | 10:04 am
    Forty-five kilometers off the main coast of Phuket, lie the Phi Phi islands. These islands in the Andaman Sea are a place truly worth visiting. An hours’ flight from Bangkok to Phuket or Krabi and another hour by boat and you are into this ‘blue paradise’. The two main islands are Phi Phi Don and Phi Phi Lee. Phi Phi Don is the bigger one. As one approaches the islands you get an amazing view of gigantic cliffs, leading to a beach with snow-white sand and the crystal clear blue water. The limestone mountains with cliffs, caves and beautiful white sandy beaches, make the view absolutely…

  • To Which Era Do You Belong- BM or AM?

    @Hear0To3fVie0ws8Paper
    15 May 2012 | 2:26 am
      Just as Anno Domini (AD) and Before Christ (BC) are used to label years of two different eras, today’s generation will probably use BM and AM. Confused? I meant Before Mobile and After Mobile. Even though I have lived in both the ‘eras’, I really can’t recall how life was before the mobile phones stormed into our lives and for that matter I can’t understand how we possibly survived back then. Nowadays, everyone seems to possess a mobile or two. Indeed, I didn’t bat an eyelid when one ice-cream seller took out his mobile to calculate 25+15. But, today mobiles are not merely…

  • Ooty-Bon Voyage!

    @Hear0To3fVie0ws8Paper
    15 May 2012 | 2:09 am
    ‘The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page!’- Saint Augustine Lush greenery, picturesque surroundings, gushing waterfalls; after all it is not called ‘Queen of the Hills’ for no reason. Ootacamund or Ooty, as it is popularly known, is a hill station located in the Nilgiri Hills. The closest airport to it is the Coimbatore Airport, from where I embarked on a journey to discover the delights of this beautiful place.  If this has captured your imagination, then read on! The four-hour journey to Ooty is mesmerizing. Clouds float by, tea plantations stretch on and…

  • Neither Justice nor “Good Death”: Euthanasia in India

    Viewspaper Admin
    14 May 2012 | 2:52 pm
    On 7th March 2011, the Supreme Court of India denied the plea for euthanasia in the Aruna Shanbaug case. However, the verdict did not end there. The Supreme Court has also passed a ruling, allowing “Passive Euthanasia” in our country, making India one of the few countries which allow the concept at all. Philosophically, the issue of euthanasia has been a long standing three-way debate between those who completely condemn it, those who agree to it to some extent and those who condone it. One, however, cannot forget that in the Aruna Shanbaug case, the euthanasia plea was a very small issue…
 
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    DesiPundit

  • The Revolution Will Be Sung

    11 May 2012 | 10:51 am
    The Revolution Will Be Sung: The shifting sounds of the Dalit movement in Maharashtra

  • Why my Mother is worried about Right to Education (RTE)

    13 Apr 2012 | 11:09 am
    Why my Mother is worried about Right to Education (RTE): Now with RTE, she will have to keep 25% of her so far limited school seats to children from the community for free. She will probably have to increase the class sizes and also the fees to make this viable, affecting the quality of education and the closely nurtured relationships between students and teachers. But it’s not just about the fees. It’s also about academics. My mother tells me that her understanding of the rules is that she will have to give admission to students from poorer families (how poor is defined is not clear) but…

  • 21 Sikhs at the Battle of Saragahri

    12 Apr 2012 | 10:32 am
    21 Sikhs at the Battle of Saragahri: The middle-finger-u-death response of the ferocious 21 men who bravely held their ground against impossible odds is often held up as the ultimate example of Sikh badassitude, which is really saying something considering that these balls-out Indian hardasses have stories about shit like the dude who ran around pureeing enemy soldiers apart even after being mostly decapitated by a broadsword to the throat. Yet despite this epic showdown being the basis for a national holiday among Sikhs and a valiant, head-cleaving last stand worthy of the Spartans at…

  • Under A Dangerous Motto

    7 Apr 2012 | 11:42 am
    Under A Dangerous Motto: Two years ago, as district collector of Namakkal, he voluntarily declared his assets: a bank balance of Rs 7,172 and a house in Madurai worth Rs 9 lakh. Once, when his baby daughter, Yalini, who had breathing problems, was suddenly taken ill, he did not have the Rs 5,000 needed for admitting her to a private hospital. At that time he was deputy commissioner (excise) in Coimbatore and there were 650 liquor licences to be given out. The going bribe for each was rumoured to be Rs 10,000.

  • How Google Earth in India Can Fight Apathy Against Slums

    30 Mar 2012 | 10:34 am
    How Google Earth in India Can Fight Apathy Against Slums: Before Google Earth existed, the slums of Sangli, a city of 550,000 in southwestern India, was acknowledged on government maps by nothing more than some clumsily outlined, empty spaces. But then, from high in the sky, the eye of a satellite saw what no municipal geometer had taken the trouble to show: small islands of huts with dilapidated roofs spread throughout the city. Thanks to the satellite images available on Google Earth, a full picture of these forgotten slums has emerged. They now have borders; they are mapped; they have an…
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    Kamla Bhatt Blog

  • Bangalore Special: Bridget White Kumar on Anglo-Indian Cuisine

    Kamla Bhatt
    10 May 2012 | 9:43 am
    I have known about  Bridget White Kumar  for over 6 years, and every year on my purpose-filled trips to Bangalore, I’d promise myself to meet her. Every year her name would dutifully appear on my list of people to meet in Bangalore, and every year I’d carry her name forward to the next year’s list. Finally, last year I met Bridget at her home in Koramangala, Bangalore and unbeknownst to me I had been driving past her house every other day on my annual pilgrimage to Bangalore! We spent a lovely afternoon talking about her passion: Anglo-Indian cuisine. She had rustled up a…

  • Ashton Kutcher’s “Brownface” Popchips Advertisement As Raj The Bollywood Producer

    Kamla Bhatt
    2 May 2012 | 10:40 pm
      Ashton Kutcher’s “brownface” advertisment for Popchips has roiled the calm waters of the desi community in the US and other parts of the world. Did Popchips forgot to factor in how tightly networked the desi community is in the online world?  So, the question is did Popchips and Kutcher push the envelope on this one?  Here is a link from The New York Times on the Popchips campaign. Popchips roped in Kutcher as their brand ambassador a couple of  years age and made him the President of Pop Culture . In their latest media campaign  ”World Wide Lovers,”…

  • Bangalore’s Jahnavi Barua’s Novel “Rebirth” Nominated For 2012 Commonwealth Prize

    Kamla Bhatt
    26 Apr 2012 | 11:46 pm
    Bangalore’s Jahnavi Barua’s novel “Rebirth”  is nominated for the  2012 Commonwealth Book Prize. This is Barua’s first novel.  Other authors nominated for their first novel in the Commonwealth book prize category include Jamil Ahmad, Christopher Currie, and Rahul Bhattacharya. You can check the complete list here. The winner of the Commonwealth book prize will be announced in June at the annual literary The Hay Festival in Wales. Barua joins the growing rank of physicians cum writers like Abraham Verghese and Sidhhartha Mukherjee.  She has been writing…

  • Video: Rajnee Vs. Chuck Narris

    Kamla Bhatt
    26 Apr 2012 | 2:28 am
    Rajnee vs. Chuck Narris served with a strong Indian flavor from Expedia India is brilliant, so kck back, grab that cup of strong South Indian filter coffee and watch. This East-West connection had  to happen in this fast, shrinking world. Chuck Norris and “Superstar” Rajni had to meet in the virtual world.

  • Bangalore Special So Far…

    Kamla Bhatt
    21 Apr 2012 | 8:37 pm
      Bangalore special so far in case you missed listening or watching the interviews in our life, people and ideas channel. Our goal is to highlight Bangalore, a city in rapid transition, while remains of an older and gentler times still exist in pockets of the city. Every Thursday, you can expect to see a new audio interview on the website. Along with the new interviews, we include interviews from the archives. We started off the Bangalore special with 91-year old Leela Chander taking us back to 1930s and through her we discover places that still exist, while some others have disappeared.
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    Pluggd.in

  • Samsung devices represent 40% of Android Smartphone Sales [Q1, 2012]

    Team PI
    16 May 2012 | 9:01 am
    Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users reached 419.1 million units in the first quarter of 2012, a 2 per cent decline from the first quarter of 2011, according to Gartner, Inc. This is the first time since the second quarter of 2009 that the market exhibited a decline, as per Gartner. All vendors were impacted at different levels; however, white-box vendors seem to have suffered the most. While tier one players such as Nokia were negatively impacted on sell-in numbers (sold into retail), white-box vendors were unable to adjust production and were left with a build-up in inventory by…

  • Is Snapdeal now a pure play ecommerce company? [Pivot]

    sinha
    16 May 2012 | 5:48 am
    Hop to Snapdeal and this is what you see Snapdeal Homepage - All about Products Did you notice that something is missing? Well, there aren’t any service deals – no spa deals, no restaurant deals! The truth is there are service deals, but you will have to scroll till the end of the page to find them – i.e. the focus seems to be more on selling products (i.e. ecommerce) and less on deals (phase 1 of sun-setting the deal business?). And that takes us back to the earlier article : *Deal Expired* : The death of daily deal sites in India and the road ahead. Given that Snapdeal is the…

  • Poll: Facebook IPO – Hot OR Not?

    Team PI
    16 May 2012 | 5:15 am
    Facebook is going public and its valuation is touted to be anywhere between X & Y. And then there are those who’ve been wondering about its value vs valuation. To give you an idea, Chris Dixon expects Facebook to hit $150Bn market cap in the next few months! What do you really believe? Take this poll (if you are reading this post on your feed reader, hop to the site and take the poll embedded on the right sidebar). ———– ———–

  • Backup your email with DropmyEmail : 650K Users in 2 months, 20% from India

    sinha
    16 May 2012 | 4:12 am
    Worried about losing all your email data? Well, Dropmysite, a Singapore based startup wants to ‘backup the Internet’ and Dropmyemail is their offering towards backing up one’s email. The freemium service is free till 500 MB usage and is charged at $9.99/year for 5GB usage. The service also support Exchange servers (not VPN though) and as far as the target audience is concerned, the team is focusing on consumers first and is working on a product for SME/enterprise needs. The Singapore based startup , Dropmysite has been started with a vision is to ‘backup Internet’ – and the first…

  • PayTM deal on TimesDeal grabs 70,000 mobile recharge orders in a day

    sinha
    16 May 2012 | 1:59 am
    PayTM recently did a deal on TimesDeal site enabling users to pay just Rs 50 and get a mobile recharge voucher from Paytm, worth Rs 100. The duo earlier did a similar deal, last year which resulted in 50,000 orders in a day (read: What Happens When You Give Rs.100 For Rs.50? Impact Of TimesDeal On PayTM). Paytm Traffic And the recent deal (on May 9, 2012) witnessed 70,000 orders in 1 day. As per the details shared with us – Timesdeal saw a huge traffic surge, with more than 3,00,000 unique visitors reported for that day (and the deal sold 70,000 orders in a single day, i.e. on May 9th).
 
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    WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India

  • Facebook Updates Its Mobile App; Makes Photo Viewing Easier.

    Denzil
    16 May 2012 | 8:54 am
    Facebook recently rolled out an important design update to its mobile app. Although, the update doesn’t change the overall UI, it has made viewing photos much better. The new 3x enlargement in terms of size of the photos is rather nice and eliminates the need to tap on a photo to view on the large screen. You can see before and after images below. Before the update After the update It seems the Facebook team has already started taking design inputs from the Instagram team. Although the buyout of Instagram will not finish in 2012, the new design shows that Facebook is serious about…

  • Freshdesk Launches Private CRM Support For Facebook Messages

    Denzil
    16 May 2012 | 7:13 am
    Customer Support on Social Media platforms is the key to engage with the customers resolving their issues and queries. Sadly, almost all social media platforms, including Facebook have not really been designed with this in mind. Facebook has fan pages where your users can message you but all this is in the public domain and might not be the best place for consumers and companies to interact with each other in certain circumstances. Freshdesk, a cloud CRM startup is changing all that. They announced on their official blog that they have achieved integration of the Facebook messaging feature…

  • Pinterest Is The New Spamming Media: McAfee

    Alap Naik Desai
    16 May 2012 | 2:51 am
    The new social networking website Pinterest is being rapidly used by spammers to launch mass-spamming campaigns, reports McAfee Inc. McAfee fears that given the rapid growth of Pinterest among the users have offered people with malicious intents to launch campaigns that are meant to do all sorts of nefarious activities. What’s the threat? McAfee has uncovered complete toolkits that allow generating & deployment of a new spam campaign in a very simplistic manner. In a matter of minutes, the software has the ability to “mass-like” pins, add an account creator, mass-follow people,…

  • Google Chrome Allows Seamless Workability With ‘Tab-Syncing’

    Alap Naik Desai
    16 May 2012 | 2:30 am
    Google has officially released the latest version of ‘Chrome’ with some productive features. The latest Version 19 of the browser which works on all the operating systems like Windows, Mac, Linux & Google’s own Chrome brings  ‘Tab Syncing’ too. What’s so special? People are carrying multiple devices that can easily stay connected to the internet. However these devices cannot seamlessly stay synched with each other. The problem is more acute with our browsing sessions. Google’s Chrome browser effectively solves this by remembering one’s browsing history & Tabs…

  • Apparel Portal Zovi.com Ushers ‘Live’ Feature To Its Website

    Alap Naik Desai
    16 May 2012 | 1:45 am
    Fashion & apparel portal Zovi.com has introduced a ‘Live’ feature  on its homepage . What makes the offering unique? Clicking on the ‘Live’ Link will open a new page with India’s map displaying continuous stream of shoppers & their purchases on the right side. The website also claims to offer delivery and shipment notifications, but we could not see any. Why do you need to have a separate page? The product page on all websites already have ‘How Many Have Bought This’ tag. Why go that extra mile for an additional page? Well, it could be a clever trick to persuade…
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    Tech Bangalore

  • LG Cinema 3D Smart TV Experience

    Prashanth
    16 May 2012 | 9:49 am
    I was one of the bloggers who were invited to experience LG’s new Cinema 3D Smart TVs. LG has done massive improvements to keep the lead in 3D TV market share. I’m going write about some of the interesting features I came across in this hands on.What first caught my eyes was design with which LG has done some significant improvements. Bringing down the thickness of bezel to 1mm is a great achievement and hence the name “Cinema Screen”. Whenever someone talks about 3D the next thing I remember is painful eyes! 3D glasses made by LG weren’t of the same kind. It…

  • Insanely brilliant Sanebox to fight email overload!

    Prashanth
    27 Apr 2012 | 2:38 am
    Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest….and a lot other amazing services we signup & end up receiving unmanageable amount of emails everyday. I have more than a dozen of filters on my gmail to make all these mails skip inbox and sit in a label. But again, I signup to new services almost everyday and creating filters has become a routine. Recently, I gave up on creating filters & I had 8547 unread emails in my inbox!Then I came across this service Sanebox which claims to identify important emails which will need your immediate attention. I initially thought this will be just…

  • Backup your Facebook tagged photos automatically to Dropbox!

    Prashanth
    23 Mar 2012 | 3:20 am
    We have complete control of photos which we upload on Facebook. But not on photos which are uploaded/tagged by others. Your friend may choose to delete your photo anytime without your knowledge. It is a good idea to have your own backup of photos of yours which are tagged by others.We will achieve our desired task by using ifttt.com (If This Then That), which automates the whole process. If you don’t have a Dropbox account already, go signup for a free account before proceeding. So let’s get started:Signup at ifttt.com if you haven’t alreadyGoto http://ifttt.com/channels…

  • Ubuntu Cloud Day Bangalore 2012

    Prashanth
    22 Mar 2012 | 9:48 am
    Ubuntu Cloud Day is Canonical’s biggest Cloud event in Bangalore this year. With keynote speeches from various members of the Canonical team, and a more focussed technical delivery. Other presentations include working on Ubuntu Cloud, JuJu, Cloud infrastructure, as well as presentations from Intel and other partners. If you work on Cloud or want to know more about Cloud & Cloud infrastructure, this is the event to attend.Event is happening on April 4th at  The Grand Ballroom, Chancery Pavilion Hotel, 135 Residency Road, Bangalore.Cost?Event fee is Rs.999 but there is a special 20%…

  • GO Dev Team releases Beta 1 of GO Backup; poses serious competition to Titanium Backup

    Prashanth
    22 Mar 2012 | 6:29 am
    GO Dev team has released first beta of GO Backup for Android which backs up contacts, SMSs, Go Launcher settings & all other apps. Off course it requires root access (?) to backup apps/app data. Backing up apps is particularly useful for people like me who often flash & try new ROMs. Titanium Backup was a go to app for this purpose previously, but the interface of GO backup is just too simple. If you had used Titanium Backup, you would know how painful it is to restore all the apps, you have to go through Android install app prompt for each of the app. But in GO Backup, you click only…
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    The Imagined Universe

  • Corruption in the RTO

    Lekhni
    19 Apr 2012 | 9:40 pm
    Long years ago, I went to the Regional Transport Office twice – the first time to get my two-wheeler driving license, and the second, to get my car driving license.  Both are still valid, which means, in theory, that I can drive a car anytime I go to India, if I am feeling particularly brave, that is. Both licenses were obtained through a driving school.  I would have had to go through the driving school to learn car driving anyway, but for the two wheeler license, the driving school was just an expensive way to circumvent the long delays at the RTO, not to mention the bribes that…

  • Hockey on the pond

    Lekhni
    4 Feb 2012 | 6:30 pm
    Punxsutawney Phil the groundhog got  it badly wrong when he looked at his shadow this week.  Six more weeks of winter? We are still in winter? Yes, I know it is February and normally the peak of winter, but this year winter seems to have made a guest appearance. There is practically no snow on the ground this year.  The temperatures have been in the thirties.  It feels more like we are already in an early spring.  Not that I am complaining, especially after last year’s Snowmageddons. But this weather means, among other things, that the pond ice must not be too thick.  The backyard…

  • Book Review: Growing Up Amish

    Lekhni
    21 Jan 2012 | 9:25 am
    If you are like me, the only time you have ever met an Amish person is when you have stopped off to look at the sturdy furniture they make.  You are fascinated and mystified at their 1800s lifestyle (no electricity, cars or phones, or even indoor plumbing) but don’t know a whole lot more about them. If you are like me then, you’d be fascinated by “Growing Up Amish”.  It’s about one man’s experience of trying multiple times to leave the Amish church, and finally succeeding.  I’m usually not a big fan of autobiographies or memoirs, but I found this…

  • Blank excuses

    Lekhni
    15 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    The other day, I sat down with a lot of enthusiasm to blog.  I typed a few words in the WordPress editor, and they promptly disappeared.  I typed a few more, and they too, joined their companions into invisibility.  I could still see my words in preview mode, so they were clearly there somewhere, but I couldn’t see them in the editor.  The visual editor’s icons (for aligning, linking etc) had also disappeared. After reading different threads on wordpress.org and unsuccessfully trying all kinds of fixes, I came across one fix which suggested that the problem could be solved by…

  • On marrying your rapist in the name of law

    Lekhni
    5 Dec 2011 | 7:34 am
    What is worse – being sentenced to twelve years in prison because you were the victim of a rape, or being “pardoned” by your country’s  President on the condition that you marry your rapist, thus entering a lifelong hell? Gulnaz’s story is horrific at multiple levels.  A system which charges rape victims with adultery is awful enough,  while jailing people for adultery  as if it were a capital crime is even more horrible.  But what really are you saying when you proclaim that said adultery can be forgiven if only you marry the guy who committed a violent…
 
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    Trakin' the india business buzz

  • Indian Funding & PE Deals of the week [May 7th to May 13th 2012]

    Arun Prabhudesai
    16 May 2012 | 12:13 pm
    Here are the Funding, PE and M&A deals happened in India for the week starting May 7th 2012. Funding, Private Equity and M&A Deals of the week [May 7th to May 13th 2012]  Funded Company / Acquired Company Deal Type Who Funded / Who Acquired Funding Amount Remarks ProKlean technologies Pvt. Ltd. Angel Funding Chennai Angels USD 500k manufacturing expansion & reach expansion           Magzter Inc. Series A IndoUS Venture Partners Undisclosed To expand its footprint in other countries           cbazaar.com Series A Inventus…

  • Airtel Money Super Account launched in partnership with Axis Bank

    Kaushambi
    16 May 2012 | 10:35 am
    Bharti Airtel has partnered with Axis Bank to use combined forces of telecom and banking to offer financial inclusion (FI) to thousands of Indians who still don’t have any access to banking. Called Airtel Money Super Account powered by Axis Bank, the mobile platform will be powered by Airtel MCommerce Services Limited, a fully owned subsidiary of Airtel. Banking products and services will be brought forth by Axis Bank. Infosys has been roped in as the technology innovation partner to lend its expertise in mobile and e-commerce to successfully deliver this initiative. Sanjay Kapoor, the…

  • Indian economy to grow 7.5% in 2012 as compared to 6.9% in 2011 [ESCAP Report]

    Kaushambi
    16 May 2012 | 12:31 am
    As the markets slide to 4 month lows and poor Q4 results project a grim outlook for the Indian economy in 2012. However United Nations, Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) report outlines defining factors that project growth and stability of Indian economy and surrounding regions in the Asia-Pacific. For India, ESCAP puts forward a positive outlook for increased GDP growth in 2012 as compared to 2011. Inflation remains one of the key things to watch out for in 2012. Until recently RBI has increased raise policy rates 13 times in 19 months. For the first time in many…

  • Indian Ecommerce Market [Infographic]

    Arun Prabhudesai
    15 May 2012 | 12:25 pm
    Folks over at MySmartPrice.com did a study on various online stores in India and have come up some interesting facts and numbers. We are big fans of Infographics here at trak.in – hence we decided to put together various findings in a single infographic. Some of the findings are quite interesting – Like, out of the total 343 stores that were included in the study 130 stores sold Clothes and apparels making it the most popular category amongst ecommerce sites in India. We had expected that Electronics & Gadgets would be the most popular category. Close to 57% of all retail stores…

  • India’s Mobile Banking Adoption highest in World!

    Arun Prabhudesai
    15 May 2012 | 7:34 am
    Mobile Banking has really caught up in India – according to recently conducted survey by ACI Worldwide, 76% of Indian mobile respondents used their mobiles for banking in last 6 months. This percentage is highest across the world. Comparatively, only 38% respondents from US, and 31% from UK used mobile banking in last 6 months. China, came in after India with 70% users using mobile banking followed by South Africa (61%). The global average for Mobile Banking adoption rate stands at 35%. Source: Aite Group; ACI Worldwide study of 4,200 consumers in 14 countries, Q1 2012 Mobile Payment Usage…
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  • FBI opens JPMorgan investigation

    16 May 2012 | 1:28 pm
    The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday that the agency has opened an investigation into JPMorgan Chase, the nation's largest bank.

  • Is Greece the Lehman of 2012? -The Buzz

    16 May 2012 | 1:04 pm
    With apologies to John Lennon: Imagine a eurozone without Greece. It's easy if you try.

  • Fiscal cliff: What you need to know

    16 May 2012 | 1:02 pm
    On Tuesday, House Speaker John Boehner all but promised an ugly fight over the debt ceiling this year unless GOP demands for spending cuts are met.

  • SCRAMBLE TO SAVE GREECE

    16 May 2012 | 12:56 pm
    Leaders across Europe rushed to try to reassure nervous investors Wednesday that they were working to prevent Greece from an unprecedented exit from the eurozone and the damage that might cause for other troubled European economies.

  • Stocks mixed amid ongoing Greece worries

    16 May 2012 | 12:18 pm
    U.S. stocks turned mixed Wednesday afternoon, as investors weighed strong U.S. economic data against ongoing uncertainty about Greece's political situation.
 
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    GigaOM

  • ISwifter’s TheWorx iPad app recreates Facebook, but with games

    Ryan Kim
    16 May 2012 | 1:33 pm
    Just days before Facebook’s big IPO, the company is getting a lesson from another Silicon Valley startup on how to improve its iPad app. ISwifter is showing how it can create a full-fledged Facebook app that also includes Flash gaming. TheWorx iPad app, a Facebook application that is set to go live next month, will provide users with access to status updates, their news feed and photos. But the kicker is that it will also give iPad users access to Facebook’s Flash-based games through an App Hub. Currently, iSwifter’s iPad app allows people to play thousands of Facebook…

  • Calvin: A fast, cheap database that isn’t a database at all

    Derrick Harris
    16 May 2012 | 1:12 pm
    Yale researchers Daniel Abadi and Alexander Thomson think they have developed the cure for Oracle and IBM dominance in the world of database performance, and it isn’t even technically a database. In a blog post Wednesday morning (and in a related research paper), the two researchers detail Calvin, a “transaction scheduling and replication coordination service” that they think can level the playing field between high-cost distributed relational databases and less-expensive, but limited NoSQL and NewSQL databases. Abadi and Thomson aren’t dismissing either NoSQL or…

  • Bloglovin, a design-conscious RSS-meets-Tumblr, gets Betaworks investment

    Ki Mae Heussner
    16 May 2012 | 12:59 pm
    When Mattias Swenson, Patrik Ring and their three co-founders first decided to launch a startup out of high school, the plan was to work on it for a year and then move on with their lives. Growing up in Stockholm, they said, they didn’t know of anyone else who gave up university for entrepreneurship. But more than five years later, they’re still at it. And their startup Bloglovin, which is something like a visual RSS reader meets  Tumblr for the entire blogosphere, is poised for a new level of growth. New York-based Internet company Betaworks is announcing today that it, along with…

  • Verizon phasing out unlimited data as customers switch to 4G

    Kevin Fitchard
    16 May 2012 | 12:20 pm
    Updated. Verizon Wireless plans to close down the mobile broadband buffet for good, phasing out unlimited plans as customers upgrade from 3G phones to 4G. Verizon CFO Fran Shammo revealed the policy plan change on Wednesday while speaking at a J.P. Morgan conference, saying it must turn off the unlimited spigot as a prerequisite for moving to shared family data plans, FierceWireless reported. Verizon ended unlimited data last summer, but it also grandfathered its old all-you-can-eat customers into their $30 plans in perpetuity. That practice now seems to be ending. Shammo said that Verizon…

  • Google shakes up search with new Wikipedia-like feature

    Jeff John Roberts
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Just months after rolling out a controversial personalized search feature, Google  is shaking up its search pages once again. This time, the search giant is carving out a chunk of the site for “Knowledge Graph,” a tool that offers an encyclopedia-like package in response to a user’s query. The idea is to get users to spend more time on Google and also to make the search engine offer a more human-like understanding of questions and context. “This is a critical first step towards building the next generation of search, which taps into the collective intelligence of the…
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    The 100% unofficial blog of the Indian Prime Minister

  • Utsav missed

    Pradhan Mantri | The Prime Minister of India
    15 May 2012 | 1:03 pm
    Rekha took oath in Rajya Sabha today. It was quite a Utsav in the house. She has promised to play her role well. But who will play Shekhar Suman? Did you miss this news and got sucked into shit about IPL and Raja? You folks really do not see the right channels I must say...

  • Ambedkar was like Amir Khan

    Pradhan Mantri | The Prime Minister of India
    14 May 2012 | 12:04 pm
    The cartoon which has upset a lot of people is actually praising Dr Ambedkar. He was a bit like Amir Khan. Took some time making good things and needed to be pushed to get a good thing done. Come to think of it 3 years to write the Indian constitution is quite less than the time taken by SIT to probe Godhra riots And if we can ban this cartoon, I as a Secular Sardarji Economist Prime Minister would like to ban all Sardar jokes across the nation...Kya?

  • BJP MLA watching porn again!!!

    Pradhan Mantri | The Prime Minister of India
    13 May 2012 | 4:13 am
    25% of the BJP MP's are likely to be suspended for watching clips of Abhishek Manu Singhvi and N D Tiwari on their Ipods. 75% of the Samajwadi MP's can also be suspended for watching these same dirty pornographic clips but coalition dhamra prevents me from doing anything like this. I as a Secular Sardarji Economist Prime Minister am so grateful that video cameras were not so easy to use in the 1940's or else we would have the RSS ruling the nation...

  • WCFI NO 1

    Pradhan Mantri | The Prime Minister of India
    12 May 2012 | 7:06 am
    Worst Country For Indians (WCFI) to visit or do business is Angola. From the immigration which makes you wait for 4 hours even if you have a valid visa- just because you are an Indian or can even send you to a cell overnight or deport you for no reason at all. While you as an Indian are being pushed around hordes of Chinese workers pass by. I as the secular economist Prime Minister of India declare ANGOLA AS THE WCFI NO 1 your name can be Shah or Khan the Angolans do not care Let not this picture misguide you in any way. It is on the website of the Angola Embassy…

  • Appeal to the Pilots in the Congress

    Pradhan Mantri | The Prime Minister of India
    10 May 2012 | 2:04 pm
    Indian Pilots have appealed to the Pilots in the Congress to help them. There are number of Pilots you can appeal to in the Congress. Other than people with surnames as Pilots some key people have been married to Pilots. Very secular Pilots who flew with different caps which determine the Congress policy till date. 
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    Newsman

  • Mixed feelings for Sachin the MP

    4 May 2012 | 1:53 am
    In a nation of multiple gods, mortals run the risk of being elevated to divinity. With cricket as contemporary India's mass religion, Sachin Tendulkar has had to live with a

  • Humble tips for choosing a new President

    20 Apr 2012 | 1:36 am
    Five years ago, one 'almost' broke the story of India's next President. Amidst feverish speculation, a source sent an sms: "Congratulations! India is getting its first woman president and she

  • Indecisiveness renders Antony's honesty hollow

    6 Apr 2012 | 1:40 am
    It is not without reason that AK Antony is referred to as 'Saint' Antony. When you've spent four decades in public life and don't have a whiff of a financial

  • How dictators run the government in a democracy

    25 Mar 2012 | 10:18 pm
    If you think a week is a long time in politics, just forget it. In India, it can take just a few hours for a zero to become a hero

  • A tale of two Rahuls

    16 Mar 2012 | 1:56 am
    Politics is the original 'dirty picture', cruel and ruthless. Last week, on the day the legendary Rahul Dravid announced his retirement from international cricket, an sms doing the rounds said:
 
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    Mutiny

  • Satyamev Jayate: Child Sexual abuse- A Scar for life

    Shruti
    13 May 2012 | 2:52 am
    Silence.. it is often the only response left in a child after a horrific trauma and a scar is forever left in him. Child sexual abuse, a topic seldom discussed at home and if a child does tell his/her parents about the incident which is tearing his/her soul.. often parents fail to believe in them. 53% of our population have faced child sexual abuse atleast once in their childhood, i.e. one in every two child is a victim. This trauma, this shame, this crime forever stays with them and haunts them in their adult life. Ironically, often it is those people who are trusted by the family, their…

  • Satyamev Jayate-Do our politicians need reminders(Again and Again)?

    Nikhil Ravishankar
    11 May 2012 | 11:15 pm
    Aamir Khan’s debut TV Show Satyamev Jayate, received extremely positive reviews from both critics and the common man. Keeping in line with the show’s motto, ‘The truth shall prevail’, Aamir Khan met Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot to discuss the issue of female foeticide which was the focus of the first episode of the show. Following the meeting, the Rajasthan government and the Jaipur district administration swung into action, cancelling the licenses of 5 sonography centres. What is shocking about this whole matter is the fact that the Government had to wait for a TV Show…

  • Satyamev Jayate – A girl child is not a curse!

    Shruti
    6 May 2012 | 4:49 am
      Female infanticide.. A topic about which people seldom talk about, and even if they do the crux of the matter is often left unexposed. Female infanticide is not just the death of a girl child within the womb of the mother itself, but also it is the death of the love, the warmth, the motherhood which nurtures a child. Why is it that people still desire a male child? Today, when female is acing the race in every field of life, when girls are often the support of their parents, when they have the capability to take care of not just the household work but also maintain a successful career,…

  • Grandmaster:Review

    Mridul
    3 May 2012 | 1:57 pm
                                                                           Grandmaster is not the most exciting or engaging crime thriller ever made in malayalam cinema,but it can be any time counted as one among those very decent crime thrillers made in our times.Loosely adapted from a famous Agatha Christie novel,Grandmaster has got a not that racy first half which also deals with the family matters of I.G Chandrashekhar (which i personally enjoyed) and a swift n crispy second half. Mohanlal’s ‘salt n…

  • All ye Mothers, Are you Ready to be Featured in Mutiny?

    Jeff Shawn
    3 May 2012 | 12:07 pm
      Mother is not a word, not a noun; it is but an emotion that is never so commonly found. She is the first teacher, the worst enemy and then the darling friend. A woman, an idol, the Gibraltar’s rock and the one whose soothing touch makes the world a better place to live in. She is the softest one, yet she is the strongest when it comes to her children. She’ll be the one who silently sheds a tear over her fevered child yet she is the one who can bend mountains if needed. She is Shakti, she is love, she is sacrifice, she is inspiration, she is from where life starts and thus she is…
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    The Compulsive Confessor

  • Literature Straight From My Ovaries Because That's Where I Also Keep My Brain Cells

    eM
    20 Apr 2012 | 1:18 am
    Reading this, by Jennifer Weiner, a hugely successful author, got me thinking about what I don't like about the label 'chick lit'. If you're just joining me, then you may not know that in the past, in the press and on this blog at various points, I have rebelled against the label. 'Chick lit', I say, stridently, 'is about a young woman whose motivations are solely based on her relationship. In the end, she finds her perfect lover and walks off into the sunset with him.' By arguing that my book didn't follow that formula, I implied that while it's all very well for other authors to write about…

  • Things; and Bombay

    eM
    17 Apr 2012 | 5:46 am
    The politics of farewells So, like, when you're about to leave? After you've spent a considerable amount of time in a certain place? And then you say goodbye to everyone, like really heartfelt, "Goodbye. I'll see you the next time I'm here. Be well. God be with you." It's essential to emphasise the "good" bit of "goodbye", maybe not say "God be with you" because you don't know whether or not you believe in God, and you think saying "God be with you" is basically forcing someone to believe in something, even if they don't want you, but it serves the purpose in this paragraph which is to say…

  • The wheels on the train go round and round

    eM
    5 Apr 2012 | 3:01 am
    Thanks, in no small part, to my current state of finances, I've begun taking the train more. The more money you earn, the more expensive flights seem to be, it's really odd. I like flying because it gets you to your destination so fast, but left without a choice, I've rediscovered the magic of the Rajdhani.  Cellphone picture, which is why the bad quality, of the scenery whizzing past the train I have a long history with trains, mostly with my mother. When we lived in Trivandrum for two years when I was about six or seven, we took a long train, a "first class coupe" from Kerala up to…

  • Reading instructions: With pinch of salt to taste

    eM
    26 Mar 2012 | 12:54 pm
    Do you know how you're always better at giving people relationship advice and you feel all super wise and like this Zen Monk type person, but when it comes to actually taking the advice you're doling out with such a liberal hand, you sort of suck? Yes, of course you do. I've complained about this on numerous occasions to friends, we're all so perfect at fixing each other, but when it comes to ourselves, we're not very good. (Well, with a few notable exceptions, but those ladies are just Wonder Women anyway, and it's best not to mention them at all, since none of these rules apply to them.)…

  • We found love in a hopeless place

    eM
    22 Mar 2012 | 6:52 am
     We snuck in through a side entrance, me, who has never really done anything lawless in her life, my heart thumping, and a flutter of uncontrollable, inappropriate giggles about to rise up through my chest. "Shhh!" said the first person in line, warningly, we dodged a guard, walked under a bridge and ran across the lawn, being careful to stay in the shadows, and then (I thought he was joking) we lurked behind a tree. No joke. One by one, we peeled ourselves out from behind the tree and scampered, no forgiving shadows there, but it was a short scamper, till we reached the wall of the…
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    Marketing Practice

  • Marketing Funda : Indian Ingredient Brands

    Harish B
    13 May 2012 | 2:23 pm
    Marketing Guru Kevin Lane Keller defines Ingredient Branding as a special case of co-branding which involves creating brand equity for materials component or parts that are necessarily contained in other branded products. Prof. John Quelch  of Harvard defines ingredient branding as putting the brand of an ingredient out of the product to increase its appeal. Ingredient branding concept started as a co-branding where the brand owners of ingredient and product brands are different. In my opinion, the strategy has evolved where firms have started branding their own ingredients in order…

  • Brand Update : Does Limca Really Needs Kareena ?

    Harish B
    7 May 2012 | 12:48 pm
    The summer of 2012 belongs to lemon based beverages. Marketers are all out to woo consumers through high decibel promotions for lemon based beverage brands. These brands ( once neglected) started to be considered as high growth brands. In BCG metrics terms,Question Marks suddenly became Stars ! The reason is the late realization that Indians have a soft-corner for lemon flavor which was long neglected by maverick marketers who wanted the Cola to rule the market.Now lemon flavored segment is growing at 17-20% annually compared to single digit growth for the Cola brands.The new Star of the…

  • Chaze Mobiles : Ye Hui na Baat

    Harish B
    30 Apr 2012 | 1:24 pm
    Brand : ChazeCompany : Chaze MobilesBrand Analysis Count : 510Some marketers will do anything to get their brand eyeballs. Chaze Mobile, which is yet to launch their products recently got  million dollar worth exposure in most of the media through one celebrity endorsement announcement. The brand  roped in the " upcoming " bollywood actress Sunny Leone as the brand ambassador.huh !

  • Out of Action

    Harish B
    25 Apr 2012 | 12:04 pm
    Dear Readers,I had a severe relapse of Inter vertebral disc  prolapse and was out of action for last two weeks. I am on the recovery path and will be back soon.LoveHarish

  • Herbs & Berries : Branding Ayurveda

    Harish B
    3 Apr 2012 | 2:08 am
    Brand : Herbs & BerriesCompany : Hindustan Lifecare LtdBrand Analysis Count : # 509Herbs & Berries is Hindustan Lifecare Ltd ( makers of Moods Condoms) foray into the Ayurvedic OTC market in India. Indian OTC market is huge worth around Rs 15,000 crore ( including both ayurvedic and allopathic drugs). Ayurvedic OTC products are growing at around 15-20% per annum. But the market is highly  competitive. Since the regulatory framework for herbal and ayurvedic products are less stringent compared to modern medicine, there is a huge rush of local players into this segment. A…
 
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    The Big Picture

  • Backlash against austerity in Eurozone

    16 May 2012 | 12:14 am
    France, Greece, the Netherlands- and now in a provincial election in Germany. Voters are telling their masters: to hell with austerity. Does this mean governments can or should spend their way out of trouble? No way. Where is the money going to come from? Not from private investors: any escalation in spending will get a thumbs down from the financial markets. Official flows, from within or outside the EU, will also not be forthcoming. (Germany is not willing to bankroll deficits elsewhere without tough conditions and, indeed, that is the trigger for the current backlash).So, the idea that new…

  • Economic affairs secretary on S&P warning

    3 May 2012 | 12:11 am
    R Gopalan mounts a spirited defence of India's economic position in the face of the recent S&P warning in an  interview to ET. The points he makes are very similar to what I have said in my post below: India's debt to GDP ratio has come down and there has been substantive improvement in the fiscal position of the states.

  • IITs set to improve transparency in JEE

    3 May 2012 | 12:04 am
    IITs will post the evaluated answer sheets of JEE candidates online, TOI reports:  If a candidate finds any discrepancy, he or she can lodge a complaint online. These evaluated answer sheets will be available online from May 5 to May 10. The facility to submit requests for revision will close at 5pm on May 10 after which representatives of all IITs will meet to consider the requests. If found correct, the responses will be updated by May 14. According to IITD director, R Shevgaonkar, it may happen that the scanner does not pick up correct responses if a candidate has not filled the…

  • India's inflation rate will stay at 6-7%

    27 Apr 2012 | 5:52 am
    There is little chance of India's inflation rate going down in the medium term. If anything, the rate may go up. A rate of 6-7% need not be feared. It is only a very high rate of inflation (at least above 10%) that imposes significant efficiency costs.The social consequences are not very disruptive, as it appears rural and urban workers, both in the organised and unorganised sectors, are having wage increases that are above the inflation rate. The losers would be pensioners, the unemployed and foreign purchasers of Indian goods (to the extent that rupee depreciation does not offset price…

  • Boards of banks

    26 Apr 2012 | 5:19 am
    It is news to me that UK's Financial Services Authority actively monitors the effectiveness of bank boards and also interviews candidates proposed by financial firms for their boards. I got to know this when I read a speech delivered by Hector Sants, the outgoing chief of FSA, to which my attention had been drawn by a blog in the FT.Here's what Sants had to say about how the FSA judges the effectiveness of bank boards:The regulator assesses this effectiveness on a continuous basis.  It does this through many tools such as board effectiveness reviews, regular supervisory discussions with…
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    Atanu Dey on India's Development

  • After this we’ll be right back

    Atanu Dey
    11 May 2012 | 10:11 am

  • Traveling in these Politically Correct Times

    Atanu Dey
    2 May 2012 | 6:35 pm
    I am, generally speaking, quite sanguine about the long-term prospects of the world. I believe with good reason that the trends are positive, and I entirely dismiss the chicken littles that claim that the sky is falling. But my optimism tends to disappear when I have to travel. For all intents and purposes, it appears to me that the world is going to hell in a hand basket whenever I am forced to be a customer of the US air transportation system, like I was in the last few weeks when I went first to Mexico and then to the East coast. Most people in the US are unfortunately quite familiar with…

  • Rajesh Jain at the India Business Conference at Columbia University

    Atanu Dey
    26 Apr 2012 | 6:47 pm
    ~ ~ The Low Library, Columbia University My colleague Rajesh Jain was a speaker at the the Eight Annual India Business Conference 2012 at Columbia University on 14th April in New York City. It was held at the Low Library, a US national historic landmark building (picture on the right.) I was at the conference and had the opportunity to meet Prof Jagadish Bhagwati and Prof Arvind Panagariya. I am pleased to say that Rajesh’s talk was very well-received. Here’s what he said. Rajesh’s point is that we know what needs to be done to transform India, for it to become a developed…

  • Happy Bengali New Year

    Atanu Dey
    13 Apr 2012 | 9:43 pm
    Shubho Nobo Borsho. This Bengali new year I am spending in New York City. There’s a conference at the Columbia Business School tomorrow (Saturday 14th April). Rajesh is making a presentation there on “Transforming India.” We will also meet Prof Jagadish Bhagwati and Prof Panagariya. I am having lots of fun in the East coast. I arrived last week Friday at JFK, picked up a car at the airport and drove to Astoria (Queens) to spend the evening with my friend AT and his wife U. Next morning, I made my way to Philadelphia. I took my favorite East coast road, the New Jersey…

  • “India is a nation of more than 1 billion fools.” — Justice Katju.

    Atanu Dey
    9 Apr 2012 | 11:27 pm
    If you have been reading my blog, what Justice Katju said recently will not come as a surprise to you. “India is a nation of more than one billion fools.” Go read it. I will later put in links to those specific blog posts which make the same points that Mr Katju makes.
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    WirelessDuniya

  • Huawei Launches smart phones Huawei Honor and the New Huawei Ideos X5 for the Indian market

    Sidhaarthaa
    15 May 2012 | 3:45 pm
    Huawei has announced the launch of its latest smart phones Huawei Honor and the New Huawei Ideos X5 for the Indian market. Huawei Honor, powered by the latest Gingerbread and ICS-ready(Android 4.0) smart-phone is packed with interesting apps and a high battery life. It measures 10.9mm at its thinnest point, weighs around 140g and has [...]

  • Interview: Getit’s multiplatform location based marketplace app on mobile is a powerful local guide in India

    Sidhaarthaa
    11 May 2012 | 2:48 am
          Interview with Mr. Sidharth Gupta: CEO Getit Infoservices Pvt. Ltd WirelessDuniya caught up with Mr. Sidharth Gupta (CEO Getit Infoservices Pvt. Ltd.) who gave us an interesting insight into Getit’s multiplatform marketplace app. What is GETIT? Ans: Getit is India’s leading information service provider which provides information on sellers of products and [...]

  • Facebook introduces New App Center

    Sidhaarthaa
    11 May 2012 | 12:30 am
    Facebook has announced the launch of its App Center, the central place where users can discover and buy high quality apps and developers can easily publish new ones. Users can access it on the web and in the iOS and Android Facebook apps.The type of apps eligible for the App center are:     An app [...]

  • Samsung announces the launch of its new Smart TV series in India

    Sidhaarthaa
    9 May 2012 | 12:40 am
    Samsung has announced the launch of its new Smart TV series for the Indian market. These new smart TV models – LED ES8000, ES7500 and Plasma E8000 have Samsung’s Smart Interaction technology that provides Smart TV users with a new, more natural and intuitive option for controlling and interacting with the TV. Some of the [...]

  • Samsung unveils Samsung Galaxy S-III

    Sidhaarthaa
    5 May 2012 | 12:30 am
    Samsung unveiled one of the most-waited phones of 2012, Samsung Galaxy Galaxy SIII in London. Some of the key features to look out for in the Samsung Galaxy SIII are – It runs on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). However, the default user interface of the OS is TouchWiz Nature UX, a custom skin prepared [...]
 
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  • In The Kitchen With Dawn

    Manisha Pandit
    8 May 2012 | 1:55 pm
    After two consecutive hot and dry months, we gladly take precipitation in any form. The clouds opened up yesterday to shower us with rain and by the time I arrived at my friend Dawn's house in Boulder, the tiny hail bouncing off my car quickly turned into a snow shower. Snow in May, not unusual. And we like it! There was no better day to fry some pakodas, soak them in steaming hot kadhi and warm our insides as we watched the snow come down steadily for a couple of hours. The snow did not stick — which is a good thing — as the parched ground, too, got its fix. chopped ginger and…

  • My First Mile High Swap

    Manisha Pandit
    16 Apr 2012 | 4:45 pm
    The end of the first quarter of the year is always a busy time. It's also spring break. Unfortunately for me, spring break is slowly becoming synonymous with poor health. Last year, I was hit by shingles; this year, it was a tryst with the dreaded flu. It was, therefore, a good thing that our spring ski getaway was canceled, albeit for completely unrelated reasons. Not only was there mainly slush on the slopes due to unseasonably warm temperatures, but March also proved to be one of the driest months for the mountains, instead of the snowiest. I've been busy. That's always good,…

  • Celebrating Spring with Colors

    Manisha Pandit
    8 Mar 2012 | 1:45 am
    If you've been reading my blog for a while then you probably know that Holi is not one of my favorite festivals. While I never cared much for celebrating with color and the liberal dousing with water as part of the Rangapanchami or Dhulivandan celebrations, I did enjoy the real Holi a great deal. Apart from puran poli, masala milk or thandai is a milky treat that is always served on Holi. I have never attempted making puran poli and when my friend from grad school asked me if I had a recipe for thandai, it occurred to me that I hadn't made that either. My excuse for not making puran…

  • Sunday Snapshots: Cham Towers, Vietnam

    Manisha Pandit
    4 Mar 2012 | 8:20 pm
    I'm very sure that Bay, our driver and guide when we were in Vietnam last Thanksgiving, thought we were curious people. We were not interested in the regular tourist spots and I made him pull over at all kinds of nondescript locations. Like these neglected Cham Towers, for example, that suddenly showed up on the side of the highway when we were on our way to Nha Trang from Phan Rang. He couldn't understand why I wanted to stop here when we were headed to the better-known and better-maintained Po Nagar Towers in Nha Trang. Well, that's just it! I wanted to stop because it was…

  • Mustard oil dilemmas

    Manisha Pandit
    29 Feb 2012 | 4:00 am
    Soon after I posted my Bengali Dal on Cooking Boulder, I was quickly taken to task for posting a Bengali dish that was not made with mustard oil. My pleas of but that's how I make it and have been making it for what seems like forever did not impress until I remembered why I don't have mustard oil as an essential pantry item. The FDA disapproves. Bottles of mustard oil have warnings that range from "Not for human consumption" to "For external use only" to "For massage only." In the past, I have tried using mustard-flavored oil, a blend of regular cooking…
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  • Paragliding in Kamshet

    Swaroop
    15 May 2012 | 8:40 am
    The Sunday before last, we went paragliding in a beautiful place called Pawananagar Dam, near Kamshet in Maharashtra: The idea was to go on “tandem flights” where a qualified instructor will take you as a passenger in one of these parachute gliders: When I experienced my turn, I realized that taking off was way more difficult than landing because the winds were strong and getting the takeoff right was difficult keeping safety in mind. Also, *evil grin*, finally a sport where being heavier is an advantage – you get to go first! There were solo flights by student pilots going…

  • Apps using simple tricks to simplify usage

    Swaroop
    6 May 2012 | 11:30 pm
    I have been recently using the iXpenseIt iPhone app to track cash expenditures[1]. What’s interesting is it uses the “most used” / “most visited” feature (which you may be familiar with in Firefox or other software) to vastly speed up its usage for the individual using it. Let’s take an example, this is my default “New Expense” screen: Notice the entries – default vendor is “Shop”, default category is “Household” and default subcategory is “Supplies.” (my preferences). Let’s say I had gone out for…

  • Freewriting – Review of the Accidental Genius book

    Swaroop
    29 Apr 2012 | 11:30 pm
    Semi-regularly, I’ve been doing something I called “Paper Therapy.” The idea was simple: “Write on paper till your brain has nothing left in it.” This stupidly simple idea has often been miraculous in helping me clear my mind and think of ideas or options that I was unable to just “think in my head.” And I observed many others felt this way as well, for example: Writing is a miraculous process. You find things you never knew were inside your own head. – @littlecalculist and: I write with my hands on paper as much as I can to get my eyes off of…

  • Moved to WPEngine

    Swaroop
    22 Apr 2012 | 11:30 pm
    I have moved my website from my own Linode server to WPEngine. Why? Because I was tired of my server randomly going to 100% CPU usage and the only way to revive it was to reboot the server! For a long time, I thought the problem was maybe MongoDB which I was using for isbn.net.in which was running on the same server as the blog. But surprisingly, it was most likely WordPress at fault. On the same point, it has been quite embarrassing when I get tweets and emails that my blog is down, because of this. Especially embarrassing because I’m supposed to be a developer and I can’t even…

  • Energy and Health

    Swaroop
    7 Apr 2012 | 8:21 am
    The past several weeks I’ve been down with various illnesses and the repercussions and emotions that went along with the physical problems has been taking its toll on me. While I’ve still not recovered and still reeling from the effects, I’m recording these memoirs now precisely because the experience and memory is fresh. The first thing that comes to my mind is just how much of our life depends on having a good supply of energy first thing in the morning. Having had no exercise for so long has made my knees feel rubbery and have started complaining to me. At the same time,…
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    Hooked on Heat

  • A never-ending learning process: Fried Egg Sambal

    Meena
    25 Apr 2012 | 12:21 pm
    A few days ago I had a wonderful lunch meeting with an editor of a local magazine. Over a slew of emails deciding on what time and day would best suit the both of us, she suggested we meet for Thai food. That’s when I knew I was going to really like her. And the moment she asked for her Tom Yum soup to be extra-spicy, I knew we were going to be best friends! Lunch was delightful, and the conversation we shared over fresh salad rolls, Pad Thai and Fried Bananas with ice cream was simply exceptional. Being the food editor of the magazine, she undoubtedly shared my obsession with all…

  • Quick Retreat: Fish Masala

    Meena
    12 Mar 2012 | 9:34 pm
    It’s been a crazy and not to mention very trying past few days. Baby Dear caught one bug after another; and not the kinds you find out in the backyard! The poor ‘lil thing has been having on and off fever, equipped with a side of runny nose and cough for the last three weeks. First it was one virus, and now another. Sigh! The perils of daycare! And with him, I’ve not been spared either. A stuffy nose and an itchy throat are what I’ve been waking upto lately. The book writing is moving along on high steam! The fridge and freezer is overflowing with food - raw…

  • Another milestone, and a Giveaway!

    Meena
    29 Feb 2012 | 7:54 am
    What I was thinking over 7 years ago when I logged into Blogspot, created an online space for myself, and hit publish on my first post - I honestly have no idea! I had acted on a whim and it seemed like a good idea at the time. I had always, ALWAYS, wanted to be a writer, and having a blog made me feel like I had finally arrived. I day dreamed of mornings when I would just hop into the car, laptop in tow and drive to my favourite coffee shop. Once there, I would settle in with a deliciously frothy cappuccino, a warmed up chocolate croissant by its side, and type my day away. Today, I am…

  • This Week for Dinner: #3 Happy Valentine’s Day!!

    Meena
    13 Feb 2012 | 8:49 am
    I always get ask asked what I cook and feed my family on a daily basis. Truth be told, like most moms, I’m often at a loss come dinner time. I’ve found that having a meal plan ready helps me overcome the 5 o’clock stare-into-the-fridge-blankly symptom and also prevents us from getting unhealthy fast food. I consider myself to be really lucky that Baby Dear can give any food connoisseur a run for his money. Truly, I shudder when I hear stories of how some kids won’t eat anything green; or even worse, how they will ONLY eat chicken nuggets and pasta. My 16-month old on…

  • Giveaway: T-fal Non-Stick 12 Piece Cookware Set

    Meena
    28 Nov 2011 | 8:54 am
    AND THE WINNER IS: Nikhil, who said, “Turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes on the side and chocolate cake for dessert!“ HO! HO! HO! Do I hear Santa on his way? Christmas comes early this year for all you lovely readers of HoH. I’ve been busy working with the kind folks at Wayfair.com to rustle up something nice for you this holiday season. One lucky reader will win a T-fal Non-Stick 12 Piece Cookware Set ($80 value). A little too big to fit in your stocking (unless of course, you have one of those gigantic ones - which I’d love to have as mine!), but perfectly snug…
 
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  • Hyosung launches limited edition of GT650N

    teamvicky
    16 May 2012 | 6:38 am
    Hyosung has launched the limited edition of its expensive GT650N motorcycle in India. It is powered by a 647cc DOHC 8 valve water cooled engine which churns out a peak power of 72bhp. The bike costs Rs.15,000 more holding some additional features which include i) New decals on the tank and the rear panels ii)....Click here to read complete post

  • Honda launches Dream Yuga

    teamvicky
    15 May 2012 | 8:02 am
    HMSI has launched its new 110cc motorcycle, the Dream Yuga at a price of Rs.44,642 (Ex-Delhi). The styling of the bike resembles Honda’s Shine. The Dream Yuga is powered by a 110cc, single-cylinder engine churning out a peak power of 9bhp. The bike features a self-starter, alloy wheels, long seat, full chain cover and tubeless....Click here to read complete post

  • Bajaj launches new Discover 125 ST

    teamvicky
    15 May 2012 | 7:06 am
    Bajaj has launched a new variant of its Discover bike christened the Discover 125 ST. ST refers to Sports Tourer. The new Discover somewhat resembles the recently launched Pulsar 200NS. It is powered by a 125cc DTS-i engine designed with four valves which delivers a power output of 12.8bhp. The new Discover 125 ST is....Click here to read complete post

  • KTM developing 375cc bike in JV with Bajaj

    teamvicky
    9 May 2012 | 8:06 am
    KTM in partnership with Bajaj is now working for a new 375cc motorcycle at the Bajaj Auto’s R&D center in Pune. After its launch, the new motorcycle of Bajaj-KTM will be featuring the second highest capacity engine in India. The bike will feature a 375cc twin-cylinder engine which is expected to deliver around 35 to....Click here to read complete post

  • Maruti hikes Dzire price

    teamvicky
    9 May 2012 | 7:46 am
    Due to the rising input costs, Maruti has hiked the prices of its new Swift Dzire model from this month by up to Rs.12,000. Maruti has offered this price hike only to the diesel variants of its new Dzire. Regarding this price hike, a senior official of Maruti Suzuki informed that the company is feeling....Click here to read complete post
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  • Mitt Romney, the Time Traveler

    Abi
    15 May 2012 | 12:08 pm
    From the ever reliable Onion News Network: Romney To Travel Back In Time To Kill Liberal Versions Of Himself. [Make sure you watch the twist at the end!] An earlier post on Mitt Romney: Quantum Politics.

  • Weird Web Fun

    Abi
    15 May 2012 | 8:50 am
    Teddy Wayne in New Yorker: I’m an Article About the Internet That You Repost on the Internet: What will Mark Zuckerberg do next? Who cares! You do, in an involuntary, Pavlovian way, which is why you’re reading me when you should be outdoors, talking with a loved one, listening to live music, knitting, doing nearly anything else! Make a limp statement about your technocratic dictator that masquerades as wit, you enslaved peon, and pass me on!

  • Atul Gawande: 200 Years of Surgery

    Abi
    15 May 2012 | 8:43 am
    In the New England Journal of Medicine: Two Hundred Years of Surgery. A breezy -- but pain-filled! -- survey of the developments in surgical methods. Before anesthesia, the sounds of patients thrashing and screaming filled operating rooms. So, from the first use of surgical anesthesia, observers were struck by the stillness and silence. In London, Liston called ether anesthesia a “Yankee dodge” — having seen fads such as hypnotism come and go — but he tried it nonetheless, performing the first amputation with the use of anesthesia, in a 36-year-old butler with a septic knee, 2 months…

  • "Those analog and digital bastards"

    Abi
    14 May 2012 | 10:37 pm
    In a post about her Stanford education, Lakshmi Saligram has a short segment on her (engineering) undergrad experience that should sound familiar to many of us: I did my bachelors degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering (ECE), because anyone who “did well” in class 12 usually opted for this track in India. Since I didn’t know what to do with my life at that time, I did what everyone else did. Very quickly I realized that I hated it, but in the messed-up Indian university system that I studied in, once you selected your field of study, there wasn’t any turning back. So what…

  • DU's plans for a meta-university: A counterview

    Abi
    10 May 2012 | 10:51 pm
    A quick follow-up to this post on Delhi University's plans for offering a variety of new programs, including one -- the meta-university -- which will allow its students to earn a degree with course credits from several Delhi-based universities and colleges. In that post, I wondered how these plans are perceived by folks at DU itself. In the comments section, Vishu points us to this opinion piece by Shobhit Mahajan, a professor of physics and astrophysics at DU. I am intrigued by Prof. Mahajan's rhetorical choice: he leads off with complaints about implementation details, burying a far more…
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    Project Why

  • Time to launch Project Y

    project why
    12 May 2012 | 12:17 am
    The latest buzz across the country seems to be Bollywood star Amir Khan's latest talk show Satyamev Jayate. The first episode titled daughters are precious took on the issue of female foeticide. I guess it was, as many have held, a safe bet. Female feticide is an issue that does move one and all, or so one would want to believe. At least the programme would get women on his side! I did not watch the show when it was aired but saw it on line. Though one got to know some startling facts the most shocking one being that female infanticide was started as a government scheme in the 1970s, during…

  • Project why's budding poet

    project why
    4 May 2012 | 11:52 pm
    Saffin is a student of class VI at our Govindpuri centre. He is a quiet and hard working lad with many hidden talents. Believe it or not he writes poetry and had three of his poems published in his school magazine. Two were in Hindi but one was in English. I share it with you: The Swing How do you like to get up in a swingUp in the air so blue?Oh I do think it is the pleasantest thingEver a child can do!Up in the air and over the wallTill I can see so wide,Rivers and trees and cattle and allOver the country sideTill I look down on the garden greenDown on the roof so brownUp in the air I go…

  • Incredible kids!

    project why
    4 May 2012 | 12:08 am
    Project why has been under the magic spell of five incredible young students from a business school in France. Mélissa, Jonathan, Francine, Axelle and Elodie landed at project why 4 weeks ago. As always it was my duty to welcome them and get them started. I normally spend time talking about our work and the volunteering options on offer and normally the volunteers are taken on a tour of the project before deciding what they will do ultimately do. But this time seemed different as these kids seemed rearing to go! Presentations made, it was time to introduce them to the project. And we did.

  • No country for children

    project why
    3 May 2012 | 5:31 am
    Here are some statistics that should shock us and makes us act. Sadly they don't but I will still share them with you: 11 million children are homeless in India, 100 000 children in Delhi alone in spite of 70 shelters 3 out of 4  street children between the age 5- 12 are physical abused 300 000 to 500 000 children are forced into prostitution every year There are approximately 2 million child commercial sex workers between the age of 5 and 15 years and about 3.3 million between 15 and 18 years. They form 40% of the total population of commercial sex workers in India. 80% of these are…

  • Cameos of local elections

    project why
    2 May 2012 | 11:20 pm
    The recent municipal elections came and went without much ado, particularly in upmarket colonies. We were blissfully spared the din of past elections as well as the zillions of posters that plastered every available wall space. This was courtesy the new campaigning laws. At best a few leaflets were dumped in mailboxes. However it was another story in densely populated areas as the ones where our centres are located. These areas had their share of loud campaigning, slogan shouting and drum beating. We were treated to several padyatras - at best translated as political walks - where the…
 
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    Blog Bharti

  • The list of the best places to start a business in India

    t5admin
    16 May 2012 | 12:27 am
    India is a vast country. It has diversity in language, food and culture. People in the Northern part of the country are very different from tradition and culture of the people based in southern area. It also has drastic difference in the weather, in the northern most point we have cold Himalayas where as there is warm desert and deep blue sea on the other side. Life and culture of the people residing here is highly controlled by such weather and natural features. Hence once you have planned about a business in India, you must understand your target audience clearly and based on their taste…

  • H.O.R.S.E. Poker Mistakes

    t5admin
    19 Apr 2012 | 4:52 am
    There is no doubt that when you start playing H.O.R.S.E. Poker you’re going to make some common mistakes that most new players make. In order to limit the mistakes that you make while playing H.O.R.S.E. Poker you need to first learn what mistakes are commonly made. I’ve come up with some of the most common H.O.R.S.E. Poker mistakes that I’ve seen while playing online HORSE Poker. * The most common mistake new players make when playing H.O.R.S.E. Poker is that they have no idea how to play all five of the poker games. You need to be able to play Holdem, Omaha Hi/Lo, Seven Card Stud, Razz…

  • Trapping in Poker

    t5admin
    28 Mar 2012 | 12:50 am
    There is constant debate on many of the best online poker sites about whether or not you should try to trap your opponents. For most players, they look at a good hand and think that they can extract more chips from their opponent by trying to lure them in and trapping them in hopes of collecting a huge pot. While trapping can be effective in certain situations, most players who do not have extensive poker experience will try and trap more often than they should and often trap themselves instead. There are a number of different things that you can do to help prevent yourself from getting in…

  • Tips to fuel a small business in India

    t5admin
    22 Mar 2012 | 11:28 am
    World market is changing very fast and so is India. India with its wide diversity, offers a fascinating scope to study the host of changes which developmental activities have brought about in its social and economic life of the people. Post independence it has emerged as one of the best markets in the world where any and every quality product is accepted. Therefore to start a small business in India, you must go through the below mentioned tips; 1. Question yourself about the different value you will bring along with your new business: Do keep in mind that as an entrepreneur you are bridging…

  • Win or Lose: Play Poker for Sheer Joy and a Delightful Time

    t5admin
    19 Feb 2012 | 10:26 am
    If you can make quick money without sweating for it you would naturally go for it, provided there is nothing illegal. You may swear that you do not believe in gambling to make money by indulging in it. But, deep inside in you may have a craving for trying it at least on an experimental basis. It is such craving that has created cities like Las Vegas full of casinos of all sorts offering countless methods of betting in different games. Casinos started operating with slot machines, and then came the roulette and the card games. Play Solid Poker stands out as one of the most popular card games,…
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    Gautam Ghosh on Human Resources

  • Interviewed by @Forbes' @shelisrael for a profile as a #SocialMedia Thought Leader

    Gautam Ghosh
    13 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Image via CrunchBase I know Shel from the time he started his blog to crowdsource his book on business blogging that he wrote with Robert Scoble - called Naked Conversations. I had left a few comments on his blog and was kicked to find out that my blog url was listed in the acknowledgements section. Last year, I finally had a chance to meet Shel after knowing him online for 7 years, when he was invited by NASSCOM for the Product Conclave at Bangalore. I was a panelist in one of the sessions and finally met what is called IRL ("in real life") Shel writes a column on Forbes called the "Social…

  • Stories and Branding and what it means for Employers

    Gautam Ghosh
    2 May 2012 | 8:54 am
    The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1950 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Every marketing campaign is built around a story. Often advertising professionals are actually only storytellers. Which is why examples of creative heads in advertising like Balki and Prasoon Joshi turn scriptwriters, lyricists and directors of movies. Every statement you believe of yourself adds up to a story. And stories are power enough to become self fulfilling prophecies. Stories like "I am a fighter" or "I am a rebel" or "I am the follower of rules" are often derived from personal experiences and form patterns of behavior.

  • Video of my talk at #IndiaSocial12

    Gautam Ghosh
    25 Apr 2012 | 3:41 am
    If you want to talk to me about a story or a speaking engagement, contact me on gautam@gautamblogs.com or call me at +91-97422-39954 | Twitter | BraveNewTalent | Facebook Page

  • Social Recruiting presentation at social media conference #IndiaSocial12

    Gautam Ghosh
    5 Apr 2012 | 6:45 am
    This is the presentation I made this week at the India Social 2012 Summit yesterday Feel free to download and share it Social recruiting india social summit 2012 by gautamghosh View more PowerPoint from Gautam Ghosh If you want to talk to me about a story or a speaking engagement, contact me on gautam@gautamblogs.com or call me at +91-97422-39954 | Twitter | BraveNewTalent | Facebook Page

  • Speaking on "Social Recruiting" at #IndiaSocial12

    Gautam Ghosh
    27 Mar 2012 | 9:25 am
    India Social, India's premier "social media" event returns this year with the theme "Social is Business" and I would be taking a session for an hour on "Social Recruiting" (and related themes like social learning and talent communities) on 4th April. If you attend the talk it would focus on why HR people need to think like marketers, how  to identify the right employees as your advocates, and why communities of practice matter. If you make it , you can get to hear an amazing group of people from the client, vendor and agency side. My talk, I think would be the only non-marketing talk. If…
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    India Travel Blog

  • Cycling from Manali to Leh

    Arun
    3 May 2012 | 6:27 am
    A good friend and an expert of Himalayas, Manish Lakhani is planning a bicycling tour from Leh to Manali next month. He is looking for a handful of people to join him on the tour. Below are the tour details. If you would be interested, reach him for more details at manisholiday@gmail.com Tour Details This bicycle ride takes you through one of the most difficult and remote but picturesque terrain that you can ever access by road anywhere in India. It is amazing to see how Indian Army (BRO – Border Road Organization) builds and manages roads in this stark and remote terrain.  The  ride…

  • May 2012 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper

    Arun
    3 May 2012 | 1:41 am
    This month’s calendar is a photograph from the interiors of Hawa Mahal, Jaipur. Download 1336×768, 1280×800 or 1024×768 as your wallpaper.

  • April Newsletter

    Arun
    2 Apr 2012 | 9:29 pm
    India Travel Blog Newsletter is sent approximately once a month (often, less frequently), summarizing the previous month’s activity and giving a glimpse of the coming month on the website. Subscribe to the newsletter by keying in your email address in the box on the top of the sidebar. Here is a copy of this month’s newsletter, dispatched today. Hi, Hope the summer vacation marks the beginning of travel season for you. The hills are calling, so here is a desktop calendar wallpaper from the highlands of South India. Download April calendar wallpaper - an image from the tea gardens of…

  • April 2012 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper

    Arun
    2 Apr 2012 | 10:10 am
    This month’s calendar is a photograph from the hills of Munnar. Download 1336×768, 1280×800 or 1024×768 as your wallpaper.

  • Heart of the Himalayas – A Photography Trek + Tour of Lahaul and Spiti

    Arun
    29 Mar 2012 | 3:28 am
    Our next grand tour is to the mountain lands and the Buddhist monasteries of Lahaul and Spiti. I will be leading this tour to see and photograph the most beautiful places you can ever see in the Himalayas and to Buddhist monastic centers that are nearly a millennium old. Dates: July 14th to 21st, 2012 Introduction One of the still unexplored and insanely beautiful stretch of the Indian Himalayas, Lahaul and Spiti is a valley of stark landscapes and high snowy peaks stretching to the sky. Gurgling rivers and crystal clear lakes dot the highlands of Lahaul, while an ancient civilization has…
 
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    Delhi Greens Blog

  • Environmental News and Media Roundup for Week 18, 2012

    Aastha Kukreti
    7 May 2012 | 12:35 am
    Weekly environmental news roundup from across different media networks for week 18 (starting April 30, 2012) 2012.

  • Workshop on ‘Environments and Histories’ at NMML

    Aastha Kukreti
    3 May 2012 | 11:59 pm
    The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) cordially invite all interested to a Workshop on Environment and Histories! The linkages between environments and histories may seem self-evident but require careful thought and rigour. How human actions do or do not transform environments for better or for worse is a central issue of our times. Yet, [...]

  • Tiger Conservation Efforts Awarded: More STPF to be Deployed

    Aastha Kukreti
    3 May 2012 | 11:26 pm
    The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Environment and Forests, Smt. Jayanthi Natarajan releasing the book ‘Fundamentals of the Wildlife Management’, at the All India Meeting of Field Directors of Tiger Reserves, in New Delhi The All India Meeting of Field Directors of Tiger Reserves recently concluded in New Delhi, with the lauding of the [...]

  • DST Calls for Applications for Science (Biodiversity) Communicators

    Aastha Kukreti
    3 May 2012 | 10:38 am
    The Science Express is a unique exhibition train, traveling across India. After four successful tours, its next phase will be a "Biodiversity Special".

  • Right Click: Take Your NGO Online for Creating an eDifference!

    Govind Singh
    3 May 2012 | 3:41 am
    The Delhi Greens Blog has been working as an online green media portal for disseminating environmental information among the masses. Of late, a lot many environmental non-profits and charities have come up in different parts of the country and the world, working with similar objectives.
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    MediaVidea

  • Yashwant Singh: India's best blogger

    Pramit Singh
    9 May 2012 | 8:41 am
    Yashwant Singh, who runs Bhadas4media, a blog which recently celebrated 4 years of existence, is in my opinion the best Indian blogger, in the true blogger sense - blogging on an issue he is passionate about, the right/plight of Indian journalists, highlighting any example of media-industrial complex on a regular basis, which all the Twitteratis and pseudo-bloggers (English language) have mostly failed to do so far.From a wide sampling of Yashwant's writing, which is in Hindi, first you have to read this, which is the most frank personal story of any Indian blogger I have read so far.It is a…

  • Is this how the rat race will implode?

    Pramit Singh
    8 May 2012 | 9:51 am
    Students in China cramming for a competitive exam, studying non-stop, hooked up to IV Drips of invigorating amino acids. The Indian equivalent can be a doting mother sending in unending supplies of any nutritional drink. Forget the bucolic imagery, it is still a sad rat race.

  • What is intelligence?

    Pramit Singh
    5 Apr 2012 | 1:31 am
    Is it measured by IQ tests? No. Is it measured by Peformance in entrance exams? No. Here's Susan Sontag:I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces “intelligence.”

  • Introducing three new collections of useful advice: The Gist, Rules for Startups, and Rules for Writers

    Pramit Singh
    4 Apr 2012 | 3:46 am
    I just finished updating The Success Manual. Simultaneously, I also compiled 3 new collections of useful advice from the best sources.1. The Gist: 1000+ Big Ideas From 200+ Greatest Business & Self-Improvement Books of all time.2. Rules for Startups:  Compilation of big ideas about startups from 50+ Best Books on Entrepreneurship.3. Rules for Writers: 200+ Big Ideas about Writing from Great Writers.I hope you will find them useful.

  • Amusing ourselves to death, redux: Huxley's letter to Orwell

    Pramit Singh
    9 Mar 2012 | 9:43 am
    Aldous Huxley wrote a letter to George Orwell in 1949, soon after Orwell's seminal and prophetic work 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' was published. Again, the discussion is about what will cause our downfall: an ever-intrusive, controlling government, or our tendency to engage with entertaining things 24*7, willfully ignoring all that is essential in this world, and eventually becoming living, breathing time-pass, exploitable organisms for the governments of this blue planet.This is so, so true in this age of internet.Wrightwood. Cal.21 October, 1949Dear Mr. Orwell,...May I speak instead of the thing…
 
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    Coffee With Sundar

  • Coffee Portrait – Ravi Varma Painting

    Sundar Rajan G S
    9 May 2012 | 5:59 am
    Hi All, This is a coffee portrait painting. This based on Ravi Varma painting. I worked with Artist Uma during my holidays to hone my coffee painting skills. From The Aha Moment of the Week Previous Painting: Aha Moment 59 – There is more to life than increasing its speed! – Gandhi From The Aha Moment of the Week All my paintings can be found here.

  • Coffee Painting – Mahatma Gandhi

    Sundar Rajan G S
    25 Apr 2012 | 3:16 pm
    Hi All, My latest painting using coffee on canvas. Aha Moment 59 – There is more to life than increasing its speed! – Gandhi From The Aha Moment of the Week Previous Painting: Anguli Chaap – In search of my identity From The Aha Moment of the Week All my paintings can be found here.

  • Anguli Chaap – In search of my identity

    Sundar Rajan G S
    15 Apr 2012 | 5:23 am
    Hi All, Here is my latest art work using Coffee. Idea Source: Craft work by Rashmi Sulakhe. From The Aha Moment of the Week Previous Art work: Aum Skandagrajaya Namah From The Aha Moment of the Week All my art works can be seen here:

  • Srinivas – Founder of The Chroma Academy

    Sundar Rajan G S
    18 Mar 2012 | 2:54 pm
    Dear all, Coffee With Sundar successfully completes 4 years today! Along the way, it has met many people who personified passion and purpose.. Today is no different. Please join me to welcome Mr. Srinivas, founder of Chroma Academy. The Chroma Academy began its activities in the year 2000 with the aim of being a nodal centre for promotion, development and training of motivated individuals who are keen to sustain and enrich our heritage. For more details, visit The Chroma Academy – http://www.thechromaacademy.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5xp_SbM040&feature=share Me: Sundar…

  • CWS completes 4 years!

    Sundar Rajan G S
    18 Mar 2012 | 2:22 pm
    Dear readers, Coffee With Sundar completes 4 years today and is continuing to search for Indian role models into the 5 th year! Thanks for all the support! Happy birthday Coffee With Sundar! Image Source: http://www.zazzle.com
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    Emergic: Rajesh Jain's Blog

  • Talk and Action Difference

    rajesh
    15 May 2012 | 6:30 pm
    When I read interviews or hear with some of the government officials, it sounds really good. All of them seem to know exactly what the problem is, and are very good at putting forth solutions. Just like editorial writers. The problem, of course, is that these same officials are the ones in charge and running the government! Their advice is what they should actually be implementing. And that is what makes one angry. There is a complete disconnect between the talk of such people and the action. Their actions are either not there, or they are the opposite of what they talk. This is the problem…

  • Industries Hurt by Regulation

    rajesh
    14 May 2012 | 6:30 pm
    I was talking with a friend the other day of how the government is starting to hurt industries through arbitrary regulation and policies. I was myself witness to what happened to the SMS business with the TRAI regulations that came in last year. Other than that, the telecom industry is hurting. So is the microfinance industry. The gold finance companies too have been severely impacted by the spate of regulations brought forth by RBI. And there are perhaps some others. On top of this, the Finance Minister is still intent on bringing forth those retrospective taxation laws.That has the…

  • A Good Book and a Book Club

    rajesh
    13 May 2012 | 6:30 pm
    A good book can open up the mind in a way nothing else can. A book transports us into the mind of the author, and makes us see the world through the author’s eyes. I thought of this in a recent Book Club meeting. I had missed the past few meetings, so it was good to be back. I realised how much I had missed as I listened to the various books being discussed. I really think everyone should not just read good books, but also discuss them with a small group of people on a regular basis. Create a Book Club of your own. Pick people who are very different from you, so you will get exposure to…

  • Blog Past: Urban Infra in Mumbai

    rajesh
    12 May 2012 | 6:30 pm
    From a post a year ago: Indian cities need some serious urban planning. What we have right now is a mix of sub-standard ideas, ad hoc decisions and delayed implementation. That is no way to treat cities like Mumbai. Let us look at Mumbai. Yes, we got one Sea Link. Plenty of flyovers. An above ground metro and monorail are coming up. Some other random bridges are being talked about. But surely, we can do better than that. For one, the metro should have been underground for the most part and covered a lot more of the city. We need sea transport like how Hong Kong has. We need more bridges on…

  • Weekend Reading

    rajesh
    11 May 2012 | 6:30 pm
    This week’s links: 3 Reasons to Master the Art of Storytelling: by Riley Gibson. “Most entrepreneurs don’t realize the art of storytelling can help you succeed in the start-up world.” (via Atanu) Apple’s 2 brilliant moves that created the iOS powerhouse: by Dalton Caldwell. One of them: “Apple is doing market segmentation off of a single product line.” Promising Startups: from NYT. Who will become the next Instagram? “…whether because they’ve seen explosive user growth, or are attracting investors or a new demographic, or just because…
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    Ghumakkar - Inspiring travel experiences.

  • Ranikhet – the unexplored paradise

    Vikas Gugnani
    16 May 2012 | 5:30 am
    The hotel that we stayed in was called as Rosemount,a  lovely old heritage property with old world charm,  the splendour reminds you of an era gone by. It is known to be as old as year 1900, elaborate window frames and the large rooms have preserved the pristine glory in its true form even today. The manager told that one could see beautiful Nanda Devi and entire range from rooms and the garden.  Well it  was late evening , we could see nothing and rather slept early.  Ahem Ahem !! Next day in...

  • Varansi ………………………..बनारस , काशी

    manu prakash tyagi
    15 May 2012 | 5:30 pm
    वाराणसी में गंगा जी की आकृति धनुष के जैसी है और सभी घाटो का मुख अधिकतर पूर्व की ओर हे तो सूर्योदय के समय घाटो पर पहली किरण दस्तक देती है । वाराणसी में उत्तर से लेकर दक्षिण तक सौ से अधिक घाट हैं । इनमें से…

  • Featured Author Interview – In conversation with lyrical and thoughtul Manish Kumar

    Nandan Jha
    15 May 2012 | 5:30 am
    Ghumakkar – By now, a lot of Ghumakkars know quite a bit about your love for traveling and undying passion for music. Please tell us something about your personal life. How a regular day unfolds for Manish ? Manish – Yes, my love for traveling or Ghumakkari is probably quite popular and as you said that my undying passion for music keeps me awake and working for long time. Let me go back and share my story beginning from school. I did my complete schooling from Patna, a city which has been...
 
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    India Political Blog

  • Air India and Indian Airlines – sucking in public funds without any end

    Ashish
    15 May 2012 | 2:20 pm
    The Indian airline industry is going through a period of losses, where the competition between the various airline companies has led to severe losses for many of those involved. So, for example, Kingfisher is facing huge problems in running a full service network, and was unable to run the low cost converted Air Deccan. However, [...]

  • The BJP’s failure to capitalize on the problems of the Congress, will it ever be seen as an alternative ?

    Ashish
    13 May 2012 | 2:58 pm
    Consider the fact that the Government is seen as gripped by policy paralysis, there is a reduction in the growth rate of the economy, and the Congress has been steadily losing state elections, and even seen in a problematic position in municipal elections in major cities in states ruled by the Congress. One would have [...]

  • The race for deciding the contest for President of India: Is it important ?

    Ashish
    9 May 2012 | 2:08 pm
    In some time from now, there will be an election to a post that does not have too much power, but is seen as a very politically significant contest. Every expert in the country agrees that the post of the President of India does not have too much power and have exercised even less power. [...]

  • Defense Ministry – Delays in acquisition of critical supplies – Is Antony at home ?

    Ashish
    2 May 2012 | 2:45 pm
    Saint Antony. That is one of the names by which the Defense Minister is known as. And why so ? Because he has a high reputation for honesty that being in the Congress party has not managed to besmirch, and he is also in charge of a ministry that is now appearing in the news [...]

  • The conviction of Bangaru Laxman – one rare case

    Ashish
    1 May 2012 | 2:39 pm
    The saying in India is that there is no politician who is ever convicted of corruption. Of course, once in a while, this dictum is broken, but almost all of the time, there is no punishment for corruption that is lasting. Even if a lower court does provide some amount of corruption, the conviction is [...]
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    Sommelier India - India's only wine magazine

  • Vinous Pleasures on the Increase, Reva K Singh

    22 Apr 2012 | 12:22 am
    The thought that occurs to me as I write this note is how crowded my social calendar has become with wine events. It must be the same for you and other wine enthusiasts, too. Best of all, major hotel chains have become more proactive and serious about their wine programmes and the increase in wine dinners, tastings and promotions is a reflection of this. Continue reading the Editor's Note from the latest issue of Sommelier India and Subscribe to receive your copy. This issue at 84 pages is chockablock full with feature stories, news, tips and more on wine and the culture surrounding it. Some…

  • Bordeaux 2011 En Primeur - a Winetage Perspective

    19 Apr 2012 | 5:50 am
    Earlier this month, we got the chance to taste at least 150 wines of the 2011 vintage from the barrel on our pilgrimage to the major châteaux in Bordeaux. As I wrote last year, wine tasting is not about numbers/ scores/ stars or grades. It is important to widen your palate and experience different flavours, says Meenu Kohli of Maison Winetage reporting from Bordeaux for Sommelier India. The 2011 Bordeaux vintage is not in the same league as 2009 or even 2010 but it reminded us of the role Mother Nature plays to make wine and what made the 1982 and 2009 vintages so special.Left: Jean Michel…

  • Sula opens Mumbai's first wine bar

    18 Apr 2012 | 7:57 pm
    Vinoteca by Sula is finally open for business. Conceptualised by Rajeev Samant of Sula vineyards, Vinoteca in Mumbai has been inspired by Spanish tavernas. Serving tapas and pintxos, this 50-seater bar in Worli has a versatile wine selection from both Sula and international producers at extremely affordable prices.

  • Zapping fat cells - Is red wine the answer?

    17 Apr 2012 | 8:25 pm
    What will they think of next? According to a recent study conducted by Purdue University in Indiana, USA, red wine can help you stop piling on the calories by blocking the insulin that activates our fat cells. Wine seems to be the panacea for all ills! So don't put away that bottle of red wine just yet. Drink in moderation and who knows what health benefits may accrue! Currently being tested on animal obesity, the researchers claim that the magic

  • A Taste of Mezzaluna in Bangalore

    17 Apr 2012 | 9:08 am
    March-end saw the Bangalore Wine Club celebrating the flavours of Italy in an evening entitled, "A Taste of Mezzaluna", after the fine-dining restaurant at the newly opened Movenpick Hotel and Spa in Bangalore, writes Ruma Singh. As a special bonus, BWC members got the chance to re-visit some of their favourite wines from the portfolio of Mumbai-based wine importer, Wine Park.
 
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    MediaNama: Digital Media in India

  • TRAI Caps Advertisement Breaks To 12 Mins/Hr; No Partial Screen Ads

    Vikas SN
    16 May 2012 | 8:38 am
    The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued regulations regarding ‘Duration of advertisements in television channels’ to all broadcasters, following complaints from subscribers on the increasing duration and distracting formats of TV ads which has affected the TV viewing experience. TRAI had previously released a consultation paper in March 2012 and had invited comments & counter-comments from various stakeholders like consumers, consumer organisations and cable operators till April 2, 2012. TRAI said it had received 29 comments in response to its…

  • Rajeev Chandrasekhar Urges PM To Withdraw India’s Proposal For UN Committee On Internet-Policy

    Anupam Saxena
    16 May 2012 | 8:21 am
    Rajya Sabha MP, Rajeev Chandrasekhar has written a letter to the Indian Prime Minister, urging him to withdraw India’s proposal to UN seeking governance of Internet control. In his letter, Chandresekhar has said that  India’s proposal for setting up a United Nation Committee for Internet-Related Policies (UN CRP) is against the open, democratic, inclusive and unhindered growth of the internet, and harms India’s reputation. He has also said that the proposal was submitted without any public consultation involving stakeholder groups, members of the civil society, private sector,…

  • Whats On India Launches Social EPG For TV Recommendations On Social Networks

    Vikas SN
    16 May 2012 | 6:05 am
    Television guide company What’s On India has launched an open graph app on Facebook called ‘Social EPG’, allowing users to share their viewing preferences on Facebook with an intent to discover new TV shows, films, matches and documentaries through social recommendations from their Facebook friends. The company informs that it has integrated Facebook login on its website and is currently working on extending Facebook sign-in mechanism across all its mobile and tablet apps. Whats On India currently offers apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Symbian and BlackBerry…

  • Airtel Signs Up As Banking Correspondent For Axis Bank; No Open Wallet

    Anupam Saxena
    16 May 2012 | 3:47 am
    We’ve been hearing about Airtel testing its extended Airtel Money Service with Infosys and being in talks with Banks for Banking Correspondent tie-ups for a long time. The telecom company has announced a partnership with Axis Bank, launching ‘Airtel Money Super Account powered by Axis Bank’, which will essentially offer low frills accounts with the Bank on Airtel’s mobile platform. Infosys, is the technology partner for the launch and has deployed its WalletEdge and Finacle Digital Commerce solutions. Open wallet? Airtel currently has a prepaid payment system license…

  • Sab Kanaujia Steps Down From Verismo Networks; Mela To Be Spun Off?

    Vikas SN
    16 May 2012 | 3:01 am
    Sab Kanaujia has stepped down as the President, Entertainment Services, Verismo Networks and GM, Mela with immediate effect. Sab Kanaujia stated in his personal blog, that the reason for his resignation was the disagreement with Prakash Bhalerao, the CEO of Verismo Networks on the strategy and the direction in which Verismo’s multi-platform consumer entertainment service Mela was headed. He claimed that the Verismo Board agreed with his strategy on several aspects but were not ready to confront Prakash, who is a majority stakeholder in Verismo. Going forward, Kanaujia writes that he has…
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    INDIA INVENTS

  • The Tech Awards Names N.R. Narayana Murthy Recipient of The James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award

    A.S Rao
    12 May 2012 | 4:40 pm
    Indian philanthropist N.R. Narayana Murthy, who founded tech services giant Infosys along with six colleagues and went on to become one of India's most influential advocates for health care and rural development, has been named the ninth recipient of The James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award,  "This award honors leaders whose vision, passion and dedication are helping to change the world," said Mike Splinter, Chairman and CEO of Applied Materials, Inc. "Narayana Murthy embodies the spirit of the Global Humanitarian Award. Through his leadership in business and philanthropy, he has…

  • Diploma in Basic Rural Technology” (Batch 2012-13)

    A.S Rao
    12 May 2012 | 4:36 pm
    Vigyan ashram announced  opening of admission for “Diploma in Basic Rural Technology” (Batch 2012-13). This course is recognized by National Institute of Open Schooling and useful for students interested to learn by hands. This is a multi-skill program in which training is given in the area of: Engineering- (Fabrication & construction& Basic Carpentry, Engineering Drawing & Costing ),  Energy & Environment - (Electrical, Motor rewinding, survey techniques, solar / biogas etc.),  Home and Health (Sewing, food processing and rural…

  • Protect your Ideas- book available on Flipkart

    A.S Rao
    10 May 2012 | 11:57 am
    The easy to read book on Patents, `Protect your Ideas' authored by Rajeev Surana is available at Flipkart. Price is Rs 295. Rajeev Surana relates patents, designs to innovations with several illustrations. Innovators, entrepreneurs would be able to connect with the content effortlessly.

  • Green Dragon: 20 signs that 2012 is the year of China

    A.S Rao
    10 May 2012 | 11:52 am
    Biofuels Digest published this article, which I want to share with readers of my blog. The reasons cited for this assertion are:  Incubating next generation technologies in China, investment in integrated biorefineries, funding research on Aviation  biofuels, African supply chain etc.

  • Grand Challenge in Global Health- 9th round closes by 15th May

    A.S Rao
    10 May 2012 | 11:43 am
    Topics for Grand Challenges Explorations Round 9 are: New Approaches for the Interrogation of Anti-malarial Compounds - new! Aid is Working. Tell the World - new! Explore New Solutions for Global Health Priority Areas Design New Approaches to Optimize Immunization Systems Protect Crop Plants from Biotic Stresses From Field to Market
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    Marketing in India

  • Interesting Print Ad

    Rajesh Aithal
    8 May 2012 | 2:39 am
    Saw a good print ad in the morning newspaper, thought of sharing it, looking at the limited life of the print ads...

  • Standard Pack Sizes : Impact on Price Points..

    Rajesh Aithal
    13 Dec 2011 | 5:56 am
    I was reading a newspaper article on a new regulation wherein the Government has decided to reintroduce standard pack sizes for several items of everyday household consumption. The argument is that companies have been reducing the quantity of the product without changing the price of the product, which is not in the interest of the consumer. A consumer would not check the weight of a biscuit pack every time he buys. The non-standard pack size made it easier as they would keep reducing the quantity being sold without changing the price. But one of the main reasons why companies have been…

  • Too Much of Steve Jobs??

    Rajesh Aithal
    7 Dec 2011 | 3:25 am
    Missing out is Pepsi to Apple.....

  • FDI in Retail - Kirana Stores

    Rajesh Aithal
    6 Dec 2011 | 10:52 am
    The debate on allowing FDI in retail is something which is up for discussion, so thought I should also pitch in with my thoughts. There are many dimensions and stakeholders here, the farmer/producers, the consumers, the kirana stores and of course the international retailers who are waiting to enter the Indian market. I will start with focusing on the kirana stores or the small mom-n-pop retailers, which I have certain familiarity because my own research work. We are known as a country of shopkeepers, because of the high retail density and the sheer number of shops. In fact in the last five…

  • Wooden Toys & Handicrafts : Disappearing

    Rajesh Aithal
    28 Nov 2011 | 11:40 pm
    chanpattana toys The basic logic behind segmentation is that there is heterogeneity in demand and  there would be demand for products /services across the value spectrum. But then today in many categories we can see mass manufacturing over-weighing this logic, we can see that happening in the case of traditional handicraft products, products made from clay, wooden toys. The list is very long , and some of these products have even disappeared and for those which are still around you have to search for them as they have been substituted by…
 
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    churumuri

  • POLL: Can Congress beat BJP in Karnataka?

    churumuri
    16 May 2012 | 9:47 am
    There is nothing like counting your naati chickens before they hatch and licking your fingers in expectant glee. On the day sleuths of the CBI escorted B.S. Yediyurappa one step further into the dark, deep hole that he diligently dug for himself over four years, exultant Congress workers take out a “funeral procession” of the BJP government in Bangalore on Wednesday, although the grand old party’s ability to capitalise on the BJP’s continuing strife is unclear. In the Indian Express, Sandeep Shastri of the centre of research in social sciences and education writes:…

  • Sugata Raju is new editor of ‘Vijaya Karnataka’

    churumuri
    15 May 2012 | 5:13 am
    Vijaya Karnataka, the Kannada daily from The Times of India group, has a new editor: Sugata Srinivasaraju, the former associate editor, south, of Outlook* magazine. He takes over from Vasant Nadiger who was officiating as editor following the sudden death of E. Raghavan in March. Raghavan had taken over VK from the paper’s longstanding editor Vishweshwar Bhat, who has since moved to Kannada Prabha, the Kannada daily owned by the mobile phone baron turned parliamentarian, Rajeev Chandrasekhar. ToI bought Vijaya Karnataka in 2006 from the truck operator Vijay Sankeshwar, who launched a…

  • What should BJP do about Yediyurappa problem?

    churumuri
    14 May 2012 | 8:19 am
    The BJP’s disgraceful nataka in Karnataka continues without a pause. Nary a fortnight passes without TV viewers and newspaper readers being woken up to the now familiar anthem of name-calling, muscle-flexing and shadow-boxing. And so it is this May in the year of the lord 2011. After breathing fire and brimstone over the CBI probe okayed by the Supreme Court into B.S. Yediyurappa‘s wheeling and dealing, and after merrily slapping their thighs all weekend, the nation’s most ethically, morally, financially and sexually challenged bunch of legislators have now tucked their tail…

  • An open letter to Aamir Khan from a Kannadiga

    churumuri
    11 May 2012 | 4:31 am
    VASANT SHETTY pens a letter to Aamir Khan on the undemocratic ban on the dubbed version of his Sunday morning TV show  Satyamev Jayate programme from being shown on Kannada television channels. To Aamir Khan 5 Marina Apartments Pali hill, Bandra West Mumbai 400050 Dear Aamir Khan, Congratulations on your successful TV debut with Satyamev Jayate and a huge round of applause for touching upon a topic as sensitive and heart rendering as female foeticide in the very first episode. You even went a step further by meeting the Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot and requesting him for a fast…

  • CHURUMURI POLL: Mandira, Archana or Shibani?*

    churumuri
    9 May 2012 | 1:29 am
    Take Our Poll Yes, it is the silly season. First we had Mandira Bedi, the wide-eyed Punjabi girl who gingerly learnt the game with experts while she adjusted her noodle-straps. Then came along Mayanti Langer, the Kashmiri lass whose breakneck diction did not distract conspiracy theorists from wondering if she was a surreptitious product placement for Adidas’ Jabulani ball. Now, in season five of the Indian premier league, we have been served up Archana Vijaya and Shibani Dandekar as eye-candy to beat the summer heat. Sports television’s admirable quest to make cricket coverage sexy…
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    Global Voices » South Asia

  • India: Crackdown on Tamil Nadu Anti-Nuclear Plant Protests

    Rezwan
    16 May 2012 | 12:49 pm
    Concerns have been sparked that the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) currently under construction in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu, India, may have similar vulnerabilities to the ill-fated Fukushima nuclear power plant of Japan. Activists fear that in the case of an earthquake followed by a tsunami in the Indian Ocean, there could be an accident similar to the radiation leak at the Japanese coastal nuclear plant last year. Construction started more than a decade ago and KKNPP is expected to be in operation soon. S. P. Udayakumar of the voluntary organisation…

  • Bangladesh: Bloggers March for Murdered Journalist Couple, Demand Justice.

    Aparna Ray
    16 May 2012 | 12:06 pm
    Three months have passed since the murder of the journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and his wife Meherun Runi. Till date, the police have been unsuccessful in discovering any clues or leads that would help them to solve the case. In the early hours of 11th February, 2012, the couple was found brutally murdered in their West Rajabajar apartment in Dhaka. The Bangladesh High Court has expressed dissatisfaction with the progress (or lack of it) of the Detective Branch (DB) of police investigating the murder. The case has since then been transferred to the anti-crime and anti-terrorism unit - Rapid…

  • India: Cricket Or Wife

    Rezwan
    15 May 2012 | 2:38 am
    Jaspreet discusses how some Indian men have to balance between their love for cricket and obviously for their wife. Written by Rezwan · comments (1) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper

  • Bangladesh: Economic of Marriage payments

    Rezwan
    15 May 2012 | 1:28 am
    “There are two kinds of marriage payments — dowry and brideprice, with significant differences among their prevalences in time and across societies,” - informs J. Rahman at Mukti. Written by Rezwan · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious · Instapaper

  • India: Entertainment Industry Seeks Court Ban on Torrents and Vimeo

    Aparna Ray
    14 May 2012 | 4:45 pm
    Since the beginning of May 2012, some ISPs across parts of India had been quietly blocking access to the popular video sharing site Vimeo as well as various torrent sites such as The Pirate Bay, KickAssTorrents, BitSnoop etc. According to media reports, this is because a film production house, namely Reliance Entertainment, has (once again) obtained a preemptive ‘John Doe‘ order from the Delhi High Court, prior to the release of some of their upcoming big budget films. The Company insists that this has been done in order to ‘prevent film piracy'. Vimeo and Pirate Bay…
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    Bhatnaturally

  • Once Upon a Vespa: creating a premium segment in India

    bhatnaturally
    4 May 2012 | 6:54 pm
    As far as two-wheelers go, I am partial to scooters rather than motorcycles. And Vespa as a brand is pretty strongly embedded in my mind for a variety of reasons: its previous avatars in India, the residual imagery from Hollywood movies like Roman Holiday, articles about celebrities and the well-heeled using it (apparently Sir Martin [...]

  • Lenor fabric softener: visual story telling

    bhatnaturally
    4 May 2012 | 4:01 pm
    This campaign for Lenor Fabric Softener will rank as one of the most striking campaigns of this year.   Agency: Grey, Lima, Peru One might say that this is ‘category sell’ and the benefit is true of all fabric softeners. But the execution is clutter-breaking and evokes that ‘aha!’ reaction in you. It is doing the [...]

  • 17 examples of luxury brand ads: execution is the idea

    bhatnaturally
    2 May 2012 | 6:33 pm
    Like most premium international lifestyle or fashion magazines in India, the latest issue of Vogue too carries a truck load of glossy ads. A majority of those ads are for luxury or super-premium global brands. The Versaces, Guccis and Louis Vittons are all there. Most of the ads have a common, familiar pattern: minimal copy, visual [...]

  • Zonajobs’ grandma: gets the job done

    bhatnaturally
    30 Apr 2012 | 5:21 pm
    Don’t you love it when a TV commercial keeps you riveted until the very end and then presents an unexpected twist? What’s more when the penny drops and you connect the dots in  your mind to the product or service it’s even better. Zonajobs’ ad does just that. Agency: DraftFCB, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Via. The [...]

  • The new iPad and the ingredients for Apple loyalty

    bhatnaturally
    29 Apr 2012 | 12:11 am
    Not surprisingly the launch of the new iPad has been a relatively muted affair in India. The  friendly pricing may help in attracting new users to the Apple fold but those going wide-eyed are still the Apple fans. It’s early days yet and a lot of re-sellers are likely to carry out promotions in the [...]
 
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  • Xage unveils 'M738 Speed' handset

    RnMTeam
    16 May 2012 | 8:42 am
    MUMBAI: Xage Communication has launched dual-SIM touch phone ‘M786 Speed’ in the Indian market. The handset is equipped with 7.1 cm LCD display screen, 2MP front and back camera with flash, MP4/MP3 HD player along with King movie support, 128MB built-in and 8GB expandable memory card. The device is powered with 1100mAH battery, stereo FM radio, USB interface, A2DP bluetooth and WAP/GPRS connectivity. ‘M786 Speed’ is priced at Rs 2999.

  • Paris Hilton to release collaborative single with LMFAO

    RnMTeam
    16 May 2012 | 8:42 am
    MUMBAI: Paris Hilton is all set to release her collaborative single with LMFAO ‘After Midnight’ in the month of June. Hilton will perform her new single at the Pop Music Festival on 23 June in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The heiress will make her public DJ debut with a closing performance at the fest which will also feature acts by other renowned artistes like Jennifer Lopez and Kelly Clarkson.

  • Ebonix and Five8 to perform at Hard Rock Cafe

    RnMTeam
    16 May 2012 | 8:42 am
    MUMBAI: The progressive Delhi based rock bands Ebonix and Five8 will perform a mashup of some of their popular melodies on 17 May at Hard Rock Café. Formed in 2008, Ebonix is a five-piece band comprising of Vaibhav Sahay (bass), Dhruv Malik (guitars), Vaibhav Chawla (vocals/guitars), Sargun Sethi (keyboards) and Karan Rampal (drums). Their music is broadly classified as a diverse mix of melodies and hard thumping beats and they are highly influenced by bands like Metallica, Iron Maiden, AC/DC and Black Sabbath amongst others.

  • Vishal Dadlani rocks music charts with 'Mar Jayian'

    RnMTeam
    16 May 2012 | 8:41 am
    MUMBAI: Bollywood’s rollicking singer/composer Vishal Dadlani’s latest track 'Mar Jayian' from Vicky Donor has become one of the most hit songs from the album. The Sufi rock song produced by Donn and Bann has been climbing up the charts with great reviews and has received more than 1.5 lakh hits on YouTube.

  • Swarathma: 'Our main aim was to keep the rights of the album with ourselves'

    ChandniMathur
    16 May 2012 | 7:15 am
    With a ray of hope in their checkered career, Swarathma is back once again on the music front. Representing a subtle shift in their compositions, the band’s latest offering ‘Topiwalleh’ highlights social issues.
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  • शिखर वेध - Panhala-Pavankhind-Vishalgad Padbhraman Mohim on 13-15th July 2012

    13 May 2012 | 11:41 pm
    Dear All,   have planned Panhala-PavankhindVishalgad Padbhraman Mohim on 13-15th July 2012. This Mohim commomerates Shivaji's escape from the besieged Panhala to the safety of Vishalgad History: Panhala-Pavankhind-Vishalgad  Chatrapati Shivaji was under siege of Siddi Johar on Panhala fort from 2nd March 1660. The siege lasted long and all food stocks had finished and made things difficult for Shivaji. It was impossible to defeat the 30000 soldiered troop of Siddi. Shivaji with some 600 mavalas decided to escape to Vishalgad, 65 kms away. It was Ashadi…

  • Registration Closed TMI : Crocodile Safari @ Govalkot – Maldoli Backwater , Guhagar Beach , Velneshwar Temple on 19th May to 20th May 2012

    13 May 2012 | 12:08 pm
    Due to an overwhelming response for Crocodile Safari , We will be having second batch for Crocodile Safari on 2nd June - 3rd June , Leaving on 1st June Night.Only 15 Members for this batch.We at Trek Mates India invite you all for the “ Crocodile Safari @ Govalkot – Maldoli Backwater , Guhagar Beach , Velneshwar Temple on 19th May to 20th May 2012(Starting Friday,  18th May Night). Some information about the area:The places that will be visiting are:1.  Crocodile Safari @ Maldoli2.  Guhagar Beach3.  Velneshwar Temple4.  Gopalgad Fort5.  Hedvi…

  • TMI - NIGHT TREK TO NANEGHAT ON 27TH MAY SUNDAY 2012.

    12 May 2012 | 12:05 am
    HI MATES, WE AT TREK MATES INDIA ARE GLAD TO INVITE YOU ALL FOR  A NIGHT TREK TO NANEGHAT FORT ON 27TH MAY SUNDAY 2012 , LEAVING ON 26TH MAY SATURDAY NIGHT.Some Information about the Fort:Place: Naneghat fortHeight: 2750 feetBase Village: VaishakhareDistrict: ThaneDifficulty Level: EasyEndurance Level: MediumRegion : MalshejNaneGhat Pass - This sheer cliff is a well know landmark, very clearly visible from Konkan region as you pass on your way from Kalyan towards Malshej. The walls of this pass jut out from the main range and…

  • TMI - Night Trek To Gorakhgad on 26th May Saturday 2012.

    10 May 2012 | 11:28 am
    HI MATES, WE AT TREK MATES INDIA ARE GLAD TO INVITE YOU ALL FOR  A NIGHT TREK TO GORAKHGAD FORT ON 26TH MAY SATURDAY 2012 , LEAVING ON 25TH MAY FRIDAY NIGHT.Some Information about the Fort:Place: Gorakhgad fortHeight: 2137 ftBase Village: DehriDistrict: ThaneDifficulty Level: MediumEndurance Level: MediumGorakhgad is a fort that can be done easily in a day, both from Mumbai and Pune. Though not famous for any historical events, Gorakhgad attracts trekkers due to its inviting pinnacles, which offer good opportunities for rock-climbing.

  • शिखर वेध - Night Trek to Kankeshwar, and fun time @ Mandva beach near Alibaug, on May 19 -20, 2012

    8 May 2012 | 11:44 pm
    Dear All   has arranged a  Night Trek to Kankeshwar, and fun time @ Mandva beach near Alibaug, on  May 19 -20, 2012. Kanakeshwar is a nice place and famous for cool climate & especially bcoz of the old temple of Lord Shiva. The temple is situated on a small hill @ village Mapgaon abt 12 km frm Alibaug. The hill is almost 1200 feet high and one has to climb 700 - 750 steps to reach on top. In the mid of the hill one can see Nagobacha Tappa (a Place of Snakes) and the famous step Devachi Payari. There is popular story abt this step that it was…
 
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  • India Set to Overtake China, Vietnam and Thailand as World's Top Rice Exporter

    15 May 2012 | 6:09 pm
    India is expected to overtake China as the world’s largest rice exporter this year as the Indian harvest has had a major boost from both the weather and the government, pushing prices to record highs. Continue reading →

  • Myanmar to Lift Global Payment Restrictions

    15 May 2012 | 1:57 pm
    Move will boost ability for businesses to buy and sell May 15 – Myanmar will lift its existing restrictions concerning international payments and transfers by the end of this year, according to the International Monetary Fund, making it easier for businesses to trade in and with the country. The government is expected to finalize the unification of the existing system of multiple exchange rates also by this time, following the Central Bank’s decision to scrap the 35-year-old fixed exchange rate last month. The fixed rate had created a huge black market for U.S. dollars within a country…

  • Report: Economic and Social Survey of Asia-Pacific Region 2012

    14 May 2012 | 2:19 pm
    The 2012 edition of the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific scales down the economic growth of the region to 6.5 percent in 2012, with China and India expanding their economy by 8.6 percent and 7.5 percent, respectively. Continue reading →

  • China-Philippines Standoff: Territorial Tension in the South China Sea

    10 May 2012 | 7:03 pm
    The South China Sea continues to act as a regional flashpoint in the Asia Pacific, recently exemplified by the ongoing naval standoff between China and the Philippines. The current standoff began at the beginning of April when the Filipino navy intercepted Chinese fishing vessels in Scarborough Shoal, who they claimed were illegally operating inside of its 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone. Photo: China Daily Continue reading →

  • Exit China, Enter India - Expat Transitions: Part IV

    4 May 2012 | 6:34 pm
    Olaf Griese has spent six years with Dezan Shira & Associates in Shanghai and has just recently relocated to Delhi. In this series of articles, he will detail the differences, as well as the pros and cons, of living in both China and India. This is Part IV: Second-Tier City Beat - From Hangzhou to Pune Continue reading →
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  • Foreign Workers Permitted to Withdraw from Provident Fund

    India Briefing
    16 May 2012 | 6:16 am
    Overseas workers are permitted to withdraw the entire amount standing to their credit in the fund in the situations listed here. Continue reading →

  • India Issues Re-Assurances over Tax and Retroactive Legislation

    India Briefing
    15 May 2012 | 4:23 am
    India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has scotched media reports concerning the intentions of India's new tax regulations, and has pulled back on GAAR until April 2013. Continue reading →

  • India’s Medical Technology Industry

    India Briefing
    10 May 2012 | 6:44 am
    May 10 – There are many definitions of what is known as ”medical technology.” Officially, it is known as healthcare products (devices, equipments as well as consumables/ supplies) that are meant by its producer to be used particularly for investigative and/or therapeutic purposes. There can be no superior illustration than India to demonstrate the requirement for medical technology for civilizing healthcare delivery. As the second most crowded country in the world, the supply of healthcare services falls considerably short of the demand. Existing health care delivery mechanisms are…

  • India Issues Ruling on Transfer Pricing Aspect of Royalty Payments

    India Briefing
    9 May 2012 | 6:04 am
    The High Court has ruled that royalty payments cannot be prohibited on instances of continuous loss where the spending was proven to be incurred “wholly and exclusively” for the purpose of the business of the Taxpayer. Continue reading →

  • Small Firms and Individuals May Be Exempt from GAAR, Postponement Also Possible

    India Briefing
    27 Apr 2012 | 4:53 am
    In an attempt to soften the blow of the General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR), India’s Finance Ministry is considering postponing the implementation of the new regime and may completely exempt small firms and individuals. Continue reading →
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  • Why delay in forming new PAC? BJP

    16 May 2012 | 8:15 am
    New Delhi, May 16: BJP today sought to know from the government and the Lok Sabha Speaker why the formation of the new team of Public Accounts Committee had not been completed and its chairperson chosen well past the deadline of

  • After seat row, Jaya takes offence on Rekha's media coverage

    16 May 2012 | 7:40 am
    New Delhi, May 16: Bollywood actor and Rajya Sabha MP Jaya Bachchan has filed a complaint to the chairperson of the upper house Hamid Ansari for the media coverage of Rajya Sabha TV while they were covering the induction of Actress

  • US move to declare Dawood aides as drug traffickers welcomed

    16 May 2012 | 7:30 am
    New Delhi, May 16 (PTI) India today welcomed the US move to designate underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's two top aides Chhota Shakeel and Tiger Memon as key drug traffickers, saying it was a reaffirmation of India's stand and asked "those countries"

  • US says it will have more talks with India on Iran oil import

    16 May 2012 | 6:45 am
    Washington, May 16: The US has said that it will have more consultations with India on the latter reducing dependence on Iranian crude oil. "There is more progress to be made and that's what Carlos is

  • Distressed Yeddyurappa files for anticipatory bail

    16 May 2012 | 6:35 am
    Bangalore, May 16: It seems former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa’s woes is not leaving his back after the CBI raided his residences on Wednesday. With rumours rife that he might also be arrested following his involvement in the illegal mining
 
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  • Tata Motor’s “Air Car” – now in 2nd phase of Development

    D Kapoor
    14 May 2012 | 1:46 pm
    World’s first Air car may be on its way in the coming years.  As discussed earlier, Tata Motors had signed a license agreement in Jan 2007 with Motor Development International (Luxembourg) to use their Compressed air technology to power the cars. Now a press release from Tata Motors says the first phase (proof of the technical concept in Tata Motors vehicles) has been completed successfully.  Now the second phase in underway – (completing detailed development of the compressed air engine into specific vehicle and stationary applications). In the coming years, the company hopes…

  • 10 million Indians want to emigrate to US

    D Kapoor
    12 May 2012 | 11:38 pm
    Most people are not satisfied with where they are. They would like to move out of their present countries to “greener pastures”. It seems of all the destinations in the world, US of A is the most desired. 150 million of the world’s adults would like to move to US. Other desired countries are UK (45 mn), Canada (42 mn), France (32 mn), and Saudi Arabia (31 mn). Of those wanting to come to US, maximum are from China (22 million), India (10 mn), Brazil (7 mn), Nigeria (15 mn), Bangladesh (8 mn). There was a time when the Westerners moved all the way in search of opportunities…

  • My Restless Being

    D Kapoor
    12 May 2012 | 11:17 pm
    My being is restless scared longing. In body it wants to expand Disembodied, it looks for a home. Today I felt the unsettled chaotic restlessness of it all. Work is needed for peace in the being a stillness a being of this being beyond its urge to become a being that stills beyond this life and death.  

  • Ridiculousness of Campaign against Isha by some Houston groups

    D Kapoor
    5 May 2012 | 4:09 pm
    For last 5 months, I have worked to promote a program called Inner Engineering by Sadhguru. I am just one volunteer and on this blog I don’t carry any brief from the organization. I have always written what to me is important with utmost frankness. And that is exactly what I intend to do this time as well. This volunteering time for me is one of the most significant, because when you meet people with unbeatable commitment against all odds, that could easily put normal people through tremendous misery – you see life in ways you didn’t know about. More importantly, it humbles…

  • From India Shinning to India Suffering

    D Kapoor
    1 May 2012 | 3:25 pm
    Amidst the cool confidence of the Indian professionals and businesses, India’s economy and outlook seems to have taken a nosedive.  By most signs, India Shinning is become India Suffering! In November, a Firstpost article had asked the question “Is Manmohan taking us back to 1991 external mess?”  The question seemed to have popped out of nowhere.  On hindsight it seems, it was a very timely question. Basically it argued that the Current account deficit was huge and likely to be covered by Capital Inflows, which were not loyal or long term. The reason: with the rupee…
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  • HTC Desire C up for pre-order in UK, coming on May 24

    Srivatsan
    16 May 2012 | 7:58 am
    HTC Desire C is now on pre-order in UK from online retailer Clove. HTC announced the Desire C, an affordable smartphone running Android 4.0 yesterday after it was leaked recently. It has a 3.5-inch (320 x480 pixels) display and is powered by 600 MHz processor. It has 5MP camera and comes with 25GB free Dropbox storage for 2 years. HTC Desire C Specifications 3.5-inch (320 x480 pixels) display Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) with Sense 4 11.95mm and weighs 95g 5MP camera 3.5 mm stereo audio jack, FM Radio, Beats audio 512 MB RAM, 4GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 32GB 3G, Bluetooth…

  • Firefox Beta for Android gets Redesigned UI, Flash support and more

    Srivatsan
    16 May 2012 | 6:20 am
    New Firefox Beta for Android has been released that brings new native user interface, support for third-party plugins like Adobe Flash. It also has faster start-up and page load times than the earlier version and has improvements and fixes. New features in Firefox Beta for Android Faster start-up and page load times Re-designed user interface with a new Awesome Screen Re-designed start page with Top Sites Support for Adobe Flash By default, plugins are only loaded on touch Better text readability through font size inflation New panning/zooming architecture for better touch responsiveness…

  • Adaptxt Keyboard for Android – Intelligent text input app with support for over 53 languages

    Srivatsan
    16 May 2012 | 5:12 am
    Adaptxt Keyboard for Android Adapts to users own writing style with auto suggestions and error corrections. It has support for over 53 languages worldwide. The Symbian app for S60v3 Nokia phones launched last year. Features of Adaptxt Keyboard for Android Dynamic use of multiple languages in the same message Next word prediction by understanding your context to prevent user from making typing error Completes the word by providing relevant suggestions of different words as you type Add and manage new language Add-ons from the settings Adaptxt builds and maintains ‘My Dictionary’ that…

  • LG Optimus UI 3.0 for Android ICS devices announced

    Srivatsan
    16 May 2012 | 4:27 am
    LG has unveiled its new Optimus UI 3.0 for its upcoming Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) devices. It would bring new and enhanced key features, including Quick Memo that enables users to jot notes on the screen using a finger that also lets users share it with social networks or via text messages and e-mails. The new UI also include unique unlock functions, Voice Shutter, new camera features and more. New features in LG Optimus UI 3.0 Ability to unlock the phone by dragging anywhere on the screen New Pattern Lock allows users to preset the most frequently used function, such as the…

  • Idea Cellular to offer seamless network connectivity across Delhi Airport Metro Express Line corridor

    Srivatsan
    16 May 2012 | 4:04 am
    Idea Cellular has tied to with Delhi Metro to become the first guest operator to offer seamless connectivity across the Delhi Airport Metro Express Line (DAMEL) corridor at all 6 stations (New Delhi Railway Station, Shivaji Stadium, Dhaula Kuan, Aero City, Airport and Sec 21 Dwarka) and along the route. Idea Cellular would offer uninterrupted network coverage over the entire length of the 22.7km corridor from New Delhi Railway Station till Dwarka Sec 21 via Indira Gandhi International Airport starting May 2012. Idea would offer seamless network connectivity through the entire 18-20 minutes…
 
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  • Windows Phone vs Blackberry – Nice ad! [VIDEO]

    Naren Ubi
    7 May 2012 | 5:37 am
    By Naren UbiIf you’re a Blackberry lover, you’ll hate this ad. On the contrary, if you like Windows Phone, and have adopted it, you will appreciate the hidden features you may not have come across. There are good things in this ad; instead of a Blackberry bashing, Windows Phone has just brought out/presented those features that it can do better in the hands of business users! [via WMPoweruser] Originally from Windows Phone vs Blackberry – Nice ad! [VIDEO] on Ubiquitense

  • Top 7 bedside apps for iPad and iPhone

    Naren Ubi
    7 May 2012 | 5:23 am
    By Naren UbiiPhone apps have gelled well with our daily routine, thus making us want more. Unlike other smart phones, iPhone apps don’t seem to have many limitations and seem to have forayed into almost all possible areas. One of the common problems that most people still face today is getting a sound sleep after a day’s work. This is because they tend to stay alert and attentive the whole day with more caffeine intake and find it difficult to fall asleep during night. Surprisingly, there are iPhone apps that claim to help you fall asleep and make things easier for you. Next time,…

  • Nokia 808 PureView ad – made using Nokia 808 PureView! [VIDEO]

    Naren Ubi
    20 Apr 2012 | 6:21 am
    By Naren UbiNokia makes impressive ads! I liked the Nokia Lumia Amazing Everyday ad, along with the readily recognizable music that has now become the ringtone for many devices (including the Samsung S2). Check out the video below for the upcoming Nokia 808 PureView, sporting an insane 41 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics. The video is made using the phone itself being advertised. Watch in HD!   [source] Originally from Nokia 808 PureView ad – made using Nokia 808 PureView! [VIDEO] on Ubiquitense

  • Colorify – lovely Windows Phone app

    Naren Ubi
    20 Apr 2012 | 6:00 am
    By Naren UbiI’m not a big fan of editing photos on the mobile as I never believed in the output. The ones that look good on the phone, before and after editing (especially on the iPhone!), doesn’t always look good on the desktop or when posted to Facebook. I was under this impression until I tried Colorify (from Asleroid). It’s the single best ‘selective coloring‘ app that I’ve come across lately. I have been an Android user for more than 18 months, and recently moved to Windows Phone; never came across a decent app such as this on the Android platform. I…

  • Lite Swipe ROM for Commtiva Z71 clones [screenshots]

    Naren Ubi
    14 Apr 2012 | 5:42 am
    By Naren UbiAfter a long lull, it’s pouring ROMs for Commtiva Z71 clones (Motorola XT502, Orange Boston, etc.,). Just a few hours ago, I posted the Lewa Optimod, and now the Lite Swipe based on Lewa. Thanks to Sauarabh for the tip! Key features: A very light, odexed ROM Camera with working zoom Up to 160 MB Known bug: You have to use an app to change wallpapers, as the default one is not working DOWNLOAD | more info… | bug reports | ROM author Originally from Lite Swipe ROM for Commtiva Z71 clones [screenshots] on Ubiquitense
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  • The Jackals of Kala Dungar – Where A Community Has Kept Them Alive With Vegetarian Food

    Gangadharan Menon
    16 May 2012 | 5:30 am
    The story of the jackals of Kala Dungar is a unique story of man-animal coexistence because in the arid and unforgiving landscape of Kachchh, here’s a case of jackals (who are known to be carnivorous) who have been taught to survive on vegetarian food by a community of people over many, many generations! This practice made sure that there’s a healthy population of jackals in the Kala Dungar area (which is near the harsh Greater Rann) who even at the worst of times are assured of at least subsistence-level food. Gangadharan Menon reports. As the molten sun sets in the Great Rann of…

  • TBI Bulletin – Positive News From All Around (14.05.2012)

    Anuradha Parekh
    15 May 2012 | 3:05 am
    The Better India launches a new feature from today – TBI Bulletin. Here we will be linking to various publications who have talked about positive news related to India, so that you, our readers, will get to know a whole lot more about all that is happening around us. In the tradition of The Better India, these will be stories that inspire you to action, fill you with pride, make you want to know more or just bring a smile to your being.  As ever, we appreciate your incredible support and encouragement. You could contribute by sending in any story you come across or just writing in…

  • TBI Heroes: Basanti and the Kosi – How one woman revitalized a watershed

    Chicu Lokgariwar
    14 May 2012 | 1:14 am
    The Kosi river in Uttarakhand is the lifeline for the areas it flows through. However, now the demands on its water are increasing. Supply of water to army cantonments and to cities has severely depleted its flows. The forests and villages that it nourished are now starved of water by urban thirst. But this story proves that villagers are more than passive victims. Once, they contributed to the problem by indiscriminately using natural resources. Today they are its proud protectors. Their inspiration is a tireless and committed woman. This is her story – and the river’s too. The Kosi…

  • TBI Travel: Ajmer – Where Spirituality Meets Tranquility

    Animesh Anand
    10 May 2012 | 1:28 am
    Animesh Anand takes us on a mystical journey through the “city of faith” with its generous sprinkling of temples, forts, dargahs, places of historical significance and natural beauty – an incredible combination of faith and splendour hard to beat! As the train pulled in at the station, it had become dark. Half an hour prior, I was gaping at charismatic hills lit all the way up with fluorescents against the dark shadow of night. A prominent landmark that caught my eye was the fortified mini Eiffel’ish’ Tower atop the highest peak, well-lit and easily visible from…

  • Masti Ki Paathshaala – Voluntary Teaching on Mumbai’s Carter Road

    Jay Mehta
    7 May 2012 | 2:51 am
    On a visit to Mumbai’s Carter Road one morning, Jay Mehta was amazed to see several groups of children sitting on the footpath learning lessons from voluntary teachers. His curiosity aroused, he decided to find out what was going on and who was behind it. This is his account of the initiative started 14 years ago by Navjot Foundation. It’s little more than 7 o’clock in the morning and while Mumbai’s Carter Road is buzzing with people running, jogging, strolling, exercising and laughing (literally and deliberately), a lady in her 60s, comes down to one of the benches, takes out a…
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  • Stay In The Conversation

    Beau Lebens
    15 May 2012 | 6:01 pm
    It’s now much easier for you and your commenters to keep track of the conversations you’re involved in across WordPress.com. Some recent tests have shown that by subscribing commenters to new comments by default, they are more likely to stay engaged and come back and comment more on your blog. With that knowledge, we’ve changed the default comment following behavior to help you get more conversations going on your blog. We made the initial changes last week and after great feedback from you we just launched an update. Here’s how it works: By default, posting a comment…

  • Look at These Gorgeous Blogs

    Sheri
    15 May 2012 | 1:05 pm
    We’ve added a user showcase where you can view stunning customizations made by people just like you. From complete redesigns with CSS to adding pizzazz with Custom Fonts to clever use of options like background and header, this showcase will spark your imagination and inspire creativity. Discover details about what each showcase blog is doing with WordPress.com themes and customizations by clicking a thumbnail to see a colophon-style list of credits on the left. We’ve also updated footer links so blog owners can show off the types of customizations they’ve made and visitors can…

  • Photo Blogging 101, Part 1

    Erica V.
    14 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Spring is in the air. With the weather warming up, now is a great time to get started on a photo blog. Creating a photo blog is a wonderful introduction to blogging on WordPress.com or an opportunity to refresh your current site. Ready to get started? You can sign up for a new blog right over here. Getting started Photo blogs, sometimes called phlogs, use pictures instead of words. While many photo bloggers choose a type of photo that they want to focus on, such as portraits, others use their photo blog to document their life’s events. Photo blogs come in a variety of styles, including…

  • New Themes: Just Desserts and Oxygen

    Michelle Langston
    10 May 2012 | 8:11 am
    Happy Thursday! We’ve added some exciting new themes to our ever-growing collection, and we’re happy to tell you all about them. First out of the oven is…Just Desserts. Yep, that’s a theme! Designed by Andy Rutledge, Just Desserts is a deliciously stylish premium theme that’s perfect for blogs centered on food. With its responsive, single-column layout and unique presentation of images and posts on the front page, Just Desserts gives you a delectable canvas on which your mouthwatering photos and text can really shine — even when viewed on smaller mobile devices…

  • Find Friends Who Use WordPress

    Nick Momrik
    1 May 2012 | 2:32 pm
    Are you curious to see how your friends are using WordPress? Give the new and improved Friend Finder a try to connect with your Twitter, Facebook, and Google contacts who have WordPress sites! After authorizing WordPress.com to use your Twitter, Facebook, or Google account to find your friends (don’t worry — none of this account information is saved!) you’ll see a list of people you know who have WordPress sites. Click Follow and each time your friend publishes a new post it will show up in your Reader under Blogs I Follow. If you have multiple blogs, make sure to set the…
 
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  • Darion Gandhi Dances to Gold

    arzan sam wadia
    15 May 2012 | 4:25 pm
    So You Think You Can Dance judge Jason Coleman thinks a young Hampton Park boy can do just that. Published in the Barwick Star News, Melbourne Australia. Nine year old Darion Gandhi from Cathy-Lea Dance Works received a gold medal at the Cechetti Junior Award Day a couple of Sundays ago.      The event was held at the Ministry of Dance Studios in North Melbourne and was adjudicated by Jason Coleman from the hit television series So You Think You Can Dance. Darion was selected from 60 elite entrants at his level. Nine other students from Darion’s school received honorable…

  • Zoroastrian Stree Mandal of Hyderabad and Secunderabad: Sticking together

    arzan sam wadia
    15 May 2012 | 4:10 pm
    There is probably an inverse relation between a community’s population and its togetherness. The Parsi community doesn’t defy this relation and is an exceptionally close-knit community. With a population of about 1,100, the Parsi community has a sizeable population. By Amar Tejaswi | Deccan Chronicle Parsis’ business acumen drew them to the city a couple of generations back and they have remained here since with a lot of the members having businesses of their own. But the business acumen is diminishing with time as current generations move towards jobs in IT industry and elsewhere.

  • Parsis petition Centre for survival

    arzan sam wadia
    14 May 2012 | 4:51 pm
    The Parsis are a demographically declining community on the cusp of near extinction. This is what Keki Daruwalla, Sahitya Akademi award-winning poet and a member of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM), wrote to the Planning Commission (PC). By Anurag Kumar Chaubey & Kshitiz Shaminit Tirkey | DNA India Alarmed by the drastic fall in India’s Parsi population, Daruwalla, in his two-page letter to PC member Dr Syeda Hameed, has highlighted the census figures which show that the number of Parsis in 1941, which was 1,14,890, almost halved to 69,601 by 2001. Daruwalla organised a…

  • Billionaire Godrej Sees Property Beating Retail

    arzan sam wadia
    14 May 2012 | 8:50 am
    Indian billionaire Adi Godrej said real estate will deliver his company’s fastest growth over the next five years as foreign rivals such as Unilever Plc (ULVR) and Procter & Gamble Co. (PG) constrain his flagship consumer-goods unit. By Ruth David and Malavika Sharma | Bloomberg   “The strongest growth potential we see is in our property- development business,” Godrej, chairman of the Godrej Group, said in an interview at his office campus on the outskirts of Mumbai. “No one has any significant market share. It is divided among a large number of players.” Godrej…

  • Shapoor Mistry brings in talent, expands role of old hands

    arzan sam wadia
    11 May 2012 | 10:52 am
    Shapoor Mistry of the Pallonji Mistry group is bringing in talent, expanding the role of the old guard and identifying new business ventures at the $2-billion group. The initiative is aimed at transforming the way the construction-to-home appliances conglomerate functions. By Sobia Khan | The Economic Times The reclusive Irish-Parsi business tycoon, Pallonji Mistry, passed the baton of his 147-year-old business conglomerate on to elder son Shapoor Mistry in January this year after younger son Cyrus Mistry was chosen as the successor to Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata. Mistry’s…
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  • Why do you want to be an entrepreneur?

    15 May 2012 | 12:19 pm
    When I told my friend/colleague/mentor that I want to be an entrepreneur, along with a few other questions, he asked me 'Why' . I took some time but answered it honestly with what I was feeling. I am sure it made sense to him as he later on partnered with me to start my business. A couple of days back I was sitting among a group of entrepreneur and we were again asked the same question. Most of us had our answers but 1 of the participant gave answers which kind of didn't settle iRead More...

  • There's no time to regret: Move on!

    16 Apr 2012 | 12:13 pm
    Last week I got mugged and was robbed off my phone, some money and got injured in the episode. The very next day, a dear friend got to know and called me up to find out about my well being. When I told him, I was out of town and was enjoying the weekend with a few friends at a resort, he started abusing me! He said, how could I enjoy when all that had happened a day before with me!To his and a lot of other people's astonishment, I wasn't in deep grief about what had happened. To be hoRead More...

  • Where has the professionalism gone?

    9 Feb 2012 | 11:24 am
    Working with a client I often have to travel to their place to discuss things. They also work with a different agency for something that aligns with my work. Last week, for a discrepancy, I was asked me to intervene. A call was scheduled for 12 noon today when all of us would meet at my clients' place.  I was to meet them about 30 minutes earlier which meant 11.30 for me.On the way, almost about to reach the stop I got a call that the agency guys are not coming at all. And then asRead More...

  • Learnings from Startup Saturday Gurgaon

    25 Jan 2012 | 6:03 am
    Recently I attended Startup Saturday in Gurgaon. It was Gurgaon's first date with the highly popular event among startups. Held at the MDI, a B-School, it primarily had students who were there to learn things rather than share. However a few good speakers had some nice things to say. Thought to share a few takeaways from the event.1. At a conference/event, prepare questions for each of the sessions before going. When allowed to ask, spend the first 30 seconds to introduce your companyRead More...

  • Record your life - Ohlife !

    26 Dec 2011 | 1:48 pm
    As an entrepreneur (or sometimes even in the case of job oriented people), life happens to run at a pace faster than light. When the New Year wishes start to arrive, we often realize that how soon the current (or previous) year has gone by! Often we feel we haven't done enough or the year went in a flash and are not able to recall what major happened. Well, for people like us, there's a tool which helps us keep a record of our life and importantly - keeps it only to us.Ohlife - Works Read More...
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    HeadStart

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    annkur
    30 Apr 2012 | 3:02 am
    This year, I completed 3 years with Headstart as a volunteer and its been quite a journey. Over 70 leaders across 9 cities, meeting them as strangers and making lifelong relations, learning the ropes of business, getting into the pulse of the startup community, Headstart has given me a lot. A little past mid-night, today as I reminiscence about the highs and lows of Headstart as a team, it hits me that we have been around for so long, the little kid who walked into a Startup Saturday in 2009 has come a long way. I would take this opportunity to run you through some beliefs and commitments…

  • Event round-up – Startup Saturday April

    Team Headstart
    24 Apr 2012 | 11:43 am
    The last Startup Saturday on 14th April turned out to be a success in all the 9 cities. We received a healthy response in terms of audience footfall. With a slew of good speakers in different cities, the event overall was quite a success. Here’s a little bite to whet your appetite in case you’re curious to know what went about in the different cities. Read on: Delhi The following speakers spoke at the event : Hitesh Dhingra, Founder and CEO of Letsbuy.com – spoke about exits in e-commerce industry and in particular about Letsbuy’s acquisition by Flipkart. Hitender Takhar,…

  • Five Uncomfortable Lessons from the Silicon Valley Trenches

    Team Headstart
    23 Feb 2012 | 3:51 am
    2012 will be the year of happening for Startup Saturday Ahmedabad. We saw close to 170 registrations this time despite other events making their rounds in the city. We had Mr. Shirish Andhare, a remarkable speaker who taught his class, ” Five uncomfortable lessons from the silicon valley trenches “. Mr. Shirish’s rich experience from the silicon valley backed by his absolutely perfect story weaving skills did the magic for the day. ‘Entrepreneurship is definitely not for the fainter heart’ he started. Though technological advancement has made a lot of tasks…

  • HeadStart partners with NEN for E Week India 2012

    Amit Singh
    1 Feb 2012 | 7:50 am
    Entrepreneurship Week India (E Week 2012, http://eweek.nenonline.org/) – the largest national entrepreneurship event that reaches out to lakhs of people to build awareness and support – will take place from the 11 to 18 February 2012. E Week India is run by the National Entrepreneurship Network, supported by the Wadhwani Foundation and is led by over 80,000 student members and 1200 faculty from NEN Entrepreneurship Cells (E Cells) at 540 member institutes. The theme for E Week 2012 calls upon young people to ‘Invent the Future’ as successful entrepreneurs, by providing innovative…

  • Special fever @ Start-up Saturday Mumbai Dec 2011

    annkur
    27 Dec 2011 | 2:20 pm
    Let me begin this blog by asking the question which each and every member wants to know- Was the last session- the so called “Special Startup Saturday” truly special? You bet. It definitely was, let me tell you why and what made it the perfect closure event for Startup Mumbai for 2011 Event began on a special note with Annkur joining the already charming and highly energetic Himanshu on the introduction part with a jhatpat recap of how SS started and why it exists. Once done with the audience introduction which comprised of our standard crowd of engineers/hackers, working professionals…
 
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  • Knight Riders score win big over Mumbai Indians, virtually in play-offs

    admin2
    16 May 2012 | 1:20 pm
    NetIndian News Network Mumbai, May 16, 2012 Mystery spinner Sunil Narine's four-wicket haul  helped Kolkata Knight Riders regain their second spot and virtually qualified for the play-offs in the Indian Premier League (IPL) with a big 32-run win over MUmbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium here tonight. With the win, Knight Riders took sweet revenge of their 27-run defeat at the hands of Mumbai Indians in the first leg at the Eden Gardens.   The victory helped Knight Riders replace Mumbai Indians in the second spot with 19 points from 15 matches. With a net-run rate of +.478, Knight…

  • Kolkata Knight Riders beat Mumbai Indians by 32 runs

    admin2
    16 May 2012 | 1:10 pm
    NetIndian News Network Mumbai, May 16, 2012  Kolkata Knight Riders scored an emphatic 32-run win over Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Wankhede Stadium here tonight.Put in to bat first, Knight Riders made a modest 140 for seven wickets from their allotted 20 overs. They then bowled out Mumbai Indians, who were the runners-up last year, for 108 in 19.1 overs. Kolkata Knight Riders were served well by Manoj Tiwary, who topscored for them with 41, and skipper Gautam Gambhir, who made 28. Yusuf Pathan remained unbeaten on 21. For the Mumbai Indians, R P…

  • Shahid says almost went back to roots during Teri Meri Kahaani's Qawali song

    admin2
    16 May 2012 | 12:21 pm
    NetIndian News Network Mumbai, May 16, 2012 Advertisement ADVERTISEMENT Actor Shahid Kapur says he almost went back to his roots when director of his upcoming film "Teri Meri Kahaani" Kunal Kohli shot a sufi Qawali song in a dargah."Allah Jaane is my most favourite song since it’s a Sufi Qawalli.  And it’s also the most romantic song in the ablum. Rahat Fateh Ali has sung it beautifully. I was very excited since a portion of the song has been shot at a dargah and when you see a sufi singer at a dargah singing with full feeling  it takes you to another high.  I got to this…

  • India, China discuss cooperation in civil services, public administration

    admin2
    16 May 2012 | 11:37 am
    NetIndian News Network New Delhi, May 16, 2012 Advertisement ADVERTISEMENT India and China today held discussions and shared experiences in the areas of civil services, capacity building, health care of Central Government employees, public service delivery, pension benefits and public sector reforms.Both the sides also adopted a Plan of Action for cooperation in this area after a five-member  Chinese delegation headed by Mr Yin Weimin, Minister of Human Resources and Social Security met Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions V.Narayanasamy here and exchanged views on these…

  • Kolkata Knight Riders make 140/7 against Mumbai Indians

    admin2
    16 May 2012 | 11:25 am
    NetIndian News Network Mumbai, May 16, 2012 Kolkata Knight Riders made 140 for seven wickets from their allotted 20 overs against Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Wankhede Stadium here tonight.Put in to bat first, the visitors were served well by Manoj Tiwary, who topscored with 41, and skipper Gautam Gambhir, who made 28. Yusuf Pathan remained unbeaten on 21. For the Mumbai Indians, R P Singh took two for 33, while Munaf Patel, Lasith Malinga, Kieron Pollard and Dwayne Smith took one wicket apiece. NNN Advertisement ADVERTISEMENT
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  • Its time for a biike in India

    Siva Rajendran
    3 May 2012 | 1:27 pm
    Ratan Tata got inspired on seeing a family of four riding in a bike on a rainy day and decided to go for an ambitious 1 lakh car project. His dream car NANO got the life but the families continue to ride in scooters and bikes and haven’t shifted to Nano in masses as desired by TATA. Meanwhile Nano’s marketing team too changed the focus from the families in small towns waiting for Nano to youngsters driving around for a cup of chai admiring its features. Back to the focus on the family of four riding on a bike, if they are not shifting to car, will the two wheeler majors at least…

  • Get on the shelf contest – Will Indian retailers try?

    Siva Rajendran
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:33 am
    Walmart has launched “Get on the Shelf” contest in the United States to get some of the great undiscovered products on their shelves. Contestants can create and submit videos of their latest inventions and the public will vote online to determine the top three products to be sold on Walmart.com. This gives anyone a chance to launch their product at Walmart and reach millions of shoppers in the US. Contests like these are great opportunites for small business to take their products to the next level. One don’t need to win the contest to succeed, as thousands of people vote, if the…

  • Online food delivery business – Who will help the local restaurants?

    Siva Rajendran
    4 Jan 2012 | 1:56 pm
    DeliveryChef.in is an online food ordering platform that enables us to order food online from the local restaurants in Mumbai. I came to know about it thru esparks2011. So no need to store numerous paper menus or shout the order and address details over the phone. There are other online food ordering services like justeat.in and yummybay.com. Ordering online does make things easy but one thing to note is they are all taking care of only the ordering part. Delivery is left to the individual restaurants. One main problem most customers face when ordering food in the local restaurant is the…

  • Savings account interest rate ads – Time for a disclaimer

    Siva Rajendran
    26 Dec 2011 | 1:06 pm
    As RBI deregulated, the interest rate for deposits in savings account, Indian Banks have started competing to woo the customers with attractive rates. While Kotak is flashing its 50% extra campaign for its 6% interest rate all over, Yes Bank, raised its pitch with 100 more basis points at 7% rate for deposits more than 1 lakh. Not long ago, savings rate had remained constant at 3.5% for more than 8 years. Customers who are not aware of the recent deregulation policy by RBI could very well believe this 6 or 7% as the new reality and might think that it will remain at this level for many years.

  • Brand Airtel – Bye to Cricket and Hi to Formula one

    Siva Rajendran
    19 Aug 2011 | 2:49 pm
    It was only in the beginning of this month, Bharti Airtel Ltd had withdrawn their sponsorship for the Champions League Twenty20 tournament. Now, within three weeks, they announced their sponsorship for a new sporting event in India. From fast paced T20 cricket they moved over to even faster sporting event in F1. Bharti Airtel joined hands with the Formula One Group Companies to become title sponsor of the Indian leg of the race series to be hosted at Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida on October 30, 2011. So the brand goes out of Airtel Champions League T20 to fit in Airtel Grand…
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  • Disappearing Cheetah: World Losing Its Pace

    anshultewari@gmail.com (Youth Ki Awaaz)
    16 May 2012 | 7:30 am
    By Anubhav Das:Just imagine the size of sleek ash-gold cat –the world’s fastest animal – racing in grasslands. The day is not so far, when this splendid sight will be mere imagination. Kudos to “the most intellectual being on the earth”. Yes, the world is losing its pace – the cheetah is disappearing from our greens at a rate faster than ever.The situation is even worse in India. It has now been 60 years since cheetah was declared extinct in India. Its last sighting was in 1947. In the name of development, the grasslands are being cleared, forests are becoming tree-less and…

  • Pranab Da: President Da?

    anshultewari@gmail.com (Youth Ki Awaaz)
    16 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    By Anubhav Das:As the current term approaches its end in few days, talks have heated in political arena across the nation on who is going to be the new head of world’s largest democracy. As our nation looks forward to see its new president, the political parties are grilling all possible permutations before nominating their candidates for the electoral polls. In the midst of all the ambiguousness, one name that has stood up front from the beginning is Pranab Mukharjee-The current finance minister. Being a veteran in the political field, it is not the first time that Pranab Da has moved up…

  • Home and Beyond: The New Generation Home Maker

    anshultewari@gmail.com (Youth Ki Awaaz)
    16 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    By Neelima Ravindran: Every time someone says she is a house wife or a home maker (the new term), she is inadvertently put into one of the three categories: dumb, oppressed or frustrated. While many of these connotations have arisen from the portrayal of home makers in movies and on TV, the truth is that the empathies/criticism of the so called “liberal” men and women are as clichéd as the sentiments shown on screen.What the progressive intellectuals refuse to acknowledge is that a woman can be as happy, satisfied and fulfilled being an artisan at home as she can be when she goes out and…

  • Sky Out: Conspiracies Behind the AI Strike (A Satire)

    anshultewari@gmail.com (Youth Ki Awaaz)
    16 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    By Neelima Ravindran:Air India, the national air carrier of India, has cancelled many of its flights following its pilots calling in “sick” demanding that the erstwhile Indian Airlines pilots (who have not yet fallen “sick”) not be trained in flying Boeing dream liners, the fleet scheduled to be delivered to AI next month. The strikes of the pilots have crippled the nation’s air travel and brought acute discomfort to the common passenger. But reports suggest that there is more to this issue than meets the eye.The presence of a foreign and mysterious virus in air which affects…

  • Milk for Millions: Twelfth Plan Needs Focused Attention

    anshultewari@gmail.com (Youth Ki Awaaz)
    16 May 2012 | 4:52 am
    By Dr Amrit Patel:In India annual milk production has increased about seven times since independence and it virtually doubled since 1991-92. Milk production is expected to increase by over 4% to 127.29 million tons in 2011-12 as against 121.84 million tons in 2010-11. With the increase in milk output per capita availability of milk per day also increased from 176 grams in 1990-91 to estimated 274 grams in 2010-11 which, however, is much lower than that in developed countries. Considering the pace of population growth and surge in demand for the protein rich drink, the country needs to step…
 
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  • Mohit Mitoo Is On Cloud Nine After Meeting Senior Bachan

    Indian Television
    16 May 2012 | 9:35 am
    Mohit Mitoo (Bitoo of Zee TV’s Mrs. Kaushik Ki Paanch Bahuein) is all smiles these days after his brief professional encounter with the legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan. They shot together for an advertisment, directed by R. Balki. “I had heard a lot about Amit Ji’s professionalism; this was the first time I got a chance [...]

  • BBC World News ‘Click’ Investigates India’s Technology Challenges and Triumphs

    Indian Television
    16 May 2012 | 9:32 am
    Broadcasting on BBC World News 19th May and 20th May 2012 Mumbai, May 16th,, 2012: In the latest episode of ‘Click’, host Spencer Kelly and the production team travel to India’s technology hub, Bangalore to see the country’s answers to the iPad, the unusual technology challenges faced when 10 per cent of the population have [...]

  • BBC World News Achieves Major Distribution Milestone, Reaching More Than 330m Households Worldwide

    Indian Television
    16 May 2012 | 9:18 am
    An increase of more than 40million over the past year Mumbai, 16 May: New figures show that BBC World News has burst through the 300million distribution mark– increasing the number of households it broadcasts in by more than 40 million over the past year. Total distribution of the BBC’s international news channel now stands at [...]

  • Special Guest Star Purab Kohli Summons The Next Task – Silhouette Seduction

    Indian Television
    16 May 2012 | 9:02 am
    Its a cocktail of true love and deception on Fiama Di Wills presents Splitsvilla 5- Love Gone Wild, this Sunday,20th May @7p.m. only on MTV Episode 8 opens with a Bajaate Raho session with the theme, ‘Sex Appeal’. The boys are safe from the dumping ground, and this week, the girls are on the chopping [...]

  • Waheeda Rehman On The Fnale Episode of NDTV’s Issi Ka Naam Zindagi

    Indian Television
    16 May 2012 | 2:38 am
    Waheeda Rehman, Asha Parekh and Raveena shake a leg! Not many know that the beautiful Waheeda Rehman is also a kathak dancer. And when her dance teacher, Jaya tai made it on the sets of the show and our host and dost Raveena did not miss an opportunity to make the guru-shishya flaunt few dance [...]
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  • Samsung devices represent 40% of Android Smartphone Sales [Q1, 2012]

    Team PI
    16 May 2012 | 9:01 am
    Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users reached 419.1 million units in the first quarter of 2012, a 2 per cent decline from the first quarter of 2011, according to Gartner, Inc. This is the first time since the second quarter of 2009 that the market exhibited a decline, as per Gartner. All vendors were impacted at different levels; however, white-box vendors seem to have suffered the most. While tier one players such as Nokia were negatively impacted on sell-in numbers (sold into retail), white-box vendors were unable to adjust production and were left with a build-up in inventory by…

  • Is Snapdeal now a pure play ecommerce company? [Pivot]

    sinha
    16 May 2012 | 5:48 am
    Hop to Snapdeal and this is what you see Snapdeal Homepage - All about Products Did you notice that something is missing? Well, there aren’t any service deals – no spa deals, no restaurant deals! The truth is there are service deals, but you will have to scroll till the end of the page to find them – i.e. the focus seems to be more on selling products (i.e. ecommerce) and less on deals (phase 1 of sun-setting the deal business?). And that takes us back to the earlier article : *Deal Expired* : The death of daily deal sites in India and the road ahead. Given that Snapdeal is the…

  • Poll: Facebook IPO – Hot OR Not?

    Team PI
    16 May 2012 | 5:15 am
    Facebook is going public and its valuation is touted to be anywhere between X & Y. And then there are those who’ve been wondering about its value vs valuation. To give you an idea, Chris Dixon expects Facebook to hit $150Bn market cap in the next few months! What do you really believe? Take this poll (if you are reading this post on your feed reader, hop to the site and take the poll embedded on the right sidebar). ———– ———–

  • Backup your email with DropmyEmail : 650K Users in 2 months, 20% from India

    sinha
    16 May 2012 | 4:12 am
    Worried about losing all your email data? Well, Dropmysite, a Singapore based startup wants to ‘backup the Internet’ and Dropmyemail is their offering towards backing up one’s email. The freemium service is free till 500 MB usage and is charged at $9.99/year for 5GB usage. The service also support Exchange servers (not VPN though) and as far as the target audience is concerned, the team is focusing on consumers first and is working on a product for SME/enterprise needs. The Singapore based startup , Dropmysite has been started with a vision is to ‘backup Internet’ – and the first…

  • PayTM deal on TimesDeal grabs 70,000 mobile recharge orders in a day

    sinha
    16 May 2012 | 1:59 am
    PayTM recently did a deal on TimesDeal site enabling users to pay just Rs 50 and get a mobile recharge voucher from Paytm, worth Rs 100. The duo earlier did a similar deal, last year which resulted in 50,000 orders in a day (read: What Happens When You Give Rs.100 For Rs.50? Impact Of TimesDeal On PayTM). Paytm Traffic And the recent deal (on May 9, 2012) witnessed 70,000 orders in 1 day. As per the details shared with us – Timesdeal saw a huge traffic surge, with more than 3,00,000 unique visitors reported for that day (and the deal sold 70,000 orders in a single day, i.e. on May 9th).
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  • A Tribute to Bollywood Mothers

    15 May 2012 | 11:50 am
    Last afternoon I watched Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘Trishul’ on T V for one more time, having already seen it n number of times. It is one of Amitabh’s hey days’ super successful movies that stamped his angry young man image, already created by his previous hits such as Deewar and Zanjeer.  If you take a close look at all these successful films from the same genre, you will notice that apart from the action and the victory of good against evil there is one more important factor that played a very important role in all these films, that is MOTHER.The stereotypical mother from most of…

  • The Day Of Ma, Amma, Mummy, Aai, Ammi, Mother

    11 May 2012 | 11:24 am
    Mother’s Day is just around the corner…every retail store in US is trying to cash on this day, drown you in feelings of love for your mom, guilt of how you don’t give her back enough and encourage you to spend that cash you may or may not have to express your love and gratitude. But truly, what should this day really mean? Is it even possible to express your feelings by doing something special once a year for your mom? Now that I am a mother myself, I understand what being a mother means…it means putting your children’s happiness before your own. It means no matter how hard the day…

  • Aamir Khan's Satyamev Jayate - The Oprah Winfrey of Indian Television

    9 May 2012 | 11:05 pm
    Aamir Khan wants to be the Oprah Winfrey of Indian Television. This was the first thought that crossed my mind after watching Satyamev Jayate. The most awaited TV show was aired last Sunday on STAR TV. In anticipation of the show, hosted by none other than Aamir Khan, the television was tuned to the right channel about 10 minutes before the show began. Having twitter brained attention span, sometimes such measures are necessary. A spirituality show by the Brahmakumaris was on air and the talk was very uplifting as it gave specific steps to overcome negativity in life. Then came Satyamev…

  • Indian Income Tax Made Easy! Basic Definitions and Rules for NRIs (Part 1)

    4 May 2012 | 12:06 pm
    This article is made possible by TaxMunshian online provider of Indian Income Tax Returns (ITR) preparation and filing services. Click here to learn more. Income tax is a charge on Income earned in a financial year which starts on 1st April of a calendar year and ends on 31st March of the following calendar year. Under the Indian Income-tax Act, the word “income”, in addition to the common person’s understanding of the term, also refers to certain items of receipts and accruals which ordinarily would not have been treated as income in common…

  • YOGA To Stay Connected - With Yourself

    15 Apr 2012 | 10:34 pm
    What is amazing about our body is that our body communicates with us, by sending us specific signals.  Unfortunately, most of the time we tend to ignore them or pay minimal attention to them.  Gradually we take these dis-harmonies as normal rather than as signals to slow down and correct our ways. The result is lack of flexibility, stiffness and pain. As I was reading this article in one of the YOGA Journals, I was curious to know that how does one get to know that we are receiving these messages from our body? I continued my reading to find out the answer for my question.  And…
 
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  • Walkthrough of the Available SmartPhone Operating Systems – Their Advantages and Disadvantages

    Deepak Jain
    12 May 2012 | 1:29 pm
    If you are looking to upgrade-to or purchase a new smartphone, you must be already aware of the fact that there is plethora of smartphones available in the market with a couple of new ones adding up to the list everyday. On top of it, there are multiple number of mobile operating systems to choose from, that adds up to the chaos and confusion of a smartphone buyer. Whether you should go for the Google’s discovery – Android, and enjoy seamless multimedia on your phone; hook up with a blackberry to satisfy your need to flawlessly stay connected 24×7; or indulge yourself with…

  • Dear Readers We are Back

    Deepak Jain
    10 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Dear Readers, Its been almost 5 months since we published our last post here at Mobile Gyaan and our team members are well aware about your concerns regarding the inactive state of the blog. But be assured that we still have the same love for mobile phones, the blog and most importantly, you readers. It’s just that, because of some personal problems and unavoidable circumstances, we could not keep you updated with ‘Mobile Gyaan’. Moreover, our editor – Kartik got busy with some personal commitments too. But we are now back and have lined up several posts and surprises for you readers,…

  • How many Life’s does a Mobile Phone have?

    Kartik
    23 Dec 2011 | 8:02 am
    Note: This is a guest post by Srikanth of Priceshred.com, an online marketplace to sell and buy used mobiles. Are you are aware of the fact that a cat has nine lives? No, ain’t getting into a discussion if that’s a superstition or not, but that was the first thing that came to my mind when I learnt that even a mobile phone has nine lives i.e nine parts, each of which have different life-cycles. So, in short nine lives here too. The nine important and basic parts of a cell phone can be listed as below: 1.Circuit board 2.The LCD 3.Battery 4.Antenna 5.Keypad 6.Microphone 7.Speaker 8.The…

  • Benefits of Blackberry Services and Blackberry Phones in India

    Deepak Jain
    17 Nov 2011 | 4:37 am
    About Blackberry: Of late it has been noticed that Blackberry smart-phones and Blackberry mobile operating system have taken momentum in the market, owing to a large chunk of mobile operating systems’ pie.  In fact, as per reports of surveys by several organizations, Blackberry is the third most loved mobile operating system after Android and iOS. Well, this Blackberry’s growth phenomenon is not just limited to Canada – the country of its origin or in the United States. Even in India, more than 80% of elite Indian businessmen, bollywood celebs, cricketers and politicians are found…

  • Top Android Phones between Rs.10,000 to Rs.15,000

    Kartik
    21 Oct 2011 | 8:22 am
    In recent times, Google Android OS based phones are growing rapidly and majority of all handset manufacturers are basing their devices on this. Due to this emerging market trend, we have decided to reduce your confusion when it comes to purchasing these smartphones. In this article, we have included the top android phones in the price band of Rs.10,000 to Rs.15,000. In this budget, you get handsets with at least android 2.2(froyo), a decent processor and standard features such as Wi-Fi and 3G. Here is a list of what we consider as currently the top android phones in this price range: HTC…
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  • Gliding Center, Hadapsar Pune World Record Attempt 16 May 2012

    thetravellerss
    16 May 2012 | 12:22 am
    We are attempting a Guinness World Record, Limca Record & FAI Aero-sports Record all at the same time. Maximum number of Takeoffs & Landings in a Day by Visual Flight Rules (VFR) ie. Sunrise to Sunset. Those who want to participate in this event are most welcome to come to the Airfield (GCP) & encourage the pilots & get to fly during the record setting flights. We start at 0700hrs today 16 May 2012 until 1902hrs.   Do connect with the Gliding Centre Pune Group on FaceBook GCP Phone #: +91.20.26991012 / +91.20.26992048 GCP Location Map (Pune) | GCP Location Map (India)…

  • EXOTIC EXPEDITIONS The Ladakh & Kashmir Experience ( July 8th to 17th ‘ 2012 )

    thetravellerss
    15 May 2012 | 11:01 pm
    THE LADAKH EXPERIENCE ( July 8th to 14th ‘ 2012 KASHMIR EXTENSION ( July 14th to 17th ‘ 2012 ) An Overview : Ladakh & Kashmir have few peers for its sheer awe inspiring physical beauty and added to this the cultural richness and the warmth of the people makes it a truly amazing and memorable journey. Our Incredible journey starts in Leh where we acclimatize to the high altitude on the first day by resting and taking walks around the town and market place. On the second day the adventure starts with a monastic tour of some of the important monasteries of the region including…

  • Junglelore Ranthambhore and Bandhavgarh

    thetravellerss
    14 May 2012 | 11:39 pm
    Get to track the elusive cats as the summer sightings are at its best… Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. THE WILDERNESS AWAITS.. CLICK HERE to watch the legendary tigress MACHLI make a kill RANTHAMBORE: 13th – 17th June 27th – 01st July 2 Nights 3 Days 3 Safari Register There isnt a match to Ranthambhore in summers. The leafless Dhok trees, the scarce water, and the bold wild Tigers all bring forth amazing sights in erswhile royal hunting grounds of Ranthambhore. Definetly an experience of a lifetime in the making. Read More BANDHAVGARH: 26th…

  • The Wayfarers TONS TONNAGE – WEEKEND GETAWAY @ Mori Village, Uttranchal June 14

    thetravellerss
    14 May 2012 | 6:14 am
    Let get out of this blistering heat and get away for a week end in the month of June. June has no holidays at all so take some time off and enjoy the great Pauri Gharwal. The whole event will be for 2 nights at Mori village, on the banks of the river Tons. Day 0 – Leave from Delhi at Night for a great drive to the Mori village. The drive will be through Dhera dun, Mussori , Nain Bagh, Puroli and Mori Day 1 – Arrive at the camp for lunch. post lunch we go our first stretch of rafting, after rafting we settle down at the camp for evening tea and relax, bonfire and dinner Overnight…

  • Shalom Adventure First Gliding experience @ Nashik on 27th May.

    thetravellerss
    14 May 2012 | 6:11 am
    Location: Army Base. Timing: 5-7 min per flight. ONLY 25 MEMBER. Without any training or experience you can enjoy the flying like a professional and enjoy the breathtaking sites. Let the pilot do the work while you enjoy the ride, savoring the amazing experience of soaring over beautiful hills and fields like an eagle high up in the sky. The itinerary for the event is as given below: Meeting Point: Dadar (East) Station. Swami Narayan Temple at 9 AM Refreshment on our way. Lunch at Nasik city by 1 Flight timing 1530 hrs to 1900 hrs. The cost for the event will be Rs 1800/- per head, which…
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  • Jobs for Professors, Mining sirdar, Agricultural, Lecturer, Engineers & Medical Officers in HPPSC

    Kiran Singh
    15 May 2012 | 10:08 pm
    Posted by Kiran Singh for http://www.latestcurrentjobs.com/ Himachal Pradesh (HP) Public Service Commission (PSC) Nigam Vihar , Shimla-171002 (HP). Himachal Pradesh (HP) Public Service Commission (PSC) invites applications for the following post. Assistant Professor (Pathology) : [01 post] Mining Officer : [01 post] Agriculture Development Officer (Seed) : [01 post] Lecturer, Electronics & Communication Engineering : [03 posts] Lecturer : [02 posts] Assistant Engineer... [[ This is a content summary only. Please visit at http://www.latestcurrentjobs.com/ for full links, other content, and…

  • UCO Bank Jobs for Clerks

    Kiran Singh
    15 May 2012 | 10:06 pm
    Posted by Kiran Singh for http://www.latestcurrentjobs.com/ UCO Bank Personnel Services Department, Head Office -2, 3-4, DD Block, Sector - 1, Salt Lake, Kolkata - 700064. UCO Bank invites applications for the following post. Post :Clerk : [1000 posts] Payment : Rs. 7200-19300Age limit : 18 to 28 yearsFee : Rs. 100/ Last Date :16/05/2012 More Details : For more details please visit at : http://recruitment.ucobank.com [[ This is a content summary only. Please visit at http://www.latestcurrentjobs.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Senior Scientists, Principal Scientists & Other Jobs in ASRB

    Kiran Singh
    15 May 2012 | 10:06 pm
    Posted by Kiran Singh for http://www.latestcurrentjobs.com/ Agricultual Scientists Recruitment Board (ASRB) (Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)) Krishi Anusandhan Bhawan-1, Pusa, New Delhi-110012 Agricultual Scientists Recruitment Board (ASRB) invites applications for the following post. RMP : [03 posts] Payment: of Rs.37400-67000 RGP Rs.10000/-Age limit : 60 years Head of Departments (HoD) : [12 posts] Payment: of Rs.37400-67000 RGP Rs.10000/-Age limit : 60 years ... [[ This is a content summary only. Please visit at http://www.latestcurrentjobs.com/ for full links, other…

  • Vacancies for Management Trainees in Coal India Limited

    Kiran Singh
    15 May 2012 | 10:06 pm
    Posted by Kiran Singh for http://www.latestcurrentjobs.com/Coal India Limited (A Govt. Of India Undertaking) Coal India Limited invites applications for the following post. Post : Management Trainees : [1286 posts] Age limit : 30 years .Application Fee : Rs.500/- Where to Apply : Coal India Website from 21/05/12 to 11/06/2012. Last Date : 18/06/2012 More Details : For more details please visit at : http://www.coalindia.in [[ This is a content summary only. Please visit at http://www.latestcurrentjobs.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • HR, Public Relation Officer &Translator-cum-Proof Reader Jobs in MAHAVITARAN

    Kiran Singh
    14 May 2012 | 11:27 pm
    Posted by Kiran Singh for http://www.latestcurrentjobs.com/ Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Co. Ltd (MAHAVITARAN) Employment Advertisement No.MSEDCL-4/2012 The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MAHAVITARAN) invites applications for the following post. Junior Manager (HR) : [53 Posts] Public Relation Officer : [05 Posts] Translator-cum-Proof Reader : [02 Posts]Fee : Rs. 510/- for open category and Rs. 260/- for reserved category... [[ This is a content summary only. Please visit at http://www.latestcurrentjobs.com/ for full links, other content, and more!
 
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  • Stay In The Conversation

    Beau Lebens
    15 May 2012 | 6:01 pm
    It’s now much easier for you and your commenters to keep track of the conversations you’re involved in across WordPress.com. Some recent tests have shown that by subscribing commenters to new comments by default, they are more likely to stay engaged and come back and comment more on your blog. With that knowledge, we’ve changed the default comment following behavior to help you get more conversations going on your blog. We made the initial changes last week and after great feedback from you we just launched an update. Here’s how it works: By default, posting a comment…

  • Look at These Gorgeous Blogs

    Sheri
    15 May 2012 | 1:05 pm
    We’ve added a user showcase where you can view stunning customizations made by people just like you. From complete redesigns with CSS to adding pizzazz with Custom Fonts to clever use of options like background and header, this showcase will spark your imagination and inspire creativity. Discover details about what each showcase blog is doing with WordPress.com themes and customizations by clicking a thumbnail to see a colophon-style list of credits on the left. We’ve also updated footer links so blog owners can show off the types of customizations they’ve made and visitors can…

  • Photo Blogging 101, Part 1

    Erica V.
    14 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Spring is in the air. With the weather warming up, now is a great time to get started on a photo blog. Creating a photo blog is a wonderful introduction to blogging on WordPress.com or an opportunity to refresh your current site. Ready to get started? You can sign up for a new blog right over here. Getting started Photo blogs, sometimes called phlogs, use pictures instead of words. While many photo bloggers choose a type of photo that they want to focus on, such as portraits, others use their photo blog to document their life’s events. Photo blogs come in a variety of styles, including…

  • New Themes: Just Desserts and Oxygen

    Michelle Langston
    10 May 2012 | 8:11 am
    Happy Thursday! We’ve added some exciting new themes to our ever-growing collection, and we’re happy to tell you all about them. First out of the oven is…Just Desserts. Yep, that’s a theme! Designed by Andy Rutledge, Just Desserts is a deliciously stylish premium theme that’s perfect for blogs centered on food. With its responsive, single-column layout and unique presentation of images and posts on the front page, Just Desserts gives you a delectable canvas on which your mouthwatering photos and text can really shine — even when viewed on smaller mobile devices…

  • Find Friends Who Use WordPress

    Nick Momrik
    1 May 2012 | 2:32 pm
    Are you curious to see how your friends are using WordPress? Give the new and improved Friend Finder a try to connect with your Twitter, Facebook, and Google contacts who have WordPress sites! After authorizing WordPress.com to use your Twitter, Facebook, or Google account to find your friends (don’t worry — none of this account information is saved!) you’ll see a list of people you know who have WordPress sites. Click Follow and each time your friend publishes a new post it will show up in your Reader under Blogs I Follow. If you have multiple blogs, make sure to set the…
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  • Colorbar Introduces a Versatile New Lip Colour

    admin
    16 May 2012 | 9:11 am
    I’m Bold, Bright and Beautiful : Just ‘Take Me As I Am’ Colorbar Lip Colour Melt the heat away this summer with scorching hot pouters, as you sport the bold new lip colour from Colorbar. Take Me As I Am is unconditionally luscious, unconventionally adorable and absolutely different from anything you have ever used on your lips before. All it takes is one application to fall in love with the rich and creamy colour that blends in beautifully, offering the texture of a lipstick with the convenience of a pencil. Take Me As I Am, comes in 8 wickedly decadent shades of Sensuous Red,…

  • Lahori Food Festival at The Great Kabab Factory – Delectable Kababs from the bylanes of Lahore

    admin
    15 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Lahori Paneer Tikka Mumbai, May 15 2012: The Great Kabab Factory is an Indian specialty restaurant offering a unique dining experience. Using recipes combining the ancient with the contemporary, TGKF brings delectable kababs from all over the world to one table. At The Great Kabab Factory, one can experience mouth-watering kababs prepared in seven different styles, roasted on the tandoor or on a singhri, shallow-fried in a tawa or a mahi tawa, deep-fried in a kadhai, steamed in pots or even grilled on a stone. Join us for a Badshahi Dawat, a Lahori food affair where the cuisine is as diverse…

  • Get An Attractive Summer Makeover For Below Rs.999 With Tradus.in

    admin
    15 May 2012 | 7:43 am
    Tradus.in Summer Offers New Delhi, May 15, 2012: Summer fashion demands a wardrobe makeover and to help you with it, Tradus.in introduces an array of summer fashion products at the jaw dropping price of Rs.999 only! Now you can get everything from a cool cotton tee to a bottle of your favourite perfume brand, at not more than Rs.999 in an offer that lasts till 21st May only. Stock your wardrobe with summer essentials like casual tees, shorts, leggings, jeans and comfy nightwear and pajamas, sandals or slippers, smart sunglasses, trendy caps and hats and even your favourite perfume or deo,…

  • NCR launches Total Premise Services Expanding Innovation in India

    admin
    15 May 2012 | 7:37 am
    (From L to R) Sameer Sandhir, Vanessa Barcellona, Jaivinder Gill Financial, Retail and Travel companies can simplify their operations and reduce costs through a single service provider for all technology support MUMBAI, India, 9th May 2012– NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) introduced NCR Total Premise Services that leverage NCR’s innovative services infrastructure in India to help branch, retail store and airport operators simplify the management and operation of all equipment through a single point-of-contact, reducing costs while they focus on growing their business and improving the…

  • Beautiful Homes Start at HomeShop18.com – Unbelievable Discounts on Top Quality Rugs and Carpets

    admin
    15 May 2012 | 5:56 am
    Beautiful Homes Start at HomeShop18 New Delhi, 11th May, 2012: For those who find inspiration in the beauty of their home, Homeshop18.com –e-commerce leader in India has launched ‘A Sweeter Home’ offer. Customers can now buy top quality, branded carpets, rugs and mats at amazing discounts to give their home interiors a stylish and chic makeover. The new range of furnishings includes branded products from Riviera & Elysia – well known global brands in home furnishings, handlooms, rugs and mats. The products are made of handloom using mainly cotton or jute. According to…
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  • Taking a Blogging Break

    manish
    28 Apr 2012 | 1:59 am
    If you noticed lately you could hear the crickets chirping on this blog. I have not been as active and it’s not for a lack of things to write about. Honestly, I had a blog post lined up about ex-Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi and his insistence that the CD that made it’s way to the internet was doctored. If that CD was doctored and it was not really him, then Pixar needs to find and hire the guy for his amazing computer-generated imagery (CGI) skills. Anyways, the reason for the silence is because I’m in the process of writing a book. I just started the book and…

  • Co-pay for Financial Advisors?

    manish
    30 Mar 2012 | 1:21 am
    I think everyone can agree that making money is not easy, but what is even more difficult is managing it. One area within the financial services sector that is ripe for disruption is the multi-trillion dollar wealth management business. Even with all the gee-whiz technology of the internet, there has yet to emerge a company that has made a serious dent in this space. Of course, there is mint.com which aggregates all your financial data and then provides recommendations to you but doesn’t really help with the wealth management piece. The idea of having a wealth manager, financial…

  • Financial Regulations in Reverse

    manish
    16 Mar 2012 | 5:30 am
    There is a constant debate between financial services firms and government regulators over financial market regulations – over regulate them or let them run wild and free. If there are no financial regulations in place, you end up with what we have today – a highly unregulated derivatives market. The unregulated derivatives market led to the financial collapse of 2008 and the massive destruction of wealth, yet as of today there are still no guidelines in place to regulate this highly toxic market. On the other end of the spectrum is completing choking the market with financial…

  • India’s Innovator’s Dilemma?

    manish
    29 Feb 2012 | 1:04 am
    The term innovator’s dilemma is applied when talking about how a company handles disruptive technologies that could cannibalize their existing revenue streams. Innovator’s Dilemma is also the name of a book written by Clayton Christensen where the term originally came from. Kodak is a company that couldn’t handle the innovator’s dilemma and recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. As crazy as it sounds but Kodak actually invented the digital camera. However, it didn’t commercialize the technology because it couldn’t look past the highly lucrative camera…

  • White Hot Growth

    manish
    16 Feb 2012 | 9:40 pm
    Whether you are a CEO, sales guy or entrepreneur the fantasy of exponential growth is what we all strive for. However to experience white hot growth is a myth. Over the past 2 weeks I’ve been seeing headlines of the white hot growth of Pinterest. (Yes, it’s heralded as the next “big thing” but I have zero use for an online scrap book. That maybe a simplification of Pinteret but that’s not the point of this post.) Pinterest is the latest in a series of similar stories such as “XYZ is growing faster than Facebook did in its first 18 months” or…
 
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  • Ace actor Aamir, eager to meet Rajasthan CM after 1stepisode of SatyamevJayate.

    Shailesh Vyas
    9 May 2012 | 10:57 am
    We all know that Aamir’sSatymevJayate has been aired on last Sunday. In connection to that Aamir meets Ashok Ghelton on Wednesday; the episode highlighted the story of the two journalists who exposed the foetic cases in states such as Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. Post the episode, the government of Rajasthan had taken several actions to eradicate the doctors who are linked with sex determination tests and abortions. One of the senior officials of the CM office of Rajasthan told that, Aamir Khan is very eager to have meeting with the CM and also CM to get the case…

  • Self-talk improves your Cognitive abilities!!!

    Malvika
    9 May 2012 | 12:26 am
    It is said that the humans are the only living organisms that can’t stop talking to themselves. It can be crazy but self-talk can improve in creative thinking, perception, reasoning and judgment. General study suggests that, language is not only a form of communication but it more than that, such as augment thinking and perception which is also suggested by Physiologist Gary Lupyan from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Self-talk improves performance in any field, whether it may be business, sports, medicine or entertainment. When considering Karate or any martial art they have trained to…

  • Ruled out any rethinking on Vodafone tax issue: Pranab Mukherjee

    Malvika
    9 May 2012 | 12:22 am
    On Tuesday the government ruled out the rethinking on the issues made on Vodafone. Pranab Mukherjee, the Finance Minister in the Lok Sabha said a strong message that the multinational campaign against the Vodafone tax and he clearly stated that the India should never make the tax in such a way so as attract the foreign investment. He also emphasized that the parliament has the right to correct the judgment of the Supreme Court and to make any further amendments. He also added that the parliament will not allow the situation to avoid paying tax by operating them to the tax haven. There never…

  • Do or die game for both Dada (Pune team) and the wall Dravid (Rajasthan team) in IPL!!

    Shravan Vij
    8 May 2012 | 10:37 am
    Today we will be able to see the match between the two teams in the IPL i.e. Rajasthan and Pune. Already Rajasthan in 6th position and Pune in 8th position, both the teams are in inconsistent form, whichever team wins there will be healthy completion for the 3rd and 4th position. Concern for Dada is that Michael Clarkeopening is not consistent in batting line up, which makes Uthappa and Dada to take responsible in the middle order, though they are comfortable in chasing. On the other had Dravid’s team have lost consecutive 3 games, the concern is that they are too dependent on the captain…

  • Clash Between India’s Best openers Gambir(Kolkata team) and Sehwag (Delhi team) in IPL !!

    Shailesh Vyas
    7 May 2012 | 4:27 am
    Today we will be able to see the match between the top two teams in the IPL i.e. Delhi and Kolkata. Already Delhi in 1st position and Kolkata in 2nd position, both the teams are in excellent form, whichever team wins there won’t be much difference in the points table. Concern for Delhi is that Kevin Petersen’s absence will have slight impact in batting line up, which makes MahelaJayawardene to take responsible in the middle order, though they are comfortable in both batting and chasing. On the other had Gambhir’s team have won consecutive four games, the concern is that they are too…
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  • TAKE Solutions Included in Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s 2012 for the Second Consecutive Year

    LiveMango
    10 May 2012 | 4:37 am
    Leading Business Magazine Presents “100 Great Supply Chain Projects” Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Thursday, May 10, 2012 — (Business Wire India) — TAKE Solutions Ltd. [BSE: 532890 | NSE: TAKE], a leader in the Life Sciences and Supply Chain Management domains, today announced, its place in the 11th annual listing of the “Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 of the Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine”. The executive’s user manual for successful supply and demand chain transformation, highlighting “100 Great Supply Chain…

  • Frost & Sullivan to bring together Luminaries and Industry Experts at the 2012 Middle East Environment Industry Meet

    LiveMango
    10 May 2012 | 4:36 am
    The Frost & Sullivan Environment Excellence Awards will mark the finale of the meet Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, May 10, 2012 — (Business Wire India) — With economic development speeding up, water consumption and solid waste generation is touching new highs on a per capita basis in the Middle East. The Middle East governments are moving aggressively towards promoting water conservation, wastewater recycle and reuse, desalination, sustainable waste management solutions in order to maintain the burgeoning growth and minimize the impact on environment. The region holds…

  • Inspiring Speech by Narayana Murthy at the Graduation Ceremony of FORE School

    LiveMango
    10 May 2012 | 4:35 am
    XIX Annual Convocation of FORE School of Management, New Delhi, held on May 8th, 2012 New Delhi, Delhi, India, Thursday, May 10, 2012 — (Business Wire India) — Calling upon the graduating batch of FORE School of management, New Delhi, India’s most respected and powerful CEO of all times, Mr. N. R Narayana Murthy, urged the students to align personal objectives with the growth impulses of the country and to take up the responsibility of contributing to the society. In his inspiring and motivational speech, the Padmabibhusan award winner, Chairman Emeritus, Infosys Limited,…

  • Orc Provides Low-Latency Market Connectivity to Indian Exchanges

    LiveMango
    10 May 2012 | 4:34 am
    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Thursday, May 10, 2012 — (Business Wire India) – Orc, a leading provider of technology and services for the global financial industry, today announced new market gateways to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. (NSE). With India’s two major stock exchanges now supported via Orc’s trading technology, both domestic and international trading houses will be able to leverage Orc’s leading solutions to trade on both NSE and BSE from a single user interface. Orc is registered as a Foreign ISV with the NSE…

  • e Health Access – India’s first Virtual Healthcare Eco system

    LiveMango
    10 May 2012 | 4:33 am
    Connecting Doctors and patients through multiple Channels – Voice, Video, and Discussion Forums / Chat Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, Thursday, May 10, 2012 — (Business Wire India) — e Health access ( https://www.ehealthaccess.com) is formally launched today with an objective to provide easily accessible, usable and affordable health consultation to the individuals and corporates, 24/7. e Health Access Pvt. Ltd is an innovative healthcare company focused on developing a new healthcare eco system through advanced Telemedicine Technology. Founded by Mr. S. Jayadeep Reddy, e…
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  • What is the achievement ?

    Shekhar Lele
    12 May 2012 | 9:05 am
    In my last post, I talked about a few superficial changes, which really haven’t brought any significant alteration of situation in our country or perception about us in the minds of foreigners. Taking this forward, I wish to write on a few hyped activities, whose actual end result is far off what they aimed at achieving. Really Dirty ?? Film broadcasting guardians recently stopped the broadcast of a ‘Dirty‘ film , which was promised to be made less dirty by the broadcaster. The reason: Children should not watch dirty films with dirty dialogues before 11pm. Dear Guardian,…

  • Unfortunately no real change

    Shekhar Lele
    14 Apr 2012 | 8:51 am
    Someone has said that only thing that is permanent is change. Don’t deny that, but going by some of the recent events, one gets the feeling that only notional changes are in no way better than no change. It hurts when the change expected to bring in some real benefits turns out to be a mere superficial alteration in the scheme of things. Guns & Cartoons 34 year old Left government in West Bengal left our Bengal friends with no hop for the right things. They did what they can do, voted for the seemingly right party and left the left to bite the dust. All seemed well, momentarily. But…

  • At least spare this one

    Shekhar Lele
    5 Apr 2012 | 7:15 am
    In India, we have become quite used to witnessing quite a few amusing things from Government and its various agencies. Our reactions to such events have ranged from surprise to shock to frustration and even to indifference, owing to their frequent occurrences. However seeing a couple of events in the past few weeks makes one feel that at least these should have been handled better or wrong happenings related to them should have been avoided, owing to their criticality. Defence Tamasha India cannot defend well. No, I am not talking about cricket. It is about our country as a whole.

  • Single Common test. A boon or a bane ?

    Shekhar Lele
    25 Mar 2012 | 6:12 am
    The last CET for admissions to B schools in Maharashtra was held on 12th March. From next year, only Common Management Admissions Test (CMAT) scores will be considered for admissions to B schools in Maharashtra. In fact a single entrance test  for all management schools is now being considered by AICTE. A single test might also replace existing engineering entrance exams like AIEEE, JEE, state level CETs, etc in the not so distant future. With the pattern moving towards consolidation and de-fragmentation of entrance tests, let us understand the pros & cons of the same. Pros 1. Uniform…

  • Poll: On India’s performance down under

    Shekhar Lele
    8 Mar 2012 | 8:52 am
    Take Our Poll Filed under: General learnings
 
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  • KBC 6 Registration From 28th May, 2012

    Abhishek
    13 May 2012 | 11:39 pm
    KBC which is popularly known as Kaun banega Crorepati is back and recently Amitabh Bacchhan came up with a promo video and video looked pretty good. Now they have released date of kbc 6 rounds and they are as below. Question Date of KBC 6, 2012 Question              Lines open    [...]KBC 6 Registration From 28th May, 2012 is a post from: Loudable

  • New Samsung Galaxy S3 Price in USA with Launch Date

    Abhishek
    24 Apr 2012 | 9:02 am
    Every one is talking about the New samsueng galaxy s3 after the launch of their official website and now ceo of Samsung has cleared that it will be launched only in June and not before that. There was a teaser video and after that many blog have come up with the speculated features of Samsung [...]New Samsung Galaxy S3 Price in USA with Launch Date is a post from: Loudable

  • Cheap and Best Android Samsung Phones: Galaxy Pocket and Galaxy S Advance

    Abhishek
    18 Apr 2012 | 12:52 am
    Another addition to cheap and best phone in India and this time it is Samsung Galaxy pocket which comes with lot of features and comes with a cool price which will leave you amazed. Before we start writing this article we would like to inform you that we will try our best to be regular [...]Cheap and Best Android Samsung Phones: Galaxy Pocket and Galaxy S Advance is a post from: Loudable

  • Micromax Funbook vs HCL ME X1 vs HCL ME U1

    Abhishek
    5 Apr 2012 | 9:57 am
    Well yesterday Micromax Funbook was launched and today we are getting you comparison of Micromax Funbook vs HCL ME X1 vs HCL ME U1. All these tablet PC are amazing and come with many features and HCL ME U1 comes in the price of 7,499 INR which is pretty good and these are the few tablet [...]Micromax Funbook vs HCL ME X1 vs HCL ME U1 is a post from: Loudable

  • Micromax Funbook Features, Images, Rooting Guide, Buy online

    Abhishek
    4 Apr 2012 | 3:05 am
    Micromax has recently launched its tablet Funtab in India which is said to be the rival of HCL MEx1, Reliance tab and in this they have launched 7 inches tablet and this tablet PC are priced at Rs 6499 . Micromax Funbook is priced at Rs 6,499 and it comes with Ice Cream Sandwich ICS [...]Micromax Funbook Features, Images, Rooting Guide, Buy online is a post from: Loudable
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  • 5 reasons why you should hire a Professional Content Writing Agency

    Sandiip Porwal
    15 May 2012 | 9:12 am
    Recently a client of ours who is a fashion designer moved from being a freelancer to setting her service up as professional company. She was going through the motions of setting up an office, website design, online marketing budgets etc, when I asked her who was writing her content, she seemed surprised that I would even suggest a third person to write content for her business. After all, it was a service which used her expertise and who else could communicate her services better than her. So, why does anyone need a professional or a specialist to write website content? After all, any…

  • Google Plus gets a redesign – adds new features

    Vibhas Sen
    13 Apr 2012 | 3:44 am
    Close on the heels of our last blog post about how Google Plus is different from Facebook and its advantages for brands and internet marketing believers came another salvo from Google + by way of a renewed fresh approach to Design. The redesign makes it look better and easier to navigate around. “It accelerates our efforts to create a simpler, more beautiful Google,” Google Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra stated in a blog post announcing the redesign. Well some of the design elements echo the now familiar Facebook Timeline. Now you have a cover photo that spreads across the top of…

  • All about Google+ and how it’s different from Facebook

    Vibhas Sen
    11 Apr 2012 | 3:56 am
    Recently we have had a host of clients asking us about Google+. There is a certain buzz around and a definite discussion going on about who is better, Google+ or Facebook. Lots of news and information can be found in favour of both. I thought a small post on this would help. Google jumped into the social media wave with Google+. It can be called as an amalgamation of the social networking services that we have already used and continue to use; it’s just that Google aspires to do it better than most of the social networking sites and why not? It’s got the money and the people and a huge…

  • Pin Marketing – The Pinterest Way To Internet Marketing

    Shamoon
    6 Apr 2012 | 6:27 am
    Its amazing, I mean the pace at which users adapt to new ideas and drop them. Very few ideas make the cut and the new social idea that’s catching on is Pinterest. The name defines the product in a way – Pin all the stuff you find interesting so Pin your Interests. Pinterest is basically a photo sharing social networking site. It has a pinboard style layout and allows users to manage and create thematic collections of images and create theme image boards or Pin Boards. The basic agenda of the site is to connect people from all around the world via things that they find interesting.

  • Over Optimization eh! Yes Over-SEO may lead to trouble…

    Sandiip Porwal
    20 Mar 2012 | 10:15 am
    When Matt Cutts talks the Digital world listens. And why not, he is an important man for the SEO and SEM community. Recently, Matt disclosed that the search engine behemoth Google is working on a search ranking penalty for Websites and WebPages that are “over-optimized” or “SEO’ed too much.” This announcement came at a recently concluded panel discussion at SXSW named “Dear Google & Bing: Help Me Rank Better!” The SEO professionals and clients have a new learning. Google has been working on a new penalty that will target websites that over optimize pages for search…
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  • Thaamboola prasnam.

    kgopalan
    16 May 2012 | 9:24 am
    you are reqesting to find out kula deivam. what is your birth star/?. rohini is my birth star. to day is punarpoosam star. If it is your 3,5,or7th... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit the website for the topic, other content, and more! ]]

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    sankari murugan
    16 May 2012 | 8:43 am
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    kalyanaraman1940
    16 May 2012 | 6:59 am
    Dear members, Can any body suggest as to how to create password protected file/folder in my laptop.Thanks.Kalyanaraman. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit the website for the topic, other content, and more! ]]

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    16 May 2012 | 6:50 am
    Life is full of uncertainties and does not go in a straight line.There are number of responsibilities as a parent to be fulfilled and lots of dreams... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit the website for the topic, other content, and more! ]]

  • Fair Or Foul? India's Angkor Wat Replica

    prasad1
    15 May 2012 | 5:20 pm
    India Plans Angkor Wat Replica. India Plans Angkor Wat Replica (PHOTOS)... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit the website for the topic, other content, and more! ]]
 
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  • Implementing Spirituality

    Raj
    14 May 2012 | 9:37 am
    Extract from a superb article on “Living Life Consciously” written by Shri Vinod Menon in the may issue of the Art of Living magazine. Next, is to garner the Skills. You have to get professional skill, personal skill, and technical skills; Even in spirituality, it is very important to get technical expertise to implement spirituality. For e.g, you can drive a car only by learning to drive; your connectedness with Divinity does not allow you to drive a car without technical  skills. But connectedness with Divinity can make you a good driver. There is no way you can move in life…

  • cool life after advance course

    Raj
    29 Apr 2012 | 8:08 am
    Well, what do I say, the perils of leaving a comp with passwords saved. My younger one logged in and posted this. Will let it stay as is.

  • Where is God?

    Raj
    20 Apr 2012 | 8:25 am
    Someone asked Guruji (Sri Sri Ravishankar) in satsang today, “Whats your viewpoint on God?” The response a brilliant – “God is in every viewpoint”.

  • A Panic Attack / Depression is a Wake Up call

    Raj
    16 Apr 2012 | 7:54 am
    As someone who has been through Panic Attack’s – Matt’s story in this Fast Company issue resonated with me. Matt thought he was doing pretty well until he went to bed on a Sunday night and woke up the next morning thinking he was having a heart attack. His heart was racing, he was sweating like he was in a Monty Python movie, and he was freaking out. He jumped in his car and drove himself to the doctor’s office. Not the best idea to drive a car when you think you are having a heart attack, of course, but he needed help. After examining him, the doctor concluded that he wasn’t having…

  • Servant Leaders lead to make a difference in people’s lives

    Raj
    25 Mar 2012 | 7:01 am
    Bill Flint Jr, author of “The Journey to Competetive Advantage through Servant Leadership” mailed me a copy of his book, personally signing it with this beautiful sentence – “Raj, Servant Leaders lead to make a difference in people’s lives” and I thought this sentence pretty much nailed down what leadership is all about. A lot of folks have problem with the word “Servant” prefixed to Leadership and think this is really an oxymoron. On the contrary, as I have said before, the only authentic way to lead is to lead with heart, to lead with awareness, to lead…
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  • Blogging workshop @ OPA Juhu 19th may 2012

    Paul De
    16 May 2012 | 5:58 am
    Attend the Blogging workshop by Finelychopped http://www.finelychopped.net/ on Saturday 19th May 2012 . Finelychopped or theknife's blog gets 90,000 hits per month. Phone  9004060766 to register By the Extra Mile Cafe  http://www.extramile.incost 1500/-Royal Garden Hotel‎Juhu Tara Rd, JuhuMumbai, MH 400049022 2660 3516royalgarden.ws‎View Larger Map

  • Drawing Competition for Kids

    Paul De
    16 May 2012 | 5:09 am
    Drawing Competition for Kids, Winner's name & art to be published on our website. To participate & for more info call 7738409994SevenHills Hospital & HealthCity

  • Mumbai Wallbook is an activity where people come together & visualize Mumbai Sunday, May 20, 2012

    Paul De
    16 May 2012 | 2:20 am
    Tata Housing presents Mumbai Wallbook , an attempt to bring all artists together & create a wall painting activity based on a unique theme & an attempt to enter Limca book of records. For more info check link:https://sites.google.com/site/mumwallbook/http://www.facebook.com/MumbaiWallbookhttp://form.jotform.me/form/21244530325442You can contact and interact with us on our Facebook PageYou can mail us at wallbook@brandpromotions.netYou can talk to us directly by calling:0865267548508652674816

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    Paul De
    16 May 2012 | 2:16 am
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  • Bosco Caesar workshops @ Arts in Motion Dance Studios 21st - 24th May

    Paul De
    15 May 2012 | 9:02 am
    Arts in Motion Danceis proud to presenta week-long exclusive, intensive, & specially designed for AiM workshopwith the most sought-after, national award-winning choreographer-duo in Bollywood,BOSCO-CAESAR& their extremely talented company,The Bosco-Caesar Dance CompanyA not-to-be missed workshop for anyone who has watched their fabulous choreographies onscreen and danced to their sometimes awe-inspiring, sometimes jaw-dropping, yet alwaysendearing and ever-lasting signature moves.....called'HOOK UP WITH BOSCO CAESAR',this intensive workshop will focus on Bollywood dance in pure…
 
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  • Satyamev Jayate

    amreekandesi
    8 May 2012 | 6:36 am
    Aamir Khan’s new show Satyamev Jayate began this week amidst immense hype and scrutiny. By now a lot has been written and said about it, but i just had to write about it after watching the first episode last night. In case you haven’t watched it yet, the first episode of the show is available online. As I watched the episode in segments of 20 minutes each, I felt my eyes welling up. By the time the closing song finished, i had tears in my eyes. You know there are evils in our society, that female foeticide is rampant, but you casually brush it aside as just another of the problems…

  • From New Jersey, With Love

    saptarshi
    6 May 2012 | 1:04 am
    It all started on a summer afternoon in August. I was walking towards the university’s auditorium for the graduation walk along with a hundred other black robes, gowns and golden scarves (looking like the dance of death in The Seventh Seal). I was in elite company. Batch-mates who had completed semesters of internships in companies, had landed with lucrative jobs, gone on ocean cruises, brought their families across the world to witness their achievement, had driven in convertibles and dined on roof tops of skyscrapers. Among them was I, who had accidentally deleted a solitary copy…

  • The Coup That Wasn’t

    ananth
    23 Apr 2012 | 12:48 pm
    Messenger to Macbeth – As I did stand my watch upon the hill, I look’d toward Birnam, and anon, methought, The wood began to move. Thailand and Mali – countries that have had coups in recent times with several others showing remarkable potential. If you’ve wondered whether we had the potential to go that route, there are some important aspects to consider before being alarmist. The good news is that a large majority of Indians in a recent Hindustan Times Survey indicated that they didn’t think the army would overthrow the government. But for the 32% that believed that the…

  • Advertising Ka Jalwa

    Janhavi
    17 Apr 2012 | 8:00 pm
    ‘Please don’t go away. We will be right back after a ‘short’ break.’ Advertisements. Hate them or love them, you just cannot escape them. Every ten minutes, in the middle of a highly engrossing match or a TV show, you are subjected to random models or celebrities strutting their stuff across your screen, and urging you to buy products that you will never need to use. So whenever Priyanka Chopra poutily proclaims, ‘It’s not just a phone, it’s who you are,’ or Sachin declares that Boost is the secret of his energy, we have young boys and…

  • I Want To be A South Indian

    amreekandesi
    30 Mar 2012 | 3:13 pm
    I returned home from work today feeling quite happy about Friday and the lack of traffic jams en-route. I then logged on to Twitter like all normal people do these days as soon as they reach home. People were discussing this article by some Aakar Patel. The guy was on top of Twitter trends for the day. Needless to say, i had to read it to stay in sync with the happening crowd. Three minutes and twenty five seconds later, i was feeling ashamed of my life. The guy made me realize just how pathetic an existence we North Indians live. There’s hardly anything going for us northerners. …
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  • Fixed income Report: O India! Is that how it will beeee…!

    zyakaira
    16 May 2012 | 10:48 am
    Indian yields settled down to 8.5% comfortably after a run on the Indian bonds brought them back above 8.5% when the Dollar ran up a big 1% wall and kept the Euro from crashing in Indian trades. The recovery in rate sensitives may now have a stronger reason to yield to Export heavy businesses like Bajaj Auto and Infosys but whatever be your sectoral poison, the Indian markets will accept all inflows and the inflows will keep getting stronnger from these levels in the equities market. And though no one would bet on the Rupee’s recovery, the RBI would come in only once and thus that…

  • India vs China : ( A likes comparison) Chinese inflation ticks down to 3.4%

    zyakaira
    10 May 2012 | 9:36 pm
      China Premier Wen Jiabao deliver the Report on the Work of the Government at the Third Session of the Eleventh National People’s Congress on March 5, 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)   While Indian inflation is likely to step out of the sub 7% mark on the wholesale levels to more than 8% following the retail index, Chinese inflation ticked up to 3.4% leading to a reaction in the morning’s Asian opening. Chinese imports were up only 3% like for India at $37.9 bln with not just Oil but in India’s case two thirds of the Diamonds and Gems trade shutdown and Gold and…

  • India FDI Report (March 2012)

    zyakaira
    10 May 2012 | 11:16 am
    India’a FDI process received a tremendous boost in March after $2 bln flows in January and February, itself a fair score were boosted to $8 bln for March even as international media slips into a morass susing the Indian voice and using their ignorance of India to blindfold and then play with Economic Darts ( or half cooked $$art points). Hamersley Iron 20 class locomotive at 7 Mile Yard entrance, Dampier, Western Australia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) India is well provided with such munition for its unfriends starting with the 4% Current Account Deficit and the double digit depreciation…

  • Happy Thursdays! A touchy feely doozer on the Bank Nifty

    zyakaira
    10 May 2012 | 3:37 am
    Is it the May series with a special corner for Shorts on the Indian index or is there another carry home from this battering of the index this week? The battering of the Rupee is incomplete and mainly destroyed by the political risk people carry when they see India. but another reason obviously is that there are about 300 scrips to choose from as one chases quality and the half of them that are the best have already reachedd FII investment limits. But that’s just me. I think the markets are tremendously undervalued right now but everyone is too worried about entering into the Buy mode…

  • India Currency Report / Fixed Income Report – Indian Trade Data – April 2012

    zyakaira
    10 May 2012 | 2:53 am
    India gets to consolidate the new $300 bln a year target with just under $25 bln in Exports in April and thankfully Imports started off at a low rate keeping to $37 bln for a $12 bln deficit even as EEFC restrictions / conversion of $2.5 bln into rupees shored up the dollar earlier in the morning Yields are already below 8.5% for a target and will likely range to a 8.75% mark at the most liquidity unchanged from last week. June is likely the bbig Oil import month though that is pure speculation. India is doing fine in Cotton exports to China for a few days yet,  Dollar should have…
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  • Macher Matha Diye Mung Dal – Yellow Lentil with Fish Head

    Sudeshna Banerjee
    14 May 2012 | 7:36 pm
    Fan us on FacebookYou can also Subscribe to BengaliCuisine by Email Since I came to US, I had been travelling. All thanks to Kalyan and his job, I had visited 5 states in a span of 3 months. The latest was a visit to the city of dreams – New York City. It was a 8 day trip with work for K and travel for me, and I made the best use of the time. Travelled almost every part of the city from Harlem in upsate New York to the Liberty Island down South. Tasted the roadside pretzel (which I hated, sorry to say), chicken gyro, hot dogs and also the different cuisines in the much talked about…

  • Bhalobashar Tilmil – Soya Cake Appetizers

    Sudeshna Banerjee
    4 May 2012 | 2:38 pm
    Fan us on FacebookYou can also Subscribe to BengaliCuisine by Email Arranging for a party this weekend and searching for the best appetizer to go with your favourite drink – try these soya cake nuggets. The juicy sweet and spicy nuggets will definitely be the star of your next party. Our guest author Chndrani Chakraborty like to call her Bhalobashar tilmil. These soya cake nuggets are easy to prepare and is ready in less than 2 minutes. Chandrani is a homemaker who stays in Poland. She uses the ready-to-cook soya cakes, KOTLETY SOJOWE. If you don’t find these in your neighbourhood…

  • Kumro Chingri Boti – Shrimps in Mashed Pumpkin

    Sudeshna Banerjee
    26 Apr 2012 | 3:34 pm
    Fan us on FacebookYou can also Subscribe to BengaliCuisine by Email Kumro or pumpkin is one of the most used vegetables in Bengal. From just boiled pumpkin with a dash of mustard and salt with warm white rice or chachori (type of Bengali curry) – it has its grand position. Generally pumpkin is used in vegetarian curries, but exceptions make the rule. A post in BongMom Cookbook website compelled me to try this recipe. If you are somewhere outside India, I think getting hold of a nice sweet pumpkin is little tough unless you visit an Indian store. So, you can try the same with butternut…

  • Chanar Dalna – Homemade Bengali Cottage Cheese Curry

    Sudeshna Banerjee
    24 Apr 2012 | 3:20 pm
    Fan us on FacebookYou can also Subscribe to BengaliCuisine by Email Paneer is a household name in almost every Bengali family now. When it comes to having vegetarian platter a paneer preparation is always there; be it an occasion or just a simple dinner. But, even a decade back paneer was not that readily available. The next best option was to make paneer at home. The paneer that is available in the market is processed and mixed with other binding agents like flour along with curdled milk to give it a tougher texture. The one that is made at home is softer and doesn’t have flour. This is…

  • Comfort Food – Dahliya Khichudi

    Sudeshna Banerjee
    20 Apr 2012 | 3:56 pm
    Fan us on FacebookYou can also Subscribe to BengaliCuisine by Email When you are sick and tired to the rich and spicy food, there’s nothing better than to have a wholesome comfort food. Even psychological studies show that when you consume comfort food it picks up positive emotions and also relieves from negative mental affects. Comfort foods can be anything that you had while growing up or even that had some sentimental values attached. When I’m tired and lazy to cook, khichudi is that one thing that I hold close. Khichudi reminds me of those rainy nights, the continuous sound of the…
 
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  • The queens of the hills

    Mahindra Homestays
    14 May 2012 | 5:44 pm
    Guest blogger Mariellen Ward shares her experiences and photographs of Simla and Darjeeling with us. The first time I travelled in India, in 2005-06, I arrived with a treasure trove of fantasies and ideas about India — and my expectations were high. I knew about the fairytale desert forts, the sacred pilgrimage sites, the monumental metropolises and, of course, the quaint hill stations, fabled relics of a bygone era. Every hill station in India lays claim to being the “queen of hill stations” and I am sure they all have their charms. I haven’t been to all of them, just…

  • WIN a three week tour of India with our photography contest

    Mahindra Homestays
    13 May 2012 | 5:42 pm
    If you are a keen photographer with an eye for a great photo then don’t miss out on the opportunity to win a three week photographic commission tour around India with our travel photography contest on Facebook. Perhaps no other country is as photogenic, as multidimensional India. From ornate temples to crumbling fortresses, bustling spice markets to tranquil yoga retreats and population packed metropolises to quiet hill stations; India is a country of contrasts. Packed with colour and inquisitive people, India is a travel photographer’s dream destination. If you are the lucky…

  • Winners of our Homestay Holiday Auction weeks three and four

    Mahindra Homestays
    10 May 2012 | 7:41 pm
    We are pleased to announce the remaining winners of our Homestay Holiday Auction contest. The prize for week three was a trip to Nainital, a hill station in North India. Once again we were looking for the lowest unique bid to secure the holiday. The lucky winner was Manoj Kumar Aggarwal from New Delhi with a bid of 14 Rs. Manoj, pictured above with his family, was delighted to be declared our week three winner. He said, “When I found the holiday auction contest for Mahindra Homestays on Facebook I started to dream of a vacation, now winning the contest has made that vacation a reality. The…

  • The top 25 scenic train routes in India

    Mahindra Homestays
    8 May 2012 | 8:56 pm
    Guest blogger Arnab Maity shares his article looking at the 25 most scenic train routes in India with us. Not too many countries on earth have a state budget made separately for the Railways, neither have they inspired authors and film-makers for ages. The Indian Railways, carrying 30 million passengers and joining 65,000 km of India, isn’t unique only for these numbers, but for the diversity it carries along. It joins the length and breadth of India and touches her heart like no one else does. Probably the best way to see India is by taking a train ride, sneaking into her undiscovered…

  • Travel tips: Hiring a car with driver in India

    Mahindra Homestays
    6 May 2012 | 3:00 pm
    Exploring a 3 million km network of roads might sound quite inviting, but in India it comes with a caution. Being able to absorb a destination in your own time and space, rather than being reliant on a waiting cab or public transportation schedules is definitely appealing and in many countries, it is easy to get off the plane and hire a self driven car almost immediately. However the roads and driving practices in India are not for the faint hearted and coping with the traffic and being able to proficiently veer away from stray cows, dogs and manoeuvre past pot-holes might be quite…
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  • Can one's self defense not be perceived by another as provocation?

    Hariharan Valady
    12 May 2012 | 11:21 am
    The SIT closure report on the Gulbarga Society massacre case records in the first page that a huge mob of 20,000 Hindus had assembled near Gulbarga Society on February 28, 2002 with the intention of damaging properties, shops and houses of Muslims as well as Mosque/ Madarsa and that late Ehsan Jafri fired from his private licensed weapon in self defense causing injuries to 15 persons. Read further my post in The Hoot....

  • Hindustan Times’ selective presentation

    Hariharan Valady
    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    The final report of amicus curiae, Raju Ramachandran on the Gulbarga Society case was made public when the closure report of SIT was handed over to Ms. Zakia Jafri on May 7, 2012. While it was described variously as ‘setback’, ‘jolt’ for Modi, it is interesting to see how Hindustan Times misrepresented the views of amicus curiae while presenting ‘What Ramachandran Report says: Edited extracts of amicus curiae Raju Ramachandran’s observations on the findings of the SIT.’ The HT report lists the allegations one after another followed by the findings of the…

  • Selecting the President

    Hariharan Valady
    5 May 2012 | 1:10 am
    In this era of coalition politics where the national parties do not have the requisite numbers in the collegium meant for electing the President and there is uncertainty over support from coalition partners, a new recipe is increasingly becoming popular for making the President of India- Drop a dozen names in the media; stir it with the conflicting views of the ruling alliance, the Opposition parties, and the intelligentsia; filter out the 7-8 which meet stiff resistance from all quarters; cook the remaining 4-5 in the whims of real senior leaders of parties; spice them up generously…

  • Social media: not the only culprit

    Hariharan Valady
    29 Apr 2012 | 12:18 am
    Though Abhishek Manu Singhvi’s associate got an injunction from the High Court, the CD, allegedly depicting him and a female lawyer in an inappropriate act surfaced in the social media- not just surfaced, as most of the media described it, it ‘went viral’. Justice Katju condemned the irresponsible social mediaand wrote to Ms. Ambika Soni asking her ministry to take appropriate steps to restrain social media from indulging in such reprehensible acts in future.  "It is obvious that the adage 'be you ever are so high, the law is above you' does not apply to any social…

  • Journalist Chapter-25

    Hariharan Valady
    19 Apr 2012 | 7:18 am
    When Uma tried to open the door with her key, she found that the door was locked from inside. What happened? Had Vidya not left yet? She pressed the bell. No response. She pressed again. No response. Was everything alright? Anand also got worried. She was about to press the bell for the third time when Vidya opened the door. It appeared that she had just woken up. “Vidya….were you sleeping? You know what time it is now?” She released a long yawn while nodding her head. Anand laughed. “Vidya…you take bath. I’ll prepare lunch for you. We had our lunch in the marriage.” She went to…
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  • Stylish Laptop Skin + Free Keyboard Protection @ just Rs. 299

    16 May 2012 | 7:01 am
    Stylish Laptop Skin + Free Keyboard Protection @ just Rs. 299 http://dealtz.com/dailydeal MRP : 549 Rs Offer Price : 299 Rs You Save : 250 Rs i.e., 45.54 % Discount Hurry Offer Limited! This is valid only till 18th May, 2012, 6 pm

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    16 May 2012 | 3:06 am
    Buy US Polo T-Shirt Combo Worth Rs. 3249 Just at Rs. 549 on Seventymm Steps to Buy: 1. Visit Seventymm and Choose the Product 2. Buy at Rs. 599 , Add to Cart 3. At the Time of Checkout Apply the Coupon Code 50TYR5MM and Get Extra Rs. 50 off This Coupon is Valid on Purchase of 500 and Above Click to Get the Deal

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    16 May 2012 | 1:57 am
    Get Ben 10 Stationary set(6 pcs) Worth Rs. 649 at Just 499 on FashionAndYou The Set Includes: - Lunch Box - Water Colors - Bottle - Crayons - Pencils - Pencil box From House of Disney – a brand that creates a line of products which meets quality and value standards important to parents, while at the same time appealing to kids. Click to Get it For Your Kid

  • Belkin Car Charger: AC Anywhere @ Rs. 1399

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  • Flaws in ISEET, an analysis on MHRD Proposal on common engineering entrance- Sanjeev Sanghi, Professor, IIT Delhi

    team
    16 May 2012 | 11:22 am
    Here is a presentation of an analysis done by IIT Faculty Forum on ISEET , the common engineering entrance exam proposed by Ministry of Human Resources Development. The presentation is done by Sanjeev Sanghi, Professor , Applied Mechanics at IIT Delhi and President of IIT Faculty Forum. The major technical flaws pointed out in the presentation are: 1. The main thrust of the proposal is the inclusion of class XII board performance in arriving at the final rank. The weightage given to this would be at least 40%. There are several flaws with this: a. In the Ramasami Committee Report, the…

  • Three wrong questions in AIEEE-2012 offline question paper

    team
    16 May 2012 | 7:18 am
    Reportedly there were 3 wrong questions in AIEEE 2012 question paper conducted on 29th Apr 2012 and were subsequently confirmed by the board. One question was from Physics section(Q No. 17) and remaining two were in Mathematics section(Q No. 66 and 85). In all three questions there were some printing mistakes and students wasted lot of their time on these questions before they could be sure that questions were wrong. Confirmed decision on grace marks for these wrong questions has yet to be taken by Board. One teacher told that usually in this case, only those students are awarded marks who…

  • Wrong Questions in EAMCET 2012, No free marks to Medical students

    team
    16 May 2012 | 4:44 am
    There are total 6 wrong questions in EAMCET 2012 question paper conducted on 12th May 2012, three questions in engineering and 3 questions in medical stream. Engineering students will either get free marks or questions will be deleted but for medicine stream student will not get any free marks, they will get marks only if they have chosen any of two correct options. The decision on awarding grace marks or deleting the wrong questions for engineering students will be taken by the EAMCET Committee later, said N.V. Ramana Rao, the EAMCET-2012 Convenor. Wrong questions in Engineering stream:…

  • Update on IIT JEE 2012 ,all wrong questions could be deleted

    team
    16 May 2012 | 2:37 am
    It is known to everyone now , in the IIT JEE answer key released by IIT Delhi , two questions were wrong and two more questions in Physics paper had more than one correct answer, one had two correct options while one had four correct answers and earlier the JEE Panel decided to give zero marking for the questions and no negative marking for the questions with multiple correct answers. Amid lot of confusion among students and great disappointment for the students who attempted those questions, IIT JEE panel is thinking to delete all the four questions. Though this decision will effectively…

  • IIT JEE 2012 result is not out but coaching schools are ready with their list of toppers

    team
    15 May 2012 | 9:28 pm
    This year, for the first time, the answer keys were published on the IIT official website after students demanded more transparency in the examination process. Till the last year, answer key was announced after the result announcement. Dr GB Reddy IIT JEE-2012 organizing chairman said “This system was introduced mainly to bring about more transparency” On the basis of this answer key coaching institutes conducted a nationwide survey to get a sense how much other students have scored to claim Top-3 ranks. FITJEE is claiming 3rd rank for their student Nishanth N Kaushik. Sameeran Choudhary…
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    Drishtikone.com - All Perspectives

  • Tata Motor’s “Air Car” – now in 2nd phase of Development

    D Kapoor
    14 May 2012 | 1:46 pm
    World’s first Air car may be on its way in the coming years.  As discussed earlier, Tata Motors had signed a license agreement in Jan 2007 with Motor Development International (Luxembourg) to use their Compressed air technology to power the cars. Now a press release from Tata Motors says the first phase (proof of the technical concept in Tata Motors vehicles) has been completed successfully.  Now the second phase in underway – (completing detailed development of the compressed air engine into specific vehicle and stationary applications). In the coming years, the company hopes…

  • 10 million Indians want to emigrate to US

    D Kapoor
    12 May 2012 | 11:38 pm
    Most people are not satisfied with where they are. They would like to move out of their present countries to “greener pastures”. It seems of all the destinations in the world, US of A is the most desired. 150 million of the world’s adults would like to move to US. Other desired countries are UK (45 mn), Canada (42 mn), France (32 mn), and Saudi Arabia (31 mn). Of those wanting to come to US, maximum are from China (22 million), India (10 mn), Brazil (7 mn), Nigeria (15 mn), Bangladesh (8 mn). There was a time when the Westerners moved all the way in search of opportunities…

  • My Restless Being

    D Kapoor
    12 May 2012 | 11:17 pm
    My being is restless scared longing. In body it wants to expand Disembodied, it looks for a home. Today I felt the unsettled chaotic restlessness of it all. Work is needed for peace in the being a stillness a being of this being beyond its urge to become a being that stills beyond this life and death.  

  • Ridiculousness of Campaign against Isha by some Houston groups

    D Kapoor
    5 May 2012 | 4:09 pm
    For last 5 months, I have worked to promote a program called Inner Engineering by Sadhguru. I am just one volunteer and on this blog I don’t carry any brief from the organization. I have always written what to me is important with utmost frankness. And that is exactly what I intend to do this time as well. This volunteering time for me is one of the most significant, because when you meet people with unbeatable commitment against all odds, that could easily put normal people through tremendous misery – you see life in ways you didn’t know about. More importantly, it humbles…

  • From India Shinning to India Suffering

    D Kapoor
    1 May 2012 | 3:25 pm
    Amidst the cool confidence of the Indian professionals and businesses, India’s economy and outlook seems to have taken a nosedive.  By most signs, India Shinning is become India Suffering! In November, a Firstpost article had asked the question “Is Manmohan taking us back to 1991 external mess?”  The question seemed to have popped out of nowhere.  On hindsight it seems, it was a very timely question. Basically it argued that the Current account deficit was huge and likely to be covered by Capital Inflows, which were not loyal or long term. The reason: with the rupee…
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  • Mohit Mitoo on cloud Nine after meeting Amitabh Bachchan

    Tv Masala
    16 May 2012 | 8:37 am
    Mohit Mitoo (Bitoo of Zee TV’s Mrs. Kaushik Ki Paanch Bahuein) is all smiles these days after his brief professional encounter with the legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan. They shot together for an advertisment, directed by R. Balki.

  • Sandhya and Meenakshi Rathi to shake a leg

    Tv Masala
    15 May 2012 | 10:30 am
    Sandhya aka Deepika from Star Plus’s Diya aur Baati Hum who is trying to survive her marriage with on-screen husband Sooraj aka Anas, will soon be seen shaking a leg with her Jeethani, Meena aka Kanica.

  • Barun to go missing from Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon

    Tv Masala
    15 May 2012 | 8:40 am
    Bollywood calling, A statement that many of televisions finest and popular actors stumble upon regularly. While their foundation of stardom is laid through the medium of TV, many find it attractive to leave their base and find themselves a place in Bollywood. Added to the list, most recently is Barun Sobti who is popularly known as Arnav Singh Raizda of Star Plus's “Is Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon”.With a lucrative bollywood offer, the actor has asked the production house for a 40 day leave so as to be able to shoot for his new venture titled, “ Main aur Mr Right” with Shehnaz Treasurywala.

  • Masti between Raghav and Mithunda on DID Li’l Masters

    Tv Masala
    14 May 2012 | 8:02 am
    The nation’s most beloved dancer ‘Crockroaz’ (aka Raghav) from Dance India Dance 3 might just be on the next flight back to his hometown Dehradun if Grand Master Mithunda has anything to say about it. From being dada’s favourite, it seems that Raghav has managed to irk Mithunda to the extent that it might just earn him a seat on the next flight back to his hometown, Dehradun.

  • Shaleen gets emotional

    Tv Masala
    10 May 2012 | 11:08 am
    Shaleen Bhanot aka Ranveer from Star Plus’s Sajda Tere pyaar mein who plays an undercover agent is actually a very emotional person in real life. Recently during a visit to an orphanage in Bhopal the actor who is very fond of kids got very emotional.
 
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    Dubai Hotels, Restaurants, Bars & Clubs - What is Happening in Dubai

  • Friday brunch at Mina A’ Salam

    Dubai Night Planner
    7 May 2012 | 5:58 am
    TIMING: 12.30pm to 4pmCUISINE: InternationalDRESSCODE:Smart/CasualThe exquisite special Friday brunch at Mina A’ Salam is complemented by an extensive beverage menu and live entertainment, when every guest can experience culinary perfection. Younger guests enjoy a host of fun activities in a designated children’s area. For more details:http://www.dubainightplanner.com/Outlet.aspx?OID=926&t=THE-FRIDAY-BRUNCH-AT-MINA-A-SALAM--Brunch-Jumeirah-Dubai

  • Certo Restaurant Dubai

    Dubai Night Planner
    6 May 2012 | 3:27 am
    Certo Restaurant Dubai@ Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai Media CityTIMING: 12.00pm to 3.30pm, 7pm to 11.30pmDRESSCODE:Smart/CasualThe award-winning Certo serves up a mouth-watering array of traditional Italian specialties, from homemade antipasti and pastas to pizzas baked in a wood-fired oven. For more details:http://www.dubainightplanner.com/Outlet.aspx?OID=132&t=Certo-Restaurants-Dubai-Media-City-Dubai

  • The Pub Bar Dubai

    Dubai Night Planner
    6 May 2012 | 2:50 am
    The Pub Dubai@ Radisson Blu Hotel, DeiraTIMING: 12pm to 4pm ;7pm to 12amCUISINE: Bar FoodDRESSCODE:Smart/CasualThe Pub is informal, cosy English Pub house features mouth-watering traditional British favourites. The bar's relaxed atmosphere and superb happy hour make it an ideal after-work hangout.For more details:http://www.dubainightplanner.com/Outlet.aspx?OID=733&t=The-Pub-Bars-Deira-Dubai

  • La Moda Japanese Restaurant Dubai

    Dubai Night Planner
    6 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    La Moda Dubai@ Radisson Blu Hotel, DeiraTIMING: 12:30 - 15:30; 19:30 - 23:30CUISINE: JapaneseDRESSCODE:Smart/CasualAn award-winning, market-leading restaurant, La Moda serves fine Italian cuisine and is frequented by the Dubai elite.For more details:http://www.dubainightplanner.com/Outlet.aspx?OID=728&t=La-Moda-Restaurants-Deira-DubaiFind more Japanese restaurants in Dubai and more cuisine restaurants in Dubai at Dubainightplanner.com.

  • Boulevard Gourmet Restaurant Dubai

    Dubai Night Planner
    6 May 2012 | 1:21 am
    Boulevard Gourmet Dubai@ Radisson Blu Hotel, DeiraTIMING: 08:30 - 22:00 (Mon - Sun) 09:00 - 22:00 (Fri)CUISINE: Light FareDRESSCODE:Smart/CasualSatisfy a sweet tooth at this cake, pastry and sweets shop. From delicious chocolates and cakes to the most indulgent pastries and sweets, this shop offers all of the beloved favourites. Ask about the regular promotions and special cake-making service at Boulevard Gourmet.For more details:http://www.dubainightplanner.com/Outlet.aspx?OID=737&t=Boulevard-Gourmet-Restaurants-Deira-Dubai
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    The Daily News Post India

  • Android’s new apps ‘Firefox beta & instagram’

    TDNP
    16 May 2012 | 9:26 am
    Firefox beta promises that it boots faster. The revamped or the upgraded UI screen is called the awesome screen and it is loaded with the top site by default

  • Lara’s new kid!

    IANS
    16 May 2012 | 8:38 am
    LAaa Dutta reveals her pre natal fitness DVD and says she is in no hurry to lose weight

  • Aditi game to go bold!

    IANS
    16 May 2012 | 8:19 am
    Actor Aditi Rao Hydari says she will not mind doing bold roles if the script is good

  • Mary Kom out of Worlds, still in Olympic race

    IANS
    16 May 2012 | 4:05 am
    Qinhuangdao (China), May 16 (IANS) India's premier boxer M.C. Mary Kom was knocked out of the World Boxing Championships after losing to Nicola Adams in the quarterfinals of the 51 kg category here Wednesday.

  • Mumbai Indians opt to field against KKR

    IANS
    16 May 2012 | 4:05 am
    Mumbai, May 16 (IANS) Mumbai Indians won the toss and decided to bowl against Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League here Wednesday. Teams: Mumbai Indians: Herchelle Gibbs, Sachin Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma, Dinesh Karthik, Ambati Rayudu, Dwayne Smith, Kieron Pollard, Harbhajan Singh (captain), Lastih Malinga, RP Singh, Munaf Patel
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