Posted by: Prem Kumar
on Jul 28, 2010
Vodafone Essar Ltd. unveiled a solar-powered mobile phone Tuesday that it hopes will appeal to India's rural masses who lack electricity.
India has been adding close to 20 million mobile subscribers each month, but many are in rural areas where electricity supply can be patchy at best. A third of Indians don't have access to electric power, but they do get plenty of sun.Samsung, which launched a solar-powered handset about a year ago, and now Vodafone are trying to bridge the infrastructure gap.
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on Jul 13, 2010
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The prestigious Time magazine has apologised to Indian-Americans following the publication of a column by journalist Joel Stein which offended and outraged the large community, especially those in New Jersey.
"We sincerely regret that any of our readers were upset by Joel Stein's recent humour column 'My Own Private India.' It was in no way intended to cause offence," the Time magazine said after large number of Indian-Americans demanded an apology from the magazine and the columnist.
"I truly feel stomach-sick that I hurt so many people," responded Stein, who in his column 'My Own Private India' gave his own impression of how his home town of Edison in New Jersey has changed over the years with the desi influx.
Nearly one in every five resident of this New Jersey city are Indian Americans; thus making it one of the few such cities in the United States.
"For a while, we assumed all Indians were geniuses. Then, in the 1980s, the doctors and engineers brought over their merchant cousins, and we were no longer so sure about the genius thing. In the 1990s, the not-as-brilliant merchants brought their even-less-bright cousins, and we started to understand why India is so damn poor," Stein wrote in the issue dated July 5.
"Eventually, there were enough Indians in Edison to change the culture. At which point my townsfolk started calling the new Edisonians 'dot heads'. One kid I knew in high school drove down an Indian-dense street yelling for its residents to 'go home to India'," Stein wrote.
Indian-Americans also launched an online petition demanding Time and CNN to remove the article from their online edition.
"Such prestigious magazine like Time should not have allowed such an article to be published in the first place. We respectfully request Time magazine to remove the article from the web and have Mr. Joel Stein write an apology letter that shows some remorse," the petition said.
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on Jun 27, 2010
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A team led by an Indian-origin professor has devised a method of using mobile phones for conducting eye tests, a technique it hopes will be useful in places lacking hi-tech eye equipment.
The device, called NETRA, which means eye in Hindi, has been designed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab associate professor Ramesh Raskar, visiting professor Manuel Oliveira, student Vitor Pamplona and postdoctoral research associate Ankit Mohan.
The two-minute eye test can be carried out using a small plastic device clipped in front of a cellphone's screen.
The patient looks into a small lens, presses the phone's arrow keys until sets of parallel green and red lines just overlap. The process is repeated eight times with the lines at different angles for each eye.
The entire process takes less than two minutes after which the software loaded in the phone provides prescription data.
"Our device has the potential to make routine refractive eye exams simpler and cheaper, and, therefore, more accessible to millions of people in developing countries," Oliveira said in a statement.
The technology takes advantage of the huge improvements over the last few years in the resolution of digital displays and their widespread proliferation on cellphones.
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on Jun 18, 2010
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on Jun 14, 2010
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Mumbai, Maharashtra, June 21, 2010 — Will you miss a chance to win Rs 10 lakhs? Just watch ‘Hotel Hollywood’ in Theaters starting 23 July 2010 and identify a four digit numerical code embedded in the film. The film is inspired by true events and exposes a huge cover-up by American Government surrounding an incident involving an Indian wedding party in Los Angeles. The first trailer of the movie, which has been produced by Gurdeep Singh productions, while being marketed by Net Effect Media, will be unveiled in almost 1000 screens this month.
“Hotel Hollywood” is the story of an Indian wedding party which checked into a Los Angeles Hotel and was not found again! The film dares you to witness the shocking truth! We are proud to present the first look to a worldwide audience,” said Kapil Sethi, CEO of Net Effect Media. United States based film-maker, Param Gill has directed the film. Param is fresh from the success of his hollywood film,”Rockin Meera” which made a huge mark on the festival circuit and generated more than half million dollars on American screens last fall. When asked about his inspiration behind,’Hotel Hollywood”, Param said,”I wanted to make a first rate thriller for Indian audience which could strike a chord with mainstream audience and the regional markets. It stars fresh faces Mehr Hassan, Arsh Singh and Rahul Nath. ‘Hotel Hollywood’ has music has music by Shyam Vai, cinematography by Mathew Boyd and special effects by Hollywood’s Richard Miranda who has worked with the likes of Steven Speilberg. Now thats something definitely worth watching!!
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on Jun 11, 2010
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Varanasi , also commonly known as Benares or Banaras or Banāras and Kashi, is a city situated on the banks of the River Ganges in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, regarded as holy by Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and probably the oldest of India.
The city has been a cultural and religious centre in North India for several thousand years. The Benares Gharana form of Indian classical music developed in Varanasi, and many prominent Indian philosophers, poets, writers, and musicians resided or reside in Varanasi.
Varanasi is home to four universities: Banaras Hindu University, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth, Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies and Sampurnanand Sanskrit University. Residents mainly speak Hindi and Kashika Bhojpuri, which is closely related to the Hindi language. People often refer to Varanasi as "the city of temples", "the holy city of India", "the religious capital of India", "the city of lights", and "the city of learning.
American writer Mark Twain wrote: "Benares is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together."
The name Varanasi has its origin possibly from the names of the two rivers Varuna and Assi for it lies with the confluence of Varuna with the Ganges being to its north and that of Assi and the Ganges to its south.
According to legend, the city was founded by the Hindu deity, Lord Shiva, around 5,000 years ago, thus making it one of the most important pilgrimage destinations in the country. It is one of the seven sacred cities of Hindus. Many Hindu scriptures, including the Rigveda, Skanda Purana, Ramayana, and the Mahabharata, mention the city.
Varanasi is a holy city in Hinduism, being one of the most sacred pilgrimage places for Hindus of all denominations. More than 1,000,000 pilgrims visit the city each year. It has the holy shrine of Kashi Vishwanath (a manifestation of Lord Shiva), and also one of the twelve revered Jyotirlingas of Lord Shiva.
Hindus believe that bathing in Ganga remits sins and that dying in Kashi ensures release of a person's soul from the cycle of its transmigrations.
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on May 31, 2010
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NEW YORK: Most international musicians barely get noticed in the bustling Big Apple, but AR Rahman is a show-stopper — and very profitable.
Fans have paid prices of up to $1,000 (Rs47,000) for 11 concerts in North America between June 11 and July 5, which are already thought to be sold out.
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on May 27, 2010
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Fourteen-year-old Sahal Kaushik, who holds the 33rd rank at all-India level in the IIT JEE exam, emerged the Delhi region topper in the entrance examination.
At the press conference to honor the toppers, Sahal, who was too shy to speak on stage, handed the mike over to his mother Ruchi Kaushik. But that was just for a while, off the stage, the boy giggled with his friend and answered media questions quite comfortably.
"He mixes where he wants to. He has participated in competitions at the international level and mixed very well with everyone," says Ruchi. A doctor by profession, Ruchi was her son's first teacher.
The first signs showed when he was two. “He could spell four to five letter words then. At three, he could recite multiplication tables of up to 100,” said Ruchi Kaushik, his mother. “I just knew he would not fit in the formal system of education.”
So Ruchi quit her job as a doctor and homeschooled her son.
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on May 24, 2010
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Kamminlung Singson was sitting next to me on a four-hour hopping flight from Delhi to Imphal. He had one year of training in a short-term programme of Indian Army and was on his way back home to Churachandpur, about 60km from Imphal. He was supposed to travel by train up to Guwahati and then take a bus, but the highways to his hometown, NH 39 and NH 53, had been blocked by Naga rebels for almost 30 days at that time, so he had to somehow arrange for an air ticket. Not many Manipuris can afford an air ticket, he said sadly.
How’s is the situation, I asked?
Very bad. UGs are ruling and people are suffering. Imphal to Churachand Pur ticket has gone up to Rs 150 per person, which was just 40 rupees a few months back, he said.
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on May 21, 2010
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Former president A P J Abdul Kalam has stressed the need for an awakening among the youth for a corruption free government and administration.
Describing the 54 crore youths of the country as its biggest asset, he said India would definitely become a super power by 2020 if youngsters worked towards the goal.
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