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on Sep 03, 2010
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UK Tourism chiefs issue foreign etiquette advice ahead of London 2012 Olympics
Daily telegraph reported that "Tourism chiefs have drawn up a list of cultural differences to give Britons a crash course in not offending foreigners when they visit London for the 2012 games."
The gems of wisdom are designed vy VisitBritain, the tourism quango, to help hoteliers, restaurateurs and taxi drivers understand the needs of foreign customers to maximise business and make the country appear more welcoming.
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on Aug 31, 2010
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on Aug 17, 2010
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Meet 18-year-old Diwakar Vaish. This youngster apart from others his age is his undeniable talent in the still-nascent field of robotics in India. He has created four humanoid robots (designed, created and programmed by him) that possess much of the physical functionality a human body does, and one -- Robot Isotope -- that can even do the Bhangra.
An admitted techno-freak, Diwakar spent much of his school years participating in tech competitions, and winning most. But what gave him the boost he needed was winning at Quanta, an international competition for robotics held in Lucknow in 2009, for which he created a race boat that beat out competition from 40 countries.
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on Aug 17, 2010
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50 per cent of all Indians are under the age of 25. That's 500 million youngsters raring to take India to the top of the world. Young Indians have achieved professional and personal excellence on a level unseen before and it's only the beginning.
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on Aug 13, 2010
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He is a billionaire’s boy with serious ambition. Charming, articulate and handsome, with round brown eyes that mask a degree of calculation, he is already seen as likely successor to his father Lakshmi at the steel giant they created two years ago by merging their family-controlled firm with European rival Arcelor.
For others in the steel industry, he has been a surprise. Travelling side-by-side with his father for the past decade, he has kept his head down, worked the deals, brushed off the accusations of nepotism and helped drive the expansion that has left the Mittals’ rivals in their wake.That combined entity, Arcelor Mittal, in which the Mittal family owns a 45% stake, is now the biggest steel group in the world. And Aditya, trained at Wharton Business School and Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, sits as finance director, head of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and management-board member responsible for flat-steel products, Americas. He is only 32.
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on Aug 05, 2010
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Aakanksha Sarda stood 18th in the country at the IIT JEE examinations.
The Mumbai student is back in the spotlight again, this time for winning a gold at the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO, which was held in Croatia.
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on Aug 05, 2010
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Aakanksha Sarda stood 18th in the country at the IIT JEE examinations.
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on Aug 02, 2010
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Big Cinemas is screening a number of popular Bollywood movies free for cine lovers across the US. Movies like ''Rang De Basanti'', ''Lage Raho Munnabhai'', ''3 Idiots'', ''Chak De India'', ''Namaste London'', ''Rock On'', ''Sivaji'', ''Dasavatharam'', and ''Indian'' have been lined up for screening in 11 theaters for the week long ''Spirit of my Tiraga'' beginning August 7. BIG Cinemas is also the in-cinema partner for India Day Parades in Manhattan, Edison and Fremont.
Big Cinemas US has 190 screens present across 20 cities and accounts for 20-35 percent of Hindi features box office collections and over 70 percent of Tamil and Telegu box office collections from the US..
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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