Aditya Mittal, The Youngest Billionaire Engaged in Serious Ambitions

Administrator — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:19:18 +0100

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 gian...

The first Indian girl to win a gold at a Physics Olympiad...

Administrator — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:23:27 +0100

Aakanksha Sarda stood 18th in the country at the IIT JEE examinations.

The first Indian girl to win a gold at a Physics Olympiad

Administrator — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:27:14 +0100

Time magazine apologises to Indian-Americans

Administrator — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:55:15 +0100

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 ...

Now, get your eyes tested by a cellphone

Administrator — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:09:06 +0100

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.

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Indian-American stands 3rd in Intel talent search

Administrator — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:10:08 +0100

Akhil Mathew, an 18-year-old resident of Madison, New Jersey, Tuesday night won the third place in the Intel Science Talent Search, America's oldest and most prestigious pre-college science competiti...

Dalit woman paraded naked in Karnataka village

Administrator — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:13:16 +0100

A Dalit woman from Lakshmisagar village in Chitradurga district, Karnataka, has filed a case against eight men of Nayak community for assaulting her and parading her naked on the village's streets on January 17.

A first, Indian gods on US postages

Administrator — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:07:46 +0100

Targeting the large number of Hindus in the United States, an Atlanta-based company headed by an Indian-American has launched a series of custom-made postage stamps depicting Hindu gods and goddesses.

Every inch of India belongs to every Indian

Administrator — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:34:25 +0100

Bodhgaya (Bihar), Feb 2 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has criticized both the Shiv Sena and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) for their unwarranted attacks on north Indians, and said that every inch of India belongs to each and every Indian.

Gandhi, who is on a two-day visit to Bihar reminded both political outfits that the commandoes who saved Mumbai during the 26/11 terror attacks were north Indians.

During an interactive s...

Facebook Jumps to third most visited site on mobile web

Administrator — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:42:51 +0100

Opera has published its State of Mobile Internet report for the month of December 2009 and the top visited sites from India are:

google.com

orkut.com

facebook.com

wikipedia.org

yahoo.com

youtube.com

songs.pk

zedge.net

cricinfo.com (new)

wap.in

And interestingly, all the top handsets belong to Nokia, topped by Nokia 5130 XpressMusic, followed by Nokia 2700c and N70.

Moreover, it’s important to ...

Faculties at IIMA decide to follow 3 Idiots

Administrator — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:59:35 +0100

In an elective course called 'Learning What is Not Taught (LWNT)' in the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), in-house and visiting faculties are adopting the line of 3 Idiots and teaching students to learn about life from beyond the textbooks and curriculum. The course took off on Saturday.

Executive director of Tata Sons Ltd R Gopalakrishnan who is the lead instructor of LNWT said, &q...

Australia forms security group to protect Indian Students in Australia

Administrator — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:46:48 +0100

london: In a bid to curb a spate of attacks on Indian students in Australia, Canberra has set up a high level group to check such assaults, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said on Wednesday.

Speaking to the press after holding talks with his Australian counterpart Stephen Smith in London, Krishna said, “Australia has established the "working group" between its central government and the administration of the state of Victoria. They will comprehen...

Internet 2009 in numbers

Administrator — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:37:23 +0100

What happened with the Internet in 2009?

How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many more. Prepare for information overload, but in a good way.

Why is January 27th the date the United Nations chose to remember victims of Nazism?

Administrator — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:53:44 +0100

Why is January 27th the date the United Nations chose to remember victims of Nazism? In 2005, the UN designated this date as theInternational Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. It is a recognized memorial day in Germany, the UK and elsewhere in the European Union. The date marks the 1945 liberatio...

Antenna

Administrator — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:13:23 +0100

Shouldn’t finding radio stations online be easier? Based on the Adobe AIR runtime, Antenna tries to alleviate that. Using a vast list of stations combined with a map interface, you can discover, listen to, and switch between thousands of stations effortlessly. Search is possible by country or genre, or just by clicking on a location on the map. Beyond that you have a history of recently-listened stations and can even rate the ones you like and return to them easily later..

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Pakistan nabs 20 terrorists for 26/11 terror attack

Administrator — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:05:26 +0100

Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency has claimed to have traced down 20 terrorists, who were wanted in connection with the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

The FIA'...

Beat January 18, ‘most depressing day of year’ with happiness, says shrink

Administrator — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:25:30 +0100

The psychologist, who dubbed the third Monday in January, as the most depressing day of the year has called for the idea to be refuted and is urging people to look for happiness instead.

Cliff Arnall, from Brecon, Wales, identified January 18 as the most miserable date in the calendar for Britons, with the help of a pseudo-mathematical formula involving the weather, debt, motivational levels and time elapsed since Christmas.

“I was originally asked t...

YouTube to stream IPL-III matches live

Administrator — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:17:18 +0100

Cricket lovers can now watch the Indian Premier League (IPL) live on internet portal YouTube. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will partner with Google India to stream live matches of its domestic IPL league in the Twenty20 format.

Google’s video streaming internet portal YouTube will stream live matches of IPL-III, which begins in March. This will include 44 days of IPL, with 59 matches.

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India to launch first manned spaceship in 2013

Administrator — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:28:44 +0100

India would launch its first manned space flights by sending two astronauts in an orbit in a Russian spaceship in 2013, according to reports.

For this, the Indian Space Research Organisation is to finance the acquisition of a Soyuz spaceship and have its astronauts trained by a Russian commander. The Russian cosmonaut would lead the two-member crew on an independent space flight lasting several days, Voice of Russia radio reported.

Quoting deputy chief of ...

Ultimate Truth about wifes

Administrator — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:39:45 +0100

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. - David Bissonette

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together. - Sacha Guitry

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates

Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from ...

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