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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.
Posted by: Administrator
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.
Posted by: Administrator
on Mar 20, 2010
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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 competition honouring the next generation of American innovators.
The Intel Foundation that gives the annual Intel Science Talent Search award and is administered by the Society for Science and the Public declared Akhil the third place winner with a $50,000 cash award for his math project on Deligne categories, a setting for studying a wide range of algebraic structures with ties to theoretical physics. The honour was announced during a gala dinner in Washington DC.
Posted by: Administrator
on Feb 03, 2010
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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.
The men, belonging to a dominant Nayak community of the village, accused the woman of helping a Dalit man and a Nayak girl elope from the village.
Eyewitnesses said a group of about 40men beat up 25-five-year-old Bhagyamma before parading her on the streets.
Posted by: Administrator
on Feb 03, 2010
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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.
The first set of such postage stamps in denomination of 44 cents was launched in January by USA-postage.com, the Atlanta-based firm, depicting Sai Baba, Lord Venkateshwara, Lakshmi, Murugan, Vinayaka, Shiva–Parvathi and Sri Krishna.
Such postage stamps depicting Hindu gods and goddesses have been launched for the first time in the US taking the benefit of a six-year-old law of the US postal service that permit issuing of customised postages.
Posted by: Administrator
on Feb 02, 2010
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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 session with Youth Congress and National Students' Union of India (NSUI) workers in Bodhgaya, Gandhi said, "If terrorists have to be fought with, let Biharis remain there."
He further said that the commandoes, who forced their way into the besieged buildings, did not bother about which state they belonged to.
However, Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray described Rahul's comments as an insult to the memory of 26/11 martyrs like Hemant Karkare, Tukaram Ombale, Vijay Salaskar and Ashok Kamte.
"We are insisting that only Mumbai is for Mahrashtrians", Uddhav Thackeray claimed.
Meanwhile, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said, "There will be no compromise and Maharashtra belongs to all Indians. There is some politics happening in Maharashtra which is the politics of alienation."
Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan also backed Gandhi.
Chavan said, "India is a democratic country. Does it mean that only the opinion of the MNS or Shiv Sena will be taken seriously? There'll be zero tolerance towards any nuisance."
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat had come out in support of north Indians on Sunday asking Sangh workers to protect the community from attacks.
Bhagwat said, "Whole of India is for all Indians and all Indians can earn livelihood anywhere in India. Language, caste, sub-castes, groups, tribes can be different, but all are sons of India."
Posted by: Administrator
on Feb 01, 2010
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Opera has published its State of Mobile Internet report for the month of December 2009 and the top visited sites from India are:
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google.com
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orkut.com
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facebook.com
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wikipedia.org
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yahoo.com
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youtube.com
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songs.pk
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zedge.net
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cricinfo.com (new)
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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 note that Gmail fell off the top 10 list (and is that because of the pop/new nokia phones are better integrated with gmail pop features)?
Posted by: Administrator
on Jan 28, 2010
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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, "What the students learn in the classrooms is only the beginning of learning. The rest of the lessons are to be learnt from what life teaches them."
He said that the early success of young management graduates, these days, makes them feel that they have achieved a lot in life and makes them overconfident as they feel that they could do much better than their predecessors. One of the purposes is to correct this false attitude. Under the elective course, we will teach students the integrity of management and will try to explain it to them through movie clips, anecdotes and experiences on how the mere act of chasing success brings failure.
Posted by: Administrator
on Jan 28, 2010
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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 comprehensively study the incidents and their implications.”
India has been of the view that the assaults were racially-motivated. Australian authorities have, however, been cautious to toe this line.
According to Krishna, there have been 12 episodes in the past four weeks. Smith also assured Krishna that community policing has been stepped up and patrolling by regular police increased at night.
Posted by: Administrator
on Jan 27, 2010
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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.
We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. A full list of source references is available at the bottom of the post for those interested.
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