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Call centres in Britain's northeast region have seen job losses with firms outsourcing work to India, but now another contender for the same work is South Africa. There are fears in the region that South Africa could also become a viable alternative, with South African firms announcing plans to come and get business from the UK by organising a road show. The skill base in South Africa is also said to be higher than in India. In India, night-shift workers are needed to service the UK but South Africa does not have this problem.
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Hero got a special ability to go back to the future and change the things that happened. He is usually not happy with the happennings in life and so goes back and changes an event in life, but everytime he changes an event, that gets rippled through out the life and somthing really bad happens to him or his family/friends which he does not again like. He kind of goes back and changes life incidents i guess about 5 times. Finally at the end of the movie he goes back and changes an event in his life and everything remains good, ofcourse there is some thing that goes back, but that bad is still good thing to happen. Watch the movie for that. Well, to guys from India out there, what I would suggest is that you see the movie and make a concept in the same lines suitable to India and take it to Ram Gopal Verma, and believe me he will sure finance it. If you take it somebody else, probably it will not generate that much curiosity. Well, if you do that, don't forget to call me for a role in the movie, if not hero atleast for vilan ;-) Posted
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What opportunities do you have for learning on a typical day as a developer? You spend approximately 250 days a year sitting in front of a keyboard and a screen. For how many of those days can you make L(Cluefulness , makign yourself more knowledgeable) a positive number? Don't
work for a manager A very interesting article for both ambitious and non-ambitious IT people out there. Well, if you are ambitious, you will be reading this post in the first place. Posted
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When you start running your own company, you will probably have good days and bad days. If your bad days are anything like mine, somebody will eventually catch you whining about "how great the company would be if we could just get rid of all the customers and the employees." :-) And Like I said, there are no easy answers. Ideally, you would start your company using cash you've already got. But that's not often possible. As unappealing as these options are, you will want your initial cash investment to be as small as possible. For an ISV, this can be really tough. It's going to take several months at least to build the 1.0 release of whatever your product is. It is quite likely that your spreadsheet doesn't show product revenue for 6-12 months even though it shows expenses in the very first month. Life is so unfair. :-) My favorite solution to this problem is to start out as a consulting company and evolve into an ISV later. SourceGear was built this way. The concept is simple: In
your first 40 hours per week, build custom software or websites
for other companies. Charge them enough money to pay your expenses.
The article got links to various concepts on which Eric has written, a very good read indeed.
Another fascinating athlete rising in the Indian sports, see her amazing pics and read wonderful interview in the link bleow. Read Interview Excerpts: ‘He (Powell) taught me how to behave... be aggressive, comb your hair, put lipstick...’ Profile & Photos Here
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On January 29, he told Manu, "If I were to die of disease, be it even a pimple, you must shout to the world from house-tops that I was a false Mahatma, even though people may swear at you for saying so. Then my soul wherever it be, will rest in peace. If on the other hand, someone were to put a bullet through me, as someone tried to throw a bomb at me the other day and I met this bullet on my bare chest without a groan and with Ram's name on my lips, then only you should say that I was a true Mahatma. This will bring good to the Indian people." On January 30, Gandhiji walked towards the lawn for prayers outside where the people were already seated, his hand on the shoulders of his granddaughters Manu and Abha. Ascending the steps he halted, took his hands off their shoulders and joined his palms to acknowledge the greeting of the people, a well-built young man pushed forward and pushing aside Manu who tried to stop him, knelt before Gandhiji as if to pay his respects and fired point blank three shots at Gandhiji's chest. Two bullets passed right through, the third was found embedded in the right lung. Gandhiji sank to the ground with the words 'He Ram' and died as he wished with God's name on his lips. Read Full Story:Welcome to SIFY News Posted
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The new worm quickly had the honor of being the subject of the government's cyber-alert system. Read the DHS's technical and non-technical postings on MyDoom, or sign up for the alerts at www.us-cert.gov. Security firm Symantec said the "worm will perform a Denial of Service (DoS) against www.microsoft.com starting February 3, 2004 and www.sco.com starting February 1, 2004. It also has a trigger date to stop spreading on March 1, 2004. These events will only occur if the worm is run between or after those dates. While the worm will stop spreading on March 1, 2004, the backdoor component will continue to function after this date." Worse yet, CNET's News.com reported, experts said MyDoom.B "prevents PC users from going to security sites and could block some antivirus software from getting the latest updates. The new virus adds a file to the infected computer that tells it where to look for certain Internet addresses. Among the addresses are F-Secure's update site, Symantec's update site and Microsoft's downloads site. Symantec confirmed that its users may have to delete the file before they can update their antivirus software, while Microsoft was still investigating the effect on Windows users." Source: Evolution of a Worm (TechNews.com) Posted
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"It turns out we were all wrong," said Mr. Kay, a former United Nations weapons inspector and top Central Intelligence Agency adviser who led the postwar Iraq Survey Group's search for banned weapons of mass destruction. Mr. Kay, who included himself among those who were incorrect, quit last week after uncovering no stockpiles and finding that the Pentagon was shifting resources from his group. In effect, Mr. Kay's testimony lends credence to Iraq's insistence before the UN last year that it no longer had stocks of germ-warfare weapons, poison gas or an active nuclear-weapons program. Mr. Kay laid the blame on deeply flawed intelligence gathering, not only by the CIA but also by France, Germany and others who agreed with the assessment that Baghdad had failed to destroy its stocks of banned weapons and might still be producing them. "That is most disturbing," Mr. Kay said, adding that the spies had been equally wrong in underestimating the scope of nuclear-weapons programs in Iran, North Korea and Libya. Source: The Globe and Mail Its time for Bush to come out and say, its was stupid cowboy revenge attitude and oil, that made me go to war. He still speak the magic words like a parrot 'The World Is a Better Place With out him'. Gosh, look how intelligent the American and it allies intelligence services are. They let 911 happen and now they let Iraq War happen. America, Its time to change your fundamental attitude towards the people in the Rest Of The World (as they say in America). Posted
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The government has done what they had to do. Now onwards, the IITs and IIMs must be allowed to chart their path within the framework of some social norms and responsibilities. Read 'We need to put pressure on PM to get Joshi out of HRD', has artilces written by: Ramesh Venkateswaran rameshvenkat@vsnl.com) Alumnus of IIM Bangalore and IIT Mumbai, President of the IIM B Alumni Association, Visiting Faculty at IIM, Bangalore. Venkatesh K (venkateshk@IIMB.ERNET.IN), Guest Faculty, IIM-B Sunil Rajpurohit, sunilr02@IIMB.ERNET.IN, PGP II class of 2004 Vinay Avasthi, vinaya03@IIMB.ERNET.IN, Student IIM-B Shenoy Sirish Narendra, shenoys02@IIMB.ERNET.IN) IInd year student S Chandrashekar, Professor Corporate Strategy & Policy Area, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore Shiv Pratim, shivp03@IIMB.ERNET.IN Posted
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"What is happening in Gujarat? By giving Rs 40,000 you can get a judicial order? If this is the state of affairs, only God knows what will happen to the country," a stunned Chief Justice Khare said. Source: Warrants against Kalam, Chief Justice Posted
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It is easy for public figures to get protection when magistrates take steps against them. I have sent a telegram to the CJI V N Khare as I am likely to be harrassed by magistrate in ahmedabad and have slso sent letter to President on my blog site http://blogs.sify.com/mody04 for seeking protection as well as taking action against judicial officers and the advocate Mr. Soparkar againt whom I had filed complaint with Bar Council of Gujarat. I was subjected to police remand when I blew whistle for trying to expose banking fraud by a great bank robber company.I do not see any action by the President and the Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India. Can we all intensify efforts so that President and the CJI is forced to change the system radically with a lighting speed creating a lasting impact? with regards P Mody Posted by P Mody.
Clumsy, gullible and simple are adjectives used to describe her but Jasmeet Walia, better-known as Jassi, is one of the most popular characters on Indian television. The Hindi serial -- entitled "Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin" aired Mondays to Thursdays on the entertainment-oriented Sony channel -- is the third most watched serial in the country of more than one billion people. It is based on a top Colombian soap opera "Yo Soy Betty La Fea" (I am Betty the Ugly) with the original Spanish series becoming a small-screen sensation across Latin America and among the Hispanic community in the United States. Source: Welcome to SIFY News Posted
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Chandrababuism - You have two cows in Vijayawada. You hook them to internet and milk them from Hyderabad. Jayalalithaism - You have two cows. You teach them to cry, "Ammaaaaaaa..." and fall at your feet. Karunanidhiism - You have two cows. You give one to your son and the other to your nephew. Gandhism - You have two cows. But you drink goat's milk. Indiraism - You have two bulls. You adamantly consider them as cows. Lalooism - You have two cows. You buy Rs. 900 Crore worth of cattlefeed for them. Rajnikantism - You have two cows. You throw them into air and catch their milk in your mouth. Veerappanism - You have two cows. You take over a reserved forest to feed them. Azharism - You have only one cow. You take money from bookies to maintain it. Osamaism - You have two cows. You convert them into biological weapons. Softwarism: By
this time both the COWs aged and cant milk. (The software got
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Well, I have something called stigmatism. What that means is that, half of your eye can see properly and half cannot see properly, its like your having 1/2 sight. For me, I can see the vertical things properly, and horizontal things not as clear as vertical ones. Hmm, well, finally I know what kind of eye sight I have and its good to know. I would fully recommend the doc for your eye testings. Here are the contact details: Dr.
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Refuting recent statements by American economists asking for government intervention to stop the flow of jobs from higher-paid US citizens in the US to lower-paid professionals in India and other countries, Kling argues that companies can expect to keep paying lower salaries to Indian pros in India without taking productivity losses. He says that economics makes it impossible for a coder in Bangalore to be as productive as a coder in Seattle and still get paid only one-fifth as much. In other words, he contends, even if American companies outsourcing work to India are paying less per head than in the US, they will be paying about the same in the long run since they will have to hire more workers in India to get the same amount of work done. Source: Indian tech salaries will reach US levels: economist - The Economic Times I don't agree with this, what economists are talking about is the quality of work produced for the amount of money paid. Well, lets see the practical things going on the ground. Every Indian company which wants to expand its niche in the golbal market is adopting the route of CMM Level 5, Six Sigma practices and managing high level process control and thus maintaining quality of production. In US, you can hardly find any comapany which is going after these quality processes, atleast in IT departments its not happenning, almost every other company's IT department works like a start up. Every manager worries about 'Get the damn thing working, I don't care how it is written'. When coming to the quality of work, the analysts are forgetting that Indians have contributed in a huge way towards the IT Industry in west in the recent years and produced topnotch quality products. And when comparing the quality, well, for sure the top notch American Guys in IT Industry are very very birlliant and I have a personal experience working with them, but on an average an Indian IT Professional is more dedicated, hardworking, has drive for results than an average American IT Professional. Alternatively,
Indian pros will become as productive as those in the US, and
start commanding the same salaries, which will nullify the offshoring
advantage. Kling’s thesis is based on a simple economic
law which posits that a worker must earn as much as the contribution
he or she makes to the value of a product. My 2 cents. Posted
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A daughter sends a telegram to her father on her clearing B.Ed(Bachelor of Education) exams, which the father receives as : "Father, your daughter has been successful in BED." *********************** TELEGRAM #2 A husband, while he is on a business trip to a hill station sends a telegram to his wife : "I wish you were here." "The message received by wife: "I wish you were her." ***************************** TELEGRAM #3 A
wife with near maturing pregnancy goes to railway station to return
to her husband. At the reservation counter, while her turn came,it
was the last ticket. "Shall be coming tomorrow, heavy rush in the train, gave birth to an old lady." ************************************ TELEGRAM #4 A man wants to celebrate his wife 's Birthday by throwing a party. So he goes to order a birthday cake. The salesman asks him what message he wants to put on the cake. Well he thinks for a while and says: let's put, "you are not getting older, you are getting better". The salesman asks "how do you want me to put it?" The man says,Well put "You are not getting older", at the top and"You are getting better" at the bottom. The real fun didn't start until the cake was opened the entire party watched the message decorated on the cake: "You are not getting older at the top,You are getting better at the bottom". ****************************************** TELEGRAM #5 A man from Agra went to Ajmer. His wife was in her parent's house in Delhi.When the man went to Ajmer, he asked his servant to send a telegram to his wife indicating about his trip to Ajmer. He sent a telegram.When the wife received the telegram, she fainte d. It was written: 'sethji aaj mar gaye ! ( Sethji Ajmer gaye ).
A MALICIOUS new computer virus spread via e-mail is clogging networks and may allow unauthorised access to personal computers, experts are warning. The worm, called Mydoom or Novarg, is carried as an e-mail attachment and sends itself out to new e-mail addresses once opened by the recipient. The virus may also open a "back door" to the computer to give hackers access. Thousands of e-mails triggered by the worm were bombarding networks within hours of its discovery, warned Vincent Gullotto, vice-president of California-based Network Associates’ emergency response team. Unlike many of its predecessors, Mydoom does not entice the recipient to open the attachment by promising nude pictures or personal messages. Instead, the e-mail carrying the virus often bears the subject "test" or "status". The message inside may read: "The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment." "Because that sounds like a technical thing, people may be more apt to think it’s legitimate," said Steve Trilling, of Symantec, an anti-virus company. The worm only affects computers which use Microsoft Windows.
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“The nation’s vision of developed India requires greater thrust to scientific and technological advancements. All our IITs, IIMs have graduated as world-class brand institutions in addition to the century-old premier institution — Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. These characteristics must be preserved and nurtured.” If these institutions face problems in holding fair examinations, they could be addressed differently, he said. The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation Mr. Minister Murli Manohar Joshi, will you stop making senseless statements about IIT's and IIM's and their standards and let them decide themselves how they want to function better. Democracy is not about putting the power in the hands of the center, its about giving the power to people who deal with the community. IIT's and IIM's are a community of intellictual people and the people invloved there know exactly how to take the benefits to more masses. If you think they are not doing enough towards that, then give directions like a learned intellectual, not destroy the whole process, don't hit the core of the education system for your political reasons. Posted
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The change the duo catalysed in Shabdo village—in the heart of the Naxalite-dominated Bihar-Jharkhand border—is spectacular: • They successfully weaned hundreds away from their alcohol addiction • People have erased boundaries of their individual fields totalling 175 acres. Collective farming has increased wheat production by at least 25 per cent. • The two reached here in 1999 and revived a historical canal system. About 35,000 people in 40 villages got together under this scheme in which tanks were connected to a river or a stream through canals. • In caste and class conscious Shabdo, the canal’s construction saw unprecedented community action: Rajputs and Dalits would work and eat together. • When the Zila Parishad gave Rs 22 lakh, villagers donated land and built a community centre, anganwadi and a playground. Read More: Yet again: they were changing a Bihar village and were shot dead Posted
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A senior official of the education ministry told PTI in Jammu that the practice, suspended due to militancy, is being revived in a phased manner in districts where there is less militancy, including in some places in the Kashmir valley. The official said the government has also decided to establish four additional university campuses and 22 colleges to provide avenues for higher education to the youth. Two campuses each of the Kashmir and Jammu universities would be in place soon. Work on the north campus of Kashmir University in Baramulla district has already been taken up while land for a south campus is being identified in Anantnag district. Pretty surprising fact that National Anthem is not sung, well not a shocking one though, and really good and refreshing to know that J&K govt. is trying to revive the tradition again.
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Historytalking.com, the website, developed by former BBC journalist Vijay Rana, hosts recordings of first person narratives of leading personalities in the Indian diaspora. Its latest addition is Captain Abbas Ali, an old Indian National Army (INA) soldier and freedom fighter. The INA was founded by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. "I saw Netaji (leader) alive after his alleged plane crash (in Taiwan)", Ali says in his talk on the website. Ali, a graduate from the Aligarh Muslim University, joined the British Army as a commissioned officer in 1939. A year later the young officer was sent to Southeast Asia to fight against Japan. Other stories include: * Cricketer Nasser Hussain was not the first Asian to lead a national English team; it was Sutinder Khehar who captained the English hockey team in the early 1980s. * If you were an Indian woman in England during the 1960s and wearing a sari, you would not be allowed to supervise English staff. Raksha Tandon was sacked before she could begin her managerial job only because she refused to abandon her sari in favour of English dress. * In the 1960s, the Ealing Council in London had a policy of having not more than 25 percent Asian children in a school. To keep the racial balance right, young Asian kids were sent to schools outside Ealing. * After playing an important role in India's first Test victory at the Oval in 1971, wicket-keeper Farooq Engineer thought he would be booed by the Lancashire crowds, where he is settled. Instead he got a standing ovation. * Tennis ace John McEnroe could never tolerate a Sikh, Raghubir Singh Mahajan, umpiring at Wimbledon. * Legendary Mushtaq Muhammad, the youngest ever Test player from Pakistan, now lives in Birmingham, passing on techniques of the trade to the future Asian stars of English cricket. The website was launched by veteran Saeed Jaffrey in June 2003, and aims to create a valuable online educational resource of oral history. It invites people to volunteer information, eyewitness accounts and life experiences about some of the socially and educationally relevant events, social trends and cultural themes. "Most of our contributors are senior citizens narrating their life experiences. While a large number of our visitors belong to the web-savvy younger generation. By bringing them together we hope to build bridges between the two generations," says Vijay Rana, editor of Historytalking.com, told IANS. New stories appear on the site every week - stories of courage and determination, stories of social discrimination and stories of the pioneers of the social and cultural movements in Britain. Posted
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But, a funny thing has happened. While the war on terrorism has dominated headlines, the great engine of globalization has kept moving. And it seems America clearly, asusual, got disconnected from the world (rest of the world, as it calls). Read More: MSNBC - The One-Note Superpower
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American companies such as IBM, EDS, Accenture and CSC which usually handle large US government projects are expected to be the most affected. All of them have operations in India and are likely to be outsourcing government work here. “The current move by the US senate to bar offshoring of government work, though may not have a great impact on Indian IT companies, does not augur well for their own economy. Such decisions do not help in moving towards a free-trade policy envisaged by WTO. This Bill is yet to be passed as a law and we hope the US government takes a more pragmatic view and not get pressurised by political considerations,” Satyam chairman B Ramalinga Raju said. Complete Article: US BPO Ban: We Aren’t Bothered, Say CEOs Posted
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Excerpts: During these decades, there was no anti-globalisation movement, but the hard reality was that the rich were getting relatively richer. The reason there was no white man led anti-globalisation movement then was because the rich folks had never had it so good. During these days, an average person in a rich country (let us call her Mary), born in 1960, witnessed her parents income double by the time she was 20 years old and thinking about entering the labour market. In contrast, an average poor person in a poor country (let us call her Sita) saw her parents income increase by only 50 per cent, or half the rate of her rich country counterpart. In the globalisation period (post 1980), the poor countries began their long march towards catch-up. In sharp contrast to the previous 20 years, the fortunes were exactly reversed --the poor economies registered a growth rate double that experienced by the rich countries - 3 per cent per annum compared to the rich countries considerably slower growth of 1.5 per cent per annum. And the poor in the two poorest countries, India and China, saw their incomes increase at an even faster pace -- above 5 per cent per annum for over 20 years. This miracle has never occurred before i.e. when about a billion people (about 350 million poor in India and 650 million poor in China in 1980) increase their incomes by 175 per cent in a short space of 20 years. One can debate how much of this increase in incomes of the poor was caused by globalisation. What remains incontrovertible, however, is the fact that policy makers in both these countries were conscious of opening themselves up to the rest of the world, were conscious of the fact that only by globalising would they be able to reduce poverty and make their citizens richer. But now let us go back to the effect of globalisation on the (mis)fortunes of Mary. In the pre-globalisation years, and especially if she came from an upper middle class family, she saw her family income triple. She not only went to college in 1980, but was able to 'easily' enter the best universities. Her own working period, however, has witnessed only a glacial increase in family income. After 20 years of hard work, such income is up only 35 per cent, and most of the increase is driven by the fact that she is now working along with her husband. Five years of wage growth in the exploitative pre-globalisation days is equal to 20 years of wage growth in the era of globalisation. To make matters worse, Mary finds that her children are finding great difficulty in entering the best universities, especially because of the large number of worthy applicants from Asia. Put yourself in Mary's position -- would you also not rant and rave against globalisation? Of course you would; but would you do so if you were Sita? Of course not, because you have never had it so good. At the risk of being politically incorrect, but with the accuracy of being factual, it is the case that one should not witness any brown, or yellow, or black people in the vanguard of the anti-globalisation debate. If one does witness non-white intellectuals articulating anti-globalisation sentiments, then one needs the explanation of a psychiatrist, not an economist. Why do some poor country intellectuals support the rich, elitist anti-globalisation movement? Perhaps these intellectuals have not really emerged from their feudal cocoon; perhaps they subliminally retain their colonial mentality. The leaders and operators of the anti-globalisation movement are the formerly colonising rich whites, who, as per their heritage, need non-white intellectuals as their disciples and followers. If the intellectuals were to argue for Mary's relative enrichment, they would be honest and would be constructive towards finding a better future for all, rich and poor. But such sentiments do not befit a 'Left-intellectual'.
Again that laughter. "What a delightful bit of news. Where did it first come out? … Anyway, let me say here again that with nothing on the anvil as yet, I cannot comment. Once we're past the discussion stage and something is finalized, I may be able to shed some light. Right now, 'my lips are bonded', oops sealed! Ha ha ha!" Clever, very clever, but then it was that quality of brains over beauty (which, as we all know was quite considerable to begin with) that set Ash apart from the rest the also-rans (hate to say that about Nicole, but hey.). And she did have the final say in this 'conversation', "Just yesterday Raj ji (Rajkumar Santoshi) asked me, 'I hope you are not leaving us for Hollywood. What are al these rumours I keep hearing?' And my reply was, 'No Rajiji, I am not going to Hollywood. Hollywood is coming to us. (Gosh, I just love that statement)I guess the world has realized our potential. They are now valuing our culture and our sense of understanding. And they are looking eastwards. So, I guess they will be adapting to our requirements with respect to our culture. And that's a big leap for all of us Indians. Right?" Could I even begin to argue? I guess I will save that for the actual interview. Right Ash? Read Full Article: I'm not going to Hollywood: Ash - The Times of India Posted
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Salome Isaacs has since withdrawn the charge, which Desai has denied. After his release, Desai recounted some of the more "humbling" moments of his incarceration. Very
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Under the measure, when the US Government gives contracts to an American firm the latter cannot give sub-contracts out of that to a source outside the US. Thought the legislation is still to be approved by the US President, the contents of such ''omnibus'' bills, adopted in a hurry when a budget measure is long overdue, as in this case, is not changed later and the head of the government does not veto it. Besides, states like Indiana, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina and Washington are slated to vote on bills that aim at banning foreign workers from public contracts. Indiana were among the US states that backtracked from contracts that involve hiring foreign workers, a process called "off-shoring." NASSCOM chief Kiran Karnik reacted, "We are dismayed to learn about the Bill in the US Senate that restricts off shoring of work contracted out by the US government. This Bill is yet to become a law, and we hope that wiser counsel will prevail." Source: Welcome to SIFY News
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The most funny diaglouge was Renee Zewllweger asking Nicole Kidman - 'Did you wrap your legs arround him?'. Renee was marvellous, will certainly right for best supporting actor award with Sam in LOR. Nicole as usual stunningly beautiful and splendid in acting. Jude Law was good too. I completely enjoyed watching the movie end to end and it kind of gave me a feeling if there are problems arround people tend to help each other and if its cosy, they just stay for themselves, something like what happened during 911 and Balck Out in NY. Reminded of the affections people show in India too. Enjoyed it thouroughly. Posted
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Interview with God: Very nice with stunningly beautiful photography; Thank you for sharing a link to this site. United States of America Posted by Diana.
Anyways, about Khakhi, its a long movie asusual, but the best part of the movie is, its not all that movie stunt blablabla like, its action is completely down to earth, natural and the Rajkumar Santoshi made sure that the grip of the movie is there till the last frame, its a fentastic screen play. Well, for sure asusual you feel its not realistic some scenes, on the whole worth the money you spend on the ticket. Everybody gave a terrific performance. Kudos to the movie, the best part is that Rajkumar Santoshi successfully portrayed the patriotism that is filled in the Muslim communit in India, he showed them that they are also Indians and they study along with us in the same schools and are filled with Desh Bhakti, I have to commend Raj on that part. Rediff
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Ibrahim will marry her maternal cousin Mustkhal Qadir in Ahmedabad. "I am leaving for India as a daughter of Pakistan. I expect, in return, love, brotherhood and ever lasting peace," she was quoted by The Dawn as saying as she boarded the Lahore to Delhi "Dosti" bus on Thursday. Source: Welcome to SIFY News Posted
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Asad Sikander, a Bulgaria-based businessman, is ready with his Bollywood film "Bullet - On Target". And it is his next project titled "Namaste India" that will have a big Hollywood actor. According to sources, it might be Jean Claude Van Damme! Source: Welcome to SIFY News Posted
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Simple, haven't you heard of "Food for Work". That oft-highlighted programme the Indian government launches to help people in times of famine and draught. This means the same thing. Only, it's in the lingo of a jobless US techie . Yes, that sign was held up by a jobless protestor outside a Manhattan conference on outsourcing that opened Wednesday. ( Do you think Indians would have reacted differently if they faced job losses? ) Recent reports have said at least one out of 10 technology jobs in the United States would move overseas by the end of this year. Maybe
the US politicians would start a “Code for Food” programme.
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"Shrewdness" on the Indian side and "desperation" in Paksitan have come together to produce a potential Nobel Peace prize for "the two uncommon leaders," the Washington Post's Jim Hoagland wrote in his column. Well for sure that will be a Nobel Prize winning achievement and they will get all kinds of prizes available in the world and they will stand in the history of world for ever.
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Thank you everybody who is going thorugh my website and sending me messages and making everyday of mine a wonderful day. Thank you. Posted
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"The
Blogging of the President: 2004" – A Live Campaign
Special with Sunday,
January 25, 8 to 10 p.m. on KERA 90.1 The
rise of Howard Dean, on blog energy and blog fundraising, is the
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With the quota having brought back down from 195,000 to 65,000 for the year, the situation has suddenly changed from not enough applicants – as was the case in 2003 – to far too many chasing the limited number of visas available. Some estimates say the quota could be reached as early as March or even February. One way to ensure you’re not out of the race is to opt for the fast-track review – the accelerated 15-day process. Not paying the premium will mean having to wait the normal three to six-month period, by which times this year’s quota will definitely be gone. Source: Time running out fast for H1-B applicants - The Economic Times Rush Rush for the visa. Posted
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Pune’s future engineers flocking to IIT's Techfest This is exciting to know, in US there is an organizatoin called F.I.R.S.T which does this for school children, making science fun to do. Posted
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Source: Welcome to SIFY News Well, family legacy of politics, and its soo tempting its almost impossible to ignore politics. The better part is that both Priyanka and Rahul are hingly educated and we need people like that. The down side is that how informative/reactive they will be to the needs of the real poor people who comprise the majority of Indian population. Posted
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Bush in 30 Seconds is a project of the MoveOn.org Voter Fund, a new 527 fund affiliated with MoveOn.org , the pre-eminent online advocacy group in the United States. The Voter Fund will create and run powerful political ads in swing states to challenge President Bush's policies and his administration. Posted
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Meet Irfan Pathan , the boy who took 9 wickets for 16 runs in an under-19 match against Bangladesh. The same boy who transited to manhood on that sensational evening in Sydney recently, when he got rid of Steve Waugh and Adam Gilchrist with deliveries that would have done Wasim Akram proud. Connoisseurs rave about his swing and swerve, critics acknowledge his aggression and willingness to learn. The discerning, like Sourav Ganguly , Sunil Gavaskar and Greg Chappell, have called him the find of the tour. Ravi Shastri believes he is a big gain for India. Akram, Irfan's long-time idol and newfound mentor, dubs him a "good bloke, with a lot of potential". But for Mehmood Khan, he's just Guddu, his son. Never mind that he's the talk of Vadodara. Mehmood Khan remains modest. "It's the grace of God," he says. "Irfan wanted to play for the country and he has made it. Now he needs to put in a lot of hard work to stay in the side." Overseas fans also seem to have taken to Irfan. An Indian family took Irfan to their home and offered him hot kababs and chicken biryani , says his father. Irfan's elder brother Yusuf recently scored a century in a local match. When the spectators crowd found out who he was, they hoisted him on their shoulders. Makes one wonder what kind of reception Irfan will receive when he returns home, to the perfume shop and the mosque where it all began. Attarboy, the new Sultan of Swing - The Times of India Thats called wonder, results of true gifted talent combined with hard work and passion. God when are you giving me a break like that ;-) Eise
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Ko bhi to lift karade Gadi Bunglaw Bank dilade. Posted
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The
students of IIM-Lucknow have invited representatives of Nutan
Mumbai Tiffin Carriers Association Raghunath Medge and Gangarao
Talekar to Manfest- 2004, their annual festival. The theme of
this year's festival is 'The complete CEO workout'.
I'm interested to invite Sri Raghunath Medge and Sri Gangarao Talekar to interact with faculty and students at IIM Indore on their experience. We're having some relevant course on the subject. I'd appreciate if you help me to contact the above. Posted by Dr. S.Venkat.
These management gurus wear dhotis, Gandhi topis and speak only a smattering of English while delivering lectures about efficiency to management students, corporate houses and business conferences. They are Mumbai’s dabbawallas who speak from the heart about the trade they know best – carrying two lakh dabbas to the city’s office-goers. Secretary of the Nutan Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers Charity Trust Gangaram Talekar and M Medge, a tiffin carrier contractor — both essentially dabbawallas — have been delivering lectures at premier institutes like the IIMs, CII conferences, Symbiosis institutes, WTC, for the last six years. “It started with the Confederation of Indian Industry inviting us for a lecture,” said Talekar. “Our connections are well-managed, which is what we talk about at the lectures. Without putting in any capital ourselves, we manage to achieve a difficult feat,” he added. Around 5,000 dabbawallas work every day through a system of multiple relay to deliver tiffin boxes in an exercise that begins at 9 am and ends at 5 pm. The finely-tuned system earned them a Six Sigma rating from business magazine Forbes. Points discussed by the two dabbawallas * They rely on low capital and use cycles, wooden carriages and local trains to achieve their target. * There are several groups that work independently and network with each other to achieve one goal. * They meet once a month where all the groups gather and thrash out issues. * There is no retirement age. People work as long as they want. to. * Since their lifestyle is simple and involves a lot of physical exercise, they rarely suffer from illnesses. * The dabbawallas have a credit society which gets them through money crunches. * Being ‘annadattas’ they are automatically treated with respect. Six Sigma rating A few years ago, US business magazine Forbes gave Mumbai’s dabbawallas a Six Sigma performance rating, or a 99.999999 percentage of correctness — which means one error in six million transactions. Six Sigma is a process that helps organisations focus on delivering near-perfect products and services. If you use Six Sigma you can measure how many defects there are in a process and can systematically figure out how to eliminate them and try and achieve zero-defect status.
* The second dabbawalla sorts out the dabbas at the railway station according to destination and puts them in the luggage carriage. * The third one travels with the dabbas to the railway stations nearest to the destinations. * The fourth one picks up dabbas from the railway station and drops them of at the offices. * The process is reversed in the evenings. Posted by Murali.
If AT&T Wireless sells out to Cingular, it would knock down the number of major national carriers from six to five. It would also be the first bit of significant consolidation in the wireless sector since Deutsche Telekom (DT: Research, Estimates) bought VoiceStream (now known as T-Mobile) in 2001. Still, analysts say investors should not rush into the wireless sector since there is still a lot of uncertainty about how things will pan out. For one, speculation about wireless mergers has been running rampant on Wall Street for the past three years. Source: One Cingular sensation? - Jan. 20, 2004 Cingular makes AT&T Wireless bid; Combo would top Verizon as No.1 cellphone carrier - USA Today I just heard on NPR news that Cingular made a cash offer to AT&T board over the weekend. Have to wait and see whats going to happen. Well, when I came to US in 2001, i saw Cingular offices in Atlanta and thought this company looks really cool, it will be good if I can get into this company, now I am in and working, well that was some real wishful thinking. Now Cingular might become the largest wireless carrier and thats for sure going to bring lots of opportunities for me to expand to a wider base, hopefully, it never hurts to do wishful thinking. Posted
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Perhaps being a woman does help screen you from certain faces of corruption. But does that mean you fight it too? The anonymous lady IAS officer answers: “A lot of us have decided not to go after corruption aggressively. It may make you ineffective in this set-up. We need to focus on improving our system instead.” Source: A fine line between corruption and conscience Posted
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Rachel's a pretty girl, very cosmopolitan . Intelligent to boot. And I wish I had never dated her. Think I am crazy? Well I have my reasons. In fact, 10 of them: 1) She is not Rachna anymore. Not even at home. She likes to be called Rachel all the time. I miss my girl. 2) While the world sleeps, Rachel awakens and… goes to work . And it's when I'm in my deepest slumber that she calls and insists on love talk. Neighbours raise their eyebrows and mouth words like 'loose morals'. After all, middle class morality says, no maiden from a respectable family goes gallivanting in the middle of the night. I don't care, she doesn't care, but I do wish she wouldn't keep sighing about the liberal West. 3) She practices her weird call-center accent on me. I mean, I love to be of help in her work, but now she seems to use it all the time. Believe me…that twang is really mind-blowing. 4) Rachel has got used to croissants, pasta and chocolate truffles. That's the kind of food at her workplace and it is free. But I have to foot the bill at restaurants she now wants to eat at. 5) Then she works off those calories at the office gym. So do the men at her workplace. Lately she has been eyeing the little roll around my middle with pronounced unhappiness. Me? Exercise? I'd rather live a loveless life. 6) She wants 23 roses on Valentine's Day - one more than Mary (once Meera) got. Plus a teddy bear, perfume, all branded. She spends hours shopping for it, I pick up the tab. I mean, Valentine's Day? Whoever heard of it? 7) She gave up Jagjit Singh for Robbie Williams. Threw out Shah Rukh and developed a crush on Enrique Iglesias instead. What if after marriage she decides she doesn't like a desi husband after all? 8) Weekend for Rachel is defined in the American way. Work hard through the week and then party hard. I work hard during the week and then…work hard during the weekend. She wants to party, take in a film, live it up. I am pooped. 9) Rachel is due for promotion. She is good at what she does - transforming an irate customer into an affable pal in seconds. Problem: She treats me like one too. When I am a little miffed, she purrs: "How may I help you?' 10) This one's important. I am just not good enough any more. Last month, she dated a colleague with an equally jarring accent. And promptly had a crush on him. That's the third this year. Still think I am crazy? Source: Don't date that BPO babe - The Times of India Posted
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The IIMs and IITs have maintained a legacy of meritocratic excellence because they have not been subjected to government control so far. Now, thanks to a gentleman who favours rewriting of NCERT textbooks, teaching of astrology in IITs and Sanskrit in IIMs, this legacy is in danger. The minister should forget about clipping the wings of IITs and IIMs and focus on ‘monitoring’ the quality of India’s primary and secondary education. He should attempt to ensure that the ambitious Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan — which aims at ensuring all 6-14 year olds complete eight years of schooling by 2010 — is a success. He should hold to account staff which draws salaries but doesn’t show up to teach; those who let ‘schools’ without blackboards, chairs, tables, drinking water supply and toilets crop up. Source: Legacy of IIMs, IITs: Joshi on the rampage Gosh, what is this guy upto, destroying the bastions that are instrumental in creating army of intellectuals across the world and currently making waves by being the most entreprenueric community in the world and making sure that India does not miss the next IT Wave. I do admit IT wave is not the whole thing, but here we have committed army of intellectuals who are all set to wave the Indian flag across the world and bring billions of dollars into the country which country can benefit on by passing the benefits to the grass roots. The duty of govt. is to provide the grass root infrastructure and make sure that the basic education reaches the poor masses across India, not to destroy the system which is working wonders. These political swines and beurocratic babu's now want a control on the institutions that are producing army of intellictuals year after year, so that they can weild their brute power, they want every thing glitterring under their control, only we have to rise to help ourselves to this situation. Posted
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Richard MacManus suggests an approach to "measure of scale in the weblogging world. The goal is to help bloggers, particularly new ones, easily fit into a suitable blogging pattern." The 5 Fractal levels for bloggers identified (based on the number of visitors): 10
- Personal Blogger Well, my traffic is 100 plus, so I am a social blogger, i can see repeat readers slowly increasing but for sure it takes a while to cross 1000. Probably after I come up with website for DILT which I am planning on currently.
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Karun Swaroop Weds Sucharita Masani Sumuhurtham On
Monday 26th Jan 2004 Venue:
at M.N.R Function Hall, Lunch: from 11:00 am Onwards (REMEBER THE TIME ;-) ) Also
watch marriage on-line in Any Other kind of broad casts will be updated on the site. For updates on this and you can check this blog. Karun Swaroop is one of the guys who I always love to hangout with and he is a very good listener and very good advisor and kind of like that COMPLETE MAN of Raymonds advertisement, now I am sad that he is diving into the marriage ocean. Karun u might think marriage is like: But you are forgetting the fact that you are And you have to realize that
GUYS give all your
Karun All the best and wish you a very successful happy married life.
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Here are my heartful congratulations on your marriage and I wish you a very very happy succesful married life. Suchi, make sure you take care of Swaroop properly. Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.
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Glad that you enjoyed the post and thanks for the advice. I am looking for the girl who I would love to share laughter and tears ;-) Have a good time and enjoy.
I am all excited, today in tracking I saw so many countries accessing my site, it is such a wonderful feeling to watch people from so many countries visiting my site. This gives the gig I need, wooohoooooo. Actually on other days, I had visitors froming from Singapore, Bangladesh, Dubai, Ireland,China, etc.. This image is updated in tracking on a day to day basis, so does not have an aggregate of all the countries that my site is accessed from. I did not get any hits from South American countries yet. I had about 125 unique hits today. Looks like I need to redesign my site for accommodating for advertisement revenue. I track my site using www.free-stats.com
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Watch the India's ambitious lunar travel (Chandrayan) project in animation. I am all excited about this, I will be covering this project from time to time in 'Chandrayaan' category. Posted
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Its wonderful to see India winning like this. I am glad Irfan Pathan is going well. By bro, Ganesh, was also a competitor during the selectin process in Banglaore, but he is not that matured and so he lost his position not able to handle situatio, hope he will get more strategy for next year selections.
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The 16-year-old native of Saransk, a town 400 miles from capital Moscow in Western Russia, claims that she can see inside human bodies, thanks to her X-ray vision. It all began when Natasha was 10. One day, she told her stunned mum Tatiana that she could see "two beans," "a tomato" and a "vacuum cleaner" inside her. Initially, doctors dismissed her claims, but after exhaustive tests, they were left baffled. "I recognise this girl has unusual abilities," The Sun quoted Dr Irina Kachan, who conducted tests on Natasha in her hometown, as saying. Added another doctor, “She is like a human X-ray machine”. "We were deeply sceptical at first, fearing this girl was seeking to make idiots of us." "But we cannot explain by normal means what she is seeing." In
one instance, Natasha, who now plans to study medicine. Posted
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I believe you should take a look at some facts about Natasha Demkina: http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/demkina.html http://www.csmmh.org/demkina/ Pls comment on what you think . Posted by bhu1.
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Criticising the United States for its occupation of Iraq, Roy said Washington and its allies were re-drafting the war ravaged country's constitution, trade laws, tax laws and intellectual property laws in order to turn it into an American style capitalist economy. "All the infrastructure facilities that were deliberately targeted and destroyed by the coalition forces during the war, are now being reconstructed by American private companies," she said. She said resistance had to begin with a refusal to accept the legitimacy of the US occupation of Iraq. "In countries like India and Pakistan, we must block the US Government's plan to have their soldiers in Iraq." Taking an aggressive stance, Varavara Rao, a poet, said only an agrarian revolution can reverse the process of "imperialist globalisation". He asked representatives attending the MR and WSF meets to "either join a violent struggle for change or at least unite their movements to fight imperialism and globalisation." He said the "imperialist forces" were operating in India through their "agents" like big corporate house, top bureaucrats, a large number of politicians and "stooges" in media. "If one has to target the imperialists here, one has to primarily hit at their agents." He said it was not possible to reform the present system or give it a "human face". "The only method of reversing the policies of globalisation was to build a new social-democratic system in the country." Source: The Hindu News Update Service 'What did we do? Why they hate us? We have been doing good to the world all the time.' This is the question some Americans ask, well thsi might give them some idea. War on Taliban in Afghanistan, I am all for it and actually the whole world was behing it, Iraq War, noway, its a selfish war fought by telling lies all the way. Posted
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“Instead of treating cable TV operators as our arch enemy, it’s better to use them as branch offices, allies and vehicles of publicity,” says the innovative filmmaker. Kamal
has always shown that he can think differently and implement it
successfully, he always amazes me. Posted
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I am happy that 2004 is going to be great for you too. Ohh yes, I will communicate about my special buddy Arvind and his wishes to Karun. take care Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.
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Prof Ziv Katalan’s eyes, which the students seem to be enamoured of, forms the base of the cake. Katalan, who teaches ‘decision models and optimisation’, comes from Wharton. To this base, the students have added Prof Robert Stine’s forearms and Prof Mark Finn’s calves. Stine is also from The Wharton School while Finn, who teaches ‘financial accounting in decision making’, is from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University . “We asked Zameer for more inputs on Prof Finn, but our favourite drummer demurred saying it was a private matter!’’ students Diana Nariman, Lakshmi Muralidharan and Mayura Balasubramaian said. Creating the ‘Perfect Professor’ was an all-woman affair. Amongst the ingredients for the ‘first layer’ of the cake, the students suggest “three tumblersful of Prof Jagmohan Raju’s humour, 574.098 bathtubs of Prof Huggy Rao’s presence, charm and charisma, Prof Anjani Jain’s smile, a dollop of Prof Scott Ward’s voice and six pegs of Prof Waterman’s extremely amazing accent’’. ISB girls create 'Perfect Professor' - The Times of India Time for professors to learn grooming ;-) Posted
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Coinciding with the Mars exploration, a geophysicist associated with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is studying the surface of one of only two impact craters created by a meteor strike on basaltic land, which is located at Lonar in Maharashtra. Horton Newsom, a research professor, is here to collect samples on NASA's request in a bid to unlock the mysteries of the Martian surface. The reason is the uncanny similarities between the Lonar crater and those on Mars which have also been formed in basalt. The Spirit rover has already wandered over the surface of one such Martian crater, a much bigger one though. Newsom, from the Institute of Meteoritics at New Mexico University in US, was one of those responsible for selecting the site. By comparing samples from Lonar with those from Mars, scientists hope to solve the one big riddle surrounding the red planet: Did it ever contain water, could it ever support life? Why NASA scientists visited Nagpur before Mars mission - Newindpress.com Posted
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Let's face it. You can love her, you can hate her, but you can't wish her away. Our Ash has done it again. This time, she has been voted the most attractive woman of 2003. What a boost for the Indian glamour scene. This was not a made-in-India competition, though one suspects that we Indians tend to be the most enthusiastic voters online and the sheer numbers help. Ash was voted the most attractive in a poll conducted by hellomagazine.com , and the also-ran list includes amazing beauties the world over. Chew on this - British actress Keira Knightly came in second followed by no less than Nicole Kidman and Catherine Zeta Jones. Angelina Jolie was there somewhere, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cindy Crawford, but Ash beat them all to it. Most attractive women of 2003 1.
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Some time ago, BBC was conducting a poll about the best song in the world. (Internet is not wide-spread in china). I recieved atleast 10 mails from my friends that urged me to "show my patriotis," and stand up for my country and language, by voting the stupid song "Rakkamma kaiya thattu" In tamil there were many songs which are much better than this one. Some stupid fellow decided to promote this sond in the poll and people followed. I suspect same thing happened here!. To be frank, Aish got Miss. World just to please one of the biggest markets in the world (INDIA). When
an Indian becomes the richest in the world, Posted by windows-games.
First thing I have to tell you is that, when you said 'Internet is not wide-spread in china', you are completely ignorant to the world facts, just get a life/facts before you make statements. China is more wired than India and get this fact too, China has lot more literacy rate than India. If you don't have any accomplishments under your belt, you don't have RIGHT to comment on the greatness of India. You want to measure the knowledge based on 'Nobel Prize', then what should I say about the Nobel comitee which did not give a peace prize for Gandhi, I can question its credibility. And you want to know the accomplishments of India, then see this, Indians invented '0' the root of mathematics, Indian designed Intel Chip which is used in most of the pc's acrosst the world, about 30% of NASA employees are Indians, we made satellites and sucessfully launched them, we make nukes and tested them, these are just tip of the ice berg which we accomplished in just a little more than 50 years of independence. First be proud that you are born as an Indian, you are one of those morons who get sucked into the western culture and think that is the best thing in the world. Get a life and some knowledge and some credibility behind your name dude, to be eligible to make some blatant comments. Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.
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Later in the discussion, I was talking to him about redoing the website and he told "I don't want Linux". I am sure there are hundred's of thousands of small business owners in the same situation who thinks if they buy a Window's machine all problems will be solved. Linux has to marketed so that all these potential buyers should be able to use it easily. Anycomments on how to deal with this situation? Posted
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For the next three months, NASA scientists and engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena will plot Spirit’s wanderings with the Java-based Science Activity Planner that operates like a digital Gran Turismo. ‘‘It takes all the raw data in the mission data base and builds a 3-D terrain you can spin around and zoom in,’’ Gene Chalfant, JPL technical staffer, said. With the same point-and-click skills one would need for, say, online shopping, the NASA team will plan Spirit’s daily activities, page through voluminous data and communicate. ‘‘It’s a sandbox, in a way, to try different ideas’’, Chalfant said. ‘‘You pick the rock you want to investigate and command the rover to move there and the rover figures out the best way.’’ The team made virtually no changes to an online version of the programme, dubbed Maestro, that lets space nuts page through panoramic colour images, check out the rover’s wheel-mounted hazard cameras or plan a rover mission just like real scientists. The simulated rover drives on a 3-D Model of the martian terrain as precise as the one used by the NASA mission. ‘‘(Scientists) do exactly the same thing you can do,’’ Chalfant said. Java’s journey from mundane to extraterrestrial began nearly a decade ago when JPL scientists began noodling with the programming language to create a command and control system for the 1995 Mars Sojourner, said James Gosling. The JPL team showed Sun what they had done, and Gosling, a vice-president and fellow at the Santa Clara, California-based software and systems developer, was hooked. ‘‘I’m a geek anyway, so it sucks me in,’’ Gosling said. He spent so much time at the Pasadena space laboratory that he became an advisory board member. ‘‘They are doing things that people think are science fiction,’’ he said. ‘‘It’s a place to go to have your mind blown. It’s hard to find a government agency ... where people are living their dreams.’’ Although Java’s data-handling capabilities initially attracted NASA, the code’s ability to transcend the many platforms used by mission scientists and engineers sold the space agency, Gosling said. ‘‘They can have scientists all over the world looking at the data but collaboratively deciding on the way the mission should proceed,’’ Gosling said. ‘‘They are all speaking different languages when they talk to the rover but everybody in the control room is using Java.’’ Source: Sun's Java gives Spirit an easy life Its exciting to know the Java is doing wonders across, it worked wonders during 911 and now its showing it miracles with Rover. I am excited to be a java geek. Posted
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The anti-globalisation meeting - the fourth of its kind - is being held in Asia for the first time. Discussions planned for the six-day event include issues like imperialist globalisation, international security and civil rights. Largely a group of trade unionists, non-governmental organisations and leftist parties, the World Social Forum (WSF) was conceived as an international forum against economic globalisation. Source: BBC NEWS | South Asia | Activists gather for Mumbai forum I don't think on a first hand I am going to support this forum, I am beneficiary at this moment, I will have to see what they are upto and what their reasons are and whether they are valid or not and then decide. WSF home page link http://www.wsfindia.org/
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I have come across this organization NetAid.org which is doing wonderful work across the world and they got their activities in India also. I thought my readers will love to have this info. United Nations had apponted Salil Shetty as the new director of this organization. See, if you can volunteer or take advantage of this organization to make a change in your community. Click to go to Sanghamitra, an activity in Anthrapradesh India -->NetAid | World Schoolhouse | India - Sanghamitra Click for Net Aid --> Home Page Posted
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“During the talks, we found that the country, ancestors and culture of all of us is the same. The focus of our discussions was that the basis of patriotism or nationalism is not religion but the country,” said the statement read out by Indresh Kumar. Source DC Headlines Gosh finally its happening, I am glad.
The H1-B Training Grant for the state's Maricopa county from the US Department of Labour's Employment and Training Administration is for a specific goal: to reduce businesses' dependence on Indian H1-B workers. "Companies are saying that our domestic US workers do not have the skill set that foreigners do," said Suzanne Ledy, business projects coordinator for the Maricopa Workforce Connections Centre in Phoenix and the grant manager for the latest proposal. "It (the programme) is to increase the skill level of our domestic workers so we can ultimately replace H1-B workers," she said. Source: Welcome to SIFY News Its kind of interesting phenomenon, it would be good to see skilled people arround.
President George W Bush unveiled plans Wednesday for a US return to the moon as early as 2015, saying a lunar base would be a launch pad for manned missions to Mars and "across our solar system". "India will certainly participate in the US initiative because we don't want to lag behind in the exploration of space," Indian Space Research Organisation chairman Nair told AFP. But he said the extent of India's role had still to be determined. "We'll firm up our plans for space exploration after bilateral discussions with them," he said in Bangalore. "Our role will depend on the progress of the dialogue with the US." Indian, US space agency and other officials would discuss areas of cooperation at a workshop in Bangalore June 24-27 that would focus on "peaceful exploration of space," he said. Read Welcome to SIFY News Posted
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In their caption, they say, 'We also count people in India', i guess sensus department main work is that, lol, do actually counting people is like icing on the cake of what they do? Then what is the cake part?
On
January 20, the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, will
formally unveil a dedicated `Jaikisan' television channel, an
FM radio service and, to top it all, a call centre facility for
agriculturists. According to official sources, the proposed farm
channel involves both narrowcasting using Doordarshan's wide terrestrial
network as well as beaming through the Indira Gandhi National
Open University's (IGNOU) satellite/cable TV infrastructure. The
projected outlay: Rs 350 crore over the next three years. Finally, in an apparent bid to dispel the impression that IT and telecom are only for the `classes', there is the move to establish Kisan call centres, enabling farmers to obtain crop, weather and price-related information through phone. All the farmer has to do is dial `1101''1551', a toll-free number, and post his query. This is a very good thing, still radio reaches more masses than TV and actually having a station for farmers is a wonderful thing. Bottom line is there need to be some real dedicated individuals working on this, instead of having beuroctatic hands meddlign with that, its better if NGO's and professionals in the fields are given more power and access to use it to broadcast their message. Posted
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So what are the poor managements to do to avoid losing their licences? Hire some patients for window dressing when the Medical Council of India inspection team comes for an inspection. Who is to be blamed for this situation — the managements, the government or the Medical Council of India? According to Dr K Shashidhar, managing director of the Kamineni Institute of Medical Sciences, Narketpally, the government must rethink its approach to issuing essentiality certificates for new medical colleges-cumhospitals. World is Green : Suhit Anantula's Blog on Rural India: Rural Hosipitals Posted
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The stats are 115 and page impressions are 464. That's about 4 clicks per visitor. Its a wonderful feeling. There is so much satisfaction in doing your own stuff and actually watching it grow day after day. I am completely excited. One more thing I learned today is that, a little bit more concentration into the look and feel of website ends up in more no. of hits. Well, content is the primary importance, I will have to look at new ways of enhancing the site. Posted
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CNN.com - New study shatters Internet 'geek' image - Jan. 14, 2004 Well, for sure use of internet and blogging has certianly helped me increase my knowledge base, and actually this is kind of real boost/good news for me :-) And for sure lot of reading gives me a chance to speak with anybody on any matter. And having a blog actually gives me an edge over others to get out there and say that I do STUFF and go from there. Its kind of interesting. Posted
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A
ceremony Wednesday commemorated the 30th anniversary of the first
flight into Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport -- American
Airlines No. 341 from New York, with stops in Memphis, Tenn.,
and Little Rock, Ark. A joint airport for Dallas and Fort Worth was first proposed in 1927, but the project didn’t get under way until $35 million in revenue bonds were sold in 1968 to finance construction. The dedication ceremony was in 1973, and the first flight was marked in January 1974, according to the airport’s history. Very interesting to know, well 30 years, I am sure DFW has made long strides in progress, this is one of the best cities in USA, looks like a satellite city, except for the horrible summer heat, a very nice city which developed at a vey fast pace. Well, if you talk to people in their 30's and above who are born and brought up here, they tell that they used to see horses on these roads a decade or two back, now the roads a filled with latest and greatest cars. People coming from other parts of country, just keep wondering looking at the no. of new cars that stroll of the road on a day to day basis.
Cell Phone debuted in December. This new year's movie, quite unlike the past when new year celebration movies usually brought hearty laughter, has triggered quarrels and mistrust between couples. The movie, produced by veteran director Feng Xiaogang, talks of how cell phones affect people's traditional life by portraying a love triangle between a successful middle-aged TV talk show host, his wife and his lover.
Well, guys who stray outsite you have to be extra careful, you can get busted anytime with your new Hand Granade, that you carry all the time. Posted
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This article gives an idea of what kind of plight US citizens are facing due to outsourcing. The interesting thing, I can be a victim of this phenomenon any day, actually I guess I am eveeryday, I need to fight time to deliver stuff so that my project will not get outsourced. Well, this challenge has given me a great opportunity to produce quality products, but at what cost ? On the other side of it, I am at an advantage than a US citizen, If I loose my job, I can afford to back to India and find a job there. Strange, world/people changing so fast.
With diplomatic relations on the mend, thousands of Indian cricket fans are expected to travel to Pakistan to witness the first Test series in that country in 14 years beginning in March. And after Indian captain Sourav Ganguly's declaration in Australia that his team is committed to tour Pakistan, setting aside earlier security threats, tour operators to cricket officials are all hoping for a virtual invasion by Indians. The prospect of Sachin Tendulkar - who began his career in Pakistan way back in 1989 -- taking on tearaway Shoaib Akhtar, or Virender Sehwag clobbering spinners and speedsters, is too tempting to resist for Indian fans, who have increasingly begun to make their presence felt in international matches. And with Indian fans ready to travel to places as far as Australia and South Africa, Pakistan - a country millions of Indians have never been and are curious to see - would be a tempting and economical destination. The series will also give an opportunity for thousands of divided families in India and Pakistan to meet their relatives after a long, long time. The fact that it will be India's first full Test tour to Pakistan since 1989 has added to the excitement and enthusiasm of cricketers and Indian fans.
Am planning to travel to Pakistan for this cricket series. I would like to come in contact with any other Indian fans group who may also be going to Pak. Can you pls. advise me? Thanks
& best Regards Posted by Ray.
India is clearly the flavour of the times we are living in, even in the field of patents. An Indian scientist working for the Xerox Corporation in Canada, Raj Patel, earned a rare distinction when he was awarded his 100th patent in the US towards December end, reports an Indian daily. In fact, he became only the second scientist in the company to have bagged 100 international patents. Patel, a 25-year veteran of the Xerox Research Centre of Canada, is one of the company's top experts in toner technology. His most recent patent No. 6,664,017 was awarded for expanding Xerox's document security know-how. The invention covers two new ways to apply glossy white toner marks - either visible to the eye at a certain angle or visible only under ultraviolet light - on documents for security or authentication purposes. Key potential uses for the invention include sports tickets, manufacturers' coupons and currency.
Former
US senator Larry Pressler on Tuesday said Washington should be
wary of China because it would become "a troublemaker"
in 20 years. "They are building a big navy, unnecessarily. China will be a troublemaker in 20 years. I hope the US administration will take notice," said Pressler, who retired as republican senator from South Dakota. Pressler, who has turned a businessman and public speaker since retiring from politics in 1997, was reacting to suggestions from reporters that China's small arms industry was surreptitiously feeding weapon requirements of Indian rebel groups. He stressed the need for the US to establish "stronger relations" with India. "India should be the centrepiece of US foreign policy in this part of the world." Washington should "embrace" India as a trade partner and have a free trade agreement with it, he remarked. Speaking on US foreign policy, Pressler, 61, said: "The US government is more comfortable in dealing with dictators than democracies. So true the statement regarding the relationship with dictators. Oldest democracy in the world deals with dictators b'cos they are easy to work with and they can get their point across fast, dealing with democrazy is a difficult path as there are lots of people to deal with. Posted
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I
recently attended a marriage. I dread attending wedding receptions
because I invariably end up meeting people and having conversations
with them without figuring out who they are. So, much of the conversation
ends up trying to decipher clues as to their identify. The problem
is compounded when they ask “Remember me” and you
reply “Oh Yes, Of course I do” and they go on to ask
“So, who am I?” Well, its kind of interesting thought, well atleast should be implemented in all official meeting etc.
"This
is your suspect, how would you recognize him?" Slightly
flustered by this ridiculous response, he flashes the picture
for The
policeman angrily responds, "What's the matter with you two??
Of Extremely
frustrated at this point, he shows the picture to the third The
SARDAR looks at the picture intently for a moment and says, "The The
policeman is surprised and speechless because he really doesn't
know He
leaves the room and goes to his office, checks the suspect's file
in "Wow!
I can't believe it. It's TRUE! The suspect does in fact wear contact "That's
easy," the SARDAR replied. "He can't wear regular glasses
because bolo ta ra ra ra*.. Posted
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sardaji:
My loving God ,thank u so much ..u are so..so..so..greate.
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"Sardar ji with his wife : Tell me a joke where I am not involved."
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Gurley: "(1) Evolution is a model or decent metaphor to think about business, and companies evolve with their tools. (2) technologies are business weapons, but there are no guarantees. (3) You can't choose not to play without risking extinction-heading out onto the field with a wooden racquet is a really bad idea." Bezos: "I personally believe that with respect to the Internet we are at about the 1908 Hurley Washing Machine stage...We haven't invented the equivalent of the off switch, we haven't invented the electric outlet, people are still having to choose between phone calls and using their web browser...As the fundamental technology advances, as disk drives become even cheaper, as bandwidth becomes even cheaper, as CPUs become even cheaper, as the raw ingredients in our business continue to get cheaper and cheaper we will layer on top of that innovation to figure out how to take the now much cheaper raw ingredients and do something special that actually serves customers...What I see is that the rate of innovation on the Internet in general to my eye appears to be accelerating rather than decelerating. I don't know how long that will continue. I think it's very early, and we're basically in 1! 908." Posted
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Today I was tracking my traffic and foudn that my site is listed on www.shianet.org, well thats kind of encouraging thing to see happenning and my site coming up a lot in the google searches. I am having a google rank of 4 as of now. Hope this grows much further.
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Health Minister Sushma Swaraj handed over a cheque of Rs 5 lakh to Mirza, who won the Wimbledon junior girls' doubles title last year, and projected her as the brand ambassador of the Family Welfare Department.
Sania said she owed it all to her parents who had taken a lot of pains to enable her to pursue her career. "I hope parents would give their best to their wards for the child's all round development," she added. Profile Here Click here to see Sania Mirza's Pic. Interview & Wimbledon Championship Pic Wimbledon Profile Link Sania Mirza's Journal Is Sania #1 In the world EvesIndia Small Kid Wonder Reachout Hyderabad Link Hindusthan Times Chat American Tennis Victory Posted
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I am just wondering who left the above message and for which person, for me or for Sania? confused....... Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.
best
of luck.
Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.
Posted by swadeep kumar toppo.
I wish this message board for you grows and leave a message here for all your fans who come here and I wish you success in all your goals and would like to see you playing Womens Singles and winning grand slam for India. Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.
Posted by akhilesh.
SEE WHEN YOU SAY DREAM GIRL ITS A DIFFERENT THING. WELL, WHAT I WOULD REALLY SUGGEST IS THAT, TAKE SANIA MIRZA AS YOUR INSPIRATION AND STRIVE HARD IN YOUR CHOSEN FIELD JUST LIKE SANIA DID IN TENNIS, BY WAKING UP EARLY IN THE MORNING AND PRACTICING RELENTLESSLY THROUGH YEARS AND CONCENTRATING IN ACHIEVING PERFECTION, AND SHE MADE THE DREAM OF HER AND THE WHOLE INDIA COME TRUE. YOU GUYS/GILRS ALSO JUST DRAW THAT INNATE ENERGY FROM YOURSELVES AND GO OUT THERE AND FIGHT IT OUT, MAKE A MARK AND GET YOUR NAME WRITTEN IN THE HISTORY. BELIEVE ME YOU CAN BECOME A SANIA OR A SACHIN IF YOU PURSUE YOU DREAMS. YOU WILL FAIL A LOT OF TIMES, BUT REMEMBER TO MAKE EVERY FAILURE A LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR YOU, AND NEVER QUIT. THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE LIKE SANIA HAVE FACED LOTS OF FAILURES BEFORE THEY ACHIEVED THE PERFECTION WHERE THEY DON'T FAIL ANYMORE AND YOU MIGHT HAVE OBSERVED THAT THEY STILL STRIVE DAY IN AND DAY OUT TO IMPROVE ON THEIR PERFECTION SO THAT THEY CAN GO MORE PLACES AND MAKE MORE DREAMS COME TRUE. EINSTEIN FAILED 10000 THOUSAND TIMES BEFORE HE FOUND THE RIGHT WAY TO MAKE A BULB AND 10000 WAYS NOT TO MAKE A BULB. SO START COUNTING YOUR FAILURES AND SUCCESSES MAKE YOUR DREAM COME TRUE. Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.
u
r my best tennis player and i want ur residence add if u don't
mind plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Let me start by thanking you for making a nation proud. You are a perfect role model for young kids, keep up the good work. Personally, I am great fan of yours and you inspire me everytime I get on the football field. I live in Kenya, sorry i can't say my name. Anyway, I wish you all the best in your career and may you one day be among the best in the world. God bless you, take care sis; hope u get to read this lettet Posted by Nameless.
Posted by sudhir.
You are right, but you know what, this comment 'There are as many translators as there are humans.' is insensitive on this post.
Posted by atul rajput.
Posted by awanish thakur.
On the negative side u get carried away a little bit when u play. This makes u to lose lot of tournaments. Pierce also had the same feature. u have a very good temperament to become the world number one. Since Iam a final year engineering student , Iam not able to follow Ur schedules this year. I think I'll be placed in Wipro, Hyderabad. Anyway have a nice day. U have a good future. Rest in my next mail. Please do reply to this mail. I think we'll meet in Hyderabad. Byeeeeeeee. Rest in person.
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Posted by ABU REHAN.
Congratulations on your 1st Round win. Dont worry about pressure. Do your best out there and you will pull it off. Enjoy your tennis - dont worry about winning or losing and you will win. Prepare for Serena match. :-) Best Wishes for the 2nd round. Posted by Kurt.
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thank u for giving alot...... pls try again bye Posted by krishna.
Posted by Jeff.
Posted by anubhav jain.
I really dont want to flatter you or to boost my self by saying that you are beautiful or you are my inspiration for the future only one thing which i would like you to say is keep on and on one day rule the womens tennis kingdom this is the only thing which i would like you to say and one more sugessition right now you r in a lot of boom so y dont you fund some thing for tsunami victims also this would be really greatful to you also in many ways n even to tsunami victims ny how today i saw your match n i loved the way you kept on lpaying even though you have lost with serena wish you all the best Hope i would get a mail from you after i have mailed atleast 100 times to you n will be waiting for that mail cu arun_bharadwaj2003@yahoo.com d_arun_4u@hotmail.com Posted by Arun Bharadwaj.
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You have made us Indians proud to say that we too have such great youngsters on roll right at the moment. I could watch your only match with Serena, where I felt that you were much stronger n perfect in forehand and baseline shots. The way you keep on the volley rolling just shows your determination to win every moment. Good going girl, India believes in you. Now that you have made us proud just by being there n starting a good show, i am pretty sure that you will continue making us proud throughout your sports career. And most important, try being a good human being even after your popularity because thats the only way you can bring love and respect to yourself apart from the professional success. Wish you my best wishes 4 all ur future endeavours and may you bring great name to India. Posted by Samar.
Anyways
congratulations 4 ur nice performance in Australlian open champ.
Take
Care Posted by Aashirwad Gupta.
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Yours, Posted by Sania Mirza.
Good
to see you leaving message for all your fans at take care and good luck, Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.
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Yours
Great Fan, Posted by Aashish.
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You
are really a darling girl to our country. A cute an beautiful
gem in the crown of sports for India. Luv Posted by Shiva.
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Posted by pullkit. Hi. I
First… I am very poor in English. You please don’t
angry. You know i m a great fan of serina. but now I Congratulate to you.
I am also creating a software for tennis players. But I can’t finish the software also. You
know I am 18 years old student. One day the world will end. That day is the most important day.
Would
you please pray for me my good____________!! Kutty – Indias no.1 fool.. Posted by Kutty.
Posted by mohammed.
DO mail me bk on SIDHARTHA.CHADHA@GMAIL.COm or SIDHARTHA_CHADHA@YAHOO.COm Posted by Sidhartha.
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Kaleem
You are a very sweet looking girl and you play very very well. I lke you very very much. do reply to me back. Reena Posted by Reena.
Hats off SANIA. Posted by srinivas chinthapally.
You are a nice and beautyful girl. I really like you. You are so sweet.
I hope this message reaches you. Shilpa Posted by shilpa Joshi.
I hope this message reaches you. Shilpa Posted by shilpa Joshi.
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I am one of your great fan i never missed any one match of yours since two years. you are god gifted and i pray always with allah subhanu talah to be success in your carrier and hope u will get wimbuldon title one day. thanks Posted by Mohammed Kabeer Ahmed.
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Congratulations on your performance yesterday (1st March 2005) at Dubai Women's Open 2005. You have entered to Quarter Finals and hope to reach the finals. You are the most beautiful and talented Tennis star after Gabriela Sabatini. Keep up the good job. I wish you all success in your career ahead. Best regards. Shafeek
A. Jaleel Posted by Shafeek A. Jaleel.
maast patalerai tum sab khud ko kya samaj te ho ..yoon bueatiful.. cute vagaira vagaira bolne se ladki patjayegi aur woh bhi sanaia mirza jo assmaan pe baiti hai aaj aur tum log uski barsat ki intezar karrahe ho jara hosh me ajao nahin to tum sab ki khabar rakdiya jayegi..sania set karlo kisiko nahito yeh sab peeche pade rahenge magar umar to nahin permanant setup ki ..phir bhi allowed hai to temparory sahi .. aur behkaawoo me nahin aanna bye.. chal achha khel le do teen bade trophy marle aur duniya me kardika ne ka dawa bhi karle...jaa kush rahle.... Posted by khabri.
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Posted by shuvendu.
hi sania.i am a fan of your's.please mail me.Allah ka karam hai ki Aap ne Haidrabad Open Tennis ka Final badi hi mehnat-o-mushakkat ke saath Jeeta,Hamari Dua aap ke saath hamesha rahegee.InshaAllah aap Dubai mein bhi apna karishma dikha ke hum logon ka dil ek baar phir jeet lengee.
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Posted by devang parikh.
I
am one of ur greatest fans and i seek friendship with you.Best
of luck 4 ur career Posted by Sahit.
SANIYA
DIDI IAM NAZIR IAM YOUR BIG FAN
Posted by samim amin molla.
Posted by BINOJ R NAIR.
urs
big fan, Posted by ramkumar.
Posted by Santanu Dingal.
Posted by naveen.
you
are very good and very beaitiful.
I really really enjoy watching ur game. I have all ur games fullr recorded. Plzzzzzzzzzz mail to me at my mail id: naser_friend@hotmail.com A
great fan of a fabulous player Posted by Naser.
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arun kp Posted by arun.
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Posted by syama.
i want to appreciate you personally for giving good messages to today's youth and also teching good lessons to stupids who make useless comments syama Posted by syama.
why dont to you leave a message for ur fans? Posted by syama.
Posted by rakesh.
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your
fen Posted by lokesh.
"UR"fen
' Posted by yogen.
Your
Win is my Win, our Win. regards Posted by ram.
Ten
days after the barbaric torture of a mother and daughter, this
sleepy town in western UP is seething with anger but the police
have managed to arrest only one person and his family members
are on the run. She lost half a finger and her face was cut by her in-laws. Her daughter is recovering after a vagina repair surgery. According to Dr Neena Malhotra, the child was brought to the hospital with a 4-cm `perineal tear' after being inserted with a broken wiper reportedly by her father and grandfather. ``The girl is doing ok and is ready for discharge,'' Dr Malhotra says. ``She has to pass the urine and stool through an incision done in her abdomen as both her urinary and anal passages were damaged. A closure surgery would be done after six weeks and she might be well after that,'' she adds. Jyoti, meanwhile, has another reason to be at the hospital. She has asked the doctors to abort her two-month pregnancy. ``I can't let a child come to this world knowing how brutal a father and his family can be with their four-year-old daughter,'' says Jyoti. These filthy pople should be shot deat in public, so that nobody would do that thing again.
Posted by wintermoon.
Unknowingly – and unintentionally – the Indian professional has sparked off a major economic apprehension in the US among policy-influencers. The basic question, of course, is whether the outflow of jobs from America to India, despite lowering costs hugely for companies, is good for the US. The immediate concern is the backlash from people who have lost their jobs, which can escalate into a major issue in an election year. Some American economists, backed by conservative politicians are not asking for a ban on offshoring in as many words, but they’re arguing that the principles of free world trade – which Washington uses to pry open markets around the world – are no longer applicable when jobs start flowing out. Of course, with tech CEOs from America already having warned Washington not to pass legislation against exporting jobs to India and other countries – since their bottomlines benefit greatly from such moves. The arguments on both sides are based on David Ricardo's classic theory of comparative advantage – Posted
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Bowling
coach Bruce Reid, who did not give the Indians much of a chance
before the Test series against Australia, is now an admirer of
the team and believes other Test nations could learn a lot from
them. "I was so impressed with their mindset. There is much to learn from the Indians for the other Test nations," Reid said. "They were just not worried about individual reputations. They just played as they saw it. At team meetings they barely mentioned the names of the Australian bowlers. Well, a wonderful phenomenon to see India changing its face for better in each and every field in the international arena.
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“The Asian countries should take a concerted action against the outsourcing backlash by the US, Europe and Australia to challenge the growing threat of protectionism while charting out a three-point agenda for the Asian nations on taking it to the masses,” Arun Shourie, Union IT and Communication Minister said here at the inauguration of the Second Asian IT Ministers' Summit.
Shourie said that similar arguments and cases also come up in WTO as certain countries can not go on expecting opening up of goods and services from others while protecting their own services and markets. A good move in my opinion, need to unite on common issues, so that in the long term we will have more rapport with in asia and can work for more free trade zones.
The warning came in a report by the Washington-based Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP), the trade group for leading technology companies, including Intel Corp, IBM, Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP). It also came after new research by IDC that information technology sourcing to low-wage countries will more than quadruple by 2007. The CSPP said restrictive policies would do little to resolve America's long-standing problems affecting its global competitive such as low-scoring schools and inadequate spending on research. Putting up barriers, the companies said, would results in retaliation from affected countries and even an all-out trade war. ''There is no job that is America's God given right anymore. We have to compete for jobs,'' said HP CEO Carly Flornia.
Regards, Posted by Matt.
Posted by Unemployed.
Well, I have this Linux system installed on desktop at home, but when I tried to connect to internet through my Router, I had all kinds of problems and I gave it up, thinking that I will find somebody who knows Linux and help me fix it. Well, due to my laptop being under repair and my mind getting completely idle, I though about working on the Linux system, and started the desktop and found out that I forgot the login password, what worst can happen, well then I reinstalled the whole OS again and started digging arround and you know what in a couple of hours I was able to set up the network and able to access internet. Well, there is a catch, I am able to ping all kinds of sites out there from shell window, but somehow the browser never opens up the sites, i know they are trying to send request to the sites out there, but somehow not getting any response back. I will have to dig into that too. But, if I was not grounded, may be I would not have setup the basic network also, may be the next few months. Its good to fail and get grounded sometimes, you will know how to bounce back. Its true that failures are stepping stones for success. Posted
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RJD supremo Laloo Prasad Yadav on Saturday declined to accept the honorary doctorate proposed to be conferred on him by the Patna University at its convocation in Patna on Sunday. Talking to PTI, Yadav said the Univesity's syndicate had decided to confer an honorary doctorate degree on him. "But I don't know on what basis the decision was taken," he said, adding that he would not accept it. "I'll not attend the convocation," Yadav said. Well, I guess one wise decision by Laloo. Posted
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Movie bosses have been scouting locations for the film in Vancouver, but nothing has been finalized as yet. Aishwarya will co-star with Hollywood actress, Meryl Streep, who recently stood out in the role of an elderly, bespectacled and Yiddish-accented rabbi in HBO's 'Angels In America', according to a report in the Daily Mail. 'Chaos' is the English remake of critically acclaimed French director, Coline Serreau's social drama revolving around a bourgeois French couple who accidentally witnesses the violent beating of a young prostitute played by the Bollywood queen, by her pimps. While the French woman played by Streep empathizes with the prostitute's suffering, her selfish husband disapproves of his wife's concern. Streep's character traces the prostitute to the hospital where she is recovering from the beating and the two gradually develop a deep bond. The French woman helps the prostitute find a new life, and the prostitute helps the woman find a new identity. The Frenchwoman realizes that her life has been changed forever and she can never return to her selfish husband and son. Posted
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Well, here's the story how I met him, my laptop's power module is broken, and I took it to BestBuy and they directed me to CSI Computers and the Iranian dude, Nassar Bhai, told me that the part would cost $50/- and service charge is $250/- b'cos the part soldered to mother board and he has to do the soldering himself. I was taken aback and went out enquiring about that with someother guys, and they told the mother board need to be changed, hmmmm, well, I cannot afford that right now, its gonna put a hole of about $1000/- in my pocket, well finally I had to give it up and take it back to him. Lesson Learned: Don't by stuff from HP, Sony etcc. companies. Toshiba and IBM are the best deals out there to buy. Toshiba comes in affordable range and IBM comes in high end range. Well, I thught of a better idea, better buy an assembled piece, so that it costs about 500 to 700 dollars which will work as good as the branded ones. Let me see what I am gonna go for next time. Anyway, I am just wondering how to live with out a laptop for next few days. Posted
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PravasiBharatiya Divas Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced that Indian corporates
will be permitted to make overseas investments up to 100 per cent
of their networth and go global in the agriculture sector. In yet another announcement, the Prime Minister said children of Indian workers in the Gulf and South East Asia would be provided one-third reservation out of the 15 per cent supernumerary seats across different disciplines in educational instutions. Nice to see, that govt. is talkign about agriculture, what a relief, there need to be lots of funds to be invested in Agriculture sector, there is a dire need for a new Green Revolution in India and at the same time, there is need for stringent control over the agricultural companies/products which take advantage of uneducated farmers and give them a ride for their money. Will NRI's be able to make a difference? Well, just wondering how many NRI's will be interested in the field of agriculture.
The phenomenon of the so-called experimental cinema being paraded in the guise of multiplex movies finally seems to have found its bearings in Chameli . For a tastefully-done Chameli doesn’t succumb to truisms. Kapoor as the prostitute is about as credible as Shah Rukh Khan would be as a college student. And we aren’t even talking of her star persona coming in the way. Even as a drop-dead gorgeous streetwalker, she fails to convince with very well-attempted acting that quite doesn’t make the cut. Kapoor’s best moment clearly is in the stylishly done Bhage re man number, in which she prances in the rain with a child's abandon. The undoing of the film is the screenplay, with sketchy characterisations, which do not convince as the protagonists are drawn towards each other. Some clichés, however, remain. Like Chameli being the exaggerated good Samaritan, who wins over Aman. So, Chameli remains at best a well-tried experiment, not a film which plays out in your mind once you step out. Posted
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Nisha Sharma who got her 'dowry-greedy' groom and his mother behind bars a few moments before her wedding has been invited to the Oprah Show, hosted by America's most famous TV personality, Oprah Winfrey. The 21-year-old Delhi girl became a media celebrity after that gutsy act less than a year ago . "The invitation has been signed by the show’s associate producer, Veronica Langel," Nisha’s father, DD Sharma, told a newspaper. It has already been communicated to Nisha through the US Embassy which has expedited her visa formalities, the paper added. Wonderful, will have to look out for the show. A little bit of guts and belief in your values and being assertive about them will take you a long long way, Nisha Sharma, would like to see you go places and become a messenger/angel for all the women out there.
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At
a time when most colleges are worrying about the dwindling number
of students attending lectures and absenteeism, Shirin Soorya
(20) has proved herself to be a rarity in the student fraternity.
The Shri Bhagubhai Mafatlal Polytechnic at Vile Parle (W), run by the Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal, offers a three-year DOEACC B-level computer course. Shirin, a resident of Adarsh Nagar, Lokhandwala, passed the aptitude test and interview, and took admission for the course on July 16, 2003. To fund her education, her parents took a loan from the Standard Chartered Bank to pay the fees of Rs 24,000 for the first year. They even took an additional loan of Rs 27,000 to buy a computer for Shirin. But till date, the college has not conducted any lectures. Though there are 18 students enrolled for the course, all of them except Shirin are 'preparing' for their first semester exams that will begin on January 10, 2004. What a patehtic state, there are thousands of intelligent people out there looking for jobs, and institutions like these pocket money and ditch the students, they can employ those genius guys out there and provide education. When are these educational institutions going to see education not as business, instead as a tool to make india a super power. When is the govt. going to get down and do everything necessary to crub such institutions. KUDOS SHIRIN , I WISH I SHOULD HAVE DONE WHAT YOU ARE DOING WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE. INDIA NEEDS MORE CITIZENS WITH GUTS LIKE YOU! Posted
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But the big question is will he, or won’t he ? Most Indians thinking about the outcome of the Islamabad summit have that nagging feeling that they have heard it all before, and that the General will go back on his commitments as indeed he has in the past. But he is not likely to. The two attacks on Musharraf have made it clear that the terrorists targeting India now had him in their cross-hairs. They have thus become the unintended catalysts in promoting the Indo-Pak thaw. On one hand, they clearly drew the battle-lines in Pakistan between the die-hard jehadis and the Pakistani establishment. On the other, they brought home to New Delhi the seriousness of the jehadi threat to Musharraf. In othe words, they helped India and Pakistan developing a joint stake in their elimination. Read the article Reasons why the General has to deliver now - The Times of India Posted
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You guys remember Sashwat Singh, a sad tale of zero-tolerance meets intolerant bureaucrats..? 15 year old gets suspended, principal had kops follow him from school to his house, who confisticated his home computer because he used it to write "violent" rap songs, dissing his parents and the Holy Father, er, All-knowing Alpha, er, Dickwad Principal.. Well, as it turns out, kid bro does in fact have a CD out now. From reader Lance brown comes this link where you can download his album, plus a bunch of other "in-your-face" raps about the school principal and other fun stuff When will the nanny-state fascists who seem to be running our public schools realize, the more they squeeze, the more they slip through your fingers. Earth to principal Tom, you have already lost the respect of nearly all your charges. Most of them will keep quiet, just to get through high school, graduate, get into college and as far away from you and your cadre of jack-booted (or is it birkenstockked) thugs as possible. One wonders where John Ashcroft gets his ideas from, why he might think he can actually get away with eroding civil liberties on his end? Because the countrys' largest unionized, bullishly leftist workforce is on his side. They have no qualms about cracking down on civil liberties as long as it's for their pet cause of political correctness. "Columbine..", they yell as loudly as they can, hoping no one will pause to think logically after that, "..oh will somebody think of Columbine.." In the meanwhile, go show some support for Sashwat, will ya?
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Guess who said that - Hillary Clinton, should we take it as a joke. The
New York Democrat made the remark at a fund-raiser Saturday. During
an event here for Senate candidate Nancy Farmer, Clinton introduced
a quote from Gandhi by saying, "He ran a gas station down
in St. Louis." "I don't think she was, in any way, trying to demean Mahatma Gandhi," Naef said. "To be generous to her, I would say it was a poor attempt at humor. Perhaps I'm overly sensitive, but I find it offensive when people use stereotypes in that way." Indians have always supported Clinton families and this is how they give it back, well she says she deeply regrets it, but just think about the core mental attitude that has been hidden all these days, its poision lying deep in there. Finally
Clinton quoted the Indian independence leader as saying: "First
they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you,
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Some of you may have come across the Saint-Gobain “2-way mirror ad” which ran on TV sometime back. The ad showed teenage guys putting up a Saint-Gobain 2-way mirror on a rundown shack on a beach. Soon, hot-looking women in bikinis start making a beeline for the mirror on the shack(conforming to the commonly-held stereotype that women can’t resist mirrors!) and the guys are inside the shack busting their eyeballs ogling at the babes on the other side of the mirror. Of course the women don’t really know that the glass is indeed 2-way, and therein lies the supposed “punch” of the ad. I got this mail from a friend today which purports to have information on how to tell a 2-way mirror apart from a regular one. I reproduce the same here with some minor spelling/typo corrections. Beware
of 2 Way Mirror How to determine if a mirror is 2 way or not (Not a Joke!) Not to scare you, but to make sure that you aware. Many of the hotels and textile showrooms cheat the customers this way & watch privately. HOW TO DETECT A 2-WAY MIRROR When we visit toilets, bathrooms, hotel rooms, changing rooms, etc., how many of you know for sure that the seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the wall is a real mirror, r actually a 2-way mirror i.e., they can see you, but you can’t see them). There have been many cases of people installing 2-way mirrors in female changing rooms or bathroom or bedrooms. It is very difficult to positively identify the surface by just looking at it. So, how do we determine with any amount of certainty what type of mirror we are looking at? CONDUCT THIS SIMPLE TEST: Place the tip of your fingernail against the reflective surface and if there is a GAP between your fingernail and the image of the nail, then it is a GENUINE mirror. However, if your fingernail DIRECTLY TOUCHES the image of your nail, then BEWARE, IT IS A 2-WAY MIRROR! (there is someone seeing you from the other side). So remember, every time you see a mirror, do the “fingernail test.” It doesn’t cost you anything. It is simple to do. This is a really good thing to do. The reason there is a gap on a real mirror, is because the silver is on the back of the mirror UNDER the glass. Whereas with a two-way mirror, the silver is on the Surface. Keep it in mind! Make sure and check every time you enter in hotel rooms.May be someone is making a film on you. Ladies: Share this with your friends. Men: Share this with your sisters, wife, daughters, friends, colleagues, etc. Read this for more info and scientific info. I don’t know how true this is, but if it is then please use it for your “benefit”.
James Posted by TwoWayMirrors.net.
I'm not really sure yet what to think of George Bush's proposed immigration reform, but I'll give you my gut reaction: it's a Trojan horse. Bush has proven himself masterful at proposing legislation in which the headline summary is "compassionate": Under Mr. Bush's proposal, which effectively amounts to an amnesty program for illegal immigrants with jobs in the United States, an undocumented worker could apply for temporary worker status here for an unspecified number of years, with all the employee benefits, like minimum wage and due process, accorded to those legally employed. But the fine print contains some doozies: Under Mr. Bush's proposals, an undocumented worker and an employer would have to apply for the guest worker program hand in hand, with the employer serving as the sponsor for the worker. There would also be a fee to register for the program, but officials would not say how much that would be. ....Administration officials acknowledge that the wait for a green card could take up to six years or longer, meaning that some guest workers who apply for green cards but do not receive them before their guest worker status expires would face the prospect of being forced to leave the United States. For the time being I'll stay on the fence about this, but it's hard not to think of Bush's proposal as just an updated version of the infamous bracero program under which millions of Mexican farm workers provided low-wage labor in U.S. fields for more than two decades after World War II. Overall, I'm not thrilled with the idea of a "guest worker" program that essentially indentures a worker to a particular employer and provides no assurance of permanent residence, so while I'm generally in favor of more liberal immigration laws, I figure we should either let immigrants in or we shouldn't and quit playing games about it. What's more, this sounds all too typical of a Bush program, and I suspect there will be more bad news as the details are released. The Bushies rarely have the courage to push a genuinely conservative agenda, which they know is unpopular, but instead hide conservative time bombs in legislation that's clothed in the rhetoric of traditional liberalism. I suspect that this is happening yet again with this proposal, so I'll withhold judgment until I hear more about it.
Corporate
America loves the H1-B professional – one out of three is
an Indian – for obvious reasons. They don’t demand
salaries as high as their American counterparts with similar skills.
They’re flexible in terms of location, willing to move anywhere
within the country. And, critically, they have skills in fields
that there aren’t enough American pros in. even when companies downsize, H1-B people are among the last to be released, if at all. That’s because they’re involved in key R&D or product development work, which cannot be stopped. If you forget the starting salary, then, a H1-B may still be a great opportuntiy to globalise your career and your compensation. With the demand for pros from India diversifying to fields like education, life sciences and accounting, besides IT and engineering, the opportunities are immense. And since H1-B hiring moves in tandem with US growth rates, things should get better this year. If you’re in India, though, getting a H1-B job offer may not be easy. Most recruiters use employee referrals, Internet job boards and outreach at US colleges – and prefer to hire within the US, often headhunting from other companies or picking up people from campuses. Few, if any, actually look at India to bring people over. But if you’re in the US on a H1-B already, get ready to rock :-) Posted
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She actually ran for election some 15 years back when I was a kid, and I didn't have the opportunity to actually perceive the action. She ran as an independent candidate, with Elephant Symbol backed by BJP then. Well, that was a disaster, still you need to try to be in the game and finally win. Now I am so excited, its going to be lot of fun to see the action. Posted
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New
Year revellers are crawling back from the beaches of BJP-ruled
Goa, having cast off their clothes and inhibitions for a few days
of sandy celebration. As the parties on the beach wind down, another
party is being fashioned not so far away from the fun-worshippers
gyrating nakedly in their shacks. In an election year, with hope
in its heart and bijli sadak pani on its lips, the BJP is desperately
seeking a modern identity. It is seeking an identity that is different
from that frightening backward-looking anti-woman, anti-minority
and anti-youth force known as Hindutva. And, curiously enough,
it is in tiny Goa, where the BJP has somewhat succeeded in becoming
more modern than anywhere in north India. In Goa, the BJP has been made more tolerant, more development-oriented, far more careful about nasty rhetoric and thus more modern than anywhere else in India. Of course, your humble columnist still doesn’t know whether the sangh parivar will ever be cool enough to invite to a beach party, but, hey, didn’t Uma Bharti recently say she wanted Madhya Pradesh to become another Goa? All fair in politics, as long as you can get the power. Posted
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I'm
not the type to start a conversation in the men's restroom And the other guy says: "So what are you up to?" What
kind of question is that? At that point, I'm thinking this At
this point I am just trying to get out as fast as I can when I
Ok,
this question is just too weird for me but I figured I could Then I hear the guy say nervously... "Listen,
I'll have to call you back. There's an idiot in the other Posted
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Hoping to attract more Hispanic support for his re-election bid, President Bush on Wednesday will resurrect a plan to help millions of immigrants work legally in the United States, officials said. The officials said the plan would seek to allow immigrants to enter the United States legally if jobs were waiting for them and would also include a way for some undocumented workers already in the country to move toward legal status. "The president believes that America should be a welcoming society," he said. "We are a nation of immigrants, and our nation is better for it." Will have to wait and see how Indian Immegrants are going to get affected with this new law. Indians are eating into the highly paid jobs of American Society. Hispanics usually cater to the low end job in the society.
Significant
dates in relations between India and Pakistan: October 1947: War breaks out between India and Pakistan in Kashmir. The United Nations brokers a truce 16 months later. September 1965: The two countries fight a second war over Kashmir, ending in a U.N.-brokered cease-fire after three weeks. January 1966: India and Pakistan sign a Soviet Union-sponsored peace deal. December 1971: A third war breaks out -- this time over Bangladesh, which had been East Pakistan. July 1972: India and Pakistan agree that a cease-fire line called the Line of Control would divide Kashmir, although not as an official border. May 1974: India conducts first nuclear test. November 1989: Islamic insurgency starts in Kashmir. May 1998: India conducts five nuclear tests. Pakistan carries out its first nuclear tests. The United States and several other nations impose economic sanctions on both. April 1999: India successfully tests a missile capable of delivering a nuclear bomb deep inside Pakistan. Pakistan then successfully tests its own similarly capable missile. May-July 1999: India and Pakistan fight a limited 11-week battle in the Kargil region of Kashmir. October 2001: Islamic militants slam explosives-laden car into the state legislature in India-controlled Kashmir, killing 40 people. December 2001: Suicide attack on Indian parliament leaves 14 dead. India blames Pakistan's spy agency. New Delhi severs diplomatic ties, cuts travel links and moves hundreds of thousands of troops to the frontier, putting military on war alert. Islamabad denies the charge and matches India's moves. May 2002: Islamic militants attack passenger bus and an army base in Jammu-Kashmir, killing 34 people, mostly soldiers' wives and children. April 19, 2003: During visit to Kashmir, Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee makes surprise offer to resume dialogue with Pakistan. April 28, 2003: Pakistan responds to Vajpayee's offer, proposes a series of peace gestures. May 2, 2003: India and Pakistan agree to take steps to restore diplomatic relations and resume travel links. Diplomatic ties restored in the following weeks. Jan. 5, 2004: Vajpayee and Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf meet for the first time since 2001. Jan. 6: India, Pakistan announce resumption of bilateral talks on all issues, including Kashmir, to begin in February. Copyright © 2004, The Associated Press Posted
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India might have retained the Gavaskar-Border Trophy after the draw at Sydney but Australia stole the show on the final day by taking the fight to the Indian camp.
For India, the series has been one of their best ever overseas. After the rather pathetic performance against the Kiwis in their own backyard, not much was expected from the Indians on their tour Down Under.
Are you an electrical or electronic engineering post-grad under 30, working on an H1-B visa in the US and getting paid less than $66,500? Dude, you’ve got a real bad deal. Over 30 and earning less than $77,000? Oh boy, you too. Oh, you’re a systems analyst or computer programmer, under 30 and a college grad, but earning less than $54,500 ($5,000 more for post-grads)? Your paycheck sucks, too. And if you’re over 30, make that doesn’t-suck threshold $60,000 for grads and $65,000 for post-grads. And even so, you’ve got a bad deal. So what’s all this about? Simple: if you work on an H1-B visa in the US, or are planning to get that status anytime soon, here are some salary benchmarks you should be aware of. Read Up Interesting Survey
Take the giant market. Yes, India and Pakistan together would have a market of 1.2 billion people. But a billion of those are already there in the Indian market. Adding an extra couple of hundred millions is neither here nor there. And defence? Yes, India spends a lot of money on defence, much of it aimed at Pakistan. But would the defence budget really shrink if Pakistan was a friend and ally instead of a permanent enemy? Perhaps not. There are a number of other threats, and in any case, a nation purporting to great power status would need to maintain a certain military strength. The real impediments to India's economic growth are probably internal, and the remedies are also internal. For decades, progress was held back by bizarre economic policies like licensing. Liberalization has freed the Indian economy to realize its full potential, but only partially - there are still crucial pieces of reform that must be pushed through. If the government gets its act together, India would be one of the best performing economies in the world, Pakistan or no Pakistan. There are essentially three ways in which Pakistan can hold India back. The first would be if there were an actual war. Then all bets would be off, especially if the war turned nuclear, and there is a good chance that it could. As India tries to stride forward to reclaim its status as a global power, the hyphenated relationship with Pakistan is a giant ball and chain tied around its feet, restricting the nation's role and aspirations to a purely South Asian stage. In the pre-September 11 period, India had almost succeeded in snapping the hyphenation, but unfortunately it has crept back, and largely because of all the talk of war between the two countries. If we are to rise to our full global potential, we would need to first snap the hyphenation in our own minds. We need to stop constantly looking over our shoulders at Pakistan and realize that we can mitigate much of the ill effects of Pakistani hostility if we simply set our own house in order. For Pakistan the challenge is far more complex. India can, and does, flourish even in the absence of peace on the subcontinent. Pakistan will find it hard to do so. And that's why it is for Pakistan to figure out how it can make peace. You can call that fair, or you can call that unfair. But that's the way it is. Posted
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In the midst of a new warmth in Indo-Pak ties, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Monday met President Pervez Musharraf for over an hour, their first formal interaction over two years after the failed Agra Summit in 2001. The much-talked about meeting was held at the Presidential palace (Aiwan-e-Sadr), where Musharraf welcomed Vajpayee with a characteristic firm handshake and the two exchanged pleasantries before they held discussions in what was described as a "courtesy call". Both Vajpayee and Musharraf, who came face to face Sunday night at the banquet hosted by the Pakistani President, looked relaxed and smiling in between their initial remarks. Vajpayee was accompanied by External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha, National security advisor Brajesh Mishra, Foreign secretary Shashank and Indian High Commissioner Shivshankar Menon. Posted
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"After a long wait, I got a job in the health department. After a few months, I got an 'invitation' to attend the birthday party of my boss' son. When I reached his house, I was surprised to find no sign of any party there. My boss was alone in the house. He made it clear if I wanted a favourable evaluation of my performance, I would have to accept his sexual advances. I was angry and frightened, but what could I do? He was so powerful and had full control over my career." There is a need for another Nisha Sharma who rebelled against dowry, Reka Maximovitch who filed a case against Phaneesh Murthy, to rebel against these sexually harassing bastards. When are the men in India going to grow up and recognize that the women are not sexual objects, but human beings and when women in India are going to grow up and get assertive in their rights. Posted
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Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee held his first direct talks with his Pakistani counterpart yesterday since the two countries nearly went to war two years ago. Their talks set the stage for a much-anticipated meeting with Pakistan's top power broker, President Pervez Musharraf. The talks on the sidelines of a South Asian summit fed high hopes of improved relations between the nuclear-armed rivals. Mr Vajpayee and Pakistani Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali wasted no time after the formal opening session of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) summit in meeting in a room at the Jinnah Convention Centre for 30 minutes, including 15 minutes of one-on-one talks. That meeting is to be followed up with a more important encounter between Mr Vajpayee and General Musharraf, which is likely to be held today. Mr Vajpayee and Gen Musharraf last met at a failed summit in Agra in July 2001.
The World's best education could soon get cheaper. The Union HRD Ministry is considering a report recommending drastic cuts in the tuition fee charged by state-run technical institutions, including the prestigious IIMs and IITs. The report, submitted recently, suggests a maximum tuition fee of Rs 6,000 a year, which is several times less than the existing rates. A year at IIM Ahmedabad, for instance, costs over Rs 1.50 lakh, and around Rs 70,000 at IIT Kanpur. The committee headed by former Indian Space Research Organisation chairman U.R. Rao was set up in November 2002, to look into the state of technical education in the country. Said a ministry source, "We are seriously considering all aspects of the report. A decision is expected soon." In arriving at its recommended figure of Rs 6,000, the committee looked at fees charged by American universities such as Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley and California IT, in regard to that country's per capita GNP. The committee concluded: "Even the higher figure (fee in American universities) is barely 30 per cent of the nation's per capita GNP." Therefore, "if India were to encourage technical education as well as the US does, and make such education as affordable as it is for American citizens, fees in technical institutions should also be pegged to 30 per cent of India's per capita income, or Rs 6,000 per year." In telugu there is a saying - 'PULINI CHUSI NAKKA VATA PETTUKUNNATLU - A FOX SAW A TIGER AND WANTED STRIPES LIKE THAT AND SHE BURNED SKIN TO GET STRIPES'. Its like that. Why the heck, you want to reduce prices? Now IIT's and IIM's are doing good, giving out good results and world class professionals. If you want, reduce/abolish the application fee for the examination and make sure that the poor also be able to afford taking the test. Select the best guys out there and provide them with 100% education loans, rope in the banks for that and promote the concept. That will give a huge impetus for the students, and as they are going to have financial obligation, they are going to put all their efforts to come out with flying colors, there should be financial obligation on the students also, else they would screw up their education, its a fact. Now the educational institutions have to depend on the govt. for funds, we know how bad the govt. funding is going to me, are we trying to roll back to the Nehruvian socialistic policies? Give me a break! Rope in copporates to provide scholorahips and internships and thus get the right environment into the institutions. Use the money to make sure that the primary education is affordable, employ more teachers at the grass root level, we don't need subsidies for higher education, we need financial assistance for students in the form of loans and scholarships, but we surely need more money at the grass root level education which will help millions of indian kids to realize their dream/right for education. Another gross example of stupid policies by govt. Posted
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When the government cant ensure proper functioning of its umpteen departments, it basically has no right to go around meddling with things that not only function properly but also bring us renown. As you mentioned, if government is so concerned about this excellent education system being accessible to all, then it should ensure availability of loans for such people. I too had some thoughtson this which I have posted on my blog: http://sumitdhar.blogspot.com/ Cheers, Posted by Sumit Dhar.
Thanks for the comment, i really appreciate that.
I
am of the view that the govenment should totally get out of the
education scene. But the nation requires a certain number of managers
and with this view institutions like IITs and IIMs were established.
Unfortunately India lost around $ 500 billion so far due to the
outflow of talents from the IITs alone. I have not seen a single
IIT graduate even applying for a job even to an establishment
like BARC when I was a selection committee member in 1974.
I agree with your opinion that lot of IIT/IIM grads have caused brain drain. But that was during the period when the Indian economy is in the lines of Nehruvian Economy. Now the situation is changing, the same brain drain that happened for decades is slowly but gradually bringing the much awaited fruits back to India and you can actually see the 'Feel Good' attitude. For the first time after India got Independence highly educated Indians are feeling proud to be Indians, having hope that they can make a better tomorrow, making the mark in the world and world is turning to India. The contribution of Indian brain drain to the world technology/economy, is making the whole world industry turn to India and set up their R&D facilities and high tech products production in India. In the world if anybody has to make a choice between China and India regarding their production, they turn to China for cheap products and turn to India for hitech products. Isn't it a gift of the IIT's and IIM's to India which is an intangible/tabgible result of the high standards. I was not even born in 1974, so I don't know the situation of India then, but for sure we 'The Young Dynamic Generation' of India are putting every effort to change the face of India in the whole world. Ofcourse we recoginze that your generation has laid the foundation for our achivements. Now govt. is trying to take over the higher education when actually it should free the higher education from govt. clutches, and actually fund departments that make sure that the higher educations institutions stringently implement the highest standards and become world class institutions. And they should tie up banking system to the education system and generously grant loans for education so that students will not be deprived of funds. Education is changing and will change the face of India. We are the future of India and we want govt. not to mess it up. And we want govt. to put efforts in giving a much better next generation by putting funds in grass root education and help children of India dream BIG. I am sure you should be reading what our Hon. President Of India Dr. Abdul Kalam keeps telling kids, LEARN TO DREAM. That is where govt. has to put it effors and money. Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.
Highly
qualified teaching staff who does not know teaching, and poor
facilities and extreme overload, classes from morning till late
in the night, compulsory NSS, NCC, sports activities etc, very
poor accommodation, low quality food etc add to this stress. A
short stay in IIT Madras, last year was an eye opener. Added to this, IITs being government establishments have developed deep roots and does not consider the students as their customers. I observed that the students cannot sit in the chairs in the open air theatre, but have to sit on the cement steps and many first year students and their parents were unceremoniously moved out of the chairs, midway though the weekly film shows. The chairs are reserved only for the staff and their families who are not expected to use the student facilities. In one NIT where I was teaching, in the late sixties, the staff is not even invited for the weekly movies conducted and paid by the students. . In IITM, staff and their families have become the customers of the institution instead of the students. Many
present IIT professors started their career in the teaching profession
like me and were attending other interviews along with me to get
out of the non exciting non paying teaching profession of the
sixties, but got stuck in teaching profession. The senior-most
faculty receives less than $ 700 a month, while 35 percent of
the extra revenue they earn from consultancy projects goes to
the IITs. It is a fact that many of them conduct IIT entrance
coaching classes to earn some extra money. Outside India, they
could earn four to twelve times this amount. So IITs are having
trouble in finding qualified candidates to fill the void left
by retiring faculty throughout its branches in Delhi, Bombay,
Madras, and elsewhere. Added to this the student population has
increased 45 percent in the last eight years. If one asks any
student they will tell you that the available highly qualified
research oriented faculty tends to be very poor in teaching. This
results in added stress to the students in the IITs. According
to a McKinsey study the number of patents the typical IIT was
granted in 1996-97 fell way behind those of Stanford Engineering
and MIT Engineering, as did the number of faculty citations received
for 1993-98
http://us.rediff.com/news/2004/feb/17akd.htm?headline=Does~India~need~only~50,000~engineers? Posted by Ramdhan Kotamaraja.
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Most recently renowned for the Segway Human Transporter, Dean Kamen holds more than 150 patents on such other revolutionary inventions as a shoebox-sized dialysis machine, a stair climbing wheelchair called the IBOT Mobility System and his "Project Slingshot," a water purification system that was named a runner-up for "coolest invention of 2003" by Time magazine. The founder and president of DEKA Research & Development Corporation, Kamen is a tireless advocate for science and the need to bring first-world technology to the third world. Chief Gartner Fellow and group vice president Daryl Plummer spoke with Mr. Kamen in his New Hampshire office about the differences between invention and innovation, and Kamen's dream of changing the world. Kamen's very interesting comment of Invention Vs Innovation. I remember when the first Pong game came out. People were glued to their sets doing this eye-hand coordination, watching this thing go up and back. I'll call that a video game. The fact is, it was a crude box, a crude little puck, and it kept you mesmerized for hours and you probably did it with a few thousand bytes of RAM. Today, we go from hundreds of megabytes to gigabytes on a video game that will have almost lifelike characters running around. But in reality, when you do the same eye-hand coordination exercise you did on Pong, instead of pushing the pong up and back with ever more realistic graphics - the mindless violence of this thing ripping the head off of that thing and squirting blood has no extra value in either making the game an eye-hand coordination challenge or amusing. It's not an innovation. But suppose instead of multiplying the bandwidth by a hundred in the past five years, you left the bandwidth alone, and you figured out how to get the Internet to a hundred times as many people so the four billion people living in Africa and Asia and places where they have no access to information and knowledge, got access. That would be an innovation. I think in some cases inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important. Kamens comment on chaning the world: We can't live anymore in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed. As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. And each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. Except it won't be just gold we're fighting over. It will be water and air. This is not a happy thought. Now look at a different world. You have a good idea. He has a good idea. You give him your idea, and he gives you his idea. Now you have a world where a lot has changed. Each one of you had one idea. Now each one of you has two ideas. I know how to cure cancer. He knows a way to make an engine that doesn't pollute. She knows a way to grow food in sand. You put all the good ideas together, and everybody wins because everybody has more ideas. This world is going to get uglier. We are not going to stop terrorists by taking away nail clippers from grandma at Hartsfield Airport. There are a few billion people out there looking through the window from the outside in, seeing what we have, and they have nothing to lose. We're not going to solve this problem by trying to keep them out. That's nonsense. The solution to this problem is to give people hope. Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. And that's what technology can do. FIRST Information link. Posted
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Funny, lol. 14) Your boss is always yelling "I wanna see your ass in here by 8:00!" 13) Can take advantage of computer monitor radiation to work on your tan. 12) Inventive way to finally meet that hottie in Human Resources. 11) "I'd love to chip in, but I left my wallet in my pants." 10) To stop those creepy guys in Marketing from looking down your blouse. 9) You want to see if it's like the dream. 8) Splattering grease from deep fryer is really hard to get out of your uniform. 7) Diverts attention from the fact that you also came to work stoned. 6) No more worries about anyone wearing the same dress as you. 5) Spurs company-subsidized health club memberships. 4) Casual Friday not casual enough. 3) Ladies, kiss that glass ceiling good-bye! 2) People won't notice your bad hair day. And the Number 1 Reason to Go to Work Naked... 1) If you're a woman, it's how your male coworkers already think of you Posted
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Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman kindled hopes of a historic series win with a record-breaking 353-run partnership to put India firmly in the driver's seat in the decisive fourth cricket Test against Australia in Sydney on Saturday. Tendulkar broke his lean patch with a magnificent unbeaten 220 and Laxman struck a classy 178 as the duo plundered runs at will during their marathon association to put India at a commanding 650 for five at close on the second day. The Indian maestro gaves glimpses of his vintage batsmanship to not only record his 32nd Test century but also throw a dampener on Steve Waugh's farewell party as the world champions struggled to stem the run deluge. Parthiv Patel (45) was giving Tendulkar company at stumps on a highly productive day for the visitors which saw a number of records fall by the wayside. The Indians rattled up 366 runs, one of the highest totals in a day, to ensure themselves against a defeat and there by strengthening the chances of retaining the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Tendulkar's long-anticipated century, coming after a gap of 14 months, has now ranked him in the second position in the list of century makers alongwith Steve Waugh with Sunil Gavaskar (34) being the only player ahead of him. Posted
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Thirty Four-year-old businessman Firoz Rahman had not expected this from an Air-India official — to be insulted "You bloody Indians!" at A-I’s counter in Riyadh airport on December 23, according to a report published in The Indian Express. Rahman also alleged the Sudanese employee shoved him. He was to fly to Mumbai from Riyadh on December 22 by flight AI 0822, which was cancelled. The next day, he went to the airport for a boarding pass for the next flight. "There were about 10 passengers ahead of me. I noticed that not all were given boarding passes. Most were told to wait." The report said Rahman went to the counter to ask if he could get a boarding pass, but the official 'a Sudanese' allegedly flared up. "He shouted ‘go away or I’ll kick you out’," Rahman alleged. "I asked him if this was the way to talk." On this, the official pulled him by the collar and dragged him to airport security. The security officer pacified the duo and Rahman got back to his queue. "He (the Sudanese) then saw my luggage and started kicking it," alleged Rahman. "I questioned him only to hear him yell, ‘You bloody Indians!’ Then he began swearing in Arabic and was about to hit me." Another Arab employee intervened and pacified him. Rahman said he wanted to lodge a complaint, but other A-I staff told him not to complain. The A-I duty supervisor, however, told him to file a complaint. Though airline staff were not wearing name badges, Rahman said the Sudanese told him to "go ahead and complain. My name is Adam." This is a blatant case of poor people management by A-I and also an indication of the the worlds frustration at the succees of Indians. A-I, you have to take the responsibility for this incident, i would bet if its any other air carrier, the Adam would be kicked out and mugged in jail by this time. Posted
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NYTimes writes about ITC's eChoupal project and how it is helping Indian farmers link globally: E-choupal allows the farmers to check both futures prices across the globe and local prices before going to market. It gives them access to local weather conditions, soil-testing techniques and other expert knowledge that will increase their productivity. Nonprofit organizations have tried similar initiatives but none have achieved anywhere near the scale that e-choupals have. There are now 1,700 in this state, Madhya Pradesh, and 3,000 total in India. They are serving 18,000 villages, reaching up to 1.8 million farmers. As a result, say those who have studied the concept, the company behind e-choupals, ITC Ltd., has done as much as anyone to bridge India's vast digital divide: most of its one billion people have no access to the technology developed by some of their fellow Indians, whether in Bangalore or Silicon Valley. E-choupals may offer a model for all developing countries. "It is a new form of liberation," C. K. Prahalad, who led a case study on e-choupals for the University of Michigan Business School, said of the transparency and access to information they give farmers. More than two-thirds of India's people still depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. With little chance of the huge manufacturing boom that has employed many rural poor in China, the challenge is to increase farmers' productivity. Even more tantalizing, ITC now has the means to reach into some of India's 600,000 villages, where 72 percent of the people live and where the greatest potential markets lie. Most businesses never venture to an area with fewer than 5,000 people, said ITC's chairman, Y. C. Deveshwar. Eventually the company expects to sell everything from microcredit to tractors via e-choupals — and hopes to use them to become the Wal-Mart of India, Mr. Deveshwar told shareholders this year. "We are laying infrastructure in a sense," Mr. Deveshwar said. Sixty companies have already taken part in a pilot project to sell services and goods, from insurance to seeds to motorbikes to biscuits, through ITC. E-choupals also provide information that will increase farmers' productivity and income. An Indian soybean farmer is one-third as productive as an American one, said David Upton, co-author of a case study of e-choupals for Harvard Business School. Raising farmer incomes was an important goal. S. Shivakumar, 43, the head of the company's international business division and the originator of e-choupals, said he had long been frustrated by how a lack of opportunity limited the ambitions and achievements of Indian farmers. "This has been a clear commercial initiative with social good in mind," he said. Posted
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Panchayat raj was to be the bedrock upon which India's democracy was to be grounded according to Gandhi. I am sure that he did know rural India. Did he know that rural India was stupifyingly superstitious, ignorant, uneducated, poor and petty-minded, misogynistic, and myopic? Those aren't the best grounds upon which the tree of democracy can flower, are they? DON'T MISS THE ARTICLE, IT WILL TOUCH YOUR NERVE CENTERS. Posted
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