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

The men, belonging to a dominant Nayak community of the village, accused the woman of helping a Dalit man and a Nayak girl elope from the village.

Eyewitnesses said a group of about 40men beat up 25-five-year-old Bhagyamma before parading her on the streets.

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

The first set of such postage stamps in denomination of 44 cents was launched in January by USA-postage.com, the Atlanta-based firm, depicting Sai Baba, Lord Venkateshwara, Lakshmi, Murugan, Vinayaka, Shiva–Parvathi and Sri Krishna.

Such postage stamps depicting Hindu gods and goddesses have been launched for the first time in the US taking the benefit of a six-year-old law of the US postal service that permit issuing of customised postages.

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Indian judokas, weightlifters and cyclists landed gold medals on the third day of the 11th South Asian Games at Dhaka on Sunday.

Balvinder Singh and Vikram Solanki grabbed the gold medals in the mens 73 and 90 kg categories of the judo event at a BKSP, Savar, which is 40 k.m. away from the capital city, lifters Omkar Otari and Rustam Sarang gave India a gold and a bronze in the men’s 62 kg class.

In the morning, the men’s cycling quartet of Amandeep Singh, Harpreet Singh, Rajendra Bishnoi and Sabu Ganager, earned India gold with a time of 1:44:11.81s in the 80 km team time trial at Khulna. Pakistan (1:45:59.11s) took the silver and Bangladesh (1:46:44.11) the bronze.

Balvinder won against Pakistan’s Karamat Butt en route to the gold medal while Vikram Solanki downed his Sri Lankan rival D.K. Priyadarshana.

Srinivas disqualified

There was a setback for India in the weightlifting arena as the Indian entry, V. Srinivas, competing in the 56 kg class, was disqualified for failing thrice in the snatch event. In a field of five competitors,

Srinivas began after the other four finished at 102 kg. The Indian attempted to clear 103 and failed thus denying India a medal from this class.

In an interesting incident, all the three medal winners in the men’s 62 kg tied on points. India’s Omkar Otari, Pakistan’s Istiaq Ghafoor Muhammad and Rustam Sarang of India tallied 258 kg in snatch and clean and jerk. Omkar’s lesser body weight (61.30kg) gave him the gold while Ghafoor (61.47) took the silver. Rustam (61.50) had to settle for the bronze medal.

GOOD SHOW

Indian shuttlers were looking for a clear sweep in the team events as both the teams made it to the finals of the team event without much difficulty. The men’s team had no difficultly in walloping host Bangladesh 5-0, the women made short work of Nepal also by the same margin.

India’s final opponent will be Sri Lanka whose ladies beat Bangladesh 5-0 and the men outplayed Nepal by an identical margin.

Oinam Bembem Devi struck a hat-trick against Pakistan to enable India win by a half a dozen goals in its second game at the National Stadium. India, which had won against Sri Lanka 8-1 in the opening game, led 5-0 at half-time.

Captain Bembem, who plays as an attacking midfielder, combined superbly with the strikers in rotating the ball in the rival’s zone.

After Sashmita Mallick drew the first blood in the seventh minute, Bembem got into the act scoring in the 10th, 11th and 17th to bamboozle the Pakistanis.

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

1. google.com
2. orkut.com
3. facebook.com
4. wikipedia.org
5. yahoo.com 
6. youtube.com
7. songs.pk
8. zedge.net
9. cricinfo.com (new)
10. wap.in

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

Moreover, it’s important to note that Gmail fell off the top 10 list (and is that because of the pop/new nokia phones are better integrated with gmail pop features)?

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

Executive director of Tata Sons Ltd R Gopalakrishnan who is the lead instructor of LNWT said, "What the students learn in the classrooms is only the beginning of learning. The rest of the lessons are to be learnt from what life teaches them."

He said that the early success of young management graduates, these days, makes them feel that they have achieved a lot in life and makes them overconfident as they feel that they could do much better than their predecessors. One of the purposes is to correct this false attitude. Under the elective course, we will teach students the integrity of management and will try to explain it to them through movie clips, anecdotes and experiences on how the mere act of chasing success brings failure.

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

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

India has been of the view that the assaults were racially-motivated. Australian authorities have, however, been cautious to toe this line. 

According to Krishna, there have been 12 episodes in the past four weeks. Smith also assured Krishna that community policing has been stepped up and patrolling by regular police increased at night. 

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What happened with the Internet in 2009?

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

We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. A full list of source references is available at the bottom of the post for those interested.

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Why is January 27th the date the United Nations chose to remember victims of Nazism? In 2005, the UN designated this date as theInternational Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. It is a recognized memorial day in Germany, the UK and elsewhere in the European Union. The date marks the 1945 liberation of the largest and most lethal of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, by Soviet troops. Nazis had murdered some 1.5 million people, most of whom were Jews, in this camp, located near Oświęcim, Poland. The camp began operation in 1940 and by 1944 more than 100,000 inmates were housed there, with the population growing constantly. Six thousand a day died in the gas chambers. Ten days before the Soviet troops reached the camp, most of the inmates were sent on a Death March. When Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated, fewer than 8,000 people were left in the camp. 

Quote: "We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." — Viktor Frankl

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

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