India's ace shuttler Saina Nehwal selected for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna.

Prem Kumar — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:37:02 +0100

India's ace shuttler Saina Nehwal was on Friday selected for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna,the country's highest sports honour,following her outstanding achievements on the badminton court.The national sports awards (Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna and Dhyan Chand) selection committee, headed by P T Usha, met in New Delhi and decided to bestow the Khel Ratna on Saina after considering her brilliant performances over the last year.

The world number two Indi...

Top IT companies in India

Prem Kumar — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:11:44 +0100

Information technology is an important indicator to gauge a country's economic growth and India is no exception. Therefore, organisations, financial bodies and media houses conduct surveys time and again to arrive at revenue structur...

Now, get your eyes tested by a cellphone

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

A team led by an Indian-origin professor has devised a method of using mobile phones for conducting eye tests, a technique it hopes will be useful in places lacking hi-tech eye equipment.

The device, called NETRA, which means eye in Hindi, has been designed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab associate professor Ramesh Raskar, visiting professor Manuel Oliveira, student Vitor Pamplona and postdoctoral research associate Ankit Mohan.

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CHERRAPUNJI: The wettest Place on Earth...

Administrator — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:30:39 +0100

INTRODUCTION TO CHERRAPUNJI

Oldest City of India

Administrator — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:17:27 +0100

Varanasi , also commonly known as Benares or Banaras or Banāras and Kashi, is a city situated on the banks of the River Ganges in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, regarded as holy by Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and probably the oldest of India.

The city has been a cultural and religious centre in North India for several thousand years. The Benares Gharana form of Indian classical...

Homeschooled 14-yr-old tops Delhi IIT entrance

Administrator — Thu, 27 May 2010 09:11:16 +0100

Fourteen-year-old Sahal Kaushik, who holds the 33rd rank at all-India level in the IIT JEE exam, emerged the Delhi region topper in the entrance examination.

At the press conference to honor the toppers, Sahal, who was too shy to speak on stage, handed the mike over to his mother Ruchi Kaushik. But that was just for a while, off the stage, the boy giggled with his friend and answered media questions quite comfortably.

"He mixes where he wan...

Indians rank fourth in Australia\'s biggest migrant community

Administrator — Thu, 27 May 2010 08:58:14 +0100

MELBOURNE: The Indian community in Australiahas multiplied in the last six years, surpassing Italians and topping the chart of biggest migrant community on fourth rank.

According to 'The Age' report, the country now had more Indians than Italians which had doubled in just six years.

Quoting new data, the report said the immigration department estimated in 2007-08 the stock of migrants from Indiagrew more than any other...

Why should Manipur remain in India?

Administrator — Mon, 24 May 2010 10:12:08 +0100

Kamminlung Singson was sitting next to me on a four-hour hopping flight from Delhi to Imphal. He had one year of training in a short-term programme of Indian Army and was on his way back home to Churachandpur, about 60km from Imphal. He was supposed to travel by train up to Guwahati and then take a bus, but the highways to his hometown, NH 39 and NH 53, had been blocked by Naga rebels for almost 30 days at that time, so he had to somehow arrange for an air ticket. Not many Manipuris can af...

Youth should awaken and work for a corruption free govt: Abdul Kalam

Administrator — Fri, 21 May 2010 06:04:18 +0100

Former president A P J Abdul Kalam has stressed the need for an awakening among the youth for a corruption free government and administration.

Describing the 54 crore youths of the country as its biggest asset, he said India would definitely become a super power by 2020 if youngster...

Mumbai\'s amazing dabbawalas

Administrator — Tue, 18 May 2010 05:58:45 +0100

Four thousand five hundred semi-literate dabbawalas collect and deliver 175,000 packages within hours. What should we learn from this unique, simple and highly efficient 120-year-old logistics system?

Hungry kya? What would you like: pizza from the local Domino's (30 minute delivery) or a fresh, hot meal from home? Most managers don't have a choice. It's either a packed lunch or junk food grabbed from a fast food outlet. Unless you live in Mumbai ,...

Dalit woman paraded naked in Karnataka village

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

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

A first, Indian gods on US postages

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

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

Every inch of India belongs to every Indian

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

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

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

During an interactive s...

India bags four gold, one bronze

Administrator — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:45:10 +0100

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 Ama...

Facebook Jumps to third most visited site on mobile web

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

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

google.com

orkut.com

facebook.com

wikipedia.org

yahoo.com

youtube.com

songs.pk

zedge.net

cricinfo.com (new)

wap.in

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

Moreover, it’s important to ...

Faculties at IIMA decide to follow 3 Idiots

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

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

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

Australia forms security group to protect Indian Students in Australia

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

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

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

Internet 2009 in numbers

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

What happened with the Internet in 2009?

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

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

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

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

Antenna

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

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

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