Jul 19 2008
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Jul 12 2008
Joining the growing list of countries enforcing total bans on smoking in enclosed spaces, the Indian government also announced a nationwide ban on smoking in public and private buildings in India from October 2 this year. The announcement was made on Friday, the World Population Day.
“From October 2 this year, nobody in India can smoke in buildings, both public and private. Anybody who wants to smoke can do so on the road,” Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said addressing a function in Patna.
Ramadoss said that if the urge for a quick puff proves too strong, then the smokers have to go out in the open space for that. Last year, the ban was restricted in workplaces, restaurants and hotels, includes theatres, pubs, bars, malls and any other enclosed spaces.
“Smokers can have a puff at the risk of their health in private, in their bedrooms, provided they have the permission of their wives,” Ramadoss said.
Countries like Japan and some parts of Australia (Queensland) and Ireland have a partial ban on smoking outdoors, especially near schools and hospitals. India is among 67 countries in the world to have imposed total or partial bans on smoking in public due to the harmful effects of tobacco smoke on the health and environment, but the inclusion of private buildings within its purview is a rarity.
Jul 12 2008
Dr. Rajesh Talwar who was in jail for 50 long days for being accused of murdering her own 14-year-old daughter Aarushi and their domestic help Hemraj, is finally released out from Dasana jail on Saturday morning.
A visibly shaken Dr Talwar said, “I was in a lot of grief. I thank God and CBI. Now I just want to be with my family.”
His relatives completed the formalities of providing surety for the bail given by a local court, on a surety of Rs 10 lakhs, to a tearful reunion with his wife Nupur Talwar, also a doctor, and brother, dinesh Talwar, and other relatives.
After reuniting his family,Rajesh Talwar said to the media, “Finally truth has come out. I will talk later on.”
Rajesh Talwar was very depressed on the murder of her beloved daughter and above all in this tragic situation, the charges of murder on him were a matter of deep grief for him and his family.
The superintendent of Dasana jail Ramji Singh too recalled the days Dr Talwar spent there saying, “He (Talwar) looked humiliated and refused to talk about Aarushi with other inmates or the jail staff. However, one week ago he offered his services (as a dentist) to jail inmates.”
Aarushi and Hemraj were murdered on the intervening night of May15-16 at the residence and Talwar was suspected in the murder who was later arrested on May 23 by Noida police on the basis of some interrogation and inspection.
Immediately thereafter the media also spurned various stories of Talwar’s alleged affairs with another woman doctor and that his daughter had come to know of it and quarreled with her father over the matter.
Later Dr. Nupur Talwar claimed that Noida police is framing her husband and they have no trust on police. She asked the court to submit the case to CBI. CBI made a lot of effort to frame out the killer but the truth is far behind. Initially CBI also suspected Talwar, but it is yesterday, the CBI told the designated court that they had no evidence to link Talwar to the two murders, after which the court granted bail to him.
Rajesh Talwar’s brother Dinesh requested the media personnel, “Rajesh needs support. We will share his feelings and tragedy that we have gone through. We thank everyone who stood by us in the hour of grief.”
Media is trying to catch the glimpse of this unlucky father and the family. While the media persons were chasing Nupur, she only managed to say that “I thank god that finally justice has prevailed. We will go home and face the situation.”
Yesterday after CBI gave a clean chit to Rajesh Talwar, Nupur said, “I am really grateful and indebted to the CBI for carrying out the investigation in such a professional manner and letting the world know the truth.”
CBI however will interrogate him again if the need arises or if they find any evidence against him during the course of their ongoing investigations.
According to CBI, the double murders were carried out by Krishna (Talwar’s compunder), Rajkumar (domestic help of Durrani’s) and another person named Vijay Mandal but the investigation is still going to hold some solid evidences.
Jul 11 2008
If you want to get back your lost love or want to stop your break up or a divorce, here comes the magic steps which can immensely help you even if you think your situation is hopeless. You have to just do and say the RIGHT things at the right time.
1) Avoid strange things while in Pain and Fear: Situation of pain and fear while losing the love can make you doing some strange things which should be avoided to get back your ex love. When anyone is in pain, he/she feels very insecure and starts doing some strange things that we never believed we are capable of. For instance in such a week moment, we apologize profusely for mistakes that we don’t believe we committed. We try to convince them hard that it wasn’t our fault. These things only increase troubles in getting back our love. The unrealistic promises giving the pseudo feeling that we have tried everything we could, should be avoided.
2) Take responsibility: If you have a break up and want your love back, put the other things and reasons aside and take the responsibility of the break. Although you both are involved in the break up but you are also responsible for that somewhere and to some extent.
3) Put your ego aside: Ego is the biggest enemy of any relation. It is like a slow poison which ruins the relation. Put your ego aside and be first to ask him/ her to come back in your life. True love never fails. Your efforts will
4) Impatience is your enemy, avoid it: Impatience compels you to take action out of fear and we know that causes more mistakes and bigger mistakes. Have patience although hard but control as far as possible. Impatience is just that little voice inside your head that tells you, you can’t be happy until you know your love is glad to be back. But this feeling can lead to disasters. Be patient and try to get back your love with the above magic steps.
Love is a feeling you can’t express in words. It is a fragrance you can’t catch but you can feel and hold the magic by avoiding that every thing which can harm your love. It is a commitment you have to follow. Avoid misunderstandings and try your level best to get back your love and make it last.
Also read the article on 5 Steps to survive Break ups?
Jul 10 2008
If a beggar comes to bank to open an account with a lump sum of money enough to apply for a credit card, how will you react to it? Surprised or shocked but it is true.
An Indian beggar from Kolkata has opened a bank account using four large buckets full of coins that she has collected over 44 years. This 60 year old lady, Laxmi Das is collecting the coins received through begging for more than 4 decades in her small hut in a shanty town which amounts to nearly $800.
Calcutta police officer Baidyanath Saha said that it was not safe for the lady beggar to keep such large money in the shanty town after locals came to know about it. City police said that when it became known that she was saving the currency, they encouraged Laxmi Das to deposit her coin collection which includes coins minted as far back as 1961 after, The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.
Das told the police that she spent some of the coins, she received through begging, on essential items and saved the rest for her eventual retirement, a day she says is rapidly drawing near as she becomes too old to spend her days begging for change.
Jul 10 2008
The UPA government today circulated the text of safeguard agreement accord to its 35-nation Board of Governors for approval and stepped on towards the controversial Indo-US nuke deal.
“At the request of the Government of India, the IAEA Secretariat today circulated to members of the IAEA board of governors for their consideration the draft of an ‘Agreement with the Government of India for the Application of Safeguards to Civilian Nuclear Facilities’,” International Atomic Energy Agency spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said in a press statement issued at the Agency headquarters in Vienna.
The agreement was sent after the Left parties withdrew support from the UPA government and submitted their resignation letters to the President on Wednesday. Left parties are against the Indo-US nuke deal and demanded the government to prove a vote of confidence in a week before approaching towards the deal.
The move described by Fleming as a “turning point” in India’s effort to push the deal came under attack from the Left and the BJP which saw a contradiction in government’s stand but the Congress said there is no contradiction.
According to the agreement, India will place its civilian nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards to facilitate full civil nuclear cooperation between India and members of IAEA.
“The chairman of the board is consulting with board members to agree on a date for a board meeting when the agreement would be considered,” she added.
For the complete text of India-IAEA safeguard agreement, visit: http://im.rediff.com/news/2008/jul/iaea.pdf
Jul 09 2008
After the Left parties have withdrawn support to the Congress led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government President Pratibha Patil has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to meet her on Thursday.
BJP demanded that the government be asked to prove its majority within a week and in wake of these political crises, Singh who is in Japan for the G-8 summit is asked by Patil to meet her. He will be back past midnight.
Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh and its Parliamentary party leader Ramgopal Yadav also met the President and gave a fresh letter of support of 39 of its MPs to the government.
Earlier in the day, top leaders of CPM, CPI, Forward Bloc and RSP met President Pratibha Patil at Rashtrapati Bhavan and submitted a list of 60 Members of Parliament and handed over separate letters withdrawing their support to the government. They also submitted a joint communication asking her to “direct the Prime Minister to seek a vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha immediately”.
Lok Sabha has a total of 543 members. SP, PDP and some independents are supporting the government and UPA hopes to get 272 votes for a simple majority in the Lok Sabha.
Ajit Singh-led RLD, JD(S) headed by former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, Mamta Bannerjee’s Trinamul Congress and TRS come in the “undecided” category but have given enough hints of backing the government in a trust vote.
There are clouds of worries in the Indian political ring. There is a curiosity among all regarding government’s survival? Now there are uncertainties whether the government will able to prove a vote of confidence within a week and will retain its power or will it fall??
Jul 09 2008
Web 2.0 becomes the need of today as there is emerging a new generation of potential employees and customers that are accustomed to a variety of technologies being available. These employees expect to see and use the technologies in the corporate world.
These technologies are not only interesting for personal use but they also help the corporate world to search better employees for them. Whether and how we deploy these technologies likely will have an impact on our ability to attract new talent to our companies and to find and retain customers. All these technologies fall into the loosely defined category of “Enterprise 2.0.”
Rather than dismissing these technologies right out of the gate, these techniques can be best use in the right way. If neglected, it can lead you to a competitive disadvantage.
Here’s a sampling of these technologies:
1) RSS (Really Simple Syndication): It automatically feeds you information you want. RSS can be used to push order-status information directly to a customer’s company intranet.
2) Social networks: Facebook and MySpace like networks help the employees to introduce themselves to the company. These can also be a resource to help employees find a potential car-pool mate, someone with a background in product design or specific experience on a product you are thinking about launching. It extends your network to a wider zone and can be helpful to reach your target place.
3) Quick Messaging technology, Twitter: A quick messaging technology, such as Twitter, provides a wider reach of the message (a “tweet”) as compared to e-mails. It lets people know what you are doing at an instant. For example, if someone putting out a Twitter message that says, “I’m updating the marketing plan; does anyone have any info on X?” The tweet may have a wider reach and generate a better response rather than sending out an e-mail that gets lost in everyone’s inbox. Twitter and FriendFeed are communication and collaboration tools. And when your research project is done, share it via FriendFeed.
4) Social networking: Social networking technologies such as FriendFeed can be used to share a variety of information. The technology lets users share Web pages, photos, videos and music with friends and family. This is an easy way to exchange the data.
5) Instant messaging: Instant messages are exchanged for quick replies. E-mail is so “last decade.” Instant messengers are available to give a better solution. This technique not only provides a better way of communication but reduces the wastage of space in Inbox on the e-mail server.
6) Wikis, blogs and mash-ups to share, collect and edit information: Wikis and blogs can be used for training and collaboration on large projects while Mashups provide a good overview of the operations. It can bring together production and operations data from a variety of sources, allowing a production manager to get a good overview of the operations.
7) YouTube-style videos: These videos can be used for training or distributing important messages such as the CEO announcing a new product launch or Joe, the IT help desk guy, receiving an award. This technique is providing visual trainings which is much better than textual one.
Jul 09 2008
The very plain textual chat on Google is now going to be a fun by embodying a cartoon style online avatar and have text-based conversations with friends and other Internet users in virtual chat rooms. The company announced this new online tool on Tuesday.
Google unveiled the new product in a post on its official blog and can be reached at www.lively.com which is officially part of Google Labs, an area of the company’s site where it showcases projects that remain in the beta, or experimental, phase.
‘Lively’ will make the conversation more interactive and fun. You can create your own Chat rooms. These chat rooms can be added to any blog or Web site and are two-dimensional — they include text, and sometimes voice and video. Up to 20 people can occupy a room and chat with one another.
Users can design their own virtual environments, hanging on the walls videos from YouTube and photos from Picasa, Google’s photo service, as if they were pieces of art.
The new product was headed by Niniane Wang, an engineering manager. Students at the University of Arizona have been testing ‘Lively’ for several months.
Ms. Wang wrote in the blog post that she developed ‘Lively’ as a “20 percent project,” referring to Google’s philosophy that employees should spend one day a week working on projects outside of their day-to-day responsibilities.
Jul 09 2008
The US president George W Bush said that the Indo-US deal is important for both the countries and heaped praise on Indian PM “for his leadership at home” while talking to the PM, Manmohan Singh on Tuesday.
Amid the unrest in Indian political parties due to the Indo-US deal, the confident Prime Minister met Bush in Hotel Windsor on Mount Poromoi on the sidelines of the G-8 summit; hours before the Left parties would be withdrawing support on the nuclear deal.
Both the leaders expressed mutual admiration for each other and spoke of the need for closer relationship between the two countries during the 50 minute meeting.
“Our relationship with the United States has never been in such good shape as it is today…. And it is the intention of my government… whether it is a question of climate change… global economy, India and US must stand tall, stand shoulder to shoulder, and that’s what is going to happen,” Said Singh while reporting to media.
“We talked about the India-US nuclear deal and how important it is for our respective countries,” Bush said before the press in a relaxed mood and displayed personal warmth.
“I respect the Prime Minister a lot. I also respect India a lot, and I think it’s very important that the United States continues to work with our friends to develop not only a new strategic relationship, but a relationship that addresses some of the world’s problems,” said the President.
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