Apropos the Delhi Dairy April 06 2009 made and interesting read, especially the one under the title “Born Under A Star”* (quoted below the full text). It’s very sorry to note the predictions of Maaharaj Shamdas Udasi did not hit the bull’s eye, instead the young man Sanjay’s life ended abruptly. Such is the case with most of such predictions of these soothsayers. Too bad, the predictions of Maharaj Shamdas Udasi didn’t come true, but it throws light on how such soothsayers operate. I am reminded of how Khushwant Singh, as editor of Illustrated Weekly, recycled old horoscopes and palmed them off as new under a fudged name with great success when the magazine’s astrologer stopped writing. The time is up now and someone like Udasi Udasi should now cast Varun’s horoscope too.
Election campaigns are round the corner and the most confused bunch, ‘the politicians’ are now after these astrologers to know their fate. This become an order of the day and the soothsayers take advantage of this and are making hay while their clients are basking in glory. Alas this tribe never learns a lesson from the past history. What a pathetic situation we are moving in?
*Born Under A Star
My biography of Sanjay Gandhi, father of the Gita-swearing Varun Gandhi, The Sanjay Story (Jaico, 1978) is by no means a great book. However, it is not entirely useless. It would have been slightly better if the subject had agreed to cooperate. "No chance," was the reply I got from Varun’s father. Nevertheless, here is an extract: "At 3 am on a cold Delhi night, Feroze (Varun’s grandfather), Krishna, Indira and the maid drove down to Willingdon Hospital. It was agreed that Jawaharlal should not be disturbed.... The English doctor, who had been informed on the phone, went straight to the hospital and there he spent over six hours with his patient in the labour room. He was not helped in his task by Feroze who had his own ideas on how the baby should be delivered. Just before 10 next morning, the doctor came out—and announced the news. Indira had had a very difficult delivery; she had lost a great deal of blood. She had also at 9.27 am given birth to a son.
"Only the good news was communicated to Jawaharlal. He came immediately to the hospital and was alarmed to see how weak and pale his daughter had become. Indeed, as the doctor informed, in the process of producing her second child, Indira Gandhi had nearly lost her life."
Mr Khushwant Singh’s Illustrated Weekly got a Maharaj Shamdas Udasi to prepare Sanjay’s horoscope, which was duly printed in the August 15, 1976, issue of the magazine. "The man born under these stars has the makings of a world political figure," the horoscope noted and added: "Sanjay is a proud, independent man who completes every project he starts" and does not allow "family or friends to alter or influence his decision. One special achievement will catapult him to international renown. The highest political office could come to him between 1982 to 1983 or in March-April 1986." The horoscope warns: "He must be cautious about women."
Breaking, Informative and Interesting News from Around the World (Version-2- July 2010)
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NEW DELHI: July 17 2010, In keeping with India’s growing economic might and its status as a major investment destination, the hitherto humble rupee is all set to get a distinct identity in the form of a new symbol. The Union Cabinet on Thursday gave its approval to the symbol which combines the Roman letter ‘R’ with the Devnagri ‘Ra’ .
The symbol will catapult the rupee into the company of four ‘elite’ currencies which have similarly distinct identities — the US dollar, euro, yen and British pound.
The Rupeesymbol and the designer Uday Kumar
and on the right bottom the minister Ambika Soni
Pic. Credit.jajodia-saket
The symbol has been designed by D Udaya Kumar, an IIT Bombay post-graduate , who has just joined as a teacher at IIT Guwahati. Kumar will receive a prize money of Rs 2.5 lakh for his efforts. The symbol will standardize the expression for the Indian rupee in different languages, both within and outside the country.
"It is very important for India to have a symbol for the rupee. In terms of other currencies, like the dollar or the Euro, there is no ambiguity on how the currency is represented. It will also make calculation easier, especially when you have data on an excel sheet," says Pradeep Parappil, lead product manager, (Windows/Windows Live), Microsoft India.Read More. Here & Here
Source: PTI, economictimes.indiatimes.com, rediffmail.com, business standard
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FIRST YOUNGEST INDIAN IIT PROFESSOR
athagat Avatar Tulsi (Centre) poses
with his parents after becoming
the youngest assistant professor in physics at the
Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, in Patna on Tuesday.
Photo: PTI/Hindu
July 14 2010. The 22-year-old Patna-born prodigy Tathagat Avtar Tulsi is all set to become the country's youngest faculty at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Powai in Mumbai.
Official sources said that Dr. Tulsi, will be joining as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics next week.
Mr. Tulsi, who completed high school at the age of 9 years, had secured a B.Sc. degree at 10 and his M.Sc. degree in Physics at the age of 12. and a PhD in Quantum Computing from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, at 21.
In 2003, he was named as one of the world's “seven most gifted youngsters” by Time magazine.
Tulsi will teach Physics at IIT Bombay from July 19, having chosen the institute over Waterloo University, Canada, and the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER), Bhopal, both of which had offered him jobs. But he preferred to stay back in India. In a recent interview with CNN IBN's Rajdeep Sardesai the "wonderkid" said, though i have faced humiliation in the year 2001 by some scientist in Germany, I am now happy that I have achieved something and I am very happy to join an IIT as faculty, and my aim is to achieve Nobel Prize."
Knol Author's Note:
"Well Done Dr. Tulasi, We are proud of you, though you are humiliated in August 2001 with false allegation in Germany by some scientists, you have now come out with flying colors with all praise from everywhere. I just heard yesterday your interview with Rajdeep Sardesai of CNN IBN, my respect towards you is increased a hundred fold. Keep up my boy oh! sorry Prof. Saheb,your aim to reach the Nobel prize. I Wish you All Good Wishes to you for the new assignments as well to achieve your goal or gaining Nobel Prize."
Source: The Hindu Daily, Press Trust of India, Yahoo.com,
PVA & AP
FACEBOOK FOR WORLD PEACE: YET ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO PROMOTE/BRING PEACE
Yet another attempt to promote/bring Peace, Facebook the fast growing social website joined hand with Stanford University’s Persuasive Technology Lab to take their Peace Dot campaign online to form a human web across the world in promoting the global peace and oneness.
Yet another attempt to promote/bring Peace, Facebook the fast growing social website joined hand with Stanford University’s Persuasive Technology Lab to take their Peace Dot campaign online to form a human web across the world in promoting the global peace and oneness. For More Click Peace.campaign
Source:
yahoo.in
peace.standord.edu
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BEWARE OF BOTTLE GOURD
Lauki (Bottle Gourd) Juice can be Injurious to Health
Lauki juice or bottle gourd juice can be harmful for health? Yes, says doctors at a private hospital.
A CSIR scientist died after consuming bottle gourd and bitter gourd juice on an empty stomach in New Delhi. The 60-year-old scientist Sushil Kumar and his wife had been consuming the bottle gourd juice for more than four years to keep their diabetes in control.
According to Dr M P Sharma, Head of the Department, Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine at Rockland Hospital, the couple had diabetes problem. But Sushil Kumar passed away after the consumption of bottle gourd juice, whereas, his wife complained of vomiting blood and severe diarrhoea, but had a narrow escape. The doctors conducted an endoscopy on his wife and found her entire stomach was inflamed. There were ulcers in her stomach. Read more:
Source: NDTV
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SPAIN IS ON TOP OF THE WORLD
WON THE FIFA WORLD CUP 2010
Glittering Closing Cermony of the FIFA World Cup 2010
Courtesy: msnIndia
THE WORLD IS WAITING FOR THE
'D' DAY FIFA WORLD CUP FINAL
THE HOLE THAT STUNNED THE WHOLE WORLD
Hole Drilled by the storm called 'Agatha'
The month of June woke up with a stunning image of a naughty nature that decided to drill a perfect hole in Guatemala City, Central America. On May 31, armed with a `drilling machine' called Agatha, a tropical storm, nature burred a massive and perfectly circular sinkhole right in the middle of a highly populated area. The hole swallowed an entire intersection gulping down a clothing factory in a matter of seconds. A combination of rainwater saturating the ground after tropical storm Agatha, which swept through Central America and poor drainage systems were blamed as the cause of the hole that looks bottomless. The sinkhole is being reported as 30 meters (98 feet) in diameter and 60 meters (196 feet) deep. See More such stunning pictures click Here
If Agatha was amazing, so was Turinah, an Indonesian woman. A photograph taken on June 1, 2010 showed Turinah, who was believed to be 157-years-old. The grand old lady was seen chopping onions at home in a village in South Sumatra. Officials discovered the woman during a national census and they believe Turinah's claim to have been born in 1853. Which means she was born before the World Wars, much before the first aeroplane, telephone, cars, television were invented. The secret of her health? Well, plain living and stress-free life. See more news Here
Source: msn.com
HERE IS AN INTERESTING AND
INFORMATIVE WEEK-END READ
“Life is short. Have an affair,”
The commercial was ending as I returned with my snack into the living room. The website address and the catch phrase remained on the screen like a stain on the carpet. “Life is short. Have an affair,” read the website’s catch phrase. My shock was entangled with confusion and disbelief. Was this a crude joke? Did I just see an advertisement promoting an extra-marital affair? Has the concept of “Whatever happens here stays here” overtaken every aspect of life ? Read More
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) engaged in poultry farming in Haryana will soon use poultry litter to generate power for the state power grid.
The initiative, by a cluster of over 150 poultry farms in Haryana's Barwala belt, will convert poultry litter into power, thereby both checking environmental pollution and adding to the power availability in the region.
The project is being implemented by Green Industry Bio Energy Private Limited, a special purpose vehicle (SPV) formed by Emergent Ventures and US-based Indus Terra.
The power project, costing Rs 62 crore, will convert poultry manure into electricity and slurry into fertilizer by the process of anaerobic digestion at a high temperature through a process called thermophilic digestion.
The President of the Haryana Poultry Farmers' Association, Pramod Singla, said poultry excreta had become a health hazard, apart from emitting a stench.
Members of the association conducted a study on how the litter could be utilized, and came up with the idea of a power plant.
The 5.6 Mw power project would be built in two phases. Phase one would have a capacity of 1.4 Mw and the second phase 4.2 Mw. Read More:
Source:
green.in.msn.com
Business Standard
Pic. Credit: Reuters
FIRST SOLAR-POWERED AIR PLANE
SUCCESSFULLY MADE ITS FIRST
TEST FLIGHT AT PAYRENE
SWITZERLAND
Solar Impulse takes off for its first night flight at Payrene air port
Picture credit: Reuters
Payerne, Switzerland: July 8th 2010. A solar-powered airplane designed to fly day and night without fuel or emissions successfully made its first test flight above the Swiss countryside on Wednesday. The aircraft took off July 7 at 06:51 am and reached an altitude of 28,543 feet by the end of the day. It then slowly descent to 4,921 feet and flew through the night on the batteries, charged during the day by
12,000 solar cells, which powered the four electric motors. The aircraft glided for 87 minutes above
western Switzerland at an altitude of 1,200 meters. The propeller plane, with a 61 meters wingspan, is powered by four electric motors and designed to fly day and night by saving surplus energy from its 12,000 solar cells in high-performance batteries. The aircraft landed on July 8 at 09.00 am Read and see more pictures Here
INDIA LOST RS. 13,000 CRORE FOR BANDH OVER PRICES
A DC report says: The nationwide bandh called by the NDA and Left parties over the recent fuel prises hike disrupted normal life across India on Monday, but with the exception of Maharashtra and Rajasthan, its impact was felt mostly in states ruled by the NDA and Left parties. Read More Here
A news item from Deccan Chronicle, Secunderabad.
An Internet fan has claimed that he saw Lord Jesus Christ’s image in a farm on Google Earth.
Zach Evans, 26, spotted Christ’s image as he strolled the map site looking for holiday destinations.
Reportedly, Christ can be clearly seen in satellite pictures of a field on farmland near Puspokladany, Hungary.
“I’m not a religious person looking for images of Mary or Jesus in everything, but this is obvious,” the Sun quoted Sales assistant Zach, a resident of Southampton, as saying.
Visit: Deccan Chronicle Here Source: Deccan Chroncle Daily, Secunderabad
Controversial Question Paper: Professor's Hand Cut Off
Injured Professor
pic.credit. manoramaonline
Muvattupuzha: A college professor, currently on bail for preparing a inflammatory question paper, had his right palm chopped off by a group of eight unidentified people Sunday morning, police said.
T.J. Joseph was returning home with his family after attending morning prayers when a group of people in a van pulled him out of his car. Joseph’s right palm was chopped off and thrown some 200 meters away, police said.
He also suffered deep cuts on the body and was rushed to a specialty hospital at Kochi for a surgery to reattach the severed palm. Read More on Manoramaonline. Source: Manoramaonline.com
INDIAN CRIKET CAPTAIN DHONI WEDS SAKSHI - HIS CHILDHOOD FRIEND
Dhoni & Sakshi
Pic. Credit: India Today
Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni tied the nuptial knot with childhood friend Sakshi Singh Rawat in a private ceremony attended only by family members and close friends, including a few of his team-mates, at a farmhouse in Dehradun. To see more pictures, videos, and news please click Here
New Delhi, July 5, 2010 The 12-hour nationwide bandh called by the Opposition in protest against price rise affected life across the country, with road, rail and air traffic hit and shops and business establishments shut. Read and watch videos Here
Headlines Today Bureau/PTI
Posted by AP
Acai Berry: The New Energy Diet,
A New Wonder Food Exposed:
Miracle Diet or Scam?
Acai The Wonder Food
Pic. credit. readnewstoday.com Juia Miller
5th July 2010.Acai Energy diet combined with a Liquid boost is the latest weight loss fad that is taking America by storm. These so called Super Foods that you take as a supplement to lose weight have been getting a lot of international attention. Like you have probably already seen; they are all over the internet in blogs and success stories of people who have apparently used the pills and lost a ton of weight. Here at News 6 Health, we were a little skeptical and weren’t sure that we’ve seen any real proof that these pills work for weight loss. Since we have been seeing so much publicity about this "Super Diet," we decided to put these products to the test. What better way to find out the truth than to conduct our own study?
This is featured at Top American Television channels like: health news 06, CNN,, abc, cbs news, real age live life to the youngest etc. Read More Here.
Also watch this Youtube "Acai bery the new wonder:
YouTube Video
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Saina Nehwal, The Badminton Wonder
Pic. Credit. DNA
Saina Nehwal, the badminton wonder created history on June 2010 with three titles in three successive weeks.Read More Here.
Source: Dna.com/ Dev S Sukumar
Posted by Ann
India, Canada Sign Civil Nuclear Deal
rime Minister Mr. Manmohan Singh and his Canadian counterpart
Mr. Stephen Harper
Pic. Credit. dnaindia.com
Toronto: Ending a 36-year-old freeze in nuclear cooperation, CanadaIndia with prime minister Manmohan Singh assuring that imported uranium and atomic technology will not be used for "any unintended purpose." signed a landmark civil nuclear deal with
Singh said the nuclear cooperation pact "breaks new grounds" in the history of Indo-Canadian cooperation in the atomic sector while his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper called it a good agreement because "we cannot live in the past of 1970s". Read more HERE
Source: V S Chandrasekar & Bal Krishna / PTI/ DNA
Posted by Ann
TODAY 'S HEADLINES
SPORTS/FOOTBALL:
Football World Cup Quarter Finals - Winners - Netherlands, Uruguay Netherlands won against Brazil and Uruguay against Ghana. Two more matches will be played to day.
TECHNOLOGY: FIFA has chosen the Google Search Appliance..
Official Google Enterprise blog
As the world turns to FIFA, FIFA.com turns to Google. FIFA has chosen the Google Search Appliance to power search on their website. With the GSA, FIFA.COM can provide universal search across all types of content. Try searching for “Messi” from FIFA.com’s search box, and you’ll see all kinds of data: statistics, news results, images and videos—all pertaining to Messi.
For more on the Google Search Appliance and how FIFA is putting it to work, check out this blog. Enterprise blog.
Toronto, July 1 World's first flying car gets green signal to take-off
The world's first flying car, which was caught in a legal snarl in the US, has finally been given the green signal.
Costing about $200,000, the flying car will travel up to 725 km in the air at a speed of more than 115 km per hour.
Fueled by gasoline, it will have front-wheel drive on the road and a propeller for flight. With its wings folded, it can be parked in an ordinary car garage. The company claims the flying car has been successfully test-flown many times. It says tests have shown that the vehicle can drive, fly and switch from being a plane to a car in just 30 seconds. Read More Here
Source: Economictimes, yahoonews, (IANS)
pva
3rd July 2010
A Real Time Traffic Analyzer For Google's Bloggers'
Introducing Blogger Stats
Blogger, world's leading blogging platform powered by google, now introduced an own real time traffic analysis feature for their bloggers. This feature is integrated with individual blogs & can be found at the 'Stats' tab on their dash board.
This is very similar & powerful as any other third party traffic analyzers & even like google analytics in a very useful way. For checking/ enabling this feature, pls go to: http://draft.blogger.com/home. For more details/ reading, click here.
Courtesy: draft.blogger.com rejoy poomala
2nd July 2010
THE HIGHEST PAID CEO
TCS CEO Chandrasekaran
NEW DELHI: 1 Jul 2010, Directors at India’s largest technology services company, Tata Consultancy Services, received commissions four times their salaries, making them some of the highest paid in the IT industry. Executive directors at TCS were paid commissions ranging from Rs 95 lakh to a whopping Rs 2.5 crore, leading to a rise in their gross compensation package.
Comparisons on a total salary basis reveal that TCS CEO earned almost thrice his counterpart at Infosys. For example, for the last fiscal, N Chandrasekaran earned Rs 2 crore as commission — as a board member — against a salary of Rs 46 lakh and Rs 51.1 lakh of perquisites, taking his annual salary to almost Rs 3 crore.
On the other hand, Infosys’ MD and CEO S Gopalakrishnan earned Rs 1.01 crore as annual compensation for the fiscal to March 31, 2010. This included an annual salary of Rs 32 lakh, perks and incentives of Rs 61 lakh, apart from contribution to provident and other funds of just Rs 8 lakh. Of course, Infosys CEO also holds a stake in the company, being a founder. Click Here to read More
Courtesy:
Harsimran Julka & Srividya Iyer, Economic Times Bureau
INDIA:ONE OF THE FASTEST GROWING LINKEDIN COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD
July 1 2010, LinkedIn in India has surpassed 6 million members with more than 2.6 million new professionals joining in the past six months - keeping it one of the fastest growing LinkedIn countries in the world.
As Indian professionals continue to expand their footprint on the global economy, having a strong professional profile on the internet becomes more and more important. People are searching for you online. Make an impression with your LinkedIn Profile which ranks high on search engines like Google.
Tip: LinkedIn Members with complete profiles are 40 times more likely to receive opportunities through LinkedIn. Update your profile along with your photo. People are more likely to connect with members they can see.
เดกോเด്เดเดฐ് เดตുเดก്เดฐോ เด്เดฐോเดณ് เดเดดുเดคിเดฏ I want to go to heaven when I die เดเดจ്เดจ เดชുเดธ്เดคเดเดค്เดคിเดจ്เดฑെ เดฎเดฒเดฏാเดณ เดตിเดตเดฐ്เดค്เดคเดจം. (A Translation Work of Dr. Woodrow Kroll's Book: "I Want to go to Heaven When I Die")
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