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IndiaShining: Indian author Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker Prize 2008

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posted by rite2ankit 1213 days ago
Young Indian writer Aravind Adiga is one of the two first-time novelists on the 2008 Man Booker's shortlist of six. The other is Australia's Steve Toltz. Only two other debut novelists have achieved this in the past - D B C Pierre in 2003 for his novel Vernon God Little and India's Arundhati Roy in 1997 for The God of Small Things . 33-year-old Adiga, who wanted to be a novelist since he was a boy, was born in Chennai and now lives in Mumbai. The White Tiger is a "compelling, angry and darkly humorous" novel about a man's journey from Indian village life to entrepreneurial success. It was described by reviewers as an "unadorned portrait" of Indian scene "from the bottom of the heap". Adiga is the fourth Indian born-author to win the prize, joining compatriots Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai who won the prize in 1981
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Tech: Free group SMSes from Google soon

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posted by rite2ankit 1221 days ago
After SMS-based search, Google Labs in India has launched Google SMS channel – a platform to send free group SMS. Currently, in a pilot phase, Google is testing the product in India and intends to launch it to global audiences later. It supports English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada languages. No commercial date for the launch has been announced. The SMS channel was fully conceptualised by Google India Labs. Prasad Ram, head (R&D),
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Business: Warren Buffett’s 10 Ways to Get Rich

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posted by rite2ankit 1222 days ago
1. Reinvest your profits - this is the only way to take advantage of compound growth, which is money growing on money. 2. Be willing to be different - you follow the herd, you’re gonna get hurt. Going against the herd may be scary, but can pay off if done properly. 3. Never suck your thumb - If you find something good, act. Don’t sit around doing nothing. 4. Spell out the deal before you start - Get all the details in writing before you follow through. 5. Watch small expenses - The article mentions a guy who counted 500-sheet rolls of toilet paper to make sure he wasn’t being ripped off. That seems a bit e
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Miscellaneous: 10 Overused Words in Writing

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posted by rite2ankit 1225 days ago
All words are good words. Some, however, are overused without adding value to what you write. As a result, they reduce the readers’ interest, make text seem redundant, and cause the writer to appear amateurish. We have created a list of 10 overused words, based on the documents we have edited over the last 5 years. We don’t recommend that you remove these words from your writing. Instead, we recommend that you become aware of how often you use them and that you revise your documents to limit their use. 1. There When writers are not sure about the subjects of their sentences, they will often use this word as the subject. This results in weak writing. (For advice on correcting this problem, see our article “Where Is There?”) Example: “There was no one at home.” This can be revised as “No one was at home.” 2. You
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Miscellaneous: Italian model puts virginity on offer

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posted by rite2ankit 1240 days ago
An Italian model has planned to sell her virginity for one million euros. Showgirl and men's magazine model Raffella Fico, 20, told an Italian magazine that she would use the cash to buy a house in Rome and pay for acting classes. "I can''t wait
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Business: Asian financial centers raise their global rankings

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posted by rite2ankit 1331 days ago
Shanghai vaulted into the ranks of the world’s leading centres of commerce, becoming one of eight Asian cities among the top 25, while Mumbai, improved its tally by 3 notches, emerging as the
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IndiaShining: 'India, second largest newspaper mkt'

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posted by rite2ankit 1346 days ago
Growing literacy and new technology have resulted in India emerging as the second largest newspaper market in the world, according to latest research by the World Association of Newspapers (WAN). The new figures show that the four largest markets for newspapers are: China, with 107 million copies sold daily
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IndiaShining: 'Wages in India increasing faster than in US'

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posted by rite2ankit 1356 days ago
Leave alone the adverse effects of economic slowdown, the Indian IT industry is fearing that fattening pay packets for employees could cut down their profit margins. Country's two largest software exporters, Infosys Technologies and Wipro Technologies, anticipate wage pressures might not only slash their margins but also prevent them from maintaining their competitive advantage.
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