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Miscellaneous: Improve your memory with Simple Exercise
Designate a place for everything. Make duplicate keys for emergencies, and have a key holder. Remember to replace the keys every time and you’ll have one less area to improve your memory. To remember to pay your bills and reply to correspondence, have a mailing sorting system where you attend to your mail as soon as possible. If you only have a few things in your ‘to do’ or ‘action’ folder, you will not need to rely on your memory to know when the electricity account is due.
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Tech: Critical Patches from Microsoft!
Microsoft released 11 security bulletins today along with updates to address the vulnerabilities described in them. Various versions of Windows and Office are affected. The Advance Notification indicated that there would be a 7th critical update; this appears to have been removed at the last minute.discuss | | category: Tech | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
News: Airtel, World Fourth Largest Telecom Giant
India’s leading private telecom company Bharti Airtel has said its subscriber base has crossed the 75 million customers mark to become India’s largest integrated telecom company. The figure includes customers from all business units of the company -- mobile services, telemedia services, and enterprises services.discuss | | category: News | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
Business: 9 great management lessons from Dhirubhai Ambani
Dhirubhai Ambani, founder of the Reliance Industries, was no ordinary leader. He was a man who gave management a whole new "ism". There is a new "ism" that I've been meaning to add to the vast world of words for quite a while now. Because, without exaggeration, it's a word for which no synonym can do full justice: "Dhirubhaism". Inspired by the truly phenomenal Dhirubhai H Ambani, it denotes a characteristic, tendency or syndrome as demonstrated by its inspirer. Dhirubhai, on his part, had he been around, would have laughed heartily and declared, "Small men like me don't inspire big words!" There you have it - now that is a classic Dhirubhaism, the tendency to disregard one's own invaluable contribution to society as significant. I'm sure everyone who knew Dhirubhai well will have his or her own little anecdote that illustrates his unique personality. He was a person whose heart and head both worked at peak efficiency levels, all the time. And that resulted in a truly unique and remarkable work philosophy, which is what I would like to define as Dhirubhaism.
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News: How Musharraf missed the Nobel Peace Prize
Pervez Musharraf is still living in a fool's paradise. He resigned as Pakistan's president not out of any guilt but he resigned under political pressure. Just a few minutes before his speech on Monday he told one of his close friends that the coalition partners will start fighting with each other very soon, there will be more political instability in his absence, people will come out on the roads in the next six months and they will demand, 'come back Musharraf'. That is the reason Musharraf is not going out of Pakistan. He will stay in Pakistan under heavy security and he will wait for the people to call him back.discuss | | category: News | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
Miscellaneous: 'Having sex with someone doesn't mean you're connected'
One of the country's most famous women bloggers, Meenakshi has always been writing about life as a young, single woman in India. Refreshingly candid about her life and detailing everything from drinking and smoking to sexual escapades, she has won an audience that loves her bold style and can relate to her experiences. Yesterday, we featured an extract from the first chapter of her new book, You Are Here. Presented below is an excerpt from Chapter 2: I slept with Cheeto a few times before we were 'official'. I loved his curly hair underneath my fingers; I adored his pointy, elfin ears and worshipped his upturned nose. I was moulded to be with Cheeto, for the uphills of my body to match the downhills of his. Or at least so I thought at the time. Now? Now I don't know whether anyone is made for anyone else. At one point I used to believe in the one perfect soulmate, the one person you would be with all your life, the one who made your heart suddenly pirouette and fall gently, gently on one ankle, for the smashing finale because you finally realized that no one but this person could make your heart do all that. Yeah, well, not so any more. There's no such thing as the perfect person, only idiosyncrasies that cancel out other idiosyncrasies and that too for a brief, magical time that's bound to end.discuss | | category: Miscellaneous | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
Cricket: Cricket should not be welcomed into Olympics
Cricketers might be excited at the idea of competing in Olympics [Images] but former champion Linford Christie has strongly opposed it, fearing the sport would "hamper" prospects of individual disciplines which wait for the Games to showcase their talents to the world. "Team sports like cricket should not be included in the Olympics. Olympics is a personal game where sportsman tries to excel within himself," the 48-year-old 100 metre champion told PTI. "It would be unfair to include cricket in the Olympics as the players of other sports, especially of individual events wait for the single day to happen and show their talents," he added. Christie, the only British athlete to win 100 metre race gold medals in Olympics, World Championships, Commonwealth Games [Images] and European championships, feels including cricket in the Olympics could be detrimental to other disciplines.discuss | | category: Cricket | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
LetsDiscuss: 'In my country I can be as Muslim as I like, and I'm still welcome to be a Hindu'
Out of the many things that I like about India, one of the best is that in my country I can be as Muslim as I like, and I'm still welcome to be a Hindu -- in my background, history and culture. I admire Hinduism as a truly evolved way of life. I respect Islam as a truly great religion. In which other country can I claim, without contradiction, to be both?discuss | | category: LetsDiscuss | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
IndiaShining: HP Labs Innovation Research Awards for Indian Professor
Along with 39 professors from across the world, two Indian professors have been selected to receive HP Labs Innovation Research Awards. The grants will fund strategic joint research projects between academic research institutions worldwide and HP Labs, the company’s central research arm. The list of the winners include two Indian Professors, Soumen Chakrabarthi from IIT Bombay and Anurag Mittal from IIT Madras. The awardees will work with HP Labs researchers on speculative and potentially game-changing research.discuss | | category: IndiaShining | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
News: Cut your Stroke in 5 simple ways!
A new study shows that five healthy lifestyle factors help cut the risk of the most common type of stroke by 80%. The study, reported in the journal Circulation, tracked 43,685 men and 71,243 women. The average age at the start of the study was 54 for men and 50 for women. When the study began, none of the participants had cardiovascular disease or cancer. The participants reported on their lifestyle habits and medical state between 1986 and 2002. Throughout the study, 1,559 strokes occurred in women and 994 strokes occurred in men.discuss | | category: News | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
News: Alternate fuel: Poop power fuels idli joint in Puducherry
Sivagami begins early at the Puducherry bus stand as she busies herself in a small food joint. Idlis are her specialty, only they come with a twist. Apart from LPG cylinders, Sivagami also fuels her stove using gas supplied by a biogas plant just outside her kiosk. The plant produces gas from human and food waste round the clock, and has been helping her battle the on-rush of hungry workers for a year now. So unperturbed by the rising fuel prices, Sivagami says, “The LPG cylinders are getting too costly. Biogas has helped me save three to four cylinders per month.” Approximately, 8,000 people use the toilets at the bus stand everyday and almost 30 toilets are connected to the underground biogas plant.
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News: Government's I-Day gift to its employees
The Central Government on Thursday accepted the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission and raised the salaries of all its employees, with big hikes for the military and the paramilitary forces. The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said Minister for Information and Broadcasting Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi. He added that more details would be announced by the Prime Minister during his Independence Day address from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Friday. The minimum basic pay for a Central Government employee will be Rs 7,000 a month now, which will translate to around Rs 10,000 after adding allowances, Dasmunsi said. The extra pay will cost the Central Government Rs 157 billion from its annual budget and Rs 64 billion from its Railway Budget this fiscal, he added. Dasmunsi said Central Government employees would get 40 per cent of their arrears this fiscal and 60 per cent in the next fiscal (2009-10).discuss | | category: News | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
News: US proposes to exempt India from nuclear ban
The United States has proposed to waive restrictions on critical nuclear trade with India in a draft circulated among member nations of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and published by an arms control advocacy group. The draft, published on the web site of the US-based Arms Control Association (www.armscontrol.org), would effectively lift a 34-year embargo on nuclear trade with India without tying the waiver to explicit conditions for the Asian nuclear power. Several NSG nations had said they expected the exemption to identify events that would trigger a review, such as an Indian nuclear bomb test or failure to allow wide-ranging inspections of its nuclear facilities. The draft states the NSG members "have taken note of steps that India has taken voluntarily," including its unilateral moratorium on nuclear tests and its commitment to allow inspections by the UN nuclear watchdog. But it does not mention any consequences or sanctions for the case that India does not adhere to those measures.discuss | | category: News | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
Tech: MTNL cuts broadband charges by 50%
Public sector telecom services provider MTNL today slashed broadband charges by up to 50 per cent to increase user base in the national capital. The PSU announced a plan that will offer customers high speed (2 mbps) Internet access at a monthly rental of Rs 99 and 150 mb free download. Alternately, users can opt for a monthly rental scheme of Rs 149 with free download of 400 mb. These plans will be available from August 15. It has also reduced the monthly rental of another tariff plan by 34 per cent from Rs 899- 599 that would be available to customers from September 1. MTNL, which has 2.6 lakhs broadband customers in Delhi, plans to attract more customers with this reduction, company's Executive Director-Delhi A K Arora said. The state-run telecom operator, which was the first to launch IPTV in the country, also added another first to its credit by launching Mobile TV. "The TV service on mobile handsets 'MTNL-TV' is available in Delhi and the NCR for MTNL customers both on Dolphin and Trump. It will provide 20 channels, and the charges are Rs 99 per month," Arora said here.10 comments | | category: Tech | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
News: Aamir Khan's near death experience
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