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Sky is not the limit for India anymore

( India )

After nine years of hard work, the countdown for Chandrayaan-1 – India’s first unmanned moon mission – has begun at the Sriharikota space station. The launch is scheduled for early Wednesday morning.
Chandrayaan-1 will orbit the moon for about two years, mapping the topography and mineral content of the lunar soil. It will take off from [...]

Is India’s strong enough to weather the storm in the world financial market

( Economics and India )

The global economic crisis has come to India. Share markets are down; industrial production is down and the mood among businesses and investors is down.
The Prime Minister, Finance Minister and the RBI Governor have repeated said India’s economy strong enough to weather the storm in the world financial market and it’s banks have enough money.“The [...]

CAPTCHA-breaking is a huge business in India

( India and Internet )

Small Iindian companies solving 25K captchas per day!!! and that’s a headache for Gmail/Hotmail/yahoo.
CAPTCHA-breaking is a huge business in nations like India, where workers will input thousands of CAPTCHAs per day in exchange for a minuscule amount of money per CAPTCHA successfully decoded.

2008 hasn’t been the best year for CAPTCHA-based anti-spam systems; [...]

Want to make a bomb? Just log on to the Net

( India and Internet )

Type “How to Make a Bomb” on Google and you will get a long list of sites that give ingredients, measurements, directions - everything you need - to kill.

IBNLive.com directs us on above thing as follows …

The question is: Even after Delhi’s serial blasts, why is such information freely available? Internet Service Providers, through whose [...]

Satyam to axe 4,500 employees

( India )

Satyam Computers, which has just started giving pink slips to its employees, could potentially downsize its workforce by a whopping 4,500 employees.
This translates to a little less than 9 per cent of the 51,000 employees that the company employs. Company sources say 1,500 employees have been put under the performance improvement plan (PIP), euphemism [...]

Lehman bankruptcy will hit IIM placements

( India and Others )

With America’s fourth largest investment bank Lehman Brothers filing for bankruptcy protection and Merrill Lynch being bought over by the Bank of America, placements at the Indian Institutes of Management will be affected.
These financial giants have so far been the biggest recruiters from the IIMs especially from the institutes at Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta.These [...]

India Inc feels the tremor as Lehman goes bust

( India )

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LBHI) bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch’s acquisition by Bank of America will have a huge impact on India as both companies have a strong Indian connection.
Lehman Brothers currently employs about 2,500 people in India and most of them are likely to lose their jobs. Merrill Lynch also employs 600 people in India [...]

US Dept Responses to 45 Questions concerning 123 Agreement

( Forwards and India )

Ack :- Sunil Nandipati
Following is the letter by US Dept of State as a response to 45 Questions concerning 123 Agreement
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/documents/Lantos_Letter.pdf

U.S. and India Release Text of 123 Agreement

( Forwards and India and Politics )

Ack :- Sunil Nandipati
The following link lists the text of the Agreement for Cooperation between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of India concerning peaceful uses of nuclear energy i.e., 123 Agreement
Access Complete 123 Agreement Text @ http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2007/aug/90050.htm

For Beauty on rail, Blue is in - Rail Sundaris

( Fun and India )

Source : TimesOfIndia.com
Exclusive picture(from TOI) of the first batch deployed in Darjeeling Himalayan Railway

From November, rail sundaris to welcome passengers and serve snacks on Mumbai-Delhi Rajdhani Express
The ‘rail-hostesses’ who will be deployed on select trains will be dressed in smart blue trousers, white shirts and waistcoats.
Railway officials said the uniform was chosen keeping in [...]