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The economy of India is the fourth-largest in the world as measured by purchasing power parity (PPP), with a GDP of US $3.36 trillion. When measured in USD exchange-rate terms, it is the tenth largest in the world, with a GDP of US $691.87 billion (2004). India was the second fastest growing major economy in the world, with a GDP growth rate of 8.1% at the end of the first quarter of 2005–2006.

However, India’s huge population results in a relatively low per capita income of $3,100 at PPP. The country’s economy is diverse and encompasses agriculture, handicrafts, industries and a multitude of services. Services are the major source of economic growth in India today, though two-thirds of the Indian workforce earn their livelihood directly or indirectly through agriculture. In recent times, India has also capitalised on its large number of highly educated people who are fluent in the English language to become a major exporter of software services, financial services and software engineers.

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Dell Inc., the world’s largest computer maker, will set up its fourth customer contact centre in India, Chief Executive Kevin Rollins said in a statement on Monday.

The company also plans to double the size of its India-based product development team during the next two years, the statement said.

The contact centre in Gurgaon, on the outskirts of Delhi, is expected to add up to 1,000 workers to Dell’s total Indian employment of 10,000 by the end of 2006.

India will be the only country in Dell’s 30-site customer contact network that supports customers in all geographic regions

Secret gmail feature #1: you can add and remove periods from your username with no change in mail routing. There is no collision with other accounts since only one account (stripped of periods) is allowed to exist. So sysop.chip@gmail.com is the same as sysopchip@gmail.com.

Secret gmail feature #2: you can append a plus and any string to your account name and it will still be routed to you. Try creating filters by giving out your address this way: eg example+spam@gmail.com will be delivered to username ‘example’ and sysop+lost!@gmail.com will be delivered to sysop@gmail.com.

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When you sign in to Yahoo!, you’re now protected via industry-standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption. This means that your password is more secure in transit when you sign in.

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World Bank team to visit Bihar
Indian American wins astronomy prize for clocking pulsars

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Michaella takes out Sania in Australian Open
Pierce becomes highest seed knocked out of Open
Asian challengers fade quickly at Australian Open

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Oracle says Fusion package on track for 2008

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L&T Q3 net nearly doubles, orders jump

VISITORS to a web page will work out whether or not they like it in 50 milliseconds, according to new research.

According to Nature.com, boffins at Carleton University in Ottawa tested web page visitors to see how users made snap decisions about web page quality.

Gitte Lindgaard, who did the research, was surprised that the brain was making flash judgements about web pages almost as fast as the eye was taking in the information.

The research which was published in the journal Behaviour and Information Technology found that impressions were made in the first 50 milliseconds of viewing.

Volunteers were presented volunteers with the briefest glimpses of web pages previously rated as being either easy on the eye or particularly jarring, and asked them to rate the websites on a sliding scale of visual appeal.

The volunteers were able to spot the nice looking web pages from the rougher ones even though the images flashed up for only 50 milliseconds.

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An extra email address is a second Yahoo! Mail address that you can use with your existing Yahoo! Mail account. No, it’s NOT a separate Yahoo! ID, or a separate Mail account. You can use both your primary mail address and your Extra Email Address to send messages from and receive messages at the same mail account. Click here to learn how to get your own Extra Mail Address.

Washington: Delhi Metro Chief E Sreedharan, credited with changing the face of public transport in the Indian capital, is on the “top 25 newsmakers of 2005″ list compiled by the US’ engineering news-record, a leading publication on the construction industry.

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