tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:43:37 +0000Read the digital replica of Hindustan Times, Livemint, Dinamalar, Deccan Chronicle, Siasat, GMR, Andhra Jyothy, Lokmat, News India Times, Sandesh, Sanmarg, Travel & Leisure Magazine, Thinakkural among 200 newspapers and magazines worldwide.http://www.pressmart.com/blog/noreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)Blogger834125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-9042635469659778616Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:32:00 +00002010-02-09T13:13:37.195+05:30tigerchinese zodiacChinaamur tigersRussiaChina is struggling to save its less than 50 wild tigers even as the Chinese zodiac enters the lunar year of the tiger on Sunday.Conservation efforts are honing in on the remote northeastern forests bordering Russia. There are an estimated 20 wild Amur tigers on the Chinese side. On the Russian side roam about 500 wild tigers where their numbers increased tenfold in 50 years.To read the full http://www.pressmart.com/blog/2010/02/in-year-of-tiger-hardly-50-roam-china.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-7309437182875390699Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:50:00 +00002010-02-08T12:25:28.057+05:30pakistan paradeparade offpakistan day paradeConcerned over rising militant attacks and threat to its security personnel due to an ongoing military offensive in the restive tribal region, Pakistan has cancelled the annual parade of its armed forces for the third consecutive year.The Pakistan Day Parade, the biggest event of the country's armed forces, which was scheduled for March 23 this year, has been cancelled by Prime Minister Yousaf http://www.pressmart.com/blog/2010/02/pakistan-day-parade-off-for-security.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-1303567287351904082Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:50:00 +00002010-02-05T15:26:56.484+05:30iasretirementretired ipsips officersipsgovernorHaving lived in the shadow of their counterparts in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) for years and often dubbed as their “poor cousins”, officers of the Indian Police Service (IPS) have never had it so good in landing influential positions in the government post retirement.While West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland and Uttar Pradeshhttp://www.pressmart.com/blog/2010/02/second-innings-retired-ips-men-outshine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-8877355063722656833Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:52:00 +00002010-02-04T12:54:21.201+05:30nutrition brandsmaggihorlicksgskchfoodlesnoodle marketGlaxosmithkline Consumer Healthcare (GSKCH), known for its health and nutrition brands Horlicks and Boost, has forayed into the Rs 1,000-crore instant noodles market with `Foodles' under the Horlicks brand.The company is at present test marketing the brand in south India and would take at least six moths to launch the brand nationally.The noodle market is dominated by Nestle's Maggi with 80 per http://www.pressmart.com/blog/2010/02/horlicks-to-take-on-maggi-with-foodles.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-2957649140489480749Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:45:00 +00002010-02-03T16:24:48.634+05:30waterfallkihansi rivertoadsgolden spray toadstanzaniaThis is a story about a waterfall, the World Bank and 4,000 homeless toads. Maybe the story will have a happy ending, and the bright-golden spray toads, each so small it could easily sit on a dime, will return to the African gorge where they once lived, in the spray of a waterfall on the Kihansi River in Tanzania.The river is dammed now, courtesy of the bank. The waterfall is 10 per cent of what http://www.pressmart.com/blog/2010/02/survival-test-tanzanias-rare-toads-get.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-2942096334445220186Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:16:00 +00002010-02-02T14:49:25.046+05:30grammy awardsLos Angelesa r rahmanstaples centregrammymusic awardsOscar-winner A.R. Rahman completed his sweep of top music awards by bagging two Grammy awards for his foot-tapping Jai Ho and the outstanding soundtrack for Slumdog Millionaire."This is insane, God is great again," an elated Rahman said while accepting the golden gramophones at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles, this is his first Grammy win.To read the full article, click here...To read the http://www.pressmart.com/blog/2010/02/rahman-scores-2-grammys.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-4481427821985362011Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:07:00 +00002010-02-01T12:52:06.255+05:30federer 16th slamandy murraytennisaustralian openroger federerAndy Murray said he needed to play the best tennis of his life to beat Roger Federer in the final of the Australian Open. He didn't. And he didn't. Federer said he would win if he got in front early. He did. And he did."Congratulations to Roger," said Murray afterwards. "His achievements in tennis are incredible ... He was a lot better than me tonight. Hopefully one time I can come back and win http://www.pressmart.com/blog/2010/02/sweet-sixteen-for-federer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-812678671019079857Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:35:00 +00002010-01-29T13:09:35.581+05:30politicianpervez musharrafimran khanppp leadercricketerA leader of the ruling Pakistan People's Party has alleged that cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan received Rs 40 million from former military ruler Pervez Musharraf during the 2002 referendum that validated the general's regime."Khan charged Rs 40 million from Gen Musharraf as he was at the forefront of moves to establish the dictator's rule," said Raja Riaz, a top PPP leader and Senior http://www.pressmart.com/blog/2010/01/imran-khan-received-rs-40-million-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-6897328352324506834Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:04:00 +00002010-01-28T13:52:46.284+05:30jewish congressauschwitz survivorsnazi deathauschwitztributeAuschwitz survivors, Soviet veterans and leaders, including Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu gathered on Wednesday for emotionally-charged ceremonies on the 65th anniversary of the notorious Nazi death camp's liberation.US President Barack Obama spoke of the "sacred duty to remember the cruelty" of Auschwitz and of "resisting anti-Semitism and ignorance in all its forms" in a video address aired at http://www.pressmart.com/blog/2010/01/65-years-after-auschwitz-liberated.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-9068174515701374573Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:21:00 +00002010-01-27T10:57:07.753+05:30internet agetablet computerapple tabletmediaapple With the widely anticipated introduction of a tablet computer at an event here on Wednesday morning, Apple may be giving the media industry a kind of time machine — a chance to undo mistakes of the past.Almost all media companies have run aground in the Internet Age as they gave away their print and video content on the Web and watched paying customers drift away as a result.People who have seenhttp://www.pressmart.com/blog/2010/01/apple-tablet-expected-today-promises.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-5190682269342716981Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:52:00 +00002010-01-22T11:25:33.009+05:30gaurav guptascientist awardindian softwaretrace97th indian science congressfakesthiruvananthapuramSoftware developed by a young Indian scientist is helping law enforcement agencies in the United States to trace the sources of fake and forged documents posing a major threat to business, industry and financial security.Dr Gaurav Gupta, 30, from Haryana's Kurukshetra, got the 2010 young scientist award for this innovation and was honoured by former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at the recent 97thhttp://www.pressmart.com/blog/2010/01/indians-software-helps-to-trace-source.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-2295976324199227647Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:41:00 +00002010-01-21T11:18:36.526+05:30scott brownbarack obamacoakleystate senatormassachusettsScott Brown, a little-known Republican state senator, rode an old pickup truck and a growing sense of unease among independent voters to an extraordinary upset on Tuesday night when he was elected to fill the Senate seat that was long held by Edward M Kennedy in the overwhelmingly Democratic state of Massachusetts.Brown defeated Martha Coakley, the state’s attorney general, who had been http://www.pressmart.com/blog/2010/01/gop-win-leaves-democrats-shaken-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-4646236172237212759Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:08:00 +00002010-01-20T16:44:10.468+05:30pmcabinet ministerswork80 minute meetingjunior ministersbudgetPrime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday reassured the junior ministers in his government that he would adopt a flexible approach "to find ways and means to better utilise talent" after listening to their complaints on the work allocated to them. Dr Singh said he would take up the matter with their senior, the Cabinet ministers.Sources said the Prime Minister was extremely positive throughout thehttp://www.pressmart.com/blog/2010/01/junior-ministers-ask-prime-minister-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-2687006039730375419Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:22:00 +00002010-01-19T13:08:08.637+05:30telugu filmgolden globesboogie nightsglobe listwhat did the 67th Annual Golden Globes,held in California on Sunday,and the Telugu film industry have in common? The answer is Thomas Jane, a nominee for the Best Performance by an Actor in a television series (Comedy) for Hung , a HBO series, who made his debut in 1987 not in a Hollywood film but a Telugu film the romantic-comedy Padamati Sandhya Ragam. The actor has also been a part of films http://www.pressmart.com/blog/2010/01/from-telugu-film-debut-to-globe-list.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-5742789577668325660Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:39:00 +00002010-01-18T17:18:38.048+05:30poisonkurdish townIraqdeath sentencesaddam husseinchemical aliSaddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" was convicted on Sunday of crimes against humanity and received his fourth death sentence, this time for involvement in one of the worst poison gas attacks ever against civilians.The verdict met with jubilation in across Iraq, highlighting the deep-rooted hatred many Iraqis feel toward the former regime and to Chemical Ali.To read the full article,http://www.pressmart.com/blog/2010/01/chemical-ali-gets-death.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-84273258512693877Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:23:00 +00002010-01-13T11:10:09.389+05:30venice film festivalfrench directoreric rohmereric rohmer deadFrench New Wave director Eric Rohmer, known for My Night at Maud's, Claire's Knee, and other films about the intricacies of romantic relationships and the dilemmas of modern love, died on Monday. He was 89.Rohmer, also an influential film critic early in his career, died in Paris, said Les Films du Losange, the production company he cofounded. The cause of death was not immediately given. The http://www.pressmart.com/blog/2010/01/french-new-wave-director-eric-rohmer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-8396009255238766104Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:37:00 +00002010-01-12T13:58:36.854+05:30solar valleyssolar missionngineering and researchfabricationPrime Minister Manmohan Singh today launched the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, with a clarion call to industry to create `Solar Valleys' on the lines of Silicon Valleys that are spurring the Indian IT industry across India."These valleys will become the hubs for solar science, engineering and research, fabrication and manufacturing, and Indian industry should see the Solar Mission as ahttp://www.pressmart.com/blog/2010/01/prime-minister-launches-indias-solar.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-3453061749841738515Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:21:00 +00002010-01-11T12:24:04.194+05:30british newspaperinjectioncertificatepropofol intoxicationMichael Jacksonmj mudered`King of Pop' Michael Jackson's death certificate has been revealed which claims that his death was a "murder" after all.British newspaper `News of the World' has obtained a copy of the original document and an amendment to it. In the original certificate dated July 7, the deputy coroner does not site the cause of death. But the certificate was later amended on August 31 by medical examiner who http://www.pressmart.com/blog/2010/01/test.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-1313956217083564217Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:37:00 +00002010-01-05T11:12:08.232+05:30avatar3Djames cameron filmhollywoodrankingstop filmAvatar, the futuristic 3-D adventure, was the top film in the US and Canada for the third straight weekend with $68.3 million in sales, and crossed the $1 billion mark in domestic and international receipts.The James Cameron film has taken in an estimated $1.02 billion overall for News Corp’s Twentieth Century Fox since its December 18 release, according to Hollywood.com Box-Office. Time Warner’shttp://www.pressmart.com/blog/2010/01/avatar-crosses-usd-1-billion-mark.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-5668344617861480372Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:29:00 +00002010-01-02T13:08:39.024+05:30ecosystemsearth climatecarbondioxidedecadesairborneThe airborne fraction of carbon dioxide (CO2) has not increased either during the past 150 years or during the most recent five decades, research says.That the fraction is increasing has been one of the key assumptions in atmospheric models that show increased man-made carbon emissions causing drastic changes in the earth's climate.Most of the CO2 emitted by human activity is absorbed by the http://www.pressmart.com/blog/2010/01/no-rise-in-co2-in-air-for-past-150.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-4671219847330863448Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:43:00 +00002009-12-31T15:18:32.824+05:30gsmgsm standard cell phoneGermangsm codeguideencryptionGerman security expert has raised the ire of the cell phone industry after he and a group of researchers posted online a how-to guide for cracking the encryption that keeps the calls of GSM-standard cell phone users secret.Karsten Nohl, 28, said he, working with others online and around the world, created a codebook showing how to get past the GSM encryption used to keep conversations on more http://www.pressmart.com/blog/2009/12/german-posts-guide-to-crack-gsm-code.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-6385357203440740721Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:24:00 +00002009-12-29T14:55:20.381+05:30hyundai motorselectric i10hyundai i10hyundaiIn sync with global focus on green technology, India's largest car exporter, Hyundai Motors, will unveil the electric version of its compact car `i10' during the upcoming Delhi Auto Expo next year.The company will also showcase its existing range of products and its concept vehicles with futuristic technology during the event starting January 5, the company spokesperson said."Hyundai i10 Electrichttp://www.pressmart.com/blog/2009/12/hyundai-to-unveil-electric-i10.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-4377654868505464933Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:49:00 +00002009-12-28T13:29:25.150+05:30planetglobal warmingindian foodrice contributeswheatRice contributes more to global warming than chapatis and mutton curry is more damaging than chicken curry, according to a study of the impact of Indian food on climate.Consumed in quantities producing the same amount of energy, wheat is eight times less damaging to the climate than rice and 52 times less than mutton, says the report, which has not been published yet.The study by the Indian http://www.pressmart.com/blog/2009/12/eat-chapati-give-up-mutton-save-planet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-5562805290047394806Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:11:00 +00002009-12-23T16:25:06.081+05:30domainchinese readersISPwebsiteInternetBeijingChina has issued new Internet regulations, including what appears to be an effort to create a "whitelist" of approved websites that could potentially place much of the Internet off-limits to Chinese readers.The ministry of industry and information technology ordered domain management institutions and Internet service providers to tighten control over domain name registration, in a three phase http://www.pressmart.com/blog/2009/12/beijing-controls-internet-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27920160.post-7549667221152844647Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:22:00 +00002009-12-22T12:57:17.712+05:30philippine nightswinter solsticedaytimelongest nightequatorIt will be the year's longest night today, Dec. 22, as the sun reaches the winter solstice, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said."The sun will reach the Winter Solstice today at 1:47 a.m. (PST). This marks the time when the sun lies at its farthest point south of the equator," Prisco Nilo, Pagasa chief said.Philippine nights will be longerhttp://www.pressmart.com/blog/2009/12/longest-night-on-december-22.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (PressMart Team)0