‘Made in China’ Titanic to repeat 1912 journey...

New Delhi: After copying everything from a paper pin to Paris’ Eiffel Tower, China is set to build a full-size exact replica of the doomed ocean liner Titanic, which went down in the Atlantic during its maiden journey from Southampton in UK to New York in 1912. 

The Jinling Shipyard in Nanjing has already signed an initial agreement to build the ship with Australian billionaire mining tycoon Clive Palmer, reports said on Thursday. 

Titanic II is due to be completed by 2016; ready to sailed to the UK and prepared for her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York - a repeat of the 1912 journey which ended in disaster. 

Efforts are on to resemble the famed luxury liner with the design work being carried out by a consortium of companies. Akin to the original, Titanic II will be 270 metres long and 53 metres high with nine floors and 840 rooms. It will accommodate 2,400 passengers and 900 crew members. 

A report said that Palmer’s decision to go for ‘Made in China’ Titanic has prompted scepticism from some about how achievable the project is and how safe the end product will be. 

A Global Times editorial said, "Frequent scandals involving shoddy products domestically and internationally have turned the term 'Made in China' into a synonym for cheap and low value-added products." However, the newspaper argued that the project is a chance to prove that the 'Made in China' brand does work. 

Rail Budget 2013: 100 new trains to be introduced......

New Delhi: Railways are planning to introduce about 100 trains, including AC double deckers, new passenger services and extension of services to cater to the demands of various states in the Rail Budget 2013-14.

As far as rolling stock programme is concerned, the announcement will be made for manufacturing of 4200 new coaches including 600 LHB coaches in the Rail Budget.

India to launch Mars mission this year: President......

New Delhi, Feb 21 (PTI) India will launch its first space mission to Mars this year, President Pranab Mukherjee said today. "Several space missions are planned for 2013, including India's first mission to Mars and the launch of our first navigational satellite," Mukherjee said in his maiden Address to the joint sitting of Parliament at the start of the Budget Session. The Indian Space Research Organisation will also put in orbit the first of its seven satellites of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS). The system is India's version of the Global Positioning System. The Mars Orbiter mission, scheduled for launch in October, will look for signature of life and reasons for loss of atmosphere on the red planet. Under the mission, India will put in orbit a spacecraft using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. The satellite will undertake a 300-day journey to Mars and is expected to be put into the Martian orbit in September next year. Mukherjee said the space programme epitomised India's scientific achievements and benefits the country in a number of areas. "The launch of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on September 9, 2012 marked our 100th space mission. India's first remote sensing satellite RISAT-1, with all-weather imaging capability, was also launched in 2012," he said. PTI SKU SMI

LOSS TO INDIA......

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Why do some people love writing on the currency notes , any Idea ....???

RBI guidelines- Public News 4 a true Indian: Bcoz of written Rupee note, Indian Govt. has Rs.2638 cr loss per year..plz don't write anything on Rupee Note bcoz they can't be used for std transactions..e.g u can't find written notes in ATM...plz paste it on ur status so that everyone become aware of the fact..

SECUIRITY......

When a thief forced you to take money from the ATM, do not argue or resist, you might not know what he or she might do to you. What you should do is to punch your PIN in the reverse...

Eg: If your PIN is 1234, you punch 4321.

The moment you punch in the reverse, the money will come out, but will be stuck into the machine half way out and it will alert the police without the notice of the thief.

Every ATM has it; It is specially made to signify danger and help. Not everyone is aware of this. SHARE THIS TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS

JUST FOR AUDI LOVERS....

HONDA CBR 1000F.....

CR7 NEW BOOTS......

RARE PIC........

INSPIRATION.......

BHARATH BANDH

SERIOUSLY :/

Patch Temple Run 2 on Android to Get Unlimited coins, gems, power-ups......

Temple Run 2 was recently released for iOS and Android smartphones. According to Imangi Studios, it has set a record of fastest downloaded mobile game by reaching the milestone with 50 million downloads in just 2 weeks. Temple Run 2 is certainly a great improvement over the original Temple Run; bundled with beautiful new graphics, new obstacles, gorgeous new environments, etc. which is rather impressive. Luckily, a workingpatch for Temple Run 2 is available now in the form of an app on Google Play Store that works like a charm and makes playing the game easier than ever!

Temple Run 2 Patcher is a free Android app that frees you from the fear of getting lost and thus overcomes the restriction to start and play the game from the very beginning. It’s really handy for casual users who usually don’t end up making a good score or don’t have that much gaming patience. This all in one patcher is a jackpot for Temple Run 2thereby powering it up with unlimited coins, unlimited gems, unlimited power-ups, and unlimited boost. Some might argue that it spoils the real fun and excitement of the game but that’s your take what to choose. This way one can always opt for a new life and continue playing further to reach higher levels in the game.

    

    

The patch is very easy to use, simply install the app and tap on ‘Patch it’. That’s it!

Download Temple Run 2 Patcher [Google Play] | Download APK

Tip – If you wish to remove the bonus points, then it can be easily done by resetting the game to default state. Go to phone Settings > Apps > Temple Run 2 > Clear Data.

~ You can uninstall the patcher app afterwards if you find the pop-up ads annoying.

How to use 1000 new Gmail smiley emoticons..........

Google keep adding new features and goodies to their Gmail email service. After introduction of colorful emoticons (which happened long time back in 2008), Gmail has added over 1000 brand new smiley emoticons. Now there is animated smiley to showcase almost any emotion and expression. However, there is one major limitation of using these new smileys – there are only available in new Compose box of Gmail.

Use new Gmail smileys in New Compose Box

1. Newly added smileys can only be used in “New Compose Box“. So, if you have notenabled ‘new compose box’, then you need to do it for accessing new emoticonslisting. Once you login into Gmail account, click on ‘New Compose Experience’option at middle top part of the inbox.

2. Then click on Compose button to see new Compose box in the form of floating window. Click in the message area to view emoticons option on the bottom toolbar. Then click Emoticon option (ctrl + shift + z) to see huge list of smileys.

3. Scroll down to explore entire listing of smiley emoticons. Click on any smiley toinsert it in your message. Of course, you can add multiple and as many smileys in same email message as per requirement. There is smiley for every expression like:TV, music player, computer, clouds, broken heart, devil, shiny star, hen, football, plane, gift, rainbow, arrows, clocks, vehicles, flags and much more.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE......

Following are first in India happenings

Male

The first President of Indian Republic	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
The first Prime Minister of free India	Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
The first Indian to win Nobel Prize	Rabindranath Tagore
The first President of Indian National Congress	W.C. Banerjee
The first Muslim President of Indian National Congress	Badruddin Tayyabji
The first Muslim President of India	Dr. Zakir Hussain
The first British Governor General of India	Lord William Bentinck(1833-1835)
The first British Governor General of Bengal	Lord Warren Hasting(1774-1885)
The first British Viceroy of India	Lord Canning
The first Governor General of free India	Lord Mountbatten
The first and the last Indian to be Governor General of free India	C. Rajgopalachari
The first man who introduced printing press in India	James Hicky
The first Indian to join the I.C.S	Satyendra Nath Tagore
India’s first man in Space	Rakesh Sharma
The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term	Morarji Desai
The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India	General Cariappa
The first Chief of Army Staff	Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji
The first Indian Member of the Viceroy’s executive council	S.P.Sinha
The first President of India who died while in office	Dr. Zakhir Hussain
The first Muslim President of Indian Republic	Dr. Zakhir Hussain
The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament	Charan Singh
The first Field Marshal of India	S.H.F. Manekshaw
The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics	C.V.Raman
The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award	Dr. Radhakrishnan
The first Indian to cross English Channel	Mihir Sen
The first Person to receive Jnanpith award	Sri Shankar Kurup
The firs Speaker of the Lok Sabha	Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar
The first Vice-President of India	Dr. Radhakrishnan
The first Education Minister	Abdul Kalam Azad
The first Home minister of India	Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
The first Indian Air Chief Marshal	S. Mukherjee
The first Indian Naval Chief	Vice Admiral R.D. Katari
The first Judge of International Court of Justice	Dr. Nagendra Singh
The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen	Sherpa Anga Dorjee
The first person to get Param Vir Chakra	Major Somnath Sharma
The first Chief Election Commissioner	Sukumar Sen
The first person to receive Magsaysay Award	Acharya Vinoba Bhave
The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine	Hargovind Khurana
The first Chinese traveller to visit India	Fahein
The first person to receive Stalin Prize	Saifuddin Kitchlu
The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet	Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics	Amartya Sen
The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court	Justice Hirala J. Kania
The first Indian Pilot	J.R.D. Tata (1929)

To see a browser – Take off its clothes........

This is from a recent trip that I took and met few people who were Firefox users. Most of them were using FireFox at home and IE at work.. and most of them felt that FireFox was “faster” –meaning it would load websites faster and FF itself would load faster..

So, I devised this test and called it the “Naked Browser” challenge. Are you upto taking this? Here is what were are trying to do – kill most of the add-ons in IE and then test it against FF. Here are some step by step instructions -

1. Make sure you are running the IE8 Release Candidate 1. To make sure that you are on this version, just go to IE Help menu and click on “About Internet Explorer”. you should see Release Candidate 1 mentioned as follows:
2. Go to Tools –> Manage Add-Ons. In the Manage Add-Ons window, click on each Application and disable the add-on. You can can disable the add-on by clicking on the “Disable” button located at bottom right, once you have selected the application in the upper window.

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2. Next, change the home page for both browsers to the same website of your choice.
3. Finally, close all the browser windows on your machine. You are all set for the challenge to start.
4. Browser load test: Start both the browsers by clicking on the shortcuts on the taskbar one after the another. What browser did you see come up faster?
5. Browsing Speed test: Type your favourite website address in notepad and copy it in memory (Ctrl + C). then in each browser, paste the URL (Ctrl+v) and press go button. Watch for the status bar at the bottom of browser window to say “Done”. Which browser completed loading the website first?

In my experience, IE 8 WAS faster than FireFox in most of the cases for browsing speed and load test. I am using Vista SP2 RC. I will soon be sharing the screen recording of what i experienced shortly here.

also, Microsoft seems to have just released a study that validates what i just mentioned. A Microsoft video has also been released to demo the same. The study has detailed steps on how to test the browsers yourself (much detailed than the one detailed above by me).. in the report, out of 25 websites IE was the fastest for 12. FireFox was fastest in only 4 and in remaining cases Chrome was the fastest.

Take  “Naked Browser” challenge now and tell me what you see!

1966 film on JOHN VON NEUMANN......

John von Neumann made so many fundamental contributions that Paul Halmosremarked that it was almost like von Neumann maintained a list of various subjects that he wanted to touch and develop and he systematically kept ticking items off. This sounds to be remarkably true if one just has a glance at the dizzyingly long “known for” column below his photograph on his wikipedia entry.

John von Neumann with one of his computers.

Since Neumann died (young) in 1957, rather unfortunately, there aren’t very many audio/video recordings of his (if I am correct just one 2 minute video recording exists in the public domain so far).

I recently came across a fantastic film on him that I would very highly recommend. Although it is old and the audio quality is not the best, it is certainly worth spending an hour on. The fact that this film features Eugene Wigner,Stanislaw Ulam,  Oskar Morgenstern, Paul Halmos (whose little presentation I really enjoyed), Herman Goldstein, Hans Bethe and Edward Teller (who I heard for the first time, spoke quite interestingly) alone makes it worthwhile.

Part 1

Find Part 2 here.

PAN CARD DETAILS........

understand the PAN (Permanent Account Number)

PAN is a 10 digit alpha numeric number, where the first 5 characters are letters, the next 4 numbers and the last one a letter again. These 10 characters can be divided in five parts as can be seen below. The meaning of each number has been explained further.
1. First three characters are alphabetic series running from AAA to ZZZ
2. Fourth character of PAN represents the status of the PAN holder.
• C — Company
• P — Person
• H — HUF(Hindu Undivided Family)
• F — Firm
• A — Association of Persons (AOP)
• T — AOP (Trust)
• B — Body of Individuals (BOI)
• L — Local Authority
• J — Artificial Juridical Person
• G — Government
3. Fifth character represents first character of the PAN holder’s last name/surname.
4. Next four characters are sequential number running from 0001 to 9999.
5. Last character in the PAN is an alphabetic check digit.
Nowadays, the DOI (Date of Issue) of PAN card is mentioned at the right (vertical) hand side of the photo on the PAN card. .........!

MCCULLUM ROCKS.........

WANNA MEET DARLING PRABHAS????????

Meet and greet Prabhas and watch Mirchi with him on 22nd and 23rd February in LA and Bay Area respectively!

Mirchi has become big blockbuster in USA and has found itself a place in one of the Top 7 grossers in USA. On the occasion of MIRCHI’s Grand Success our Darling Prabhas is visiting USA and will be participating Mirchi Success celebrations in USA. He will be watching movie along with all his fans, and thank his fans personally in Orange Los Angeles and Bayarea Milpitas, California and also in New Jersey. All Prabhas fans and admirers now you get the chance to meet greet him and watch Mirchi along with him.
Darling Prabhas is making himself available to greet each and everybody in the auditorium in the above locations. Great India Films is putting all efforts that MIRCHI will be screened on GIGANTC Big screens with special XD sound systems which is of first of its kind for any Indian Movie. The time you spend will be one of the memorable one for the years to cherish in your life.

So, Pls. don’t miss the opportunity meeting your darling Prabhas and enjoy the movie along with him in one of the best screens in the country itself.

The following are the timing, venue details to meet and greet Darling Prabhas and watch MIRCHI.

Feb 22nd FRI at 8.30pm: Century Orange, Los Angeles CA
Feb 23rd SAT at 8.30pm: Century Great Mall, Milpitas, Bayarea CA.
Feb 28th/Mar 1st in New Jersey, will be confirmed in a day or two.
For details contact: Soma:916-496-1921 Sudha: 908-787-2933 or info@greatindiafilmsusa.com
Please book your tickets in advance avoid disappointment. Online tix details are as follows
Century Orange Los Angeles: http://www.cinemark.com/theatre-detail.aspx?node_id=1639
Century Greatmall, Milpitas, Bayarea: http://www.cinemark.com/theatre-detail.aspx?node_id=1659

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Microsoft users say goodbye to Hotmail, hello to new Outlook.com......

Washington: Microsoft has announced that its new webmail service, Outlook.com, is now set to replace Hotmail.com. 

The software giant said that Outlook.com is coming out of beta testing and is now ready for primetime. 

The service, which was announced last July, now has 60 million users and will now replace Microsoft's older webmail system. 

Microsoft's Hotmail, which was originally MSN Hotmail, has been online since 1997. 

Hotmail users will still keep their Hotmail.com email addresses and their contacts and emails will all be moved over, they will just now get a new user interface and all the new features of Outlook.com, ABC News reports. 

According to the report, Outlook.com was designed with a similar aesthetic to Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system. 

It also includes new social features and a sorting option called Sweep, the report said. 

The Sweep feature moves newsletters, promotional messages and other recurring emails into their own folders or to the trash, it added. 

God particle may reveal Universe's fate...

London: The eventual fate of our Universe may be determined by probing the properties of the Higgs boson, scientists have said. 

They believe that a concept known as vacuum instability could result, billions of years from now, in a new universe opening up in the present one and replacing it, the BBC reported. 

It all depends on some precise numbers related to the Higgs that researchers are currently trying to pin down. 

A "Higgs-like" particle was first seen at the Large Hadron Collider last year. 

Associated with an energy field that pervades all space, the boson helps explain the existence of mass in the cosmos. In other words, it underpins the workings of all the matter we see around us. 

Since detecting the particle in their accelerator experiments, researchers at the Geneva lab and at related institutions around the world have begun to theorise on the Higgs' implications for physics. 

One idea that it suggests is the possibility of a cyclical universe, in which every so often all of space is renewed. 

"It turns out there's a calculation you can do in our Standard Model of particle physics, once you know the mass of the Higgs boson," explained Dr Joseph Lykken, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory theoretician. 

"What happens is you get just a quantum fluctuation that makes a tiny bubble of the vacuum the Universe really wants to be in. And because it's a lower-energy state, this bubble will then expand, basically at the speed of light, and sweep everything before it," Lykken told BBC News. 

And the Sun and the Earth will be long gone by this time, he said. 

If the calculation on vacuum instability stands up, it will revive an old idea that the Big Bang Universe we observe today is just the latest version in a permanent cycle of events, the scientists noted. 

Dr Lykken presented his theory in Boston at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 

Rahul Gandhi asks Odisha Congress to revive fortunes....

Bhubaneswar: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi met party leaders in Odisha Tuesday and asked them to suggest ways to revive the Congress's fortunes as it has been out of power in the state since 2000. 

A day after holding discussions with grassroot leaders at Sambalpur town in western Odisha, the 42-year-old leader met local party functionaries from the coastal belt at Cuttack city. 

"He held discussions with a large number of local leaders," a Congress leader told a news agency. 

"He asked us why the party was out of power for such a long period and what measures are required to bring it back to power," the Congress leader said. 

This is the first time that Rahul Gandhi visited the state after assuming charge as Congress vice president. He arrived at Sambalpur Monday and spent the night there. 

The Congress has been sitting in the opposition in the state since 2000. In recent months, it has intensified organisational and political activities across Odisha. 

Rahul Gandhi's visit to the state is seen as an attempt to infuse fresh vigour in the beleaguered party. 

AWARDED LITERATURE - BOOKER PRIZE...

YEAR	BOOKER PRIZE

2011		Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending
2010		Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question
2009		Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
2008		A Adiga - The White Tiger
2007		Anne Enright - Ireland
2006		Kiran Desai - Inheritance of Loss
2005		John Banville - The Sea
2004		Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty
2003		DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little
2002		Yann Martel - Life of Pi
2001		Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang
2000		Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
1999		J M Coetzee - Disgrace
1998		Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
1997		Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
1996		Graham Swift - Last Orders
1995		Pat Barker - The Ghost Road
1994		James Kelman - How Late It Was, How Late
1993		Roddy Doyle - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

AWARDED LITERATURE - NOBEL PRIZE.....

                      YEAR                                                         NOBEL PRIZE                                            

2011		Tomas Transtromer - Sweden
2010		Mario Vargas Llosa - Peru
2009		Herta Muller - Germany
2008		J M G Le Clézio - France
2007		Doris Lessing - United Kingdom
2006		Orhan Pamuk - Turkey
2005		Harold Pinter - United Kingdom
2004		Elfriede Jelinek - Austria
2003		J. M. Coetzee - South Africa
2002		Imre Kertész - Hungary
2001		V. S. Naipaul - United Kingdom
2000		Gao Xingjian - France
1999		Günter Grass - Germany
1998		José Saramago - Portugal
1997		Dario Fo - Italy
1996		Wislawa Szymborska - Poland
1995		Seamus Heaney - Ireland
1994		Kenzaburo Oe - Japan
1993		Toni Morrison - United States

Normal life hit in many parts in Odisha.....

Bhubaneswar: Normal life was hit in many parts of Odisha on Wednesday on the first day of the two-day, nation-wide strike called by Central trade unions. 

Commuters faced difficulties as buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws remained off the roads leaving a large number of passengers, including women and children, stranded at bus stands. 

Shops, markets, business establishments, petrol pumps and restaurants remained closed and roads wore a deserted look with thin traffic, official sources said. 

Banks remained closed with employees picketing and demonstrating at different places. 

Train services were disrupted by protesters blocking tracks at many places including the state capital of Bhubaneswar, besides at Cuttack, Balasore, Khurda Road, Berhampur and Sambalpur, railway sources said. 

The strike was peaceful so far with police deployed at important places and vital installations. 

Marriage to Priya Runchal on John Abraham's mind? ....

Delhi: Actor John Abraham, who has been dating investment banker Priya Runchal for a while now, recently cleared the air about how the two met. Following Abraham’s break-up with Bipasha Basu after a nine year long relationship, rumours were rife that Runchal might have acted as a home-wrecker. However, at a promotional event for an upcoming film of the actor, John spoke about his relationship with Runchal.

John apparently clarified that he and Priya hadn’t met at his gym as was earlier thought. A tabloid has quoted the actor as saying, “Priya was here doing her stint at the World Bank. It was much later that she started coming to the same gym where I worked out.”

The ‘Dhoom’ star also spoke about when he is to get hitched. “Right now Priya is studying and she has two more years to go. So it will happen once she completes her education. But we are in a very happy space right now,” says John.

Praising his girlfriend, adds John, “She is a very sorted and mature girl and we respect each other’s space. She is in London right now.”

Seems like all the ladies smitten by the actor have two more years to ogle at him! Well.

‘Himmatwala’ Ajay Devgn- A stellar performer ......

Mumbai: From a lanky loverboy in ‘Phool Aur Kaante’ to the very dangerous Sultan in ‘Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai’, Ajay Devgn has covered miles with roaring success.

One of the most sought after actors of Hindi Cinema now, Ajay is an actor par excellence, and one who boasts of a great command over all genres ranging from comedy to action to romance and drama. 

With two National Awards to his credit, Devgn has evolved to a cult figure by now, one who can send shivers down one’s spine on the one hand and also tickle one’s funny bone through his acting prowess on the other.

From the intense ‘Omkara’ to the flamboyant, manic Gopal in the ‘Golmaal’ series, the actor has only grown from strength to strength.

Now, the ‘Himmatwala’ is all geared up to set the silver screen ablaze by donning a retro avatar in the remake of the 1980s blockbuster by the same name which starred 'Jumping Jack Jeetu' aka Jeetendra and Sridevi.

RGV invites KJo for special screening of 26/11 film...

Mumbai: Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has extended a hand of friendship towards Karan Johar by inviting him to watch his upcoming movie ‘The Attacks of 26/11’. He will arrange a special screening for Karan here soon.

"Karan Johar is one of the prominent filmmakers in the industry. Besides, he is also a good friend and I know him very well. This film has been a satisfying experience for me after a long time, so I wanted to show it to some of my friends," Varma told reporters.

Both the filmmakers have often engaged in a war of words with each other on Twitter, and it is on the social networking platform itself that RGV invited KJo for the movie, which is based on the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008.

"Hey Karan I never ever invited you to see any of my films, but `The Attacks of 26/11` is one film I would really like you to see," Varma wrote to Karan on Twitter.

Varma says he should be holding the screening this weekend.

Over the years, both of them have passed snide remarks over each other`s style of filmmaking, but clarifying his stance, Varma said: "I have never had any problem with Karan. It is media who has written about all these things. Yes, I might have in a funny way commented, but it was not intended other way."

‘The Attacks of 26/11’, co-produced by Alumbra Entertainment and Eros International, features Nana Patekar and Sanjeev Jaiswal in key roles. The film is slated for March 1 release.