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Friday, November 28, 2008

Oberoi and Nariman House are now Safe, Still firing at Taj

A Terror Attacks in Mumbai, may be winded up in few hours. Oberoi and Nariman house are now secured by Security Forces. A Clean up operation at Oberoi and Nariman House.

Firing at Taj is still going on by latest TV news. So far 11 terrorist killed

And Yes Bank Chairman Ashok Kapur found dead in Oberoi Hotel which was under terrorist control.

Nariman House Operation

In Nariman House Operation, Bodies of total 5 hostages and 2 terrorists have been found

* 125 dead and 327 Injured in Mumbai attacks
* Atleast 8 foreigners dead in Mumbai attacks

End of Nariman House Operation

Reports of TV suggested that the Nariman House Encounter had come to an end, Mumbai police commissioner Ghafur has said the operation is not yet over.

"I don't know how people got the impression that operations (in Nariman House) are over. In their own interest people should not come close to the House,” he said. Nariman House operations may be in final stage, Ghafur added.

Five dead bodies have been found, NSG Director General J K Dutt has said.

We had taken over the second floor of the house when grenade was launched from above. Three hostages were killed by terrorists before they moved upstairs, said J K Dutt. NSG commandos then moved upstairs to kill two terrorists on the fourth floor. Terrorists killed two hostages on this floor, he added.

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Source: Times of India

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

India makes five winning matches in a row and jumps to 2nd place in ODI Rankings

India vs England, 5th ODI Barabati Stadium, Cuttack

Toss: Indian won the toss and elected to field first

England Innings 270/4 (50 Overs)
Highest Scores in England Innings
K Peterson - 111* (Not out)
O Shah - 66* (Not Out)

India Innings 273/4 (43.4 Overs)
V Sehwag - 91
S Raina - 53* (Not Out)
SR Tendulkar - 50
MS Dhoni - 50

India won the match by 6 wickets and leading the series by 5 - 0

Man of the Match - V Sehwag

Latest updates on terrorist attack

* 2 Terrorists arrested
* Additional DIG Ashok Kamate died in Firing
* ATS chief Hemant Karkare killed in Firing

Terror attack straight into the heart of Mumbai

Atleast 40 people killed and 150 Injured in a series shootings around india's financial

capital Mumbai on Wednesday night, with 2 five star hotels among the targets in what

police called a terror attack.

A gun battle is ongoing in the Taj Hotel in Colaba. Within the last ten minutes, a guest at

the hotel got word out to CNN via email that a grenade had exploded within the hotel

premises just then.

Additional Commissioner of Police AN Roy and other officials confirmed that some armed

terrorists are holed up in the iconic hotel.

Police officials said they have no information of a hostage situation; they say guests

have been sequestered in safe areas of the hotel, and the police are now engaged in

flushing out the terrorists from their hiding place.

Earlier Report: Terror struck the country's financial capital late tonight as coordinate

serial explosions and indiscriminate firing rocked eight areas across Mumbai including

the crowded CST railway station, two five star hotels--Oberoi and Taj-- leaving 40

persons dead and 150 injured.

Armed with AK-47 rifles and grenades, a couple of terrorists entered the passenger hall

of CST and opened fire and threw grenades, Mumbai General Railway Police

Commissioner A K Sharma said.

The terror strike which began at 1033 PM at Chhatrapathi Shivaji Terminus(CST), formerly

known as the Victoria Terminus(VT), claimed 10 lives in the premises of the station

alone, police said.

Three persons were killed in a bomb explosion in a taxi on Mazegaon dockyard road

and an equal number were gunned down at Taj Hotel. The victim in the hotel were its

employees.

The lobby of the Oberoi hotel was on fire and the hotel evacuated, eyewitnesses said.

* Boat with explosives found near gateway
* 2 terror shot dead at Girgaum chowpatty
* Fresh explosions at Taj Hotel in Colaba
* 2 blasts in Taj Hotel and 1 in Oberoi
* 4 policemen killed in attacks
* 55 dead and 190 injured in attacks
* Firing at Ramada Hotel
* 3 senior police officers seriously injured
* ATS chief Hemant Karkare injured in attacks

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Monday, November 24, 2008

SMS search in India by Google

Google, which has recently launched its SMS service called as SMS Search. Just we have to do is send the keywords to the number 9773300000, then we can get the information in the form of SMS which includes ATM locations, booking a cab or getting the latest updates on Cricket Match Scores.

Many More services, get list of restaurants located in a area, news, Indian Railways Information, train timings, availability, filght timings, movie show times and also stock quotes. Now this services is available about 34 cities in the country Mumbai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Kanpur, Chennai, Delhi and other.

This service is currently available on both GSM and CDMA networks. Normal SMS rates apply according to the service package provided by the service provider.

Paris Hilton - The "Most Overexposed Celebrity"

A new list of Forbes.com of "Most Overexposed Celebrity" has topped by Paris Hilton. According to Los Angeles based E-Poll Market Reserach, 65% of the US population used the term "overexposed" to Hilton

And Other who made to the list are Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Pamela Anderson.

A US Teen 118 days Without Heart

Simmons, 14, A Teen ager who survived for four months without heart, kept alive by a custom built artifical blood pumping device, until she has able to have a heart transplant, doctors said in Miami.

The Teen ager was suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the patient’s heart becomes weakened and enlarged and does not pump blood efficiently.

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Friday, November 21, 2008

Obama plans to nominate Hillary Clinton as secretary of state of US

President -elect Barack Obama Plans to Elect Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State by the next week, this is a new milestone for Hillary Clinton. After Thanksgiving Holiday, Obama had plans to nominate her.

Michael Jackson changes name to Mikaeel

According to the reports, Michael Jackson has converted to Islam and changed his name to Mikaeel.

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Thursday, November 20, 2008

A Hatrick Victory for India against England

India Vs England - 3rd ODI, at Kanpur on 20th November, 08

India won the 3rd ODI match with England (D/L Method) which held at Kanpur, 20th Nov, 08

England Won the Toss and Elected to bat first.
England Innings: 240/10 (48.4 overs)
Highest Scores in England Innings
RS Bopara - 60
IR Bell - 46
OA Shah - 40

India Innings: 198/5 (40 overs)
Highest Scores in India Innings
V Sehwag - 68
Yuvraj Singh - 38
Ms Dhoni - 29 (not out)

India Won the Match by 16 runs by D/L Method

Man of the Match: Harbhajan Singh

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Youtube is number 2 search engine in the world

Youtube has overtaken Yahoo and is now the number 2 search engine in the world. Attached is three months report (courtesy comscore) that clearly shows how you tube enjoys more than 2.5 B queries.

How can we benefit:

Number of Backlinks: All the links are no follow but still appear on yahoo siteexplorer.
Traffic: Drive traffic to our websites. You tube serves more than 100 million videos per day.
Thought: Links can be added in description and same videos published on our blogs. Videos ought to be very informative to have organic trafiic and hits.

PPC: Google has introduced sponsored ads model (much like google search) into Youtube (http://ads.youtube.com). Youtube now lets advertisers promote their commercial clips alongside the search results of youtube videos. In short a google monetization model for youtube.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Shortcuts to Google, Orkut by Bhatinda Boys

Like to surf the Famous search engine google? Just type gghhjj.Com.

Want to login to orkut? Then type ookkmm.Com.

These are a couple of the many keyboard shortcuts brought out by youth from Bhatinda using their "angle theory". According to them, the whole concept is to overcome the language barrier while surfing.

So, if a person does not know English. Just need to follow the shortcuts invented by the dotcom company to log on to your favorite sites, the boys claimed.

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Wants cheaper credit by Industries

Rather than cutting the prices, the Indian Industry on Tuesday asked to the Government to provide cheap credit to consumers.

Banking Giant Citigroup to cut 53,000 jobs

Citigroup on Monday announced to cut about 53,000 jobs for the coming months and slash its expenditure by 20 percent next year.

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Latest Video of the Moon from Chandrayaan

Check out the first video of the moon taken by the camera of Chandrayaan. The video was shot as the spacecraft flew over the area near the moon's south polar region.

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Monday, November 17, 2008

Yuvraj Ton made India to win 2nd ODI against England, 2008

2nd ODI: India Vs England at Indore

India won the 2nd ODI match with England which held at Indore, 17th Nov, 08

India Won the Toss and Elected to bat first.
India Innings: 292/9 (50 overs)
Highest Scores in India Innings
G Gambhir - 70
Yuvraj Singh - 118
YK Pathan - 50 (not out)

England Innings: 238/10 (47.0 Overs)
OA Shah - 58
A Flintoff - 43
MJ Prior - 38

India Won the Match by 54 runs

Man of the Match: Yuvraj Singh

Friday, November 14, 2008

England tour of India

1st ODI: India Vs England at Rajkot

India Won the 1st ODI with England which held in Rajkot, 14th Nov, 08
Started with Huge Victory

England won the toss and elected to field first
India Innings: 387/5 (50 overs)
Highest Scores in India Innings
G Gambhir - 51
V Sehwag - 85
Yuvraj Singh - 138 (not out)

England Innings: 229/10 (37.4 overs)
Highest Scores in England Innings
KP Pietersen - 63
Rs Bopara - 54 (not out)

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Full Length Movies of MGM by YouTube

A Online Video Sharing Website, YouTube had deal with the Hollywood Studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's(MGM) to show full length movies. This was mainly aimed to get advertising revenue for both YouTube and as well as for MGM Studio.

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Monday, November 10, 2008

Australia tour of India

Australia tour of India:
4th Test: India v Australia at Nagpur, Nov 6-10, 2008
India won the match 172 runs

India won the toss and chose to bat first
India 1st Innings:
India - 441/10 in 124.5 overs, Sachin Tendulkar - 109

Australia 1st Innings:
Australia - 355/10 in 134.4 overs

India 2nd Innings:
India - 295/10 in 82.4 overs and target for Aussises was 372 runs

Australia 2nd Innings:
Australia - 209/10 in 50.2 overs

India Won the match by 172 runs

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Bengal Tiger Dada says Goodbye to the Cricket

The Royal Bengal Tiger Sourav Ganguly, A Best ever captain to have represented India, a man with a never-say-die spirit, is last day in the cricket. He will be ending his Test Career after the end of the today's match.

In his last innings of his career's Final Test match he went out for duck.

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Sunday, November 9, 2008

Finally Bhajji joined 300 Wicket Club

On Friday Harbhajan Singh became the 3rd Indian and 22nd Cricketer in the world to take 300 wickets in his Test Career after dismissing Aussies Captain Rick Ponting on Final Test match.

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Top Honours bagged by Infosys, Wipro

At the annual STPI (Software Technology Parks of India) and Karnataka State IT Exports Awards 2007-08, Infosys and Wipro bagged the Top Honours.

The awards were presented for the outstanding performance in the filed of IT at ICT Event "BangaloreIT.Biz"

The Other Two leading IT companies Tata Consultancy Services Ltd and Satyam Computers Services Ltd, bagged the Certificate of Excellenece.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Brack Obama, the New President of US

Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation's first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. "Change has come," he told a huge throng of cheering supporters.

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Bharat Ratna award for Pandit Bhimsen Joshi

The Country's Highest Civilian Award Bharat Ratna this time chosen to Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, a legent of Hindustani Classic Music.

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Monday, November 3, 2008

A threat to Sachin Tendulkar in the form of SMS

An SMs sent by Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM)to all police officials stations in Nagpur on Sunday, station that JeM would kidnap Cricket Player Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar which caused a flutter in New Delhi and a red-faced police commissioner in Nagpur.

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Satyajit Ray award won by Italian Film

13th Annual Satyajit Ray Award was won by an Italian film ‘Mid-August Lunch" which is directed by Gianni di Gregorio.

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Retirement announced by Anil Kumble

India skipper Anil Kumble announced his retirement after the third test against Australia on Sunday, quitting the game at his favourite Ferozshah Kotla ground.

The 38-year-old is test cricket’s third-highest test wicket-taker with 619 wickets, trailing only Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan and Australia’s retired Shane Warne.

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