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Uttar Pradesh Election Scene :New formulations – VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN
- February 8, 2012
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Apart from the anti-incumbency factor against the Mayawati government, many traditional and also new factors are impacting the election scene. The most prominent among the traditional factors is the caste-based political orientation. Parties in the contest are trying their best to consolidate their traditional support bases and supplement them with tie-ups with other caste and community groups. The second most [...]
Lips to nose, cosmetic packages boom for Valentine’s Day – Nivedita Sharma
- February 8, 2012
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Lip augmentation, nose job, eyebrow lift…As women try to put their best ‘face’ forward for Valentine’s Day, partners are busy gifting them cosmetic session packages. “A huge range of non-surgical beautification treatments like lip augmentation, eyebrow-lift, cheek augmentation, liposuction and nose job are being offered and girls go for them to look glamorous and sensual,” says Mumbai-based cosmetologist Jamuna Pai, [...]
E-textbooks knocking at Indian classroom doors – Anjali Ojha
- February 8, 2012
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For a generation that has learnt to articulate thoughts in 140 characters and knows its smartphones and tabs, e-textbooks are only the next step. But some infrastructure bottlenecks need to be taken care of before that education revolution takes place in India, experts say. Technology giant Apple recently launched an app for digital textbooks that saw an astronomical 350,000 downloads [...]
Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed quits after protests
- February 8, 2012
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Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed, elected only four years ago, resigned Tuesday following overnight protests, authorities and media reports said. The Maldives High Commission here said Vice President Mohammad Waheed was now the acting president. The dramatic development followed overnight protests, sparked by the arrest on Nasheed’s order of a judge over allegations of corruption. The opposition Dhivehi Qaumee Party (DQP) [...]
14 airports to get new air surveillance technology – Sujit Chakraborty
- February 8, 2012
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The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is to introduce a new radar-based air surveillance system at 14 airports across the country for better control of aircraft in flight, an official said. “The new Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system would facilitate civilian aircraft in self-communicating with airports about their identity, speed and altitude,” AAI director Sudhamay Maiti told IANS. “The new [...]
BJP ministers watch porn in Karnataka Assembly; face sack
- February 8, 2012
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Three Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ministers in Karnataka resigned from their posts Wednesday, a day after two of them were caught watching porn on the third minister’s phone in the state assembly. Laxman Savadi, C.C. Patil and J. Krishna Palemar had voluntarily resigned, Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda told reporters. “I have accepted them and forwarded to the Governor for [...]
The 2G Judgement: Holding Corporate Houses also Accountable – Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick
- February 7, 2012
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The Supreme Court’s judgement on 2G of cancelling the 122 licenses awarded in 2008 is a landmark one. It has held for the first time – at least on this scale – that public property secured through fraud and corrupt practices are liable for cancellation. As has rightly been noted, this has implications far beyond telecom. Mining is another area [...]
Have new formula for cube root, says Agra mathematician – Brij Khandelwal
- February 7, 2012
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It has eluded experts for centuries, but now an Indian, following in the footsteps of Aryabhatt, one of the earliest Indian mathematicians, claims to have worked out a simple formula to find any number’s cube root. Nirbhay Singh Nahar, a retired chemical engineer and an amateur mathematician, claims he has found a formula that will help students and applied engineers [...]
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