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Google to push market share in India through films
Published on 28 Sep, 2011 at 1:08 in Business-Feature | Viewed 295 views times | No Comments
Mumbai: Google said it has tied up with Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan’s production company, Red Chillies Entertainment, for promoting his coming film Ra.One.
“YouTube has already tied up with Hollywood movie distribution companies to distribute content online. Today’s event here is being livecast over YouTube as well. RaOne’s London red-carpet premiere will also be livecast on YouTube,” Google’s Vice President Sales…
“Cuisines give Indians distinct regional identities”
Published on 27 Sep, 2011 at 5:58 in Editorial | Viewed 183 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: Cuisines give India’s diverse communities the one thing they need most, regional identity, says noted Indian Jewish writer and Sahitya Akademi Award winner, Esther David.
“Indians would lose their communal identities if they did not have their traditional cuisines,” said David, also the winner of the Prix Eugenie Brazier, a prestigious French award, for her ‘Book of Rachel’.
“I include…
Women worse at parking
Published on 27 Sep, 2011 at 2:38 in Editorial | Viewed 179 views times | No Comments
London: Doubting women’s driving skills may no longer be a sexist stereotype, they really are worse at parking than men.
According to statistics released by the Driving Standards Agency in the UK, almost a third of all women who failed their driving test last year came unstuck due to parallel parking.
While a total 170,000 women could not pass their driving test…
Silver haul found on wrecked ship from India
Published on 27 Sep, 2011 at 2:24 in Editorial | Viewed 189 views times | No Comments
London: Nearly 150 million pounds worth of silver has been found on a British ship that was travelling from India but was sunk by a German U-boat in the Atlantic in 1941.
The wreck of SS Gairsoppa has been found to contain 200 tonnes of silver by the American exploration company, Odyssey Marine, which will keep 80 per cent of the…
Hit man falls in love with victim, fakes her killing
Published on 27 Sep, 2011 at 1:10 in Editorial | Viewed 201 views times | No Comments
London: A hired killer in Brazil took one look at his intended victim and fell head over heels in love with her. The new lovers then splashed tomato ketchup to fake her death, it was reported in London.
Carlos Roberto de Jesus was paid over $500 to kill Iranildes Aguiar Araujo by Maria Nilza Simoes, a housewife who was convinced that she was having an affair with her husband.
The murder…
Saudi women get right to vote
Published on 27 Sep, 2011 at 0:58 in Editorial | Viewed 186 views times | No Comments
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah decreed on Sunday that women will for the first time have the right to vote and run in local elections due in 2015.
For women in Saudi Arabia this is a giant leap forward. However, they still cannot serve as Cabinet ministers, drive or travel abroad without permission from a male guardian.
Saudi women bear the brunt…
Gold rate suffers huge fall in India
Published on 27 Sep, 2011 at 0:36 in Business-Feature | Viewed 260 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: Gold rate suffered the steepest single day fall in India by plunging Rs. 1,540 to Rs. 25,800 per 10 gm in opening trade yesterday on panic selling after a meltdown in global bullion markets.
In Asia, gold prices tumbled about USD 124, followed by over USD 100 in the previous session, as equities and other commodities fell on speculation…
Is Einstein’s theory of relativity wrong?
Published on 26 Sep, 2011 at 4:03 in Editorial | Viewed 158 views times | No Comments
Geneva: Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity is one of the most fundamental pillars of physics. But now scientists say his conclusion that nothing can travel faster than light could be proven wrong.
Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, or CERN, the world’s largest physics laboratory say they have recorded sub-atomic particles, known as neutrinos, travelling faster than the speed…
NRI professionals heading back to India
Published on 26 Sep, 2011 at 0:04 in Editorial | Viewed 176 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: Due to reducing salaries and job cuts abroad, increasing numbers of NRI professionals are moving back to India, a move that will give homegrown companies the chance to target this attractive resource pool.
According to a study by MyHiringClub.Com, a recruitment tendering platform, hiring of non-resident Indians (NRIs) will account for 19 per cent of total recruitment activity during…
RBA should cut interest rates to avoid recession
Published on 25 Sep, 2011 at 23:22 in Business-Feature | Viewed 74 views times | No Comments
The Federal Opposition and a top economist have urged the Reserve Bank to cut the interest rate by at least 0.25 percentage points to avoid recession.
Dr Shane Oliver said the RBA is risking joining Europe in falling ‘behind the curve’ by failing to act even as European and US debt worries have sent share markets tumbling last week.
Andrew Robb, the…
