For Students of Thiruvalluvar University - When will the UG results be announced??

posted by   kjohn (224)   4 months ago (humsurfer.com)

Anybody has any information on when the results will be announced. Let us know.. more »

India 330, Australia 44/4 (14.6 ov), Bucknor needed to save australia

posted by   kjohn (224)   10 months ago (content-usa.cricinfo.com)

Pathan takes 2 while Ishant Sharma & RP Singh takes one each.. Now Symonds in crease. Can he repeat Sydney performance??.. more »

How ancient indians calculated PI?

posted by   phani (188)   18 months ago (personalfavourites.blogspot.com)

See the below image to know how the value was actually calculated by ancient Indian mathematicians.

Value of Pi (π) = 3.141597358849600593827147732893232262679803810386 932785690187930465291057468930238910438

Tsunami in 2004 - The trace of path - great image

posted by   phani (188)   18 months ago (personalfavourites.blogspot.com)

The image above traces the path of the Indian Ocean Tsunami which occurred in 2004.

Click for better View

Top 5 Science and Technology Websites

posted by   phani (188)   18 months ago (personalfavourites.blogspot.com)

I recommend the below as the top 5 Science-Tech news/articles websites across the internet today. Please add other interesting sites to the list.

Rang De Basanti in English as ‘Colour Of Sacrifice’

posted by   bollywood (163)   18 months ago (bollywood.celebden.com)

IndiaFm, UTV is at its peak with a series of ambitious projects. It has been spreading its international presence by co-producing “the Namesake”. The coming up ventures includes two new projects with Will Smith and M. Night Shyamalan. As for Indian movies, UTV has this massive plan to dub the 2006 hit Rang De Basanti

John Abraham opposite Rachel Weisz

posted by   bollywood (163)   18 months ago (bollywood.celebden.com)

Do you remember John waiting for a co-star for Deepa Mehta’s ‘Luna? (Check yesterday’s post guys!) Well the lady opposite John is finalized. She is the Constant Gardner…I mean the lead lady in Constant Gardner, The Mummy and Constantine. Yes, Rachel Weisz is going to play the protagonist in Luna. Hear more on it from

Shashi Tharoor joins the corporate world to fuel investments to India

posted by   kjohn (224)   18 months ago (www.rediff.com)

Former United Nations Under Secretary General Shashi Tharoor has accepted a position as chairman of Afras Ventures, a new company based out of Dubai that seeks to promote foreign investment in India, specifically Kerala.

While he has obtained legal residency in Dubai, he shuttle between New York, Dubai and India.

Dr Tharoor told rediff India

Sky's the limit for India flight boom

posted by   kjohn (224)   18 months ago (news.bbc.co.uk)

If you want to park your money somewhere, find some aviation stocks in India...

"India is now the fastest growing aviation market in the world. A rapidly expanding economy, incredibly cheap fares and bullish new airlines are all driving the growth.

Hundreds of new aircraft are being ordered and airports like Delhi are planning to handle up to

Coconut deisel oil powers island's cars

posted by   kjohn (224)   18 months ago (news.bbc.co.uk)

People on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea have found their own solution to high energy prices - the humble coconut.

They are developing mini-refineries that produce a coconut oil that can replace diesel.

From police officers to priests, the locals are powering up their vehicles and generators with coco-fuel.

Hillary Clinton, Jeffrey Immelt and Arun Sarin to Keynote Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) 2007 Global Alumni Conference

posted by   kjohn (224)   18 months ago (money.cnn.com)

An impressive set of luminaries, including Senator Hillary Clinton, Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric and Arun Sarin, CEO, Vodafone, today were announced as keynote speakers for this year's IIT 2007 Global alumni conference. Now in its fifth year, the annual event, to be held in Santa Clara, California, from July 6-8, 2007, is renowned for

The Apple iPhone runs OS X - Engadget

posted by   kjohn (224)   22 months ago (www.engadget.com)

The much awaited Apple iPhone details are out. But you will have to wait for six months to one year to get it. It looks great and will surely take the world by storm. Click on for the great photos.

More details from Engadget: "It somehow runs OS X with support for Widgets, Google Maps, and Safari, and iTunes (of course) with CoverFlow out of the

MIT Shares all there courses with public

posted by   sndeep (13)   22 months ago (ocw.mit.edu)

Many people may not know that MIT has initiated OpenCourseWare, an initiative to share all of their educational resources with the public. This generous act is intended (in classical MIT style) to make knowledge free, open, and available. It's a great resource for people looking to improve their knowledge of our world. OpenCourseWare should prove

Bollywood Search Engine

posted by   soccer (26)   22 months ago (www.humnewz.com)

Search engine for anything related to bollywood. Check out for new releases and reviews.

Google ranked best company to work for

posted by   soccer (26)   22 months ago (www.rediff.com)

Google took the top spot largely due to amenities offered to employees like free gourmet food, the 'college-like' atmosphere, free laundry facilities, onsite doctor, child care, and the bring-your-dog-to-work policy, among a host of other perks

Malluwood actresses conquering Tollywood

posted by   entertainment (50)   22 months ago (entertainment.oneindia.in)

Kollywood is not the only film industry that Malayalam actresses have taken over. If the trend continues, they'll soon become the dominating force in the Telugu film industry too.

IITs planning to start a VC fund

posted by   kjohn (224)   22 months ago (www.business-standard.com)

Great move. It will be a big boost for the early stage companies sprouting inside the campuses.

"The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are planning to soon have a venture capital fund (VCF) on their campuses.

IIT Bombay is in talks with Infosys Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro and other major IT players to seek help to

People with mutated gene shows no sense of pain

posted by   kjohn (224)   23 months ago (www.nytimes.com)

Geneticists following up the case of a 10-year old Pakistani boy who could walk on coals without discomfort have discovered a gene that is central to the perception of pain.

A mutation in the gene knocks out all perception of injury, raising hopes of developing novel drugs that would abolish pain by blocking the gene’s function.

What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?

posted by   kjohn (224)   23 months ago (healthbolt.net)

The advice is: avoid coke. The article gives the timeline of what happens to your body once you drink coke. Now I know, why I was addicted to coke during my college days(After a game of cricket/football, I could not control my urge to take coke). Excess sugar, caffeine and depletion of calcium. I am horrified :-O

"Have you ever wondered why Coke

Aishwarya Rai to marry a tree?

posted by   ruchir (1089)   23 months ago (content.msn.co.in)

[B]efore tying the knot with Abhi, Ash may have to perform some complex ceremonies and rituals. According to a tabloid report, Ash may have to undergo a ‘Kumbh Vivah’ before marrying Abhishek. This ritual is mandatory, as Ash is believed to be a manglik.

As part of the Kumbh Vivah, she may have to marry a peepal or banana tree before her

Techcrunch: Apple iPhone Details From Kevin Rose

posted by   kjohn (224)   23 months ago (www.techcrunch.com)

"According to Kevin there are two models, 4 GB and 8 GB, priced at $249 and $449. No word on whether they’ll be shipping an unlocked version of the phone as Om Malik recently reported, but Kevin says Apple is adding both GSM and CDMA radios into the iPhone, making it truly carrier-independent."

Good info. Would be my first mac if it is this

How to trap an ATM robber

posted by   kjohn (224)   24 months ago (humsurfer.com)

Got this as a fwd. Not sure if it is true. Can anybody confirm?

"If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering your Pin # in reverse.

For example if your pin number is 1234 then you would put in 4321. The ATM recognizes that your pin number is backwards from the ATM card

Indian Student Develops Paper Capable of 450GB of Storage

posted by   kjohn (224)   24 months ago (www.dailytech.com)

Sainul Abideen has invented a method of storing massive amounts of digital data on a plain piece of paper that he claims could store many times the capacity of the best Blu-ray or HD-DVD discs. In fact, Abideen says that his Rainbow technology can enable him to store from 90 to 450GB on a piece of paper. As far as a real life demonstration of a

'Films like Thanmatra just happen'

posted by   jijo (4)   24 months ago (specials.rediff.com)

After watching director Blessey's second film Thanmatra, one felt Mohanlal was truly blessed to have got a role like this in his career. Film lovers were also blessed to see such a performance on screen.

Mohanlal, playing an ordinary secretariat employee, is simply outstanding. No parallels can be drawn on his performance as a man afflicted with

Fundoo video: Laptop Battery Fire

posted by   kjohn (224)   24 months ago (www.pcpitstop.com)

Heard of the exploding laptops? Here is a video of the same.

"We intentionally created conditions in which the Li-ON battery pack would explode inside a generic portable. The results are dramatic. There are numerous conditions where these fires can occur in real life. Faulty battery packs (driving the recalls), faulty protection circuits inside

Technopark - JAADA at Work - Google Video

posted by   kjohn (224)   24 months ago (video.google.com)

Hilarious video. Must see. :))

QuickonlineTips blog hacked?

posted by   kjohn (224)   24 months ago (www.quickonlinetips.com)

Popular tech blog QuickonlineTips shows blank screen with "Index of /".

Is it hacked? or he accidentially did the infamous "rm -rf"?

Sun Set To Move On GPL License For Open-Source Java

posted by   kjohn (224)   24 months ago (www.crn.com)

"The company is very close to announcing that it will put the mobile (ME) and standard (SE) editions of the Java platform into the GNU General Public License (GPL), with the Java Enterprise Edition and GlassFish reference implementation (currently open-sourced under Sun's Common Development and Distribution License, or CDDL) to follow, several

Global IT firms on a hiring spree in India

posted by   kjohn (224)   24 months ago (www.rediff.com)

In order to hire people with required skills, more than 68 per cent of IT companies globally have started or planning to start business operations in India in the next three years, the global consultancy and research major said in a report.

Riya’s Like.com Is First True Visual Image Search

posted by   kjohn (224)   24 months ago (www.techcrunch.com)

Riya in its new avatar at Like.com. Its a visual search portal for shopping, mainly aimed at women.

"Silicon Valley startup Riya, currently a photo search company focusing on facial recognition, is making a significant strategic and product shift this morning. Riya will continue as is, but the company is leveraging the core technology to launch