India Digitally Stranded

One of today's biggest stories is the fact that India and the Middle East had about 75% of their digital connection to Europe cut off when two cables on the floor of the Mediterranean snapped under mysterious circumstances. Cables get damaged all the time, but never have two gone out simultaneously. It will take days, or even a week to repair the cables. No one knows the cause.

Reports suggested that the lack of alternative routes for internet traffic meant only a small proportion of surfers were managing to get online. Egyptian officials said that around 70% of the country's online traffic was being blocked, while officials in Mumbai said that more than half of India's internet capacity had been erased, which could have potentially disastrous consequences for the country's burgeoning hi-tech industry.

The outage will take several days to fix, and could have a drastic impact around the region and across the globe. As well as hitting communications, businesses and the hi-tech industry in affected countries, it could also have repercussions for banks and even stock market trading.

ISB among world’s Top 20 Business Schools

The Indian School of Business (ISB) had been ranked 20 in the global Business
school rankings relased by Financial Times, London. Within a short span of six years, the ISB had made a mark for itself, as a premier business school in India. With this ranking ISB has grabed world's attention, which eluded all other prominent business schools in India. Even the highly publicised IIMS haven't been able to obtain such a high ranking.

ISB is the youngest in the top 100 business schools in the world. University of Pennsylvania, Wharton, USA is ranked number one in the Financial Times rankings, followed by London Business School, UK and Colombia Business School in the US.

ISB Deputy Dean Ajit Rangneker said that, the ISB's joint research work with top business schools, the permanent faculty and research work done by the ISB were the main factors, which helped the institute in achieving the rank. He said the strength of the students in the school would go up by 560 from the next academic year from the present 425 students. Last year 40 students started their own ventures in the country.He said the ranking would attract a lot of international students in future. Five per cent of the students in ISB were from abroad.

It is really a dream come true for the Hi-Tech city(Hyderabad) dwellers, as the top ranking for ISB, comes as a feather in its cap. It would truly attract the world's attention once again(positively though), towards Hyderabad which has been in the news for all the wrong reasons in the recent past. Way to go "ISB".

Star Wars or Political Wars

Megastar Chiranjeevi fans attacked film actor Rajashekar, following his talk regarding the former's entry into politics. According to the first hand news, Rajashekar in a meeting in Bheemavaram yesterday, claimed that Chiranjeevi has no political experience, and he cannot start a party. He added that, even if he was invited to join the party, he wouldn't entertain the thought. This angered the fans of Chiranjeevi and they set out on a prowl.

Later in the morning, Chiranjeevi fans attacked Rajashekar in the state capital, Hyderabad by following his car. In this attack, Rajashekar and one of his daughter were slightly injured, following which he filed a case on fans of Chiranjeevi.

Chiranjeevi who was informed of all these proceedings , went to Rajashekar's house and apologized to him infront of media.
He strongly condemned the act of his fans. How this chapter is going to end is a million dollar question. Whether it adds to or tarnishes the image of Megastar is in the hands of time.

Novak Djokovic wins Australian Open

Serbia's Novak Djokovic beat unseeded French sensation Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to
win his first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open.

In the rarest of its kind final, of a grand slam, in recent years, Serbian Djokovic won an exceptional battle to claim his first ever grand slam title. Both the players came into finals, with upset wins over world no. 1 and no. 2, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, respectively.

The third seed withstood an early barrage from Tsonga, to win 4-6 6-4 6-3 7-6 (7-2). His victory in three hours six minutes ends a run of 11 straight majors won by Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal."I want to thank all the Serbian fans who came here to support me - I am so
proud to be the first Serbian to win a Grand Slam title," said Djokovic.

Mukesh Ambani’s Antilia Mansion

Mukesh is now building his new home, Residence Antillia (after a mythical, phantom island somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean). At a cost of $1 billion this would be the most expensive home on the face of the planet. At 173 meters tall Mukesh's new family residence, for a family of six, will be the equivalent of a 60-storeyed building. The first six floors are reserved for parking. The seventh floor is for car servicing and maintenance. The eighth floor houses a mini-theatre. Then there's a health club, a gym and a swimming pool. Two floors are reserved for Ambani family's guests. Four floors above the guest floors are family floors all with a superb view of the Arabian Sea . On top of everything are three helipads. A staff of 600 is expected to care for the family and their family home.

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Woman On MARS

An official NASA photograph has cropped up many questions after what seems to be a woman-like figure was captured by Spirit, NASA's Mars explorer robot.




The photograph shows an woman like figure with an arm stretched and sitting lonely in a desert on MARS. Now, this sounds rediculus to many but who knows whats out there in the space. With the very little knowledge that we possess, we just cant write away the fact that there might be life out in the universe, other than our planet earth.




Spirit, sent to Mars to capture images from the surface of the planet, is one half of a $820m mission, along with its twin explorer, Opportunity.

It landed on Mars in January 2004 for a three month mission to search Gusev Crater, a rock strewn stretch of soil that scientists believe could be the bed of an ancient lake. If Mars once had surface water, it had the potential to support life.






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Unlike the social networking sites like Orkut, you can send some files to your friends. You can send upto 100 mb of files, if you enroll into the pro version for as low as 20$ an entire year.

Pownce also has desktop software. Once you're signed up, you can just download it.

World's Cheapest Car Unveiled

Today is the much awaited day, for many of the middle class people in India. Today is the day, when a dream of a man comes to reality. The dream is that of a car, priced at 1 lakh rupees and the man is none other than Mr. Ratan Tata.



He is the man behind this project.

Pushing away all the people who doubted the price, Tata Nano has arrived with pretty good looks. They claim that Nano is more spacious than Maruthi 800 , which has been the mainstay for a long time in the Indian small car industry.

But critics have hit it with the claim that, it's gonna add to the traffic and pollution problems already prevalant in India. But, come on guys what are you gonna get with a mere $ 2500.

Don Review By Adi

Kudos to Nag for keeping his faith in Lawrence, as a director, actor, music director, and            
everything else. This is a treat for the fans of Yuvasamrat. 
Nag has acted in a full length action packed role after Mass, which has come in the same
 combination of Nag and Lawrence. Though, the former proved to be an Industry hit,
later stood as an above average movie. There are different aspects to be mentioned here, before coming to a conclusion on the result of this film.


                                                

Rating::   3.25/5.00

Pros: "NAG" Yes, it is truly nag factor, which is the crowd pulling issue. He was looking 
refreshing in the attire of Don. The Don thing, is something new on the tollywood screen, though it has been the mainstay of bollywood for years. Lawrence stood by his word, that his Don bears no resemblance, with the Shahrukh's Don.

The characterization of the villain, Kelly Dorjee was excellent. His role was marvelously scripted 
by Lawrence and best portrayed by Kelly.

"Lawrence" He did a fine job as a director. The action sequences were well executed and 
recieved good appreciation from the crowd. 

S.Gopal Reddy's camera work was awesome. It has been proved once again, that none can project Nag like Gopal Reddy does.

The oomph factor has been added to the film by Anushka, though she had pretty less to show her acting skills.

Comedy was generated by the characters themselves and no seperate track is setup for that.

The suspense factor involving the second heroine, Nikitha thrilled many people.


Cons:  Lawrence for his role, which sometimes shadowed that of the lead role.

Music is a big let down. Except for 2 songs, the remaining all are a big headache.

Dance was in plenty, but not by the hero but by his sidekick, which is not appreciated by many.



Analysis:


Nag's introduction, interval bang, 15-20 minutes after interval and the climax are highlights of the movie.
The song "Inthandanga Unnave" generated good appreciation.

On the whole, this movie stood as an above average movie.

Congress bites dust, Way to go Modi

In the recent Assembly elections, held in Gujarat, it was Narendra Modi, who stole the cake. He has won, pushing aside all the speculations of his defeat, by the media. Some say, that his victory has come, just because of the religion factor but many don't agree. Digging deep into the mind of a normal Gujarati, we can find the answers to the questions on Modi's victory.





People in Gujarat say 'who else'. He didnot win by a margin but with wholesome lead. The whole of Gujarat is wholeheartedly behind him. This is all possible because of the development, that he has done, in his tenure as the Chief Minister of Gujarat. There may be some blots here and there, but his honesty in his service to people, brought him back to power.

On the other hand, it's a big tight slap on the face of Congress, which was backedup in this election, 
by none other than the President herself. Even the campaign of Mrs. Sonia Gandhi herself, couln't 
generate any confidence in gujarati's.  These elections resemble the hatred of people, against  the Congress led UPA Government in the central level.

Nice song from Nag's DON

Just some entertainment for you folks.......

Culprit of India's Loss

It's none other than Rahul Dravid for his extraordinary batting performance( 5(66) and 16(114)) in both of the Indian innings.



I know it is a test and you need to play cautiously or slowly or defensively or whatever it is but not like him. We just can't attribute this batting performance, to his poor form in the past few months but also to different aspects like loss of captaincy, bad terms with the selectors, management, and many more things.....

In the recent test, he was no where near the ball. He was just concentrating on being there, in the middle, for a longer period of time. That is good, unless it is not affecting the batsman at the other end. If we observe the opening pair of Dravid and Jaffer, this imbalance is  clearly visible. None of them were willing to go after the ball. Jaffer is also to be blamed, but his little time in the middle, did not affect the proceedings compared to that of Dravid's innings.

Just imagine, scoring 16 runs after playing for 19 overs. This has affected not only the scoring rate but also gave the opposition bowlers to gain an upperhand over Indian batsmen. It's something like boosting the morale of the Aussie bowlers.

Enough is enough let us rest him for a while, so that he can get back his confidence and we can see our old 'Wall' back in action with form though.......  :-)

Hey All

Hi ,

I am Adarsh aka Adi, just a brain full of dreams and ideas but none executed till date. So, I just wanted to release the flood gates........(err may be)

Please bear with my nonsense for a while, till I learn the basics of blogging.

Till then I will try and keep you entertained..............