Monday, January 3, 2011

“27 die due to extreme cold temperatures in northern India” plus 7 more

“27 die due to extreme cold temperatures in northern India” plus 7 more

27 die due to extreme cold temperatures in northern India

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:16 AM PST


Freezing temperatures in Northern India have till now claimed 27 lives. The cold wave has claimed some 24 lives in the state of Uttar Pradesh alone.

Many weather records were broken, after the state experienced the coldest weather in the country. The state of Jammu and Kashmir experienced extreme weather conditions claiming 3 lives. Qazigund in south Kashmir recorded a temperature of -7.4 degrees, while Kokernag in Anantnag district recorded a minimum temperature of -6 C.

Two days back, heavy snowfall had struck Srinagar, with minimum temperature of 2.4 C. However the temperature in Leh experienced the coldest with -23 C. The Srinagar – Jammu highway also experienced heavy snowfall.

Even the basic woolen clothing did not help in the freezing temperature. Even the capital city weather experienced a minimum temperature of 14.6 C. The people who were mostly affected were children and the elderly people. A two year old boy and a 70 year old man too suffered due to the extreme temperatures in the districts of Bahraich and Farukkhabad.

Tata Motors announces open sales of Nano

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 02:28 AM PST


In some good news for those who wanted to buy the Tata Nano car, can now purchase it from 874 outlets across the country. Tata Motors had announced on Monday the open sales of Tata Nano, in the remaining states where it was not available till now.

The customers can also avail special loan schemes under the Tata Motors Finance, in which the desirous customers can get up to 90% loan by providing some documents. Besides, the customers can get the loan within 48 hours after they submit the necessary documents.

Tata Motors have also merged with some 28 banks NBFCs, to provide loans to the buyers of the car, at least possible interest rates. The company is also planning to set up a Special Nano Access points for those who can experience and test drive the car.

The company has also offered the customers with a comprehensive maintenance contract at Rs 99 per month. However Tata Nano provides a four year manufacturer's warranty.

Yuvraj named one of the egoistic sportsmen in recent time

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 02:17 AM PST


Yuvraj Singh is in the list of top ten sporting egos of recent times that was conducted by an English paper in Great Britain. The other cricketer in the list is Kevin Pietersen.

Yuvraj was panned for his on and off the field behaviour which included the last season's drama when he was appointed the 12th man and was called the water boy by the crowd. Yuvraj had lost his cool and hit back at the crowd.

Yuvraj's Twitter biography was also a source of great ridicule which says that he was a cricketer, celebrity, entrepreneur and a budding philanthropist.

Pietersen was called a walking ego by the former Aussie spinner Shane Warne and is also a part of the list.

Some of the others who made it there were Jose Mourinho, Mohammad Ali and Michael Jordon.

Aarushi murder case: Court questions CBI on the closure of case

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 01:01 AM PST


After the CBI closed the murder case of the teenager Aarushi Talwar, the Special CBI court in Ghaziabad, raised questions on the investigation agency on it closure of the case. The court questioned the closure report which was filed on 29th December.

The closure report was filed before a remand magistrate and not in the regular Ghaziabad court, where the case was usually heard. CBI counsel R K Saini was scolded by the Special Judicial Magistrate (CBI) Preeti Singh on Monday, when the report was submitted. She had questioned why the CBI did not approach the concerned court first.

“What was the hurry? Where are the documents (annexures) of the closure report?” the magistrate asked Saini during the hearing. Saini replied, “Our process is that we file the closure report when a decision in this regard is taken.”

Saini also explained that, the CBI had submitted the closure as it wanted to clear all the backlogs. Court then ordered to submit all the annexures along with the report.

The first solar eclipse of the year 2011

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 11:17 PM PST


This year's first solar eclipse will occur on Tuesday. NASA has said that the partial solar eclipse will only be visible in parts of North Africa, Europe and central Asia.

Sources have said that the eclipse will not be visible in Malasia. On Tuesday, the penumbral shadow will first touch the Earth's surface, in Northern Algeria at 2:40 pm.

The partial eclipse will be visible in Western Europe as the shadow travels to the east during sunrise. And during sunset the eclipse will be visible in Kazakhstan, central Russia, northwest China and Mongolia.

This eclipse is one of the four eclipse scheduled this year. The next eclipse will occur on June 1st and can be seen from northern region of America, eastern region of Asia and some of the islands of north Atlantic. After the second one the third and fourth will occur on 1st July and 25th November 2011, which will be visible from Indian ocean islands and some regions of Africa and Australia respectively.

Baseball Flies Out of Olympics

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 08:32 PM PST


The Olympics will not have baseball after next year's Games.

Nobody in the U.S. will be sad to not see their team get beat. Can I say that?

Just think, baseball was born in America.

Teams like the Yankees have a bigger payroll than all of the teams combined in Japan, Taiwan and Korea.

And the Yankees still get beat. 

Hard work and skill still count for something.

Japan beat Taiwan to get a lock on a spot in the Olympics baseball competiton next year.

Japan won for the third straight time.

They beat Philippines, South Korea and Taiwan in the Asian Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

Another qualifying tournment will be played next March to give Taiwan and Korea another chance.

The Philippine team has no chance.

Do you follow baseball? 

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Japan Baseball Team Headed to Olympics

Intel + India = Intia?

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 04:31 PM PST


Intel Capital has invested in five companies in India.

Intel, right up the street from my buddy’s house where we will have dinner tonite…makes it sound kind of personal, eh?…has a $250 million India fund. Now that fund has been tapped to help companies in India working in technology products and services.

The five companies are.

1. Real-image - a digital video company

2. Maya Entertainment - an animation studio

3.  Mauj Mobile - mobile network

4. Mobiapps Holdings - tracking solutions

&

5. Persistent Systems - an outsourcing firm

The investment fund was established just six months ago and now has five companies it is trying to grow.

Good for India, no?

What do you think?

China Wants Direct Talks with OPEC

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 12:31 PM PST


China wants to have direct talks with OPEC to ensure a stable oil supply and an equitable share of the oil market.

I wonder…who does China talk to now when it deals with OPEC? Does China buy its oil secondhand?

At any rate, it makes sense to me to have direct neogtiations. Why would anyone want a middle man if they could do things themselves?

China's assistant minister of foreign affairs in is Dubai now, following up on aOPEC.jpg pledge made last year when the OPEC president visited China last year and the two sides discussed 'instituionalizing' a dialogue.

Well, it seems they have started talking?

Chances are a whole lot of countries are going to get antsy while this dialogue is happening? Lots of what ifs….

What do you think?

Posted by Suresh at 4:09 AM

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