Bharath Bandh leads in Twitter Trending Topic at no. 1 place

Bharath(India's other name and firstly named by Hindu King) Bandh(Closed) was called by the Opposition party of India against the protest of Rise in fuel and Ration price.

Gasoline prices in the United States, which have recently hit record highs, are actually much lower than in many countries. Drivers in some European cities, like Amsterdam and Oslo, are paying nearly 3 times more than those in the U.S. -cnn

Here are the Gasoline price across some Countries (Note:Price in USD Regular/Gallon).

Turkey(Istanbul): $8.78
Netherlands: 7.91
UK: $6.59
Germany: $6.51
Japan: $5.19
Australia: $4.32
Canada: $3.82
China: $3.58
USA: $2.83

Venezuela: $0.09

1 gallon = 3.78541178 liters

which means in

India: $4.79 (here i am taking price of 1 liter of gasoline =Rs.~57(varies across cities) and 1 INR = ~ $45 USD )

This topic now is now widely discussed through out the world, Even the Twitter's Trending topic section shows it in no. 1 position.

Though i cant argue whether it is called for good reason or bad reason but the only person suffering is the common man 'Aam Aadmi'

Bharath Bandh leads in Twitter Trending Topic at no. 1 place

Paes-Black win Wimbledon mixed doubles title

India's Leander Paes wins his 12th Grand Slam title after he and his Zimbabwean partner Cara Black clinched the Wimbledon mixed doubles championship with a straight set victory here on Sunday.

Last year's runners-up and second seeds Paes and Black beat 11th seeds South African-American pair of Wesley Moodie and Lisa Raymond 6-4, 7-6 (5) in the finals here.

With this win, Paes now have 12 Grand Slam titles - six men's doubles and six mixed doubles Grand Slam crowns

Paes and Black, who put up an impressive performance coming into the final, broke their rivals thrice and pocketed the first set 6-4 in just 37 minutes.

Paes-Black win Wimbledon mixed doubles title

Facebook India Office to be setuped in Raheja Mindspace, Hyderbad India.

The proposals of Facebook India online services, Invesco and Accenture have been cleared by the Development Commissioner of IT SEZs.

Facebook will set up its office in the Raheja Mindspace special economic zone, and will launch its incubator facility in two months. The Hyderabad office will be the first office of the social networking giant in Asia.

Facebook India Office to be setuped in Raheja Mindspace, Hyderbad India.

Ace Indian Shuttler Saina Nehwal is now World No 3.

Saina Nehwal does what she says. Thats why Hyderbadi loves Saina rather then the Glam seeking Tennis girls Sania I mean to say Sania Mirza whos is now not an indian any more.

This latest rankings comes after the Saina winning the India Open Grand Prix and the Singapore Open Super Series respectively.

It is now her career best ranking, i will be like her dream come true. According to me, saina believes in aim small small goals and achieves it and then targets her next. Firstly she expressed her desire to be reach World's Top 25 Ranking, then 10 then 5, then top 3, reaching her goal :).

I hope are Indian are keen to Saina Nehwal in First Position.

Saina, with 64791.2637 points, made a significant upward movement in the chart and is just behind Chinese duo of Yihan Wang and Xin Wang.

Ace Indian Shuttler Saina Nehwal is now World No 3.

Hear India, India Rupee to get its own version of Currency Symbol.

Today(24/06/2010) India Cabinet is set to approve the symbol which is going to represent Indian Currency. This announcement was made by, the finance minister Pranab Mukherjee in his budget speech.

"In the ensuing year, we intend to formalise a symbol for the Indian rupee, which reflects and captures the Indian ethos and culture," Mukherjee had said then.

The shortlisted design apparently plays on the Hindi letter 'R' with a double-slash. The FE designers have conceptualised the design here.

The government has already shortlisted five entries after a pan-India open contest which was advertised by the finance ministry in February 2009. According to the terms of this contest, the winning design will become the property of the government of India and the winner will have to surrender the design copyright to in lieu of Rs 2.5 lakh.

Hear India, India Rupee to get its own version of Currency Symbol.

Saina Nehwal wins Super Series title.

Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal clinched the second Super Series title of her career by winning the Singapore Open with a straight-game triumph over qualifier Tzu Ying Tai in the finals here on Sunday.

Top seed Saina took just 33 minutes to beat Chinese Taipei's Tai 21-18 21-15 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.

Saina Nehwal wins Super Series title.

India may get 4G, Reliance in talks with telecos

With the end of the truce, finally big brother Mukesh Ambani's (RIL) enters the Tele area with the acquisition of Infotel who almost won 22 circles in the BWA auction conducted for almost $ 1 Billion.

The 20 MHz, contiguous, pan-India spectrum secured by RIL through this stake is an extremely valuable resource, Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, RIL, told shareholders in Mumbai.

"With this, Reliance can now offer fourth generation wireless Infocomm services across the nation," he said, adding that to build this the company would look at partnerships at various levels.

In all, RIL has pegged its total investment at about $5 billion in the telecom sector.

India may get 4G, Reliance in talks with telecos

Beating China, India turns world’s top spam source.

A series of recent reports by Internet security companies found India has become the top spam-producing nation.

After tracking over 3 million spam messages for the week ending June 13, ICSA Labs found the maximum number, 424,224 — or 14 per cent — originated from India. The second biggest source was Russia with 11.5 per cent. While analysts have questioned the fact that China does not figure in that Top 10 list, there is consensus that India is, at the very least, among the top three nations spewing spam.

Similarly, according to the statistics featured by Project Honey Pot, the top country where spam servers are located is India, accounting for 16.9 per cent, with Brazil a distant second at 8.7 per cent. The share of countries where spam has traditionally been known to originate from, like China, has dropped, though that country still remains at Number One in Project Honey Pot’s all time list.

ICSA Labs is a US-based security firm with an anti-computer virus and spam product testing and certification facility. Project Honey Pot is a network that works with US law enforcement agencies, identifying spammers and spambots.

Beating China, India turns world’s top spam source.

Four-year-old Rajkot boy set record for push-ups.

(ANI): Ronak Vitha, a four-and-a-half-year-old boy from Gujarat's Rajkot city has set a record by doing 1,500 push-ups in 40-minutes.

Ronak' s mother Ruchi Vitha said her son's interest in push-ups began, when he just a toddler.

"When he was two years old, we used to practice yoga at home, stretching exercises and he used to perform yoga on his own, something that was very difficult for us to do. That's when we realised that his body is flexible," said Ruchi Vitha.

"Then we made him do one or two push-ups and the next day he did ten on his own," she added.

Four-year-old Rajkot boy set record for push-ups.

Vespa All Set To Re-enter Indian Market.

Remember old LML Vespa ???

The iconic Vespa, which made waves on almost every Indian road for many years, is set for yet another comeback, with comfort and modern design. After its first entry into Indian soil 50 years back, Vespa surely has had a lot of fame on its side before ‘Hamara Bajaj’ spoiled its party.

Vespa All Set To Re-enter Indian Market.

India wants its rich heritage back from Britain.

Britain expects India to shortly ask yet again for the return of its artefacts allegedly looted during the colonial period and now showcased in various British museums.

The Independent newspaper said the Archaeological Survey of India is now compiling a list of the stolen riches before launching a “diplomatic and legal campaign” for their restitution from institutions, including the British Museum, the royal collection and the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Among the items from the list quoted by the newspaper are the 2.3-metre-tall bronze Buddha statue excavated from Sultanganj in Bihar, which is now in Birmingham, and the Amravati railings, a series of limestone carvings dating from 100 A.D. and acquired from a Buddhist temple in Andhra Pradesh by Victorian explorers. The world-famous Kohinoor diamond, which was mined from Golconda and graced the crown of the then Empress of India is also on the list.

Indian Treasures in the UK

• Kohinoor diamond, which was set on the crown of Queen Elizabeth.
• Buddhist limestone reliefs from Amaravati.
• Mughal emperor Shah Jahan’s jade cup.
• Tipu Sultan’s Dream Book.
• The Sultanganj Buddha (600 AD-800 AD), the largest known complete Indian metal sculpture.

India wants its rich heritage back from Britain.

India's combat chopper unveiled, induction by 2014.

India's first indigenous combat helicopter capable of participating in anti-Naxal and counter terrorism operations on Sunday took to the skies, marking its first official flight at the HAL airport here.

The Light Combat Helicopter (LCH), designed and developed indigenously by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in four years since the project began in 2006, is likely to be ready for induction by the Army and Air Force before 2014.

Witnessed by IAF Vice Chief Air Marshal, P.K. Barbora and the defense production secretary, Mr R.K. Singh, the 10-minute flight display caught the attention of those present at the venue, with the 5.8-tonne chopper showcasing its maneuverability and stability, including one of the most difficult moves — reverse slide.

India's combat chopper unveiled, induction by 2014.

Indians among creators of 'artificial life'

Scientists announced a bold step on Thursday in the enduring quest to create artificial life. They've produced a living cell powered by man-made DNA.

The inventors call it the world's first synthetic cell, although this initial step is more a re-creation of existing life - changing one simple type of bacterium into another - than a built-from-scratch kind.

But Maryland genome-mapping pioneer J. Craig Venter said his team's project paves the way for the ultimate, much harder goal: designing organisms that work differently from the way nature intended for a wide range of uses. Already he's working with ExxonMobil in hopes of turning algae into fuel.

Indians among creators of 'artificial life'

Nuclear capable Agni II succesfully test fired.

Nuclear-capable Agni-II missile, with a range of 2000 kms, was on Monday successfully test-fired by the Army as part of user trial from the Wheelers Island off Orissa coast.

The trial was conducted from a rail mobile system in Launch Complex-4 of Integrated Test Range (ITR) at around 9.15 am, defence sources said soon after the versatile
surface-to-surface missile blasted off.

Nuclear capable Agni II succesfully test fired.

India, South Korea share Azlan Shah cup hockey title

India retaining the Azlan Shah cup hockey title but this time it had to share with South Korea as heavy rains washed out the finals here on Sunday.

Only seven minutes of play was possible when rains came down heavily at the Azlan Shah Stadium. India won the tournament for the fifth time and second in a row. They had earlier won the championship in 1985, 1991, 1995 and 2009.

This is the first time in the history of the tournament that the title was shared by two teams.

India, South Korea share Azlan Shah cup hockey title

Bihar's Super 30 in Time magazine best list

Super 30, Bihar's free coaching centre which helps economically backward students crack the Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE), has been selected by The Time Magazine in the list of The Best of Asia 2010.

Bihar's Super 30 in Time magazine best list

Obama blames India and China for petrol price rise

Here is the Obama accusing the developing, i mean rapidly developing nations like China and india for the rise of petrol price. He accuses that rise in demand of petrol because the people out in china and India are buying cars.

"Because one of the things, obviously, that we have to recognise is, is that no matter what we do, oil prices are going to be going up over the long term," he said choosing his first visit to recession-hit Buffalo in upstate New York to plug for public transportation.

Obama blames India and China for petrol price rise

Lalit Modi had plans to create a 'rebel cricket league' in UK

Article appeared on economictimes.indiatimes.com

If cricket came to India from the British, Lalit Modi came very close to showing them how to make a fortune out of the game rather than sitting around in white flannels taking leisurely tea breaks.

All ten franchisees of the Indian Premier League would have had the option of bidding for a franchisee associated with a storied English county, had Lalit Modi’s purported plans to create a ‘rebel cricket league’ come to fruition, according to emails between county officials seen by ET.

Lalit Modi had plans to create a 'rebel cricket league' in UK

Kasab 26/11 Mumbai attacker to hang on a Bihar rope

When the hangman's summon arrives for Ajmal Amir Kasab, ordered hanged by a Mumbai court, his end would come with a specially woven Buxar Manila rope around his neck.

The hangman's rope, 15-feet in length and weighing 3.75 kilograms, is a speciality of the prisoners ward of Buxar Central jail-handwoven with a special cotton thread known as the J-34 variety. The Buxar Central jail has been the sole supplier of the hangman's rope for the last one decade to each and every jail in the country.

Kasab 26/11 Mumbai attacker to hang on a Bihar rope

First Indian women in UK House

Article appeared on deccanchronicle.com

London : Britain finally got its first female MPs of Indian origin as 37-year-old Ms Priti Patel won in Witham for the Conservative Party and Ms Valerie Vaz won the Walsall South seat for the Labour party on Friday.

Along with two Indian-origin female MPs, two new Indian-origin male Tory candidates were elected to Parliament. Dr Ashok Kumar, Labour MP in last Parliament, passed away in March and an Indian-origin MP Parmjit Dhanda lost the poll. The three main political parties had fielded a record 89 Asian candidates, compared to 68 in 2005.

First Indian women in UK House