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[28 May 2008 | One Comment | 296 views]

A Delhi court is likely to pronounce its verdict in the six-year-old sensational Nitish Katara murder case allegedly involving Vikas Yadav, the son of Uttar Pradesh politician D P Yadav, and his cousin Vishal Yadav.
Vikas and his cousin Vishal had allegedly abducted Katara, the son of an IAS officer, from a marriage party in Ghaziabad on the intervening night of February 16-17, 2002. Katara’s body was later recovered from a village in Uttar Pradeshs Bulandshahr District.
According to the prosecution, Katara, a business executive, was killed by the accused, as …

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[27 May 2008 | 2 Comments | 2,909 views]

+2 science and commerce results were announced at 9 am on 28, May 2008.

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[27 May 2008 | One Comment | 289 views]

Delhi high court has allowed US based CFA to conduct its tests on June 8.

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[27 May 2008 | No Comment | 309 views]

India-born Arun Sarin will leave Vodafone at the end of July and hand over the reins to deputy chief executive Vittorio Colao. Sarin had gone ahead with a number of mega acquisitions inspite of opposition from the board. His moves have paid off as Vodafone posted a record profit of $13.16bn in the year to March 31,2008. The result was driven by the good performance of the assets acquired in the emerging markets.
Arun Sareen graduated from IIT Kharagpur in 1975. He did his MS in Engineering from University of California, …

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[27 May 2008 | No Comment | 219 views]

The crude has reached an all time high price of 135$ per barrel. However there has been no change in the price of the petroleum products in India. Oil marketing companies are incurring losses for every litre of petrol and diesel that they sell. This has led to private companies like reliance closing petrol pumps. The state run oil companies are only weeks away from bankruptcy.
The only reason prices have not gone up till now is that this is an election year. The congress party has to finally bite the …

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[27 May 2008 | One Comment | 443 views]

tamilnadu sslc results can be obtained at tnresults.nic.in/

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[27 May 2008 | No Comment | 1,348 views]

The results of west bengal board of secondary education (wbbse) can be obtanied at http://www.wbgov.com/e-gov/English/ExamResult/Madhyamik/mikIndividualResult.asp
P.S: I am reporting these links for examination results as many students seem to be struggling for finding the relevant links.

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[27 May 2008 | One Comment | 869 views]

You can check your SEBA Results at http://www8.indiaresults.com/Assam/AHSEBA/hslc/rollquery.htm

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[26 May 2008 | One Comment | 340 views]

I had written a Nokia N78 Review yesterday only. It was expected to be available for sale in the second quarter of the year. It is already available in Finland. You can see the details here and here.
It is selling for Euro 367 before tax. That is equivalent to 25,000 rupees.

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[22 May 2008 | No Comment | 231 views]

Microsoft today announced a programme called Live Search cashback. As part of the offer, microsoft will provide a rebate to the searcher buying the product through microsoft live platform.
It reminds me of the heady days of web 1.0 while websites paid users for watching advertisements, products were heavily discounted and so on. All with the intention of catching the eyeballs and monetizing the same later. All of us know the end result of that.
Why I think Live Search cashback is its stupidest move?
1. Microsoft seems to …

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[18 May 2008 | One Comment | 771 views]

Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid, an IT professional from Gurgaon has been arrested by the pune police for posting derogatory remarks about Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on an orkut community named I hate Sonia Gandhi.
Most of the users are a lot less cautious online as it gives a false sense of anonymity. This case should serve as a strong reminder that you are not that anonymous on the internet. It is possible and actually a lot more easier to locate a person online. So be careful about what you write …

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[17 May 2008 | 2 Comments | 363 views]

Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is available in 45 languages. Gujarati is the only indian language that is part of this list of 45 languages. Even hindi is not included in that list.

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[17 May 2008 | One Comment | 234 views]

Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is available for download. It includes several new featiures that make the browser more secure and easier to use. Firefox 3 claims to provide much better performance as well.

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[6 May 2008 | One Comment | 1,202 views]

Version 2.5.1 of wordpress has been released. I shall check with Tarun to see if he has upgraded to 2.5.1. This version contains one serious security fix.

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[5 May 2008 | No Comment | 222 views]

In the first trading session after microsoft withdrawing its offer, yahoo stock is down more than 15%. At 24.3$ it is significantly higher than the price before microsoft made the offer though. Most of the leading bloggers are predicting a number of shareholder lawsuits against yahoo board.