These were the top 10 searches on Google for 2006! Amazing how fickle the world is - the top one is Paris Hilton!! 1. paris hilton 2. orlando bloom 3. cancer 4. podcasting 5. hurricane katrina 6. bankruptcy 7. martina hingis 8. autism 9. 2006 nfl draft 10. celebrity big brother 2006Â Read more
Pakistani and Indian police are not known for discretion anyways... but there are times when they shock even by their dismal standards!! Here is one such incident from Pakistan. Some folks, whose relatives had been missing, gathered for a peaceful protest in front of the GHQ of the Police to present a memorandum to the Vice-Chief of the Army Staff (now what is the Vice-Chief of Army doing in the Police offices is a good question!). As the people gathered, to look for answers on their loved ones who were missing - presumably in confines with secret agencies and Army in Pakistan - suddenly saw a contingent of police came along and manhandled them - men, children, women and the old. As the mishandling occured the protest grew louder and skirmishes occured. One man, Mohammad bin Masood, (son of Masood Janjua) was then stripped of his shalwar and beaten by the police. After dragging him the police shoved him in the police van, his sister protesting and crying! The police did not even spare the father of a missing person either! No wonder this has shocked a nation which needs no further shocks from those in uniform. Nevertheless, there are enough people who feel nauseated and ask where is their country going to? The only difference in India would be that at least there could be a small - very little - hope for the victims in the justice system. At least in one such police beating crime, one court has finally given its verdict - Death Sentence for the culprit police-butchers! Now, before we celebrate, we have to remember that this was just a lower court. It would be justice when the higher court upholds the sentence and provides a precedence that is irrefutably a hope to the poor and victimized! Until then, most poor are on the same level as those in Pakistan! (photo courtesy: Dawn.com)Â Read more
We have a list of many things at the year end. But for me many things came together in this year. Many a times, we keep asking questions from the Universe, if you will, but this year I received some answers back from the Universe. Getting answers though is not the goal. These are steps. Steps in the exploration path that one takes to find the meaning of the question "Who Am I?" What were your list of things that you find most profound? Want to share? The Scientific Explanation for Maya and Better Understanding of Advaita (link)Â Read more
It is over. The guy who mercilessly killed thousands is gone. He was formally executed by the same very folks who created him in the first place. The names change.. the process remains unchanged! Saddam Hussein was hanged Saturday for crimes committed in a brutal crackdown during his reign, U.S. and Iraqi sources tell CNN. One witness to the execution told CNN: "Saddam's body is in front me. It's over." The execution was videotaped and photographed, Iraqi state television reported. link Edited by Desh Some more links from other News Sources: - Former Iraqi President Hussein Executed (Washington Post) - Record of Infamy Ends in Iraq (Washington Post) - HUSSEIN IS EXECUTED (New York Times) - SADDAM HUSSEIN WAS EXECUTED (Wall Street Journal) - Saddam Hussein executed in Baghdad: Iraqi official (Hindustan Times, India) - Ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein executed in Baghdad (Times of India, India) - Death of a Dictator - Newsweek (MSNBC)Â Read more
Indian railways is on a tear! After the near global celebrity status for business acumen that Laloo enjoys now, here is something that other departments should learn from. Indian Railways has large amount of properties lying around. They will let the large hotel chains build budget hotels there on a BOT (build, operate,transfer) format and utilize that land. Cool huh! The issues will come once the properties are T'ed back ... as in transferred back to Railways bureaucrats 🙂 Of the eight locations, four have Rail Yatri Nivas hotels, which would be refurbished by the hotel groups and operated for 15 years before being handed back to Railways. Read more
As the year comes to a close everyone is coming out with some list or the other. Here is one that lists the top ten web design mistakes: They are: 1. Bad Search 2. PDF Files for Online Reading 3. Not Changing the Color of Visited Links 4. Non-Scannable Text 5. Fixed Font Size 6. Page Titles With Low Search Engine Visibility 7. Anything That Looks Like an Advertisement 8. Violating Design Conventions 9. Opening New Browser Windows 10. Not Answering Users' Questions Read more
Here is LG's new "Shine" phone. Man, North America's world in electronics is in pre-historic times compared to South Korea and Japan. Even stuff in India looks high-tech now compared to the US! Read more
Dr. Manmohan Singh is in a hurry to reverse a lot of inequalities in the country. From that of the Dalits to the Muslims. According to him "that his Government was committed to removing the inequities and imbalanced faced by the community which has been deprived of an equal share of development benefits". This is an important characterisation of the reasons due to which Muslims are "poor". There has been a great hue and cry over the inequities and therefore quotas that Muslims should get in the educational institutes in India. Read more
Can there ever be a more complex screaning process for a job in India? Clean up your past and beware of your present deeds to land a good job in future as your Horoscope might imply them :). Darashaw & Co Pvt Ltd, one of the oldest broking and investment banking houses of the country, short-listed a few students and asked for their horoscopes, which will be individually evaluated. Three students each from IES Management College and Sydenham Institute of Management Studies have been short-listed and one from MET has also made it to the final round—of submitting the horoscope. Read more
McKinsey Quarterly came out with a great article "Ten Trends to watch in 2006" (free registration required to read the article), where they discussed a lot of trends from the Macroeconomic level ro Business and Social and Environmental standpoints. These are true even today!! They made some interesting projections like - Battlefield for Talent will shift - meaning that with 33 million university educated young professionals, the developing economies have more than twice the number of developed countries. So, the future organization is not to only think of material sourcing but also talent sourcing as a major part of its business strategy! Read more
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