tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59651062294085027202012-01-29T09:21:05.273-08:00Abhilash Ninan Chalakuzhy. BE(IT). MBA (Finance &Marketing) PSG Tech Coimbatore India Chairman GLOBAL RENEWABLE ENERGY INVESTMENT My Website: http://abhilashchalakuzhy.webs.com/ Email:abhi_chalakuzhy@yahoo.com Phone: +001 415 298 4477 (U.S.A)ABHILASH NINAN CHALAKUZHYhttps://profiles.google.com/101781310595674080695noreply@blogger.comBlogger5281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965106229408502720.post-29772525795842560192012-01-29T09:21:00.000-08:002012-01-29T09:21:05.287-08:00

Chinese exports to India continue to surge crossing the $50 billion mark. The exports logged $50.04 billion registering a growth of 23.51 per cent over 2010. India-China bilateral trade hit a record $73.9 billion last year, but the ballooning trade deficit in Beijing's favour rose to over $27 billion, raising concern among Indian authorities. The bilateral trade registered a $12.2

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The Cabinet today has officially sanctioned the terms of a truce between Nandan Nilekani and Home Minister P Chidambaram. The two departments had been battling over the issue of biometrics - the right to scan India's eyes and fingerprints. The compromise gives both the Home Ministry and Mr Nilekani's UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) the power to collect biometrics. Mr

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New Delhi: President Pratibha Devisingh Patil, addressed the nation on the eve of the 63rd Republic Day and stressed on reforms, economy, democracy and women empowerment among other subjects. Following is the text of the President's address on the occasion: Dear Citizens, On the eve of our 63rd Republic Day, I convey my warmest greetings to all of you across the country, from every walk

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The battle over biometrics between Nandan Nilkani's department and the Home Ministry has ended in a compromise. At a meeting chaired by the Prime Minister and attended by senior ministers, Mr Nilekani, and Home Minister P Chidambram, it was resolved that the fingerprints and iris scans of Indians will be collected by both teams, with as little duplication as possible. Mr Nilekani, since he

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Google's online social networking service 'Google Plus' has crossed 90 million users mark since its launch in June. Google Plus now has attracted 90 million users,reflecting the huge interest in the social networking site which was opened to the public on September 20. That more than doubles the 40 million that Google reported in October. Earlier, Google Plus service was available only

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Apple reported record quarterly net profit and revenue on Tuesday in the first quarter since the death of founder Steve Jobs, driven by strong sales of the new iPhone. Apple said its net profit more than doubled in the first quarter of fiscal 2012 to a record $13.06 billion while revenue rose to a record $46.33 billion from $26.74 billion a year ago. Earnings per share of $13.87 blew past

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The iPhone is taking over Apple. For the first time, the device that changed how people use mobile phones, accounts for more than half of the behemoth company's sales. Apple Inc. on Tuesday said it sold 37 million iPhones in the last three months of 2011, vastly exceeding analyst estimates and propelling the company to record quarterly results. The phone accounted for 53 percent of

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The US and Europe are trying to stop Iran, the world's third-biggest oil exporter, from selling crude. Iran's response is to threaten to disrupt shipments from the entire Middle East. Yet oil prices have hardly budged. They're at $98.95, up just 12 cents since the start of year. Just a year ago, uprisings in far less important oil-producing countries such as Egypt and Libya sent oil and

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Nandan Nilekani speaks to NDTV's Sreenivasan Jain on the UID project, Aadhaar Sreenivasan Jain: Hello and welcome to this NDTV exclusive. When the Unique Identity Scheme was launched, it started with immense amount of promise, partly because it was headed by Nandan Nilekani; someone who retains immense goodwill amongst all the stakeholders involved. But increasingly it is running into a

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The Central government Thursday decided to give aid to the Kasargod-Thiruvananthapuram high speed railway track. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has been asked to prepare a detailed project report on it. The authorities have asked DMRC to file its report within six months. The decision was taken at a high power committee meeting held at the Prime Minister's office by the central government.

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The Congress-led United Democratic Front government in Kerala has devised a slew of initiatives for growth of Information Technology sector, including steps to reduce the working cost of Information Technology companies functioning in state-run Information Technology parks, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said today. "Our effort is to make Kerala a prominent destination for

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In an attempt to bail out bleeding airlines, the government is considering whether to allow foreign airlines to own upto 49 per cent of Indian carriers. Currently, foreign investors can own upto 49 per cent stake in Indian airlines, but only if they are not in the airline business abroad. What the government is now considering would allow an airline like Virgin, for example, to own upto 49

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Soon Delhi Metro commuters will be able to avoid standing in the queue for recharging their smart cards with authorities planning to introduce refilling facility at the automatic fare collection gates. As part of its efforts to provide cashless transactions to commuters, the Delhi Metro is also mulling to allow recharge of smart cards through net banking and credit and debit cards. To

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Sam Odio expected a few congratulatory e-mails when he sold Divvyshot, his online photo-sharing service, to Facebook last April for millions of dollars. Instead, his in-box was flooded with pitches from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and other Wall Street firms looking to manage his newfound wealth. Goldman has the inside track, having courted him with an exclusive factory tour of Tesla, the

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A new line of liquid-cooled LED bulbs will deliver better and last longer than their incandescent cousins, using just a fraction of the energy required to emit brightness of a 100W bulb. The revolutionary design, developed by a Californian-based firm, Switch, was showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. "It uses 80 percent less energy than an incandescent bulb," said

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Cheaper tablets, thinner laptops and an array of sleeker TVs stood out at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. More than 140,000 people gathered there this week, for an event that's growing despite the absence of Apple and more recently, the decision by Microsoft to make this the last year it participates. A bevy of celebrities, including 50 Cent, Will.i.am,

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Farmers across the country can soon get their agriculture and weather-related queries answered quickly. The Indian government is planning to launch a spoken web service that will provide an interactive medium for the farming community. In a country where close to 60 percent of the 1.21 billion population still depends on agriculture for a living, the spoken web service can be a boon to

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Sure, today's phones can deliver the sound of a heartbeat. But how would you like to actually feel the throbbing? A few companies want to replace the crude vibration motors in today's phones and tablets with something that provides a much wider range of sensations, allowing you to feel the rumble of a Harley or the reverberation of a shotgun blast. The new technology can even let you feel

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Researchers at I.B.M. have stored and retrieved digital 1s and 0s from an array of just 12 atoms, pushing the boundaries of the magnetic storage of information to the edge of what is possible. The findings, being reported Thursday in the journal Science, could help lead to a new class of nanomaterials for a generation of memory chips and disk drives that will not only have greater

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Facing competition from increasing number of mobile phone producers, Finnish-handset manufacturer Nokia today widened its portfolio with the launch of dual SIM phones Nokia Asha 200 and Asha 300. The phones, Nokia Asha 200, Asha 300 and Nokia X2-02 are aimed at attracting younger generation, equipped with 1GHz processor, Nokia India Director-South Markets T S Sridhar said at the launch.

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The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) today approved the Home Ministry's ambitious plan to set up the National Counter-Terrorism Centre. After the CCS' nod, the NCTC will be the nodal agency for all counter-terrorism activities and intelligence agencies such as Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) and state intelligence agencies.

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The auto expo may have offered many new models, but it's the good old Reva that has senior ministers intrigued. It was the cynosure of all eyes at the Prime Minister's Office at South Block, where ministers had gathered for a meeting of the Union Cabinet today, when National Conference leader and Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah showed up in the two-door electric car.

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The Delhi High Court on Thursday warned social networking site Facebook India and search engine Google India that websites can be "blocked" like in China if they fail to devise a mechanism to check and remove objectionable material from their web pages. "Like China, we will block all such websites," Justice Suresh Kait said while asking counsel for Facebook and Google India to develop a

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Global consumer electronics major Samsung Wednesday launched in the Indian market its next-generation tablet Galaxy Tab 620, with a 1.2GHz dual core processor and Android Honeycomb 3.2 operating system. "Our latest tablet will enable customers to manage their work and life while on the move. Value added features of GalaxyTab will offer faster browsing, downloading and transmission," Samsung

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India has reason to smile on the polio front, especially on January 13. Not only will it achieve a big milestone of no new case for a year, there are also indications that the World Health Organisation (WHO) will remove it from its list of polio endemic countries by February. Experts, however, caution that the fight against the paralysing disease that affects children aged under five is far

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Firing on all engines, NASA's latest rover to Mars executed a course adjustment Wednesday that put it on track for a landing on the red planet in August. Deep space antennas monitored the one-tonne rover nicknamed Curiosity as it fired its thrusters in a choreographed three-hour manoeuvre. "We're a big step closer to our entry point at the Martian atmosphere," said Arthur Amador of the NASA

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A Russian space probe designed to burnish the nation's faded space glory in a mission to one of Mars' moons has turned into one of the heaviest, most toxic pieces of space junk ever. It will come crashing down to Earth in just a few days. The Russian space agency Roscosmos' latest forecast has the unmanned Phobos-Ground probe falling out of Earth's orbit Sunday or Monday, with the median

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The United States has offered the air-to-air version of its famous Stinger missile to India as part of the weapons package proposed for the 22 attack helicopter deal of the Indian Air Force (IAF). The surface-to-air version of the Stinger missile is widely credited for the collapse of Russian helicopter fleet in Afghan war in 1980s and was also used by Pakistani troops to bring down an IAF

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China and India are catapulting to the forefront of astronomy research with their decision to join as partners in a Hawaii telescope that will be the world's largest when it's built later this decade. China and India will pay a share of the construction cost - expected to top $1 billion - for the Thirty Meter Telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea volcano. They will also have a share of the

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US chip giant Intel on Monday heralded a coming wave of affordable high-powered, thin laptops that could double as tablet computers and be controlled by gestures or spoken commands.Intel vice president Mooly Eden showed off coming "ultrabooks" by Lenovo, Acer, Asus, Samsung, Toshiba, LG and Hewlett Packard as well as a curiously innovative prototype Nikiski laptop powered by yet-to-be-released

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During last three and half years, FDI worth only Rs 196 crore was received in the sector.The government on Tuesday notified 100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in single-brand retail. Currently, single-brand retail stores can have 51 per cent FDI.The decision to increase FDI in the retail sector was taken by the Cabinet on November 24 but the government was forced to put on hold FDI in

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Developing countries like China and India will drive global sales of consumer electronics above $1 trillion this year for the first time, even as cash-strapped shoppers in the U.S. and Western Europe ease off spending for high-tech gear, industry analysts said Sunday.Developing countries will account for 46 percent of global gadget sales in 2012, up from 37 percent four years ago, according to

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Cook's award is well above that given to Philippe Dauman, the Viacom Inc. chief executive who led the top paid CEOs of 2010 with an $84.5 million haul based on a new contract that granted him shares and stock options.Tim Cook could well end up being the highest paid CEO in America in 2011, after Apple Inc. granted him a million restricted stock units last August for taking the reins shortly

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Notwithstanding border dispute and visa row, India and China on Monday projected a positive outlook of their relations, with China saying that the rise of the two countries together was "irreversible" which no force can stop even as some countries are trying to "drive a wedge".Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yan said in spite of all kinds of prophecies with "ill-intention", bilateral relations take

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He warned that financial markets have grown too big and too powerful in the world.The world economy is in a much more dangerous situation than 2008, says George Soros, the famous American hedge fund manager and founder and adviser of the Quantum Fund. He is in India and was speaking at the Wipro Foundation in Bangalore on Monday.He said that the Eurozone crisis is a much more serious one than the

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Talking about price rise situation, Singh said, "Our efforts to battle inflation are producing results and there has been improvement in the situation". Acknowledging that the country is going through "difficult times", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that the economy is expected to grow at 7 per cent this fiscal and expressed optimism that the rhythm of growth process would be brought back to

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While the government promises all amenities to NRIs for investing in India, the implementation is lacking, delegates at annual Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas said. Overseas investment in India has been hit by corruption and lack of proper facilities in the country, say non resident Indians (NRIs).Many overseas Indians participating in the annual Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas diaspora meet have complained that

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Futurologists say that the next world war will be fought over water because fresh supplies will become increasingly scarce. Pakistan has already added water to the long list of disputes with India and people in India have grown concerned about what they say are Chinese efforts to dam the Brahmaputra River.If the south Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu were independent countries with their

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From the high growth driven by Asian tiger economies to the emergence of giants India and China, the region has continued to be a centre of immense activity, said Commander of the US Pacific Command, Admiral Robert Willard.With a long term strategic partnership with India, the US wants to support its ability to serve as an "economic anchor" in the Asia Pacific region where it is already driving

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He said India's average ranking among six South Asian economies (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan) has "fallen from being the second best to being second worst." India is no match for neighbouring China when it comes to social development indicators, eminent economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has said."There is a huge gap there (on social front) as China is one of

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The world's congested mobile airwaves are being divided in a lopsided manner, with 1 percent of consumers generating half of all traffic. The top 10 percent of users, meanwhile, are consuming 90 percent of wireless bandwidth.Arieso, a company in Newbury, England, that advises mobile operators in Europe, the United States and Africa, documented the statistical gap when it tracked 1.1 million

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It is an unwritten rule of sorts that if a device has a display below 5-inches it is considered a smartphone and if the display size crosses the 7-inch mark, it is a tablet. Lately, however, an increasing number of smartphones displays in excess of 4-inches have blurred the line between tablets and phones. Some companies have started to stray into the uncharted territory between 5-inches and 7-

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Harley-Davidson Motor Company, a subsidiary of Harley-Davidson Inc, produces heavyweight Custom, Cruiser, and Touring motorcycles.US cult bike maker Harley Davidson on Wednesday launched two locally-assembled models at a price starting from Rs 9.95 lakh, which is much lower than that of imported motorcycles.FXDB Street Bob and FXDC Super Glide Custom, previously offered as Completely Built-up (

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Within days of going on sale online, the 2,500 rupee (about $47) Aakash computer appears to be sold out, according to the tablet's official Web site.The tablet has generated huge excitement among gadget geeks and internationally renowned columnists alike, who say the product could advance education in India and revolutionize the lives of the world's poor. But it has been dogged by complaints

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It's losing business to Google and Facebook. Its stock has gone nowhere since 2008. It just announced its fourth CEO in five years. It's enough to make investors replace the exclamation point in the logo with a question mark.Yahoo?Puzzlingly, some Wall Street analysts suggested Wednesday that it's a good time to buy stock in the company, a 1990s Internet darling that is watching its advertising

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Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have reported the first solar cell that produces a photocurrent that has an external quantum efficiency greater than 100 percent when photoexcited with photons from the high energy region of the solar spectrum. The external quantum efficiency for photocurrent, usually expressed as a percentage, is the

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Pentagon-supported physicists on Wednesday said they had devised a "time cloak" that briefly makes an event undetectable.The laboratory device manipulates the flow of light in such a way that for the merest fraction of a second an event cannot be seen, according to a paper published in the science journal Nature.It adds to experimental work in creating next-generation camouflage - a so-called

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To go to outer space, Catherine Culver went to a travel agent. The first flights of the new airlines that will take tourists past the threshold of space are poised to take off in 2012, and getting a seat on one is not all that different from booking a trip someplace on Earth. You can sign up on the Web site of, say, Virgin Galactic, the most prominent of the new space tourism companies, or go to

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Wikipedia has raised $20 million in its annual plea for donations to help expand and improve the Internet's leading encyclopedia.More than 1 million people throughout the world contributed the money during a 46-day fundraising drive, which concluded Sunday. The amount pledged to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit group that oversees the volunteer-driven Wikipedia, is a third more than the

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The article describes in detail how US is going to collapse as an economic superpower in 2012.URL: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/110253384/THE-COLLAPSE-OF-USA-AS-AN-ECONOMIC-SUPERPOWER-2012

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India today cleared a €950 million deal to procure 500 air-to-air missiles from a French firm for IAF's Mirage-2000 aircraft fleet.A Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today cleared the deal to procure 490 MICA missiles manufactured by French firm MBDA, Defence Ministry sources said.The missiles would be deployed on the 51 Mirage-2000 aircraft,

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Follow your dreams with dedication. This was former President A P J Abdul Kalam's message to thousands of students who gathered for the Children's Science Congress (CSC) at the KIIT University in Bhubaneswar.Inaugurating the CSC, he also asked the students not to be bogged down by China marching ahead of India in research and development."Work hard. Continuously acquire knowledge. Have a great

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PubMatic: When Google announced in June this year it was spending $400 million to acquire AdMeld, the ad platform targeted at digital publishers, the picture only got brighter for PubMatic. That’s because PubMatic immediately would become the largest independent publisher-focussed ad platform. Publishers fear that Google would do to them what Apple did to the music industry. 2012 will see

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India's homemade $50 tablet has already reached a milestone just 2 weeks after going on sale online. Manufacturers Datawind tell us that over 14 lakh units of the device have been booked online since December 15th.The Aakash made national and international headlines when it launched on October 5th 2011. It is entirely assembled in India and, though pricier than the $35 tag originally announced,

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Bajaj Auto is known for its two wheelers and three-wheelers. The company is making a four-wheeler for the first time.Bajaj Auto, a listed two-wheeler and three-wheeler company, announced the launch of RE 60, an ultra-low cost car. The company claims that the car would have a mileage of close to 40 km per litre and will have a 200 cc engine. The car will be launched in 2012. However, the car might

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Noting that India's position in the field of science has been overtaken by China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today sought an increase in spending on scientific research to at least two per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and enhanced contribution from industry."As far as resources are concerned, the fraction of the GDP spent on R&D in India has been too low and stagnant," he said

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Google's social networking site Google Plus will have more than 400 million users by the end of 2012, a researcher has said.The website that went public in September has passed the 62 million mark, the Daily Mail said.American analyst Paul Allen has said 625,000 members were signing up every day, and the number would rapidly increase because 700,000 Android devices are being bought every day."

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Google, one of the biggest advertising companies in the world, has finally embraced advertising for itself.The search giant made its first push into advertising with a Super Bowl ad in 2010 about a young couple falling in love. But through last year it began a more focused national television campaign, as well as taking on other efforts, like hosting Google-themed conferences in an effort to

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Three months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, Angus Echols, a member of DuPont's executive committee, began shaping the chemical giant's plans for the coming decade. The U.S. would soon be at war, he explained in a series of memos and high-level discussions, and the company needed to aid the effort. But it also needed to think far ahead. When the war ended, Echols argued, women would

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Fans of the clean, inviting look of the iPhone, iPad and other blockbuster Apple products are legion, and that includes Queen Elizabeth II.The British monarch has awarded a knighthood to Jonathan Paul Ive, a Brit and head of Apple Inc.'s design team since the mid-'90s.Ive received a KBE, short for Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. The honor was announced Saturday

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For flat-panel TVs, the choice for years has been between plasma and LCD. In the coming year, there'll be another choice, at least for those prepared to spend big.LG Electronics Inc. says it's planning to sell a 55-inch set based on organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs. The Korean company is set to show it off at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which starts Jan. 10.

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The government said in a statement that it had taken the move "in order to widen the class of investors, attract more foreign funds, and reduce market volatility and to deepen the Indian capital market." India announced on Sunday that it would open up its stock market to individual foreign investors for the first time, in a major economic reform designed to boost overseas investment.The Indian

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Saying that Europe was facing its “harshest test in decades,” Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany warned on New Year’s Eve that “next year will no doubt be more difficult than 2011” — a marked change in tone from a year ago, when she praised Germans for “mastering the crisis as no other nation.”Europe’s leaders braced their nations for a turbulent year, with their beleaguered economies facing a

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The United States has reached a deal to sell $3.48 billion worth of missiles and related technology to the United Arab Emirates, a close Mideast ally, as part of a massive buildup of defense technology among friendly Mideast nations near Iran.Pentagon spokesman George Little announced the Christmas Day sale on Friday night.He noted that the U.S. and U.A.E. have a strong defense relationship and

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Online retailer Amazon says 2011 was the best holiday ever for its Kindle-brand e-readers and tablet computers.Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday that people bought more than 1 million Kindles each week in December.The company has never released specific sales figures for the Kindle. Since the launch of the first Kindle in 2007, this franchise has grown to include several e-readers and the Kindle Fire

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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion's share of the US smartphone market declined during the three months ending in November, while Apple and Google's Android platform both made gains, industry tracker comScore said on Thursday.The Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM saw its share of US smartphone subscribers fall to 16.6 percent at the end of November from 19.7 percent at the end of August, according to

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Supporters of the India growth story would like to treat the year 2011 as a bad dream. In a departure from big gains in the past two years, investors saw around Rs 20 lakh crore of their wealth eroded as Indian equities tanked in 2011 because of inflation, high interest rates and the uncertain global growth environment accentuated by the euro zone debt crisis.The participation of local and

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The most basic factor that determines the currency value is demand and supply. The US dollar is a reserve currency and is gaining strength across the world.A 22 per cent fall in the value of the rupee in 2011 has generated a lot of interest in prospects for the rupee going forward. After all, a weak currency is not good if you plan extensive overseas travel, shopping abroad or fund expenses

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Boeing Co beat out Lockheed Martin to retain its position as the prime contractor for the U.S. long-range missile shield, the Pentagon said on Friday.The U.S. Defense Department said it was awarding Boeing a $3.48 billion, seven-year contract to develop, test, engineer and manufacture missile defense systems.A team led by Lockheed Martin Corp and Raytheon Co had vied with Boeing to expand and

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TCS' m-cap stood at Rs 227,282.29 crore against RIL's m-cap of 226,898.64 crore at the end of trade on the Bombay Stock Exchange today. TCS closed 0.35 per cent lower but Reliance saw a shaper fall. The stock slumped 2.81 per cent to close below the 700 mark for the first time since 13 April 2007.India's biggest software services firm Tata Consultancy Services has pipped Reliance Industries to

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Russia has handed over the much- awaited nuclear-powered attack submarine Nerpa to India on a 10-year lease, boosting the Indian navy's fire-power.The Akula-II class Nerpa nuclear submarine had recently finished sea trials."The signing ceremony happened yesterday at the Bolshoi Kamen ship building facility in the (Far East) Primorye region where the Nerpa is now based," ITAR-TASS news agency

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It was business as usual at the Kalpakkam atomic power plants, around 80 km from here, even as cyclone Thane lashed the coastal districts affecting normal life on Friday.The two power plants of Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) located on the Kalpakkam coast were generating power as usual, though necessary precautions against the cyclone have been taken, said a senior official. "Both the units

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Global chip maker Intel Corporation began shipping its new mobile Atom processors with more features and longer battery life to manufacturers of personal computers (PC), laptops, netbooks and smart devices."Computing systems using new Atom processors will debut in early 2012 through leading original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) such as Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, and Toshiba," Intel said

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Tablet computers and electronic readers promise to close the book on the ink-and-paper era as they transform the way people browse magazines, check news or lose themselves in novels."It is only a matter of time before we stop killing trees and all publications become digital," Creative Strategies president and principal analyst Tim Bajarin told AFP.Online retail giant Amazon has made electronic

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In the interview, Steve Wozniak and the late Steve Jobs recall a seminal moment in Silicon Valley history - how they named their upstart computer company some 35 years ago."I remember driving down Highway 85," Wozniak says. "We're on the freeway, and Steve mentions, `I've got a name: Apple Computer.' We kept thinking of other alternatives to that name, and we couldn't think of anything better."

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The 43-year-old son of construction magnate Pallonji Mistry, among one of the selectors himself and also the largest shareholder in Tata Sons with an 18 per cent stake would now take over the reins of the 80 billion dollar salt to software conglomerate.2011 was a year when whispers of succession and change strongly resonated across Indian corporate boardrooms where old hands and industry veterans

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China plans to launch space labs and manned ships and prepare to build space stations over the next five years, according to a plan released on Thursday that shows the country's space program is gathering momentum.China has already said its eventual goals are to have a space station and put an astronaut on the moon. It has made methodical progress with its ambitious lunar and human spaceflight

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Solar power is a clean energy source. But in this arid part of north-west India it can also be a dusty one.Every five days or so, in a marriage of low and high tech, field hands with long-handled dust mops wipe down each of the 36,000 solar panels at a 63-acre installation operated by Azure Power. The site is one of the biggest examples of India's ambitious plan to use solar energy to help

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Ramping up strategic ties with India, Japan Wednesday announced $4.5 billion for the landmark Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project and agreed to accelerate negotiations for a civil nuclear deal, but made it clear that New Delhi has to square up with non-proliferation norms.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and visiting Japanese Premier Yoshihiko Noda held talks for over one-and-half hours

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As the India growth story started to look shaky, the already risk averse foreign investors seemed to be the first to take flight.2011 was a year that's been hard on the country and its economy, given that the industrial growth slumped, investor confidence waned, markets turned sluggish, the government's finances went out of whack - and above all the rupee depreciated beyond control.The only thing

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Reliance Industries needs to highlight new ambition for profits to grow, while Reliance Communication needs RIL to emerge stronger in 2012.As Ambani brothers dance to the tune of garba music, many Reliance Industries and Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group investors would have started to build high expectations from the new year.On Tuesday, when trading began, the BSE Sensex stayed flat. Reliance

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Due to the euro zone crisis, a downturn in external demand resulting in a slowdown in exports, currency volatility and current account deficit, he said.Amid concerns of a slowdown, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said the Indian economy will soon revert to a higher growth trajectory.The present downturn is only temporary, Mukherjee said in his address at the fourth meeting of the

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At the forefront of the battle between government policy and corporate ambition was the strident Jairam Ramesh whose tough 'go-no-go' policies on mining practices and strict enforcement of environmental norms practically brought clearances and mining activity to a standstill. 2011 was a difficult year for the corporate India as it battled a policy logjam at the centre along with blanket ban in

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Ajay Piramal is sitting on a mountain of cash. Yet the billionaire Indian tycoon, working in one of the world's fastest growing economies, is struggling to figure out what to do with the money.The problem isn't opportunity, he says. It's India."Every large investment, there was no transparency," he said.His dilemma is a worrying sign for India. With the country mired in corruption, bureaucratic

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China has launched its first test train that is said to be capable of reaching 500 km per hour from the present 300 km per hour a feat if accomplished would be a big leap forward in high speed train technology.China's largest rail vehicle maker, CSR Corp Ltd, over the weekend launched the train.The six-car train with a fair shaped head is the newest in the CRH series.It has a maximum tractive

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According to a report by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), Russia and India are going to benefit from higher growth rate in the next decade. According to a report by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), Brazil has overtaken the UK as the world's sixth largest economy.In its latest World Economic League Table, the CEBR said, the UK economy is now at the

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There was a lull in the primary stock market -- where companies raise funds through the sale of shares via instruments like IPOs -- and it was mostly ECBs that was sought to meet the funding requirements of businesses during 2011. Most companies knocked on the doors of overseas creditors to expand their businesses in 2011. But in an ironic turns of events, once-attractive-looking foreign debt

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India can soon boast of its very own low-cost, passenger plane. That's right. For the very first time, the country has embarked upon a project to design and manufacture its first, indigenous passenger aircraft. Called the National Civilian Plane, it can carry a little less than 100 people and could make its maiden flight in less than five years.Nearly 100 engineers are working on this ambitious

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The New York Times has unmasked 80-year-old Cornell alum Charles F. Feeney as the anonymous donor who gave the school a $350 million donation to construct a new technology-based satellite campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City. Officials at The Atlantic Philanthropies, the foundation started by Feeney in 1982, confirmed to the paper last night that he was the one who made the gift for the

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Apple and Google are working on wearable technology that would send data to their smartphones, US media reported on Monday.Researchers in Google's secret Google X lab, a facility where Google is reportedly working on projects pertaining to future technologies, have begun working on peripherals that would communicate information back to Android smartphones when they are attached to one's clothing

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Scientists have found two Earth-sized planets orbiting a star outside the solar system, an encouraging sign for prospects of finding life elsewhere.The discovery shows that such planets exist and that they can be detected by the Kepler spacecraft, said Francois Fressin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. They're the smallest planets found so far that orbit a

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During campaign season, it never hurts for a presidential candidate facing a frustrated public to display toughness and resolve in the face of an old and familiar adversary. And it also doesn't hurt to throw in some shock-and-awe--say, a ballistic missile nicknamed "Satan."This appears to at least partly explain why on Monday Russia announced that it had successfully tested a short-range

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The Saudi Prince Walid bin Talal and his investment company, Kingdom Holding, said Monday they had bought a "strategic stake" in the social media site Twitter for $300 million.The investment represents roughly 3 per cent stake of the company, based in San Francisco, which was valued at $8 billion in August.In a statement, Prince Walid, who owns 95 per cent of Kingdom Holding, said the purchase

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The global nuclear industry is moving forward at a brisk pace, only slightly slowed by the Fukushima accident. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s most realistic estimate is that 90 new nuclear plants will enter service by 2030. Ten new nuclear plants went online over the past two years.The home of more than one billion people, India has had one of the world’s fastest-growing economies over

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A comprehensive solution to the euro zone debt crisis is beyond the region's reach, rating agency Fitch said, warning that six of its economies including Italy and Spain could be hit with credit downgrades in the near future.The warning late Friday, the second time in two weeks that the bloc has been threatened with multiple ratings markdowns, heightened pressure on leaders to get to grips with

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At the recently concluded UN climate change talk in Durban, the world agreed to a new global climate change regime by 2020 to bring down emissions to save the planet. But cutting carbon emissions will be a tough task for India in the years to come as the country needs to balance its development trajectory with transition to a low carbon economy.Transition to a low carbon economy means huge

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“As investors search the globe for the highest returns, they are often drawn to places endowed with bountiful natural resources but are handicapped by weak or ineffective environmental laws. Many people and communities are harmed as the environment that sustains them is damaged or destroyed -- villages are displaced by the large construction projects, for example, and indigenous people watch

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India's mobile marketing space, which some analysts estimate at Rs.600 million ($11 million), will grow 10-fold in the next five years, says the Finnish pioneer of the concept."Mobile marketing has started to grow rapidly in India as the brands see the opportunities beyond just internet options. My estimation is the marketplace in mobile marketing in India will grow 10-fold within the next five

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A giant airplane that can in mid-flight launch a rocket carrying cargo and humans into orbit is the future of space travel, billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen said on Tuesday.The first test flight of the ambitious venture by Allen's new company Stratolaunch Systems is not scheduled until 2015, but partners in the project vowed it would revolutionize orbital travel in

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Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan are building the world's biggest plane to help launch cargo and astronauts into space, in the latest of several ventures fuelled by technology tycoons clamouring to write America's next chapter in spaceflight.Their plans, unveiled on Tuesday, call for a twin-fuselage aircraft with wings longer than a football field to carry a

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