Category Archives: India

What happens to the Doctorates?

January 19, 2010 – 11:06 pm

Well the news is out the Govt. of India is derecognizing 44 so called deemed universities in India due to lack of infrastructure facilities. Finally some one in the Education department recognized it and blew the whistle.
Although I didn’t study in any of these universities but I have visited some of them during my UG [...]

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We choose where we develop..

November 25, 2009 – 2:45 am

I was always under the impression that my country India was well developed culturally/socially and still developing economically.
Its not more than a year since 26/11/2008 Mumbai attacks happened and already my country(India) government has totally forgotten about it. The Prime minister of India is on whirl wind tour of USA during 26/11 this year and [...]

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Orkut No Donut for you..You can only add upto 250 favorites

November 1, 2009 – 4:42 pm

Well who ever has used Orkut are aware the blog post title message which shows up when Orkut’s server are too busy to respond.
But this time no donuts for the whole Orkut team since they have set a hard limit of only 250 video links per profile which I hate personally hate and I’m not [...]

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Bitten by the ATT data bug

October 12, 2009 – 9:05 pm

I was caught unaware, unprepared and without guard when it bit me.
Yes, today I was bitten by a huge bill of 120$ of data charge for 12,000KB of data for my ATT wireless phone service.  So thats roughly a penny per kilobyte which is one of the costliest KB that I have ever paid for in my [...]

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The Ripple Effect

May 18, 2009 – 1:38 am

With the United Progressive Alliance – UPA lead by Congress(I) winning the 2009 Indian parlimentary election with a surprise and its ripple effects has started showing up.
Obviously the first place to feel the effect is the closest to the center that’s Srilanka where BBC has reported that Velupillai Prabhakaran leader of LTTE has been killed. [...]

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India Election result maps(2009) using ESRI Arcgis Flex API

May 15, 2009 – 6:14 pm

As usual I was lookig for a site that would show the Indian goverment election 2009 and I found out that electio commision has a site set up with the maps and stats online.
Here is the web site http://www.eciresults.nic.in/
The intersting part is they have a amazing interative map online using ESRI Arcgis Flex API and [...]

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What next?

April 26, 2009 – 10:52 pm

I was totally shocked and surprised by this sudden move of the current CM of Tamil Nadu M Karunanidhi to go on an indefinite fast unto death today to bring a ceasefire between srilanka and ltte.
That too after  J Jayalalithaa declared she would strive to form Eelam if she wins the 40 seats.
Sooner or later [...]

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How to avoid shoe being thrown during a press conference?

April 8, 2009 – 11:42 pm

A question that pretty much every security agency protecting politicians all around world are worried about.
But its pretty simple especially for Indian police just change the press conference to a near by Hindu temple where shoes/slippers are not allowed inside and you are safe.
It would be better if they avoid the following temple [...]

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India Electoral Roll List search

February 27, 2009 – 12:44 am

Yet again I was immersed  reading Wikipedia articles and I found a site that basically provides search interface to search the electoral roll list of India.
With elections on the way  this tool would avoid people from visiting the poll booth and return back with out voting since they aren’t in the list. It can be [...]

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Raise of Rahul Gandhi

January 26, 2009 – 1:18 am

The whole world knows that one day he will become the Prime minister of India but when it will happen is the question. Especially with the parliamentary elections coming up in April 2009 and considering Mr.Manmohan Singh health condition  the question will be speculated by every media org.
Irrespective of who wins the election Mr.Rahul Gandhi [...]

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