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Monday, November 25, 2013

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	November 25, 2013

Top Headlines

Snooping scandal: Political parties submit petition to President
Mahila Congress president Shobha Oza said the President personally received the petition and she is "hopeful that action will be taken".

Tehelka journalist who accused Tarun Tejpal of sexual assault resigns
According to reports, the woman journalist in her resignation letter has said that the organization has failed her.

Talwars found guilty of killing Aarushi and Hemraj
Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were today held guilty of killing their daughter Aarushi and servant Hemraj. The court will pronounce the quantum of sentence tomorrow.

Cities

Madhya Pradesh minister booked after car crushes youth
The youth, Mukesh, a resident of Shanti Nagar, Indore, was on his way with his wife to see his ailing father-in-law at Peepli village in Dhar district.

Schoolgirls harassed in train
A total of 100 girls from Dhanbad returned from Patna with tales of the worst journey of their lives while travelling in the Ganga-Damodar Express.

Business

Graft case: SBI asks deputy MD to go on leave; sets up probe panel
SBI said it has constituted an internal panel comprising two MDs to probe the corruption charge against its deputy MD Shyamal Acharya.

Banks collect over $25bn from special dollar swap window: RBI
The window allows banks to swap fresh FCNR (B) dollar funds, mobilised for a minimum tenor of 3 years, at a fixed rate of 3.5 per cent per annum.

Sports

Pujara, Kohli retain positions in ICC Test rankings
Pujara retained his sixth position to be the highest-placed Indian batsman, while Kohli maintained his 20th spot in the in the latest ICC Test rankings.

Zaheer Khan returns for South Africa tour; Gautam Gambhir ignored
Senior pacer Zaheer Khan was recalled to India's Test team for next month's tour of South Africa while the selectors chose to ignore opener Gautam Gambhir.

Entertainment

Radcliffe contemplated quitting 'Harry Potter'
Daniel Radcliffe has revealed that he had thought about quitting the 'Harry Potter' franchise after the third instalment.

Shahid Kapoor's 'Haider' faces protests, shooting on halt
Director Vishal Bhardwaj had to cut short the shooting of the film inside the Kashmir University following protests by students inside the campus.

Infotech

NSA installed malware on 50,000 computers: Report
The US National Security Agency has employed over a thousand IT specialists to hack into 50,000 computer systems worldwide, a media report has said.

Google chairman writes guide on iPhone to Android migration
Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt has written a 900-word guide to help users switch from iPhone to Android.

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Sunday, November 24, 2013

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	November 24, 2013

Top Headlines

AAP gives 'clean chit' to its leaders, claims tapes doctored
"Interview of our leaders was taken out of context and each of them has come out clean," AAP leaders claimed after going through the sting tapes.

Tehelka case: Tarun Tejpal may move court to seek transfer of probe
A team of Goa Police today recorded the statements of the three friends of the journalist at Goa sadan in Delhi and later left for Goa.

China establishes air defence zone over Japan-controlled islands
Beijing said it was setting up an "air defence identification zone" over an area that includes islands controlled by Japan but claimed by China.

Cities

3-year-old boy 'locked' in Hyderabad school for three days
A three-year-old student of a pre-primary school in Saroornagar was allegedly locked in an empty room for more than four hours for three days.

Framed or guilty? All eyes on Talwars: CBI judge to deliver verdict on Monday
The CBI has accused the parents-Dr Rajesh and Nupur Talwar - of being the killers, going by circumstantial evidence, testimony of witnesses and forensic reports.

Business

Global tax laws: India fully compliant, Cyprus and three others fail test
Besides India, other jurisdictions that are 'compliant' include Australia, Belgium, China, Finland, France, Isle of Man, South Africa and Spain.

Investor wealth slumps Rs 3.45L crore in 2013
Overseas investors have been bullish on the Indian stock market as their total investment has reached Rs 96,461 crore so far in 2013.

Sports

2nd ODI: Kohli, Dhoni power India to 288/7 against West Indies
Kohli fell one short of a century while skipper Dhoni remained not out at 51.For West Indies, Ravi Rampaul finished with an impressive figure of 4/60.

Champ Magnus Carlsen celebrates world chess title victory in style
Magnus Carlsen stood waist-deep in water with his blazer on, eyes squinted and index fingers pointing skywards.

Entertainment

Kamya Punjabi is putting up a fake face: Elli Avram
seen as a cheerful and pleasant personality inside the house, was prepared for the eviction.

Ranveer spends 2 lakhs on dinner with Deepika?
The team was celebrating Ram Leela's success at the Box Office by dining out at a restaurant in a south Mumbai five star hotel.

Infotech

5 hot Google Chrome apps
Even without a Chromebook, you can still try out some fantastic web apps if you have Google Chrome installed on your machine.

Do you need a smartphone with 1080p display?
A 1080p phone, on the other hand, has an insane amount of pixels in comparison. In a 5" phone, a display of 1920x1080 has a whopping density of 440ppi.

Saturday, November 23, 2013

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	November 23, 2013

Top Headlines

Gujarat snooping row: Suspended IAS officer files affidavit in SC, seeks CBI probe
Suspended IAS officer Pradeep Sharma said he had been victimized by the Gujarat govt because he knew of alleged intimacy between Modi and "a woman architect".

Tejpal's case: No CCTV camera installed in lift, Goa cops say
Sources, however, said CCTV footage from outside the hotel elevator does show the victim leaving the elevator "in a hurry" on one occasion.

Cities

Verdict in Aarushi-Hemraj double murder on Monday
Rajesh and Nupur Talwar are accused of murdering their daughter, Aarushi, and their domestic worker, Hemraj.

Deputy jailor shot dead in Varanasi
Anil Tyagi, a deputy jailor at Varanasi district jail, was sprayed with bullets near Mahavir Mandir under Cantonment police station on Saturday.

Business

Starbucks taking Indian coffee to its outlets across globe
Opening its first store in Bangalore, American coffee giant Starbucks said it is taking the Indian grown coffee to its 19,000 stores across the world.

Gold plummets Rs 500 on profit-selling
Traders said profit-selling by stockists at prevailing higher levels and sluggish local demand mainly pulled down both gold and silver prices.

Sports

Ashes Test: Australia dominate after Warner, Clarke tons
David Warner and Michael Clarke scored dominant centuries to put Australia firmly in control of the first Ashes Test on Saturday.

India look to extend dominance, clinch series
After a listless performance in the Test series, losing Chris Gayle to an injury has added to the woes of the Caribbean side.

Entertainment

Kim Kardashian auctions clothes for charity
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian is selling her clothes on eBay to help raise money for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan.

Vishal Bhardwaj's film takes Shahid into 'different' space
Shahid Kapoor, who is teaming up with ‘Kaminey’ director Vishal Bhardwaj yet again, says the new movie, ‘Haider’, has given him a chance to explore a new space.

Infotech

Twitter toughens anti-snooping measures
Twitter announced it has toughened the encryption of traffic at the globally popular one-to-many messaging service to thwart online snooping.

Microsoft Xbox One sales top 1 million within 24 hours
Microsoft sold over 1 million of its new Xbox One game consoles within 24 hours of their hitting store shelves on Friday.

Friday, November 22, 2013

The Date of the Mahabharata War; Abodes of Lord Muruga: Tiruttani

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The Date of the Mahabharata War

In "Vyasa and Valmiki" Sri Aurobindo refers to a "recent article of the Indian Review" on the date of the Mahabharata war praising it as "an unusually able and searching (or almost conclusive) paper". It was Velandai Gopala Aiyer's "The Date of the Mahabharata War" published in Vol. II, January-December 1901 of this monthly journal (Indian Review) edited by G.A.Natesan. Sri Aurobindo was obviously fully convinced by Aiyer's arguments, because elsewhere he writes, "It is now known beyond reasonable doubt that the Mahabharata war was fought out in or about 1190 B.C."

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Abodes of Lord Muruga: Tiruttani

The beautiful temple of Lord Muruga at Tiruttani crowns a single rock 700 feet above sea level. It is situated amidst a range of hills with a dramatic panoramic view. This sacred place is on the Madras-Bombay route, 13 kilomters from Arkonam and 84 kilometers from Madras.

Around this town are famous religious places such as Kancheepuram (Banares of the South) on the South, Sholingar and Vallimalai on the West, the popular and renowned pilgrimage centre, Tirupati (otherwise called Balaji) and Kalahasti (with its Vayu Lingam) on the North and Tiruvalangadu (of puranic fame) with Lord Nataraja on the East.

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