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2011-11-12T12:33:00.001+05:30

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2011-09-30T10:15:00.001+05:30

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How to Download Angry Birds for PC?

2011-09-05T12:30:00.005+05:30

There are multiple links and you can download it strauight from the Rovio Angry birds sites for Trials of Angry Birds and Angry Birds-Rio.

Angry Birds:

The survival of the Angry Birds is at stake. Dish out revenge on the green pigs who stole the Birds' eggs. Use the unique powers of the Angry Birds to lay waste to the pigs' confounding constructions. Angry Birds features challenging, physics-based demolition gameplay with hours and hours of replay value. Each of the 240+ levels requires logic, skill, and brute force to crush the enemy.

Angry Birds-Rio

The Angry Birds have been captured, caged, and taken to Rio! There they meet new friends, and work together to make their escape from a desolate grey warehouse to the lush green jungle. Help the Angry Birds escape and beat their captors by bombarding the evil marmosets and smashing all obstacles in the way!

Minimum System Requirements:

OS Windows XP SP2
RAM 512MB
CPU 1 GHz
Graphic OpenGL 1.3 compatible
Internet Connection required for activation

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Amy Winehouse found dead in her London home

2011-07-24T00:57:00.004+05:30

Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011[1]) was an English singer-songwriter, known for her powerful contralto vocals[2] and her eclectic mix of various musical genres including R&B, soul, and jazz.

She received extensive publicity over her substance abuse and mental health issues.Winehouse died on 23 July 2011; police have described the cause of her death as "unexplained."

Winehouse's 2003 debut album, Frank, was critically successful in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Her 2006 follow-up album, Back to Black, led to six Grammy Award nominations and five wins, tying the record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night, and made Winehouse the first British singer to win five Grammys,including three of the "Big Four": Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

On 14 February 2007, she won a BRIT Award for Best British Female Artist; she had also been nominated for Best British Album. She won the Ivor Novello Award three times, one in 2004 for Best Contemporary Song (musically and lyrically) for "Stronger Than Me", one in 2007 for Best Contemporary Song for "Rehab", and one in 2008 for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for "Love Is a Losing Game", among other prestigious distinctions. The album was the third biggest seller of the 2000s in the United Kingdom.

Winehouse had been credited as being an influence in the rise in popularity of female musicians and soul music, and also revitalising British music. Winehouse's distinctive style has been the muse for fashion designers such as Karl Lagerfeld. The singer's problems with drug and alcohol abuse, as well as self-destructive behaviour, were regular tabloid news from 2007 until her death. She and her former husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, were plagued by legal troubles that left him serving prison time. In 2008, Winehouse faced a series of health complications that threatened both her career and her life.

Winehouse was found dead Saturday in her London home, according to multiple British wire reports. Britain's Sky News reported that paramedics were called to her home at just after 4 p.m., but the 27 year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.

Winehouse publicists in the U.S. and Great Britain have not yet responded to requests for comment. No reason has yet been cited as a cause of death.

Winehouse had recently canceled her summer European tour dates after a disastrous performance in the Serbian capital of Belgrade in which the singer was heavily booed after arriving late and then staggering through the performance. Such erratic behavior has largely been the norm for Winehouse since her 2006 effort "Back to Black" catapulted her to stardom.

Winehouse released her debut, "Frank," in 2003, a collection of jazzy neo-soul tunes. Her 2006 album, "Back to Black," saw Winehouse remade as a tough, no-nonsense R&B singer in a '60s-inspired vintage mode. Working with rising producer Mark Ronson and New York's acclaimed rhythm & blues crew the Dap Kings, "Back to Black" was heavy on noir imagery and recalled the early days of Motown, most notably in the hit singles "Rehab" and "You Know I'm No Good."

The album and its singles were the recipients of numerous accolades at the 2008 Grammy Awards, including song and record of the year for "Rehab." Winehouse was named best new artist at the ceremony. Just before the 2008 Grammy Awards, Winehouse was the subject of much speculation as she had entered a rehabilitation facility and was denied a U.S. visa. She performed on the live Grammy telecast via satellite from London.

A third album was long rumored but never materialized, and much of Winehouse's post-"Back to Black" career was mired in sudden stops and starts and troubles with abuse and the law. She was due to be a headliner at the 2009 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival but was forced to cancel after being charged with assault for allegedly attacking a fan week before the festival.

Winehouse has recorded a song for Tony Bennett's "Duets II," which is scheduled for release in September.

During her career, Winehouse created two studio albums and ten singles. Her debut album, Frank, released in October 2003, peaked at number thirteen on the UK Album Chart, but none of the four singles released from the album managed to reach the Top 50 of the UK Singles Chart.

Her second album, Back to Black, was released in October 2006 and went to number one in the UK and peaked at number seven on the Billboard 200 in the United States. The album was certified five-times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry and it was the best-selling album of 2007 in the UK.

The first single from the album, "Rehab", peaked at number seven in the UK, and number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. The album's second single, "You Know I'm No Good" reached number eighteen in the UK. Other singles were the title-track, "Back to Black", "Tears Dry on Their Own" and "Love Is a Losing Game". A special deluxe edition of the album was released in the UK in November 2007 and also topped the charts. By mid-2009 Back to Blackhad sold a total of 2,985,303 copies and was the eighteenth biggest seller ever in the UK.

Winehouse collaborated with other artists, including as a vocalist on the song "Valerie" on Mark Ronson's solo album, Version. The song peaked at number two in the UK. She also collaborated with ex-SugababeMutya Buena, on "B Boy Baby," from Buena's solo album, Real Girl.

Wimbeldon Final

2011-07-02T23:21:00.001+05:30

Nadal Vs Djokovic?

Will the Djoker have the last laugh of the year?

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2011-03-08T18:41:00.000+05:30

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2011-03-08T18:36:00.000+05:30

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Reflections on INDIA by Sean Paul Kelley

2010-08-31T02:34:00.002+05:30

Reflections on INDIA by Sean Paul Kelley - A VERY DAMNING ARTICLE ON INDIA - IT HURTS, BUT ITS TRUE EVEN IF IT IS ONLY A PART STATEMENTOften we ask foreigners, "How do you like India ?" and they answer, "Very nice !"

And we sit back in self-proclaimed joy that India's diversity, dances, music. culture, history, natural greenery, silks and gems, rivers and mountains are good enough to make any foreigner feel fresh and exhilarated in India

But here is a foreigner who tells like it is- much of what he says has been disgusting us Indians too, for years and years...

WE should somehow send this article to the Prime Minister of India and tell him, "Until you deal with this, we refuse to accept you as Prime Minister.."

Reflections on India By Sean Paul Kelley

Sean Paul Kelley is a travel writer, former radio host, and before that an asset manager for a Wall Street investment bank that is still (barely) alive. He recently left a fantastic job in Singapore working for Solar Winds, a software company based out of Austin to travel around the world for a year (or two). He founded The Agonist, in 2002, which is still considered the top international affairs, culture and news destination for progressives. He is also the Global Correspondent for The Young Turks, on satellite radio and Air America.

If you are Indian, or of Indian descent, I must preface this post with a clear warning: you are not going to like what I have to say. My criticisms may be very hard to stomach. But consider them as the hard words and loving advice of a good friend. Someone who’s being honest with you and wants nothing from you.

These criticisms apply to all of India except Kerala and the places I didn’t visit, except that I have a feeling it applies to all of India, except as I mentioned before, Kerala.

Lastly, before anyone accuses me of Western Cultural Imperialism, let me say this: if this is what India and Indians want, then hey, who am I to tell them differently. Take what you like and leave the rest. In the end it doesn’t really matter, as I get the sense that Indians, at least many upper class Indians, don’t seem to care and the lower classes just don’t know any better, what with Indian culture being so intense and pervasive on the sub-continent. But here goes, nonetheless.

India is a mess. It’s that simple, but it’s also quite complicated. I’ll start with what I think are India’s four major problems–the four most preventing India from becoming a developing nation–and then move to some of the ancillary ones.

First, pollution. In my opinion the filth, squalor and all around pollution indicates a marked lack of respect for India by Indians. I don’t know how cultural the filth is, but it’s really beyond anything I have ever encountered. At times the smells, trash, refuse and excrement are like a garbage dump.

Right next door to the Taj Mahal was a pile of trash that smelled so bad, was so foul as to almost ruin the entire Taj experience. Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai to a lesser degree were so very polluted as to make me physically ill. Sinus infections, ear infection, bowels churning was an all to common experience in India. Dung, be it goat, cow or human faecal matter was common on the streets. In major tourist areas filth was everywhere, littering the side-walks, the roadways, you name it. Toilets in the middle of the road, men urinating and defecating anywhere, in broad daylight.

Whole villages are plastic bag wastelands. Roadsides are choked by it. Air quality that can hardly be called quality. Far too much coal and far to few unleaded vehicles on the road. The measure should be how dangerous the air is for one’s health, not how good it is. People casually throw trash in the streets, on the roads.

The only two cities that could be considered sanitary in my journey were Trivandrum–the capital of Kerala–and Calicut. I don’t know why this is. But I can assure you that at some point this pollution will cut into India’s productivity, if it already hasn’t. The pollution will hobble India’s growth path, if that indeed is what the country wants. (Which I personally doubt, as India is far too conservative a country, in the small ‘c’ sense.)

More after the jump… The second issue, infrastructure, can be divided into four subcategories: roads, rails and ports and the electrical grid. The electrical grid is a joke. Load shedding is all too common, everywhere in India. Wide swaths of the country spend much of the day without the electricity they actually pay for. With out regular electricity, productivity, again, falls.

The ports are a joke. Antiquated, out of date, hardly even appropriate for the mechanized world of container ports, more in line with the days of longshoremen and the like. Roads are an equal disaster. I only saw one elevated
highway that would be considered decent in Thailand, much less Western Europe or America. And I covered fully two thirds of the country during my visit.

There are so few dual carriage way roads as to be laughable. There are no traffic laws to speak of, and if there are, they are rarely obeyed, much less enforced. A drive that should take an hour takes three. A drive that should take three takes nine. The buses are at least thirty years old, if not older.

Everyone in India, or who travels in India raves about the railway system. Rubbish. It’s awful. Now, when I was there in 2003 and then late 2004 it was decent. But in the last five years the traffic on the rails has grown so quickly that once again, it is threatening productivity. Waiting in line just to ask a question now takes thirty minutes. Routes are routinely sold out three and four days in advance now, leaving travellers stranded with little option except to take the decrepit and dangerous buses.

At least fifty million people use the trains a day in India. 50 million people! Not surprising that wait-lists of 500 or more people are common now.

The rails are affordable and comprehensive but they are overcrowded and what with budget airlines popping up in India like Sadhus in an ashram the middle and lowers classes are left to deal with the over utilized rails and quality suffers. No one seems to give a shit.

Seriously, I just never have the impression that the Indian government really cares. Too interested in buying weapons from Russia, Israel and the US I guess. The last major problem in India is an old problem and can be divided into two parts that have been two sides of the same coin since government was invented: bureaucracy and corruption.

It takes triplicates to register into a hotel. To get a SIM card for one’s phone is like wading into a jungle of red-tape and photocopies one is not likely to emerge from in a good mood, much less satisfied with customer service.

Getting train tickets is a terrible ordeal, first you have to find the train number, which takes 30 minutes, then you have to fill in the form, which is far from easy, then you have to wait in line to try and make a reservation, which takes 30 minutes at least and if you made a single mistake on the form back you go to the end of the queue, or what passes for a queue in India.

The government is notoriously uninterested in the problems of the commoners, too busy fleecing the rich, or trying to get rich themselves in some way shape or form. Take the trash for example, civil rubbish collection authorities are too busy taking kickbacks from the wealthy to keep their areas clean that they don’t have the time, manpower, money or interest in doing their job.

Rural hospitals are perennially understaffed as doctors pocket the fees the government pays them, never show up at the rural hospitals and practice in the cities instead. I could go on for quite some time about my perception of India and its problems, but in all seriousness, I don’t think anyone in India really cares. And that, to me, is the biggest problem. India is too conservative a society to want to change in any way.

Mumbai, India’s financial capital is about as filthy, polluted and poor as the worst city imaginable in Vietnam, or Indonesia–and being more polluted than Medan, Sumatra is no easy task. The biggest rats I have ever seen were in Medan!

One would expect a certain amount of, yes, I am going to use this word, backwardness, in a country that hasn’t produced so many Nobel Laureates, nuclear physicists, imminent economists and entrepreneurs. But India has all these things and what have they brought back to India with them? Nothing.

The rich still have their servants, the lower castes are still there to do the dirty work and so the country remains in stasis. It’s a shame. Indians and India have many wonderful things to offer the world, but I’m far from sanguine that India will amount to much in my lifetime.

Now, have at it, call me a cultural imperialist, a spoiled child of the West and all that. But remember, I’ve been there. I’ve done it. And I’ve seen 50 other countries on this planet and none, not even Ethiopia, have as long and gargantuan a laundry list of problems as India does. And the bottom line is, I don’t think India really cares. Too complacent and too conservative.

Reflections on India By Sean Paul Kelley

2010-08-31T02:26:00.002+05:30

Reflections on INDIA by Sean Paul Kelley - A VERY DAMNING ARTICLE ON INDIA - IT HURTS, BUT ITS TRUE EVEN IF IT IS ONLY A PART STATEMENT

Often we ask foreigners, "How do you like India ?" and they answer, "Very nice !"

And we sit back in self-proclaimed joy that India's diversity, dances, music. culture, history, natural greenery, silks and gems, rivers and mountains are good enough to make any foreigner feel fresh and exhilarated in India

But here is a foreigner who tells like it is- much of what he says has been disgusting us Indians too, for years and years...

WE should somehow send this article to the Prime Minister of India and tell him, "Until you deal with this, we refuse to accept you as Prime Minister.."

Reflections on India By Sean Paul Kelley

Sean Paul Kelley is a travel writer, former radio host, and before that an asset manager for a Wall Street investment bank that is still (barely) alive. He recently left a fantastic job in Singapore working for Solar Winds, a software company based out of Austin to travel around the world for a year (or two). He founded The Agonist, in 2002, which is still considered the top international affairs, culture and news destination for progressives. He is also the Global Correspondent for The Young Turks, on satellite radio and Air America.

If you are Indian, or of Indian descent, I must preface this post with a clear warning: you are not going to like what I have to say. My criticisms may be very hard to stomach. But consider them as the hard words and loving advice of a good friend. Someone who’s being honest with you and wants nothing from you.

These criticisms apply to all of India except Kerala and the places I didn’t visit, except that I have a feeling it applies to all of India, except as I mentioned before, Kerala.

Lastly, before anyone accuses me of Western Cultural Imperialism, let me say this: if this is what India and Indians want, then hey, who am I to tell them differently. Take what you like and leave the rest. In the end it doesn’t really matter, as I get the sense that Indians, at least many upper class Indians, don’t seem to care and the lower classes just don’t know any better, what with Indian culture being so intense and pervasive on the sub-continent. But here goes, nonetheless.

India is a mess. It’s that simple, but it’s also quite complicated. I’ll start with what I think are India’s four major problems–the four most preventing India from becoming a developing nation–and then move to some of the ancillary ones.
First, pollution. In my opinion the filth, squalor and all around pollution indicates a marked lack of respect for India by Indians. I don’t know how cultural the filth is, but it’s really beyond anything I have ever encountered. At times the smells, trash, refuse and excrement are like a garbage dump.

Right next door to the Taj Mahal was a pile of trash that smelled so bad, was so foul as to almost ruin the entire Taj experience. Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai to a lesser degree were so very polluted as to make me physically ill. Sinus infections, ear infection, bowels churning was an all to common experience in India. Dung, be it goat, cow or human faecal matter was common on the streets. In major tourist areas filth was everywhere, littering the side-walks, the roadways, you name it. Toilets in the middle of the road, men urinating and defecating anywhere, in broad daylight.

Whole villages are plastic bag wastelands. Roadsides are choked by it. Air quality that can hardly be called quality. Far too much coal and far to few unleaded vehicles on the road. The measure should be how dangerous the air is for one’s health, not how good it is. People casually throw trash in the streets, on the roads.

The only two cities that could be considered sanitary in my journey were Trivandrum–the capital of Kerala–and Calicut. I don’t know why this is. But I can assure you that at some point this pollution will cut into India’s productivity, if it already hasn’t. The pollution will hobble India’s growth path, if that indeed is what the country wants. (Which I personally doubt, as India is far too conservative a country, in the small ‘c’ sense.)

More after the jump…
The second issue, infrastructure, can be divided into four subcategories: roads, rails and ports and the electrical grid. The electrical grid is a joke. Load shedding is all too common, everywhere in India. Wide swaths of the country spend much of the day without the electricity they actually pay for. With out regular electricity, productivity, again, falls.

The ports are a joke. Antiquated, out of date, hardly even appropriate for the mechanized world of container ports, more in line with the days of longshoremen and the like. Roads are an equal disaster. I only saw one elevated highway that would be considered decent in Thailand, much less Western Europe or America. And I covered fully two thirds of the country during my visit.

There are so few dual carriage way roads as to be laughable. There are no traffic laws to speak of, and if there are, they are rarely obeyed, much less enforced. A drive that should take an hour takes three. A drive that should take three takes nine. The buses are at least thirty years old, if not older.

Everyone in India, or who travels in India raves about the railway system. Rubbish. It’s awful. Now, when I was there in 2003 and then late 2004 it was decent. But in the last five years the traffic on the rails has grown so quickly that once again, it is threatening productivity. Waiting in line just to ask a question now takes thirty minutes. Routes are routinely sold out three and four days in advance now, leaving travellers stranded with little option except to take the decrepit and dangerous buses.

At least fifty million people use the trains a day in India. 50 million people! Not surprising that wait-lists of 500 or more people are common now.

The rails are affordable and comprehensive but they are overcrowded and what with budget airlines popping up in India like Sadhus in an ashram the middle and lowers classes are left to deal with the over utilized rails and quality suffers. No one seems to give a shit.

Seriously, I just never have the impression that the Indian government really cares. Too interested in buying weapons from Russia, Israel and the US I guess.
The last major problem in India is an old problem and can be divided into two parts that have been two sides of the same coin since government was invented: bureaucracy and corruption.

It takes triplicates to register into a hotel. To get a SIM card for one’s phone is like wading into a jungle of red-tape and photocopies one is not likely to emerge from in a good mood, much less satisfied with customer service.

Getting train tickets is a terrible ordeal, first you have to find the train number, which takes 30 minutes, then you have to fill in the form, which is far from easy, then you have to wait in line to try and make a reservation, which takes 30 minutes at least and if you made a single mistake on the form back you go to the end of the queue, or what passes for a queue in India.

The government is notoriously uninterested in the problems of the commoners, too busy fleecing the rich, or trying to get rich themselves in some way shape or form. Take the trash for example, civil rubbish collection authorities are too busy taking kickbacks from the wealthy to keep their areas clean that they don’t have the time, manpower, money or interest in doing their job.

Rural hospitals are perennially understaffed as doctors pocket the fees the government pays them, never show up at the rural hospitals and practice in the cities instead.
I could go on for quite some time about my perception of India and its problems, but in all seriousness, I don’t think anyone in India really cares. And that, to me, is the biggest problem. India is too conservative a society to want to change in any way.

Mumbai, India’s financial capital is about as filthy, polluted and poor as the worst city imaginable in Vietnam, or Indonesia–and being more polluted than Medan, Sumatra is no easy task. The biggest rats I have ever seen were in Medan!

One would expect a certain amount of, yes, I am going to use this word, backwardness, in a country that hasn’t produced so many Nobel Laureates, nuclear physicists, imminent economists and entrepreneurs. But India has all these things and what have they brought back to India with them? Nothing.

The rich still have their servants, the lower castes are still there to do the dirty work and so the country remains in stasis. It’s a shame. Indians and India have many wonderful things to offer the world, but I’m far from sanguine that India will amount to much in my lifetime.

Now, have at it, call me a cultural imperialist, a spoiled child of the West and all that. But remember, I’ve been there. I’ve done it. And I’ve seen 50 other countries on this planet and none, not even Ethiopia, have as long and gargantuan a laundry list of problems as India does. And the bottom line is, I don’t think India really cares. Too complacent and too conservative.

New Logo for Indian Rupee

2010-07-19T00:16:00.003+05:30

How to Use the Indian Rupee Symbol in Microsoft Office
1. Download the Font (Rupees Foradian) provided by Foradian Technologies Inc
( http://rapidshare.com/files/407668082/Rupee_Foradian.ttf.html
or
http://rapidshare.com/files/407668886/Rupee_Foradian.ttf.html )
2. Install the font. (Copy the Font to Control Panel -> Fonts Folder)
3. Change the Font from the default (Times New Roman/ Arial/ Calibri) to Rupees
Foradian Font.
4. Type the Rupees Symbol in Microsoft Word through the grave acent symbol - `
(the key just above "tab" button in your keyboard).
The process can be tweaked so that you can type in any font in MS Word yet you can get
the Rupees symbol:
In MS Office 2002
1) Select the symbol (ie. Just like you do while copy pasting anything)
2) Click on Tools -> Autocorrect
3) In the Replace Text Box type in Rs.
4) Click on Add -> Ok
In MS Office 2007/ 2010
1.If you want to add a formatted text entry, open the document that contains the text that
is formatted the way that you want, and select the Rupee Symbol.
2.Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Word Options.
3.Click Proofing.
4.Click AutoCorrect Options.
5. In the Replace Text Box type in Rs. (You may also need to change the formatting stle
from “Plain Text” to “Formatted Text”)
6. Click on Add -> Ok

FACING THE TRUTH - BY - IRFAN HUSAIN

2009-03-28T10:11:00.000+05:30

Even in my remote bit of paradise, news of distant disasters filters
through: above the steady sound of waves breaking on the sandy beach
in Sri Lanka, I was informed by several news channels about the
sickening attacks on Mumbai. My Internet connection is erratic and
slow, but nevertheless, I have been bombarded with emails, asking me
for my take on this latest atrocity.

Over the last few years, I have travelled to several countries across
four continents. Everywhere I go, I am asked why Pakistan is now the
focal point of Islamic extremism and terrorism, and why successive
governments have allowed this cancer to fester and grow. As a
Pakistani, it is obviously embarrassing to be put on the spot, but I
can see why people everywhere are concerned. In virtually every
Islamic terrorist plot, whether it is successful or not, there is a
Pakistani angle. Often, foreign terrorists have trained at camps in
the tribal areas; others have been brainwashed in madressahs; and many
more have been radicalised by the poisonous teachings of so-called
religious leaders.

Madeline Albright, the ex-US secretary of state, has called Pakistan
'an international migraine', saying it was a cause for global concern
as it had nuclear weapons, terrorism, religious extremists,
corruption, extreme poverty, and was located in a very important part
of the world. While none of this makes pleasant reading for a
Pakistani, Ms Albright's summation is hard to refute. Often, the truth
is painful, but most Pakistanis refuse to see it. Instead of
confronting reality, we are in a permanent state of denial. This
ostrich-like posture has made things even worse.

Most Pakistanis, when presented with the fact that our country is now
the br eeding ground for the most violent ideologies, and the most
vicious gangs of thugs who kill in the name of religion, go back in
history to explain and justify their presence in our country. They
refer to the Afghan war, and the creation of an army of holy warriors
to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. Then they go on to complain that
the Americans quit the region soon after the Soviets did, leaving us
saddled with the problem of jihadi fighters from all over the Muslim
world camped on our soil.

What we conveniently forget is that for most of the last two decades,
the army and the ISI used these very jihadis to further their agenda
in Kashmir and Afghanistan. This long official link has given various
terror groups legitimacy and a domestic base that has now come to
haunt us. Another aspect to this problem is the support these
extremists enjoy among conservative Pakistani and Arab donors.
Claiming they are fighting for Islamic causes, they attract
significant amounts from Muslim businessmen here and abroad. And
almost certainly, they also benefited from official Saudi largesse
until 9/11.

Now that government policy is to distance itself from these jihadis,
we find that many retired army officers have continued to train them
in camps being run in many parts of Pakistan. A few weeks ago, Sheikh
Rashid Ahmed, a prominent (and very loud) minister under both Nawaz
Sharif and Musharraf, openly boasted on TV of running a camp for
Kashmiri fighters on his own land just outside Rawalpindi a few years
ago. If such camps can be set up a few miles from army headquarters,
what's to stop them from operating in remote areas?

Many foreign and local journalists have exposed aspects of the terror
network that has long flourished in Pakistan. Names, dates and
addresses have been published and broadcast. But each allegation has
been met with a brazen denial from every level of offici aldom. Just as
we denied the existence of our nuclear weapons programme for years, so
too do we refuse to accept the presence of extremist terrorists.

For years, it suited the army and the ISI to secretly harbour and
support these groups in Pakistan, Kashmir and Afghanistan. While
officially denying that they had anything to do with these jihadis,
money and arms from secret sources would reach them regularly. Despite
our spooks maintaining plausible deniability, enough information about
this covert support for jihadis has emerged for the fig-leaf to slip.
And even if the intelligence community has now cut its links with
these terrorists, the genie is out of the bottle.

Each time an atrocity like Mumbai occurs, and Pakistan is accused of
being involved, the defensive mantra chanted by the chorus of official
spokesmen is: "Show us the proof." The reality is that in terrorist
operations planned in secret, there is not much of a paper t rail left
behind. Nine times out of ten, the perpetrators do not survive to give
evidence before a court. But in this case, one terrorist did survive,
and Ajmal Amir Kamal's story points to Lashkar-e-Tayyaba. The
sophistication of the attack is testimony to careful planning and
rigorous training.

This was no hit-and-run operation, but was intended to cause the
maximum loss of life.

Pakistan's foreign minister said that Pakistan, too, is a victim of
terrorism. While this is certainly true, the rest of the world wants
to know whey we aren't doing more to root out the training camps, and
lock up those involved. Given the vast un-audited amounts from the
exchequer sundry intelligence agencies lay claim to, their failure to
be more effective against internal terrorism is either a sign of
incompetence, or of criminal collusion. Benazir Bhutto's murder, after
an earlier attempt and many warnings, is a reminder of how poorly we
are served by our intelligence agencies.

And while the diplomatic fallout from the Mumbai attack spreads and
threatens to escalate into an armed confrontation, the biggest winners
are those who carried out the butchery of so many innocent people. It
is to their advantage to prevent India and Pakistan from coordinating
their fight against terrorism. Tension between the two neighbours
suits them, while peace and cooperation threatens their very
existence.

The world is naturally concerned about the danger posed by these
terror groups to other countries. However, the biggest threat they
pose is to Pakistan itself. Until Pakistanis grasp this brutal reality
and muster up the resolve necessary to crush them, these killers will
tear the country apart.

Read Any Orkut Scrapbook as RSS Feeds

2009-03-14T12:41:00.000+05:30

These days orkut popularity is on its peak with its wide usage. In india itself it is becoming more popular day by day as lots of orkut users (some friends of mine) are more curious to know after every minute if they receive any new scrap from their friends.
So today i would like to dedicate this post for all those who want to know every second about any new scrap and this too with out being required to login to orkut.

Nothing tedious , the only thing you have to do..

1. Login to your orkut account and go to your profile by clicking the profile by at the left navigation panel.

2. Copy the uid number from the address bar and append it to the url below.

http://www.indian-tv.com/orkut.php?uid=enter your orkut uid here.
4. Final url will be of form http://www.indian-tv.com/orkut.php?uid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

As it is for my orkut profile so i can read my scraps simply by entering the above url in the address bar in my mobile phone browser or on my computer browser.

Note: But you canâ€™t reply to any scrap as it requires login to orkut but donâ€™t worry as that feature may be implemented soon .

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2009-01-01T20:18:00.000+05:30

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Pocket as many pool balls as you can before the time runs out!

Play this free game now!!

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2008-11-22T12:24:00.001+05:30

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AdBrite, The Internet's Ad Marketplace

2008-05-10T16:47:00.002+05:30

AdBrite, The Internet's Ad Marketplace
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2 hidden ways to get more from your Gmail address

2008-03-13T20:58:00.005+05:30

Recently discovered some little-known ways to use your Gmail address that can give you greater control over your inbox and save you some time and headache. When you choose a Gmail address, you actually get more than just "yourusername@gmail.com." Here are two different ways you can modify your Gmail address and still get your mail:
Append a plus ("+") sign and any combination of words or numbers after your email address. For example, if your name was hikingfan@gmail.com, you could send mail to hikingfan+friends@gmail.com or hikingfan+mailinglists@gmail.com.
Insert one or several dots (".") anywhere in your email address. Gmail doesn't recognize periods as characters in addresses -- we just ignore them. For example, you could tell people your address was hikingfan@gmail.com, hiking.fan@gmail.com or hi.kin.g.fan@gmail.com. (We understand that there has been some confusion about this in the past, but to settle it once and for all, you can indeed receive mail at all the variations with dots.)For me, the real value in being able to manipulate your email address is that it makes it really easy to filter on those variants. For example you could use hikingfan+bank@gmail.com when you sign up for online banking and then set up a filter to automatically star, archive or label emails addressed to hikingfan+bank. You can also use this when you register for a service and think they might share your information.
For example, I added "+donation" when I gave money to a political organization once, and now when I see emails from other groups to that address, I know how they got it. Solution: filtered to auto-delete.

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