Whether the citizens of India will be expecting better services from the central Government employees on account salary hike or still they are expecting from the people....

PunjLloyd, plans to bod for singapore's LNG terminal for which it has tied up with Italian company. This LNG terminal in singapore is a maidan one for the ountry. The cost of the project is estimated $1 billion and is to be commissioned by 2011(BS)...

Unitech Ltd has informed the Exchange that : \"The Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India (\"DOT\") has issued a letter to our subsidiary company for allotment of 4.4 MHz of Spectrum in 1800 MHz GSM band in respect of Madhya Pradesh Service Area. With this, we have been allotted initial spectrum in 6 services areas out of total 22 services areas.\"...

Cybertech Systems And Software Ltd. has informed the Exchange that the Board of Directors in its meeting held on July 23, 2008 has decided to close The Register of Members and Share Transfer Books of the Company from September 22, 2008 to September 30, 2008 for the payment of 10% Dividend for the year 2007-2008 on equity shares of the Company. The Board also decided to hold the Annual General Meeting of the Company on September 30, 2008....

In its update on ‘International Comparison Programme’ released on Tuesday, the World Bank said that out of an estimated population of about 100 crore in 2005, “the number of poor people living below $1.25 a day has increased from 42.1 crore in 1981 to 45.6 crore in 2005. This is the biggest challenge facing India.”
As per the revised estimates on poverty based on new purchasing power parity norms, India’s poverty rate fell by a mere 19 per cent between 1990 and 2005 as compared to a global decline of 38 per cent . In terms of a dollar a day, the number of people living below the poverty line decreased from 29.6 crore in 1981 to 26.7 crore in 2005. In comparison, China achieved a much faster rate of poverty reduction.
In India, even as the poverty rate (at $1.25 a day) as a share of the total population went down from 60 per cent in 1981 to 42 per cent in 2005, the absolute numbers went up from 420 million to 455 million in 2005 during the period.
(source from Hindu)


...

giant ship engine failed. The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine.
Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a young. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom.
Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life. He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed!
A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for ten thousand dollars.
'What?!' the owners exclaimed. 'He hardly did anything!'
So they wrote the old man a note saying, 'Please send us an itemized bill.'
The man sent a bill that read:
Tapping with a hammer...... ......... ........ $ 2.00
Knowing where to tap........... ......... ...... $ 9,998.00
Effort is important,but knowing where to make an effort makes all the difference...

Most lighters are made out of plastic and filled with butane fuel, both petroleum products. Since most lighters are considered \"disposable,\" over 1.5 billion end up in landfills each year. When choosing matches, pick cardboard over wood. Wood matches come from trees, whereas most cardboard matches are made from recycled paper.
Brush without running your tap dry. You\'ll conserve up to five gallons per day if you stop.
Nearly 90% of plastic water bottles are not recycled, instead taking thousands of years to decompose. Buy a reusable container and fill it with tap water, a great choice for the environment, your wallet, and possibly your health.
Recycling just the Sunday papers would save more than half a million trees every week....

I don't get this. Why are they doing this? First they come up with an overpriced IPO, then give bonus in the ratio if 3:5 and now this??? What's up? Can some one explain briefly.......

Do you have any knowhow of making recycled paper from waste or anything converting waste scrap or any other waste material into usable material. This will greatly help preserve our natural resourses from depletion & keep our environ rather more liveable as you have aired a shocking senario of 17 trees destroyed for making a ton of paperIt is time we start recycling all waste, before we end up with nothing. Waiting to hear from you....

I remember it happened already when Mufti Md. was the home minister. We have only bad precedents post independence. Nation, patriotism, sacrifice, selfless service etc. are the words connected to pre-indepence. Sridharan...

Hi vishnu, it may touch 270/= in near term........

If America looses out in Afghanistan than it is our turn..... but b4 that lets not try and make home made terrorists ..... education is the best tool......We must know who we are and what we stand for.. study says most terrorist say they don't know why they are doing it.......... most are brain washed....... led to believe false information..... there ears and eyes see something different.....We have free media and we should open to debate........ than of course take the fight to them and not wait for to b attacked....