Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Steve Jobs, Apple’s visionary, dies at 56

Steve Jobs, Apple’s visionary, dies at 56


Steve Jobs, Apple’s visionary, dies at 56

Posted: 06 Oct 2011 12:38 AM PDT

Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were exper...


Obama remembers Steve Jobs as visionary, innovator

Posted: 06 Oct 2011 12:32 AM PDT

President Barack Obama is remembering Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as one of America's greatest innovators and says the world has lost a visionary. The man behind the iPod and iPhone as well as the per...

All is well, tweets Chetan Bhagat after IIT controversy

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 05:59 PM PDT

Author Chetan Bhagat, who is an alumnus of IIT, has called a truce after slamming Infosys founder Narayana Murthy on twitter. "All is well," tweeted Mr Bhagat today. "All respects to NRN/IIT/Infy. C...


Treating cop like terrorist, says Sanjiv Bhatt's wife in letter to Chidambaram

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 05:56 PM PDT

The wife of suspended Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has written another letter to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram saying her husband is being treated like a terrorist. In the letter, Shweta Bhatt...


Bangalore win thriller for semis berth

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 05:38 PM PDT

Arun Karthik produced the six most important runs of his 14-match Twenty20 career off the last ball of the CLT20 league phase to propel Royal Challengers Bangalore past South Australia Redbacks in a g...


There were some ego problems in our team, admits Anna

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 03:43 PM PDT

In the weeks since he ended his 12-day fast, Anna Hazare has largely been resting in Ralegan Siddhi. Mr. Hazare speaks about Mahatma Gandhi, the rifts within his social movement, how he spends his day...


Spot-fixing case: Rampant corruption in Pakistan case, says prosecutor

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 01:19 PM PDT

Two Pakistan cricketers took bribes to fix parts of a match against England in a case that exposes "rampant corruption" at the heart of the international game, a prosecutor told a London court on We...


'A helicopter's down! Someone call 911!'

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 12:21 PM PDT

As he sometimes does on quiet afternoons, Robert Dress, 36, took his 9-month-old son, James, on Tuesday to watch the helicopters taking off from the public heliport on 34th Street, near the East River...


Arizona dust storms cause three pile-ups with dozens of cars

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 12:07 PM PDT

A blinding dust storm rolled across the Arizona desert Tuesday, causing three pileups involving dozens of vehicles on a major interstate. A 70-year-old man was killed and at least 15 other people were...


How the Aakash compares to other tablets

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 12:05 PM PDT

This is how the Aakash compares to other tablets, including the mighty iPad.

Mumbai auto drivers face Sena's wrath

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 11:56 AM PDT

There was vandalism on the streets of Mumbai on Wednesday. Auto rickshaw drivers faced the wrath of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and Shiv Sena activists, after they went on a strike demanding a fa...


Goa mining report that hurts Congress won't be tabled for now

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 11:51 AM PDT

The Public Accounts Committee of Goa has blamed Chief Minister Digambar Kamat for being a "silent spectator" to illegal mining in the state. In his report, committee chief and opposition leader Manoha...


Don't enroll yourself in Glastonbury University: It doesn't exist

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 11:40 AM PDT

British authorities here have uncovered a scam aimed at luring international students to come and study in the UK by designing a glitzy website of what was called 'Glastonbury University.' The catch: ...


Driver orders passengers off bus, runs them over

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 10:46 AM PDT

In an act of cold-blooded murder, a bus driver Wednesday ordered tourists to de-board and then ran the vehicle over them in Rajasthan, killing six people, police said. The horrific act took place near...


Pak a 'twin brother', India a 'great friend': Karzai

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 10:24 AM PDT

Pakistan is a "twin brother" and India a "great friend", Afghan President Hamid Karzai said today in an obvious attempt to reassure Pakistan that the Strategic Partnership Agreement signed here yeste...


Drunk airhostess held in road rage

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 10:17 AM PDT

An airhostess, who ran into an auto rickshaw while driving her car in an inebriated condition was arrested by Bangur Nagar police on Tuesday. The incident took place in the Chincholi Bunder area. Luna...


She killed husband, chopped and cooked his body parts

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 09:19 AM PDT

A California woman who killed her newlywed husband and chopped and cooked his body parts over Thanksgiving weekend in 1991 is seeking release from prison. Former nanny Omaima Nelson is scheduled to ap...


Daniel Shechtman wins Nobel chemistry prize

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 08:43 AM PDT

Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Shechtman's discovery in 1982 funda...


CPI-M admits failures at all levels in Bengal

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 08:11 AM PDT

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), leader of the alliance voted out of power in West Bengal, has confessed it was unable to produce ideal Communists. "We could not groom ideal Communist lea...


Mayawati fires two ministers for alleged corruption

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 08:04 AM PDT

Mayawati, often accused of running one of the most corrupt governments in the country, has fired two ministers today. The Lokayukta or ombudsman of Uttar Pradesh had recommended their dismissal. The m...


Family drugged its six young children before they drowned together

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 07:56 AM PDT

Six children from a family in Dehradun were drugged with sleeping pills by their grand-parents before they drowned in a local canal. Their grand-mother and two other relatives jumped into the same ...


$35 tablet: From prototype to reality

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 07:18 AM PDT

$35 Tablet myth vs reality, we finally get our hands on the finished product


Don't limit Anti-Congress stand to Lokpal Bill, says Sena to Anna

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 07:17 AM PDT

Welcoming Gandhian Anna Hazare's just announced anti-Congress posture for the forthcoming elections, Shiv Sena today said that the anti-graft crusader should not limit it to the issue of enactment of ...


In Europe, signs of 2nd recession with wide reach

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 06:56 AM PDT

The European debt problems that have roiled global financial markets for the last 18 months are showing signs of turning into a far deeper challenge: Europe’s second recession in three years....


J&K custody death: PDP's protest rally in Srinagar today

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 06:56 AM PDT

The main Opposition party in Jammu and Kashmir - the PDP - is taking out a rally in Srinagar today to protest against the custodial death of National Conference member Syed Mohammed Yousuf Shah. The p...


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