George Bush will make the Indo-US nuclear deal a law. Thereby, India will be in a position to complete the deal that will save us from energy crisis in years to come?
Read more at the source : NDTV
Year: 2008
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008
Osamu Shimomura (b.1928, Japanese, but won the nobel in USA), Martin Chalfie (b.1947, USA) and Roger Y. Tsien (b.1952, Chinese-American) share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry cash award (of 10,000,000 Swedish kronor = 68.3089588 million Indian rupees, thus getting 22.7696529 million INR) each for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP
Source : Nobelprize.org
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Gmail Labs : Inbuilt tools in gmail
Those gmail users among you probably didn’t knew that gmail offers a short but useful list of tools and patches that can change your whole experience with gmail.
To access these handy lab products, you needn’t go to any other website. It is right there as the last tab in settings page.
And to go directly to it from this blog, Click here.Enable the tools that you may need ny clicking enable and don’t forget to save. Gmail will automatically restart with your new tools ready
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The 11 Gmail keyboard shortcuts
The 11 easy to use keyboard shortcuts in gmail are as follows (these are the defaul keys, they can be changed at any time).
- k – newer mail,
- j – older mail (both works both in inbox and in mails)
- x – select mail
- y and e – archive
- enter – enter the mail
- r – reply
- a – reply to all
- f – forward
- Tab + enter – Send
- g + i – goto inbox
- s – star
? – show the shortcuts
Now you are really going to throw that mouse away.
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008
Yoichiro Nambu (b. 1921) of USA wins 1/2 of the prize for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.
Makoto Kobayashi (b.1944) and Toshihide Maskawa (b.1940), both from Japan will get 1/4 of the prize for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.
Source : Nobelprize.org
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Chandrayaan launch on October 22
Chandrayaan-1, India’s first lunar mission (of course unmanned) is all set to be launched from the spaceport of Sriharikota at 6:20 AM on October 22, according to ISRO sources. The satellite has already been transported from Banglore to Sriharikota in a special vehicle and is currently at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC, but called SHAR as the acronym for its previous name – Sriharikota Range).
PS : It would be launched on board PSLV-C11.
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008
This years Nobel Prize for medicine is shared by three European scientists who discovered viruses that cause cervical cancer and AIDS.
Harald zur Hausen (b. 1936) (Tel.: (06221) 42 – 28 50), a German virologist, who discovered the human papilloma viruses (H.P.V.), thus leading to the development of vaccines (Gardasil and Cervarix) against cervical cancer – the second most common cancer among women after breast cancer – will recieve half the award (5 000 000 Swedish kronor = 32.9111834 million Indian rupees).Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (b. 1947) and Luc Montagnier (b. 1932), both from France, will share the other half of the award (2 500 000 Swedish kronor = 16.4555917 million Indian rupees) but will get full medals and certificates for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus, which needs no introduction.
Sources :
1) NobelPrize.org
2) The New York Times -
Proofs for the existence of God
Those who are true believers needn’t see this because your beliefs are going to be smashed around.
Those who are in between believing and not, do read
Those who are non-believers read and laugh your heart out
100’s of reasons why God exists -
Xenophobia
OK. You’ve heard that term too many times. But still doesn’t know the meaning quite exact, right?
Now here it is
Xenophobia is an intense and/or irrational dislike and sometimes fear of people from other countries. It comes from the Greek words ξένος (xenos), meaning “foreigner,” “stranger,” and φόβος (phobos), meaning “fear.” The term is typically used to describe a fear or dislike of foreigners or of people significantly different from oneself. -
Samuel Goldwyn
“When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.”