Friday, November 25, 2011

Youth scores over experience as ONGC, PNB enter Nehru hockey final!

Gurwinder Singh Chandi may be out of the national team but going by his performance at the ongoing Nehru hockey tournament here so far, his employers ONGC will not be complaining.

On Thursday, he gave further proof of why he is rated highly by scoring a hat-trick in the team's 4-2 win over Bharat Petroleum in the semi-finals. The result also put ONGC in their second successive final of the tournament.

The initial period had both teams trying to size up each other, except for an occasional foray into the other half. The first goal came in the 24th minute. After an exchange of passes between Chandi and Akashdeep Singh from the half line till inside the striking circle, the latter found his view to the goal blocked by BPCL goalkeeper Swinder Singh. Instead of taking on the keeper and a couple of defenders himself, Akashdeep passed it on the run to Chandi, who made no mistake in slotting the ball in.

The second came immediately on resumption, Chandi this time slightly lifting the ball into the net from an acute angle. A third goal four minutes later saw Chandi deflecting the ball in off a goalmouth melee.

Being 0-3 down is not a familiar situation for a team like BPCL, and they tried to regroup and go on attack. It seemed to work, Hari Prasad reducing the margin in the 48th minute, but Diwakar Ram converted a penalty corner six minutes later to make it 4-1. Though Jarnail pulled one back in the dying minutes for BPCL, they were never truly in the match, and the result reflected it.

Dhanush's 'Kolaveri di' song is the new youth anthem!

In the minimalist video of the viral hit 'Why this Kolaveri Di', actor and occasional singer Dhanush can't help grinning as he repeats the now-famous catchphrase of the song over and over again. He's clearly having a lot of fun, getting a kick out of mouthing lyrics that are so absurd they make one burst into spontaneous giggles.

Perhaps it is this sense of absurd fun - its whacked out irreverence, its 'f#@# it, just chill' attitude - that's made the song a humongous hit across the nation, with close to 3.79 million views on its official YouTube video in less than a week and a top trending topic on Twitter the past three days.

"We had a real blast writing and recording this song," says Dhanush in an exclusive telephonic interview from Chennai. Although he's sung a few ditties here and there in previous films, this is by far the biggest hit and will feature in his film "3", directed by his wife Aishwarya Dhanush, megastar Rajnikanth's daughter. Incidentally, the music of the film, including this song, has been composed by 21-year old Anirudh Ravichander, Rajnikanth's nephew.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Top seed Djokovic out of Paris Masters!

Top seed Novak Djokovic on Friday pulled out of the ATP Paris Masters, in which he was due to play Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the quarterfinals, because of a shoulder injury. The Serb world number one said his shoulder had worsened after his 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 victory over compatriot Viktor Troicki on Thursday. "Sadly I have to inform you that I have withdrawn from the further tournament," Djokovic announced on his official website. "I have pushed myself to the limit by playing, and after the match yesterday my shoulder got worse. "For this reason, I have to put my health first and withdraw even though my urges as a professional player are making me want to play until the last drop of energy.

"I am very sorry for all of you who bought tickets and wanted to come and watch me play. My season has been long and tiring, I played all of my matches at my highest level, and now my body is aching for recovery. Hoping for your understanding and support." Djokovic, who has notched up 10 titles this year including successes at the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open, on Wednesday laughed off suggestions that he only turned up for the Paris Masters in order to avoid missing out on a $1.6 million windfall. Djokovic's participation was cast into doubt by his shoulder injury and, having already pulled out of last month's Shanghai Masters, another withdrawal would have cost him his lucrative share of the ATP bonus pool. "If I know that I'm physically good enough to be competing, I will compete. If I don't, I will not compete," he said at the time.

‘Drupal' changed communication on web!

That the recent tumult in the Middle East put Al Jazeera, the largest news organisation focused on the region, in the crux of a social media storm is well-known. That Barack Obama leveraged the internet like no other during his 2008 election campaign too, is common knowledge.

What is however unknown, is the fascinating story of Drupal – the free, open source social publishing platform – that enabled the survival of Al Jazeera's website amid the escalating pressure; besides latching global governments onto its services.

“Over 2 per cent of all websites worldwide, from blogs to corporate, political and government sites use Drupal as their back-end system. This includes the United States government's official website, the www.whitehouse.gov,” says Dries Buytaert, creator of Drupal.

A software package that allows you to organise, manage and publish content, with endless customisation; Drupal is used by millions today. And, India is now as much a part of this online revolution. Various government organisations, including the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, have adopted Drupal as their communication platform over the past year.

“Drupal can be downloaded for free and innumerable new features can be added to it. While over 1.5 million users visit our official website, www.drupal.org, nearly one-third of the traffic is from India. The interest for Drupal and the quality of developers here is overwhelming. There is escalating demand for the software in the Indian market,” says Dries, who is in the country on a tour of educational institutions in Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad.

With a name that is Dutch for ‘village', the ‘Drupal' advantage lies in its community aspect. While over thousands of developers maintain the software, ‘tens of thousands' of community volunteers across the world continuously add new features, called modules, to the license-free software.

While there are over 11,000 modules today that can be used to customise Drupal's behaviour and appearance, there is a steep increase in the demand for trained Drupal developers in the country, who can create websites across industries using the appropriate modules.

With numerous such functions, it has specialised distribution across several sectors like governance, communication, media, education and publishing websites, among others.

“While hosting a small website using propriety software could cost nearly $400 a month, a similar website would cost merely $5 with Drupal as it free to download. As it is open-source it enables a huge commercial eco-system which allows you to do well, while giving something back to the community,” says Dries.

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Sunday, November 6, 2011

Insects inspires mother of all adhesives!

Insects can scurry up walls, hang from ceilings and perform other acrobatic feats with remarkable ease. This has inspired scientists to come up with a mother of all adhesives that can be stuck and peeled off repeatedly without losing its sticking power.

The wall-scaling ability of insects lies in the growth of thousands of tiny hairs over their feet and legs, with flattened tips that can splay out to maximize contact on even rough surfaces.

The researchers fashioned a similar silicon tape, which turned out to be twice as hard to pull off a surface than a flat tape of the same material, according to a statement of the University of Kiel's Zoological Institute, Germany.

One team member even succeeded in dangling from the ceiling using a 20 by 20cm square piece of the new tape.

"The main issue for good adhesion is intimate contact with the substrate (surface)," explains Stanislav Gorb, who led the project.

"Due to multiple contacts points (hairs), they can build proper contact with almost any surface," adds Gorb from the Zoological Institute.

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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Slowing Down the Ageing Process is in Your Hands!


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This point was abundantly accepted during analysis on animals which showed that bargain calorie assimilation added years to animals’ lifespan.

Cutting calorie assimilation bigger levels of an agitator alleged peroxiredoxin [Prx1], which offers aegis adjoin the furnishings of ageing.

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Iconic Chevrolet completes 100 years!


Chevrolet is commutual 100 years of its actuality common and adulatory its bazaar on 3rd of November 2011. Back its addition in 1911 by Louis Chevrolet and GM architect Billy Durant, the company's better cast has appear a actual connected way. In a abbreviate amount of little over 7 years, Chevrolet has additionally emerged as the fastest growing agent nameplate in India. With an arrangement of articles alignment from agitative mini cars like Chevrolet Beat and Spark, to the best awarded exceptional SUV - Captiva, Chevrolet has brought incomparable artefact affection and chump affliction to the Indian consumers.

Speaking on the august milestone, Karl Slym, President & Managing Director, GM India, said, "Chevrolet is today GM's all-around boilerplate cast and the foundation of the company's business in best aloft markets beyond the apple including India. We've awash added than 200 actor Chevrolets in our aboriginal 100 years, and we've had a all-around attendance for best of our history-just about everybody, everywhere, has a claimed or ancestors news involving a Chevrolet. Today, Chevrolet beyond the apple is abundant added than a architect of cars, trucks and crossovers; it's a all-around cultural figure anchored in the customers' best memorable activity experiences."

Chevrolet's access to India began in 1928. The flagship cast captured a adherent afterward actuality in India too like in added genitalia of the apple Over the abutting few decades Chevrolet's affair with India connected through films and music. After an absence of several years, Chevrolet alternate to India in 2003 and has awash added than 5 lakh cartage back its re-entry. Today, India is Chevrolet's eighth-largest bazaar in the world.

Chevrolet's portfolio in India boasts of an agitative ambit of articles including ambiance affable advancement solutions. Chevrolet cartage accept won abundant automotive arete awards from assorted auto experts, absolute agencies and the media. Chevrolet is committed to accouterment consumers with fuel-efficient, safe, reliable and amount for money cartage that bear aerial quality, alive architecture and active performance. It is rapidly accretion its civic dealership and account centre arrangement to abutment the amazing bazaar appeal for its cars and added aiming to aggrandize its sales and account arrangement beyond the country activity forward.

Globally, Chevrolet is the fourth-largest agent cast and is now awash in added than 140 countries beyond the globe. A fresh Chevrolet was awash every 6.65 abnormal in the aboriginal bisected of 2011. And aftermost year alone, one in every 1,619 bodies on the planet bought a Chevrolet vehicle. In 2010, Chevrolet awash a almanac 4.26 actor cars and trucks globally and that clip has accelerated with 2.35 actor Chevrolets awash in the aboriginal six months in 2011. Chevrolet has a appreciative motor-sports ancestry too by acceptable the WTCC (World Touring Car Championship) for the additional year in a row in 2011. A brilliant aerialist in Chevrolet's accepted all-around portfolio is the Cruze, which back its 2009 barrage has become the better affairs Chevrolet car nameplate in the world.

Summing up Chevrolet's aboriginal century, Karl Slym said, "For 100 years, Chevrolet cartage accept affianced bodies and afflicted their imaginations beyond the globe. In India, we accept boring and steadily accustomed ourselves although there is still a connected way to go to absolutely apprehend our dream. Chevrolet has consistently believed in bringing calm the finest elements in its creations for its admired customers. As we access the additional century, our articles reflect a renewed accent on the alive styling, ammunition efficiency, amount for money and aloft all an absurd active and buying acquaintance which a chump expects from a Chevrolet. Truly, there's a abundant adventure advanced with Chevrolet and we are committed to accomplishing greater milestones in the second-fastest growing auto bazaar in the apple – India.’’