Monthly archives: July 2003

Incident #1
Bomb blast in BEST bus no. 340 at Ghatkopar, Mumbai on 30 July 2003.

Incident #2
BJP – SHIV SENA calls off a BANDH on 29 July 2003(close).

“Democracy & peace is killed twice. Terrorism rocks!”

Relatives will be paid the ‘compensation’.For next few days Police, Politicians, Media and farters will be very buisy. Some 60+ active, young & energetic ex-legal experts will get a new job in new commission de invetigation. Few insects responsible(?) for the blast will be caught. Human rights organization will raise their voice as to how these insects and people around them are tortured. blah!…blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!… blah!…

Next year 0n 28 July 2004, this blast will be rememberd again on 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, … N th page.

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History repeats itself, only dates change.

• Geneva based International Telecommunication Union (ITU) study and figures reveal that India is one of the fasted growing large mobile markets in the world, jumping from 33rd position to 18th position between 2002 & 2003.

• If India continues to show this trend (thanks to competetion between Reliance, Tata, Hutch, Airtel, BPL & others) and same growth in both GSM & CDMA based mobile services it is sure that India would rank amongst the top 10. This is supported by the fact that right now there are 17.22 million (GSM + CDMA)subsribers, growing healthily at the rate of 80% per year. That amounts to 25-30 million subscribers by march, 2004.

• India is however already made to 5th position in the fixed lines with 41.2 million subscribers.

Facts & Source , Anup Jayarm, Business World Magazine, 28 July 2003.

Edward de Bono is regarded by many to be the leading authority in the world in the field of creative thinking and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. He has written 62 books with translations into 37 languages and has been invited to lecture in 54 countries. He is the originator of lateral thinking which treats creativity as the behaviour of information in a self-organising information system – such as the neural networks in the brain. From such a consideration arise the deliberate and formal tools of lateral thinking, parallel thinking etc.

Google Search: g Have you discovered “G” is for google on google.com

Experts say that Taj Mahal has got marble cancer due to increase in pollution and sulphur dioxide emmissions in the atmosphere released by various industries around it.

The U.N. Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will send a team of experts to India to review damage to the famed Taj Mahal monument due to illegal construction activity near the World Heritage site which a recent phenomenon in UP. Mayawati Jindabad, UP Government JIndabad

‘India can overtake China as economic power’ – The Times of India

“Not only is entrepreneurship thriving in India, entrepreneurs have become folk heroes. These success stories would never have happened if India lacked the infrastructure needed to support Narayana Murthy and other would-be moguls. But democracy, a tradition of entrepreneurship, and a decent legal system have given India the underpinning necessary for free enterprise to flourish,”Noted by Yasheng Huang, associate professor at Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tarun Khanna, professor at Harvard Business School in a study in the recent issue of Foreign Policy.

“If India can achieve 6 per cent growth with a ball and chain around its ankles, then think what could be achieved with proper government reforms,” says Suman Bery, head of the National Council for Applied Economic Research, a leading thinktank in New Delhi. IN Why India is singing in the rain By Edward Luce and Ray Marcelo

Many people have posted negative comments in response to TOI article. Just one note to them, “India is never a priority or never a compeition because of Politicians who always act as hurdle in the development. They don’t bring reforms, the reforms have to rise on their own because they no longer can be kept burried deep inside. India will become a India of our dreams because of Indians. Indian not as in politics & indian not as in religion, but indian as in ‘spirit’” – Santoshkumar

Nigeria 419 Scam /Advance Fee Fraud

Mala Bhargava, Cyber media (India) and editor of Living Digital is a regular writer in Business World weekly’s feature – That’s IT. In the latest issue of the Business World she has written worderful article on internet email scam appropriately titled “BEWARE! NIGERIA CALLING”. If you are on the internet and have even a single pathetic email id, you must be already aware about this phenomenon. Some smat ass in Niegeria has loads of money which he wants to save from his government due to various political, military and civic reasons. And god knows why you are the choosen one?, the lord of the ring. He wants you to become the medium to transfer his millions and get cool 3/4 million for yourself. Now like myself and lot’s of other have deleted these types of mails right away and flushed the trash. But there are many air heads in this world who really felt that they are really the choosen ones. Don’t think that the story ends here and this mail things end after making you virtual april fool. These things go beyond the net and after series of mail exchanges you are duped to the tune of few thousand dollars and may be worst than that which is still unknown to us. It has become the multi-million dollar business(?).

Mala Bhargava along with friends and colleagues M Jayashankar, Shubhendu Parth, Nisha Kurien followed the trail of scamsters and their victims across India, China, Pakistan, Taiwan, Hongkong, US, UK and the Netherlands. She has given the entire working of how these scamsters operate. It was found that these scamsters have pseudo virtual online fake banks and offering ‘telebanking’. These group of reporters have created an awareness webpage on the Nigerian scam at www.dqindia.com/nscam – Nigeria 419 Scam /Advance Fee Fraud… A Resource Guide . Great Job.

Katie Dean writes in Bloggers Opening Western Eyes on Wired…

Marta Schaaf is one of eight summer interns affiliated with the Advocacy Project, a nonprofit organization in Washington that works with Non-Government Organizations, or NGOs, around the world Schaff. Schaaf writes about her experiences with the Bosnian women, her fellow interns are posting accounts of their work on the prevention of illegal trafficking of women and children in Nigeria, advocating for Roma (gypsies) in the Czech Republic and social justice in Nepal. Each intern, who assists advocacy groups in Bosnia, Nepal, Lebanon, Israel, Kosovo, Italy, Nigeria and the Czech Republic, has her own weblog. The Advocacy Project is using the blogs to raise awareness about its work and to present an inside look at its projects.

“These blogs can provide a picture of what the tragedies that Westerners see on the news mean to the people who live here,”

Schaaf says.

Inside the open-source development model | CNET News.com. The article is a special imput from Harvard Business School’s HBS Working Knowledge. The discussion; about the hackers in the opensource community and the introduction of large businesses supporting the opensource.

“Programmers contribute to free software and open-source projects for many reasons–some for the fun of it, some to improve their skills and others for a paycheck.”

Harvard Business School professor Siobhan O’Mahony discusses her research in the article.

“No community-managed software project wants to be “taken over” or co-opted by one firm.”

(Via Indiacause.com)

Time Magazine and their writer Alex Writer take a twist. But that does not mean I am pro BJP. That does not mean I am pro Congress. India should be without politicians and must have some leaders like Mr.Kalam, Mr.Shourie, etc. See I have to use etc. as the third name I could think of.

June 2002 – Asleep at The Wheel?

“As India and neighbor Pakistan put up their nukes, is an ailing and frail Vajpayee the right man to have his finger on the button? He drank heavily in his prime and still enjoys a nightly whiskey or two at 74. India’s leader takes painkillers for his knees ”

http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501020617-260747,00.html

July 2003 – Top of His Game

“While it may stretch the limits of adolescence to anoint a 78-year-old as Asia’s new comeback kid, there’s little doubt that India’s once fading leader has returned with a bang. Abroad, he’s never been so well received”

http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501030714-463134,00.html