Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Friday, 23 March 2012



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Friday, March 23, 2012
Top News
An all-party meeting convened by Prime Minister on Friday to end the stalemate on the anti-graft Lokpal bill ended inconclusively.
After government faced flak over the Planning Commission's latest poverty estimates, Prime Minister said a government panel would devise new methods to assess poverty.
Startup City
Read to know the experience of Naveen Jain, CEO of Intelius, how he experienced the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy and became a visionary leader.
While the social media space has matured a lot in the last couple of years, we are far from claiming any kind of established norms . Read to know.
Maxim and Ariba is Hiring for India Operations in California
US-Indian
Michelle Satter the Godmother of creative cinema, who has mentored likes of Quentin Tarantino and Darren Aronofsky, she has now set her eyes on India.
An Indian American student convicted of spying on his gay roommate said he did some stupid things but didn't cause the fellow pupil's suicide.
Technology
Google's Chrome became the world's top internet browser, pushing Internet Explorer into second place for the first time.
Apple's new iPad has trouble picking up and holding on to wi-fi signals, say users who posted on Apple's official forum.
Business
Russia exported over 32 million carats of uncut rough diamonds worth $3.81 billion and India, Belgium Israel were the major buyers in 2011
India's airlines are not submitting emission details to the European Union (EU) as it had directed, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh told parliament
Magazine
Founded in 2006 by V.A Venkatesh Babu, California headquartered Tiara Consulting, is disrupting the traditional partner/vendor model and going a mile ahead to enable a client's business in a 360 degree view.
When Shibulal spoke to CEOs of several global companies, he saw a dichotomy. Read to know more..
Enterprise IT
There is intense competition in the cloud business and Amazon has emerged as the champion in the cloud computing world.
India is proving to be a good example to other nations. Recently Uganda, an African nation approached India to looking forward to get India’s cooperation to promote its(MSME) sector.
Real Estate City
Mumbai real estate developers are now focusing on "by-invitation projects" concept, which is to develop projects for a selected group of people.
Some of the localities are incredibly expensive, and buying a residential property in such localities only remains a dream for many.
CXO Insights
This is a 'once-in-a-generation'opportunity
Biswadip (Bobby) Mitra - Managing Director, Texas Instruments India
India is an emerging market today and is moving towards evolving as an emerged economy in a few years. Read to know.
The future of Energy: Clean and Green
Dr. Amit Kumar - President and CEO of CombiMatrix
The economic, geopolitical, and environmental reasons for making the transition have become apparent over the last few years.
Travel
Fatehpur Sikri is a fascinating ghost city built in the 16th century; 37 km from Agra Akbar the great, who at 26 years did not have an heir, founded this historic site.
India is a land of spectacular beauty. A visitor on Indian land can experience the bit of everything since India is known for its diversity.
Blogs: Editor's Choice
World Wide Web and the search engines have significantly eliminated the need of going through telephone directories, yellow pages or classified ads in order to look for products or services required.
No writer was ever such a failure in life as Henry Miller before his mid-forties and seldom has any successful contemporary author ever received such limited financial compensation for his..
QA Times
One classic hiring mistake is using testing as a transitional job for new programmers which is not uncommon. Here are the tips to avoid wrong hires.
There is a very thin line between severity and priority. A tester must know which bug is severe and which to be handled with priority. Here are tips to help you differentiate between severity and priority.
Most Read Jokes
Three men who were lost in the forest were captured by cannibals. The cannibal king told the prisoners that they could live if they pass a trial..
Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all..
A Chinese student was learning English from a 30 day rapid learner book. He decided to try it out in the college canteen. When served coffee he..
Humor of the Day
A man goes to his doctor and says "Hi doc, remember me"? "No, but what can I do for you?" "You know doc, I came to you two years ago..
A trucker is driving down the highway when he hears a loud thump under his semi. He stops to check the damage, then calls his boss..
A police man is driving down the road when all of the sudden the freeway starts to get backed up. Not long after, he finds himself stuck..

Life & Style
Admitting that high infant mortality was a big health issue for the nation, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Tuesday told parliament that India's situation is worse than most of its neighbours.
The proposal for the 12th Five Year Plan includes a new initiative to supply essential medicines free of cost for patients seeking healthcare in public health facilities, the health ministry said.

Book of the Day
The Ramayana is the oldest poem in Sanskrit.Hence its author is known as the Adi Kavi or pristine Poet.
What makes India a nation? What has held its many disparate societies with their diverse, sometimes conflicting...
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