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ICANN board announced Internet Domain Names in International Languages would come into effect in 2010

November 13, 2009
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that it would declare an end to the exclusive use of Latin characters-the script in which English and most other European languages are written for website addresses. ICANN president Rod Beckstrom said the change would come into effect in the middle of 2010. Icann aims to start receiving applications next month. As of now we had control only over websites with the suffix .in. This suffix will soon be replaced with .bharat in the scheduled Indian languages Once domain names in Indian scripts come into existence, www.google.in could be written…
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India looking at exploration of outer space using planetary missions including a human space flight programme with Chandrayaan-2 mission

October 23, 2009
The success of Chandrayaan I moon mission, India is now looking at exploration of outer space using planetary missions including a human space flight programme. India's first Chandrayaan-1 mission intended to study the Moon using eleven scientific instruments built in India. With this, preparation of a 3-dimensional atlas of the lunar surface and chemical and mineralogical mapping of entire lunar surface has been undertaken by scientists from India and abroad. India takes special interest in capacity building and services for enabling the developing countries in the application of Space technology. So far 824 scholars from 31 countries from the Asia-Pacific…
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My Diwali Wishes To You and My Friends

October 17, 2009
Happy Diwali!!! Diwali is also known as the Festival of Lights. In earlier times, people touched up their homes with cotton wicks dipped in ghee or oil. In order to save environment and energy  Decorate the houses with traditional lamps rather than bulbs. In this season cut short your list of crackers and use that money in buying some useful items. Use this opportunity to introduce our culture to others. Such an act will encourage unity and teach new morals to kids. This is the time to exchange your happiness with their gloominess. So go ahead and put a smile…
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Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons brings 2009 Nobel Peace prize

October 11, 2009
Wow!! It was a pleasant surprise decision that US president Barack Obama has awarded as 2009 Nobel Peace prize by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. The Committee given nobel peace prize to US president-barack-obama because of  special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons. Obama,  described earlier that his dream dinner date will be nice if its with Mahatma Gandhi and it describes clearly that Obama  is following his footsteps. The Nobel Peace prize came to him for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee endorses Obama’s appeal that…
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The Nobel Prize winner Venkatraman Ramakrishnan with two other scientist visited the University of Madras (Guindy campus)

October 9, 2009
Wow! It is proud that from my state there is one Nobel Prize winner. The Nobel Prize winner Venkatraman Ramakrishnan with two other scientist visited the University of Madras (Guindy campus). During his visit to Chennai in late 2008, Ramakrishnan had interacted with both faculty and students. Indian-born Venkatraman Ramakrishnan on Wednesday visited the University of Madras (Guindy campus) to say Three Cheers!. It is a rare coincidence that Venky' Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath are among the more than a dozen Nobel laureates who had visited our department over the past five decades. Steitz and Yonath had both…
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India has become the No: 1 ODI Cricket team

September 23, 2009
The ICC Champions Trophy opening match on Tuesday, where Sri Lanka beat South Africa by 55 runs which led India to become the number one ODI team. As per the latest ranking, the current number one side the Proteas dropped to the third spot allowing India to take up number one place and Australia second position. A few days back, Mahendra Singh Dhoni experienced one of the proudest moments of his two year reign as India's one-day captain when a six-wicket win over New Zealand in the Compaq Cup took Men in Blue to the top of the one day…
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Independence Day Wishes

August 15, 2009
Happy Independence Day to all Today with all of my friends and family i celebrated the Independence Day. The midnight of August 15, 1947 is memorable moment for every Indian on earth, as it is the time, when India got independence from the stranglehold of the mighty British. The otherwise suppressed tri-colored flag of India was given its due respect, when it was hoisted in the midnight on the Independence Day. Since then, the red-letter day is celebrated with pomp and gaiety, across the length and breadth of India. Celebrated all across the nation with great enthusiasm, the day is…
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Total Solar Eclipse In India

July 22, 2009
Total eclipses are caused when the moon moves directly between the sun and the earth, covering it completely to cast a shadow on earth. Today Millions of People turned their eyes skyward to see the total solar eclipse, which dawn suddenly turned to darkness across the continent in the longest total solar eclipse this century will see. Millions of others, fearing a bad omen, shuttered themselves indoors. Chinese launched fireworks and danced in Shanghai. And in India, a woman was crushed as thousands of viewers crowded the banks of the Ganges for a glimpse. Cloudy skies and rain damped the…
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Anil Ambani signs $825 million deal with Spielberg

July 17, 2009
Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Big Entertainment (RBE) has finally signed its much-hyped 50:50 joint venture with Hollywood’s iconic director Steven Spielberg’s Los Angeles-based production house DreamWorks Studios to produce six films per year. This is the most high-profile deals in global cinema. Anil Ambani and Spielberg said the movies (produced by DreamWorks) would be globally distributed by Walt Disney, while the exclusive rights for India, including DTH, DVD and theatre rights, would rest with Reliance Big Entertainment. Spielberg said he was looking forward to visiting India to meet filmmakers. This venture with Reliance opens a new door to our future. Their…
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Total Solar Eclipse On 22nd July 2009

July 13, 2009
The solar eclipse on Wednesday, 22 July 2009 , will be a total eclipse of the Sun. This is visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half of Earth. This solar eclipse is the longest total solar eclipse that will occur in the twenty-first century, and will not be surpassed in duration until June 13, 2132. Totality will last for up to 6 minutes and 39 seconds, with the maximum eclipse occurring in the ocean at 02:35:21 UTC about 100 km south of the Bonin Islands, southeast of Japan. The North Iwo Jima island is the landmass with totality time closest…