Oscar 2012: Winners
© AP
© AP
© AP
© AP
© AP
© AP
Achievement in Cinematography: Robert Richardson for Hugo
© AFP
Deepika Padukone clearly loves her single status to the hilt. With former lovers back in her life as 'good friends', Dippy is making sure that she doesn't miss Sidhartha Mallya at all.
The former model is not only bonding a lot with her ex boyfriends but is also making sure to mend broken hearts.
The actress went to Hyderabad recently for the script reading of Rajinikanth starrer 'Kochadaiyaan' and accompanying the leggy lass was model Nihar Pandya.
For the uninitiated, Nihar and Deepika were dating each other during their modeling days. Post her entry into Bollywood, Deepika had dumped Nihar and went on to date cricketer Yuvraj Singh briefly and then was in a relationship with actor Ranbir Kapoor.
We had reported earlier that Ranbir and Deepika are back to being friends. So much so that industry insiders suspect that the two might be back as a couple soon! And now with Nihar Pandya's re-entry into Dippy's life, it is clearly a triangle love story here, no?
They could just be bonding and being good friends. But do good friends accompany each other on work tours? Well, only Deepika can answer that!
India's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at 6.1 per cent for the quarter ending 31 December 2011, signalling a sharp slowdown in economic activity.
The GDP growth is also slower than the 6.9 per cent in the September quarter, and has been declining for the past nine quarters. This is also the lowest in the past 13 quarters.
A Thomson Reuters poll of 26 economists released on Tuesday had put GDP growth at an annual 6.4 percent rate in the quarters, with forecasts ranging from 6.0 to 7.3 per cent with a majority of them lying below the consensus.
Manufacturing growth was hurt the most in the December quarter, clocking 0.4 per cent against 7. 8 per cent in the corresponding period last year. Agriculture also saw a sharp decline at 2.7 per cent, down from 11 per cent in the year-ago period.
Mining fell by almost half, from 6.1 per cent to 3.1 per cent, signally lower supply of raw materials for industry but also fuelled by lower demand as higher interest rates have put off companies from investing in expansion.
The trade and hotels industries fared better at 9.2 per cent, while construction slowed marginally from 8.7 per cent to 7.2 per cent.
Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/profit/india-gdp-growth-slows-to-6-1-in-december-quarter-298753
Tata Teleservices Ltd on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court seeking review of its judgement cancelling its licences for the 2G spectrum in three circles which were allotted during the tenure of former telecom minister A Raja.
The review petition comes nearly a month after the apex court on February 2 had cancelled 122 2G licences granted to nine telecom companies including Tata Teleservices Ltd, based on the first-come-first served policy for 22 circles.
The company earlier contended that it had applied for these licences more than 18 months before the 2008 licensing process began.
The court had directed that the licences for the radio waves have to be sold through auction.
A bench of justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly (now retired) had also imposed a heavy cost of Rs. 5 crore on Tata Teleservices Ltd, Etisalat DB Telecom Pvt Ltd (Swan Telecom Ltd) and Unitech Wireless Group.
The court had held that the companies were benefited by a "wholly arbitrary and unconstitutional" action of award of licenses to them and for off-loading their stakes for billions of rupees in the name of fresh infusion of equity or transfer of equity.
Tata Teleservices Ltd was granted licences for three circles in Assam, North East and Jammu and Kashmir.
The apex court had said the allocation of of the 2G spectrum under Raja was "wholly arbitrary, capricious and contrary to public interest apart from being violative of the doctrine of equality" to "favour some companies at the cost of the public exchequer".
Earlier, both Videocon and Idea Cellular had filed clarificatory petitions in the Supreme Court asking whether the 2 February ruling would apply to them.
Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/profit/tata-asks-supreme-court-to-review-cancellation-of-its-2g-licenses-298782
Sister Grade II : 222 posts (UR-117, SC-37,ST-12,OBC-56), Pay Scale :
Rs.9300-34800 grade pay Rs.4600, Qualification : Matriculation and
Certificate in general Nursing and Midwife wifery and should be
registered A grade Nurse and Midwife with state nursing council or
equivalent, Age : 18-30 years
Application Fee : Rs.500/- (Rs.250/- for SC/ST) Branch of State Bank
of India with the fee Payment Challan duly filled in and pay the
prescribed Application Fee in the "Power Jyoti" PUL current account of
PGIMER. The account No. of PGIMER for recruitment is 32195086578.
How to Apply : Apply Online at PGIMER website from 01/03/2012 to 09/04/2012.
Please
visit http://pgimer.nic.in/code/oppor.htm
to view the details and Online application form.
For a day that comes rarely to the calendar, Google has doodled a rare two-in-one doodle that commemorates not only the leap day but also the 220th birth anniversary of the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini.
Since the leap years and leap days are usually associated with frogs, the leaping ambhibians, the Google doodle on February 29 has a number of frogs, all four of them.
The doodle is inspired by Gioachino Antonio Rossini's famous 1816 comic opera The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia), one of the most performed operas. Of the four frogs in the scene, one is at the piano and the soprano is the only one leaping. The barber frog is Figaro and the frog getting a shave is Count Almaviva (Characters created by French playright Pierre Beaumarchais and The Barber of Seville is one of the three Figaro plays penned by him).
An 1870 Portrait of Gioachino Rossini by Francesco Hayez
Rossini's other famous operas include William Tell (1829), Semiramide (1823) and Cinderella (1817). Gioachino Rossini was born on February 29, 1792 (died November 13, 1868). The possibility of someone's birthday falling on February 29 is 1 in 1461 (as four years including a leap year have 1461 days in total) that in turn calculates to a mere 0.068 per cent chance.
The Gioachino Rossini leap year Google doodle is the third leap year doodle in Google's history. The previous two were put up on 2004 and 2008. There was no leap day doodle in the year 2000.
By our calculations this is the 1314th Google doodle since the first ever on for the Burning Man Festival back on August 30, 1998.
read more at http://ibnlive.in.com/news/google-doodles-frogs-on-gioachino-rossinis-220th-birthday-leap-day/234624-11.html
Nokia gave few details of the specs, but said that it would run a 1.3 GHz single-core processor along with 512 MB of RAM. The 808 PureView will also sport 16GB of on-board memory that is expandable using a microSD card.
The winning feature of the phone happens to be a 41-megapixel sensor that has been developed after years of research. Nokia says they managed to do so using an interpolation technique that packs 5 pixels into 1.
The availability of the 808 PureView in India is not yet known.
read more at http://www.ndtv.com/article/technology/nokia-announces-41-megapixel-808-pureview-180270
In all the Obama Campaign released a list of 35 campaign co-chairs who will act as key surrogates and ambassadors in the run up to the November presidential elections in which incumbent Barack Obama is seeking re-election.
"The president's national co-chairs will be tremendous assets on the ground as we build the biggest grassroots campaign in history," Obama's campaign manager, Jim Messina said in a statement.
"They each share the President's vision for a future where every American can have a fair shot at success, where hard work pays off and responsibility is rewarded," Messina said.
read more at http://www.pravasitoday.com/three-indian-origin-americans-in-obama-campaign-team
Saif Ali Khan says he plans to promote his home production "Agent Vinod" through the World Series Hockey starting February 29.
The move comes in the wake of instances where security agencies could
not have a real-time access to some emails as they were registered
outside the country but were opened in India.
During a recent high-level meeting held in the office of Union Home
Secretary R K Singh, the Department of Information Technology was
asked to take up the matter at the earliest with the content
providers.
During the meeting, director general from CERT-in, the Indian cyber
community, informed that content provider Yahoo automatically locates
all email accounts registered in India to the server in India, minutes
of the meeting said.
However, Yahoo accounts registered outside India and subsequently
accessed from India are routed through servers outside India, it said.
"It was decided to advice Yahoo, Gmail etc that all emails accessed
from India should be routed through servers in India," it said, adding
that the Department of Information Technology would take up the matter
with the content providers.
The need for this was felt after security agencies failed to access
accounts of suspected terrorists of Indian Mujahideen during the
surveillance period as the same had been opened in a European country.
When the content provider was approached, the sleuths were told that
in order to see the mails, which had been accessed from India, a
request to a European nation where the server was based, was required,
official sources said.
read more at Read more at:
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/yahoo-gmail-asked-to-route-all-mails-through-servers-in-india-178397
"Yes, he had been called for investigations into the matter. Further
investigations are on," Amravati's Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar
told IANS after the questioning got over.
Shekhawat represents Amravati in the assembly. Besides him, his lawyer
Ganesh Patil and Amravati district Congress chief Vasantrao C. were
also present during the interrogation, Kumar said.
read more @ http://www.pravasitoday.com/presidents-son-questioned-in-rs-1-crore-cash-seizure-case
Talking to IANS on the sidelines of a press meet, Australian High Commissioner Peter Varghese said around 30 percent increase has been noticed in number of applications for Australian universities so far.
"There has been a significant increase in number of applications received and the number of students applying for universities in Australia. The increase is almost 30 percent compared to last year," Varghese said.
A major decline was noted in the number of Indian students going to Australia in 2010-11.
"Compared to the peak years of 2008 and 2009, there was nearly 40 percent drop," Varghese said.
read more at http://www.pravasitoday.com/australia-sees-rise-in-indian-students-applications
Christian Wilhelm Walter Wulff was the President of Germany and is a politician of the Christian Democratic Union. He was elected President on 30 June 2010 and entered office on 2 July. A lawyer by profession, he served as Prime Minister of the state of Lower Saxony from 2003 to 2010.
On 17 February 2012, during an address to his nation, Wulff resigned as Federal President of Germany due to pressure following allegations of the president taking personal loans before his term of presidency. Details have not yet been provided to explain the clear appropriation of funds.
Wulff was born in Osnabrück and is Roman Catholic. He was the first Roman Catholic to hold the post of President of Germany in more than 40 years. His father left the family, and he grew up with his mother. As a teenager, he took responsibility for the care of his younger sister, after his mother developed multiple sclerosis. After completing his Abitur at the Ernst Moritz Arndt Gymnasium in Osnabrück, Wulff studied law with a specialisation in economics at the University of Osnabrück. He joined the Christian Democratic Union of Germany in 1975. In 1987 and 1990, he passed the first and second state examinations in law, and has since worked as an attorney.
read more http://www.pravasitoday.com/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-german-president-christian-wulff
Sahara, sponsors for last 11 years, had decided to sever all its ties with the BCCI earlier this month citing denial of "natural justice". The last straw that split the relationship was BCCI's refusal to allow ailing cricketer Yuvraj Singh's price to be added to Pune Warriors' auction purse after the southpaw was ruled out of the tournament with a lung tumour.
After 12 days of intense negotiations, the two parties issued a joint statement here signed by BCCI president N. Srinivasan and Sahara India managing director Subrata Roy.
"Sahara confirms that it will continue sponsorship of the Indian team. Sahara may want to exercise its right to assign the sponsorship as per the agreement," the statement said.
The BCCI agreed to extend the trading window, which was due to close Friday, until Feb 29 to give Pune Warriors India the opportunity to have successful negotiations with other franchisees as it looks to strengthen its squad.
source:http://www.pravasitoday.com/standoff-ends-sahara-india-back-as-team-india-sponsor
Bayer Leverkusen director of sport Rudi Voeller says he is going to make two of his players sell off the Lionel Messi shirts that they obtained during the German side's 3-1 Champions League defeat to Barcelona.
Ravi Teja's upcoming movie Nippu is slated for a release on February 17th and now his new movie Daruvu planning to release on March 15, with in a period of one month. Daruvu is written and directed by Shiva, is currently being shot at Bangkok. Film unit planning to complete the entire shooting portion in couple of weeks and makers planning to release the movie on March 15th.
The 23-year-old's song "Rolling in the deep" and album "21″ helped her win big at the Grammy awards this year, telecast worldwide Sunday.
The track "Rolling in the deep" won her trophies for the record of the year, song of the year and short form music video. The album "21″ brought her honours in categories, including album of the year and best pop vocal album; she also won the best pop solo performance for her song "Someone Like You" from the same album.
read more at http://www.pravasitoday.com/adele-wins-top-honours-at-54th-grammy-awards-list-of-winners
India's ODI match against Sri Lanka ended in a unique draw on Tuesday. This is the first time in a tied ODI match that both teams have scored same number of runs, lost same number of wickets and faced same number of overs. A look at some other statistics from the match.
When Lasith Malinga bowled the 30th over of the day, not many realised he had bowled just five balls to Gautam Gambhir and MS Dhoni. The match went on to end in a draw and only then was the worth of that 'un-bowled' delivery was felt most.
In a much needed boost to India's bid to host the 2017 Under-17 World Cup Football, FIFA President Sepp Blatter will visit the country early next month to have a first-hand account of the developmental work here.
The short answer is "nothing". The retail FOREX market is purely a
speculative market. No physical exchange of currencies ever takes
place. All trades exist simply as computer entries and are netted out
depending on market price. For dollar-denominated accounts, all
profits or losses are calculated in dollars and recorded as such on
the trader's account.
The prime reason behind existence of FOREX market is to facilitate the
exchange of one currency into another for multinational corporations
that trade currencies continually (for example, for payroll, payment
for costs of goods and services from foreign vendors, and merger and
acquisition activity). However, these days corporate comprise only
about 20% of the market volume. Fully 80% of trades in the currency
market are speculative in nature, put on by large financial
institutions, multibillion dollar hedge funds and even individuals who
want to express their opinions on the economic and geopolitical events
of the day.
Because currencies always trade in pairs, when a trader makes a trade
he or she is always long (buy) one currency and short (sell) the
other. For example, if a trader sells one standard lot (equivalent to
100,000 units) of EUR/USD, she would, in essence, have exchanged euros
for dollars and would now be "short" euros and "long" dollars. To
better understand this dynamic, let's use a concrete example. If you
went into an electronics store and purchased a computer for $1,000,
what would you be doing? You would be exchanging your dollars for a
computer. You would basically be "short" $1,000 and "long" one
computer. The store would be "long" $1,000 but now "short" one
computer in its inventory. The exact same principle applies to the FX
market, except that no physical exchange takes place. While all
transactions are simply computer entries, the consequences are no less
real.
read more at http://www.pravasitoday.com/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-international-currency-market
National Law University, Delhi
(A University of Law Estd in 2008 by Act No-1 of 2008 of NCT of Delhi)
Admission Notice 2012-13
B.A. LL.B (Hons), LL.M, Ph.D Programmes
The National Law University invites applications for B.A. LL.B (Hons),
LL.M and Ph.D Programmes for the academic year 2012-13 commencing from
August, 2012.
B.A. LL.B (Hons) (5 years)
Eligibility: Senior Secondary School examination (10+2 system) or
equivalent examination with 50% of marks
The candidates appearing in the 12th standard examination in
March/April, 2012 can also apply
Age: Below 21 years as on 1st July, 2012 (23 years in case of SC/ST candidates)
Total seats: 80 (70 seats on merit through All India Law Entrance Test
(AILET) and 10 seats for direct admission to Foreign Nationals on
merit)
Foreign Nationals to be eligible should have 65% marks in the
qualifying examination
Reservation: 15% for SC, 7.5% for ST and 3% for Persons with Disabilities
For further details relating to application form, eligibility
criteria, pattern of entrance test etc visit university website
Applications complete in all respects must be sent in person or by
post, to the Registrar, National Law University, Delhi, Sector-14,
Dwarka, New Delhi-110078 on or before 09th April, 2012
Applications received after the last date shall not be entertained
The university will not be responsible for any postal/courier delay
Last date for receipt of applications: 09th April, 2012
AILET date: 06th May, 2012, Sunday
http://www.currentnewsindia.com/77619/britains-oldest-married-couple-to-give-advice-on-twitter/