A $35 Computer Tablet? India Is On The Case
July 23, 2010
Can you imagine a tablet computer priced less than the cost of a textbook?
It may soon be a reality. The Indian government unveiled a $35 prototype of a touch-screen tablet for students that could be a game changer in the consumer electronics world. That’s because it would be the world’s cheapest if it goes into production, according to the Guardian.
“I am a little surprised that they hit a price point as low as they did,” says Dmitriy Molchanov, an analyst for the Yankee Group. But he says it’s part of a trend: “Within two years, extremely low-cost tablet devices are going to be the norm.” ...
63 dead, 150 injured as trains collide in West Bengal
July 19, 2010. SAINTHIA (Birbhum): Death came at express speed to the sleepy station of Sainthia early Monday when the Uttar Banga Express roared in at 90kmph and crashed into the rear of the Ranchi-bound Vananchal Express, which was about to pull out of the platform. At least 63 people died and more than 150 were injured but what increased the tragedy’s magnitude manifold was the bizarre sight it threw up—a compartment flung in the air by the impact and landing in a mangled heap on a 25-foot-high road bridge running across the station.
India Adopts a New Symbol for Its Currency
July 15, 2010.
The rupee’s new rune is a modification of a letter in the Devanagari script, which is used to write Hindi, India’s official language. It was designed by D. Udaya Kumar, a student at the Indian Institute of Technology, who studied typography, scripts and ancient printing methods. It looks like a capital letter R, minus its vertical leg, and with two added horizontal lines through the upper, curved portion.”
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Bombay’s amazing culture of outdoor eating
India to patent yoga asanas
June 6, 2010
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has prepared patent formats of nearly 900 yoga asanas (postures), to prevent European and American companies involved in fitness-related activities from claiming them as their own.
These asanas will all be included in the digitalised Traditional Knowledge Library (TKDL), set up by the council to collect and record traditional treatment therapy knowledge. Medicines and yoga asanas registered with it enjoy the status of being patented.
Bihar’s Super 30: 100/100 to IITs
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Mangalore: Air India aircraft overshoots runway, 159 dead
May 21, 2010. MANGALORE: Only seven people have survived after an Air India Express plane from Dubai with 166 persons on board the Boeing aircraft crashed and caught fire after it overshot the runway while trying to land at the Mangalore’s Bajpe airport.
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