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America’s capital – Washington DC – will be the first place to allow turbaned Sikhs to join the police department. Washington DC’s police chief on Wednesday gave the green light for turbaned Sikhs to serve as officers, making the capital the first major US city to accommodate the religion’s articles of faith. The police department [...]
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Most people are not satisfied with where they are. They would like to move out of their present countries to “greener pastures”. It seems of all the destinations in the world, US of A is the most desired. 150 million of the world’s adults would like to move to US. Other desired countries are UK [...]
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Sometimes you find that news these days tests one’s sanity. Here are two pieces of news that made me wonder a bit: Lady Gaga gets an Osho tattoo: The pop diva Lady Gaga is now playing around with things profound. So as an extension of that, she thinks Osho tattoo may be a rather cool [...]
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Let me share a realization that most have in the US. No one treats Indians as bad as the Indians themselves. Through our actions, we literally shout to others – “Indians are 3rd rate group of people, please do not waste your time trying to treat them as normal people of this world.” There are [...]
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Unbeknownst to many, there is a virtual war going on. Hackers vs the US Government. Recently, computer hacking group LulzSec has been brought down by the FBI, when they arrested some of the top guys in that group. They did so by introducing a mole named Hector Xavier Monsegur aka Sabu. He collaborated with FBI [...]
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Very few people in the history of technology have impacted the world as profoundly as Steve Jobs had done. Until his death recently, he had reinvented the world of computing many times. From Apple to NeXT to iPod and iPAD and iPhone. It is always interesting to listen to such a genius discuss his beginnings. [...]
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The latest Wikileaks expose of emails by Stratfor’s VP for Intelligence Fred Burton shed interesting light on Osama Bin Laden and also Pakistan’s role in it. For one, it seems that Osama’s body was never consigned to the sea, but brought all the way back to the US. Stratfor’s vice-president for intelligence, Fred Burton, believes [...]
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Was talking to a colleague who just joined the company and had just left Greece. He was telling us about how the Greeks are lining up at the banks to withdraw their money and the cashier ladies were sitting with loads of cash giving out. As he put it “Greek banks are just just buildings [...]
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The US Pacific Commander Admiral Robert Willard spoke in a Congressional hearing on March 1, that India and US teams were working together to get a handle on the Lashkar-e-Taiba for the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Along with that, he also said that US teams were stationed in India and specifically working with Indian forces for maritime area. This [...]
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Interesting finding from a survey conducted by IPSOS and Google about the smartphone usage by customers in US and India. It seems that when it comes to using the Smartphones to access the internet, more in India are using it and more frequently, than those in the US. 94% Indian smartphone users use it to [...]
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