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Naked Joile’s on-screen lesbian romp unveiled

September 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sept 4 (ANI): Angelina Jolie bares all for some girl-on-girl action as her raunchy role in 1998 TV movie “Gia” is revived.

The flick features the Oscar winning hottie in some sizzling and sensual scenes with Lost actress Elizabeth Mitchell.

Jolie, 34, and Liz, 39, played lovers in Gia.

Now, film bosses have come up with an uncut, uncensored version of the film, which is based on a real life story, reports the Sun.

The revived edition is an improved high definition video version.

Angelina plays a tragic supermodel Gia Carangia who got contracted HIV due to the use of an infected injection needle and died at 26 in 1986. (ANI)

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Imran criticizes Britain for its ‘mad’ Afghan policy

July 16, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, July 16 (ANI): Cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan has lambasted Britain for its ‘mad’ Afghan strategies.

Speaking in front of a joint audience of Foreign Press Association and Commonwealth Club members here, Khan said the British’ Afghanistan policy was ‘mad’, ‘given Albert Einstein’s definition of madness as doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results.’

He said the current policy of carrying of carrying out military offensive against Al-Qaeda and other extremist outfits in Afghanistan has failed and proved counterproductive in tackling the terror threat.

Khan said the policy provoked more militancy in response.

He opined that the current conflict would never conclude as was the case with the Russians and Mughals earlier.

“The US and British governments were badly advised, with officials from both countries only meeting people on the ground who told them what they wanted to hear,” Khan said.

The Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf chief said Afghanistan’s issue needed a political solution as it was not an ideological struggle between moderate and extreme form of Islam.

“It is a political struggle needing a political solution as in Northern Ireland,” The Dawn quoted Khan, as saying.

He also urged the PPP-led government in Pakistan to pull out troops from the Afghan border. (ANI)

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Supreme Court issues notice to center to reply on gay sex verdict by July 20

July 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, July 9 (ANI): A two judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising Chief Justice K. G. Balkrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam today issued notice to the Union Government, to explain its stand on a petition challenging the Delhi High Court’s ruling to legalize gay sex among consenting adults.

The apex court was hearing a plea filed by astrologer Suresh Kumar Kaushal against the Delhi High Court’s verdict.

Posting the next hearing to July 20, the bench said they would hear the opinions of all the parties concerned before giving any interim order in this matter.

Notices were also issued to NAZ Foundation, and other respondents who were parties before the Delhi High Court.

Now, the ball is in government’s court as it has to make its stand clear on the matter before the apex court when it take up the matter for hearing on July 20.

Except the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), no political party has made its stand clear on the Delhi High Court’s ruling to quash Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

When the counsel appearing for Kaushal drag the attention of the bench about seven cases of gay marriages reported after Delhi high court’s verdict, the Bench made it clear that they have not changed the definition of marriage.

The Bench said the police had not been registering cases under Section 377 of IPC, and no body has been prosecuted. Thought the clause is in place since 1860 there have been a few cases under the penal provision except those of paedophile cases, the Judges said.

In the petition Kaushal said, homosexual behavior is against the Indian societal norms, if such abnormality is permitted, it will lead society towards a wrong path. (ANI)

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MJ’s memorial service to hit movie theatres in 20 US States

July 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Jul 8 (ANI): Late King of Pop Michael Jackson’s memorial service will be beamed into movie theatres in 20 U.S. states, it has been revealed.

Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. bosses will broadcast the event live to an estimated 17,000 people in theatres equipped with digital projection systems and satellite dishes, reports the Daily Express.

In total, 37 cities will air the footage of the memorial ceremony on the big screen.

The company will be using the same feed sent out from Staples Center in Los Angeles to TV networks, and displaying it in high definition on big screens.

One cinema, which will not be showing the footage, is the Mann Chinese Six Theatre in Los Angeles, which cancelled the show due to security concerns.

The cinema is yards away from the site of Jackson’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (ANI)

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Jodie Marsh unveils her new bodybuilder physique

May 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 28 (ANI): Jodie Marsh has swapped glamour modelling with bodybuilding.

The 30-year-old model, who has 32E surgically-enhanced boobs, has gone from a size 12 to a size 6/8 and credits her training for her new look.

“I started training with a personal trainer called Tim Sharp last December in my local gym,” the Mirror quoted her as saying.

“At first I just wanted to lose weight and tone up – I was soft all over. But within two weeks, I had definition in my stomach. As I saw my body changing, I really liked my muscles and as Tim is a bodybuilder, it just went from there,” she added.

The stunner loves her new body so much that she’s considering going into competition.

“I’ve still got loads [of weight] to go. I might do a bodybuilder competition in August and if so, I’ve got another 7lbs of fat to lose to be pure muscle. It’s something I’m working towards,” she said. (ANI)

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Former Telstra boss terms Australians as racist

May 26, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, May 26 (ANI): Sol Trujillo, former boss of telecommunications company Telstra, has said that being in Australia was like “stepping back in time” as it was a racist country.

According to a report in The Daily Telegraph, after a four-year stint as Telstra CEO which earnt him about 31 million dollars, Trujillo has been quick to pour scorn on the Rudd Government since leaving Australia 10 days ago.

In a BBC interview, he claimed that Rudd was a racist after the Prime Minister greeted news of Trujillos’ departure with the word ‘Adios’.
“I think by definition (it was racism) – there were even columnists who wrote stories that said it was,” Trujillo told the BBC.
Trujillo said many Australians had apologized to him over Rudd’s racist jibe, and that racism was a real problem in Australia.
“It does exist and it’s got to change because the world is full of a lot of people and most economies have to take advantage – including Australia – of a diverse set of people,” he said.
“If there is a belief that only a certain people are acceptable versus others, that is a sad state,” he added.

A spokeswoman for Rudd said that the Prime Minister considered Trujillo’s statements as ridiculous comments, which will disappoint Australians who welcomed him to the country. (ANI)

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Targets to preserve world’s forests will not be met by 2010: Study

May 23, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 23 (ANI): A new analysis has revealed that the attempts to preserve 10 per cent of the world’s forests are falling short, and targets set under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will not be met by 2010.

The study shows that only 7.7 percent of the globe’s 20 major types of forests are currently protected, according to categories established by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), headquartered in Gland, Switzerland.

The study is primarily based on the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization’s definition of a forest-that is, an area of land more than 0.5 hectares in size with more than 10 per cent canopy cover.

“According to our analysis, the CBD targets will not be met,” Nature magazine quoted Neil Burgess, a conservation scientist at the University of Cambridge, UK, and one of the study’s authors, as saying.

In 2004, a total of 191 countries, excluding the United States, agreed to the CBD target of 10 percent.

Burgess said that although 7.7 percent is “reasonably good”, CBD signatories agreed to 10 percent “because it was thought this level of protection was necessary for biodiversity conservation”.

According to him, it is now recognized that protecting forests is also important for efforts to stabilize climate change, “so if we are failing to meet the target it could be even worse for climate stabilization than for biodiversity.”

The study found that 65 percent of the ecoregions have less than 10 percent of their forests protected.

In fact, the highest level of protection-with more than 50 per cent of forest protected-was found in ecoregions in parts of the Amazon, southeast Asia and Alaska.

According to Burgess, it is “good news” that many of the most important areas for biodiversity are being protected at a level above the 10 percent target.

The group used data from an existing map, published in 2000, of global forest cover from the United Nations Environment Programme’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, UK. The researchers updated this map using satellite data collected in 2005.

John Healy, a forest ecologist at the University of Wales, Bangor, said that the study was important because it looked at forest protection in ecoregions and by forest type, rather than just total forest cover.

However, he added: “The reality is we don’t know whether the protection status is being enforced on the ground.” (ANI)

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Pringles’ potato crisps ruling will cost makers £100M as VAT

May 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 21 (ANI): After a long legal row, a UK court has finally settled the argument over what category of snack Pringles fell into, ruling that the popular food items are nothing but potato crisps only.

But the decision passed by the Court of Appeal has actually landed the makers of the popular nibbles with a bill estimated to be around 100million pounds in unpaid VAT.

The legal battle is centred on the definition of potato-based snacks, which under British law are liable for Value Added Tax, unlike most other foods.

A previous tribunal ruled Pringles should be classed as crisps, but a High Court judge overturned that decision by saying that the snacks couldn’t be classified as crisps because they were only 42 per cent potato.

However, three Appeal Court judges have finally upheld the original ruling and gave a blow to makers Procter and Gamble UK, who will also have to fork out an estimated 20million pounds each year in VAT.

The firm had argued that the low potato content in Pringles, and general lack of “potatoness”, meant they should be exempt from VAT.

But Lord Justice Jacob described the test of potatoness as “elusive”, and said that the issue begged “an Aristotelian question: does the product have an essence of potato?”

“Moreover, I have no real idea what the suggested test means. It cannot be taste, partly because potato chips have lost all, or nearly all, of the natural taste of potato, even when some overpowering flavour such as cheese and onion has not been imposed,” the Daily Express quoted him as saying.

He also added that the essence of potatoness was “not capable of elaboration or complex analysis”.
Lord Justice Mummery said that a sensible interpretation of the words used in the VAT rules led to the conclusion they were made from potato.

The judges refused to pass on an appeal by Proctor and Gamble to the House of Lords.

And the firm may now directly approach the House of Lords to seek permission to appeal. (ANI)

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Kids spending hours on Internet rather than outdoor games ‘ill-prepared for adult life’

May 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 14 (ANI): British educationists are worried that children these days are not growing properly because they spend hours on the Internet rather than playing traditional outdoor games, which, by teaching basic skills, prepare one for adult life.

John Gibson, the Chairman of the Independent Schools Association, while speaking at the institution’s annual conference in Manchester, said that many children brought up in the 50s and 60s were given more freedom to play outside.

“I believe much of what we did then was part of a primitive preparation for adult life,” the Telegraph quoted him as saying.

“Through games such as conkers, den-building or even putting the chain back on an oily bike, we practised the skills we would later find useful, and we learned to face success and disappointment in equal measure. When your life is lived through images constructed by a technical genius from Silicon Valley played on a high definition screen, I just feel it will be more difficult to experience those important rehearsals for adult life,” he added.

Gibson, who also happens to be the head of fee-paying Stoke College, Suffolk, said that home had become a “prison” to many young people.

“Now, many of today’s parents live in a shadow of fear, afraid to let their children out of their sight for too long least something terrible should befall them. When William Wordsworth wrote 150 years ago that ‘shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy’ I believed he was talking mainly about school,” he said.

“But today’s prison-house is just as likely to be the home, a seductive, comfortable prison for boys and girls whose nimble fingers are adept at working their mobiles and computer games, but have never used them to play conkers,” he added.

Gibson suggested that schools “help children be well prepared for life.”

He said that schools had to abide by health and safety regulations, but insisted rules should not “cause our schools to wilt into a boring and ultimately futile educational wilderness that neither challenges or interests our children and is unable to prepare them fully for the world they will grow old in.” (ANI)

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Gustave Flaubert’s ‘Madame Bovary’ makes online debut

May 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London Apr 28 (ANI): The final manuscript and multiple rough drafts of Madame Bovary, one of French author Gustave Flaubert’s influential novels, has been made available for general public on the Internet.

Published in 1857, Madame Bovary is a story of a doctor’s wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape a mediocre husband and the dross of provincial life.

The international team including 130 volunteers from 12 countries including high school students contributed and all their work was proof read.

Madame Bovary also got embroiled in a controversy before becoming a bestseller.

In 1914, Flaubert’s niece donated the manuscript and myriad notes to the library of Rouen, in Normandy where the novel was set.

In all, some 4546 pages were scanned in high definition and painstakingly transcribed by the team.

“Nobody in a single life could have completed such a task,” the Telegraph quoted Yvan Leclerc, professor of modern languages at Rouen University, which co-ran the project with the town’s library as saying. (ANI)

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Now, an optical disc that can store 500GB of data

May 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, April 28 (ANI): The General Electric (GE) company has unveiled a disc that can store 500 gigabytes (GB) of data, equivalent to 100 DVDs.

According to a report by BBC News, the micro-holographic disc, which is the same size as existing DVD discs, is aimed at the archive industry.

But, GE believes it can eventually be used in the consumer market place and home players.

Blu-ray discs, which are used to store high definition movies and games, can currently hold between 25GB and 50GB.

Micro-holographic discs can store more data than DVDs or Blu-ray because they store information on the disc in three dimensions, rather than just pits on the surface of the disc.

The challenge for this area of technology has been to increase the reflectivity of the holograms that are stored on the discs so that players can be used to both read and write to the discs.

Brian Lawrence, who leads GE’s Holographic Storage said on the GE Research blog: “Very recently, the team at GE has made dramatic improvements in the materials enabling significant increases in the amount of light that can be reflected by the holograms.”

The higher reflectivity that can be achieved, the more capacity for the disc.

While the technology is still in the laboratory stage, GE believes it will take off because players can be built which are backwards compatible with existing DVD and Blu-ray technologies.

In a statement, the firm said, “The hardware and formats are so similar to current optical storage technology that the micro-holographic players will enable consumers to play back their CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs.”

“GE’s breakthrough is a huge step toward bringing our next generation holographic storage technology to the everyday consumer,” said Lawrence in a statement.

“The day when you can store your entire high definition movie collection on one disc and support high resolution formats like 3D television is closer than you think,” he added.

“This is truly a breakthrough in the development of the materials that are so critical to ultimately bringing holographic storage to the everyday consumer,” said Lawrence. (ANI)

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Samsung Introduces New “Rugged” High-capacity 500-Gigabyte 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive for Mobile Computing

April 24, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

SEOUL, South Korea–(Business Wire)–
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in digital consumer electronics
and information technology, today introduced their new 500-Gigabyte (GB)
2.5-inch hard disk drive with a shock operation tolerance of 400G/2ms. The
Spinpoint M7 500GB 2.5-inch hard drive with 250GB per platter features a rugged
base and cover design, offering better data protection for road warriors and
other mobile laptop users.

“Our customers have been requesting hard drives with higher density, lower power
and greater reliability for their mobile applications,” said C.H. Lee, vice
president, Storage sales and marketing, Samsung Electronics. “The Spinpoint M7
answers these needs with a high-speed operating shock specification and
extraordinary drive capacity for storing large data files, music, photos and
videos.”

The Spinpoint M7 is available in 250-, 320-, 400-, 500-GB capacities. A new
controller has been adopted to reduce power consumption in seek mode to up to 25
percent over conventional 2.5″ drives. In particular, internal test results on
PC Mark show an 18 percent improvement in overall performance over 2.5″ hard
drives.

“Samsung`s M7 will appeal to notebook PC customers who want to have a hard drive
operating shock tolerance for mobile applications in tough environments,”
commented John Chen, senior director, TRENDFOCUS.

The Spinpoint M7 utilizes Samsung`s proprietary SilentSeek and NoiseGuard
technologies to minimize the noise-level of the mechanical drive operation. The
halogen-free drive complies with the European Union`s Restriction of the Use of
Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (RoHS)
regulations.

The Spinpoint M7 500GB hard drive is lightweight and durable, featuring a
5400rpm spindle speed, 8MB cache, native command queuing and a 3.0Gbps SATA
interface. The perpendicular magnetic recording technology enables the 500GB
drive to store 160,000 digital images, 125 hours of DVD movies, or 60 hours of
high definition video images.

Qualification samples of the Spinpoint M7 are currently shipping to major OEMs.
Global shipments in the United States and Europe began in April with shipments
to other regions to follow accordingly.

About Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor,
telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2008
consolidated sales of US$96 billion. Employing approximately 150,000 people in
134 offices in 62 countries, the company consists of two business units: Digital
Media and Communications and Device Solutions. Recognized as one of the fastest
growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs,
memory chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visit
www.samsung.com.

Samsung Semiconductor Inc.
Chris Goodhart, 408-544-4122
cgoodhart@ssi.samsung.com

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Rice returns to harsh spotlight over approving CIA torture techniques

April 23, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Apr.23 (ANI): Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been out of the spotlight, earning up to 150,000 dollars for speaking engagements and lunching with celebrities like American Idol judge Randy Jackson.

But the political spotlight is turning toward her again through a 232-page report released this week by the Senate Armed Services Committee that says Rice and several other Bush administration officials approved the use of water boarding and other interrogation techniques.

According to CBS News, Rice as Bush’s National Security Adviser, gave her approval to CIA Director George Tenet to proceed with interrogation methods, including water boarding and stress positions, used by the CIA on detainees.

Speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee last year, Rice said she didn’t recall details regarding White House meetings about CIA interrogation techniques.

The Washington Post noted that in 2005 Rice said, “The United States government does not authorize or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under U.S. law, wherever they may occur in the world.”

The controversy rests on the definition of torture. Memos released this week show that government lawyers struggled with the definition, but at this point most people in Washington and around the world would categorize water boarding as a classical form of torture-simulated drowning.

President Obama has left the door open to prosecution of those involved in approving water boarding. (ANI)

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BJP, Shiv Sena remember Lord Rama only during polls: Sonia Gandhi

April 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Marathwada (Maharashtra), Apr 20 (ANI): Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena of taking the country backward and said these parties remember Lord Rama only during elections.

“It is unfortunate that those invoking the name of secular and democratic ruler like Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj are those who divide people on the basis of region and religion. These people remember Lord Rama only during elections,” Gandhi said while addressing an election rally in Jalana in Marathwada region on Monday.

Gandhi also accused the BJP and the Shiv Sena of being ‘communal and parochial’.

“The new generation is fed up of politics of regionalism, casteism and also criminalisation of politics,” she added.

Gandhi termed the Indo-US nuclear deal as an achievement of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA).

“The deal was done on our terms but due to opposition, the country’s image tarnished globally,” she added.

Gandhi also criticized the BJP and the Shiv Sena for opposing initiatives of the UPA Government on economic liberlisation.

“These people were opposing us and ridiculing us when we were initiating steps like 33 per cent reservation of women, computerisation and IT revolution,” Gandhi charged.

Gandhi also recalled the Congress-led UPA Government’s achievement during its five-year tenure at the Centre.

“The waiver of Rs. 65,000 crore loan of farmers and providing pension and insurance in unorganised labour sector were the important decisions,” she added.

Meanwhile, addressing a rally in Dondaeecha town of Dhule District, Gandhi slammed BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Lal Krishna Advani for releasing the terrorists during the Kandahar plane hijack episode.

“Perhaps their definition of a strong leader is one who was deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister when there were a series of terror attacks including one on Parliament. Arrested terrorists were released and taken to Kandahar as if they were guests,” Gandhi said. (ANI)

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40 percent of fish caught across the globe are wasted or from at-risk species

April 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Edinburgh, April 15 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have determined that 40 percent of fish caught across the world is discarded or comes from unsustainable sources.

According to the research paper, co-authored by conservation charity WWF more than 38 million tonnes of fish caught globally can be defined as by-catch.

The researchers came up with a new definition of by-catch, to include fish from unmanaged stocks, as well as those that end up being unused.

It puts levels of by-catch up to five times higher than previous estimates, which have ranged from seven to 27 million tonnes annually.

The report estimated by-catch levels in the north-east Atlantic were as high as 20 per cent due to “extremely high discard rates”.

The report, ‘Defining and Estimating Global Marine Fisheries By-catch’, said, “Many north-east Atlantic fisheries have extremely high discard rates, particularly from the bottom-trawling fleet, which generates far more by-catch than marketable fish.”

WWF Scotland suggested this was due to factors such as use of non-selective fishing gear, market demands and quota limitations.

“The health of our oceans cannot be restored or fisheries sustainably managed if 40 per cent of the global catch is unused or unmanaged,” Amanda Nickson, leader of WWF’s By-catch Initiative and co-author of the paper, told The Scotsman.

“A huge quantity of fish and marine animals are thrown back into the sea dead or dying. Even if this by-catch is retained, there is no way of telling whether it was sustainable to remove it from the sea in the first place,” she added. (ANI)

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Cosmos served hot in a coffee cup!

April 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, April 15 (ANI): A Duke University professor and his graduate student have discovered a universal principle that unites the curious interplay of light and shadow on the surface of your morning coffee with the way gravity magnifies and distorts light from distant galaxies.

According to the researchers, scientists will be able to use violations of this principle to map unseen clumps of dark matter in the universe.

Light rays naturally reflect off a curve like the inside surface of a coffee cup in a curving, ivy leaf pattern that comes to a point in the center and is brightest along its edge.

Mathematicians and physicists call that shape a “cusp curve,” and they call the bright edge a “caustic,” based on an alternative dictionary definition meaning “burning bright,” explained Arlie Petters, a Duke professor of mathematics, physics and business administration.

“It happens because a lot of light rays can pile up along curves,” he added.

Caustics show up in gravitational lensing, a phenomenon caused by galaxies so massive that their gravity bends and distorts light from more distant galaxies.

“It turns out that their gravity is so powerful that some light rays are also going to pile up along curves,” said Petters, a gravitational lensing expert.

“Mother Nature has to be creating these things. It’s amazing how what we can see in a coffee cup extends into a mathematical theorem with effects in the cosmos,” he added.

From the vantage point of Earth, the entire cosmos looks like a vast interplay of gravity and light that can extend far back into spacetime.

“As with any illumination pattern, some areas will be brighter than others. And the brightest parts will be along these caustic curves,” Petters said.

Petters and graduate student Amir Aazami extended the mathematics of relatively simple examples to include what Petters called “higher order caustics.”

In such situations, the interplay of light and gravity may extend further into spacetime and undergo various forms of “caustic metamorphosis” in the process.

Aazami was informally testing out a special case of their evolving caustics theorem called an “ellyptic umbilic” by using a technical computing software program when he noticed a pattern.

Petters realized Aazami had found a universal mathematical principle so pervasive that it can impose balance on the most complicated gravitational lensing illusions.

For one of the higher order caustics, if there are two pairs of lensed images that are close to each other but not equally bright, then the theorem is violated.

“The reason would be some substructure in the galaxy,” Petters said, likely dark matter near one of the images that causes it to be demagnified. (ANI)

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Microsoft rolls out India-specific gaming console – Xbox 360 Arcade

April 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Rolling out its new entry-level gaming console Xbox 360 Arcade in India, Microsoft intends substituting it with the Xbox 360 Core model. The new console offers five interesting Zbox LIVE Arcade games – Uno, Luxor 2, Boom Boom Rocket, Feeding Frenzy, and Pac-man Championship Edition.

According to a statement released by the company, the new console will change the entire gaming spectrum, with its HDMI output to enable users experience the games in the highest-possible definition – up to 1080p, with the HDMI cable and network cable to be sold separately. The console also comes packed with a wireless controller.

Microsofts Xbox 360 Arcade is apparently an endeavor to bring forth a reasonably-priced version of the popular console for India. An upgraded model of the Xbox 360 version, the new console – which is largely designed for first-time users of gaming consoles – comes fitted with IBM PowerPC 3 core 3.2GHz processor and 512MB GDDR3 video memory.

The newly-launched India-specific Xbox console also comes with a number of entertainment features, including viewing photos, movies and music – it augments photos, video, music and TV; facilitating sharing of digital pictures and streaming of digital media. Furthermore, it provides its users with other online console gaming pitch such as downloadable high-definition and standard-definition content!

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Foreign Minister: Bangladesh is secular – not Muslim – country

April 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Dhaka – Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister Dipu Moni on Saturday described her country as secular with a majority Muslim population, and not a moderate Muslim state as portrayed by the international community. “Bangladesh is a non-communal country where the majority of the people belongs to the Muslim faith. We achieved our independence through an armed struggle with a dream of establishing a secular nation,” the minister told reporters after delivering a lecture in Dhaka on Bangladesh’s foreign policy.

She said the ruling Awami League party, which led the nation in 1971 liberation war against Pakistan, never believed in the idea of moderate democratic Muslim country, which most Western diplomats consider Bangladesh.

Many countries have been given different labels but it is not necessary to take someone else’s definition when it contradicts one’s own fundamental values, she said.

After independence from Pakistan, Bangladesh drew up a constitution with secularism as a basic principle in 1972, but subsequent military dictators replaced secularism in the constitution with Islam as state religion in mid-1980s.

The provision of Islam as a state religion is theoretically still in force and there has been no move by the ruling Awami League- alliance government to return to the original constitution. (dpa)

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Microsoft launches Xbox 360 Arcade in India

April 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Good news for the gamers in India! The maker of Xbox gaming console, Microsoft has released its Xbox 360 Arcade in India. The entry-level console – Xbox 360 Arcade has been launched to replace the Xbox 360 Core model in India.

The Xbox 360 Arcade offers everything for gamers’ contentment. It comes with a pack of five classic arcade games, including Uno, Luxor 2, Boom Boom Rocket, Pac-man Championship Edition, and Feeding Frenzy.

The Xbox 360 Arcade offers a wireless controller, 256MB of memory, 512MB GDDR3 video memory, but headset, HDMI cable, and network cable can be purchased separately. It has an HDMI output that lets gamers experience their games in the highest definition possible, up to 1080p. The console features the IBM PowerPC 3 core 3.2GHz processor.

What is more, the gamers can use the Xbox 360 Arcade to enjoy other entertainment activities including viewing photos, movies, and music. The Xbox 360 Arcade can also be connected to Xbox LIVE, an online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service, which allows gamers to download high-definition and standard-definition content, including video games. The Xbox LIVE also allows the gamers to play games with anyone, anytime, anywhere.

The Xbox 360 Arcade console is specifically designed for the new-bie gamers. The Xbox 360 Arcade is slenderised edition of Xbox 360. The company is marketing the Xbox 360 Arcade as a family console. The console offers the option of “Family Settings,” which allows parents to block the access of games for younger players. The Xbox 360 Arcade, which is priced at around $195 in the United States and around £110 in the United Kingdom, is available for Rs 16990 in India.

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Kandahar, Dec 13 show who’s weak’

April 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

SONIA GANDHI hit back at the BJP for calling Manmohan Singh a “weak Prime Minister”, saying they had insulted the nation. The Congress president, in her first response to the BJP’s repeated attack, lambasted the party and said the Congress judged the strength and weakness of a leader by his work and not merely by words.

“The Prime Minister represents the entire country and not a particular political party. Different parties project their prime ministerial candidates, but after the elections, the PM belongs to all,” she said.

“The BJP has insulted the nation by its repeated derogatory remarks against the Prime Minister out of frustration.” Sonia addressed a series of election rallies across eastern Uttar Pradesh on Sunday.

“Our definition of a strong leader is different. In our view, a strong leader is one who does not talk big, but his work should be big enough to speak for itself,” she said.

Referring to the attack by BJP leaders, led by L.K. Advani and Narendra Modi, she said: “We are aware of the strength of these leaders who have used insulting language against the prime minister. When they were the home minister and deputy PM, our Parliament was attacked and their government escorted the terrorists out of the country like guests.

” Sonia said Singh proved his efficiency by forcing Pakistan to admit its role in the 26/11 attacks, by the successful use of diplomacy. “On the other hand, those talking big now, could not do anything when the Parliament attack took place.

” She introduced a fresh element in her rally where she had a brief interactive session with the crowd. Sonia asked the questions – which party has fought poverty? Who has maintained communal harmony in the country? – and the crowd replied in a chorus.

Though she launched a strong attack on the BJP, Sonia did not name the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party in her speech. The Congress president’s move to spare the two is being viewed as a tactical ploy to keep post-poll options open.

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