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Bollywood’s evergreen romantic star Dev Anand passes away
Dharam Dev Anand better known as Dev Anand, Dev saab was reportedly in London for a medical check up at the time of his death. He died Sunday after suffering a massive cardiac arrest. As soon as the news spread, a grief-stricken Bollywood offered condolences and recalled his significant contribution to cinema. He is Bollywood’s evergreen romantic star and fashion icon. Dev Anand’s films are well known for their hit songs.
Dev Anand had a supreme self-confidence and energy that drove his many acting, producing and directing projects, believing he had a unique creativity and vision to share. Stars from Amitabh Bachchan and Anupam Kher to Shabana Azmi and Shah Rukh Khan mourned Anand’s passing on the micro-blogging site Twitter. Condolences poured in from all corners of the Indian film industry, with most of them remembering his positive attitude towards life.
He died at around 10:00 PM (GMT) on 3 December 2011 in London (3:30 AM IST on 4 December 2011 in India). According News source, When Anand’s son Sunil came out of the bathroom Dev saab was not responding. He called the doctor, who said that he had a heart attack.
In the sixties, Dev Anand acquired a romantic image with films like Manzil and Tere Ghar Ke Samne, ‘Guide’, ‘Jewel Thief’ and more… He was 88 when died Sunday after suffering a massive cardiac arrest.
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Why do readers share honest blogs more?
This articles was inspired from economic times featured article on Employee blogs. Their article was discussing about employees blogs and need for encouraging employees to blog. I too agree with thier article that an employee writing blog should be honest blog and not a blog post to increase company PR. Readers subscribe and more likely to return to blogs to reader his or her other posts.
If an employee discuss negative posts, the reader attaches greater credibility. Employee blogs would be shared for following reasons.
First, Employee blogs that contain honest criticism about the company are perceived to be more credible with readers. Readers feel goodwill towards such bloggers and reciprocate by sharing their blog with others, thereby improving the blogger’s stature.
Second,readers take pride in sharing their “discovery” with others, thereby improving their own stature.
Third, honest blog postings are considered interesting because they are unexpected, and consequently get more publicity in the traditional media as well as from other bloggers.
Company benefits tremendously from having an army of employees who are credible bloggers.When there are new developments that the company wants to share with its stakeholders (such as a new product launch, a recruitment effort, or a new corporate initiative), it is much easier to get the word out through employee blogs.
Ensure Employees maintain professional standards and not reveals confidential information such as financial performance or information about new product launches etc.
CommonFloor.com Best Website of the Year India 2011-Housing & Interior
CommonFloor.com India’s Largest Home portal chosen as 2011 Best Website Housing & Interior. Over 22 categories 264 websites were nominated for Website of the Year India award. CommonFloor.com was nominated for Housing & Interior categories. In each category there are two prizes ‘Best Website’ the website with the highest average score on content, navigation, design and recommendation likelihood and ‘Most Popular Website’ the website with the highest number of votes.
Website of the Year India award is the online people’s choice award where more than 15.000 votes were cast between the 14th of October and the 21st of November 2011. Initiative by online research agency MetrixLab. India’s most important people’s choice award for websites – are revealed on www.websiteoftheyear.co.in.
CommonFloor.com bags Best Website of the year 2011 in Housing & Interior category with highest average score on content, navigation, design and recommendation likelihood.
Winners of the 2011 Website of the Year India Award
Categories |
Most Popular Website |
Best Website |
| Automotive | Car Dekho | The Automotive India |
| Career | Naukri.com | TimesJobs.com |
| Communities | WAYN.COM | |
| Dating | Shaadi.com | IndianDating.com |
| Educational | IGNOU | W3Schools |
| Entertainment | YouTube | YouTube |
| Finance | State Bank of India | moneycontrol.com |
| Games | ibibo | Free Online Games |
| Health & Well being | Yahoo! Health | Health.com |
| Charities | UNICEF | Save the Children |
| Housing & Interior | MagicBricks.com | CommonFloor.com |
| News & Information | Yahoo! News | The Hindu |
| Government | Indian Railway | Indian Railway |
| Leisure & Travel | TravelTriangle | TravelTriangle |
| Shopping | eBay | Flipkart.com |
| Sports | ESPN Cricinfo | ESPN Cricinfo |
| Telecom | airtel | Skype |
| TV & Radio | NDTV | BBC World |
| Comparison | naaptol | naaptol |
| Weather & Traffic | Google Maps | Google Maps |
| Search & Find | ||
| Mobile Websites | Facebook Mobile | Samsung India Mobile |
Facebook vs Google Plus Will Benefit You In The End
Google Plus has finally made their social network available to everyone. The competition or their battle can benefit you as a user in the end. Facebook, and at some point Google+, is becoming a social aggregator that takes everything you do and puts it all into one place. It is the ultimate sharing tool. You now can see what your friends are listening to/watching/doing and choose to listen to/watch/participate in real time with the click of your mouse. The Facebook user experience is getting prettier, more intuitive, and more fun.
Facebook pages to Like
I Love My Home
http://on.fb.me/iLoveMyHome
CommonFloor
http://on.fb.me/Common-Floor
Green Living
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Green-Living/203051858707
Google+ pages to add to your circles
I Love My Home
https://plus.google.com/101921673317953375497/posts
Green Living
https://plus.google.com/101612408722630191844/posts
CommonFloor
https://plus.google.com/116567747404167220646/posts
How safe are Indian kids online?
A sample survey “How safe are Indian kids online?”, commissioned by global security tech firm McAfee. Mumbai had the highest cyber bullying levels, with one third of the children reporting that they were subject to either cyber hacking, fraud or identity theft. The study, conducted among 500 children in the 9 to 17 age group across 10 cities, including Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai.
The finding showed that 58 per cent of the children, half of them between 4-8 years, admitted to sharing their home address and 40 per cent of them shared their photographs and 12 per cent even shared their parents’ credit card details on the Internet. While an average of 91 per cent surveyed kids across cities use the PC, there is increasing adoption of devices like laptops (26 per cent) and mobile phones (31 per cent).While the survey shows 32 per cent children were not aware of any online threats, 12 per cent children admitted to have been victims of some of the other form of cyber attacks.
Mumbai city also recorded the highest percentage of children watching adult content (40%). With their favourite movies and music, children are increasingly exchanging information indiscriminately in the virtual world exposing themseves to cyber exploits, survey reveals.
Filtering content like porn, gambling and violence is responsible of parenting. But 38% of the parents indicated that they were not aware of their children’s online activities.
Do not let your adolescent surf the internet on his own, keep a watchful eye on them while they are online. Teach them about the threats and dangers of befriending the wrong kind of people online. Inform them about cyber bullying, internet scams and other such dangers.
Educating them about keeping their pictures, credit card number and bank account info safe is vital. Inform them that people online cannot be trusted and can use this information against them.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/how-safe-are-indian-children-online/828695/0
Sigh of relief for Patna Apartment Owners
The district administration timely action brings sigh of relief for over 150 residents who were entrapped due to sealing of apartment. The Patna district administration with a posse of armed police forces asked residents to leave the apartment in no time as they had to implement the court order to seal the apartment building.
Keshavkunj-Aparajita apartment building located behind the LIC divisional office at the Fraser Road was sealed by the Patna administration on the directive of the Patna High Court.
Several families, including two heart patients and a pregnant woman, remained uncomfortable the whole night. Public outcry was being witnessed at the spot but administration was keeping silent. The Patna High court was closed for Durga Puja and administration was seen hesitant to break open the seal of apartment building for rescuing other residents. Residents were entrapped in the sealed apartment, alleged that no prior notice was given to them about the court directive.
Kotwali police station house officer inchage Aman Kumar told Magnificent Bihar that there was dispute over land of the apartment and court had directed the administration and police to seal the apartment building to stop further construction work – what construction work, the police officer failed to reply and justified the action of police and administration.
Residents heaved a sigh of relief on Sunday (Oct 2) morning after some officials of the Patna district administration reached the apartment’s gate and provided more space to them to move outside the building.
Tenth Anniversary of September 11
It’s the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 hijackers took control of four commercial airliners en route to San Francisco and Los Angeles after takeoff from Boston, Newark, and Washington, D.C. Planes with long flights were intentionally selected for hijacking because they would be heavily fueled. At 8:46 a.m., five hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the World Trade Center’s North Tower (1 WTC) and at 9:03 a.m. another five hijackers crashed United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower (2 WTC).
Bin Laden, who orchestrated the attacks, initially denied but later admitted involvement.Al Jazeera broadcast a statement by bin Laden on September 16, 2001, stating “I stress that I have not carried out this act, which appears to have been carried out by individuals with their own motivation.” In November 2001, U.S. forces recovered a videotape from a destroyed house in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. In the tape, bin Laden is seen talking to Khaled al-Harbi and admits foreknowledge of the attacks.The 9/11 attacks had immediate and overwhelming effects upon the American people.
Terrorism is the second major divisive issue and here the US and India were firmly on opposite sides of the table. Although there have been no attacks on the scale of 9/11 in the United States in the 10 years since, the nation has been on heightened alert amid a series of foiled and failed attacks.
US probes 9/11 anniversary terror threat. US media said three individuals were reported to have entered the country in August and were allegedly seeking to carry out an attack using a vehicle laden with an explosive bomb. Although the country has already tightened security ahead of Sunday’s anniversary, Obama had “directed the counterterrorism community to redouble its efforts in response to this credible but unconfirmed information,” a White House official said.
US Navy commandos tracked down and killed Al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden at his hideout in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad in May this year. During the raid, documents and computer files were seized at his compound showing his terror network had pondered strikes to coincide with the anniversary.
Security is the main concern among organizers of the ceremonies remembering those who died and large crowds are expected as the country reflects on a decade of war abroad and fear of further attacks at home.
News Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
http://news.yahoo.com/us-probes-9-11-anniversary-terror-threat-233432727.html
Wish you All A Happy Onam
Wish You all A Happy and Prosperous Onam Festival
on Onam people sings Maveli nadu vanidum kalam….. organize Floral decoration and games, Boat Race
“Maveli nadu vanidum kalam
manusharellarum onnupole
amodathode vassikkum kalam
apathangarkkumottilla thanum
adhikal vyadhikal onnumilla
bala maranangal kelkkanilla
kallavumilla chathiyumilla
ellolamilla poli vachanam
kallapparayum cheru naziyum
kallatharangal mattonumilla “
When Maveli, the legend King, rules the land,
All the people form one casteless race.
And people live joyful and merry;
They are free from all harm.
There is neither theft nor deceit,
And no one is false in speech either.
Measures and weights are right;
No one cheats or wrongs the neighbor.
when Maveli, our King, rules the land,
All the people form one casteless race.
Onam Pookalam
Singing and Dancing
Cultural Program
Onam Feats
