Thursday, September 30, 2010

Ayodhya dispute: Land to be divided into three parts

The Allahabad HC today in the Ayodhya land title case has ordered that the disputed holy site in Ayodhya be divided into three parts:
The bench decided to divide the disputed 2.7 acres of land into three parts, with each of the three parties to the suit getting a part of it.
Hindus, the Sunni Waqf Board and the Nirmohi Akhara, will each get one part of the disputed land.
(1) Ram Lala, the birthplace of Lord Ram, given to Lord Ram
(2) Sita Rasoi and Ram Chabootra to Nirmohi Akhara and
(3) The remaining part to be given to the Sunni Waqf Board.
Meanwhile, there will be a status quo in Ayodhya for three months during which a petition can be filed.

Google has emerged as the world's most attractive employer

Google has emerged as the world's most attractive employer, but four global auditing giants are posing a challenge to the technology giant, says a survey by employer branding company Universum.

According to Universum's -- The world's most attractive employers 2010 -- index, Google retains its number one position for the second consecutive year.

"We are witnessing the auditing firms and FMCG companies reconquering their talent group after a brief love affair with the IT industry," Universum chief executive officer Michal Kalinowski said.

The survey took into consideration responses of close to 130,000 career seekers with a business or engineering background. Here is a look at the world's 20 most attractive employers. Read on . . .

1. Google

In the summer of 1995, Larry Page and Sergey Brin met for the first time at Stanford. Larry, 22, a University of Michigan graduate, was considering the school, and Sergey, 21, was assigned to show him around.

According to some accounts, they disagreed on almost everything during this first meeting.

In 1996, Page and Brin, now Stanford computer science grad students, began collaborating on a search engine called BackRub. It operated on Stanford servers for more than a year -- eventually taking up too much bandwidth to suit the university.

Next year, Page and Brin decided that the BackRub search engine needed a new name. After some brainstorming, they went with Google -- a play on the word 'googol,' a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use of the term reflected their mission to organise a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.

In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a check for $100,000 to an entity that dd not exist: a company called Google Inc.

In September, Google set up workspace in a garage at 232 Santa Margarita, Menlo Park.

Google files for incorporation in California on September 4. Shortly thereafter, Page and Brin open a bank account in the newly-established company's name and deposited Andy Bechtolsheim's check.

Craig Silverstein a Stanford graduate was Google's first employee.

In December, PC Magazine recognised Google as the search engine of choice in the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998.

Google is now headquartered at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California.

Brindavanam’ film release postponed to Oct 14th

  Though it was not officially announced or confirmed there is a strong grapevine in the industry as well as among movie buffs is that Jr. NTR’s much anticipated forthcoming flick ‘Brindavanam’ which is scheduled for October 8th release is now likely to be pushed back by a week to October 14th.

As ‘Mahesh Khaleja’ is releasing on a day before on October 7th and was already announced officially,the producer of Brindavanam Dil Raju has wisely decided to release his film a week later so that it will not damage both the movies box office collections.

 But once again, we are reminding you that the official announcement on the film postponement is yet to be made.

On the other hand, NTR fans are keeping pressure on producer Dil Raju to the release the film as per the date announced before on October 8th. As they are taking it as prestige issue, they are taking the issue

Andhra Pradeshengg colleges to be served closure notices

he Council of Higher Education will issue notices to 497 engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh, asking why they should not be shut down for not having proper infrastructure and enough teachers and students.

The move comes after the K Lakshminarayana Committee that was set up to find out if the state's 672 engineering colleges had proper infrastructure and faculty reported that 497 colleges did not.

These colleges mostly employ part-time teachers and do not have the required infrastructure,the committee found. At least 200 of them "do not have enough students to make running of the colleges viable".

Secretary for Higher Education M D Christopher said these colleges will be told "to take immediate steps to recruit faculty or shut down".

"The quality of education in these colleges is really not up to the mark," he said. "The state government has taken a serious view of complaints of Vice Chancellors at the conference where Governor E S L Narasimhan was present."

Queen's Baton to enter Delhi today

Thu, Sep 30

The Queen's Baton Relay will enter New Delhi at 8 am on Thursday, having covered 20,000 km through all 28 Indian states and seven Union Territories. On Wednesday, the Baton reached Gurgaon with Beri MLA Dr Raghubir Singh Kadian handing it over to Deputy Commissioner Rajender Kataria near Farrukhnagar at 1 pm.

The excitement was evident as the Baton entered rural Gurgaon with two Shera look-alikes welcoming it at Sultanpur village. "We had seen Shera on TV," giggled 13-year-old Akaash, one of the village boys.

An hour later, the Baton was at Nehru Stadium in the city, where the DC carried the baton in an special open vehicle along with team leader Lt General Raj Kadian. Haryana Finance Minister Capt Ajay Singh Yadav, MoS Agriculture and Cooperatives Sukhbir Singh Kataria and DGP Ranjeev Dalal were waiting at the stadium to pose next to the Baton. The Deputy Commissioner's children, Aditi and Sauhard, had come in from Chandigarh for the event and posed for pictures holding the Baton as thousands of kids from local schools looked on from a distance. Around 4 pm, the Deputy Commissioner ran with the Baton till the nearby Chintpoorni Temple from where it went to many important spots in the city, covering 21 km in all, before being taken to Dhancheri Tourist Complex located near the Delhi-Gurgaon toll plaza, where it will be kept for the night.

On Thursday, the Baton will be brought to the CWG Organising Committee headquarters at Jantar Mantar, where at an official launch in the afternoon, OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi will hand it over to Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna. The L-G will then pass on the Baton to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.

The OC headquarters will organise cultural programmes between 7 and 8 pm till October 2 to mark the Baton's stay there. On Friday, the baton is likely pass through Vijay Chowk, India Gate, Teen Murti Bhawan, Qutub Minar and Lotus Temple while on Saturday it will be taken to Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib, St Columba's School and CWG Village. The QBR's 1.9 lakh-km journey across 71 countries will culminate on October 3 at the Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium before the opening ceremony.