Tripura: Tension prevailed along the India-Bangladesh border on the outskirts of Akhwara region, in Tripura, over the construction of a barbed wire fencing by the Border Security Force (BSF).
The villagers are concerned as the newly constructed barbed wire fence will block free access to the graveyard, which would now fall on the other side of the fence.
The Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), the border guard of Bangladesh, has raised objection to the move of BSF saying that the treaty signed between the two nations prohibits construction of the fence within 150 yards from the border pillar on both sides.
A mass protest against the BSF move and people demanded free access to their burial land.The local councilor gave assurances to the villagers that their grievances would be addressed with utmost priority. “It (Graveyard) will not be covered by the fencing. BSF will not erect fencing just in front of the graveyard. They will be able to use the graveyard freely,” said Ratan Das, local councilor.Villegers complained that the BSF constructed the fence at night and did not consult them.
They now allege that their life is under threat as the forces may fire at them.
Amina Khatun, a local protester said, “BDR (Bangladesh Rifles) as well as BSF had taken gun positions against each other. BSF instructed us to move away with our children as there may be firing at any moment. We are not against fencing but we want the access to burial ground.”
A meeting at company commander level on Akhaura border has been organized by BSF and BDR to prevent further deterioration of the situation.
Tension prevails in the area and the villagers on both sides of the border are reported to be moving to safer places.(ANI)
Pros : The Apple iPod Shuffle is very light and very small in size. It has a VoiceOver cues and can efficiently support podcasts and audiobooks. After the invisible MP3 player, the 3rd Generation iPod Shuffle is the next recommendation.
The Third generation ipod Shuffle also has a Flash memory installed in it (4GB), it supports digital audio standards like AIFF, Audible, MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless.
Cons: The microscopic design of 3rd Generation iPod Shuffle is very boring and unconventional, short battery life is a big concern, one has to operate the device using a pill-size remote control on the headset cord. Moreover the unconventional, and kinky controls and very few features bring down this new Shuffle iPod. Like other iPod versions, there is no FM radio or screen, thus it is a complete Digital Audio Player.
Apple’s third generation iPod Shuffle MP3 player, available in the market for $79. The tiny player is embedded with a new feature ‘VoiceOver’ which talks to you in a sweet robotic voice helping you by telling the name of song and its singer and thus reducing the stress of reading the names. It also informs the battery status when required.
One thing which makes it unfortable to use is the new control panel situated at the ear-piece rather on the main body.
Though the miniature iPod Shuffle wont be able to meet everyone’s requirements but will satisfy the people looking for an extremely sleek, light weighed and almost invisible MP3 player.
Design /Structure
You have a first glance on it, and I can bet that you won’t ask, “What it is?” The 3rd Gene iPod Shuffle is too small, even smaller and thinner than a small thumb-drive and thus go unnoticed unless it has an earpiece attached to it. Measuring 0.7 inch by 1.8 inches by 0.3 inch, this tiny and metal enclosed player is no bigger than your thumb nail, having no sign of a button or something.
The thing which is to be hated the most is that, the iPod functions are controlled from a tiny remote situated at the cable, below the right ear plug. The panel has 3 keys, two the handle the volume and the central key for various functions like forwarding ( pressing twice), pausing( pressing once), rewinding (pressing thrice) etc.
With this changed panel the person has to bear the risk of losing the control of the iPod if he loses the cable.
Though the cable can be replaced by a new one from any registered Apple store, for a cost of $28. The metal body enclosing the hardware is said to be eco friendly and highly recycalable.
New Features
The 3rd Generation Shuffle has added few new features to it, one of them is the addition of Voice Over which announces the name of the audiotrack and singer of the selected song. The VoiceOver facility is very useful but can be turned off using Apple’s iTunes software, if someone does not like the robotic voice of VoiceOver.
The next new feature which adores this new 3rd generation iPod Shuffle is its ability to sync and navigate in midst of the multiple playlists, audio podcasts and the audiobooks. This is also done using the VoiceOver feature, press the central key for more than 3secs and the robotic voice will then dictate the name of the various playlists in the iPod, and leave the central key and re-click it if you want to play the selected/announced playlist. Use the volume controllers to skip the playlists, if you have many playlists.
Battery
Shuffle has a 4 inch USB adapter accompanying it. The iPod gives a backup of around 10 hours after getting fully charged ( approx in 2 hrs 45 mins).
Not happy to tell
The 3rd Generation Shuffle has many shortcomings, including the unconventional features and controls, unimpressive design. Even though the voice and structure quality is better than the previous versions (Nano and Classic). The removal of control panel from the main body is a major drawback for the product, the usability of this cable embedded control panel is questioned by many.
The lilliput player with better interaction, light and slim design, and easy navigation was unable to overshadow its shortcomings.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh after taking oath of office and secrecy on Friday said that his government”s focus will be on restoring the economy and ensure inclusive growth. “Our first priority is to restore the economy, especially keeping the global recession (in mind),” the Prime Minister told reporters.
“Industrial production is down. Certain sectors need revival, though the Indian economy is not so badly affected. Corrected measures have to be taken. Growth will be our main focus. And when I mean growth, I mean inclusive growth that will carry everyone along, including the underprivileged in the country,” he said.
The Prime Minister also expressed hopes that Pakistan would cooperate with New Delhi “on all matters.”Earlier, President Pratibha Patil administered oath of office and secrecy to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh along with 19 Cabinet ministers.
The 76-year-old, soft-spoken economist is the first Prime Minister since post-independence after Jawaharlal Nehru to be returned to office after completing a full term.
Senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, A K Antony, P Chidambaram, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, former Chief Ministers S M Krishna, Ghulam Nabi Azad, and Veerappa Moily were inducted in the Cabinet. Kamal Nath, Sushilkumar Shinde, S Jaipal Reddy, Meira Kumar, Vayalar Ravi, Murli Deora, Kapil Sibal, B K Handique, Ambika Soni, Anand Sharma and C P Joshi also took oath as Cabinet Ministers.
Mukherjee is likely to retain finance portfolio, which he got as additional charge towards the end of the tenure of the outgoing government.
The names of Krishna and Kamal Nath are being mentioned for External Affairs Ministry. Chidambaram and Antony are expected to retain home and defence respectively. Today”s swearing-in would be followed by an expansion of the Council of Ministers on May 26. The expansion would include Cabinet Ministers, Ministers of State (MoS) with independent charge as well as other Ministers of State. (ANI)
It was around 2 years ago, that i came across an article stating English as the ‘LinguaFranca‘ of the world. The article was in English and successfully reading and understanding it gave me a feeling of pride. I proudly declared “Huh! mujhebhiatihaiangrizitoh” (i also know the language). Being at the heart of India, we Dilliwallas feel proud to speak English and never give up a change to flaunt it.
But, this ‘Angrezi (English) loving culture‘ of ours is not liked much by the Englishmen. Do they see it as an insult?? But why??
When talking about the pronunciation and, how can we forget the Gujarati ‘Snakes’ (snacks) and ‘takes’ (tax) or the Bengali ‘brij‘ (breeze) and the ‘shit of paper’(sheet of paper) or the Punjabi celebration of ‘birday‘ (birthdays). Almost all Punjabi folks have a good ‘kraktar‘ (character) or must have heard of Rajasthani ‘sakuls‘ (schools) or ‘telefoon‘ (telephone) or the ‘chaak‘ (chalk).
Our Delhi does not belong to any particular caste (atleast now), it represents a miniature of India. You just enter the NCR and you will be no stranger to these words and there literal meaning.
“Ab samajhayaa?? Why Britishers left India? Simple haiyaar…vohapnibhashakiyehdurdashaabrdashtnahikarpayehonge.”
( Do you know why the Britishers left India? They couldn’t witness such a humiliation to their mother tongue.)
But friends, “Ki farakpahendahai?” keep speaking keep flaunting. Yeh ‘Eng-dish’(English) mere yaar.
Are you confused about how to put in more specific keywords in your post in order fetch a higher rank in Google search results ??
No need to worry any further cause the Google has added a new feature called ‘Wonder Wheel’, which can be used as an excellent Keyword Suggestions Tool. Google’s Wonder Wheel is easy to use and effective in giving accurate keyword suggestions.
To use this tool, first go to the Google Search Engine and search for any term, lets take ‘Keywords’, on the result page, click a link- ‘Show Options’ present on the upper left hand side. Now a long list of activities, which can be performed to get the desired search results is listed on the left. Move down the list and click on ‘Wonder Wheel’. This will generate a wheel like structure, with searched term in the centre and keyword suggestions at the ends of the branches.
For instance, you want to have to know the Most Searched Keywords related to the word ‘seo’, then just search the term in Google’s Search Engine and follow the procedure above. You will see a result like the one given below.
Note: This feature too, like many other services of Google is country specific and experimental, therefore this feature is available in Google.com search engine and not in Google.co.in. Thus, search the terms in Google.com only.
The quantity and quality of the backlinks play a key role in fetching a higher Google pagerank and thus a higher authority and a healthy traffic. How to provide backlinks? Which backlinks are good and which are bad? These are frequent questions which pop up in the mind of budding bloggers while trying to promote their blogs.
There are two methods in which budding bloggers can have get good backlinks. These methods are:
Free Methods
Bookmarking Sites
There are numerous bookmarking sites floating online. But, only a handful of them are able to provide good links to the submitted material. To achieve instant response and better backlinks submit each and every article you post, to the social bookmarking sites. Do not get confused with the huge number of bookmarking sites available; just stick to the best bookmarkers like the Digg, StumbleUpon and Technorati. They are enough to serve your purpose.
Commenting On Authority Sites
There are sites which are pretty old and their anti-spamming laws are not so strict and thus, allow the users to submit their links along with their comments. www.onlywire.com are some such sites. only thing you have to do is make two different accounts and start commenting on the various new topics under discussion.
Free Blogs At WordPress Or Blogger
Create a two or three free blogs on some big blogging site like the Wordress.com, Blogs.com or Blogger.com, to name a few. Then quickly generate a good content on these blogs, either by copy-pasting from some other site or just by writing it on your own. Do not get too much into writing original content on these blogs. Just put around 50 to 70 copied but interesting articles on each blog and then leave them as such, for a month or so.
Keep checking their google ranking regularly after they become a couple of months older. After a couple of months when they get a good a Google pagerank, link your independent blog with this Free blog.
You will see that the blogs which are build on these big sites get a good pagerank and come in search results more frequently than your individual blogs. Linking to these blogs will be a great help to your blog.
Yahoo groups
Posting your links at yahoo groups is also seen as a good way getting a boost in traffic and a fair backlink. But, posting comments and links on Yahoo groups is yet not seen as an effective method.
Paid Method
Buying Backlinks
I wont recommend this method to you, but then also many bloggers do this in order to get instant and fruitful results. Become a member of any Webmaster Forum, like the DigitalPoint.com, and then go through the categories at the panel, here you can begin your thread requesting for a backlink from an authority blog or site. On receiving some good offer, go for a blog which has a higher pagerank, preferably 3 or 4, a good alexa ranking and a regularly updated content.
If your budget is low than you can think of compromising on any of the above mentioned characteristic, but do not go for a low pagerank site or blog.
But, for a good pagerank always try to build up a genuine and creative stuff on your blog. Originality is the only thing which can help you sustain in your niche for long.
2.Enter your Twitter username in the box next to “Generate your Graph. Who are you on Twitter: @” and then click the ‘Show’ button.
3.Now, look at the upper-right side of your ‘twitter follower graph’. Here click on “Get more followers: Add TwitterCounter to your site, blog or social network.”
4.In the next page, four counters will appear at top, chose the design you want to have and then copy the JavaScript code given below it.
5.Now, go to your blog and open widget admin page.
6.On widget page add the ‘Text’ widget and then paste the copied link to the Text widget.
7.Click on ‘Save‘.
Now visit your blog and see how the new TwitterCount widget gives a new and better look to your blog.
Twitter Users are often found, trying to have a huge fan following for different causes. While trying to do so they have to face a lot of difficulties. Some of them are listed below: The short-term friends
On twitter people often find friends, and tend to talk to them forgetting that they are there for a bigger cause and communicating with only a single person is not their soul aim. We tend to share things or knowledge with hand full of them. Believe me mate…. These friends are very short lived, after a week or two you will forget about them and they will forget about you. In this entire process you turn out to be the loser as you wasted time impressing a single personality rather than keeping in mind their top motto. Takes a long time
Even though there are hundreds of tricks enumerated in various articles or e-books, which teach bloggers to grow a huge following. These tricks are very time consuming and their complete implementation consumes a lot of time. Very few people are able to harvest a desirable result from the tricks in a short period. But, when talking about the majority, developing large number of followers at twitter is still a difficult task for many of us.
Non-followers do not go away easily
As Twitter provides a ‘following’ limit of 2000 and one can extend this limit only when his ‘follower’ count reaches 2000+. And while adding friends in twitter often we start following the people who do not follow-back. These non-followers are useless and need to be removed, but ‘un-follow’ these non-followers become time consuming and tiring. Even though there are free services to remove these non-followers quickly but, there functioning is also very poor, they tend to delay the deleting process, which in turn becomes frustrating.
And friends if you are thinking of deleting the non-followers please sit down only when you have a whole day to spare on things like this.
Followers tend to disappoint
At times it becomes very frustrating and discouraging to learn that whatever time you spent searching a topic, going deep into it and then framing a nice piece of information, just to please the followers at Twitter, did not even get noticed by handful of the people following you. At this stage, one tends to think that all their efforts have gone in vain and twitter followers are not to be relied upon.
Generating a huge following at Twitter is not everyone’s cup of tea. It requires a lot of time and labor and if someone is patient enough to put in these things, there are great chances to own a Twitter account with Lacs of visitors.
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Digg recently added a new login panel which allows the users to login digg account using a Facebook login id and password also. This new add-on will surely help increase the member count of Digg and Facebook.
Through this new feature:
-the users can easily add Facebook friends to Digg as well.
-the users can post their digg activities on Facebook as well.
visit www.digg.com to try this new feature in Digg.
Digg, a huge a social bookmarking site and other, the largest social network (facebook), both together will surely extend the horizons of social bookmarking and social communities.
This new change will surely bring a remarkable change in the way people think about social bookmarking sites.
Today, the online culture is booming day by day and almost all the countries are providing extending their support to grow Blogging as a profession or hobby, in their nations. But, yet there are many countries which have enforced strict laws to restrict or finish this online culture and are thus, termed as the ‘Worst Countries For Blogging’ by a US-based ‘Committee to Protect Journalists’. These oppressors are listed below:
1. Vietnam: The government in the nation created a separate department to monitor the internet activities. Bloggers here have tried hard to fill the gap in independent news, left by the state-controlled media. The bloggers here are facing a lot of difficulties are unable to change the traditional enforcement on media.
2. Iran: the atrocities on the Bloggers by the State, is evident from the news that a month ago a young blogger died in prison. The authorities here regularly harass and detain Bloggers who critically write about the political or religious figures in the nation.
3. Burma: Bloggers inside Burma proved invaluable in passing out the information during the 2007 uprisings, leading to ruling military junta blocking the internet completely for a particular period.
4. Syria : The government uses filtering methods to block politically sensitive sites. Also the internet café owners were ordered to report on customers.
5. China : The country is witnessing the most comprehensive online rules . The government relies on service providers to filter searches, block critical websites, delete objectionable content and monitor e-mail traffic.
6. Cuba : The internet in the country is dominated by the political body, only the government officials and the people in the Communist Party can use Web. The rebellious bloggers are imprisoned. At present 21 bloggers are behind the bars.
7. Saudi Arabia : The sites tackling political, social or religious issues and other sensitive issues, are completely blocked in the kingdom. The blocked site count has reached around 4,00,000.
Do you want to save your precious time by taking screenshots of multiple websites at a time? ‘Grab Them All‘, is a firefox add-on which is a sure-shot way to grab screenshots of multiple sites in a single go. You have to just follow the link and install the add-on on your Mozilla browser.
When completely installed, go to: View > Toolbar > Customize; a browser appears where you have to drag and drop the ‘Grab Them All’ add-on icon. Save the changes and move out of the browser.
Create a txt file outside the browser adding list the names of websites to be shot.
Again go back to the browser and click, Tools > Grab Them All; and then a small box appears (like the one shown below). Here click the button to load the txt file having the list of URLs and then, choose a destination directory where you want to save the screenshots.
Click on Run and all the screenshots are taken with in seconds.
If you are patiently looking for a mobile device which can substitute your laptops, help you handle your business, be comparatively cost efficient and all this without sacrificing the looks. No doubt, your patient will end as soon as you go through the Nokia E75, which recently found its way in the Indian market as well.
Design
This new sleek, heavy and grippy cell phone might make you it’s fan or at least an appreciator. The phone though gives a solid feeling, it’s rounded edges enhance the phone’s grip, so that your near ones does not snatch it from
The phone is not as broad as the previously launched Nokia E71 and thus adds further gripping advantage. The most interesting thing is that this E product has two keypads, one alphanumerical and another one is the QWERTY keyboard. The QWERTY keyboard slides out smoothly from the left side of the phone. Though, the phone is slim enough to hide the inner slidable keypad.
The stainless steel battery cover, a 3.2 Mega Pixel Camera and a small speaker helps it maintain its elegant style and also looks expensive form its back as well.
The phone has smooth volume and camera buttons at its right side are easy to operate and can be well sensed on touching. The left side of the phone has a Micro USB port and a memory cart socket.
The bottom of the phone has a charging socket.
The main keypad is a bit congested with the keys being too close to one other and at times irritates the user as he keeps pressing the wrong key every time. But, the irritated person can easily switch to the QWERTY keyboard and can take up a good advantage of the dual keypad. The QWERTY keyboard is really easy to operate and really added an extra star to the E75′s personality.
The QWERTY keypad is very handy and adroit. The keys are well designed and are much broader than the previous E products. The QWERTY is really a part which will help you stick to the phone for hours, its my personal experience that once you are into the habit of using the QWERTY, you will always use it and will forget the usual keypad.
Alongside the phone has a 2.4 inches screen (QVGA) and is really good for those with weak eye sight as the brightness offered is really good. The pictures appear very clean and clear on the screen. In simple words the screen of the E75 provides an unmatched picture display and clarity.
The E75 has an fm radio, an internet radio and a real player. The phone does not have such a good music player, but it is good enough to listen at times. I am very angry at this fact that the Nokia phones which are designed for the enterprises does not have a good multimedia support. Now, is there some one who will tell that which encyclopedia says that a good businessmen does not listen to loud and clear music.
Lets leave my personal anguish aside and I must tell you that along with this the phone also has a video center, music store, voice and video recording, pod casting and along with this it also holds some good, unexpected games. (N Gage support).
Overall the E75 will be a good choice both for the executives as well as the high-end employs. The phone holds many new features and can be explored a lot more.
Today, Nokia officially announced the launch of its latest E75 in India, successor to the famous E71. The previously launched E71 is amongst the most famous E series devices. The new E75 has a alphanumeric keyboard along with a QWERTYkeyboard. Tagged at around INR 23,999/-
The phone is best suited for the entrepreneurs and business executives, as it holds a good capability of setting up easy email clients. The QWERTY keyboard too makes it a hardcore executive class phone.
Supporting around 16 email accounts which include the Gmail, Yahoomail, In.com, Rediffmail,Hotmail etc. and also the user can easily flip from the personal account to a professional one, by using a selection at the standby screen.
The phone is thus a complete business class phone.
