Vote for the right symbol for the Rupee
The Government of India wants your help. It has invited the public to suggest a symbol for the Rupee. Just as the Dollar is universally denoted by $‚ the government thinks the Rupee should also have its own unique symbol that captures a sense of India’s history and culture.Listed below are 19 suggestions from ET’s team of designers. Please vote for the one you find best. ET will present all these symbols ‚ along with the ET viewers’ preference‚ to the Ministry of Finance . And‚ if you don t like these and have a symbol of your own to offer, mail it to us at editoret@indiatimes.co.in So hone your design skills and choose the right symbol for the Rupee.
May 12th, 2009
Dinosaurs ‘were wiped out by volcanoes in India’ - Telegraph
For the last thirty years scientists have believed a giant meteorite that struck Chicxulub in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula was responsible for the mass extinction of species, including T Rex and its cousins.
But now Professor Gerta Kellera, a geologist at Princeton University, New Jersey, says fossilised traces of plants and animals dug out of low lying hills at El Penon in north east Mexico show this event happened 300,000 years after the dinosaurs disappeared.
Prof Keller believes instead that volcanoes might have killed the dinosaurs.
“Now we find that another catastrophe, which is Deccan Volcanism, which has not had much attention paid to it, may be the real culprit,” she said.
The volcanic eruptions happened on India’s Deccan plateau between 63 and 67 million years ago, spewing large amounts of sulphur dioxide into the air.
May 12th, 2009
Not fair, says Aishwarya Rai
Not a big fan of her as an actress, but if this story is true, she is one strong person
May 12th, 2009
Recycled Racer Runs on Veggie Oil and Chocolate
Auto racing is going green as top teams and upstarts embrace a range of tech, from biodiesel to hybrids and even electric drivetrains. A British team is doing them one better, using recycled and natural materials in a Formula 3 car fueled by vegetable oil and waste chocolate.
May 12th, 2009
7 Clearly Fake News Stories That Fooled The Mainstream Media
when media gets too lazy or comes across articles that fits its agenda
May 4th, 2009
Saving the earth while leaving it
In Victoria, B.C., more and more residents are thinking about the environmental legacy they want to leave, and a community-owned cemetery is helping them depart this earth with a clearer conscience.
April 29th, 2009
SAE 2009: all-electric Tata Indica getting ready for Norway, then the world
Although the all-electric Tata Indica on display at the SAE World Congress in Detroit this week is not the soon-to-be-released model, there’s a lot we can learn from the vehicle - and from TM4’s Eriz Azeroual - about how the technology will be implemented when the new model goes on sale in Norway either later this year or in early 2010 (yes, this is later than previously expected). Tata Motors showed off the Indica EV at the Bologna Motor Show in December, but the hatchback is making an appearance in Detroit because of the work that TM4, a subsidiary of Hydro Québec, did providing the permanent magnet motor and the inverter. TM4’s Azeroual (he’s business development manager there) told us that a limited number of the Indica’s are already testing in Norway and that Tata Motors is “a cool company. Very aggressive.” Even though they’re most famous for the Nano and apparently wanting to dominate the low-end automobile market, in Europe market they want to be known for electric vehicles.
April 23rd, 2009
N-deal: Left lambasts Speaker’s view
NEW DELHI: Speaker Somnath Chatterjee’s view that opposing the Indo-US nuclear deal was a mistake has opened him to a severe attack from his
erstwhile party boss Prakash Karat and leaders of other Left parties.
So the speaker of the Indian Lower house (lok sabha) is member of the left parties who left the current coalition government because of the Indo-US nuclear deal. Initially he toed the party line and opposed the deal. A few days ago, he said it opposing the deal was a mistake. The hypocrisy of the Left parties (and his former bosses) lies in this statement
“By admitting his pro-Congress stand, Chatterjee has exposed the moral high ground he took that the Speaker is above party politics.”
if the speaker is indeed above party politics, why was he asked to toe the party line in the first place?
April 20th, 2009
Thousands of dolphins block Somali pirates
THOUSANDS of dolphins blocked the suspected Somali pirate ships when they were trying to attack Chinese merchant ships passing the Gulf of Aden.
China Radio International reported the Chinese merchant ships escorted by a China’s fleet sailed on the Gulf of Aden when they met some suspected pirate ships. Thousands of dolphins suddenly leaped out of water between pirates and merchants when the pirate ships headed for the China’s.
Dolphins 1: Somali pirates 0 - or is it that the Chinese are 1 step closer to world domination by being able to control the dolphins?
April 20th, 2009
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