BSNL resduced STD rates up to 50 pc
BSNL has announced a 40-50 percent reduction in STD charges of cellular services under various plans. It also announced to slash the call charges of landline services by 50 per cent. Under the landline services, STD rates have been reduced from Rs 2.40 to 1.20 paise per minute to all networks in general and “sulabh” plan.
The intra-circle call charges, to BSNL network and inter circle (STD) call charges to all the networks, has also been reduced by 50 per cent. ….
Maharashtra State Board HSC results declared
The Maharashtra State Board results for HSC has been declared on Saturday at 11:00 am. This year a total of 11,39,697 students appeared for the HSC examination conducted in February/March. The pass percentage for the Class 12 (HSC) examination this year stands at 77.33 percent. In the Mumbai division, the pass percentage for the HSC examination is 80.24 percent. Priyanka Jain topped the examination this year with 96.50 percent marks.
From the Aurangabad Division, Sheetal Jajoo & Samir Mandge topped ….
Shimla summer Festival to begin tomorrow
The annual Shimla Summer festival will be start from Monday in Shimla. V.S. Kokje the Himachal Governor V.S. Kokje will inaugurate the festival at the historic Ridge Maidan.
Bollywood singer Javed Ali & Punjabi singers Hans Raj Hans & Mohit Chauhan would enthrall the audience during the five-day carnival.
CBSE Class 10 results declared
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced the Class 10th board examination results today. Scores of students were seen at Internet cafes & calling dedicated telephone numbers to know how they had fared in the examination soon after the results were declared at 8 a.m.
This year, 765,095 students appeared for the Class 10 examination in India & abroad. These students from 8,199 schools had written papers at 2,624 centres in March. The CBSE Class 10th results could be ….
CBSE Class XII results will be declared on 21st and 23rd May
The results of Class XII examination conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will be announced on 21st & 23rd May while the results of Indian School Certificate Examination (ISCE) will come out on Tuesday.
While the results for the Chennai, Ajmer & Panchkula regions will be announced on 21st May, those for Delhi, Guwahati & Allahabad regions will be out on 23rd May, according to a release from the CBSE.
A total of 5,48,815 students had appeared for the ….
“Sakal Times” will be launched on May 7
The English daily from the Sakal group, “Sakal Times”, will be launched on May 7. The first edition of the newspaper “Sakal Times” will be launched in Pune, the hometown of the Sakal group.
To be sure, it is not the first time that the newspaper group is dabbling in English. It runs two English papers — “The Maharashtra Herald” in Pune & “Gomantak Times” in Goa.
Abhijit Pawar, the 36-year-old managing director of the company & nephew of Union Agriculture Minister ….
Chardham pilgrimage began
The Chardham pilgrimage has been began on Wednesday with reopening of the portals of Kedarnath, Gangotri & Yamunotri shrines. Amid chanting of vedic hymns & shlokas, the doors of Kedarnath, Gangotri & Yamunotri temples were reopened coinciding with the auspicious day of Akshya Tritiya. It is for the first time after a gap of over four decades that portals of three shrines were reopened on the same day.
As icy winds swept the area, scores of pilgrims offered prayers at the ….
Vodafone signed an agreement with Apple to sell iphone in India
Vodafone a mobile services provider said on Tuesday that it has signed an agreement with software products major Apple to sell iphone in India, besides nine other markets.
An official said, “Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, The Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, India, Italy, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa & Turkey will be able to purchase the iphone for use on the Vodafone network”.
Iphone is a mobile phone that allows its user to make calls by simply tapping a name ….
“Baisakhi” celebrated throughout Punjab
Baisakhi has been celebrated throughout Punjab on Monday. Baisakhi is the festival of wheat harvesting & creation of the “Khalsa Panth” by tenth Sikh guru, Guru Gobind Singh Ji.
Thousands of devotees took holy dip in sacred Sarovar of historic Gurdwara Sukhchaina Sahib in Phagwara.
Guru Gobind Singh on this day in 1699 had first baptised five sikhs called “Panj Pyaras” by making them partake “amrit” & then taking the same from them for creating Khalsa Panth.
IMF: “Rising food prices could lead to starvation”
IMF the International Monetary Fund has warned that spikes in food costs around the world could lead to starvation & the crumbling of governments. Dominique Strauss-Kahn said, “We are facing a huge problem”.
The IMF is often the lender of last resort for countries in trouble. Prices of wheat & rice have more than doubled in the past year, with rice - a staple in Asian diets - surging by 75 per cent in the past two months. The IMF & ….
Gudi Padwa celebrating throughout Maharashtra
Maharashtrians are celebrating Gudi Padwa on Sunday. It is the first day of the Marathi calendar & marks the beginning of spring. Many believed that this is the day Brahma created the world. Women work on intricate “rangolis” at their doorsteps & homes decorated with flowers, coconuts & mango leaves.
It is auspicious to buy gold on Gudi Padwa. But with gold prices touching the sky, sales have dropped by almost 30 per cent. Gold prices have shot up from Rs ….
Bill & Hillarry Clinton earn USD 109 million in 8 years
Tax return officials said that Hillary Clinton & her husband Bill Clinton earned a combined USD 109 million in eight years, paid USD 33.8 million in taxes & gave away USD 10.2 million to charities. This puts them among the top tier of tax payers in the United States.
After Bill Clinton left officie in 2000 the most of their income came from the sale of books the two wrote as well as the former President’s speaking tours. Expert tax analysts ….
Google made april fool through orkut yogurt
Google on Tuesday make April Fool of many users. Google’s social network site Orkut turned into Yogurt on Tuesday. It was just a way to make april fool of Orkut’s user. Google’s popular video sharing site “YouTube” is rickrolling its users big-scale. All the featured videos on the YouTube.com frontpage are currently linking to Rick Astleys Never Gonna Give You Upor as a commenter at YouTube puts ….
Read More: Google made april fool through orkut yogurtAnimal Planet will launch Hindi service from April 1
Animal Planet has made an announcement that it will launch a 24-hour Hindi feed that will go on air from April 1, 2008.
An official said that from April, viewers across India would be able to watch the channel Hindi.
The official said that this move will help us increase viewership of the channel.
Animal Planet is already available in English but there is more pressure on networks to provide their service in Hindi also with the intention that they can expand their ….
Sonai Gandhi inaugurates Asia’s largest tulip garden “Siraj Bagh”
Sonia Gandhi the chairperson of UPA chairperson on Saturday inaugurated Asia’s largest Tulip garden on the foothills of Zabarwan in Srinagar. Known as “Siraj Bagh”, The garden has more than 60 varieties of early, mid, late & very late blooming tulips, spreading a rainbow of red, orange, purple, white, pink, parrot & yellow colours.
Brainchild of State Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, the garden is being considered as a major attraction among tourists.
“Siraj Bagh”, which ….
“Why Indians are treated as Dogs”
Harbhajan Singh was in controversy with Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds calling him a
“Monkey”, a remark which has the potential to create more bad blood between the two teams.
Not in the cricket only all the indians are behaved like this in many countries of the world. There are cases of murders of Indians in abroad countries in recent times is increasing rapidly.
Train stations, bus stops, of abroad countries like Australia, Canada, UK & USA which are home to thousands of ….
Why most news channels are biased
It is true most of the news channels are biased. Every news channel had showed the news that “Female suicide bomber arrested, Baba Ram Rahim was target”. But they not show the protest by her parents.
They showed the news on their channels that woman suicide bomber who was planning to attack on the Dera sacha sauda chief Baba Ram Rahim was arrested on 13 march by police. Parveen is studying in B.A part1. She was arrested from patiala. ….
Holi celebrated throughout India
Holi has been celebrated throughout the country. The festival of colours was celebrated by all the Indians. Children particularly enjoy the festival as they throw water filled balloons at passersby. They used their water missiles, called pichkaris to drench the person from far & escape further drenching. The festival of Holi is significant because Lord Krishna & Radha played Holi on this day.
This was going to be Aishwarya Rai’s first Holi after her ….
Sun TV launched new FM station
Tamil Nadu’s chief minister M Karunanidhi’s the owner of the Sun TV a Tamil Nadu-based Network has launched its FM radio stations at Allahabad & Jabalpur, through its subsidiary South Asia FM Ltd.
The radio stations under the brand’S “FM” began on 18 March in Allahabad . In the Jabalpur station it will start on 19 March respectively. With the two new stations, the total operational radio stations of Sun TV stations goes to 27 ….
Halle Berry named her daughter as Nahla Ariela Aubry
Halle Berry on Tuesday local time named her newborn daughter as Nahla Ariela Aubry. Nahla was born on this past Sunday.
The couple met while shooting a Versace commercial in Los Angeles two years ago. Berry has said she & Aubry don`t plan to marry, but feel fully committed to each other.
Berry, whose credits include “Catwoman,” the Bond film “Die Another Day” & the “X-Men” movies, has won an Emmy for the 1999 made-for-TV film ….