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  • International Atomic Energy Agency[IAEA], Director- Yukiya Amano
  • 2011 -International Year of Forests and International Year of Chemistry
  • It has also been declared as the Year of Green Energy by Railways
  • Republic day Chief Guest to India was - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
  • WHO Director - Margaret Chan
  • CBI , Director - Amar Pratap Singh
  • Nobel Prize Winners

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The Count of Monte Cristo
                                   -Alexandre Dumas


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        1984
               -George Orwell

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    Catch 22
                -Joseph Heller

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    Gone With the Wind
                               -Margaret Mitchell

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   These Old Shadows
                            -Georgette Heyer

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To download the following books  click here
Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice

Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

The Outlander by Gill Adamson

To kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee



Running Barefoot-The Adidas way

  The world's second largest athletic company unveiled it's first 'barefoot' shoe on Tuesday.What's so special about it...? Well, it mimics the experience of running barefoot while providing protection and durability.We can say it as a cross between a glove for your feet and a traditional shoe.It will be available from November and it comes with a price tag of 90$..

Kashmir's Silent Village

   Some occurrences and events that happen in the world can't be explained and moreover there are no reasonable explanation to many.And a village in Jammu & Kashmir which is about 260 kms north of Jammu  could be one among the bizarre.
  The village of Dhadkai in Kashmir's Doda district could be among the most isolated people on earth-many people are deaf,mute,or both.The first case was reported wayback in 1931 and now there are over 90 sufferers.There are 47 families in the village and among them they have atleast one  member who can neither speak or hear.

  The villagers believe they maybe cursed as no neighbouring villages has no similar problems.Experts believe that poor healthcare and marrying within the small community might have triggered this.They communicate with their own sign language which they have developed over the years.The villagers claim that apart from promises the authorities have done nothing.

Localti-Know more about a city than just time


  If you are going on a trip somewhere or you love to be footloose in some country what you need first is a first-hand knowledge of that city or country,currency,places to visit ,language and just about everything that will help you have a wonderful experience in the place of your choice.Well inorder to do that one has to be well prepared and have to spend considerable time collecting data about your place of interest.This site will help you accomplish just that.


   It has all the things you could wish for.
  • It gives you local time and weather
  • Gives a map of the city -provided by bing
  • Headlines featuring your city of interest.
  • Draws information Wiki and displays it at the sides.
  • Currency conversion tool
  • Electrical sockets used there
  • Driving-left or right
  • Photos of the city from flickr and Panoramio
  • Gepgraphical,political and other related informations.
  I've searched for Toronto,Canada and here are the info i got.







Velayutham songs download

Music: Vijay Antony

Click song name to download & wait for a while after clicking play button.

Chillax-Karthik,Charulatha Mani



Vela vela-Vijay Antony & Mark


Rathathin Rathame-Haricharan,Madhumita


Molachu moonu-Prasanna,Supriya Joshi


Sonna puriyadhu-Vijay Antony,Veera Shankar


Mayam seithayo-Sangeetha rajeshwaran


Epic Browser-A browser with an Indian touch


  
 This is a browser which caters mainly to the Indian audience and it comes with lots and lots of goodies.It is based on Mozilla Firefox.It is the first ever Sidebar Apps browser where all your want to's are there in an icon format for a quick access.It is a one of a kind web browser with Anti virus capabilities.

Visit here to download--->>   www.epicbrowser.com

    Talking about it's features there are loads of it...
  • India centric content-news from upto 6 sources(IBN,Yahoo,Indiatimes,NDTV etc) ,regional news from various dailies,stock market tracking,cricket(what is India without cricket),events in your city,videos,films.
  • Epic Indic-it's own transliteration of 14 Indian Languages Sanskrit included plus Arabic,Russian,Persian and others too.
  • Epic Write-a built in MS Word look alike,it's very own Snipping tool,To do list,timer,Social Networking features,Maps,Shopping,Travel,back ups and what not.. phew...

  • If  you need anything despite all this then there is provision for installing apps in various categories...
Yoy can also search for events in your city.


My impression- Amazing.A must have for everyone.
Few things come loaded.Browsing through this is like a visit to a super market-all in one place.
Everyhting for Everyone...

Duckduckgo-a more reliable Search Engine

It uses information and gathers data from crowd-sourced sites like Wikipedia and it emphasizes and protects our privacy.This is what differentiates duckduckgo from it's other competitors.When we enter our seach query in Google or other search engines,they keep track off what we search by storing the data in their database and bulids a virtual profile of you-what you do,what you are,what you like and from everything they display ads related to your searches.

It's scary to know that they've everthing about you including your browser and computer information too..!! Pretty bad.But you can be saved with duckduckgo.To know more about this visit this www.donttrack.us
The other good thing about this is that since it uses crowd sourced sites ,your search query will yield all the specified results with special emphasis on Wiki and the home page of your search query by highlighting it.Cool yeah? Check it out...





Innovative and amazing buildings

China Central Television Headquarters(CCTV)


Strong Museum of Play,Rochester,New York

 
Same museum...

Shanghai World Financial Tower

Twisting tower,Dubai.

Capital Gate Tower,Abu Dhabi
 You could call it as a modern day Leaning tower of Pisa.But it leans 4 times more than it's ancestor.

  Atomiuim,Brussels,Belgium


Church of Hallgrímur,Reykjavík,Iceland

Bullring,Birmingham,UK


The Blue Building,Netherlands


Melbourne Recital Centre,Australia


Netherland Institute of Sound and Vision


City of Arts and Sciences,Valencia,Spain


ICMC Cottbus,Germany

 
through my eyes