IMEI number Verification

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IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number which do not have for Chinese handsets will stop working from 1st December 2009 because all mobile operators across India are asked The Department of Telecommunication to stop services to such handsets. To check your IMEI Number or IMEI Number Check or IMEI Check from datebase or IMEI number verification or IMEI number Tracking can be made by following steps given below.

What is an IMEI number?

•IMEI is unique 15 digit identification number of the Mobile Handset. It's like Registration No.
•One can confirm his handset's IMEI No. by inputting / dialing *#06# on Handset.
•IMEI numbers are being allotted by five bodies authorized by GSMA.
•From IMEI number one can identify the make and model of the handset.

•To verify send a message “IMEI XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX to 53232 or to 57886.

Message displayed for correct IMEI – Success!!
Message displayed for incorrect IMEI – Alert!!! Invalid IMEI

•No two mobile handsets in the world should have the same IMEI number.
•IMEI number is an important tool for the handset tracking.

The Structure of an IMEI Number :

IMEI numbers either come in a 17 digit or 15 digit sequences of numbers. The IMEI format currently utilized is AA-BBBBBB-CCCCCC-D:

* AA: These two digits are for the Reporting Body Identifier, indicating the GSMA approved group that allocated the TAC (Type Allocation Code).
* BBBBBB: The remainder of the TAC
* CCCCCC: Serial sequence of the Model
* D: Luhn check digit of the entire model or 0 (This is an algorithm that validates the ID number)

IMEI Number Verification :

Moreover, even if your Chinese handset is showing an unique IMEI number, it is important to validate that it is an unique IMEI number and not a cloned or duplicate IMEI number because recently many local Chinese firms sent millions of cheap mobiles in India with duplicate or cloned IMEI number which are also equally invalid as per international and Indian laws.

People can validate IMEI numbers of their handsets by sending their IMEI numbers of two numbers 57886 and 53232.

First Type IMEI (in Capital) space IMEI number and then send it to either 57886 or 53232. Within few minutes, people will receive a message about validity of IMEI number.

e.g. IMEI 352536650070854

In both cases of no IMEI number or duplicate IMEI number, people can use a service started by Mobile Standards Alliance of India (Govt. Approved) to provide valid and unique IMEI to all such handsets by paying just Rs 199. After getting new IMEI number, any person can use such handsets for as long as he wants.

People can get the list of all available authorized service centers in their area by visiting this link http://www.msai.in/listofcentre.php. It is important to get new IMEI number from only authorized shops approved by Mobile Standards Alliance of India.

Solar Powered Handset

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Samsung Launches Solar Powered Handset in India

Samsung India has just announced the global launch of their first solar-powered mobile phone, the “Solar Guru” (Guru E1107 - Price Ind. Rs. 2799) in Indian market. It enables users to charge the battery anywhere via sunlight.

Samsung launched the phone at a ceremony organized by the company at its manufacturing complex at Noida. The Solar Guru has been developed keeping in mind the needs of Indian consumers, especially customers residing in areas where the electric supply is unstable.

With an extended solar-powered battery, the Samsung Solar Guru solves the problem of unavailable or unstable electric supply, particularly in far flung areas. The phone has the capacity to provide around 5-10 minutes of talk time with one hour of solar charging.

Solar Guru comes in a compact design with features such as an FM Radio, MP3 Ring Tones, Embedded Games, Torch Light & Mobile Tracker, which automatically alerts when the SIM card is changed or sends out an SOS message in an emergency.

Also, Solar Guru provides “Mobile Prayer”, a specialized feature for different religions that includes religious prayers and wall papers.
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IIT-JEE Result 100 Percent

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Two Coaching Institutes in Bihar Achieve 100 Percent IIT-JEE Results

PATNA - Two coaching institutes giving tuitions to the aspirants of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bihar have delivered a power pack punch as all their students have cleared the prestigious competitive exam.


‘Rehmani Super’, is a Patna based coaching institute, and is promoting education amongst the Muslim community. The institute had ten students and all have cleared the exam.

The institute is headed by the Additional Director General (ADG) of Police of Bihar, Abhayanand Singh.

The students of the ‘Rehmani Super’ credit their success to Abhayanand Singh, who is the chief administrator at the institute and Mohammad Wali Rehmani, the founder of the Rehmani foundation.

“We worked hard because of Abhayanand sir. Abhayanand sir has helped us like a father and our teacher, Mohammad Wali Rehmani. Their prayers and blessing were heard by the almighty and that’s why we have been successful,” said Naudesh Alam, a student.

Abhayanand Singh is thrilled with the thumping result which his institute has managed to achieve. Singh remarked that the success had been achieved after a lot of hard work and meticulous planning.

“This year, we started super 30 (group of IIT aspirants) in many places under various names. The results have been very encouraging.” said Abhayanand Singh.

In the meantime, all the 30 students of ‘Super 30′, another coaching institute in Patna cleared the IIT exam.

The elated students mentioned that hard work, dedication and unconditional support of Anand and other teaching staff at the institute had helped them crack the entrance exam.

The students of ‘Super 30′ say that there mentor Anand always encouraged them even if they didn’t do well in the internal tests conducted by the institute.

“The preparation was intense. For this, we should put in honest hard work.

We should obey the teacher who is teaching us because whatever the teacher tells us is out of the teacher’s experience,” said Namrata, student of ‘Super 30′.

The jubilant students shared sweets with Anand, the director of ‘Super 30′ soon after the results were announced.
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IIT Coaching 100% Achievement

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Two Coaching Institutes in Bihar Achieve 100 Percent Results

PATNA - Two coaching institutes giving tuitions to the aspirants of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bihar have delivered a power pack punch as all their students have cleared the prestigious competitive exam.


‘Rehmani Super’, is a Patna based coaching institute, and is promoting education amongst the Muslim community. The institute had ten students and all have cleared the exam.

The institute is headed by the Additional Director General (ADG) of Police of Bihar, Abhayanand Singh.

The students of the ‘Rehmani Super’ credit their success to Abhayanand Singh, who is the chief administrator at the institute and Mohammad Wali Rehmani, the founder of the Rehmani foundation.

“We worked hard because of Abhayanand sir. Abhayanand sir has helped us like a father and our teacher, Mohammad Wali Rehmani. Their prayers and blessing were heard by the almighty and that’s why we have been successful,” said Naudesh Alam, a student.

Abhayanand Singh is thrilled with the thumping result which his institute has managed to achieve. Singh remarked that the success had been achieved after a lot of hard work and meticulous planning.

“This year, we started super 30 (group of IIT aspirants) in many places under various names. The results have been very encouraging.” said Abhayanand Singh.

In the meantime, all the 30 students of ‘Super 30′, another coaching institute in Patna cleared the IIT exam.

The elated students mentioned that hard work, dedication and unconditional support of Anand and other teaching staff at the institute had helped them crack the entrance exam.

The students of ‘Super 30′ say that there mentor Anand always encouraged them even if they didn’t do well in the internal tests conducted by the institute.

“The preparation was intense. For this, we should put in honest hard work.

We should obey the teacher who is teaching us because whatever the teacher tells us is out of the teacher’s experience,” said Namrata, student of ‘Super 30′.

The jubilant students shared sweets with Anand, the director of ‘Super 30′ soon after the results were announced.
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What is 3G?

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A radio communications technology, that will create a "bit pipe" for providing mobile access to internet-based services. It will enhance and extend mobility in many areas of our lives.
In the near future, mobility won't be an add-on: it will become a fundamental aspect of many services. We'll expect high-speed access to the internet, entertainment, information and electronic commerce (e-commerce) services wherever we are - not just at our desktop computers, home PCs or television sets.
3G services will add an invaluable mobile dimension to services that are already becoming an integral part of modern business life: Internet and Intranet access, video-conferencing, and interactive application sharing.

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2G Service: The technology of most current digital mobile phones
Features includes:
- Phone calls
- Voice mail
- Receive simple email messages
Speed: 10kb/sec
Time to download a 3min MP3 song: 31 to 41 min
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2.5G Service: The best technology now widely available
Features includes:
- Phone calls/fax
- Voice mail
-Send/receive large email messages
- Web browsings
- Navigation/maps
- New updates
Speed: 64-144kb/sec
Time to download a 3min MP3 song: 6 to 9 min
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3G Service: Combines a mobile phone, laptop PC and TV
Features includes:
- Phone calls/fax
- Global roaming
- Send/receive large email messages
- High-speed Web Navigation/maps and Videoconferencing
- TV streaming
- Electronic agenda meeting reminder.
Speed: 144kb/sec-2mb/sec
Time to download a 3min MP3 song: 11 sec to 1.5 min
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3G is the THIRD GENERATION of TELECOMMUNICATION hardware standards and general technology for mobile networking, superseding 2.5G. It is based on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) family of standards under the IMT-2000.[1]

3G networks enable network operators to offer users a wider range of more advanced services while achieving greater network capacity through improved spectral efficiency. Services include wide-area wireless voice telephone, video calls, and broadband wireless data, all in a mobile environment. Additional features also include HSPA data transmission capabilities, which provides users with data rates up to 14.4 Mbit/s on the downlink and 5.8 Mbit/s on the uplink.

Unlike IEEE 802.11 networks, which are commonly called Wi-Fi or WLAN networks, 3G networks are wide-area cellular telephone networks which provide High-speed Internet access and video telephony to 3G Network subscribers.[2]. IEEE 802.11 networks are short range, high-bandwidth networks primarily developed for data.

6,500,000,000,000 Crore In A Minute

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Investor Wealth Swells by Rs 6.5 Lakh Crore In A Minute
18 May 2009, 1610 hrs IST, PTI

MUMBAI: Investors have become richer by a whopping Rs 6.5 lakh crore in just a minute as the Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex saw a historic over 2,000
point rise to the 14,000 level as the markets cheered the decisive win of the ruling UPA government in the Lok Sabha elections.

Investor wealth, measured in terms of the combined market capitalisation of all the listed companies, increased by over Rs 6,56,477 crore in a minute -- in the first 30 seconds and then after the resumption of trading at 1155 hours -- to Rs 44,63,420.97 crore.

The 30-share Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex zoomed 1,305.97 points at 13,479.39, hitting the upper circuit within seconds of opening of trade, following which trading was halted for two hours. After trading resumed, the Sensex soared 806 points at 14,284.21, following which trading was halted for the day.

Further, the 30 Sensex companies, which account for over 47% of the total market capitalisation of all the firms, saw their combined market valuation rise by over Rs 3.16 lakh crore on Monday.

The combined market capitalisation of the 30 blue-chip stocks rose to Rs 21,53,590.09 crore on Monday, from Rs 18,36,841.33 crore at the end of trade on Friday.

Reliance Industries was the major contributor to Monday’s increase in market capitalisation for regaining the 14,000 level along with other heavy-weight stocks like BHEL and Bharti Airtel.
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Sensex Crosses 14K; Day's Trading Halted

MUMBAI: Hailing the decisive mandate to the Congress-led UPA, investors went into a buying frenzy, resulting in an unprecedented surge in the BSE
Sensex, which rose by nearly 2,100 points and forced the authorities to suspend trading for the day.. ( Watch )

Trading was suspended for two hours within seconds of opening of the market after the BSE surged by over 1,300 points hitting the upper circuit for the first time, and the authorities closed the floor immediately after trading resumed at 1155 hours. The BSE Sensex closed 17 per cent higher at 14,272.63.

Echoing the sentiment, the NSE index also rose by 20 per cent, prompting the authorities to suspend trading for the day. In two bursts, the 50-share Nifty rose over 712 points, a buoyancy that led to an all-round appreciation in share prices, which marketmen say is the first of its kind.

The BSE 30-share index zoomed to close at 14,272, up by nearly 2,100 points. The NSE index surpassed all the three upper limits of 10, 15 and 20 per cent, forcing the authorities to suspend trading for the day.

Market participants were bullish because of the clear verdict of the people in the Lok Sabha elections, giving a clear majority to the ruling UPA, generating hopes that this would escalate economic reforms without any disruption.

Commenting on the development, SMC Global Vice-President Rajesh Jain said, "Markets have gone up today but the volume of stocks getting traded was low, leading to a low turnover."

The rupee strengthening against the US dollar confirms that the stock markets will go up in the near term as FIIs would start buying."

Investors said the surge in the markets was expected but the closure of the markets was so fast that most of the participants failed to benefit from the rally. The rupee and bonds rallied while gold fell as funds pulled out money to invest in other better options.

Brokers said the jump in the indices triggered the first- ever freeze in trading after the "circuit-breakers" came into existence some 12 years ago.

The BSE Sensex had surged 26 per cent this year before today's rise.

The nation's benchmark stock index may surge as much as 20 per cent over the next week as overseas investors, who have purchased Indian shares of up to USD 3 billion in a month, may continue buying as they consider India to be the best among emerging markets, said NSE broker Rajiv Malik. He said buying was mainly in infrastructure and core sector shares like cement and steel.

The markets today opened for the first time after the election results were announced on Saturday.
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Sensex at 1,00,000 Points?

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Sensex at 1,00,000 Points? Possible by 2025: Technical charts
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19 Apr 2009, 1505 hrs IST, PTI
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NEW DELHI: It may sound utopian in the backdrop of months-long downslide on bourses, but a US-based equity research group sees India's benchmark
index Sensex scaling a milestone of 1,00,000 points within next 15 years.

This would mean an unimaginable rally of over 10-times from the level seen just a few days ago, when Sensex was toiling below 10,000-point mark after a meltdown that began more than a year ago.

The Sensex had more than halved to trade below 8,000-point mark in October last year after scaling a record high of over 21,000 points on January 10, 2008.

Unperturbed by the sharp fall, US-based global equity research group Elliott Wave International, which specializes in analysis of technical charts of stock movements, believes that the recent surge in Indian market is the beginning of a long-running bull cycle that could continue for 15 years.

The recent upsurge began on March 9 and the Sensex has gained over 2,500 points or by more than 30%.

"If the price and time proportions between the waves in the 2003-2008 rally continue, the Sensex should hit 100,000 in about 15 years," research group's Asia-Pacific Financial Forecast editor Mark Galasiewski said over phone.

In its report for Asia-Pacific markets, based on analysis of technical charts, Elliottt Wave has said there were strong indications of "a resumption of the bull market in Indian stocks".

Extending its previous analysis in November last year, when it had said the Sensex might continue advancing for 15 years before the end of another bull run, Elliott Wave said the market seemed to have completed its most recent downward spiral in October 2008.

The Indian stock market benchmark Sensex had scaled an all-time high of 21,206.77 points on January 10, 2008 before embarking on a downward journey, wherein it touched a low of 7,697.39 points on October 27.

According to the Elliot Wave's April forecast report, the Sensex has declined in three waves to the October low, where it retraced approximately 50% of its 2003-08 rally on a percentage basis.

The index has just broken out of its downward trend channel and the patterns seen recently and during the 2003-04 period "are the best argument for a resumption of the bull market in Indian stocks," it added.

Naming India among the "potential baby bulls" of the region, alongside Taiwan and Korea, Elliott Wave had said the completion of three waves of fall from their respective highs had made them "strong candidates to rally back to at least near their all-time highs -- if not beyond".

Elliottt Wave has also classified Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Australia as long-term bear markets, while the "potential baby bulls" have been described as those which investors should consider for long-term investments.

The report further noted that India had experienced long- running bearish phase in the past, indicating that the next bull-run could continue beyond its most recent all-time high levels.

Until the early 2000s, the long bear market in India lasted for 11 years (1992-2003).

"The five-wave pattern from 2003-08 is a road map to the future. Elliott waves progress in five waves and correct in three waves," research group's Asia-Pacific Financial Forecast editor Mark Galasiewski said.
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Executives Quit Jobs Abroad for IIMC

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14 Apr 2009, 0048 hrs IST, Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey, TNN

KOLKATA: At least six to seven executives working in senior positions abroad have foregone an annual salary package of anything between $100,000 and
$150,000 to join an MBA programme at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. This is the third year of the post graduate programme for executives (PGPEX) but this is the first time that so many have kicked foreign jobs to be here.

Take the case of Jayeeta Sharma, a business associate at Millenium Operations in New York, who quit her job that paid a neat $100,000. "It indeed was a major decision to quit the comfort of a cushy job and once again enter student life. But it was pointless spending $120,000 on tuition fees in a US business school when the market conditions are so bad," she admits.

The ongoing economic slump has played a major role in this decision making, they confide. Sushmita Kanjilal, another PGPEX candidate preferred to quit her position from TCS in the US. "I was in a techie role but wanted a direct managerial role. Moreover, the market in the US is not too good now, so I have decided to study in the meantime and then hope for a better growth through placements," she said.

Tauqueer Ali has 9 years of experience and was earning a huge salary at a US outfit of IBM Global Services. "The PGPEX placements at IIM-C has even given 100 per cent hikes salarywise in the Indian context. I have plans to live and work in India for sometime," he said.

Candidates who have quit senior positions in the Nuclear Power Corporation, NTPC, BSNL, BHEL and Tata Steel have also joined this PGPEX batch of 55. "PGPEX was designed to give senior executives with a considerable work experience, a chance to get an MBA degree. We are extremely happy to get people with such diverse backgrounds," said the chairperson of PGPEX, Biju Abraham.
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Bindeshwar Pathak - Sulabh Founder

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Sulabh Founder Wins Swedish Prize


STOCKHOLM: An Indian doctor who developed cheap toilets to improve sanitation in poor communities won the 2009 Stockholm Water Prize on Wednesday.


Bindeshwar Pathak, 65, will receive the US$150,000 (euro110,057) cash award and a symbolic glass sculpture during a ceremony in Stockholm in August.

The Stockholm International Water Institute said Pathak's achievements ``constitute one of the most amazing examples of how one person can impact the well-being of millions.''

It said Pathak has worked to change social attitudes toward unsanitary behavior in poor areas where latrine buckets have been the practice.

He has developed cost-efficient and water-efficient toilet systems that are now used in 1.2 million homes.

Innovations include a pour-flush toilet system, pay-per-use public facilities in slum communities, water conservation solutions for flushing, waste-water treatment and technologies that convert toilet waste to biogas.

``Dr. Pathak's leadership in attaining these remarkable socio-environmental results has been universally recognized, and not least by those who have secured the freedom of human dignity as a consequence of his efforts,'' the prize citation read.

Pathak founded the Sulabh International Social Service Organization in India in 1970 and has recently started operations in Bhutan and Afghanistan. The organization collaborates with the United Nations settlements program U.N.-Habitat to train engineers and planners from 14 countries in Africa, and plans to start work in Ethiopia, Cambodia, Laos, Angola, Madagascar, the Dominican Republic and Tajikistan.

The Stockholm Water Prize is awarded annually to individuals and institutions for contributions to the preservation, enhancement or availability of the world's water resources.

First awarded in 1991, the prize was founded by several companies, including Fujitsu Siemens, General Motors Corp., Swedish Railways and the Water Environment
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BSE / NSE Trading - Holidays for 2009

BSE Holidays

1.
Moharram
8th January, 2009
Thursday

2.
Republic Day
26th January, 2009
Monday

3.
Mahashivratri
23rd February, 2009
Monday

4.
Id-E-Milad
10th March, 2009
Tuesday

5.
Holi
11th March, 2009
Wednesday

6.
Ram Navmi
3rd April, 2009
Friday

7.
Mahavir Jayanti
7th April, 2009
Tuesday

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Good Friday
10th April, 2009
Friday

9.
Dr. Ambedkar Jayanti
14th April, 2009
Tuesday

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Maharashtra Day
1st May, 2009
Friday

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Ramzan Id
21st September, 2009
Monday

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Dasera
28th September, 2009
Monday

13
Gandhi Jayanti
2nd October, 2009
Friday

14
Diwali ( Bhaubeez)
19th October, 2009
Monday

15
Gurunanak Jayanti
2nd November, 2009
Monday

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Christmas
25th December, 2009
Friday

17
Moharram
28th December, 2009
Monday
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Indians Are Highest Earners in US

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WASHINGTON: India-born American residents, numbering over 1.5 million, are the best educated among all the foreign born communities in the US and
are also the highest earners in the country, latest census has revealed.

The median household income for US residents born in India is USD 91,195 against a USD 50,740 average for the total population, the data said.

Besides, the overall median household income for foreign-born and native US residents is USD 46,881 and USD 51,249 respectively.

Among all foreign-born residents, a massive 74 per cent of Indians have bachelor's or higher degree, as compared to a 27 per cent average for all foreign-born residents, the US Census Bureau has said drawing on data from the 2007 American Community Survey. The data reveals that only 28 per cent of natives in America have bachelor's degrees.

Overall, about 85 per cent of the total US population -- 68 per cent of the foreign-born and 88 per cent of the native-born -- are high school graduates.

Egypt and Nigeria have rates above 60 percent while about 80 per cent of the US residents born in China are high school graduates.

Numerically, ethnic Indians with 1.5 million population rank fourth after Mexicans (11.7 million), Chinese (1.9 million) and the Philippines (1.7 million).
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Mystery About Origin of Life Solved

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Canadian scientists claim to have solved a major mystery about the origins of life on earth. The claims come at a time when the world is
celebrating the bicentennial anniversary of the Father of Evolution, Charles Darwin. Two Montreal University scientists have proposed a new theory to show how a universal molecular machine, called ribosome, self-assembled or self-organized itself to become a critical step in generating all life on earth.

``While the ribosome is a complex structure, it features a clear hierarchy that emerged based on basic chemical principles,'' said biochemistry professor Sergey Steinberg, who made the discovery with student Konstantin Bokov, in a university statement. He said his theory explains what people imagine as ``unseen forces at work when such complex structures emerge in nature.''

The Canadian scientist said the ribosome is an enormous molecule responsible for translating the messages (carried in the genetic code of all organisms) into proteins that carry out all functions, including replicating the genome itself. Compared to biological molecules, he said, ribosomes are immense and very complex.

``Though visible only through lenses of the most powerful microscopes, comparing most other biological molecules to this behemoth (ribosome) is like comparing a tricycle to a jumbo jet,'' said Steinberg. He said he spent years pondering how a complex ribosome could have assembled itself from smaller building blocks that existed on the early earth.

His work, he said, led to the discovery that the ribosome must have assembled itself from basic building blocks ``in a very specific order; otherwise it would have fallen apart.'' “Though chemists have observed examples of self-organizing behavior in simple molecules, there has been no such explanation about the complex self-assembly of ribosomes to this date,” he said.

``Thanks to the research of Sergey Steinberg and Konstantin Bokov, scientists now have a glimpse of one key event that emerged spontaneously out of the primordial chemical soup of the early earth,'' the university statement quoted Stephen Michnick, who is Canada Research Chair in Integrative Genomics, as saying.

```Perhaps in the near future we may look forward to more discoveries that will take us beyond the world of Darwin into an understanding of the basic chemical principles that drove the emergence of life on our planet and perhaps beyond.''
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Jeddah Housewife Wins IGNOU Gold

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JEDDAH: Juveria Hashmi, a Jeddah housewife with two children, has made history by winning a gold medal for her masters in English literature at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).

“IGNOU Saudi Arabia is proud that it has struck gold in its masters program in English literature for the third time,” Dr. Shahnaz Patel, director of ATEICO-IGNOU Saudi Arabia announced yesterday.

“Thus IGNOU Saudi Arabia becomes the first international center to win consecutively three gold medals in M.A. English literature,” she added.

Aside from Juveria, three other students from IGNOU’s overseas centers have won gold medals — from Oman, Mauritius and Nepal.

Juveria, a former student of International Indian School-Jeddah and daughter of Arab News staffer Muhammad Mujahid Syed, will receive her medal from professor R. Natarajan, former chairman of All-India Council for Technical Education and director of Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, at IGNOU’s 20th convocation at the IGNOU headquarters in New Delhi on Feb. 28.

Juveria, who hails from Lucknow, is pursuing her studies here. She has been a meritorious student throughout her academic career.

“It is remarkable for a student who never initially studied English,” Patel said.

“I developed interest in English literature and have deep interest in it,” said Juveria who secured 69.5 percent in masters program in English literature.

In 2000, Juveria was a topper in Urdu in her class 10 exam and in 2002 she secured highest marks in history in class 12 exam. The New Delhi-based Central Board of Secondary Education conducted both exams and she won medals in both.

When she finished schooling, she got herself registered in Delhi University and completed her B.A. honors in English through its correspondence course.

“Now I want to continue my education further with a research work in English novels,” Juveria said.

“Juveria’s achievement has become possible due to her own hard work, dedication and determination, as well as the support she received from the faculty, the management team of ATEICO Communication headed by General Manager Riaz Mulla, which represents IGNOU in Saudi Arabia, and, above all, the Indian diplomatic mission’s offices in Riyadh and Jeddah,” Shahnaz said.
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Google Award for Hyderabad Student

HYDERABAD: A student from the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, Sahiti Polishetty, has been selected for ‘Women in Engineering Award’ along with eight others in the country. The award instituted by Google India was announced recently.

The award recognises women students in computer science and related majors and this year, the awards were opened to women engineering students from under-graduate, post-graduate and doctoral programmes across 80 colleges in the country. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh along with a certificate and a trophy. Winners were selected on the basis of their academic background and demonstrated qualities of leadership, a Google press release said. Other winners are: Sameena Shah of IIT – Delhi; Sarika Mohapatra of IIT – Kanpur; Supriya Vadlamani of BITS – Pilani; Anjali Sardana of IIT – Roorkee; Amisha Khera of Jaypee Institute of Technology University, Noida; Kurchi Subhra Hazra of NIT- Durgapur; Aiswarya Cyriac of The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai and Gauri Hiren Joshi of Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology.

Pak Has Owed India Rs 300cr for 60 Years.

You might think Dawood Ibrahim's extradition is one India's longest-standing demands from Pakistan, but there is another that beats is much older.

Tucked away in the fine print of every Budget since 1948-49 is an unvarying entry: "Amount due from Pakistan on account of share of pre-partition debt (approx) - Rs 300 crore".

In 1948-49, Rs 300 crore was more than the size of government's budget - expenditure of Rs 257.37 crore against receipts of Rs 256.28 crore yielding a deficit of Rs 1.09 crore. Today, Rs 300 crore would account for about 0.03% of total receipts or expenditure.

So, what's the history of this entry? After Partition, it was agreed that India would initially meet all the liabilities of the united entity and that Pakistan would then pay back its share of the debt to be mutually agreed.

The sum finally agreed upon was Rs 300 crore. The rate of interest was fixed at 3 per cent and Pakistan was to pay back the amount in 50 annually equated instalments starting from 1952. Clearly, that never happened.