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New Delhi, Dec. 28 -- India's biggest tourism grosser the Taj Mahal is number three favourite landmark for global tourists, according to a survey. The Taj receives about 15 per cent of the total foreign tourist visitors to India. A poll survey done recently by hotels.com has shown Eiffel Tower in Paris to be the most favourite landmark for the global trotting crowd. Ten thousand travelers from all parts of the world participated in the poll. The second position has gone to St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican city, Rome considered to be one of the holiest Chrisitian site claiming to have the largest Church interior which can hold over 50,000 people. The finest example of Mughal architecture and one of the wonders of the world the white domed marble mausoleum Taj Mahal has got the third position. According to the survey 16 per cent of travelers gave a thumbs up for Eiffel Tower as number one, while 9 per cent voted for St.Peter's Basilica and 8 per cent voted for the...

As Andhra Pradesh boils over the Telangana issue, public and private properties worth over Rs 250 crore were destroyed by protesters in all the three regions of the state so far, government sources said. Adding the loss caused to businesses because of the seemingly unending spate of shutdowns in Telangana, the figure could be a few hundred crores of rupees more. Of the total loss to properties, about 80 per cent was caused in Telangana region alone where people demanding a separate state have been more "violent," the sources said. As many as 52 public and 28 private properties were burnt while 62 public and 114 private properties were damaged in the violence that broke out in Telangana region from November 29 to December 9, after TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao began his indefinite fast demanding separate statehood for Telanagana. The agitations supporting a united state recorded 37 public properties and 11 private properties being burnt and 46 public and 47 private propert...

Pune, Dec.27 (ANI): Having received a go ahead from the Central Government, the historical Yerawada Central Jail in Maharashtra's Pune city is all set to have first open jail for women inmates in the country. This Open Jail will be inaugurated on the occasion of Republic Day, January 26, 2010. The objective behind the introducing the open prison system is to inculcate a sense of self-confidence among chosen women inmates and improve their living condition. In this, the women inmates will be given training in farming, painting, weaving and other skills. The women prisoners will also earn remuneration for their work. It is expected once skilled, these women on release will be able to take up a paying vocation and put behind the sad chapter of imprisonment in their life. The State Home Minister Ramesh Bagwe said that the idea to have women's open prison system after observing that in men's prison, the prisoners raised ample remuneration for their work besides develo...

  Former President A P J Abdul Kalam visualises India becoming the best destination for the most talented scholars, scientists and investors by 2020. He feels that in the next 11 years, India could have a responsive, transparent and corruption-free governance. "I visualise India as a prosperous, healthy, secure, devoid of terrorism, peaceful and happy nation by 2020," Kalam said while addressing engineering and management degree recipients at the Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU) convocation in Lucknow on Tuesday. He was the chief guest at the ceremony. According to him, by 2020, India is likely to become a nation where education will not be denied to any meritorious candidate because of social or economic discrimination. It could be a nation where there is an equitable distribution and adequate access to energy and quality water, and where agriculture, industry and service sectors work together in harmony. "To achieve these distinctive profiles, we have t...

Did you know that Indira Gandhi yearned for a daughter, or that veteran communist parliamentarian Hirendranath Mukherjee tried to find out if Comrade Jyoti Basu had accepted money to deliver the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture in 1998? These and other nuggets of information are recorded in former External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh's book Yours Sincerely, a selection of correspondence between him and eminent public personalities - among them Indira Gandhi, P N Haksar, H Y Sharda Prasad, Vijayalakshmi Pandit, Rajiv Gandhi, E M Forster, Nadine Gordimer and Mulk Raj Anand. The book, released earlier this month, does not include any correspondence with Sonia Gandhi. But many letters, written by people long gone, remain relevant even today. In December 1971, Indira wrote: "It is not important what the Chinese think or what they want. What is important is what they do. So far they have kept to the expected line." Nearly four decades later, her advice would s...

Washington, Dec 22 (IANS) Pepsico chief executive Indira Nooyi inevitably tops the list of what Forbes calls 'Eight Indian-Flavoured CEOs' who lead US corporations with revenues of at least $2 billion as the premier business magazine chronicles the rise of Indians in corporate ranks in America. 'The chief executive of PepsiCo would be prominent no matter what. The fact that the current one - Indira Nooyi - is an Indian immigrant (and female, in case you've been living under a rock) makes her all the more noteworthy,' it says. 'It's not a not a surprise that we're seeing Indians rise in corporate ranks,' Forbes quotes Richard Herman, co-author of a book on migrants to the US, Immigrant, Inc, as saying in an article published Monday. 'Of all the immigrant groups coming in today, Indians are head-and-shoulders above others, and this is partly because of their English language skills and also the advanced education that many of them are bringing ...

Massive addition to its route network, segregation of passenger and freight services into separate double-line corridors, raising the speeds of passenger trains from the current 130 kmph to 160-200 kmph on some routes, zero accidents and equipment failures and setting up of four high-speed passenger corridor are some of the key goals the Indian Railways would try to achieve by the year 2020, as per the 'Indian Railways Vision 2020' document tabled in Parliament by Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday. "The Vision 2020" envisages the Indian Railways to expand its route network at the rate of 2,500 km annually in order to be able to add 25,000 km of new lines (including 11,985 km of pending new line projects) by 2020. Similarly, the Vision sets a target of 12,000 km each for doubling and gauge conversion and another 14,000 km for electrification of lines. Realising the ever-increasing requirement of rolling stock, the document sets targets of procuring 2.8 la...

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) said on Thursday that it would start issuing the 16-digit number to each resident of the country in February 2011. We would start issuing the unique identification numbers (UIN) in February 2011. These numbers would be allotted on the basis of 11 biometrics including 10 fingerprints and iris, UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani said here after a meeting with Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. The UIDAI would not allot any card, but 16-digit numbers, said Nilekani, who is on a visit to the state to discuss the UIN issue. There would be eight regional offices of UIDAI and each such office would cover two-three states, he said. Meanwhile, Hooda assured all help of the state government to the UIDAI and said the state level unit would function under financial commissioner and principal secretary (tourism) Keshni Anand Arora to allot UIN to Haryana residents.

Toronto, Dec 16 (IANS) Indian-origin researcher Sanjeev John and his colleague Xun Ma of the University of Toronto have discovered new behaviour of light which could lead to cooler and faster computing. The two quantum optics researchers have discovered 'new behaviours' of light changes within photonic crystals that could lead to faster optical information processing and compact computers that don't overheat. "We discovered that by sculpting a unique artificial vacuum inside a photonic crystal, we can completely control the electronic state of artificial atoms (light) within the vacuum," lead author Xun Ma was quoted as saying in a statement here Tuesday. "This discovery can enable photonic computers that are more than a hundred times faster than their electronic counterparts, without heat dissipation issues and other bottlenecks currently faced by electronic computing," said Ma. Added Sanjeev John, "We designed a vacuum in which light pass...

Toronto, Dec 16 (IANS) An international study has found a molecule in H1N1, or swine flu, patients whose levels determine the severity of the illness or even death. Canadian and Spanish scientists have found this molecule called Interleukin 17 (IL-17) to be the first potential immunological clue of why some people develop severe pneumonia when infected by the H1N1 virus. The study was carried in 10 Spanish hospitals during the first pandemic wave in July and August this year. Researchers from the Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valladolid in Spain, Toronto's University Health Network and the University of Toronto analysed different levels of regulating molecules (IL-17) for 20 hospitalized patients, 15 outpatients and 15 others. They found high levels of IL-17 molecule in the blood of severe H1N1 patients and low levels in patients with the mild form of the disease. According to a statement by the University of Toronto, IL-17 is produced by the body and is important ...

India's space agency has in its pipeline eight foreign satellites for launch and is scouting to acquire such spacecraft from abroad to expand capacity in the field of communication transponder back home. "Today, we have eight (foreign) satellites to be launched. This will be launched over the next two-three years", Managing Director of Antrix Corporation, marketing arm of Bangalore headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), K R Sridhara Murthi, said. These are a mix of small and bigger satellites, he said but declined to elaborate, noting that the space agency is yet to formally ink some of these contracts. But one foreign satellite that is being readied for launch is a 150-kg one from Algeria, which is slated to be launched by home-grown Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle as a piggyback payload likely in April next year. Sridhara Murthi said ISRO is looking for opportunities to acquire foreign satellites. In fact, it, along with its global partners, recent...

Normal banking operations was affected on Wednesday as the Left-leaning bank employees went on a one-day nation-wide strike to protest the proposed merger of the State Bank of Indore with its parent SBI. Employees under the banner of All India Bank Employees' Association (AIBEA) and All India Bank Officers' Association(AIBOA) are on strike, AIBEA General Secretary C H Venkatachalam said. Venkatachalam said there should be no consolidation in the public sector banks in the name of creating global size bank. Many public and private sector banks have already informed customers that the normal functioning at bank's branches may get affected in view of the strike call. PSU banks control about 70 per cent of the banking operations in the country.

Grappling with the Andhra Pradesh crisis, the Congress was embarrassed inside and outside Parliament today when UPA partners questioned the government’s “hasty” decision on a separate Telangana and Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, Congress MP and son of the late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, joined a TDP demonstration in Lok Sabha, even borrowing a placard from them which read “We want united AP.” As angry Congress MPs from the Telangana region complained to A K Antony, who heads the party disciplinary action committee, saying Jagan’s actions amounted to violation of discipline, it became increasingly clear that his claim for a suitable political placement in Andhra Pradesh’s power matrix had receded significantly. Congress sources said Jagan had been sounded out to head a coordination panel in the state that would monitor the performance of the K Rosaiah government — such a mechanism is followed by the party in several other states to balance competing factions. Another offer, that of a junior minist...

Renato Solidum, head of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, said the activity could get worse in coming days. The Philippines' most active volcano oozed lava and shot up plumes of ash, forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes and face the possibility of a bleak Christmas in a shelter. State volcanologists raised the alert level on the cone-shaped, 8,070-foot (2,460-meter) Mayon volcano to two steps below a major eruption after ash explosions late Monday. Dark orange lava fragments glowed in the dark as they trickled down the mountain slope overnight. Renato Solidum, head of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, said the activity could get worse in coming days. "It's already erupting," Solidum told The Associated Press. More than 20,000 people were evacuated to safety by nightfall yesterday, said Gov Joey Salceda of Albay province, where Mayon is located about 340 kilometres southeast of Manila. The first of 2...

Virender Sehwag (L) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni gesture at drinks break during the first One-Day International in Rajkot. (Pal Pillai/AFP/Getty Images) Mahendra Singh Dhoni plays a shot during the first One-Day International between India and Sri Lanka in Rajkot. (Pal Pillai/AFP/Getty Images) Virender Sehwag raises his bat after scoring a century during the first One-Day International against Sri Lanka in Rajkot. (Pal Pillai/AFP/Getty Images) Sachin Tendulkar is clean bowled during the first One-Day International between India and Sri Lanka in Rajkot. (Pal Pillai/AFP/Getty Images) Virender Sehwag (L) congratulates team-mate Sachin Tendulkar on scoring a half-century during the first One-Day International in Rajkot. (Pal Pillai/AFP/Getty Images) Virender Sehwag (L) and Sachin Tendulkar run between wickets during the first One-Day International between India and Sri Lanka in Rajkot. (Pal Pillai/AFP/Getty Images) Virender Sehwag (L) plays a shot during the first One-...

Lee Gomes and Taylor Buley, Forbes.com Throughout the computer industry companies of all sizes, from garage startups to Microsoft, are bracing for the possibility that their future will be in the hands of people like Sean Whetstone. The head of computer operations for Reed Specialist Recruitment, an employment service with operations on three continents, Whetstone recently upgraded his company's 6,000 desktop computers. Chief information officers order new Dells or HPs all the time. But the computers Whetstone brought in for his employees aren't the traditional metal boxes that sit next to desks or under monitors. They are "virtual" computers. Each employee has a keyboard and a screen, but the processors making the calculations and deciding what color goes in each pixel are far away, inside a big computer at Reed's main data center in London. In Pictures: 10 Virtualization Terms You Need To Know Windows Through The Decades In Pictures: Who's Who In...

Pooja Chopra proved that she is not just another girl with a pretty face from India. Pooja who championed the cause of the girl child walked away with the 'Beauty with a Purpose' title.

Miss Gibraltar Kaiane Aldorino was announced the new Miss World 2009 at Gallagher Convention Centre on December 12, 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa .

Have you ever deleted a file or folder from the desktop and emptied the recycle bin only to realise, seconds later, that you deleted the wrong one? Or have you ever edited a document, saved it, and then wanted to undo those changes? Luckily, both Windows Vista and Windows 7 include a build-in feature called Shadow Copy that can solve this exact problem without you having to do anything. As you work with the files, Shadow Copy will automatically save incremental backups of your files in the background so if you accidentally delete or change a file, you can revert to the previous version with a simple right-click. The Shadow Copy feature is available in all editions of Windows 7 but only in the Business and Ultimate editions of Vista. However, if your computer is running Vista Home Basic or Home Premium editions, you can still enjoy the Shadow Copy feature without upgrading your OS. The feature may also come in handy if your document gets damaged or you want to bring back t...

London, Dec 10 (ANI): The appearance of a huge spiral of light over Norway yesterday morning has left experts stunned and bewildered as to its origins. Thousands of awe-struck Norwegians bombarded the Meteorological Institute with questions about the incredible light, which could be seen in the pre-dawn sky for hundreds of miles. Experts believe the space spectacle, which has been dubbed 'Star-Gate', is an entirely new astral phenomenon, though the world's top scientists and the military have admitted they are baffled. Theories about the light being a misfired Russian missile, meteor fireball, never-before-seen type of northern light, 'black hole' and even alien activity were all proposed. Witnesses across Norway, who first glimpsed the space show at 8.45am, all described seeing a spinning 'Catherine wheel-style' spiral of white light, centred around a bright moon-like star. A blue "streaming tail" appeared to anchor the spiral...