For almost two centuries, the driving forces behind the global economy have been Europe and the US. Their momentum however, seems to be sputtering and a new picture of a polished world economy is about to erupt whose driving engines would be developing nations like China, India, Brazil. As far as the global financial system is concerned, its fragility cannot be conceded by the strong market image of the developed nations. The two critical aspects of globalization that form a critical part of this transformation are the technological advancements that facilitate free flow of information across the globe and ever increasingly global labour market.

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There is a man called Prahlad Jani, an 82-year-old Indian, who claims to have eaten not a single grain of rice or consumed a drop of water for the past 70 years and still is healthy and alive. This breaking news has surprised doctors all over the world who have found that the monk’s body is performing absolutely well on different medical tests even at this age which is not usually observed in a normal person taking regular diet. To find out the reality, a team of around thirty doctors conducted several tests on Prahlad Jani for 15 days, last month. After the test all reports of medical tests were normal.

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Twitter is world’s most popular social networking and microblogging service. It enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are basically a text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. Currently twitter has more than 100 million users worldwide. Many experts describe twitter as the sms of internet. Also it is the fastest growing website on internet. Twitter has a monthly growth of 1,382 percent, Zimbio of 240 percent, followed by Facebook with an increase of 228 percent. Let’s see the list of most followed twitter accounts.

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Hrishikesh Mukherjee is one my favorite Hindi Movies director. He is famous for being the pioneer of the ‘middle cinema’ of India. Most of his social and family movies reflected the changing middle-class ethos. Actually he carved a middle path between the extravagance of mainstream cinema and the stark relism of art cinema. His middle-of-the-road movies were realistic with simple plots and deeper meaning. He believed in making films full of heart-warming irony, literary sensibilities and straightforward in form, theme and treatment. In his career, he directed 42 films. Some of his superhit films are Chupke Chupke, Anupama, Anand, Abhimaan, Guddi, Gol Maal, Aashirwad, Bawarchi, and Namak Haraam. Let’s see 10 things that you should know about this great film director.

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Now a day, Ajmal Kasab has become a hot topic of disucssion in Indian Subcontinent. He is a Pakistani Muslim terrorist who was involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. He is the only terrorist captured alive by police and is currently in Indian custody. A day before yesterday, the Indian court convicted him of murder, waging war on India, possessing explosives, and other charges. Ajmal Amir was caught at Girgaum Chowpatty Naka in Mumbai trying to escape in a car. Now we all are interested in the court’s decision which is coming tomorrow. Actually the whole world saw his crime on many snaps and TV footages. Unfortunately it took the Indian Judicial system nearly 2 years to prove that Kasab is guilty.

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It is Steve Jobs who sells products for Apple. Yes, Steve Jobs, the best salesman in world. He is the man behind Apple and Pixar and the largest shareholder of Disney stock. He knows how to sell his products? His model for business is The Beatles. He says “they were four guys that kept each other’s negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are not done by one person, they are done by a team of people”. In last 30 years he has got the image of the idiosyncratic, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, emphasizing the importance of design and understanding the crucial role aesthetics play in public appeal. He has been involved in the development of products that are both functional and elegant like Macintosh, iPod, iPhone and now iPad.

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Lady Gaga is shocking the art world, Sarah Palin is leading a political movement and Steve Jobs is the talk of the tech town and that’s why they are in the Time Top 100 most influential people of world. Time 100 is an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, as assembled by Time. Now due to huge popularity of this list, it has become an annual event. In the list, people are recognized for changing the world, for better or for worse. This year there are four categories: Leaders, Heroes, Artists and Thinkers. Within each category, the 25 most influential people, with a grand total of 100. There are 9 Indians in the list including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chetan Bhagat, Sachin Tendulkar, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Amartya Sen, Rahul Singh, Atul GAwande, Sanjit Roy and P N Samy.

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Today is World Earth Day. Earth Day is celebrated throughout the world to generate awareness among the people about the planet earth. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in held on April 22, 1970. This date marked the beginning of the modern environmental movement. More than 20 million Americans participated in the campaign. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. I request all abhisays readers, please don’t blow earth with pollutants, dangerous gases, e-wastes, deforestation, good planets are hard to find.

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Meri Dilli Meri Yamuna is a project for saving the Yamuna river in Delhi-NCR region. It was started by The Art of Living foundation. The Art of Living Foundation is one of the world’s largest volunteer based, humanitarian and educational Non-Governmental Organizations, founded in 1981 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar with the vision of creating a stress-free, violence-free society. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar asked all the citizens to come together and raise awareness and alert the government. Many multinational companies including Microsoft, Educomp and Kent RO have become its partners. The UNESCO, World Bank, JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) etc. are also supporting the campaign.

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It’s all over for Shashi Tharoor. At last, the minister of state for external affairs has resigned from his post. Mr. Tharoor submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Prime Minister has forwarded his resignation letter to President Pratibha Patil. According to senior Congress leaders, Tharoor had become an embarrassment for the party and the Indian Government as he was unable to provide suitable explanation of his alleged role in the latest Kochi Indian Premier League controversy. His stint of less than a year as a Union Minister was dogged by a spate of controversies like stay in five star hotels, cattle class remark and the recent IPL controversy.