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One dollar is equal to 50 rupees?

in: India

rupee-dollar.jpgToday one dollar is equal to 48.8 rupees. Very soon it will become 50 rupees. Then it will be very easy for Indian bloggers to calculate their income in Indian Rupees. Do you know why it is happening? Before writing this post, I also have not much idea on this point but I searched many finance related websites on Google and get the reasons behind this depreciation of Rupee against dollar. These days there has been increased demand for dollars due to a spurt in oil prices.

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The Three Mistakes of my Life by Chetan Bhagat

According to NewYork Times, Chetan Bhagat has become India’s biggest selling English Language novelist in India’s history. Uptill now, he has written three novels, Five Points Someone, One night at call centre and the three mistakes of my life. Today I will talk about the third novel as I have just completed it. It is a story about business, cricket and religion. Actually in his first two novels, Chetan has concentrated on metros i.e lifestyle of big cities. In this novel, for the first time Chetan is looking into second tier cities like Ahmedabad. So this story is about the friendship and business partnership of three friends, Govind, Ish and Omi. First of all Govind dreamt of starting a business. After the help of his friends, he got success in opening a cricket shop near the town temple. But soon they realized that running a new business in a small city is very difficult especially when you are inexperienced, have lesser money and love affairs. They face religious politics and natural calamities.

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Drona Movie Review

in: Movies

So the Mumbaiya film makers are experimenting with super heroes. After the success of Hrithik Roshan as Krish, Goldie Behl one of the good friends of Abhishek got the idea to make a new super hero sort of movie with Abhishek. The idea was perfect, but the theme was complete copy paste. So the result is out. Drona is on the verge of becoming one of the biggest flops of the year 2008. Abhishek Bachchan is certainly a good actor but is not a right choice for super heores sort of films. Actually he completely lacks the charm and grace of a super hero.

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10 things that we should know about Gandhi

Today is Gandhi Jayanti. So I have decided to tell you 10 interesting things about Gandhi. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is the most important political figure of modern India. He was the chief leader of India in its independence movement. He was the pioneer of Satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence—which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He is known as Mahatma, the holy spirit. He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation, even his birthday, 2 October, is celebrated as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and world-wide as the International Day of Non-Violence. Today I will tell you 10 interesting things that we should know about Gandhi. So here comes the list.

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Who is the most Popular YouTube user?

YouTube is no doubt, the most popular video website on internet. But have you ever thought who is the most popular user on YouTube. Today I have come with the answer of this question. So the most popular YouTube user is universalmusicgroup with around 449,000 subscribers and 16,103,626 channel views. Universal Music Group consists of record labels Decca Music Group, Deutsche Grammophon, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Geffen Records, Island Def Jam Music Group, Lost Highway Records, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Philips, Polydor Records, Universal Music Latino, Universal Motown Records Group, Universal South Records and Verve Music Group as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world.

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Article 370, Jammu and Kashmir and India

in: India

JammuAndKashmir-flag.jpgKashmir is considered as heaven on earth. Yeah, it is right. But for India it is more than a hell. It is one of the root causes of most of the militant activities in India. There are many special privileges given to this state by the Government of India and all due to article 370. It was one of the biggest mistakes the then Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Today we will discuss the pros and cons of this article on Indian republic. By the way Jammu and Kashmir is the northernmost state of India and is situated mostly in the Himalayan mountains. It shares a border with the People’s Republic of China to the north-east , the states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab to the south, Pakistani province of Punjab to the south-west and North western frontier province to north west.

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Future of gaming industry in India

Computer-Games.jpgIn one of the recent bollywood film Bachna Ae Haseeno, the protagonist Ranbir Kapoor played the role a game developer. From there I got the idea to find more on status of gaming industry in India. Our children and young generation love to play computer and video games. But there are many people who convert their this hobby into profession. There are plenty of opportunities in the gaming industry. There are jobs like game designer, graphic designer, programmers, testers etc. Technical institutes like IIT, NSD, NASSCOM etc. are offering gaming courses. Due to companies like Zapak, Games2win, Microsoft, Sony and EA, there has been a huge increase in awareness about computer games.

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How Lehman Brothers became Bankrupt?

Lehman.jpg15th Sept 2008 has become a black day in the history of financial market with US fourth-largest investment bank Lehman Brothers filing for bankruptcy. Already Merrill Lynch has been acquired by the Bank of America and AIG is also verge of bankruptcy. How it happened? How 158 years old finance giant became bankrupt? Today I will discuss the reasons behind this biggest incident of bankruptcy in the history of mankind. So how Lehman started, how it became leader in financial-services and then became bankrupt. Let’s cover all points one by one.

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Female TV anchor slapped a male contestant

in: India

Dadagiri.jpg10 days back, one of the worst incidents happened in the history of Indian television. A female TV anchor slapped a male contestant and then within a fraction of second the male also slapped back the anchor. This drama happened in a reality TV show called Dadagiri on Bindaas TV channel, the youth entertainment channel from UTV group. This show deals with the experience of students on the very first day of their college. It is called the meanest game show by its producers. In this show, 4 students have to face the horrors of ragging on the first day of the college by three dadas in three rounds and compete against each other for a winning sum of Rs. 50,000 in cash. Actually, Dadagiri game show is a test of Physical Strength, Brain and courage. I am sharing the video in which you can see the whole incident. How the woman in the video, Isha the Goddess insults and slaps the contestant and gets even the harder one.

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5 Reasons why I hate Bangalore

Bangalore-Traffic.gifAlmost 1 year completed for me in Bangalore. In this one year, I have learned a lot about Bangalore. It is called silicon valley of India by some people. Fortunately, it is true. The software production in Bangalore is comparable to the best in the world. Almost every good software company has its office in Bangalore. The industrial areas of Bangalore, Electronic city and ITPL contains almost every good software company. This soft revolution in Bangalore has changed the life of the people. Now they earn more, spend more thereby creating a flow of money which you can’t see in other parts of India.

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