Posted by: MI on: May 28, 2012
A 16-year-old in Germany who solved a centuries-old math problem credited his accomplishment to “schoolboy naivety.” Shouryya Ray, whose family moved from India to Dresden when he was 12, solved a pair of fundamental particle dynamics problems posed by Isaac Newton more than 350 years ago to make it possible to calculate the flight path [...]
Posted by: MI on: May 11, 2012
It is no longer A for apple and B for ball. In text books being used for nursery class children studying under UP Board and CBSE, “B” is for bomb and “CH” is for Chaku. This language of violence is being taught to children in a book on Hindi language alphabets, titled ‘Aalok Shabd’. The [...]
Posted by: MI on: April 30, 2012
1. Day Trading Let’s face it. We all start day-dreaming at the very mention of investing and float into a fantasy world where we are as rich as Warren Buffet. As day-trading is perhaps the shortest time duration to get returns on an invested amount, newbie investors might be tempted to jump right into [...]
Posted by: MI on: April 28, 2012
Unemployment in Spain has hit a record high, official figures released Friday show, hours after rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded the country’s sovereign debt for the second time this year. Unemployment in Spain has hit a record high, official figures released Friday show. The news comes hours after rating agency Standard & Poor’s [...]
Posted by: MI on: April 25, 2012
The Harvard Business School has produced many talented people and today they have made a niche in the society. Having a tag of Harvard is more than enough to stand out in the crowd. The Harvard University was incorporated in 1908 and it has given many well known names to the corporate world today [...]
Posted by: MI on: April 16, 2012
Most of us would have not known that before becoming the public figures, what our famous political leaders’ first jobs were? If you have that curiosity, check out the list of the famous political leaders with their first jobs. Jawaharlal Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of our independent India was often called as [...]
Posted by: MI on: April 13, 2012
In a majority verdict that spelt out the private sector‘s obligation towards society, a three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, on Thursday. The law mandates the provision of 25 per cent free seats for children from the economically [...]
Posted by: MI on: March 2, 2012
Excessive bureaucratic hurdles, inflation and political instability have emerged as the top concerns for the Indian businesses, while larger companies are more worried than their smaller peers about global issues, a survey has found. According to the survey conducted by workplace solutions provider Regus, almost half of the decisions makers at Indian businesses (47 per [...]
Posted by: MI on: February 25, 2012
Opinions are never right or wrong, never constant and yes, the opinions are changing. “You can’t contain Sachin’s deeds in a statistical frame. He brings unstinted joy to the art of batting. Statistics will happen because cricket is about runs and wickets. But how can you evaluate Sachin’s contributions by just counting the number of [...]
