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Commonwealth Games 2010 | My Views and Comments!!

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Commonwealth Games... a multi-sport even organized once in every 4 yrs by the Commonwealth Games Federation where teams from member nations of the Commonwealth of Nations participate. Most of the nations are those that were ruled by the British Monarch in the past. 54 countries are members of the Commonwealth of Nations but around 70+ teams usually participate in the games as certain independent states of countries send in separate teams. By now anyone reading this article probably knows that the latest edition of this games is to be held in New Delhi in India starting on the 3rd of October n goes on for almost 2 weeks after which the Commonwealth Para Games will begin in the same venue. With less than a few days more to go for the Opening Ceremony, so much controversy has surrounded the sporting event!!! Infrastructure Problems, Health Problems, Accommodation, and mainly Corruption and many more..  During the last few weeks there i havent seen a single day pass by without a news rega

Horton Place Suicide Man

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so you all probably know about this story by now.... this is about the man who on the wee hours of the 14th of September (yesterday) climbed the 40 feet or so high skeleton structure used for a cutout of Mahinda Rajapakse during the Presidential Elections and protested that the president either comes and meets him or be given a chance to meet the president over his grievances else he would drink poison and jump off the tower and commit suicide!! now... why this post?? well just wanted to write my opinions on this incident, how it was handled by the emergency teams (police and fire brigade) etc.. well we all know what happened.. this man apparently climbed this towering structure at around 5.00am in the morning yesterday, placed a few banners along the way up saying why he was doing it and then went to the top wearing a motocycle jacket and a helmet with his face covered with a handkerchief... this guy apparently had some grievances of his own which he wanted to say to the president

"Burn A Quran" Day and the World Wide Impacts

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Quran - The MOST Holiest Book of Islam and for Muslims. Rev. Terry Jones, a Pastor of a place called the Dove Center in Florida in the USA has started a world wide controversy with his event to commemorate the 9/11... and this is, to BURN the Quran in public!!! He has said that he plans to burn around 200 copies of the Quran and has called in people to join in his mission which he says is to "send a message to the radical Muslims to stop what they are doing". And this like all other was reported in the media and has now sparked a global controversy... With countries like Indonesia and Pakistan saying that if the event goes ahead, bad consequences will follow. Muslims make up almost 25% of the population with around 1.6 billion muslims around the world.. and all the 1.6 billion muslims believe in the Quran and consider it the holy book even having certain procedures before accessing the book. In a situation like this, if such an incident takes place.. imagine even if half of

EID MUBARAK

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WISHING ALL MY FRIENDS AND READERS A VERY HAPPY AND PEACEFUL EID-UL-FITR FESTIVAL EID MUBARAK The above cards are designed by me and you can use it freely for sending greetings too... Adios!!

Google Instant Search

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So you guys probably heard about this sometime back but today its official!!! Google, the search GIANT has rolled out a new product in their search line up... the launch event is still going on at the time iam writing this post... but the main topic is done... its launched!!! Get ready to welcome Google Instant Search... Now for those who don’t know what in the world am talking about here you go... Google Instant Search is a modification of the Google search engine whereas before you type the search team and press "Search" button or press enter to search whereas now, all you gotta do is to just type in and it will start searching and while you modify your search criteria, it keeps modifying the results shown in real time!! And best of all - NO RELOAD OF PAGE!!! This is cool... seriously!!! You gotta try this... but then at the moment its only limited to those people who have a google account... so login thru your google account then go to www.google.com/instant to activat

Celebs on Twitter

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Well v all know what Twitter is eh?? well ya da most popular micro blogging site in the world... it has been the center of many controversies in the world with the latest at the time of this post being that of Kevin Peiterson's controversy... well like every other person, celebrities are also on Twitter... to name a few, Obama, Lady Gaga, Justin Beiber, n a whole lot more... these guys use twitter to communicate with the outside world... make announcements and also give a peek of the private life of themselves to their fans... these guys have 1000's of ppl following them n all that.. so this post of mine is dedicated to all the celebs that I follow on twitter... u can connect wit me on twitter by going to my twitter profile clicking the "t" button on the right panel but below are the names of the celebrities n a link to their twitter pages.... all of them r their official pages... most i follow jst for fun n a few coz i like them.. most of the actors are b

Air Force One - The Most Looked Upon Plane in the World

well, Iam sure that pretty much all of you out their knows what the Air Force One is... well there are chances that you wont be knowing so let me give you a small introduction. Air Force One is the name that is the call name given to any plane that the President of the United States of American boards into. Actually there is a specialized plane that he exclusively uses for his air travel but that plane to can only be called the Air Force One only the US President gets into the plane. Well this post is about this specialized plane. Actually its planes.. the US Air Force has two planes, identical in every aspect which is used for the transport of the US President ONLY. This plane has all the sophisticated systems and also defense systems aboard the plane is is like the portable version of the White House and the Oval Office. And for your information, their is also the Presidential Helicopters which are called Marine One. The following is a documentary made by National Geographic

Periodic Table of Google Elements

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so you guys would have already seen this making the rounds in the internet and all... but i never saw in any website where a whole list of the stuff thats there on the table been published.. so here i go.. i make the effort.. found a good high res pic (thx to labnol/digital inspiration) and with much difficulty trying to figure out wat is wat n put it here... so here i go... if i can read one, i will jst put da symbol only or "x" marks... Ol 21 - Google took Street View to the 21st Winter Olympics in Vancouver mappings parts of Whistler Mountain via Snowmobile. MJ 5000 - Twitter reported 5000 Michael Jackson related tweets on the afternoon he died. Ir 3 - 3000 YouTube videos were uploaded from Iran in the first 24 hours of the 2009 presidential election xxxxxxxx. Yc 08 - YouTubes YouChoose '08 channel featured 14 presidential candidates, 4 candidates from the senatariol race, and 1 Gubernatorial race. Ht 46 - Google's Person Finder app helped track 46