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| Unsteady Behind The Wheel |
| The drunk MBA student, Gurudarshan, who rammed his car into the compound of Cubbon Park at Tiffany’s Circle recently is another telling evidence that potential killers behind the wheel are on the prowl on City’s streets notwithstanding severe checks and stiff penalties that police claim to be invoking against the menace.The Bangalore Traffic Police say that not less than 600 cases of drunken driving are booked during weekends and the weekly tally runs up to 1,000. They also claim... |
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| They Can’T Be The Right Role Models! |
| If their work can be termed brilliant, their personal life is just as messy. Over the years, music and movie stars have always made news for all the right and the wrong reasons. They have produced great music, made marvellous films, won all the awards possible and hit the pinnacle of fame. Yet, a number of them lead troubled lives riddled with controversies, relationship woes and substance abuse. Stars like Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Heath Ledger, Amy Winehouse and now Whitney Houston have... |
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| ‘I Feel The Pressure All The Time’ |
| Amit Kumar has a lineage that everyone will envy. But he knows the pressure of being legendary playback singer and actor Kishore Kumar’s son. “I feel the pressure all the time and I have lived with the comparison all my life. I have now decided to cut down on singing my father’s songs,” Amit Kumar says.But Amit Kumar has his own fans to please. Amit Kumar’s press conference, held in the City recently, saw more of his fans than the media. His fans were so... |
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| Maestro’S Magic Wins Hearts |
| It was time to say and do a lot through the world of music and what better way than an evening of ghazals. Recently, ghazal and playback singer Hariharan was in the City to give the audience a soulful dose of ghazals. Organised by Rotary Bangalore Indiranagar and Rotary Bangalore Rajajinagar, Shaam-e-Ghazal was an initiative to raise funds for affordable dialysis and heart surgeries for underprivileged patients. The purpose was also to provide terminally ill patients a decent life at a... |
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| Delightful Renditions |
| It was truly a unique musical experience with some of the best musicians from across the country performing under one roof. The Teen Prahar concert brought together the best musicians from the classical, Hindustani and Carnatic genres. The concert that lasted for more than five hours had each musician play exclusive compositions for about an hour and half each. The audience comprised music lovers, musicians and those who followed the work of the musicians who had come to perform. The evening... |
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| Exit Interview Is What Employers Need |
| What next? Better prospects and salary hike motivate employees to quit companies.Hit by high attrition rates, many companies are taking ‘exit interview’ seriously to build employer-employee relationships.TeamLease Services, India’s largest composite staffing company, has released the findings of its latest survey ‘Impactful Exits’ as part of its survey series to understand ‘India’s new World of Work’, which has found that almost 92 per... |
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| Employers Use Lockouts To Go On Offensive |
| America’s unionised workers, buffeted by layoffs and stagnating wages, face another phenomenon that is increasingly throwing them on the defensive: Lockouts.From the Cooper Tire factory in Findlay, Ohio, to a country club in Southern California and sugar beet processing plants in North Dakota, employers are turning to lockouts to press their unionised workers to grant concessions after contract negotiations deadlock. Even the New York City Opera locked out its orchestra and singers for... |
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| Leadership To Shape Financial Services Industry, Says Survey |
| After undergoing decades of rapid transformation, never before has the financial services industry experienced dramatic changes in technology, regulatory, political and demographic changes sweeping across the global economy as today. Emerging markets and new alliances are demanding innovative and efficient approaches to traditional business models. Customer sophistication is at an all-time high, only out-shadowed by their high expectations and diminishing loyalty. To pinpoint significant... |
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| Youths Hit Hardest By High Unemployment, Says Un |
| Unemployment among the youths has risen sharply in the recent years resulting in social unrest and political turmoil in many countries, especially in the Middle East and North Africa region, a United Nations report said recently. In the aftermath of the economic crisis, the global youth unemployment rate saw its largest annual increase in 2009, resulting in around 75.8 million unemployed youths. The situation has not improved much since then. In 2010, the global youth unemployment... |
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| Apple Makes Macintosh More Like The Ipad |
| While iPhones and iPads get most of the attention, Apple is now directing the spotlight on the Mac, says David Pogue.There had been rumours swirling that Apple was back-burnering the Mac, but that’s hard to believe after a recent announcement: from now on, Apple will update Mac OS X once a year.It will start this summer with Mac OS X 10.8, code-named Mountain Lion, only a year after the Lion version was released.Now you’ll have to decide once a year whether or not to succumb to... |
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| Dh Utilities |
| Free online virus scan Indian users don't like to spend on good anti-virus software and many rely on free packages. Even if you run a commercial software, given the rate at which new malware hits the cyberspace, there is no guarantee that your programme will catch them always. Bitdefender QuickScan, a free online service, detects active malware on your system, in under 60 seconds. As it runs from the cloud, detection process is performed remotely posing no strain on your resources. Just go to... |
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| Tech Blog |
| Smart phones surge ahead Globally smartphones (SP) are a rising force and 2011 saw India falling in line with this trend. According to data released by Convergence Catalyst, an analyst firm, a little short of 10 million SPs were sold in 2011 and October alone, the best month of the year, saw customers lapping up a million devices. The key event of the year was SPs breaching the sub-100 dollar barrier. Nokia continues to lead the SP segment but the crown rests uneasy. In the first half of 2011... |
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| Making Movies With Mobiles |
| Movie-editing software is probably among the most underused technologies on the consumer market. Powerful programs like Adobe’s Premiere and Apple’s iMovie often come preinstalled on desktop computers, but many people never use them. Mobile software could change that.Apps like VidTrim (free on Android), Avid Studio for iPad ($5) and the mobile version of iMovie ($5 on Apple) are less ambitious than the desktop programs, so they’re easier to learn. And with mobile devices... |
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| Lend Your Car To Strangers For Cash |
| Suppose you don’t need your car today. And suppose, as it happens, that a stranger in your area does need a car. Would you be willing to rent yours out?Several car-sharing start-ups, including Getaround, RelayRides and JustShareIt, are eager to connect car owners with renters this way. The companies use different formulas, but participating owners receive, generally speaking, about two-thirds of the rental proceeds. RelayRides says an owner of a midsize, late-model sedan who rents out a... |
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