NewsMakers: September 2012

Sunday, September 30, 2012

How to keep safe from Facebook scams and spams

Cybercriminals are like terrorists. They prefer to target the most high profile and frequented places. And Facebook is the currently the hottest and happening destination in the online world. While Facebook on its part is implementing new security measures to keep you safe online, the real responsibility lies with the user.

Here are some tips to keep your Facebooking experience safe:

Interesting Real Facts (Strange but True)

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On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

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Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

Paresh Rawal’s Kanji Lalji Mehta is the man every society needs at this juncture of time. Director Umesh Shukla’s adaptation of the 2001 Australian comedy ‘The Man Who Sued God’ and the Gujarati play ‘Kanji Virudh Kanji’ by Bhavesh Mandalia is done beautifully. The film raises a lot of pertinent questions that the world in general, and our country in particular is seeking answers to at this point in time, and ‘OMG Oh My God!’ manages to put them across in a carefully crafted manner.

Chelsea stayed top of the Premier League table after inflicting Arsenal's first defeat of the season at Emirates Stadium.

Chelsea captain John Terry started as he decides whether to appeal against the four-match ban and £220,000 fine imposed by the Football Association after he was guilty of racially abusing QPR's Anton Ferdinand.

Four members of a Sikh family, including three children, have been found murdered in their home in Belgium’s capital city of Brussels.

All the four victims, who hailed from Punjab, had their throats cut, a report from Brussels said.
The gruesome discovery was made when the father Jasbir Singh returned home in the Brussels municipality of Etterbeek from the restaurant where he worked on Friday night, Belgian media reported.

SBI Clerk Exam : General Awareness Solved Question paper

SBI Clerk Exam : General Awareness Solved Question paper

1. Which of the following Departments of the Govt. of India is helping banks in disbursement of rural credit by the bank ?

(A) Railways

(B) State Road Transpots

(C) Post and Telegraph

(D) Ministry of Health

(E) None of these

State Bank of India Clerk Recruitment Exam 2008 Solved Paper

State Bank of India Clerk Recruitment Exam 2008 Solved Paper

1. Oscar Awards are given for the excellence in the field of -

(A) films

(B) Literature

(C) Sports

(D) Politics

(E) Status

The contests between India and Pakistan, the mother of all battles, have lived-up to the billing in the two T20 internationals they have played so far. Here's a look back at the top 5 India-Pakistan moments in T20 cricket.

SBI Bank Clerk Previous Year Solved Question Paper (2008)

1. The newly constituted National Knowledge Commission is headed by
a) C. Rangarajan
b)Prof. R. S. Sharma
c) Sam Pitroda
d) Ms. Girija Vyas

Paper: SBI Clerk Recruitment Exam 2009 (Reasoning)

1. If it is possible to make only one meaningful word with the Third, Seventh, Eighth and Tenth letters of the word COMPATIBILITY, which of the following would be the last letter of that word ? If no such word can be made, give ‘X’ as your answer and if more than one such word can be formed, give your answer as ‘Y’.

(A) I

(B) B

(C) L

(D) X

(E) Y

Paper: SBI Clerk Recruitment Exam 2009 (Quantitative Aptitude)

Directions—(Q. 1–6) What should come in place of the question mark (?) in the following questions ?

1. 196 × 948 ÷ 158 = ?

(A) 1156

(B) 1200

(C) 1188

(D) 1176

(E) None of these

Paper: SBI Clerk Recruitment Exam 2009 (MarketingAptitude/Computer Knowledge)

1. A keyboard is this kind of device—

(A) black

(B) input

(C) output

(D) word Processing

(E) None of these

Sample Practice Paper SBI Bank (2009)

1. The sum of two consecutive numbers is 55, which is the largest number?

(a) 25

(b) 28

(c) 26

(d) 27

Paper: SBI Clerk Recruitment Exam 2009 (General Awareness)

1. Which of the following States will soon have its first Civil Airports ?

(A) Jammu & Kashmir

(B) Maharashtra

(C) Assam

(D) Meghalaya

(E) Sikkim

Ans : (E)

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook apologized Friday to customers frustrated with glaring errors in its new Maps service, and, in an unusual move for the consumer giant, directed them to rival services instead, such as Google Inc's Maps.

The rare apology follows Apple's launch of its own mapping service earlier this month, when it began selling the iPhone 5 and rolled out iOS 6, the highly anticipated update to its mobile software platform.

The arrest of a top Google executive is reviving a debate about Brazilian laws that hold services such as YouTube responsible for the videos posted on them, making the country a hotbed of attempts to stifle digital content.
Legal experts said Thursday that Google violated a judge's order to take down videos on its YouTube subsidiary that target Brazilian political candidates and that the judge was completely within the law in issuing the arrest warrant.

People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Steve Jobs Trolled Bill Gates..

Found this funny conversation picture on internet and sharing with you just for fun... So please don't take it seriously...

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Jab Tak Hai Jaan: A Yash Chopra Romance..

Jab Tak Hai Jaan

Jab Tak Hai Jaan (Until there is life) is an upcoming 2012 Bollywood film directed Yash Chopra, written and produced by Aditya Chopra under their production house Yash Raj Filmsand it is supposed to be the last film directed by Yash Chopra. The film features Shahrukh Khan, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma in the lead roles, making it the first film to pair Khan and Kaif and the second collaboration between Khan and Sharma after Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. The film would be Yash Chopra's fourth film to feature Shahrukh Khan in the lead role and it marks his return as a director after eight years, his last film being Veer-Zaara in 2004.
The background score and soundtrack will be composed by A. R. Rahman while the lyrics penned by Gulzar. The film is scheduled to release on the Six-day Diwali weekend which begins on 13 November 2012.

Dr Suresh Moses Lee is the Raja Ramanna Fellow, Department of Atomic Energy, Safety Research Centre, Kalpakkam. He was the former director of safety research, health physics, information services, instrumentation and electronics group at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic research, Kalpakkam.

In this article, he and his wife, Suseela Moses Lee talk about how life was living at the Kalpakkam power plant township for 31 years..He was one of the members of the central panel of experts constituted to examine the reactors of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project.

Activist Anna Hazare has said that he will not resort to fasting any more to press for his demands and will fight for his causes through agitations.

"I will not undertake any fasts from now. In the future, I will fight for my causes through agitations," Hazare said on Friday night.

The anti-corruption crusader also said he will continue to work to send "clean" people to Parliament.

He said a large number of retired IAS officers had shown their willingness to join his movement for a corruption-free India.

Humiliated by Australia in their opening Super Eights match, a jittery India will have to pick up the pieces from their all-round failure and come up with an inspired performance against arch-rivals Pakistan in their do-or-die game in the World Twenty20 on Sunday.

1. An unfortunate debut-

The first ever game at Old Trafford took place on February 19th 1910 against Liverpool. The visitors won 4-3.

Washington: A high-speed chase turned ugly for Fox News on Friday when it televised - live - a fleeing carjacking suspect shooting himself in the head in the Arizona desert.

Nokia cuts Lumia 800, 900 prices before new models arrive...

Struggling phone maker Nokia has knocked 10-15 percent off the prices of two of its top of the range smartphones, hoping to boost sales before newer models arrive in markets in November.
Nokia has cut the price of the Lumia 800 by around 15 percent and the Lumia 900 by 10 percent in Europe, according to device pricing data compiled by British research firm CCS Insight. Nokia declined to comment.

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala High Court has ruled that no liquor will be sold before 5 pm in bars and hotels, in other words make drinking before that time a crime.

The shoe throwing scenes to attract the attention of Priyanka Chopra playing an autistic girl Jhilmil was apparently copied from 'Mathilukal' an award-winning Malayalam feature film directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan.

Due to 100 per cent tax exemption on their incomes, six major political parties saved Rs 510.02 crore between 2006-09, activists said on Thursday, and demanded these be declared as "public authority" and brought under the RTI Act.

The Congress party got the maximum exemption of Rs 300.92 crore, followed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which saved Rs 141.25 crore in taxes, a data compiled by activist groups Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch (NEW) showed.

All set for launch of heaviest Indian satellite GSAT-10 on 29 Sep 2012 (Saturday)

The stage is set for launch of India's advanced communication satellite GSAT-10, the heaviest built by the country, in the early hours on Saturday on board Ariane-5 rocket from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana.

Weighing some 3,400 kg at lift-off, it is Indian Space Research Organisation's 101st space mission.

BJP leader and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched a sharp attack on the UPA government, accusing Prime MinisterManmohan Singh of working for the benefit of "foreigners".

Taking a jibe at the Prime Minister, Modi compared him to a Hindi film character 'Singham', asking as to why he became bold only to benefit foreign countries.

The movie starts in London on a violent note on January 1, 2011. Within a few minutes we are transported to the same place, but one year later. Here we meet Kenny (Vikram), a blind man. Pianist in a church in London by day, Kenny is a man on a mission by night! In due course of his mission, he meets Sathyan (Santhanam), a cab driver and Sarah (Amy Jackson), an aspiring beauty queen.

Sand artist Deepak Mauthattil protests against the Centre’s decision to put cap on subsidised cooking gas cylinders by creating a replica of a cylinder in sand, at Shanghumugham beach in Thiruvananthapuram, kerala !!!

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