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Earthquake Births New Island Pictures

2013-09-29T08:13:00.001+05:30

On September 24, 2013, a major strike-slip earthquake rattled western Pakistan, killing at least 350 people and leaving more than 100,000 homeless. The 7.7 magnitude quake struck the Baluchistan province of northwestern Pakistan. Amidst the destruction, a new island was created offshore in the Paddi Zirr (West Bay) near Gwadar, Pakistan.

NASA's Earth Observatory has released before and after satellite images that clearly show the birth of the island.

Here's an image taken from the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite taken on Sept'26 & old Pic taken on Sept'17

2013-05-04T17:24:00.000+05:30

List of Few Top Real Estate Companies in India

Sl.No	Company Name	Website	Net Sales (Cr)	Market Capitalisation (Cr) – As on 03.05.13
1	DLF Ltd	www.dlf.in	3491.3	39325.4
2	Oberoi Realty Ltd	www.oberoirealty.com	391.4	7951.5
3	Unitech	www.unitechgroup.com	1287.9	7508.8
4	Prestige Estates Projects Ltd	www.prestigeconstructions.com	745.5	6104.0
5	Jaypee Infratech Ltd	www.jaypeeinfratech.com	3155.9	5229.3
6	Godrej Properties Ltd	www.godrejproperties.com	368.9	4833.0
7	Sobha Developers Ltd	www.sobhadevelopers.com	1396.5	3965.7
8	India Bulls Real Estate	www.realestate.indiabulls.com	142.1	3286.1
9	Omaxe Ltd	www.omaxe.com	1332.7	2740.6
10	Sunteck Reality	www.sunteckindia.com	13.8	2601.1
11	HDIL	www.hdil.in	917.4	2250.1
12	Puravankara Group	www.puravankara.com	527.6	2094.8
13	Anand Raj	www.anantraj.com	315.3	1925.5
14	Mahindra Lifespace Developers	www.mahindralifespaces.com	469.0	1708.5
15	DB Realty	www.dbrealty.in		1577.5
16	Parsvnath Developers Ltd	www.parsvnath.com	645.7	1531.8
17	SRS Real Infra	www.srsparivar.com	724.4	820.2
18	Brigade Group	www.brigadegroup.com	572.3	783.0
19	Kolte Patil	www.koltepatil.com	96.8	738.8
20	Ansal Properties & Infrastructure Ltd	www.ansalapi.com	1037.9	376.2
21	Vascon Engg	www.vascon.com	492.5	249.4
22	Nitesh Estates	www.niteshestates.com	79.0	172.7
23	Marg	www.marggroup.com	1501.0	90.9
24	Tata Housing Development Company	www.tatahousing.in	*	*
25	Sunil Mantri Realty Ltd	www.mantrirealty.com	*	*
26	Merlin Group	www.merlinprojects.com	*	*
27	Lodha Developers	www.lodhagroup.com	*	*
28	Kalpataru Group	www.kalpataru.com	*	*
29	K Raheja Corp	www.krahejacorp.com	*	*
30	Hiranandani	www.hiranandani.com	*	*
31	Ambuja Realty	www.bengalambuja.com	*	*

* - Not listed Companies

Top 5 Free SEO tools

2012-11-21T20:40:00.002+05:30

5. www.copyscape.com - This website searches the web for the other sites that are using your content. If someone else uses your content, then it becomes less valuable to search engines.
4. www.google.com/analytics - In google analytics i look at the following things in detail regularly.
a. Traffic Sources > All Search Engines > Keywords > Non Paid > Non Branded Terms. For this traffic source i look at : visits, time on site and bounce rate to give me an indication of how good the quality of the site is. Also Ecommerce > Keyword > Visits, Transactions, Revenue, Average Order Value and conversion Rate.
b . Sales Funnel analysis - I look at where my customers are dropping off during the funnel. This helps me to write better ad copy for my titles. Goals ? Funnel Visualization > Drop off Points
c. GEO location - Where are my visitors and customers coming from? Visitiors > Map Overlay > Country / Location > Ecommerce > Visits, Revenue, Transations, Average Order Value, Ecommerce Conversion Rate.

3. www.alexa.com - A great tool for seeing what your users do before and after they have visited your site. It offers great information including

Top 10 Keywords
Visitor Demographical Information
Click Stream - Sites visited by your visitors before and after they visited your site
Competitor keywords and demographics.

2. www.seoquake.com - Essential browser toolbar that provides 90 percent of the information you need about any site without doing anything.

1. Google, Yahoo and Bing Webmaster tools - Provided by the search engines themselves, these tools will tell you how to make your site more accessible to each search engine.

Google - www.google.com/webmaster/tools/
Bing - www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster
Yahoo - siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com

Design your own Maps!!!

2012-11-20T22:00:00.003+05:30

Using Google's Map API (http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps) or tools such as Mapbox (http://mapbox.com), we can create dynamic colour systems and content focused maps that get the data you dont need out of the way, so that the stuff you do need can rise to the surface. For instance, if you're designing a map to look like post-world war III America, you could remove all traces of roads and buildings, and replacea ll map icons with zombies.

2012-06-29T00:46:00.000+05:30

Few 'e' BOOKs for Civil Engineers

Technical e Books

1. IS 456 (Plain & Reinforced Concrete)

Project / Construction Management e Books

1. Mircosoft Project Inside Out 2003

2. Primavera (P3) Planning & Controlling Guide

3. Project Management Book

4. Expedition User Guide (From House of Primavera)

World's Tallest Structure

2012-05-14T18:18:00.002+05:30

The X-Seed 4000 is the tallest building ever fully envisioned, meaning that the designs for construction have been completed. The idea was initially created and developed by Peter Neville. Its proposed 4 km (2.5 mi) height, 6 km (3.7 mi) wide sea-base, and 800 floor capacity could accommodate five hundred thousand to one million inhabitants.
It was designed for Tokyo, Japan by the Taisei Corporation in 1995 as a futuristic environment combining ultra-modern living and interaction with nature.

The X-Seed 4000 "is never meant to be built," says Georges Binder, managing director of Buildings & Data, a firm which compiles data banks on buildings worldwide. "The purpose of the plan was to earn some recognition for the firm, and it worked."
Unlike conventional skyscrapers, the X-Seed 4000 would be required to actively protect its occupants from considerable air pressure gradations and weather fluctuations along its massive elevation. Its design calls for the use of solar power to maintain internal environmental conditions. Also, the proposed area is situated on the Pacific Ring of Fire, which is the most active volcano range in the world so X-Seed 4000 would be subject to tsunamis and earthquakes. The Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid (also planned for Tokyo, Japan) faces the same problems.
A sea-based location and a Mount Fuji shape are some of this building's other major design features — the real Mount Fuji is land-based and is 3776 m (2.35 miles) high, 224 m shorter than X-Seed 4000. The X-Seed 4000 is projected to be twice the height of the Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid at 2004 m. Other projects that may be in the top five man made structures are the Dubai City Tower (2400 m) and the Bionic Tower (1128 m) in either Hong Kong or Shanghai. These structures will all be in Asia.

Tallest Buildings in the World (Top 20)

2012-05-14T18:12:00.002+05:30

Tallest Buildings in the world - Top 20

Sl.No	Tower Name	City	Height
1	Burj Khalifa	Dubai, UAE	828 m
2	Mecca Royal Clock Tower Hotel	Mecca, Saudi Arabia	601 m
3	Taipei 101	Taipei, Taiwan	509 m
4	Shanghai World Financial Center	Shanghai, China	492 m
5	International Commerce Centre	Hong Kong	484 m
6	Petronas Tower 1	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	452 m
7	Petronas Tower 2	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	452 m
8	Zifeng Tower	Nanjing, China	450 m
9	Willis Tower	Chicago, USA	442 m
10	Kingkey 100	Shenzhen, China	442 m
11	Guangzhou International Finance Center	Guangzhou, China	440 m
12	Trump International Hotel and Tower^[7]	Chicago, USA	423 m
13	Jin Mao Tower	Shanghai, China	421 m
14	Al Hamra Firdous Tower	Kuwait City, Kuwait	413 m
15	Two International Finance Centre	Hong Kong	412 m
16	23 Marina	Dubai, UAE	395 m
17	CITIC Plaza	Guangzhou, China	391 m
18	Shun Hing Square	Shenzhen, China	384 m
19	Empire State Building	New York City, USA	381 m
20	Elite Residence	Dubai, UAE	380 m

Tallest Buildings in India

2012-05-14T17:51:00.001+05:30

Tallest Buildings in India

Rank	Tower Name	City	Height	Remarks
1	India Tower	Mumbai	700 m	Currently Stopped
2	The Imperial I	Mumbai	249 m
3	The Imperial II	Mumbai	249 m
4	World One	Mumbai	442 m	Work in Progress
5	Oasis Tower B	Mumbai	372 m	Work in Progress
6	Orchid Crown Tower 1	Mumbai	337 m	Work in Progress
7	Orchid Crown Tower 2	Mumbai	337 m	Work in Progress
8	Orchid Crown Tower 3	Mumbai	337 m	Work in Progress
9	Orchid Heights Tower A	Mumbai	328 m	Work in Progress
10	Orchid Heights Tower B	Mumbai	328 m	Work in Progress
11	Palais Royale Mumbai	Mumbai	320 m	Work in Progress
12	Lokhandwala Minerva 1	Mumbai	310 m	Work in Progress
13	Lokhandwala Minerva 2	Mumbai	310 m	Work in Progress
14	Orbit Terraces	Mumbai	300 m	Work in Progress
15	Indiabulls Sky	Mumbai	300 m	Work in Progress
16	Namaste Tower	Mumbai	300 m	Work in Progress