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War on Terror : India Today

2008-12-03T04:18:00.000-08:00

We,the people of India declare war on terror today!! so join the movement and take a pledge..

Link here : http://specials.indiatoday.com/specials/petition_new/pledge.html

Use Mouse Scroll Whell to Open / Close tabs!!

2008-12-03T03:11:00.000-08:00

To open a new tab using the scroll wheel, simply click the scroll wheel on the link you wish to open, and the target will appear in a new browsing tab.

Well a quick and easy way to close a tab (without misclicking) is to use the scroll wheel on a standard mouse. Simply mouse over the tab you wish to close in the browser tab row and click the scroll wheel. It works in both Firefox and IE7, the two most popular tabbed browsers.

No to all keyboard shortcut

2008-12-03T03:08:00.000-08:00

When you copy, move or delete a group of files you often receive prompts that ask if you're sure you want to take a specific action; Are you sure you want to move that read only file? This folder already contains a file named 'abc'. Would you like to replace the existing file? If you notice in the dialogue prompt that Windows shows, there is an option for 'Yes to All', but not an option for 'No to All'. However, although Windows does not display this option, it still exists in quasi-keyboard shortcut form. When a Yes to All/No prompt appears,holding the Shift key and clicking no has the same effect as 'No to All'.This means that across the board Windows will not overwrite, copy or delete any file in that particular operation for which you have opted 'No to All'. Windows will prompt you for each type of operation, once for move a read only, once for overwrite confirmation, but only once for that particular action. It behaves the same as the 'Yes to All' option presented in the standard Windows dialog with a 'no' instead of a 'yes.'

Counter strike: India must bomb terror camps

2008-12-03T01:51:00.000-08:00

As evidence of Pakistan connection to the Mumbai attacks piles up, India is hardening its stance. The Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said that all options are now open, including a military one against Pakistan's terrorist strongholds. Meanwhile, the Pakistan government says it is open to a joint investigation into the attacks.

CNN-IBN debated on Face the Nation if India should target terror camps in Pakistan.

On the panel of experts to try and answer the question were former secretary to the Ministry of External Affairs and former ambassador to UAE and Iran, K C Singh; Senior International Correspondent CNN, Nic Robertson; Pakistani author of A Case of Exploding Mangoes fame, Mohammed Hanif; and Pakistani journalist Naseem Zehra.

At the beginning of the show, 90 per cent of those who voted in said yes, India should target terror camps in Pakistan while a minority 10 per cent disagreed.

K C Singh said that this was not a realistic option for India, but as far as the Government is concerned he said that all options are on the table as of now.

"The time is there for us to exert pressure on other countries, get international public opinion on our side. However, we must remember that Pakistan is a nuclear weapons' state and any attack inside Pakistan is inviting war. The question really is, is that what the Pakistani military wants? Are they trying to disengage from the western side and bring their troops to the eastern side? I think we should put everything in a larger context and not be drawn emotionally into anything the Pakistani army is looking forward to," Singh cautioned.

Mohammed Hanif entered the debate at this point saying that there were parts of Pakistan which were completely lawless and where the writ of the government just did not work but they were not Muzzaffarabad - which was devastated by an earthquake - or Muridke - which is a thickly populated, struggling town in Pakistan's Punjab.

However, he conceded that there were indeed areas in Pakistan where the government was trying very hard to establish its writ.

"The Hotel Marriot blasts and the assassination of Benazir Bhutto show that Pakistan was is as much a target of terror as India, but the government of Pakistan is trying very hard. President Asif Ali Zardari has come into power less than a year ago after a very traumatic experience and he is struggling with the same issues that India is including riots, lawlessness and terrorism," said Hanif.

4100 Terror attacks since 1974

2008-12-03T01:47:00.000-08:00

India faced more than 4,100 terrorist attacks between 1970 and 2004, accounting for more than 12,000 fatalities, according to the Global Terrorism Database.

The database is maintained by the University of Maryland and the US National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START).

START's Terrorist Organisation Profiles (TOPs) collection has information on 56 groups known to have engaged in terrorism in India, including the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).

About 12,540 terrorist-related fatalities in India between 1970 and 2004 - an average of almost 360 fatalities per year from terrorism in India. These fatalities peaked in 1991 and 1992, when 1,184 and 1,132 individuals (respectively) were killed in such incidents, a University of Maryland statement said.

These figures are on the lower side as official figures in India put the toll at around 70,000 deaths.

Terrorists in India have employed a variety of attack types over time, 38.7 per cent of terrorist events were facility attacks, 29.7 per cent were bombings (in which the intent was to destroy a specific facility), and 25.5 per cent were assassinations. Last week's terror attacks in Mumbai, which left at least 183 dead, would be classified as a series of coordinated facility attacks.

Five to six England stars to shun India tour

2008-12-03T01:31:00.000-08:00

London, Dec 3 (PTI) Traumatised by last week's Mumbai attacks, as many as six cricketers might stay back even if England decide to tour India for the two-match Test series, according to former pacer Dominick Cork.
Cork said he talked to most of the English cricketers who returned home abandoning the last two ODIs in India following the Mumbai attacks and claimed five-six of them are definitely not going to return to India.

"I know of at least five or six players who are going to turn their backs on England. Those I've spoken to are traumatised. What they saw on television was 10 times worse than what was shown here," Cork told the BBC Five Radio.

Though he didn't name the players, pacer Steve Harmison and spinner Graeme Swann have already gone public with their reluctance to tour India, while Andrew Flintoff too feels the same way. Pacer James Anderson is also likely to stay back to be with his pregnant wife.

The England and Wales Cricket Board, for the past few days, were locked in talks over the future of the Test series, the fate of which now hangs on security expert Reg Dickason's report. PTI

The wait continues!!

2008-12-03T01:18:00.000-08:00

Huh..its been longtime since im into Cognizant through campus recruitment.Its more than an year n half ago on july21st,the wait goeson till today!! Expecting the joining in the coming days. Lets hope i get it someother day! wat im upto all these days is nothing...just roaming along with friends n all wat an usual jobless person wil do.But during all these days i have learnt manythings over internet like learnt alil bit about SEO,web designing,photoshop n many to list!! lets hope this learning ends for me n the career learning starts soon!!

Bear with me..as it is my 1st Blog Post!!