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2008-09-27T03:54:00.000-07:00

The delay in passage of a US bailout package for ailing financial markets and shut down of America's second largest bank caused a global meltdown with Indian bourses crumbling by a huge 940 points, biggest point-wise fall in the last 25-week, in the week under review। Even as the US administration continued its debate on a USD 700-billion rescue package for the shattered financial system, the on-going credit crisis claimed yet another victim leading to across the board sell-off in the stock markets.
The US regulators on Thursday seized the 119-year-old Washington Mutual Inc, a leading savings and loan bank in the US, and sold its banking operations to JP Morgan Chase for 1.9 billion dollars.
In the week to September 27, the Bombay Stock Exchange 30-share barometer tumbled by 940.14 points or 6.70 per cent to end the week at 13,102.18 against its last weekend's close.

BMW CASE

2008-09-06T00:41:00.000-07:00

Nine years after the BMW hit-and-run case, the verdict has been pronounced and we all feel relieved that justice is done.All this hindsight really taught us about ourselves. Today we're using the BMW case to take a long hard look at ourselves, something we perhaps should have done a long time ago.It has become almost standard practice for the media to tape popular sentiment when the verdict in a case like the BMW hit-and-run case is out.The public is ready with answers, but as we dig a little deeper, a more complex reality unfolds.In the nine years it has taken for Sanjeev Nanda to be convicted for running over and killing six people, he has been out on bail, successfully running his posh hotel in Delhi where often the same faces that form part of the public condemnation when faced with a camera can also switch sides in the evening and party with him."The page 3 circle float knows when to float with whom. This is a step in climbing the social ladder," said fashion designer Narendra Kumar."It is regressive because we believe we've been part of a moral victory. We see it as the triumph of good over evil, not realising that many times, we've been part of that evil. So the desire to be holier than thou is a normal human trait but you also want to be on the right side of the debate," said Suhel Seth.The most honest admission of the doublespeak that happens is what we came across on the street quite by accident.There is, however, a distinction that can be even in the middle class reaction to a case like the BMW, between people from the glitterati, the social elite, and the rest of the middle class, truly relieved to see that justice in this instance could not be subverted."I think there is a universal element to it. Everyone wants to know famous people but what is interesting here is that we look at famous people as if they were patrons. In politics we don't vote for someone who represents our point of view, we vote for someone we feel can do something for you. So in the Nanda case, it is there. In the chattering classes, the noisy people, they are the ones who are exulting, but if you see the other class many are not happy because they feel if it could happen to him it could happen to us," said Dipankar Gupta, a sociologist.

International Industrial Trade Show

2008-08-20T23:21:00.000-07:00

ArriveNEWS, a division of the Industrial Leaders Group (ILG) and organizer of the International Industrial Trade Show (http://www.ArriveNEWS.com/iits.html), announced today the addition of 87 exhibitors for IITS 2008. According to Conrad Bailey, spokesman for the company, the show is designed to connect industrial buyers and suppliers worldwide utilizing the Web as a meeting platform for exhibitors, visitors and participants of the virtual event.Bailey said the International Industrial Trade Show is an all-year-long event held daily to enable manufacturing, engineering and construction professionals to participate at their convenience as well as post and explore proposals and open RFQ's from qualified buyers at http://www.IndustrialLeaders.com/mfg.html. "IITS is not a typical virtual trade show because it showcases offerings of products and services from exhibitors throughout the year and allows buyers and suppliers to connect with one another when its most convenient for them to do so," said Bailey.The exhibitors recently added to the trade show, among others, include manufacturers and suppliers of measuring and testing systems, industrial lasers, lead-based PVC stabilizers, leather work gloves, heavy-duty mechanical equipment, granite and marble slab, EDM wire, stainless steel wire, CNC machines, 3D inspection systems, seamless welded tubing, PCR tube, plastic extrusions, edge protectors made of rubber, metal scrap, cement, pipe and valves, grinding stones, semiconductors, commercial printing presses, packaging materials, machine tools and a wide range of other industrial machines, equipment, supplies and raw materials.

2008-08-12T23:00:00.000-07:00

Market

Almost every day there's another headline about the deepening crisis in the housing Market. Foreclosures climb to new record levels, and homeowners caught in this crisis pay a higher cost than just the financial losses of foreclosure. The personal and emotional costs are also mounting. They are worried, confused, frustrated and often embarrassed and afraid to talk with their lender about ways to help solve their problems. Organizations are springing up everywhere to assist distressed homeowners deal with their financial and emotional situation. Some offer counseling services or mediation with lending institutions. Some offer buyout options to homeowners who are about to lose their homes to foreclosure.
Tina, a single mother of two, living in Moreno Valley, California, thought buying a house was going to be the happiest time of her life. "I was living 'the American dream' until one day my son was diagnosed with a life threatening illness. My dream after time became my nightmare. I started missing days at work that lead to missed income. It was nearly impossible to make my mortgage payment."
Larry Howell co-founder of the Mortgage Default Legal Team, a new enterprise that assists homeowners through the foreclosure process, said, "We saw a need that we knew we could fill. We had a group of legal, mortgage, and real estate professionals that have more than 100 years combined experience. We negotiate with lenders, stop harassment and collection calls, assist in relocation and credit repair and council our clients about their rights. Howell said that although many foreclosure stories are about family hardship, there is also an increasing number of homeowners who are upside-down in their mortgages; that is the value of their home is significantly less than their mortgage. They recognize that the investment in their home has gone bad, and they are looking for help and advice.

2008-08-04T03:23:00.000-07:00

145 die in Hindu Naina Devi temple stampede
A religious pilgrimage turned into a disaster when at least 145 people – most of them women and children – were killed as a crowd of thousands stampeded at a Hindu shrine in northern India।Police said that a crowd of up to 10,000 pilgrims may have panicked yesterday morning after heavy rains caused loose stones to tumble down a hillside as they made their way up a narrow two-and-a-half mile path to a hill-top temple in the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh.

2008-07-25T06:31:00.000-07:00

Asian
The demonym "Asian" is often used colloquially to refer to people from a subregion of Asia instead of for anyone from Asia. Thus, in British English, "Asian" can mean South Asian, but may also refer to other Asian groups. In the United States, "Asian American" can mean East Asian Americans, due to the historical and cultural influences of China and Japan on the U.S. up to the 1960s and in preference to the terms "Oriental" and "Asiatic".

2008-07-22T23:02:00.000-07:00

NPT

By amending the Section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, the legislation permits the United States to provide a one-time concession to India to remain outside the purview of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but keep its nuclear weapons. After India conducted its very first nuclear test in 1974, the United States slapped a ban that prohibits providing it nuclear fuel and technology. This amendment upturns this 30 year old ban.

2008-07-18T05:15:00.000-07:00

CPM issues whip to its म्प्स
July 18, 2008 at New Delhi, July 18: Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee has been left out of the whip issued by CPM to its MPs to vote against the Government in the trust vote on July 22. The exclusion of Chatterjee is significant as the CPI(M) has so far been maintaining that he should toe the line of the party, which has decided to vote against the government.

2008-07-15T00:02:00.000-07:00

Deal All NSG countries members of IAEA
NEW DELHI, JULY 14: Moving fast on the India-specific safeguards agreement, the International Atomic Energy Agency has called for a board of governors meeting on August 1 to take up the issue। And in the run-up to that meeting, India plans to hold a special briefing for all IAEA member-states on July 18 in Vienna, three days before the House meets for the trust वोट.

2008-07-11T01:48:00.000-07:00

SP exploiting Kalam for political opportunism: BJP
New Delhi .The BJP on wednesday accused the Samajwadi Party of "misusing" former President Abdul Kalam's name and reputation for political opportunism। "It is unfortunate and admonishable that the Samajwadi Party and its managers have chosen to misuse former President Abdul Kalam's name and his undoubtable credentials and national service to their political benefits," BJP vice-president Muqtar Abbas Naqvi told PTI here on wednesday.

2008-07-02T01:40:00.001-07:00

BJP calls nationwide strike on July 3 on Amarnath row
New Delhi : In the wake of the Jammu and Kashmir government revoking its order on transfer of land to Amarnath Shrine Board, BJP on Tuesday called a nationwide strike on July 3 to protest the decision. "The BJP calls a nationwide strike on July 3 to protest this monstrous act of revoking the allotted land to the Shrine Board for Amarnath pilgrims in Jammu and Kashmir," party President Rajnath Singh said here.

2008-06-29T23:21:00.000-07:00

Gay March at India

First Time in India, a gay pride parade was held in three Indian cities on Sunday. Bangalore, Delhi and Kolkata saw hundreds of people embracing their identity and proudly proclaiming their sexuality through a celebration of colour and music.Over 500 sexual minorities marched five km in Bangalore, asking for rights to exist and to repeal section 377 of the constitution, which criminalizes sexual minorities.

2008-06-27T00:28:00.000-07:00

India`s first Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw is no more
Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, whose military victory in the 1971 Indo-Pak war led to the creation of Bangladesh, died in Military Hospital in Wellington, Tamil Nadu late on Thursday night। He was 94.

2008-06-25T06:45:00.000-07:00

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2008-06-20T23:21:00.000-07:00

11,000 more visit Amarnath cave after rain break
Srinagar:The Amarnath yatra continued on Friday with 11,000 people offering prayers at the Himalayan cave shrine of Lord Shiva after a brief break forced by bad weather even as six more pilgrims died on the yatra route. The two-month yatra was suspended after heavy rains in the morning that left the tracks to the 12,750-ft-high cave shrine in Pahalgam district of Jammu and Kashmir slippery and unsafe, officials said. Pilgrims stranded at various points were however allowed to take the traditional Pahalgam and shorter Baltal routes after the weather cleared in the afternoon, they said.
They said 6,000 pilgrims from Chandanwari and 5,000 from Baltal paid obeisance to the naturally formed ice Shivalingam at the Amarnath cave. Senior BJP leader L K Advani flew there in a helicopter, offered prayers and stayed for an hour Devotees headed for Amarnath from Baltal and Nunwan base camps but no fresh batch was allowed out of Jammu base camp.
Six more pilgrims including an elderly woman died en route to the cave shrine since last evening, taking the death toll in this year's yatra to 10, the officials added.
Meanwhile, the Srinagar Chief Judicial Magistrate's court today ordered a probe into the case against Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board CEO Arun Kumar for allegedly making statements "that are likely to create communal disturbance"। The PDP had yesterday filed a complaint under Section 153 A (promoting enmity between groups on religious grounds, acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony) of the state's Ranbir Penal Code.

2008-06-18T23:45:00.000-07:00

Credit for PAN

2008-06-12T23:41:00.000-07:00

Ranchi,Want food on credit? Show your PAN.With rising defaulters’ list, tea stall owner provides eat-now-pay-later facility only to those furnishing PAN card or identity proof Unable to break the eat-now-pay-later habit of his customers, a tea stall owner has decided to give credit to only those furnishing a photocopy of their PAN or identity cards.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar mediate Raj Gov. and Gujjar

2008-06-11T01:33:00.001-07:00

JAIPUR: Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar arrived on Tuesday to mediate between the Rajasthan government and Gujjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla to defuse the 17-day imbroglio. Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, BJP's state unit chief Gopi Nath Munde, party spokesperson Prakash Javedekar, state BJP president Om Prakash Mathur and other senior leaders called on Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. The spiritual guru is staying at the residence of Rajya Sabha MP Ram Das Agarwal.

BJP becom hitech party

2008-06-06T20:24:00.000-07:00

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) plans to become the world's most automated party in the next 3 years by adding IP capabilities in its Unified Messaging Platform. For this, it has selected ValueFirst, a provider of Mobile Data Services to develop an extensive SMS based communications network for registered members of the party across their district/state office network in the country which will be launcehed next week when an MoU will be signed. It is also coming up with a 10 digit Party Membership ID Number to double up as members' Unified Communication Number.

Karnatka governer and Gov. crices

2008-05-31T22:53:00.000-07:00

Banglore.It is not a right move. We expected the governor to convene a joint session of both the Houses of legislature and address the members. But he has insisted that we prove our majority first," president of the State unit of the BJP D V Sadananda Gowda said...Relations between the new B S Yeddyurappa government and the Raj Bhavan appear to have begun on a strained note.

Governor Rameshwar Thakur’s stand that he would deliver the address to a joint session of the legislature only after Yeddyurappa proves his majority on the floor of the Assembly has drawn the wrath of the ruling party.“It is not a right move. We expected the governor to convene a joint session of both the Houses of legislature and address the members. But he has insisted that we prove our majority first,” president of the State unit of the BJP D V Sadananda Gowda told reporters here on Saturday.

Nepali man become oldest person climb the top of mount evrest

2008-05-25T09:54:00.000-07:00

KATHMANDU - A 76-year-old Nepali man has become the oldest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest, a government official said on Sunday, beating a record set last year by a Japanese man.

IInd phase election in Karnatka Today

2008-05-15T19:06:00.000-07:00

An estimated 1.10 crore electorate are expected to decide the fate of 589 candidates, including BJP's Chief Ministerial candidate B S Yeddyurappa, in the second phase of elections to Karnataka Assembly. Electoral authorities have made elaborate arrangements for conduct of the elections in the 12,271 polling stations in 66 segments spread across ten districts, where over 56,000 security personnel would keep a close watch.

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2008-05-13T20:16:00.000-07:00

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2008-05-01T10:11:00.000-07:00

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2008-04-26T01:36:00.000-07:00

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2008-04-25T07:17:00.000-07:00

MUMBAI: After having made the Central BJP leadership agree to his demands, BJP leader Gopinath Munde met Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray late on Thursday night and sought his "blessings".Munde, who returned to the city after meeting top BJP leaders including L K Advani and Rajnath Singh in Delhi, had a meeting with Thackeray at his residence during which the Shiv Sena leader wished him all success, Sena sources said on this Friday.

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2008-04-20T22:45:00.000-07:00

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2008-04-16T02:09:00.000-07:00

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Mayawati welcomed Sc Verdict

2008-04-10T21:34:00.000-07:00

NEW DELHI, April 10: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and BSP chief Mayawati on Thursday reached Delhi and welcomed the Supreme Court verdict upholding 27 per cent quota for OBCs in higher educational institutions. “Our party welcomes the SC judgment and my Government will ensure full implementation of the reservations in higher educational institutions in Uttar Pradesh," said Mayawati at a press meet in the Capital on Thursday.

Superstar of the country

2008-04-07T06:52:00.001-07:00

MUMBAI: Two days after an article in Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamna criticised Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan, party chief Bal Thackeray on Monday sang a different tune calling Bachchan a "superstar of the entire country". "Amitabh is not just star of one particular state, but the superstar of the whole country. Hence it is improper to drag him into needless controversy of regionalism," Thackeray said in an editorial on Monday. The Sena chief asked not to drag the actors into the ‘son of the soil’ controversy. In a front page article two days back, Saamna had praised Tamil superstar Rajnikanth, who had his early life in Karnataka, for his stand on the Hogenakkal issue and said it had "dwarfed" Bachchan when it came to taking a firm position on issues relating to Maharashtra. Rajnikanth had joined protests by the Tamil film industry against Karnataka over the water issue, despite bring brought up in Karnataka and born in Maharashtra.

Mahendrs Singh Tikait

2008-04-02T02:40:00.000-07:00

Wednesday, April 02, isauli (UP), April 2: BKU leader Mahendra Singh Tikait was arrested on Wednesday after he surrendered before the police for his alleged casteist remarks against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati ending three days of tension. "Yes, absolutely," Gurdarshan Singh, UP IG (Railways) told newspersons shortly after the 73-year-old farmers' leader came in a cavalcade of cars from his Sisoli village on Wednesday morning after negotiating a peaceful surrender.

Bachchan vote for IIFA

2008-03-29T00:44:00.000-07:00

The brand ambassador of International Indian Film Academy (IIFA), Amitabh Bachchan set in motion the voting process for IDEA-IIFA Awards 2008 by casting the first vote Friday.The industry voting for the IDEA-IIFA Awards nominations would be open March 28-30. Industry stalwarts, actors, directors, producers, technicians and composers are expected to cast their votes during the IIFA voting weekend to decide nominations for the main awards

PM greets new Pakistan PM

2008-03-26T00:23:00.001-07:00

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh telephoned Pakistan Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani this evening and greeted him on his assumption of office. Dr Singh expressed the hope that India-Pakistan relations can evolve to become the best ever and he also hoped Mr Gilani would build on the initiatives taken by his predecessors, former Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Shariff and also that of President Pervez Musharaf to improve bilateral relations. Earlier in the day Prime Minister Singh also wrote a letter to Prime Minister Gilani.

Gilani will Pakistan P.M.

2008-03-23T22:39:00.001-07:00

Islamabad, March 24: Pakistan's prime minister-in-waiting has the experience and track record to hold together an unwieldy coalition as it move stone utralize
President Pervez Musharraf, lawmakers and analysts said. But Yousaf Raza Gilani also has a personal reason to ignore Musharraf's appeals for cooperation: he spent years in jail under the beleaguered U.S.-backed leader. Lawmakers choose Pakistan's next prime minister in a vote in parliament on Monday. A pro-Musharraf party has nominated a die-hard supporter of the former army strongman. But Gilani is a shoo-in after opposition parties swept elections last month. Musharraf is expected to swear him in Tuesday.

Media & Entertainment will grow next 5 years

2008-03-18T02:33:00.000-07:00

India’s media and entertainment (M&E) industry is poised to grow by 18 per cent over the next five years and become a Rs 1.157 trillion industry by 2012. This was revealed by the FICCI-PricewaterhouseCoopers 2008 report on the M&E industry. According to the report, the industry registered a 17 per cent growth in 2007 over the previous year.

Airport movement stoped

2008-03-15T04:55:00.000-07:00

NEW DELHI: The two-day “non-cooperation movement” by employees of the Airports Authority of India to protest against closure of the Hyderabad and Bangalore airports was called off here on Thursday evening.The decision followed a government assurance, at a meeting Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel had withrepresentatives of the Airports Authority of India Employees Union (AAEU) and trade union leaders here, that no airport would be closed down without consulting the employees. Also, modernisation of 35 non-metro airports would be carried out with the full involvement of the AAI workers.

AAEU Strike

2008-03-12T23:47:00.000-07:00

New Delhi: Flight operations remained unaffected throughout the country on Wednesday despite the "non-cooperation" protest launched by the Airports Authority of India Employees Union (AAEU), but the issue of agitation of the workers was raised by angry Left MPs in Parliament. In the Leftist bastion of Kolkata, passengers at the airport there faced enormous inconvenience due to absence of basic amenities even though flight schedules were not affected even there.A civil aviation ministry spokesperson said that flight operations throughout the country were normal, including in New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai.

RBI Changed ATM Charges

2008-03-11T01:06:00.000-07:00

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Monday removed all charges on using the cash vending machines, except for withdrawing money for which a maximum fee of Rs.20 has been prescribed. Even the withdrawal fee will be abolished from April 1, 2009.While issuing guidelines on charges for use of ATMs, the RBI has asked the banks to abolish with immediate effect all charges on services such as balance enquiry.The banks, however, will have the freedom to fix charges for withdrawal of cash from ATMs through credit cards and from ATMs located abroad.
The guidelines, which are being issued in pursuance of the approach paper on ATM charges brought out by RBI in December 2007, seek to abolish fee on cash withdrawal from ATMs from April 1, 2009.

Indian Cricket Team

2008-03-06T03:47:00.000-08:00

Mumbai, March 6, The triumphant Indian cricket team is on its way to New Delhi in a chartered flight from Mumbai. The team landed in Mumbai after their victorious tri-series campaign in Australia en route to Delhi on Thursday. It was a long flight as they returned from Down Under via Singapore. The players, however, did not come out of the airport and proceeded to the domestic terminal for a chartered flight to the capital. Only fielding coach Robin Singh came out as he had to leave for Chennai shortly and would not be going to Delhi. He was immediately mobbed by mediapersons and fans waiting outside and had a tough time moving out.

India win tri Seires 2-0

2008-03-04T08:08:00.000-08:00

Sydney, March 4: India ended their tour of Australia on a high note when they beat the hosts by nine runs on Tuesday to win their best-of-three finals series 2-0. Sachin Tendulkar scored a superb 91 and paceman Praveen Kumar went on to capture four wickets as the tourists followed up Sunday's six-wicket win in Sydney with a thrilling victory at the Gabba in Brisbane. The Australians, who also lost 2007's tri-series finals at home to England, recovered from a terrible start to give themselves a glimmer of hope when James Hopes (63) and Matthew Hayden (55) made half-centuries, only to come up short.

Himachal Vikas Nigam

2008-03-01T23:04:00.000-08:00

The website of Himachal's truly national online magazine and news service, Him Vikas. The editorial values focus on leading and shaping public opinion on the issues that affect Himachal Pradesh and other such hills and mountainous regions. Led by a team of highly credible and experienced journalists and citizens, editorial themes cover economic, political and social issues.

indian railway budget passed

2008-02-27T08:22:00.000-08:00

New Delhi, February 26With an eye on the general elections, union railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav expectedly reduced passenger and freight rates across the board in his budget proposals for 2008-09 and announced the biggest ever annual plan for the gigantic system with an investment of Rs 37,500 crore.

Publication Tips

2008-02-13T22:12:00.000-08:00

The decision to publish a book is very exciting! It causes the creative juices to flow and the eyes to light up. But wait - before you begin the publishing process, know about the seven most important steps you need to know before publishing your book. Make sure that you take every step into careful consideration so that your road to success is an easy one: Know why you are writing a book. Are you writing your memoirs for the family, are you writing a community cookbook, are you writing a book of regional interest or are you writing a national bestseller? All of these goals are valid, but each goal has different implications for your business plan. Know why you are writing and know that you can create that bestseller if that is your goal. Treat publishing as a business. You are passing beyond the realm of author into the exciting world of publishing. You are not just a writer, you are about to become a publisher who wants to produce a profitable book, and you want to keep the profits for yourself. Write a business plan. Being aware of the business aspect of publishing is not an end in itself - you need to formally write your plan. It does not need to be a fifty page document with every accounting possibility recorded, but it should outline all of the costs that you will encounter from obtaining the necessary funds to knowing the price of mailing a book. The business plan needs to account for future expenses as well as pre-publication expenses Plan for publicity and marketing. You must plan for the publicity and marketing of your book. You can have the best book in the world, but if no one knows about it, no one will buy it. You don't want to print books that sit in your garage. You want to print books that will sell, sell, sell! Write about a subject that you know well. Don't write about something that you can't talk about without effort. Write about a subject with which you are very familiar and that excites you. Writing the book will establish you as an expert in your field, so choose the topic that causes everyone you know to come to you for advice. The publicity will then be so easy that you will love being the "star" Know who will buy your book. So many authors think that "everyone" needs and should buy their books. Not so. Perhaps "everyone" needs their books, but not "everyone" will want to buy. Research and know WHO will actually WANT your book and market, market to them. They will buy! Look for non-bookstore markets and do not be afraid of the large discounts. Bookstores are a hugely important market for most authors, but they are far from being the only place to sell books. There are many non-traditional markets that buy books in large quantities with no returns. This is a great market - sales made are guaranteed sales not consignment sales. Do not be afraid of the larger discounts when you make those large volume sales. The books you sell are actually SOLD. Think how much more pleasant a journey is if you know which fork in the road will lead you to smooth driving and which fork in the road will lead you through potholes. Knowing the most effective publishing steps before you print will make your publishing career fun and profitable. (Coursy G.M.S.)

Mumbai SP Rally

2008-02-04T00:42:00.000-08:00

Even as the Samajwadi Party (SP) rally at Shivaji Park was under way, police had a tough time reining in Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers who had gathered outside the Park to thrash those going for the rally. Around 100 MNS activists milled around near the party office close to Shivaji Park, raising slogans and swooping down on SP workers even as policemen fought hard to rescue them and keep the situation under control.Some workers - who unknowingly mingled with the MNS workers thinking they were part of the rally crowd - were assaulted too. "I thought the crowd had assembled for the rally. I do not even know why I was thrashed," said Santosh Jaiswal, a resident of Worli.

Australia won T-20 Melbourne Match

2008-02-01T04:35:00.000-08:00

Melbourne, February 1: Australia beat India by nine wickets in their Twenty20 match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday. Scores: India 74 all out in 17.3 overs (I Pathan 26; N Bracken 3-11; A Voges 2-5) lost to Australia 75-1 off 11.2 overs by nine wickets (M.Clarke 37 not out, A.Gilchrist 25)

Three BSP M.P.s disqualified

2008-01-30T05:45:00.000-08:00

Speaker Somnath Chatterjee disqualified three BSP Lok Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh on grounds of defection to Samajwadi Party. The disqualified BSP members are Bhalchandra Yadav, Ramakant Yadav and Mohammad Shahid Akhlaque. Their seats in the House have been declared vacant. The decision was taken by the Privileges Committee of the House on a petition by Rajesh Verma, Leader of BSP in the Lok Sabha. This is third major disqualification of members in the Lok Sabha since the implementation of the Anti-Defection Law in 1985.(AIR)

Word flu confirm Bhopal Lab

2008-01-24T05:08:00.000-08:00

नई दिल्ली पश्चिम बंगाल में बर्ड फ्लू से प्रभावित जिलों वीरभूमि, दक्षिण दिनाजपुर, मुर्शिदाबाद, नादिया, दक्षिण 24 परगना, उत्तर 24 परगना, बर्धवान और बांकुरा में करीब ढाई लाख मुर्गियों को मार दिया गया है। यहां जारी आधिकारिक विज्ञप्ति के अनुसार पश्चिम बंगाल के नादिया जिले के कृष्णानगर प्रथम और हरिणघाट ब्लॉकों, बर्धवान जिले के कतुग्राम, जमुरिया और गाल्सि ब्लॉकों तथा बीरभूम जिले के नालहाटी प्रथम, बोलपुर श्रीनिकेतन ब्लॉकों से भेजे गए पक्षियों के रक्त नमूनों की जांच में भोपाल स्थित उच्च सुरक्षा पशु रोग प्रयोगशाला ने एन-1- एच-5 वायरस पाए जाने की पुष्टि की है।

हावडा, दक्षिण 24 परगना, उत्तर 24 परगना, हुगली, कोलकाता और पश्चिम मिदनापुर के नमूने निगेटिव पाए गए हैं। राज्य के प्रभावित इलाकों में मुर्ग मुर्गियों को मारने के लिए 258 त्वरित कार्रवाई दल लगाए गए। इनमें से सबसे अधिक दल बीरभूम में 79, बर्धमान में 60,. मुर्शिदाबाद में 51, दक्षिण दिनाजपुर और नादिया में 34-34 दल लगाए गए हैं। ये दल अब तक दो लाख 42 मुर्गियों को मार चुके हैं तथा 88,252 अंडो और तीन हजार किलोग्राम खाद्य साम्रगियों को नष्ट कर चुके हैं। पशु पालन विभाग, डेयरी और मत्स्य पालन तथा स्वास्थ्य एवं परिवार कल्याण मंत्रालय के संयुक्त दल झारखंड, बिहार, उडीसा, असम और मेघालय में अपने काम में लगे हुए हैं। एक दल को त्रिपुरा और मिजोरम के लिए रवाना किया गया।

Clinton & Obama grater bebate

2008-01-21T22:54:00.000-08:00

Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama accused each other of repeatedly and deliberately distorting the truth for political gain Monday night in a highly personal, finger-wagging debate that ranged from the war in Iraq to Bill Clinton's role in the campaign.

Obama told the former first lady he was helping unemployed workers on the streets of Chicago when "you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart." Moments later, Clinton said that she was fighting against misguided Republican policies "when you were practicing law and representing your contributor ... in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago." Obama seemed particularly irritated at the former president, whom he accused in absentia of uttering a series of distortions to aid his wife's presidential effort. "I'm here. He's not," she snapped. "Well, I can't tell who I'm running against sometimes," Obama countered.

The two rivals, joined by former Sen. John Edwards, debated at close quarters five days before the South Carolina primary -- and 15 days before the equivalent of a nationwide primary across 20 states that will go a long way toward settling the battle for the party's nomination.

News Paper survey in America

2008-01-18T23:41:00.001-08:00

According to the Newspaper Association of America and the Audit Bureau of Circulation, as of March 31, 2007, the average circulation for daily newspapers in the United States decreased by 2.1 percent over the same period in 2006, while Sunday circulation dropped 3.1 percent over the same period. Meanwhile Nielsen//NetRatings, an Internet media and market research company, reported that more than 59 million people visited newspapers’ websites during the first quarter of 2007 (37.6 percent of all active Internet users).

This represents a 5.3 percent increase over the same period a year earlier. Scarborough Research, a firm that researches media habits, reports that, on average, newspapers’ websites contribute to a 13.7 percent increase in newspaper audience for 25- to 34-year-olds, and a 9.2 percent increase for 18- to 24-year-old But, it is newspapers’ weblogs (blogs) that have enjoyed the largest increase in readership.

According to Nielsen/NetRatings, visits to the blogs of the top ten newspapers grew by 210% from December 2005 – December 2006, garnering 3.8 million unique visitors in December 2006. By contrast, total online readership at the top ten newspapers grew only 9% over the same period.While one interpretation of these statistics could potentially fuel the debate over whether the newspaper is “dying,” what is more accurate and interesting to note is that the newspaper organization is changing – and changing dramatically. These statistics indicate that while readership of the print edition of newspapers is decreasing, newspaper organizations are successfully retaining their audience, and in some cases growing audience, particularly in the younger demographics by complementing their print offerings with an online component, especially online offerings like blogs where readers can not only read the news, but participate in the journalistic process by commenting and engaging in conversation and debate about the news and in some cases even contributing content in the form of photos and commentary, a practice called citizen journalism.

Summary of 19th Century of Newsparers

2008-01-15T05:02:00.001-08:00

As a new American nation emerged in the 1800s, the first draft of history was written by those who experienced it and recorded it in newspaper pages from coast to coast. Reading those exact pages is like stepping directly into history. And with Gale’s 19th Century U.S. Newspapers — a full-text searchable, facsimile-image database-experiencing 19th-century American culture, daily life and events is as easy as clicking a mouse.

This close look provides a unique perspective valuable to both professional and general researchers across a spectrum of subjects. Newspapers were the lifeblood of the new Republic, and the contents of their pages helped shape the nation’s identity, carrying not just the stories which unified American opinions, norms and interests, but fueling the crucial debates of the day. The 19th century press helped to create an environment of free expression which came to typify both America and the American. And with about 1.7 million pages archived — the vast majority of which have never before been accessibleonline — this easily-accessed resource seems endless

Newspapers : Story begins some five centuries ago in Europe

2007-12-30T14:44:00.000-08:00

The story begins some five centuries ago in Europe. Here, merchants would distribute newsletters written by hand containing information regarding the weather, economic conditions, wars and human-interest stories. Although this was the first known form of distributed written information, the country accredited with the creation of the first newspaper is Germany. In the late fifteenth century, a cross between a brochure and a pamphlet was dispersed among the people, the text containing highly sensationalized stories along with description of the current news events.
America, however, was a step behind. Publick Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestick, was the first newspaper published in America. Printed by Richard Pierce, and edited by Benjamin Harris, the first copy issued on September 25, 1690 would also be the last. It filled only 3 sheets of paper measuring six by ten inches, the equivalent of filling half of the front page of a newspaper today (14" x 23"). The paper had intended to be issued once a month.
The sudden discontinuation of Publick Occurrences would mean the last news offered to Americans for the next few years. Instead, newspapers published in London were read even though the "first true newspaper in English was the London Gazette, published four years later in 1666.
Fourteen years later, back in America, John Campbell, a bookseller appointed Postmaster of Boston, became the editor of the Boston News-Letter. The first issue was dated Monday, April 17 to Monday April 24, 1704 and contained only one advertisement. This was produced weekly and continued to be so even when William Brooker was appointed Postmaster to replace Campbell. Campbell refused to authorize the use of the title "News-Letter" to anyone else so Brooker called his newspaper the "Boston Gazette". Seven months later, Philip Musgrave was awarded the position of Postmaster in Boston and replaced Brooker. At this time, James Franklin, the printer of the Gazette, was also replaced. He wanted to start his own newspaper even though friends and family dissuaded him from doing so by telling him that Boston already had a sufficient number of newspapers (2) and a third could not survive. Despite this, Franklin went ahead and published his own newspaper, the New England Courant. The first issue was printed on August 19, 1721 making it the fourth newspaper published in America.
When James Franklin published an editorial criticizing the government, he was sent to prison. James' 13 year old brother and apprentice, Ben, took over the work of laying type, printing, and delivery of the issues. Six months later, James Franklin was forbidden to publish any more newspapers so the masthead now carried the name "Ben Franklin" as editor and publisher. Ben, now legally free of being an apprentice, and having a dislike for his brother James, ran away to New York and later to Philadelphia. The New England Courant kept publishing issues claiming Ben Franklin was editor and publisher until 1726 without anyone being the wiser.
The fact that newspapers had been so scarce in Europe, America, and many other continents is due to many factors. To find a literate man was no easy task after Europe was emerging from the black age. Paper was extremely expensive, and hard to come across, and the task of printing was long and laborious. The latter was still a problem even with the invention of the printing press in 1436.
A 39-year-old Johann Gutenberg came up with a printing method, where, by arranging stamps displaying the letters of the alphabet, one could construct a page of literature to be copied numerous times. This became known as the Gutenberg Press, one of the greater inventions the fifteenth century held. Although a giant improvement from hand copying, this method still required the rearrangement of the letters each time a new page was to be printed.
In the early 1800's the development of continuous rolls of paper enhanced the original Gutenberg Press as did a steam-powered press and a way to use iron instead of wood for building presses. This added efficiency of printing made the prices of printed goods more reasonable hence the term "penny press". This phrase originated when newspaperman Benjamin Day dropped the price of his New York Sun to a penny a copy in 1833. Historians have accredited the "penny press" as the first true mass medium.
Another advancement in the history of printing was the origin of Linotype, a method of creating movable type by machine instead of by hand. This was introduced in 1884 and marked a significant leap in production speed. In terms of the use of computers in the field of printing, especially newspapers, the progression is unbelievable. From the first daisy-wheel and dot matrix "impact" printers to common use of the non-impact printers: ink-jet, laser and thermal-transfer, printing presses are on the brink of becoming a thing of the past.
The big question regarding what the future holds for the old-fashioned newspaper is whether or not it will be overcome by the use of the Internet. Studies show that from 1992 to 1997, the weekly hours of using the Internet has increased from 1.8 hours, to 9.1. Although the evidence is convincing that in the future the use of computers will obliterate that of newspapers, sometimes the tangible aspect is too great to give up for a color monitor. You may be convinced that there's no better way to relax than with some black coffee and the front page. Or perhaps up-to-the-minute updates on top stories are more your interest. All we can say is: To each his own, but always keep an open mind.(L T O)