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Very interesting solution against corruption in india. I am not that daring that i can use this note.

But really interesting idea. This could also be used to catch corrupt officials. Slip one of these notes in a bundle of money and pay them, once they accept it bring a TV channel and show it.

One such story was our earlier case about the old lady and her troubles with the Revenue Department official over a land title. Fed up with requests for bribes and equipped with a zero rupee note, the old lady handed the note to the official. He was stunned. Remarkably, the official stood up from his seat, offered her a chair, offered her tea and gave her the title she had been seeking for the last year and a half to obtain without success. Had the zero rupee note reached the old lady sooner, her granddaughter could have started college on schedule and avoided the consequence of delaying her education for two years. In another experience, a corrupt official in a district in Tamil Nadu was so frightened on seeing the zero rupee note that he returned all the bribe money he had collected for establishing a new electricity connection back to the no longer compliant citizen.

Paying Zero Rupee note agains corruption in India

Who knew being slim was also a bad thing.

I think its because when you are old, you get sick quite often and if you are slim you body doesn’t have the energy to resist it. It could also be because if you are slim you will go place and do things which can only increase you chance of death. So the right mantra is be slim now get over weight as you get older. Until some one else comes up with a study saying even that is a bad idea.

But being very overweight or being underweight shortened lives.

Overweight elderly live longer

India will soon get new currency Symbol similar to the $. Which can easily be typed. It is expected to be released in march of this year.

Very soon, the Indian Rupee too will get a distinct identity — an identification symbolThe Indian government had announced a competition in March last year inviting creative designs from Indian residents to represent the rupee in a simple form.The finance ministry guidelines stated that the symbol should represent the historical and cultural ethos of the country. It should be applicable to a standard keyboard and has to be in the Indian national language script or a visual representation of it. The size of the final design should not be smaller than 232 square cm (36 sq inches).Five designs were short-listed from over 25,000 applications received from across the country. The short-listed candidates made a presentation on the design in December and the winning design is set to create history in March.The five selected designs are simple, easy to write and are designed to appeal to the Indian and international community. Some of these designs reflect the Devanagari script.The finalists are not allowed to reveal the details of their design till the results are declared, expected in March 2010.

Rupee symbol design: Meet the 5 finalists

Nature has figured out a way to sense earth quakes six seconds earlier and we still can’t predict them.

If ever you wondered about whether animals can sense earthquakes before they hit, heres video proof that might confirm the theory.

The best part about the is that the dog searches for its owner before trying to escape itself. I wonder how many humans would have done the same.

A few seconds later, the camera shakes as the quake rocks the building. The shot then shows drawers sliding out and debris dropping from the ceiling as people run from the room.

Sophie did a lap around the room trying to find her owner. They both made it out of the building safely.

Dogs Instincts Send Her Bolting Before Quake

This video i saw before all the Dubai financial meltdown happened. It still beautiful but can’t enjoy that much knowing all the money spent on making it. Its located on 30 acre lake and nearly 200 million us dollars was spent on it.

Yesterday i found out about Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik who is working at Future Group as Chief Belief Officer. A cheif beief officer i found that strange and started looking for more info.First about how i found out about himHeard about Shashi tharoor podcast interview through his tweetsThen went to indicast where this podcast was featured after listening to him podcast i looked around what other interviews they did and found the podcast they did about Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik.After listening to his podcast googled him and found his website.Where i found all his past writings. I spent yesterday from 12:30 pm to 5:30 am reading this. His articles about mythology and so interesting and relevant in this day and age.This is the only site where i went back and read all the previous post. I still have some left looking forward to read them tonight.Reading some of his stuff blows your mind away. In a good way by the way.Hope to see more stuff from him and his TED coverage which will be available soon.All his writings are interesting, here are my favourites.Forbidden Foods, Jai Ho!, A Mythic Inheritance, Decoding Lakshmi

For once i don’t agree with Chhabria, his version make the Nano look even uglier at least from the front. It will cost nearly 80000 Rs to get this modification done to your Nano. And i bet it would also reduce the mileage due to the weight this new styling adds on

Design changes that don’t add to the product are always bad, its will be available at carnations.

Dilip Chhabria makes hot Nano even hotter

I heard in class about how all these countries were once a single island. They broke up and drifted apart to create countries and islands etc. It’s fascinating to see one happen in our life time.In Ethiopia this is happening now.

A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm.

Giant Crack in Africa Will Create a New Ocean