Congresswoman Shot Police have credited a 61-year-old woman who has never held a gun with an act of courage that saved the life of the US congress member and many others. Patricia Maisch told The Times yesterday how she lay against the wall preparing to die. The queue to meet Ms Giffords on Sunday (AEDT)... [Read More]

29office Everyone wants to network but may not know how to go about it. Parul Banka tells us the things one must and mustn’t do to get it right.Networking is the new buzzword in dictionaries of most people these days, particularly working professionals. Networking can help enhance your job search... [Read More]

13make1 Four Indian companies have been named amongst the world’s 20 most admired knowledge enterprises by the MAKE research programme established by Teleos, in association with The KNOW Network.The Global MAKE research is based on the Delphi methodology. This technique uses an expert panel’s... [Read More]

05sd1 Exxon Mobil Corporation is the world’s largest company in terms of market capitalisation. Mcap: $377.69 billion (Mcap figures as of Jan 5, 2011)Click NEXT to check the top 15 companies by market capitalisation… 05sd2 On the first day of stock trading in 2011, Apple’s market... [Read More]

ETA-Spain-1 Basque terror group ETA, which has killed more than 800 people in a four-decade fight for independence from Spain, announced a permanent cease-fire. “ETA has decided to declare a permanent and general cease- fire that can be verified by the international community,” said a statement posted... [Read More]

duo-pont Global chemicals major DuPont will acquire Denmark’s enzyme and specialty food ingredients maker Danisco for $ 5.8 billion. Both companies have presence in India. As part of the deal, DuPont would shell out cash worth USD 5.8 billion apart from assuming Danisco’s debt to the tune of $ 500... [Read More]

eta The armed Basque separatist group ETA on Monday consolidated its four-month ceasefire by making it “permanent, general and internationally verifiable.” In a communiqué published by the Basque newspaper Gara, ETA said it was making a “firm engagement” in favour of “a process of (finding)... [Read More]

MarkZuckerberg “We didn’t get the memo about shutting down, so we’ll keep working away. We aren’t going anywhere; we’re just getting started,” the New York Daily News quoted Facebook as tweeting. The Internet rumour was sparked by a report from a website, Weekly World... [Read More]

do-you-have-facebook New York, Jan 10: “Oh My God! No, it can’t happen, please!!!” It was the reaction by millions of Facebook users around the globe after the hoax rumor of Facebook Shutting Down on Mar 15, that spread like a wild fire in internet. After hours of confusion, Facebook... [Read More]

jared-loughner Posting strange and paranoid messages on the Internet and fixating on the end of the world, accused gunman Jared Lee Loughner appeared to be more driven by a delusional mind than a real interest in politics, mental health experts said Sunday. “I doubt people who say this is about... [Read More]

dead-bird-close Dozens of pigeons found dead on farm near Quebec City SAINT AUGUSTIN DE DESMAURES Reports of dead birds falling from the sky have made headlines across the world this week, and now authorities are investigating a similar mystery near Quebec City after a farmer found about 80 dead pigeons... [Read More]

earthcam Runways at a Florida airport are to be given brand new numbers, but not for cosmetic reasons – the changes are thanks to movement in the Earth’s magnetic field. Changes in our planet’s core are causing the north magnetic pole to speed towards Russia at nearly 40 miles a year. But... [Read More]

F-35JSF Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, will cancel the orders of F-35 jet as part of a wider plan to lessen the spending of Pentagon by $100 billion. The cutting of orders will go over the next three to five years and Gates will discuss it to the Congress today. The five-year spending plan for the... [Read More]

katy-perry AUSSIE A-listers went home empty-handed after being snubbed at the People’s Choice Awards in LA. Pippa Black watched as Keith Urban missed out on favourite country music artist, with newly single Taylor Swift collecting the award instead. And Mentalist hottie Simon Baker failed to pick... [Read More]

People's Choice Awards Show And the people have spoken! ‘Twilight’ trumped ‘Inception,’ Kristen Stewart beat out Angelina Jolie AND Jennifer Aniston, and Johnny Depp told Taylor Swift his daughter said ‘hey’ – only at the People’s Choice Awards. Queen... [Read More]

jessica-stroup-peoples-choice-awards-herve-leger-dress The winners list for the 37th ‘Annual People’s Choice Awards’ for 2011 has been declared. This year was totally the rule of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, which won four awards. It has bagged the awards in the sections- Favorite Movie, Favorite... [Read More]

booker Trapped in Newark after Blizzard 2010? Mayor Cory Booker wants to rescue you – and he’s only a tweet away. Booker has been tweeting up a storm, personally responding to tweets from citizens stranded by snowed-over streets. For days, Newark’s hero mayor has helped dig out buried... [Read More]

Kennedy-Center-by-Night The 33rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors 2010 is set to air tonight, from 9-11 PM (ET), on CBS. The event celebrates people for their lifetime work in the realms of dance, music, theatre, opera, and television. This year, the five honorees were Merle Haggard, Bill T. Jones, Jerry... [Read More]

airport Passengers wait for their flights in a terminal after sleeping a night at the Charles-de-Gaulle airport near Paris. Charles de Gaulle airport is running low on reserves of ethylene glycol, the liquid used to de-ice planes, said Eric Heraud, a spokesman for the General Direction of Civilian Aviation. The... [Read More]

United States’ Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described India as a “self-appointed frontrunner” for a permanent United Nations Security Council seat and directed US envoys to seek minute details about Indian diplomats stationed at the United Nations headquarters, according to... [Read More]

tax-bill When he first struck the deal two weeks ago, a sour Mr. Obama announced it by himself, lamented his own agreement and testily denounced his Republican partners as “hostage takers” and his liberal critics as “sanctimonious.” By the time he signed it into law on Friday, little more than... [Read More]

Controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is in custody in London on rape charges, has won an online vote to be Time magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’, amid continuous leak of thousands of confidential US diplomatic cables by his whistle-blower website.The 39-year-old Australian... [Read More]

markzuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg was announced the Time Person Of The Year, for his remarkable creation of Facebook. He is the second youngest person to receive the honour after 25 year old Charles Lindberg in 1927. Time’s editor said that Mark Zuckerberg was chosen as the Time Person Of The Year,... [Read More]

13web1 Online giant Google released a report – ‘Zeitgeist’ – on what 81 million Indian netizens have been searching for on the web.The company analyses billions of search queries to come up with the annual report.Indian Railways continues to top the chart. The Indian Railway... [Read More]