At times I used to get confused on the differentkinds of the file extensions that I used to see in the documents etc which came into my mail. At times it was a .doc file. At times it was a .jpg file. At times it was something different. How to open these files? What do [...]
A part of Situ Ginung lake dam in South Tangerang, West Java of Indonesia, gave away on early Friday morning at around 2.00 a.m. (1900 GMT on Thursday). In the dam burst, a number of local residents were washed away along with about 230 houses being washed away. The Death toll of the dam burst [...]
When I need some cash to tidy over the requirement over and above what I do earn normally, what do I do? That is the question most of us have whenever the requirement hits us. Some of us borrow from near and dear. Some of us sell gold and other things that would have saved [...]
The government on Friday imposed the first increase in mileage standards for passenger cars. It also boosted the floor for sport utilities and pickups beginning with model year 2011. The regulation is an abbreviated version of the initiative launched by Congress and the Bush administration in 2007 to reduce U.S. dependence on imported oil and [...]
In these days of tough economic conditions, one needs to save one’s hard earned money. What are the avenues for the same? One avenue is the stock market. Though the stock markets have been showing some positive signs in the last couple of days, I am not sure whether the economy has really turned around [...]
Global sales of Nintendo’s Wii console have passed 50 million, the company’s boss Satoru Iwata has said. The Wii is now the fastest-selling games console in history. It has overtaken the PlayStation 2. Mr Iwata also said that Nintendo’s handheld DS console had shipped 100m units around the world. “Almost no one expected them to [...]
Any industry running on power needs good backup. Whether it is a small industry needing a very small backup generator or a big unit requiring mega backup power, industries need a backup and a good one at that in terms of a generator. The generator being bought should be reliable, should be economical – it [...]
Taliban’s military campaign in southern Afghanistan is aided partly by support from operatives in Pakistan’s military intelligence agency, as per the report from The New York Times report on Wednesday. The newspaper, citing U.S. government officials, said the support for the Taliban and other militant groups was coordinated by operatives in the S Wing of [...]
When we bought a new house, we paid lots of attention to fitting it with the right kind of furniture. We went through a number of catalogues. We went to a number of show rooms and looked at a range of furnitures. We had to select furniture for every single room : drawing room, bed [...]
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