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Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco in Feburary 24, 1955 and died on October 5, 2011. He was an adopted son of the Jobs couple from California.Jobs attended Homestead High School in California and often went to the after school lectures by Hewlett-Packard Company. It was there that he met his eventual partner, Steve Wozniak.
Jobs would have his early beginnings working at Atari as a technician building circuit boards. In 1976, he would start the company Apple Inc. with Steve with funding from a millionaire investor.In 1984, he developed the Macintosh, which was the first small computer with a graphic interface in its time. It had promise to revolutionize the whole PC industry.
In 2009, Jobs would have a personal net worth of $5.1 billion. He is one of the world’s most successful businessmen today.He founded Apple in the 1970s, got chased out by his own board of directors, but returned eventually as Apple’s CEO. Since then, he has revolutionized the IT industry with his creations like the MacBook, the iPod and the iPhone.Since his return, he has brought Apple Computers Inc. However, bad business decision and internal stife with his CEO would eventually cause Jobs to leave his own company.He went on to start two other companies; NeXT and Pixar. Pixar would be acquired by the Disney Company and NeXT would be acquired by his own Apple Computers Inc. apple logo With the acquisition, he returned to Apple Computers Inc. in 1996 as interim CEO. From that time on, the rise of Apple Computers began again as the iMac would be developed.The famous iPod and iPhone would later be developed and it would revolutionize the whole handphone and MP3 player industry. Under his leadership, Apple Computers Inc. became a force to be reckoned with.
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Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs died on Wednesday.
BJP works on yatra details
The BJP core group on Sunday deliberated over senior leader L.K. Advani’s proposed yatra on the corruption issue. The issue was also discussed during the party’s office-bearers’ meeting later in the day. Though the party is yet to finalise a detailed plan for this yatra, sources said many leaders suggested it should start from Gujarat either on October 2 or October 11. While October 2 is Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary, October 11 is Jayaprakash Narayan’s birth anniversary.
BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said party national general secretary Ananth Kumar has been made the convenor of the yatra and that the complete details of the campaign — the place of origin, route and who will accompany Mr Advani — were being worked out. The party will announce the details later this week.
A section within the party is of the view that Mr Advani announced this yatra in a bid to project himself as the party’s probable candidate for Prime Minister in the 2014 general elections.
Another prospective date being worked out is September 25, the date in 1990 that Mr Advani began his Ram Rathyatra from Somnath to Ayodhya. The senior BJP leader visits Somnath every year on this date. The starting point of the yatra is also a matter of debate with Somnath, Ahmedabad and Porbandar being some of the places under discussion. There were suggestions that there should be breaks in the yatra during festivals such as Dussehra. Some leaders also suggested that the yatra should cover the Northeast states.
While Mr Advani is of the view that it should focus on “clean politics and good governance”, some senior BJP leaders feel it should be specifically an anti-corruption yatra as the issue has resonated across the country. At the meeting at BJP president Nitin Gadkari’s residence, the BJP chief raised several issues, including the government’s “failure” to control prices and fight terrorism and corruption. He told party leaders the UPA’s credibility has “hit rock bottom”.
Resource : http://www.asianage.com/india/bjp-works-yatra-details-495
Gulbarg massacre: eyewitness recalls the horror
New Delhi: For the victims of the Gulbarg Society massacre, it’s been a nine-year long wait for justice. Imitiyaz Pathan, who lost 8 members of his family is among the few who came forward to testify against the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Imtiyaz Pathan clearly remembers February 28, 2002, the day when rampaging mobs slaughtered eight members of his family, including his mother at Ahmedabad’s Gulbarg Society. Imtiaz is among those few victims who have sworn in court that they saw and heard former MP Ehsaan Jaffri make frantic calls to Chief Minister Narendra Modi for help but help that never came.
“Jaffri sir said that he had called Narendra Modi to ask him for help. I asked Jaffri Sir what Modi had said, he told me that instead of helping, Modi abused him. He became disheartened and gave up the struggle. He spoke to the rioters outside and asked them to take him and spare the women and children. Four men came in and took him out on to the road where they killed him,” said Imtiyaz Pathan, Riot Victim.
Jaffri and seventy others were killed at Gulbarg that day. And now nine years down the line Imtiaz hopes all those responsible for the riots will face the due process of law. He is waiting for the Supreme court judgement on a petition filed by Ehsaan Jaffri’s widow Zakia, seeking criminal proceedings against Narendra Modi and 61 others, including cops, bureaucrats and Sangh Parivar members.
“The names I have taken, I have taken in the hope that they will be brought to justice,” said Zakia Jaffri, Petitioner.
“I am hopeful that the Supreme Court will deliver justice to us, that Narendra Modi will be held responsible and punished,” said Imtiyaz Pathan.
Imtiyaz is just one of those thousands of communal riots victims who are hopeful that the Supreme Court order will pave the way for initiating criminal proceedings against whom they believe are the real perpetrators of the 2002 communal riots.
Resource : http://ibnlive.in.com/news/gulbarg-massacre-eyewitness-recalls-the-horrors/183238-3.html
Israel Reels Over Rifts With Allies
TEL AVIV—Israeli leaders are struggling to navigate a Middle East in which its strategic pillar of the last few decades—a three-way axis with U.S.-allied Muslim powers—has crumbled, a day after rescuing its embassy staff from a mob in Cairo.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to reopen its Egyptian embassy after the staff retreated in the face of violent demonstrations Saturday morning. But the troubles in a second diplomatic mission in a week following a fallout in relations with Turkey underscores Israel’s precarious position as ties with its two key regional allies are recast.
Against the backdrop of tense relations with the White House, the shift heightens the stakes for Israel as it braces for a diplomatic onslaught at the United Nations next week. That is when Palestinians plan to mount a statehood bid, raising the possibility of an outbreak of mass protests on Israel’s borders.
Some Israeli experts suggested that Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, who is set to visit Cairo on Monday, and Egypt’s military rulers could overcome their historic rivalry and cooperate to on further isolating Israel.
Israel’s embassy was overrun overnight Saturday by hundreds of Egyptian demonstrators, tarnishing a symbol of the two nations 32-year-old peace. According to Israeli media reports, only White House intervention with Cairo triggered a commando-rescue operation that averted a lynching of six security guards.
The Cairo demonstration came on the heels of a decision by Mr. Erdogan last week to downgrade ties, halt military commercial relations and consider a stepped up military presence in the East Mediterranean. Those actions came in response to Israel’s refusal to apologize for its killing of Turkish activists on a ship that challenged Israel’s Gaza blockade.
“This should be very disturbing to us…there is a question about our place in the Middle East,” said Ami Ayalon, a former head of Israel’s Shin Bet Intelligence Service, in an interview with Israel Radio. “The Egypt that was the bedrock on which we founded our strategy has disappeared.”
Careful not to insult Cairo by airing official worries in public, Mr. Netanyahu praised the interim military rulers for the rescue operation. But after months of repeated strikes on Israeli targets from Egypt—a gas pipeline, the border, and the embassy—some commentators raised concerns that a power vacuum left by the fall of President Hosni Mubarak is being filled by a street sentiment that attaches less value to the 1979 Egypt-Israeli peace treaty.
No less disturbing to Israel has been the recent deterioration of ties with Turkey, which expelled Israeli diplomats this week after enjoying warm military and commercial ties since the 1990s.
Some Israeli cabinet members and experts advocated apologizing for the Mavi Marmara killings, but Mr. Netanyahu went along with hardliners including Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman who say Mr. Erdogan had made the strategic choice to clash with Israel and denounce its Gaza blockade to boost its stature in the Muslim world.
Having warned months ago of a diplomatic “tsunami” headed toward Israel with the Palestinian’s U.N. bid and the Arab Spring, Defense Minister Ehud Barak publicly urged Israel’s government in a statement on Sunday to reconsider its regional strategy amid “this triangle of Turkey, Egypt, the negotiations with the Palestinians, and of the intimacy with the U.S., which has been weakened.”
Last week, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates was quoted by Bloomberg News calling Mr. Netanyahu an “ungrateful” ally who hasn’t done enough to advance the peace process despite U.S. diplomatic and military support.
The regional crisis reignited a debate in Israel over whether a peace push with the Palestinians would ease Israel’s problems. But the prevailing opinion in the U.S. government seems to view Israel as more vulnerable and unable to influence the region.
“The main effect, of what used to be called the Arab Spring is to introduce a much higher degree of uncertainty in how Israel looks at the region,” said Dore Gold, a former ambassador to the United Nations under Mr. Netanyahu, in an interview. “Can anyone guarantee to Israel that most of the regimes surrounding it will be there in five years time?”
On Monday, Mr. Erdogan begins a regional tour with a series of meetings in Cairo. There, Mr. Erdogan is scheduled to meet with Egypt’s High Military Council president, Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, and Prime Minister Essam Abdel Aziz Sharaf. He is also due to address a meeting of foreign ministers from the Arab League and meet leaders of the Tahrir Square protest movement. During the visit, he is also due to sign a series of bilateral agreements that will include energy and other economic accords, as well as the formation of a joint High Level Strategic Cooperation Council.
Experts in all three countries say strong coordination between Turkey and Egypt against Israel is unlikely. Egypt sees itself as a leader of the Arab world, and Mr. Erdogan’s outreach—particularly his expressed desire to visit neighboring Gaza before any senior Egyptian official—could be seen as a provocation.
An official at Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that even as Egypt seeks closer economic and military ties it will be unlikely to take its cues from Turkey on international relations. Alon Liel, former Israeli diplomat said, however, that Turkish military and economic aid could be welcomed in Cairo, giving it considerable prestige and influence in influencing Egypt’s political makeover.
—Matt Bradley in Cairo andMarc Champion in Istanbulcontributed to this article.
Resource : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904353504576564931715110622.html
77 U.S. troops injured in Taliban truck bombing
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan—
The massive Taliban truck bomb that exploded outside an American military base in a restive eastern district injured nearly 80 U.S. troops and killed five Afghans, Western and Afghan officials said Sunday.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place Saturday evening in the Sayedabad district of Wardak province. That is the same district where insurgents last month shot down a U.S. Chinook helicopter, killing 30 American troops, the majority of them Navy SEALs, including some from the unit responsible for killing Osama bin Laden.
The Chinook crash, which remains under investigation, was the worst single loss of American military lives in the nearly decade-long war.
Although no Americans died in Saturday’s blast, it appeared to be one of the biggest casualty counts in an insurgent strike on a Western military installation. The bombing also carried symbolic weight, coming on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Shahidullah Shahid, a spokesman for the Wardak provincial governor, said the blast devastated the Sayedabad district center, damaging a number of government buildings including a medical facility. An 8-year-old girl and a policeman were among the five Afghans killed. Seventeen Afghans were injured, he said.
NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said in a statement that the outpost’s perimeter wall was damaged in the attack, but that “protective barriers … absorbed most of the explosion.”
Western military officials said the injuries of most of the 77 troops who were hurt were not life-threatening.
The Taliban said in a statement that a “martyrdom-seeking” attacker blew up a truck packed with explosives just outside the base. The group, which often exaggerates the effectiveness of its attacks, claimed that as many as 50 U.S. troops were killed.
Hours after the attack, a solemn ceremony was held at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Sunday morning to remember the victims of Sept. 11. Before an audience of several hundred embassy employees, military officials and Afghan dignitaries, the American flag was lowered to half-staff and a lone bugle sounded taps.
U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, who flew into New York as the attacks were taking place, said he kept his boarding pass from his flight that day.
“For me, the last 10 years have always been about 9/11,” he said before the crowd observed a moment of silence. “I’m never going to forget what happened that day, and I will never give up on my commitment to doing everything I can to ensure that 9/11 never happens again.”
Resource : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/E-auction-of-iron-ore-from-Sept-14/articleshow/9951530.cms
E-auction of iron ore from Sept 14
BANGALORE: Iron ore-starved steel and allied industries can breathe easy for some time. The monitoring committee constituted by the Supreme Court will conduct e-auction on September 14 to enable them to buy iron ore etal Scrap Trade Corporation Limited|Central Empowered Committeestockpile lying at various mines in .Supreme Court,Metal Scrap Trade Corporation Limited|Central Empowered
Metal Scrap Trade Corporation Limited (MSTC), a Union government enterprise , will take up e-auctioning through its portal to clear 25 million tonnes of ore stock from Bellary, Chitradurga and Tumkur districts in the next few months. “On an average a quantity of 1.5 million tonnes per month will be sold through e-auctions ,” said H R Srinivasa, director, Mines and Geology.
The apex court has appointed the three-member monitoring committee comprising Deepak Sharma, additional principal chief conservator of forests, U V Singh, chief conservator of forests and H R Srinivasa. They will supervise the sale and transportation of the existing iron ore.
The apex court had imposed a blanket ban on iron ore mining in Karnataka following the recommendation of its Central Empowered Committee (CEC), which detected illegal iron ore mining in three districts resulting in environmental damage. However , the court had noted that the stockpile of 25 million tonnes of iron ore could be released in a calibrated manner so that steel makers are not starved of raw material. It had also permitted state-run National
Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) to operate two of its mines in Sandur taluk of Bellary and produce one million tonnes of iron ore a month to meet the steel industry’s requirements .
However, the apex court strictly asked the committee to ensure that ore stocks auctioned are not exported. “It is only to meet the requirements of the steel, sponge iron, pig iron, pellitilisation and beneficiation plants,” the court said.
Technical officials assigned to monitor the bid said the lease-wise and grade-wise reserve price for iron have been fixed after taking into consideration the latest sale price obtained by NDMC.
While selling the stocks, the apex court has directed the Karnataka government to charge royalty at 10% of the current market value of iron ore and asked NMDC to maintain an account of the amount paid. It said the amount gained by sale of iron ore should not be disbursed presently to mining leases which were found involved in illegal mining whereas only 80% of the amount should be advanced to other lease holders and the rest 20% be retained with the government.
Resource : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/E-auction-of-iron-ore-from-Sept-14/articleshow/9951530.cms
Sensex, Nifty opens 1% lower; Tata Motors down 4%
NEW DELHI: The BSE Sensex slipped 1.6% early on Monday tracking its weak Asian peers after the resignation of a top German central bank board member casting further doubt on Europe’s ability to tackle its sovereign debt crisis.
At 09:17 a.m., the shares in Tata Motors Ltd were trading 4.5% lower at Rs 146.15 after the company said late on Friday, its group Chief Executive Officer Carl-Peter Forster had resigned with immediate effect.
Reliance Industries Ltd slipped 1.7% to Rs 811.50 in opening trade after the company said there is no evidence to suggest that costs in development of the country’s key natural gas field in the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin were overstated.
At 9:18 a.m., the 30-share BSE index was down 1.6 per cent at 16,591.05 points, with 29 of its components declining.
The broader 50-share NSE index was down 1.7 per cent to 4,973.
“The trend deciding level for the day is 16,970 on the Sensex and 5,090 levels on the Nifty. If Nifty trades above this level during the first half-an-hour of trade then we may witness a further rally up to 17,109 – 17,351/5,133 – 5,207 levels,” according to a report by Angel Broking.
“However, if Nifty trades below 16,970/5,090 levels for the first half-an-hour of trade then it may correct up to 16,728 – 16,589/5,016 – 4,973 level,” said the report.
Resource : http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/market-news/sensex-nifty-opens-1-lower-tata-motors-down-4/articleshow/9952474.cms
Charges against actor Darshan
BANGALORE: The bail application of actor Darshan, who is under judicial custody for allegedly assaulting and threatening to kill his wife Vijayalakshmi, will be heard by the first class additional chief magistrate court on Monday.
He has been booked under sections 307 (attempt to murder), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 498A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). He has also been booked under section 27 of the arms act.
Legal experts have different takes on the way the case could go. “The fact that his wife had given an affidavit to the magistrate could go in his favour. However, the seriousness of the crime he is allegedly involved may result in a verdict not favourable to him,” said a senior criminal lawyer of the city.
“It is not possible for her to withdraw the case. What she can do is give a further statement. It is the discretion of the court to decide on the bail,” he said.
If the magistrate disagrees to consider Vijayalakshmi’s statement, it could spell trouble for Darshan. “The charges against him include attempt to murder, criminal intimidation and use of arms. These are not negligible offences,” said legal experts.
NOT EASY TO WITHDRAW A COMPLAINT
According to police officials, withdrawing a police complaint involves a long procedure. “In case a complaint has to be withdrawn, permission of the court is required following which, the complainant and witness should come to the police station and ask for the same. However, in this case, police have the right to decide whether they should go on with the case or not. If necessary we can conduct investigation and file a chargesheet,” said T Suneel Kumar, additional commissioner of police (law and order).
Meanwhile, Vijayanagar police have said no one had approached them seeking withdrawal of the case.
Resource : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Charges-against-actor-Darshan/articleshow/9950121.cms
Katrina: I Slapped Imran 16 Times
Mumbai, Sep 12: With her recent success of ‘Mere Brother Ki Dulhan’, Katrina Kaif in an exclusive interview speaks of her experience shooting the movie.
In the movie, there is a very critical scene where in Imran Khan confronts Katrina, following which she slaps him. Commenting on it, Kat breaks into giggles and says that Imran was slapped over 16 times while shooting for that particular scene! She said, “Well I don’t think he anticipated that we were going to shoot that particular bit 16 times so he got lot of slaps from me and they were pretty hard. By the end of it he was like, ‘I can’t take any more slaps’. But finally we got it right.”
Along with Imran and Katrina, Pakistani musician and singer Ali Zafar was also a part of the cast, playing the role of Imran’s brother. On being questioned about her experience with Ali, Kat said, “He is a real good performerI think he is great at comedy and he just kind of brought lot of good vibes during the shoot. And since he is also a musician he would entertain us with his songs when we were shooting outdoors. He would play guitar and it was like a bunch of group of friends hanging together on the sets.”
The movie was shot in different locations in Delhi and Punjab. Speaking about adjusting problems at dingy places, Katrina seemed to have no problem with that. She said, “It was called Iqbal Inn and I remember Imran being terrified when we walked in. But it was a young unit and we had a great time. We forgot all the problems and decided to have fun together. We were there for about 25 days. We would eat only dal, roti and tandoori chicken but the environment was great. Imran couldn’t adjust well and we would all pull his leg about it.”
Also, she said that the most fun part of the shooting was cricket. The cast often played cricket on the sets during the shoot. She said, “That is something which I really enjoyed and actually kept me fit and gave us a form of exercise in between the shots.”
Resource : http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=115474
It has been raining tablets in the Indian market
Reuters It has been raining tablets in the Indian market over the past few weeks. But how to determine which one works best for you? ET takes a look at different tablet categories in search of an answer.
Twelve months is a very long time in technology. An Indian consumer wanting to purchase a tablet at this time last year had barely a handful of options to choose from, with most of them coming from the grey market and costing a fair bit. Today, the scene is very different. Almost every leading brand in the technology segment has a tablet out in the market.
And far from being the uber-expensive gizmos they were last year, some today cost lesser than a mid-segment segment. Of course, not all tablets are the same (how human!) – some do more, some less, and they are spread across different segments. If you are getting confused about which tablet you should pick (or pop), here is our rough guide to different tablet categories and whom they suit: (we are keeping Windows tablets out of the count at the moment as they are too similar to their desktop avatars – a person might as well buy a notebook!)
Notable devices: Apple iPad, Apple iPad 2 Price range: Rs 24,500 – Rs 46,900 We can hear the howls of protest and accusations of “Apple fan boys” coming our way for giving the iPad a category of its own but the stark fact is that as of now, the iPad dominates the tablet market. It has the best interface of them all and a very sleek design (especially in the iPad 2), but what really marks it out are its vast reservoir of apps that let you do just about everything from word processing to composing music to video chats on the device.
There will be complaints about Apple’s “closed environment” from developers whose apps get rejected but the fact is that all said and done, the iPad is miles ahead of the competition in the app department when it comes to quality. It lets you do more than most tabs – not because of its hardware (which is actually quite impressive) but because of its app edge, making many people oversee the niggles that still plague it, such as the need to depend on iTunes for transferring music and videos and the less than perfect multi-tasking. Until the competition finds its way around that, iPad users are going to be the happiest tablet users around. And of course, there is that logo on the back that makes the tablet flauntable!
Pros: Great interface; More apps than anyone else; Stunning battery life; Great design. Cons: Browsing still lacks Flash support; Multi-tasking is not as smooth as on other devices; No options to expand storage; Connectivity with other devices remains iffy
Grab it if: You want the best tablet experience around and want an uber-productive tablet. Period.
Resource :http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/quickiearticleshow/9951767.cms and http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/it-has-been-raining-tablets-in-the-indian-market/quickiearticleshow/9951763.cms
