Saurav, a resident of Patparganj in east Delhi, was taking part in the pastry competition at the office cafeteria when he suddenly felt unwell and went to the toilet, police said. “They were all having fun when Saurav went to the washroom around 1.30pm. After he hadn’t returned for a long while, his friends went into the toilet and found him unconscious,” said Satinder Kumar, SHO, Udyog Vihar police station.

It’s not clear whether it was an informal bet among colleagues or an eatsing competition organized by the company. Officials from Nokia Siemens Networking refused to speak on the incident while police said they were investigating the angle. Dr Sushum Sharma, medical advisor at Max Hospital, Gurgaon, said food had entered Saurav’s windpipe which caused the death. “Saurav had stuffed himself with so many pastries so fast that his windpipe was choked. In fact, when we put him on the resuscitation machine, foodstuff was coming out of the windpipe. There was no way air could have passed through to his lungs,” he said, adding that it was difficult to guess how many pastries Saurav had eaten.

The Google SMS search service may be used for finding movie timings, weather, nearest pizza restaurant, currency conversion, train schedules, cricket scores and a host of other things.

One of the very useful features in SMS search is language translation. For instance, I could SMS “say hello in French” to 9-77-33-00000 to get the right French word.

Google SMS Search could be real bad news for the business of services like Indiatimes that charge a premium fee for delivering news or astrology updates on the mobile phone using short codes.

For details go to the Google Mobile website or check their help center for more details.

The Google blog says that you only need to pay the standard SMS text charges for sending the SMS query to Google – there’s no fee for the incoming messages from Google. The service is available for all popular cellular networks including Airtel, BSNL, Idea, Reliance, Spice, Tata Indicom and Vodafone.

The Cray XT, called Jaguar, has been ranked first in the list of the world’s top 500 computers, released at an annual international supercomputing conference in Austin on Tuesday.

Recalling the success of Indian team in the Twenty20 World Cup, Ponting wrote in his book ‘Captain’s Diary 2008’ that Dhoni was a “classic example” of a player who could damage the opposition in the shortest version, which offers little scope for a batsman to showcase his technique.

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Although Adobe says it is working on a version of its popular Flash player for the iPhone, Apple is unlikely ever to permit it to appear in the handset’s App Store, no matter how much customers want it.

“I’m pretty skeptical that Flash could be
implemented in a way that doesn’t violate the Terms of Service of the
developer’s agreement,” said Bart Decrem, CEO of Tapulous, developer of the popular Tap Tap Revenge iPhone game.

These numbers very clearly give the lie to claims that local talent is being given short shrift in the job market. The politics of parochialism unleashed by Raj Thackeray and the MNS has become so competitive that every party in the state, from the Shiv Sena to the Congress, has felt compelled to play the sons-of-the-soil card.

On Monday, the Vilasrao Deshmukh government reiterated an old government resolution (GR) seeking to reserve 50% of supervisory positions and 80% of junior-level jobs for locals in units ranging from small to large.

“I know that over the past 10 years, probably longer, a notion has developed that the Australian team walks out onto the field intent on getting in faces and having a few words… Unfortunately, as soon as a spectator or a commentator spots one of my team chipping on opponent, they assume it is a pre-meditated attack,” Ponting said.

The partially convertible rupee ended at 50.02/03 per dollar, 0.7 per cent weaker than 49.66/67 at Tuesday’s close. It hit a low of 50.03 in late trade, its weakest since Oct 27 when it hit a record low of 50.29.

“I still feel there is very good room for the dollar-rupee to go up to 52,” said V. Kumar, chief dealer with State Bank of Travancore.

Singh, who virtually sealed the Asian order of merit title with the win, started the day five shots behind leader Chapchai Nirat of Thailand but three birdies on the front nine helped him to the top of the leaderboard at seven-under par.

Three-time major winner Harrington looked certain to force a play-off after a stunning fairway wood gave him the chance of birdie at the last, but the Irishman’s five-foot putt leaked across the face of the hole.

“I couldn’t have asked for better,” the 36-year-old Singh said in a television interview. “I’m a very fortunate man to win. The golfing gods were on my side.”

Doctors in Germany say a patient appears to have been cured of HIV by a bone marrow transplant from a donor who had a genetic resistance to the virus.
The researchers in Berlin said the man, who suffered from leukaemia and HIV, had shown no sign of either disease since the transplant two years ago.
But they stressed it was an unusual case which needed further investigation.
Experts said the result may boost interest in gene therapy for HIV.
Berlin’s Charite clinic said the 42-year-old patient was an American living in Berlin, but the man has not been identified.

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I am so like freaking happy for people who can actually get cure to this terrible, horrible, obnoxious disease. Its amazing, I praise to the scientists, lab workers, chemists, biologists, they truly work very very hard their whole lives to find cures to the terrible disease. Some people including me say Docs get a lot of money, but if you really look at it, they kill their social lives and study until the age of 40 to reach their potential. By then they are tired, but they go into discovering more for us. Doctors really give up a lot of them for us.

Representatives of the Trinamool, Naxalites, the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) and the Association for Protection of Democratic Rights summarily rejected Dunlop chairman Pawan Kumar Ruia’s decision taken in consultation with the CPI-backed Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and the Congress-backed Indian Trade Union Congress (INTUC). Tapan Dasgupta, leader of the Trinamool Trade Union Congress, said: “Didi (party chief Mamata Banerjee) has asked us to oppose the injustice meted out to workers.”

Ruia, however, claimed the employees supported the agreement. CITU union general secretary Dipankar Roy said, “About 300 workers have communicated to the personnel manager that they are in support of the agreement, preferring it to suspension of work.”

Obama in a statement announced that Pete Rouse will serve as senior advisor, while Mona Sutphen and Jim Messina will serve as deputy chief of staff.

“These individuals are important additions to a team with the experience and ability to help our nation overcome pressing challenges at home and around the world,” Obama said in a statement.

The INS Tabar opened fire on a pirate “mother ship” after it came under attack, a government statement said.

With 882 stations on 14 lines, Tokyo’s amazing subway system is one of the largest — and busiest — in all the world. The system map is a twisted mass of squiggles that resembles a Jackson Pollack painting, and conditions on its trains give new meaning to the word “crowded.” It all had me more than a little nervous as I headed to Tokyo for a business trip.

Besides, the microlight-like plane is scheduled to take off for a round-the-world flight in May 2011, project communication head Phil Mundwiller said.

The pollution-free plane would fly with zero fuel on the strength of solar power both day and night, whose prototype was displayed here as part of the 60th ceremony of India-Switzerland Friendship Treaty.

Phil said two aircraft with the investment of $100m are being designed by a team of 60 engineers. Its commercial production is expected to start by 2011.

Announcing the expulsion, BSP national general secretary Satish Chandra Misra said it had been found that Singh had joined the BSP after leaving Congress
in August with some “ulterior motives.”

Singh, who was expelled from the Congress, had started indulging in acts of indiscipline after finding that his plans did not fructify, Mishra said.

“Natwar Singh who had been active in politics and in Congress for a long time was told at the time of joining that BSP was not like any other party”, Misra said adding that he was told that the party attached great importance to discipline as well as faith and dedication towards the BSP movement.

Recent developments in terror torn Pakistan had cast a shadow on India’s cricket tour, especially after the postponement of the Champions Trophy in September.

Manohar has reportedly told the PCB that he has requested security clearance from the government of India and expects a reply in the next 10 to 12 days.

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Company sources say the banks are not in a position to provide the amount of money required to run the factory so the workers have been told they will be provided Rs 2000 per month till the company reopens. But sources say it’s unlikely that the company will reopen very soon. Dunlop Board of Directors are meeting on Tuesday and then they will decide what will happen to the other plants.

The hallmark of this new-look Indian outfit is that an in-form player has the responsibility to carry the team on his shoulders through the series and Yuvraj Singh and Gautam Gambhir are living up to that role, skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said.

“It was a great performance by Yuvraj and Gambhir. That has been one of the features of this team. If someone is in form, he has the responsibility to take the team along through the series. I hope that they will continue to do that in this series,” Dhoni said after India took a 2-0 lead in the seven-match series on Monday.

WITNESS: He said, “Where am I, Cathy?”

ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?

WITNESS: My name is Susan!

“The Moon Impact Probe (MIP) is expected to be detached (from Chandrayaan-1) at around 10pm tomorrow,” Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) spokesperson S Satish said. Miniature Indian flags are painted on four sides of MIP. “It will signify the entry of India on Moon,” Satish said. “During its 20-minute descent to the moon’s surface, MIP will take pictures and transmit these back to the ground,” he said. MIP is one of the 11 scientific instruments (payloads) onboard Chandrayaan-1, India’s first unmanned spacecraft mission to Moon launched on October 22.

The spacecraft yesterday reached its final orbital home, about 100 kms over the moon surface after ISRO scientists successfully carried out the last critical orbit lowering operation.

Hundreds of climbers flock to the world’s tallest peak at 8,850 metres every year, with many simply squatting in the open or hunching behind rocks as the Everest base camp has no proper toilet facilities.

Dawa Steven Sherpa, who led an eco-Everest expedition in May to collect trash dumped by previous climbers, said his team used a plastic bucket as well as a gas-impervious bag designed to safely contain and neutralise human waste and keep in odour.

While the 2003 Cricket World Cup captivated a billion people in India, many of them praying not for their own health but for Ashish Nehra’s sprained ankle, thousands of Indians in America had to shell out $299.95 to DISH network for the privilege of throwing objects at their TVs. “Come on, Ganguly!” they screamed. “You’re batting like my grandma!”

Here is how some tackled it…

Computer programmer: “Hello boss. I won’t be coming to work today. I’m not feeling well again.”

Boss: “That’s too bad, Ramesh. Have you seen a doctor?”

Programmer: “Yes, boss. Dr. Gupta is here right now, checking my blood pressure. I hope my health insurance covers this. It’s costing me $299.95.”

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