Thursday, January 15, 2009

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Celebrate Darwin's 200th Birthday With a Natural Selection of Books

In 2009 we celebrate both Charles Darwin's 200th birthday plus the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species, which means a bonanza for readers, with new works by scientists, novelists and even the odd party-crashing creationist, all lined up for publication.

Hayden greater than Sachin Tendulkar: ICC

Sachin isn't even in the top 20 Test batsmen, according to new ICC "best ever" ratings. The only Indian in the top 20 is Sunil Gavaskar at 20th.

India razes slums, throws poor onto streets

Hanso Devi moved to New Delhi from Rajasthan with just one hope -- to make a better life for herself and her family.

Komli Hires New COO In Prashant Mehta from Yahoo India

Prashant Mehta has been appointed as the COO at Komli. He will be responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of Komli Media’s overall business operations including sales, product development, engineering, marketing and business development.Prashant has spent eight years at Yahoo! Inc., where he was most recently Vice President and Head of Monetization for Yahoo!’s [...]

Carol Bartz joins Yahoo as Chief Executive Officer

Yahoo has appointed Carol Bartz, former executive chairman of Autodesk, as its new chief executive officer and a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to becoming executive chairman of Autodesk in 2006, Bartz, 60, led Autodesk as CEO for 14 years, transforming the company into a leader in computer-aided design software. During her tenure as CEO, revenues increased from less than $300 million to more than $1.5 billion, and the companys share price increased nearly ten-fold, Yahoo has said.

Commentary: A victory for democracy in Africa

Supporters of democracy around the world can celebrate the January 7 inauguration of Ghana's new president, professor John Evans Atta Mills, who defeated the leader of the incumbent party in a December 28 runoff election by a mere 41,566 votes out of 9,001,478.

Still undecided about joining politics: Sanjay Dutt

A day after differences cropped up with his sister Priya on the issue of contesting Lok Sabha polls on an SP ticket, Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt said he is yet to decide whether to join politics or not.

NIA team will be hand picked, says Chidambaram

The National Investigation Agency, set up in the wake of Mumbai terror attacks, will have members "hand picked" by its first chief R V Raju, who was appointed on Thursday.

Cop who probed Rajiv Gandhi killing is NIA head

Radha Vinod Raju, who investigated high profile cases including assassination of former PM Rajiv Gandhi, is DG of the newly established National Investigation Agency.

Raju's hasty arrest stalled probe: SEBI

Pradyumana Kumar Reddy, lawyer of SEBI, stirred a hornet's nest by saying that Raju's custody was delaying the market regulator's probe into the Satyam case.

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