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Written by a Pakistani journalist about India.......

Capital suggestion
By Dr Farrukh Saleem

Here's what is happening in India :

The two Ambani brothers can buy 100 percent of every company listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) and would still be left with $30 billion to spare. The four richest Indians can buy up all goods and services produced over a year by 169 million Pakistanis and still be left with $60 billion to spare. The four richest Indians are now richer than the forty richest Chinese.

In November, Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex flirted with 20,000 points. As a consequence, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries became a $100 bill ion company (the entire KSE is capitalized at $65 billion). Mukesh owns 48 percent of Reliance.

Thomas Edison didn't invent the light bulb. In fact, his patent application for it was rejected because it was too similar to a patent filed 30 years earlier. But Thomas Edison was an innovator and he recognized that innovation only mattered if an idea was adopted and created true change.

By finding away to make the light bulb something that could easily be integrated into daily living and accepted by normal people, Edison created enormous change in the way we live. So what are the lessons we can take from this when it comes to innovation in terms of energy efficiency?

The Indian and pakistan chromosome:By Dr Farrukh Saleem

The Indian chromosome
By Dr Farrukh Saleem

Twenty-five thousand years ago, haplogroup R2 characterized by genetic marker M124 arose in southern Central Asia. Then began a major wave of human migration whereby members migrated southward to present-day India and Pakistan (Genographic Project by the National Geographic Society; http://www.nationalg...). Indians and Pakistanis have the same ancestry and share the same DNA sequence. Here's what is happening in India:

Fire hazard prompts HP to recall notebook batteries

Hewlett-Packard has announced a global voluntary recall of 70,000 HP and Compaq notebook batteries over concerns of over-heating.

“The recalled lithium-ion batteries can overheat, posing a fire and burn hazard to consumers,” the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission stated, adding that there have been two incidents reported to date.

In both cases the batteries overheated and ruptured, “resulting in flames/fire that caused minor property damage.”
...Sold from August 2007 through March 2008, the HP and Compaq notebook computer models that contain the potentially faulty Chinese-manufactured battery include:

The Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology (ictQATAR) hosted the "Advancing Arab Women in Technology: Strategy Made Reality" workshop on April 15 and 16 at the Millennium Hotel in Doha. The workshop brought together more than 40 experts on women in technology from the Arab World and the United States and serves as a continuum to the inaugural event held in November 2008 in Dubai. The primary focus of the workshop is to move forward with plans to create the Center for Women and Technology for the Arab Region (CWTAR), a major resource to support women's involvement in the knowledge society.

"What makes a nation, is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past", says the noted historian Eric Hobsbawm.

Hence, when talking of a nation, it becomes very imperative that the past should also be talked about. And the past of India is as fascinating and interesting as it is momentous.

Facts to make every Indian proud

Q. Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems?
A. Vinod Khosla

Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the
today's computers run on it)?
A. Vinod Dahm

Q. Who is the third richest man on the world?
A. According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is Aziz Premji,
who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6th
position now.