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Al Qaeda threat to Guruvayoor Sri Krishna and Sri Padmanabha Swamy temples in Kerala
Jul 28th
Guruvayoor Circle Inspector got a letter threatening an attack on the Guruvayoor and Sree Padmanabha Swamy shrines. The letter was posted from Chennai to this pilgrim town Guruvayoor on Wednesday warned of a bomb attack by the Al Qaida on two of Kerala’s most popular temples police said. As soon as the letter arrived, police officials rushed to the famed Sree Krishna Temple in Guruvayoor along with a bomb squad and made a detailed inspection in the temple compound and also in the temple town. The other shrine mentioned in the letter is the Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram, which is in the news More >
Atlantis bid final farewell to ISS and headed to Home!
Jul 21st
Atlantis bid final farewell to International Space Station and headed towards home. Atlantis was set to land at 5:56 am (0956 GMT), making it a rare night landing, and NASA was describing a “gorgeous night at the Kennedy Space Center.”
The crew of Atlantis on Tuesday bade a bittersweet goodbye to the International Space Station ending the final visit by a space shuttle to ISS. The crew of Atlantis began deorbit procedures from the ISS at 0628 GMT about 350 kilometers above the Pacific Ocean to begin its final return to Earth. “Thanks so much for hosting us. It’s a great station, and it’s been an absolute pleasure,” Atlantis commander Chris Ferguson said of his crew’s eight-day stay at the ISS.
“We’ll miss you guys. Godspeed, soft landing and we’ll see you back on Earth in the fall,” space station crewmember Ronald Garan, a Nasa flight engineer, said as Atlantis floated away. “It’s been an incredible ride,” said Ferguson of the final shuttle mission. “We will never forget the role that the space shuttle played in (the station’s) creation,” he said. “Farewell ISS, make us proud.”
Final inspections of the shuttle’s heat shield, which protects More >
Apple’s new MacBook Air Review
Jul 21st
Recently released Apple’s new MacBook Air models have significant performance improvements over the previous generation and other Apple notebooks. The new Apple MacBook Air will ship in two versions: an 11-inch and a 13-inch. The awesome specifications include the Lion OS, the Intel Core i5 and Core i7 dual-core processors which make the Air twice as fast as the previous generation MacBook Pro and the Intel HD graphics, the FaceTime capability, the back-lit keyboard, and the Thunderbolt ports.
The 11-inch MacBook Air weights just 2.38 pounds, while the 13-inch Air clocks in at just under 3 pounds; battery life is 5 and 7 hours, respectively. Both computers are 0.11 inches at their thinnest point, and both computers get the aluminum unibody design. Prices start at $999 for a base-model Air.
The specifications of 11.6 inch model MacBook Air will include a 1.6 GHz processor, 2 GB of RAM, and 64GB of flash storage and we can upgrade More >
Guatemala City: Sinkhole formed under a woman’s bed
Jul 21st
A sinkhole of 40 feet deep appeared beneath a women’s bed in Guatemala City. The sinkhole that appeared late on Monday was 12.2 metres (40 feet) deep and 80 centimetres (32 inches) in diameter. Guatemala City, built on volcanic deposits, is especially prone to sinkholes. Sinkholes are natural depressions in the earth that can range anywhere from a few feet to hundreds of acres wide, and measure a shallow foot to 100 feet deep.
“When we heard the loud boom we thought a gas canister from a neighboring home had exploded, or there had been a crash on the street,” said Inocenta Hernandez, a 65 year-old widow. “We rushed out to look and saw nothing. A gentleman told me that the noise came from my house, and we searched until we found it under my bed,” said Hernandez.
In May 2010, a sinkhole about 60 feet across and 100 feet deep opened in the area, swallowing buildings and an intersection. In 2007, another sinkhole More >
Somalia: United Nations declared Famine in Somalia
Jul 20th
Somalia regions like southern Bakool and lower shabelle has been declared as the famine inflicted regions and appealed for 300 million dollars help. According to UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Mark Bowden, the people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
“If humanitarian agencies do not intervene now, famine will spread to all eight regions of southern Somalia within two months, due to poor harvests and infectious disease outbreaks,” Bowden warned.
As per Bowden there are around 310, 000 acutely malnourished children in southern Somalia who need urgent help. Consecutive droughts and the ongoing conflicts have affected the country in the last few years has made it extremely difficult for agencies to operate and access communities in the south of the country. Somalia is the country worst affected by a severe drought that has ravaged large swaths of the Horn of Africa, leaving an estimated 11 million people in the region in need of humanitarian assistance. More >
Apple Store is Online:Up and Running
Jul 20th
Apple Store is back online. The Apple Store site is up and running and featuring its new additions to the store the new MacBook Air and Mac Mini. MacBook Air ranges from $999 and Mac Mini from $599.
Few hours back the Apple store site is down in US, UK, Norway and Netherlands etc. with a “We’ll be back soon,” note.
Apple confirmed that Mac OS X Lion a new hardware will debut Wednesday. Lion will be sold via the Mac App Store. More >
New Nokia E6 Series Mobile Review
Jul 20th
Nokia released its latest Mobile model in E series the new Nokia E6. The handset is sleek similar to the E-series mobiles, built with stainless steel, matte plastic and Gorilla Glass. It can be comfortably held in hand with measurements 115.5 x 59 x 10.5 mm and weighing about 133 gm. The QWERTY keypad soft keys compared to the E71.
The touch-screen display is 2.46-inch capacitive takes up almost half the space and had 640 x 480 pixels screen resolution. The new Nokia E6 comes with an 8 MP fixed-focus camera with dual-LED flash.You can record up to 720p HD videos More >
Scotland Yard Chief, Sir Paul Stephenson, resigned his post yesterday!
Jul 18th
Scotland Yard Chief, Sir Paul Stephenson, resigned his post on Sunday on the context of phone hacking scandal which resulted in the close down of 168 years old news paper “News of the World.”
Scotland Yard Chief resigned hours after former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks was arrested.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson resigned because of “accusations” about police links to News Corp.’s U.K. unit. Sir Paul has been facing accusations that he had compromised the investigation of phone hacking by his closeness to Mr. Wallis, former News of the World deputy editor, who was hired as a public relations adviser for Scotland Yard. More >
Call of Juarez: The Cartel Review
Jul 15th
Call of Juarez: The Cartel Review – Call of Juarez: the Cartel multiplayer trailer doesn’t look quite as strong visually as Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood. The latest trailer for The Cartel is released today and the actual game’s release Date is July 19.
When a Mexican drug cartel bombs a U.S. law enforcement agency, the U.S. government puts together a special task force with Ben McCall, a brutal LAPD cop, Eddie Guerra, a DEA agent with a chronic-gambling habit and gang-affiliated street kid turned FBI agent, Kim Evans. Each character has own unique story. As you fight to dismantle the Cartel and unfurl the mystery of the bombing, you’ll More >