2012 HOROSCOPE

ARIES
Peace and tranquillity are predicted for you this year. Much of your efforts and projects that have been put in the back-burner shall come to the fore-ground this year. More..



TAURUS
Much changes had been experienced by you in the past one year, that you have to go in for many reworks and revamps on your life. This is the apt time for you to go for the same. You would come out unscathed periods as good tidings are ahead.More..



GEMINI
The year 2012 would be an eventful year for the Geminis. New ventures take shape with new ideas and new goals in life. You would be coming out of your shell and shall venture into unknown territories with renewed vigor and strength. More..



CANCER
Major changes in your relationships are in store for the year 2012. Some of your near ones are likely to dfit apart leaving you in shatters. But avoid depending on others and rise and shine. Peace and calm shall prevail then in your life. More..



LEO
The year 2012 would be an eventful year for the Geminis. New ventures take shape with new ideas and new goals in life. You would be coming out of your shell and shall venture into unknown territories with renewed vigor and strength. More..



VIRGO
This year shall see to that your creative abilities are expose to the outside world. Express yourself as better as possible because this is the time to showcase your abilities. Some painful results can also be expected. More..



LIBRA
Life would be much happier, contented and lighter for Libras this year of 2012. You would be empowered by much freedom than before this period. Concentrate on your inner-self and do some spiritual rejuvenation. More..



SCORPIO
New projects and ideas shall take wings in this year of 2012. You shall pass through a new phase of your life and would be relieved of issues that had been haunting you for the past few years or months. More..



SAGITTARIUS
Your life would be free from difficulties unlike the last year. You stand to gain much in terms of power and authority this year. Your social status and living also gets an enhancement. More..



CAPRICORN
This year would be generally a year of low profile for you. It helps you to enter a serene and peaceful atmosphere. You can go in for introspection and spiritual pursuits for the year. More..



AQUARIUS
You would be able to enjoy the fruits of your hard toils of the last few years in this year of 2012. Much socializing is predicted in this year for you.More..



PISCES
Year 2012 seems to be a calm and peaceful year for you much deviating from the hustle and bustle of the previous few years in your life. Involve yourself whole heartedly into any task . More..

10 Best Resolution for the Year 2012

With the arrival of the new year 2012, there would be lots among us who would have started to make new year resolutions for themselves. New year is always something which gives you hope and freshness and you tend to have new energies. It is a fact that each and every individual is different from the other and so are the new year resolutions but still there are a few common things among us all because of the same humanly nature which we have got. Listed below are the 10best resolutions for the new year 2012;

1. Save some Money and Pay any Loans

WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR

2011;MAJOR EVENTS: Koodankulam nuclear protest

Coming in the wake of Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, protests have crippled progress at the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district.

2011;MAJOR EVENTS: When India fell in love with Hina Rabbani Khar

When Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar landed in India for talks this July, everyone expected India-Pakistan peace talks to be the talking point, but instead Khar’s glamour became buzz of the subcontinent. From media to Bollywood everyone was fascinated by her beauty and style.

2011;MAJOR EVENTS: Transformation in States

The year 2011 saw change of guard in seven states – in five of them by way of elections. In May, Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress uprooted the CPI(M)-led Left Front from West Bengal after nearly four decades, bagging 184 seats out of the total 294 with a success rate of over 81 per cent (the party fielded candidates in 227 seats).

2011; MAJOR EVENTS: Terror strikes India again

Mumbai triple blasts

India was made to bleed again this year with terror revisiting the country. India’s financial capital Mumbai was attacked on July 13 when three powerful explosions, within minutes of each other, killed at least 21 people and injured over 100 others. The explosions took place at Dadar, Zaveri Bazaar and Opera House.

2011; MAJOR EVENTS: Graft, greed and scams

To call the year 2011 the most difficult year for the ruling UPA will not be an understatement. The beleaguered Congress has had to face several embarrassing moments this year and has been in a continuous fire-fighting mode.

2011; MAJOR EVENTS: Anna’s rise & Lokpal campaign

The year 2011 saw the emergence of an unlikely leader in Anna Hazare, who took the country by storm through his fight against the corruption. The 74-year-old Gandhian crusader launched India Against Corruption movement to press for a strict anti-graft legislation on April 5, 2011 with a hunger strike at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.

2011: MAJOR EVENTS

January

• January 1 – Estonia officially adopts the Euro currency and becomes the seventeenth Eurozone country.^[2]
• January 9–15 – Southern Sudan holds a referendum on independence. The Sudanese electorate votes in favour of independence, paving the way for the creation of the new state in July.^[3][4]

China bullet train crash 'caused by design flaws'

A bullet train crash which killed 40 people in China in July was caused by design flaws and sloppy management.

National Anthem celebrates 100 years

FLU SEASON - To avoid it...

FLU SEASON - To avoid it... 

Eat right! 
Make sure you get your daily dose of fruit and veggies.

Failure Vs Success

Kolaveri by Nayana

PM declares 2012 as 'National Mathematical Year'

PM's visit to Chennai. Is it a surrender, or strategy?

sjr kumar Dec 25, 2011: Persistent efforts by PM to bring Jayalalitha to the negotiation table on the Mullaperiyar issue has utterly failed. Kerala has repeatedly assured TN that they will get uninterrupted supply of water even if the proposed new dam is constructed. Therefore any impartial person would never accept TN's stand off. Even Koodankulam project is also in a stand still. The Koodankulam issue shows the shift of public as well as political response to developmental issues from time to time. Can a country like India afford such midway shifts in long term and high investment projects? Where were these environmental enthusiasts at the time of commencement of the project. Since Kerala is one of the major beneficiaries of the Koodankulam project, we have every legitimate right to see that the project is completed and commissioned, similar to the interest of TN in Mullaperiyar issue being the beneficiary. Therefore in the long term interest of Kerala we should raise our voice in favour of the Koodankulam project, so that the project is completed and we get our legitimate share of electricity from there. It is high time that our Kerala politicians understand that attack is the best form of defence!!!

We Are All Beggars: How To Prepare For Christmas

We Are All Beggars: How To Prepare For Christmas: For most, preparing for Christmas suggests decorating, baking, shopping, etc. The thought is that these activities help us to “Get in the s...

The Hindu : Cities / Kochi : Demand for renovating crematorium

The Hindu : Cities / Kochi : Demand for renovating crematorium

Residents block Mayor | Deccan Chronicle

Residents block Mayor | Deccan Chronicle

Tragic End

A small flash water flood creates such a misery, and loss of life to a number of human beings, then imagine what happens if a dam collapses. Don't you think that there should be an immediate solution to Mullaperiyar issue.

A Wife's Poem

Yahoo moves Delhi HC against govt

Internet portal Yahoo has approached the Delhi High Court against the Union home ministrys attempts to glean information about nearly a dozen Yahoo IDs/IP addresses it suspects are used by Islamic terrorists and Maoists.

Hyundai launches LPG variant of i10

Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) on Tuesday launched an LPG version of its compact car i10, priced up to Rs 4.30 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).

Tata group`s five chairmen since 1868

Cyrus Mistry to succeed Ratan Tata

The next chairman of India`s venerable salt-to-software conglomerate Tata Group will be an insider and a family member by marriage. India`s biggest corporate house had mounted a global search that lasted more than a year for a successor to Chairman Ratan Tata, but ended up tapping Cyrus Mistry, whose father is the biggest shareholder in the Tata Sons holding company. Mistry, 43, was named deputy chairman of Tata Sons and will succeed Ratan Tata when he retires in December 2012 at the helm of a sprawling conglomerate that generates two-thirds of its USD 83 billion in revenue from overseas. Mistry is the younger son of Pallonji Mistry, who with a stake of 18 percent is the single largest shareholder of Tata Sons, and has been a director of Tata Sons since 2006. The future chairman`s sister is married to Ratan Tata`s half-brother Noel Tata, who was also a candidate to be Tata chairman. An engineer by training, Mistry is managing director of Shapoorji Pallonji Group, a major construction firm that has been in business for 147 years, and does not have a high public profile. Pallonji Mistry, also a member of south Mumbai`s Parsi community, owns about 18 percent of the group, and ranks 9th on the last Forbes India rich list, with a fortune estimated at USD 7.6 billion.

15 Tips for a Successful Career

The present employment horizon looks bleak and hanging on to the job you have at hand is the need of the hour. This would mean cutting down your demands from the employer and compromising a bit on certain areas, at least till the situation gets better. Here are some important points to keep in mind to have a successful career andkeep your job safe.

A way to know where the product you buy at the grocery store comes from.

ALWAYS READ THE LABELS ON THE FOODS YOU BUY--NO MATTER WHAT THE FRONT OF THE BOX OR PACKAGE SAYS, TURN IT OVER AND READ THE BACK---CAREFULLY! With all the food and pet products now coming from China , it is best to make sure you read label at the grocery store and especially Walmart when buying food products.

Set iGoogle as Default Homepage in Chrome/IE/Opera/Safari/Firefox

To set your iGoogle page as your browser’s homepage, click the link for the browser you’re using below to get specific instructions. If your browser isn’t listed, chrome suggest consulting its help resources.

JetBoost – Ensures Top Performance for Your PC

JetBoost ensures top performance for your PC by shutting down unnecessary background processes and services, and prioritizing processes. It scans the running system processes/services and groups them into four major categories, and provides three modes for Boosting. With a simple click, it can speed up your PC to its top performance.

A Better Tool for Downloading Videos from the Internet

There are basically two categories of tools that let you download videos from the Internet. The first category consists of web apps, Zamzar for example, that save a copy of the video on to their own servers and then send you a direct link to download that copy. Then there are desktop-based tools that download videos clips from the video hosting site directly to your computer and also convert it into the required format.

The Best Tool to Sync Outlook and Google Contacts

If you are using Gmail with Microsoft Outlook, you know how cumbersome it is to keep your Outlook address book in sync with Google Contacts. You add a new contact in Outlook but it won’t magically appear in Gmail. The same is true when you edit a contact’s details in Google Contacts, your Outlook will continue to have the old data.

Would you therefore like to save yourself from this never-ending hassle of maintaining contacts data at two places and have a unified address book.

The Best Tool to Sync Outlook and Google Contacts

If you are using Gmail with Microsoft Outlook, you know how cumbersome it is to keep your Outlook address book in sync with Google Contacts. You add a new contact in Outlook but it won’t magically appear in Gmail. The same is true when you edit a contact’s details in Google Contacts, your Outlook will continue to have the old data.

Would you therefore like to save yourself from this never-ending hassle of maintaining contacts data at two places and have a unified address book.

Sync your Gmail Address Book and Outlook Contacts

Google offers a free Outlook plugin called Apps Sync to help keep your Outlook Contacts and Google Contacts in sync with each other but probably for business reasons, they have made this utility available only for premier Google Apps customers.

I wish Google could bring the Apps Sync utility to regular Gmail and non-premium Google Apps accounts but until that happens, you may want to give GOSyncMod a try. This is a standalone Window utility, not an Outlook plugin, that can help you easily sync your Outlook and Gmail address books.

Once you have installed the utility, just provide your Google Account credentials and choose any unique name for the profile field (say Outlook). You may sync both Gmail accounts and Google Apps for Gmail accounts.

Next choose the direction for synchronization. For instance, if you choose “Google to Outlook only,” it will fetch Google Contacts from the cloud into your Outlook address book while keeping the Gmail Address book intact. I kept this unselected to sync both ways.

In case of a conflict, you may either give priority to Gmail, Outlook or let the program prompt you (see next screenshot). One limitation is that it Go Sync cannot handle conflicts on its own and you’ll have to manually compare the conflicts and update the one that is old.

The other impressive thing about this utility is that is can even sync profile pictures of your contacts both ways – this is missing is most of the other synchronization tools that available for syncing Outlook and Gmail. Thank you BlogsDNA.

How to Check Multiple Gmail Accounts Automatically

If you have multiple email accounts on Gmail - say one for your personal emails and other for your business - you don’t have to log out of one email account to check the other mailbox.

Google, as most would probably know, allows multiple sign-in so you can easily log in to two or more Gmail accounts simultaneously inside the same browser. And this works with Google Apps accounts as well.

Tata DoCoMo Customer Service Contact Numbers and Email

Tata DoCoMo Customer Service Short Code is 121 in all Circles. You can as well contact the customer service via email at listen@tatadocomo.com

Sync and Auto Backup Social Networks Content Using Social Folders

SocialFolders enables you to sync your social sites with your computer. That means that you will be able to store and manage all the photos, documents and other files that today are spread across multiple online websites.

Time Kids at Park Dental Clinic

Yahoo Video

Yahoo India announced the launch of ‘Yahoo! Video’, a free online service in partnership with TV channels and film production houses.
Yahoo video will provide original content across multiple genres such as news, entertainment, lifestyle and movies from 35 content producers

LIGHT up a LIFE

The Split Second when the Lightning Meets the Land

Fearlessly placing himself directly in the path of deadly lightning strikes, a photographer captures images that highlight the terrific violence of nature.
Obsessed since childhood with the massive thunderstorms of South Africa's high-veld plains, Mitchell Krog, 39, has been taking pictures of lightning for 16 years.

Asphalt Lake in Trinidad

The Pitch Lake located in Trinidad is one of the most unusual lakes in the world. People can walk on its surface because this lake is the world’s biggest natural deposit of asphalt.

Politics@CPM

Snehaveedu

അഭിനവ ‘ഭരത്ചന്ദ്രന്‍’ ആയി മാറിയ അസിസ്റ്റന്‍റ് കമ്മീഷണര്‍ രാധാകൃഷ്ണപിള്ള

കോഴിക്കോട് കുട്ടികള്‍ക്ക് നേരെ നാലുറൌണ്ട് നിറയൊഴിച്ച് അഭിനവ ‘ഭരത്ചന്ദ്രന്‍’ ആയി മാറിയ അസിസ്റ്റന്‍റ് കമ്മീഷണര്‍ രാധാകൃഷ്ണപിള്ള ഇപ്പോള്‍

Aaranmula Valla Sadya - Vanchippattu

The Muthoot Plaza Snack Bar at Trivandrum Airport

Latest Japanese Train

 

Rules to Rugby

Urukumen- Composed By Krishna Raj & sung by Pradeep Somasundaram

Saboodana (साबूदाना ) Veg OR Non Veg???

Please read this and decide by yourself.
Saboodana (साबूदाना )is popular food eaten during fasting and religious events ... Well, read the attached story and then decide yourself!!

Sabudana is called ‘chowwary’ in Malayalam and Sago in English.

Sabudana or Chowwary is usually used in kerala to thicken the desserts like payasams and pudding.

Is Saboodana A Non-Vegetarian Or Vegetarian Food ?
Think about it..............

In Tamil Nadu, India,in Salem area on the road from Salem to Coimbatore there are many saboodana factories.
We start getting terribly bad smell when we were about 2 kms away from the factories.
Saboodana is made by root like sweet potato. Kerala has this root each weighing about 6kgs. Factory owners buy these roots in bulk during season, make it to pulp and put it in pits of about 40ft x 25ft.
Pits are in open ground and the pulp is allowed to rot for several months. Thousands of tons of roots rot in pits.
There are huge electricbulbs throughout the night where millions of insects fall in the pits.

While pulp is rotting, water is added everyday due to which 2” long white color eel is automatically born
like pests are born automatically in gutter. The walls of pits are covered
by millions ofeels and factory owners with the help of machine crush the pulp with the eels which also become paste.
This action is repeated many times during 5-6 months.

The pulp is thus ready as roots and millions & millions of pests and insects crushed and pasted together. This paste is then passed through round mesh and made into small balls and then polished. This is saboodana.
Now I know why many people don’t eat Saboodana treating this asnon-vegetarian.
If you find it appropriate and if you think after reading this one cannot relish Saboodana,

Pass on this info to those whom you want to save from this tasty food.

Regards

SJR Kumar

JUST LAUGH LOUDLY!!!

Ratan Tata walked into the office one morning not knowing that his zip was down.
His sexy secretary walked up to him and asked, "Boss this morning when you left your house, Did you close your garage door?"
This was not a phrase that her boss understood, so he went into his office looking a bit puzzled.
When he was about done with his paper work, he suddenly noticed that his zipper was not zipped up. He zipped up and remembering what his secretary had told him, he finally understood. He then intentionally went out to ask for a cup of coffee from his secretary. When he reached her desk, he said, "When you saw the garage door open did you see my JAGUAR parked in there?"
The secretary smiled for a moment and said......
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"No boss, I didn't. All I saw was a NANO with 2 flat tyres”!!

LAUGH LOUDLY…. IT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE…. HAVE A NICE DAY…..