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Image via Wikipedia WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court on Thursday swept away long-standing limits on campaign spending by unions and corporations. In a long-awaited decision, the court's emboldened conservative majority declared that the limits on so-called "independent expenditures" by corporations violate First Amendment free-speech rights. The much-anticipated decision means that more money can be spent on federal elections,...

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Goldman Sachs has reported earnings of $13.4 billion today for 2009. Also, the "compensation pool", or, in other words, "bonuses", comes in at $16.2 billion. On average, each Goldman Sach employee gets nearly half a million dollars, but this isn't about averages: some traders will walk away with several million dollars. Yes, the compensation pool exceeds the total earnings: compensation is considered a...

Image via Wikipedia WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ex-presidential candidate John Edwards admitted on Thursday that he fathered a child with his former mistress, Rielle Hunter, while campaigning for the Democratic Party's White House nomination. The former U.S. senator from North Carolina, who was among early front-runners in the Democratic field in the race eventually won by Barack Obama in 2008, acknowledged 2-year-old Frances Quinn Hunter as...

Image by Getty Images via Daylife University today announced the result of Under Graduate courses. The Periyar University result 2009 has been available on following website: http://periyarresults.org.in/ The above link is direct to result page. The Periyar University has conducted the exam in December 2009. For further details, students can visit the official website of Periyar University i.e. www.periyaruniversity.ac.in. However, this...

Clearly, I am not the first person to blog about Avatar. Ok, I'm probably the last. So I won't be offended if you don't stick around. But I thought while I'm off-topic this month, that maybe I would talk about something else that is very near and dear to my heart: movies. I went to see Avatar last Tuesday because my mom wanted to go. I'd heard the hype, but I just wasn't all that interested. It's Fern Gully, and Pocahontas all over again,...

Actor R. Madhavan will for the first time play a character with "grey shades" in Bollywood in Teen Patti. While he is a professor in the forthcoming film , the actor will also be seen sporting "six different avatars" in the thriller that also features Amitabh Bachchan and Hollywood star Ben Kingsley. "I have different looks in the film. I'm playing a professor, but when I go to different areas, I'm dressed up as different characters,"...

Cover of Vande Mataram Forty thousand Sydneysiders Saturday night clapped and cheered as the 'Mozart of Madras' A.R. Rahman and his troupe provided a spectacular A.R. Rahman musical extravaganza to salute India-Australia friendship. Seamlessly blending the traditional with the modern, the music spanned the differences of language, enthralling old and young, touching the very heart strings at a time when Australia-India bilateral relations...

Against the backdrop of concerns over hacking of crucial official websites, central security agencies have again warned the government about the use of multi-tasking blackberry instruments by some of the officials working in sensitive ministries including the Prime Minister’s office. Agencies have also cautioned against the practice of connecting official computers and laptops with unsecured internet connections by some bureaucrats thus...

Image via CrunchBase Giant social networking website Facebook, on Tuesday announced that it will be providing its user base with a free of cost 6 month trial of McAfee security software suite which has been released as Internet Security Suite. With the effort, the website is looking to offer better protection to its users. The major player of the computer security world, McAfee is offering an independent online tool that would look to...

Image via Wikipedia The delivery of aid to victims of Haiti's earthquake is still being slowed by bottlenecks, aid workers say. UN and Oxfam staff are finally bringing food and water to some parts of the capital Port-au-Prince, but the airport remains clogged with loaded planes. Many survivors of Tuesday's quake have become desperate as they wait for aid, and many are trying to leave the city. Leaving for Haiti, UN Secretary General...

Image via Wikipedia New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has said Pakistan "needs to do much more" to address India's concerns over continuing cross-border terror before dialogue can resume between the two neighbours. When asked about the recent spate of terrorist attacks, rockets attacks and repeated firing across the international border in Kashmir from the Pakistan side, Rao said that Pakistani groups are involved, possibly with...

Image via Wikipedia President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday led the nation in mourning the death of veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu. Tributes poured in from politicians across the country. While Patil said "the nation has lost a veteran and eminent public figure," Manmohan Singh said Basu was a politician to whom he often turned for "sagacious advice". Basu was a leader "who displayed his abilities as a...

New Delhi: It is a New Year calendar on Priyanka Gandhi Vadra - capturing her in various moods and colourful saris as she connects with voters in Uttar Pradesh. But the ruling Congress party refuses to say whether it is an indication that the important Gandhi family member will be finally joining politics. The calender has also been posted on a website, pressbrief.in, that is a depository of information on the Gandhi family. Congress...

Director: Ken Ghosh Actors: Shahid Kapoor, Genelia D’Souza Rating: *1/2 A popular perception of Bollywood films in the West is that they’re musicals. This notion is only partly correct. Many are left disappointed to learn that the stars of these films can’t sing. They lip-sync. Fine vocalists behind those songs rarely get their due. Few know music composers by face. Dance steps that movie-stars perform to aren’t the toughest to imitate...

Image via Wikipedia ‘King of Pop’ Michael Jackson had expressed a desire to work with composer A.R. Rahman just two months before he died. The ‘Mozart of Madras’ who won two Oscar awards for the soundtrack to the hit movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ revealed that the ‘Thriller’ hitmaker was keen on making music with him, The Daily Telegraph reported. “I met him two months before he died and he expressed an interest in working with me,” Rahman...

Image via Wikipedia Salman Khan won’t have to make much of an effort to take his film Veer, an Eros International Media Ltd presentation and Vijay Galani Moviez production, to international audiences. “The grandeur, budget, sets, its action, writing, the acting, cinematography, and score put it on par with Hollywood films like Gladiator, Troy and Braveheart,” said a trade analyst. Coincidentally, Mel Gibson wrote Braveheart while Salman...

Image via Wikipedia KOLKATA: It would be a homecoming for super-hit film 3 Idiots, with the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, arranging five shows at its The film depicts life in an elite engineering institute and though there is no explicit reference to IITs, Five Point Someone, the novel written by Chetan Bhagat on which the film is based, talks about life on an IIT campus. As soon as the institute re-opened after the winter...

Image by Karen Ferreira via Flickr Nokia the worlds leading mobile handset giant today announced that its 3G compatible new touch screen mobile phones Nokia 5230 is available across India and it cost Rs.8500. As the latest addition in the Nokia touch phone portfolio, the Nokia 5230 is designed for those who lead an active life and use their mobile phone as their primary instrument for music, photos and videos, as well as sharing their lives...

Image via CrunchBase The Chinese managed to hack Google accounts of human activists and many businesses as they took advantage of vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Interne t Explorer (IE) browser which were previously unknown, according to reports. Google has threatened to close its operations and offices in China after hacking and "phishing" attempts to break into gmail accounts of US, China and Europe based Chinese human rights activists. The...

Image via Wikipedia After declaring a crusade against Maoists last week, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee made a virtual volte face during Friday’s rally at Jhargram. Making all possible efforts to woo Naxals, she invited them for talks on development and even offered to mediate with the Centre. And her offer was accepted ¿ at least by the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA). But much to her chagrin, their choice...

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