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Latest info on Layoffs

The economic slump that is shaking the whole world is deeper and affecting more industries than expected. Every industry is slashing jobs as cost cutting measures and yesterday is the worst day for labours. Nearly 70,000 jobs have been slashed yesterday.
The construction equipment giant caterpillar announced on Monday that it is cutting 20,000 jobs as a result of plunging sales amid sharp economic slowdown. The software industry too seems to be feeling the heat as Microsoft has decided to slash 5,000 jobs in the next 18 months. Yahoo too has decided to freeze appraisals for its employees.

Pfizer buys rival Wyeth

Pfizer has decided to buyout rival drug maker Wyeth in a 68 billion cash and stock deal. This would enhance Pfizer’s position as no.1 in the pharmaceutical industry. This may seem to have solidified Pfizer’s position in the industry but they too have not been able to escape global economic meltdown. They have decided to slash more than 8,000 jobs as cost cutting measures.
The newyork based company also has decided to reduce the number of manufacturing sites. No industry has escaped global economic meltdown and the pharmacy industry is no different. But the greed of some companies seems endless and Pfizer is no different. It is one of numerous company which slashes job as cost cutting measure but also go on acquiring other companies.

Joker’s history

Heath Ledger, who played the joker in Batman did not live to see his portrayal feted. An Australian by birth, this actor was born on April 4th 1979 in Perth.Ledger loved playing chess and he won western Australia’s junior chess championship at the age of 10.He sat for his graduation exams at the age of 16 and left school to pursue an acting career. He is known for his role in ‘The Patriot’,’ The Four Feathers’, ‘A Knight’s Tales’ and won an award for his role in The Patriot. He also won awards his role in ‘Broke back Mountain’. More than a star Heath Ledger was on his way to becoming an

The legendery ledger

acclaimed actor for his role as the Joker, Ledger slipped into the character of the role by living in a hotel alone and recording in a diary, the way the Joker would behave. For him ,the Joker was a living, breathing character. The actor was having trouble sleeping and was taking quite a few medications for this. He died of what was later termed as “abuse of prescription medications”, on Jan 22 2008.It was a sudden end to a very talented actor and the Joker is seen as one of his best performances.

Can Obama really bring change?

Tomorrow the world will see the first afro-american president of United States. He is going to begin with huge people support and is seen as a “fairy” who could change all the problems like Iraq, Afganistan and Recession with a magic wand. Is that so easy? Only time will tell.
Obama have already declared Iraq and Economy as his top agenda. The first and foremost problem, ie Iraq has already depleted the global image of USA. The war which began as a response to Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction in 2001 has now turned into a civil war and the hatred among Iraqis is reflected by recent shoe gate incident.
The next problem is not only America’s problem but also a global one. Everyone from US to Korea are feeling the pinch in one

Smoking Joe

way or other and the unemployment rate is at all time high. I personally feel even Obama will not be able to negotiate economic slowdown but can suppress the phenomenon by taking some path braking reforms that revived America from its previous recession in 1930.

Satyam Aftershocks

When news about “satyam fraud” broke out, we could see immediately view the damage it has caused. It’s a huge blow to corporate India and particularly IT sector. Doubts were raised about other IT majors but it seems to have subsided a little bit after infosys reported their Q3 results. But, in long term perspective satyam would be viewed as the fiasco which showed major holes in the Indian corporate governance.
Now that Mr. Raju in jail, the government has taken some strong measures. New board members have been announced and they are taking every step to solve the liquidity crisis.

satyam employees disgusted

The government has declined a bailout and that is bad news for 53k employees. And finally government must look into some 6k freshers who have been waiting from may that they would join satyam someday.

LTTE and India

Liberation tigers of Tamil Eelam are waging a prolonged civil war in Sri Lanka. These are tough times for the so-called freedom fighters of ethnic Tamils and they are being defeated at every stage and now confined to a very small jungle, as per reports.
Like in many other cases, India seems to be divided in this issue too… One section of people is of opinion that the ethnic Tamils are our own brothers and we should help them in each and every way to get them freedom. These are the ideas garnered by some politicians of tamilnadu and have been carrying an agitation day in and day out. Another section is of more conservative opinion and are arguing that Sri Lanka is a sovereign country and its not good to meddle with their internal affairs.
And this is my personal opinion on this issue. We should not meddle with other countries problem because it would equate this problem to Pakistan-Kashmir problem. And finally to the politicians of tamil nadu, it’s hurting to see your agitation supporting the freedom of Tamils in other country when your own people who voted you to power are suffering from various miseries like unemployment,electricity blackout etc. And finally iam a tamilian too.

My favorite movie

Like a typical male, I like action movies and thrillers. Watching an action movie like “The dark Knight” or a thriller like “Saw” is a fascinating experience. But my favorite film is more of an action drama directed by the same man who directed the dark knight. Christopher Nolan’s “Memento” is the best film I could have ever watched.

memento

Memento’s desi version, “Ghajini” is raking the box-office but it is nowhere near the original one. It was such a great film and is worth watching for its extraordinary screenplay. A lay film-goer will find it difficult to understand the movie but the film is worthy DVD collection. The most astonishing part is like the protagonist of the film, who is suffering from short-term memory loss , we are also able to test our memory because of the the movie is done. You could understand a particular scene only if you are able to recollect and relate it with a scene which came 15 minutes back…

The Hatred towards muslims

9 Muslim people were refused to continue their travel in the Air Tran Airways from midway as one of them were alleged of discussing about issues that were a threat to security of fellow travellers. One among the Muslim family was discussing about the safest place in the plane to sit. This conversation was misunderstood by the neighbor travellers and was escalated to the pilot. Later those Muslim members were kicked off from the plane in the midway and were interrogated by the FBI agents for the conversation they had in the plane As a result of the FBI interview, they were proved of no fault. It was just a misunderstanding which had caused a serious issue this way.

Though the Airways justify that they have acted like this to ensure complete security to their customers, it’s a bitter fact that these Muslim people were racially discriminated from the other travellers. Because they had a traditional look with beards and religious dresses, they were forced to undergo the unnecessary interview by the FBI agents. I feel this act of Air Tran is definitely condemnable. The Air Tran now apologizes for the inconvenience caused by them to the Muslim family. Though the airways are now ready to compensate for their travel expenses, the Muslim family is not ready to accept the explanation. Its high time that the Airways should review its policies and stop causing irrelevant disputes in the name of security. A mountain was made out of the mole!!

who is the best? sachin or rehman

Allah Rakkha Rahman (born January 6, 1966 as A. S. Dileep Kumar in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) is a Golden Globe and National Film Award winning film composer, record producer and musician. His work has garnered considerable acclaim and a large global fanbase since his career scoring film began in the early 1990s.

Working in several of India’s various film industries, international cinema and theatre, by 2003, Rahman, in a career spanning over a decade, has sold more than 100 million records of his film scores and soundtracks worldwide, and sold over 200 million cassettes^[2] making him one of the world’s top 10 all-time top selling recording artists.

His first venture was malayalam movie “YODHA” which was before “ROJA”.His Soundtrack, “Roja” turned out to be the world’s 10^th best soundtrack ever, as rated by Time Magazine, USA. He will compose two Mongolian songs one Japanese song for his upcoming Malayalam/Japanese Multi-Lingual movie Nairsan starring Jackie Chan & Mohanlal & also traditional songs. His acclaimed music compositions have led TIME Magazine to declare him the “Mozart of Madras” and several Tamil commentators have given him the title Isai Puyal (Musical Storm).

Rahman is the 1995 recipient of the Mauritius National Award and the Malaysian Award for contributions to music. He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for his first West-End production. A four time National Film Award winner and conferred the Padma Shri from the Government of India, Rahman has received six awards for Best Music at the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and eleven awards for his scores at the Filmfare and Filmfare Awards South each. In 2006, he received an honorary award from Stanford University for contributions to global music. A 2008 Critics Choice Awards winner for Best Composer, Rahman became the first Indian national to win a Golden Globe, winning for Slumdog Millionaire in the category of Best Original Score.

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar pronunciation, born April 24, 1973 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. In 2002, Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time next only to Sir Donald Bradman, and the second greatest one-day international (ODI) batsman of all time next only to Sir Viv Richards. The list was later revised to make him the greatest one-day international (ODI) batsman of all time. In September 2007, Shane Warne, the world-record breaking Australian leg spinner, rated Sachin Tendulkar as the greatest player he has played with or against. Sachin Tendulkar was the only player of the current generation to be included in Bradman’s Eleven, the dream team of Sir Donald Bradman, published in his biography. He is sometimes referred to as the Little Master or the Master Blaster.

Tendulkar is the highest run scorer in both Test matches and ODIs, and also the batsman with the most centuries in either form of the game. On October 17, 2008, when he surpassed Brian Lara‘s record for the most runs scored in Test Cricket, he also became the first batsman to score 12,000 runs in that form of the game, having also been the third batsman and first Indian to pass 11,000 runs in Test cricket. He was also the first player to score 10,000 runs in one-day internationals, and also the first player to cross every subsequent 1000-run mark that has been crossed in ODI cricket history. In the fourth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia, Tendulkar surpassed Australia’s Allan Border to become the player to cross the 50-run mark the most number of times in Test cricket history, and also the second ever player to score 10 Test centuries against Australia, after only Sir Jack Hobbs of England more than 70 years back. Tendulkar has been honored with the Padma Vibhushan award, India’s second highest civilian award, and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India’s highest sporting honor.

Sachin Tendulkar is the most prolific run scorer in one-day internationals with 16,422 runs. With a current aggregate of 12,429 Test runs, he surpassed Brian Lara‘s previous record tally of 11,953 runs as the highest run scorer in test matches in the second Test of Australia‘s 2008 tour of India in Mohali. Sachin described “It is definitely the biggest achievement in 19 years of my career” on the day he achieved the record. He also holds the record of highest number of centuries in both Test (41) and ODI cricket (42). Throughout his career, he has made a strong impact on Indian cricket and was, at one time, the foundation of most of the team’s victories. In recognition with his impact on sport in a cricket-loving country like India, Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award, Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India. He was also elected Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1997 and is ranked by the objective scoring method of the Wisden 100 as the second best test batsman and best ODI batsman of all time.

Tendulkar has also consistently done well in Cricket World Cups (excluding the 2007 Cricket World Cup in which India were knocked out after only 3 matches). Tendulkar was the highest run scorer of the 2003 Cricket World Cup and 1996 Cricket World Cup. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODIs 7 times, and in one of these years he scored 1894 runs, easily the record for the highest number of runs scored by any player in a single calendar year for one day internationals. Tendulkar is also one of the very few players who are still playing in international cricket from the 1980s.

He has been Man of the Match 11 times in Test matches and Man of the Series 4 times, out of them twice in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia. The performances earned him respect from Australian cricket fans and players.