Intel bid to simplify use of PC

Thursday, 17 May 2012 09:51

Intel has teamed up with its software partners to launch a customised language interface ‘Darpan' that helps simplify the use and access of personal computer.

The interface, freely downloadable from http://darpan.me, enables the user to access content in five Indian languages — Hindi, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati and Tamil — apart from English. Darpan is a tool that enables new users to experience the Internet and its endless opportunities, Director, Sales, Intel South Asia, B. Suryanarayanan, said, addressing the media here on Thursday.

“At Intel, we believe that technology has the power to revamp businesses and transform lives,” he said and explained the outreach campaign in Andhra Pradesh to reach out to first time buyers, educating them and making them explore the wonders of personal computer and the Internet.

Parliament's stand on Ambedkar cartoon disturbing: Panikkar

Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:00

Renowned historian K.N. Panikkar on Wednesday said that the stand taken by Parliament in the controversy over a cartoon on B.R. Ambedkar was disturbing as it rather hurriedly intervened in an issue that called for more serious thought.

“The members of Parliament have reacted with rare unanimity and an unwarranted sense of outrage to the cartoon included in a textbook published by the NCERT. If they had not done so they would have realised that the text book in question was an excellent example of creative pedagogic innovation, which is rare in our school system,” Dr. Panikkar told The Hindu. He said that the cartoon was a thought-provoking lampooning of one of the major events in the history of modern India in which Jawaharlal Nehru and Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar were caricatured (but it did not imply any insult to either of them).

Dr. Panikkar, a former Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, said that some political leaders seemed to have thought otherwise and members of all parties joined in a vociferous protest.

Mladic goes on trial at The Hagu

Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:00

The former Bosnian Serb army commander, Ratko Mladic, went on trial on Wednesday accused of carrying out a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and Europe's worst massacre since World War II.

“Ratko Mladic assumed the mantle of the criminal goal of ethnically cleansing Bosnia,” prosecutor Dermot Groome told judges as the trial opened at the Yugoslav war crimes court in The Hague.

Mr. Mladic (70) has been indicted on 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the Balkan country's brutal 1992-95 war that killed 100,000 people and left 2.2 million homeless.

Special buses for Ooty flower show

Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:00

Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation Limited will ply special buses on May 18, 19 and 20 to enable people witness the flower show in Udhagamandalam.

A release from the Corporation said that it would ply 43 special buses from Coimbatore to Ooty, 15 from Mettupalayam, four from Coonoor and as per requirement from Tirupur.

The Corporation would also ply special buses to enable people reach the Botanical Garden, Boat House and Rose Garden at an additional cost.

Travel card

As part of the arrangements to facilitate smooth travel of tourists in the hill station, the Corporation had launched the circuit buses scheme, wherein adult tourists by paying Rs. 90 and child tourists by paying Rs. 50 could avail of the travel card.

They could get down at any of the picnic spots, where the buses stop, spend as much time as they want and board any of the circuit buses to move to the next spot.

They could use the travel card to travel in and around the hill station, the release said and added that the buses would touch Botanical Garden, Boat House, Doddabetta Peak, Rose Park, Children's Park and a few other places.

Source: The Hindu.