Tuesday, October 28, 2014

U.S. and EU hail pro-West election outcome in Ukraine, Russia guarded

(Reuters) - Pro-Western gatherings will rule Ukraine's parliament after a decision gave President Petro Poroshenko a command to end a separatist clash and to control the nation further far from Russia's circle towards standard Europe.

U.s. President Barack Obama hailed Sunday's decision as "an imperative turning point in Ukraine's majority rule advancement" while toMembers of a local electoral commission empty a ballot box at a polling station after voting day in Kiev, October 26, 2014.  REUTERS-Gleb Garanichp European Union authorities said on Monday it spoke to a "triumph of the populace of Ukraine and of vote based system".

Anyhow, reflecting the geopolitical battle in the middle of Moscow and the West over Ukraine's future, Russia's remote pastor responded warily, saying Moscow anticipated that Poroshenko will structure an administration that would mend the "part" in Ukrainian culture.

Poroshenko started force imparting converses with Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk after their political gatherings headed other master Western strengths focused on vote based changes in clearing professional Russian constrains out of parliament.

"The fundamental errand is to rapidly structure an expert European coalition for doing concurrences with the EU," Yatseniuk said at a gathering with race eyewitnesses.

Global eyewitnesses from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe gave a further lift to the expert Western Kiev initiative, saying Sunday's race had "to a great extent maintained equitable responsibilities" notwithstanding the clash in the east.

It was "a plentifully challenged decision that offered voters genuine decision and (had) a general appreciation for key opportunities," Kent Harstedt, OSCE uncommon facilitator, told a news gathering.

After months of clash and turmoil there was no happiness from Poroshenko's associates. He confronts enormous issues: Russia restricts his arrangements to one day join the European Union, a truce is scarcely holding between government strengths and genius Russian separatists in the east, and the economy is in critical straits.

Russian President Vladimir Putin can likewise still impact occasions, as the principle sponsor of the agitators in the east and through Moscow's part as characteristic gas supplier to Ukraine and the EU. He could likewise expel exchange concessions from Kiev in the event that it looks West.

Be that as it may Poroshenko's prompt errand is to concrete an union with Yatseniuk's People's Front, running neck and neck with his coalition on around 21 percent help after more than two-thirds of the votes on gathering records were tallied.

To secure a larger part they are liable to turn to Samopomich (Selfhelp), a similar gathering with 11 percent of votes, whose pioneer Poroshenko likewise met on Monday. Last comes about for gathering rundown voting and in single electorate seats are expected on Oct. 30.

The coupled between the 49-year-old confectionery financier Poroshenko and the scholarly Yatseniuk, who has gone out ahead as a hostile to Russian peddle as of late, was developing as a relationship liable to rule the new political scene.

Yatseniuk once called the PM's employment "political suicide" however, a most loved in the West, he could now keep the occupation to supervise profound and potentially disagreeable changes.

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Poroshenko and his associates are attempting to restore regularity to the sprawling nation of 46 million and draw a line under a year of change that started with road shows against Poroshenko's ace Russian forerunner, Viktor Yanukovich.

Yanukovich was toppled in February in what Russia called a "rightist upset" after he spurned an arrangement that would have extended ties with the EU. Moscow reacted by quickly seizing and affixing the Crimea landmass and support the separatist uprisings in which more than 3,700 individuals have been executed.

Moscow has likewise stopped gas supplies to Ukraine in succession over the cost and unpaid bills, creating caution in the EU which gets a third of its gas needs from Russia, a large portion of this by means of Ukraine.

Obama, in an announcement, said the United States anticipated the speedy structuring "of a solid, comprehensive government" in Kiev and communicated backing for Ukraine's regional honesty including the reappearance of Crimea.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Council boss Herman Van Rompuy, in a joint explanation, said they expected the Kiev authority now to look for a "wide national agreement" to increase highly required changes.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in a more downbeat response, said Moscow trusted for the arrangement of a "productive government" to would fathom social-financial issues, satisfy the terms of peace talks and "not save the part in the public eye".

The Kiev government says it is trusting for humble financial development one year from now after a 6 percent decrease in 2014, however the World Bank anticipates that the economy will keep contracting.

In accordance with measures concurred with the IMF, Yatseniuk's legislature has cut plan consumption and let the Ukrainian hryvnia skim. The cash has lost around 40 percent of its esteem against the dollar since the begin of the year.

The monetary decay has been disturbed by the battling in the east, where two more Ukrainian officers were killed on Sunday and shelling continued on the edge of the agitator fortification of Donetsk on Monday notwithstanding a truce. In spite of the roughness, Poroshenko demands an arranged settlement.

A few partners of Yanukovich will be in parliament in the new Opposition Bloc yet communists won't be spoken to shockingly since freedom from the Soviet Union in 1991.

After months of beating back the separatists, Ukraine's troops endured setbacks in August, which Kiev and its Western sponsor say was brought about by Moscow sending heavily clad segments with many troops to support the dissidents. Russia denied this.

Voting did not happen in regions held by the dissidents or in Crimea. Separatists in the east arrange an opponent vote on Nov. 2.

(Extra reporting by Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets,; and Thomas Grove in Donetsk; Editing by Giles Elgood)

Chhath 2014 Special: All you need to know about the auspicious festival

Chhath is an old Indian celebration exclusively committed to the God of Sun and Chhathi Maiya. This celebration, that starts on October 27 in the not so distant future, is commended by all Hindus and particularly North Indians with energy and excitement. Individuals commend Chhath and offer appreciation to Surya Devta for gift life on earth and conceding wishes. Chhath Puja is carried on for four days and incorporates certain customs like sacred showering, fasting, offering requests to God, and so forth. As indicated by the Hindu timetable, Chhath is commended on the sixth day of the month of Kartik (October).

On the celebration of Chhath, individuals wake up ahead of schedule, scrub down in stream Ganga and quick for the whole day. The female of the house plunges her feet in water and offers supplications to God to the climbing sun which is additionally called as aragh. Watching quick on this day is not in any manner a simple undertaking. One needs to quick without water for around 36 hours, which is alongside incomprehensible. Caps off to all lovers who watch and complete this quick with full commitment.

Legendary legends about Chhath Puja

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In Hindu religion, Chhath celebration has more noteworthy hugeness and unites with the most seasoned and aged Purohits who were asked for by the Kings to perform conventional puja of Lord Sun. amid those days, the Purohits droned the age-old Rigveda and songs. Chhath Puja amid more seasoned times was praised by Draupadi and Pandavas from the Mahabharata who recaptured their lost kingdom.

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It is said that the first Chhath Puja was begun by Surya Putra Karna, who was a bold warrior and administered over Anga Desh(bihar). An alternate history being that Chhath Puja is the untold story of Lord Rama. Master Rama and Goddess Sita had fasted and offered puja to the Lord Sun amid their crowning liturgy after they came back to Ayodhya.

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The Goddess who is loved the most amid Chhath Puja is 'Chhathi Maiya'. She is said to be the partner of Surya – Sun God. Enthusiasts love her so they can beat their issues and can get Moksha. Chhathi Maiya is otherwise called 'Usha', which implies the first beam of light amid the day. As per the myth, Usha and Pratusha were the wives of Lord Sun and both are revered alongside the Sun.

Preferences of watching Chhath Puja

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1. In the wake of watching and performing Chhath Puja, one gets control over the stream of prana and additions a great deal of vitality and positive vibes. It keeps one sound as well as enhances the skin and vision.

2. The whole process helps in expanding resistance and cures a mixture of diseases through the radiation of the Sun.

3. Revering the Sun and remaining in water for the whole day serves to ponder and unwinds the spirit and the brain.

4. This methodology additionally helps in battling infections and enhances the execution of WBC (white platelets).

5. Sun oriented vitality gives the body power and controls the discharge of hormones.

Age old customs and conventions

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Upon the arrival of Chhath Puja, the fan needs to scrub down and needs to watch quick for four persistent days. One needs to perform this puja with full immaculateness and ought to give up all lavish propensities. It is accepted that the family who performs Chhath Puja once needs to proceed with it for whatever remains of their lives and ought to likewise pass on the customs to the cutting edge. Here are the ceremonies of Chhath Puja:

1. The main day of the Chhath Puja - Nahay khay - ought to start with blessed shower and the fan needs to bring some measure of water at their home for advertising. The surroundings must be clean enough to perform the puja.

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2. On the second day - Lohanda and Kharna - enthusiasts watch quick for the whole day and specifically break quick at night after nightfall. The sustenance arranged is then offered in the puja and at night again they begin fasting and that as well, without water for the following 36 hours.
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3. The third day embodies Sandhya and Arghya wherein the females wear sarees of turmeric shade and offer arghya on the waterway bank of Ganga. Further, the occasion of Kosi is commended by lighting lights or diyas under five sugarcane stays. This shows Panchatattva which contain five components of the human body. Chhath 2014 Special: All you need to know about the auspicious festival

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4. The most recent day of Chhath - Usha Arghya – is the place lovers offer Bihaniya Aragh on the waterway bank of Ganga alongside their gang. Furthermore before the day's over lovers break their quick by expending prasad.

Rarities arranged on Chhath Puja:

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On the favorable event of Chhath Puja, individuals plan prasad which they offer to Lord Sun. Enticing dishes are arranged on the first day, including kheer, theku, foods grown from the ground. The sustenance ought to preferably be cooked without salt, onion and garlic. The individual watching the quick needs to devour the feast once in a day that excessively which is cooked utilizing bronze or mango wood utensils.

Content Chhath Puja to everybody out there! Trust God concedes the wishes of the whole gang with prosperity, satisfaction and thriv

'God's Work': Obama Says U.S. Must Support Health Workers Who Go to Africa

President Barack Obama approached the nation to help wellbeing specialists treating Ebola patients in West Africa, applauding their "fantastic bravery" as states have forced obligatory isolates for returning specialists.

"America, at last is not characterized by trepidation. That is not who we are. America is characterized by plausibility, and when we see an issue and we see a test, then we settle it," the president said Tuesday on the White House South Lawn before setting out on an outing to Milwaukee.

"We need to verify that we comprehend that they are doing God's work over yonder, and they're doing that to keep us safe."

Obama prior Tuesday had a telephone call with the parts of the USAID group that has been on the ground in West Africa since August. Ebola has executed almost 5,000 individuals, for the most part in the West African nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, in a flare-up that has overpowered neighborhood human services frameworks.

After a specialist who as of late treated Ebola patients in Africa tried positive for the illness in New York City, New York and New Jersey forced guidelines obliging returning health awareness laborers who have been in contact with Ebola patients be put in obligatory isolate. "We would prefer not to dishearten our social insurance laborers from setting off to the forefronts and managing this in a compelling way," Obama said, and that observing systems would be "focused around the science, in light of the truths."

Obama said the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team is currently the spine of America's reaction in West Africa, and has expanded internment groups, made it less demanding for therapeutic supplies and gear to stream into the area, and propelled a forceful instruction battle.

"It's run of the mill of what America specializes in," Obama said of the reaction group. "When others are into a bad situation, when malady or calamity strikes, Americans help."

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Black money: Centre discloses more names to SC

New Delhi:  The administration today revealed under the watchful eye of the Supreme Court more names including that of Pradip Burman, one of Dabur India promoters, a bullion broker and Goa mineworkers against whom it has begun arraignment for supposedly stashing blackmoney in outside banks.

Rajkot-based bullion dealer Pankaj Chimanlal Lodhya and Goa-based mining organization Timblo Private Limited and its five Directors were among the names that figured in the rundown which was recorded in the Supreme Court by the legislature.

The affirmation, recorded days after the legislature went under assault from political opponents that it was wary of uncovering names, said that these names have been gotten from French powers and different nations.

Guaranteeing to uncover more names of dark cash holders who have gone under its scanner, the legislature said that all outsBlack money: Centre discloses more names to SCide ledgers can't be termed as "illicit".

The extra affirmation on the dark cash issue was recorded today in facilitation of its sworn statement as of late when it had said that names of record holders in outside banks can't be revealed till there is confirmation of duty avoidance against them and indictment is propelled in India.

While Burman's name was gotten from French powers the names of Lodhia and others have been gotten from "different nations".

The rundown names Timblo Private Limited and its Directors Mrs Radha Satish Timblo, Chetan S Timblo, Rohan S Timblo, Mrs Anna C Timblo and Mrs Mallika R Timblo.

It was not clear whether the record holder is the organization or its Directors. Soon after the divulgence in the Supreme Court, Dabur India promoter family, Burmans said the record followed all legitimate prerequisites.

"We wish to express that this record was opened when he (Pradip) was a NRI, and was legitimately permitted to open this record," a Dabur representative said in an announcement.

"We have emulated all the laws and the complete insights with respect to the record have been willfully, and according to law, recorded with the Income Tax Department, and fitting expenses paid, wherever appropriate," he included.

Lodhiya denied having a Swiss ledger. "We have officially announced in the pay charge and there is nothing...we don't have any Swiss account that is the main thing which I can say," he said.

Radha Timbo declined to remark on her name being said in the sworn statement, saying she needs to first study it before remarking.

The administration in its 10-page sworn statement submitted that it can't reveal all the data and names of record holders in abroad banks, got from remote nations, unless there is a "by all appearances" confirmation of wrongdoing for propelling arraignment for duty avoidance.

"The administration is resolved to unveil names of persons holding illicit cash abroad. Be that as it may, each record held by an Indian in an outside nation may not be unlawful and the major right of natives to security under Article 21 of the Constitution can't be overlooked and has been perceived by this court," it said, including the names and data/ reports can't be uncovered considerably under a processes under Article 32(1) of the Constitution.

It submitted the pinnacle court to elucidate its prior request running it to uncover even the names of outside financial balance holders against whom no confirmation was found for stashing dark cash saying the legislature would have an issue entering into assessment concurrences with different nations.

"There is truly no expectation from the administration to withhold data, including names of persons who have stashed dark cash abroad, however just to look for certain illumination that will empower the legislature to enter into concurrences with different nations under which data identifying with unaccounted cash lying abroad can be acquired," it said.

"The data got under these duty bargains and understandings will be unveiled in the wake of taking after the due procedure of law, in all situations where avoidance of assessment is made. The proposition of the present government is clear and unambiguous.

"The legislature is quick to uncover dark cash held abroad and for that reason it will utilize all strategic and legitimate means furthermore all researching orgs to acquire data that can aid in such uncovering," the affirmation said.

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India’s air force has grounded smartphones made by Chinese high-flyer Xiaomi

Regardless of what is said on the high-tables of strategy about cross-fringe exchange and venture, India hasn't generally been altogether agreeable with the exercises of prominent Chinese innovation organizations.

The most recent suspect is China's number one—and the world's fifth biggest cell phone producer, Xiaomi, which is attempting to make advances into India's blasting cellular telephone market.

The Indian Air Force (IAF)—among the biggest on the planet has asked its work force and their families to abstain from utilizing Xiaomi Redmi 1s cell phones. It expects that the Chinese cell phone creator may be getting to individual client information and putting away them on its servers in Beijing, The Economic Times reported. The IAF's mandate is focused around tests run by F-Secure, a Finnish security firm, on Redmi 1s.

Xiaomi, on the other hand, says that there is nothing to stress over, however it hasn't formally gotten notification from the IAF or the administration yet.

"We take thorough precautionary measures to guarantee that all information is secured when transferred to Xiaomi servers and is not put away past the time needed," Manu Jain, Xiaomi's India head, wrote in an email. "Strict encryption calculations are actualized to secure client security."

"The extent that we know, our cloud administration is 100% agreeable with all legitimate regulations globally, including India. We are eager to meet with the powers to intention any worries that they may be having," he included.

Xiaomi had a blockbuster opening in India this July, in the wake of unseating opponent Samsung from the most obvious position in China. The organization tied up with e-business monster Flipkart in India offering its cell phones through blaze deals, offering more than 400,000 handsets as such. The organization is facilitating its eighth such glimmer deal on 28 October—and is supposedly additionally considering assembling its telephones in India in the wake of posting solid deals.

In August, F- Secure discovered the Redmi 1s cell phone sent the call history, instant messages, name of the telecom administrator, the IMEI number and the telephone number again to Xiaomi's servers, at present placed in China.

Xiaomi was speedy to respond and turned out with a product redesign that forestalled automatic exchange of client information to its servers. In any case, the Chinese handset-creator keeps on stoing client data on Mi Cloud—its cloud administration like Apple's icloud.

Inside days of the F-Secure test, Hugo Barra,

India’s air force has grounded smartphones made by Chinese high-flyer Xiaomi

Xiaomi's VP of worldwide operations, said the organization was at present exchanging client information put away in its servers in Beijing to California and Singapore for better speeds.

"Clients are now encountering site pace helps of no less than 30% in business sectors, for example, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and to the extent that 200% in India," Barra said in a post on his Google Plus page. In the end, the organization arrangements to exchange the information of its Indian clients in servers facilitated in India, Jain adeed.

This isn't the first run through India has communicated its worries over Chinese telecom organizations. In February 2014, India started exploring Huawei on suspicion of hacking into the telecom systems of Bharat Sanchar Nagar Nigam (BSNL), India's state-run telephone organization.

The administration had comparable reservations about  ZTE, an alternate Chinese telecom gear supplier, in 2009 and 2010, and asked BSNL not to buy supplies from the organization. Huawei and ZTE are among the least expensive telecom gear suppliers in India.

"Client security is one of the greatest issues around the world," said Tarun Pathak, senior examiner at Counterpoint Research, an engineering statistical surveying firm. "Putting away is not an issue yet where and how is the information is, no doubt utilized, that is the primary i

Happy New Year box office collection: Shah Rukh Khan-Deepika Padukone’s latest release rakes in Rs 108.86 crores in three days!

Shah Rukh Khan's Happy New Year, created by Red Chillies Entertainments Pvt Ltd, kept on breakking records by having the greatest Box Office gathering in India for the opening weekend. It has gathered Rs. 108.86 Crores on the opening weekend all India, with Rs. 104.10 Crores in Hindi, Rs. 2.92 Crores in Telugu name and Rs. 1.84 Crores in Tamil name.

HNY has turned into the most elevated opening weekend ranker in Indian movies as such. Venky Mysore, CEO RCE said, "We are excited that after Chennai Express had set another record in 2013, Happy New Year has set an alternate new benchmark. We are thankful for the continuous love and backing of group of onlookers." Gaurav Verma, Chief Revenue Officer RCE said, "We are appreciative to all our accomplices, exhibitors and particularly YRF for helping us attain this critical development."

Upbeat New Year is created by Red Chillies and coordinated by Farah Khan. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Jackie Shroff, Boman Irani and Vivaan Shah in lead parts.Happy New Year

4 more ‘Amazon’ stocks you may want to avoid

Amazon.com Inc. has been Wall Street's perfect case for organizations that concentrate on long haul piece of the pie and deals development, prompting fat increases for financial specialists. That is, until not long from now.

After Amazon AMZN, +1.01%  reported a $544 million working misfortune for the second from last quarter, regardless of a 20% increment in deals, the shares sank 8% Friday to $287, a decay of 28% for 2014. The organization's expansive misfortune sprang from stock compose downs for the Fire Phone, which was presented in June by CEO Jeff Bezos. The telephone hasn't inspired buyers, who evidently have chosen that their Apple AAPL, -0.10%  iphones and other Google GOOG, +0.18%  Android telephones as of now make it simple enough to use cash through Amazon.

Marek Fuchs summed up financial specialists' disappearing quietness for Amazon's absence of benefits, furthermore given clear warnings to shareholders of different organizations in comparable circumstances, including Twitter Inc. TWTR, -2.78% Amgen Inc. AMGN, +0.64% Allergan Inc. AGN, -1.02%  and Merck & Co. MRK, -2.01%

As a catch up to Fuchs' story, we took a gander at the S&p 500 SPX, -0.15% (or more Twitter, which isn't yet included in the file on the grounds that the organization opened up to the world just last November), and recognized organizations indicating deals development of 19% or more for the most as of late reported quarter. These are the five that likewise lost cash that quarter and a year prior, on a GAAP premise:

Organizations with great deals and terrible profit

Company ticker industry quarterly deals growth net salary - latest quarter ($mil) net wage - year prior ($mil)

Twitter Inc. twtr, -2.78%   internet Software/ Services 114% -$175 -$65

Intuit Inc. intu, +0.06% packaged Software 90% -$29 -$19

Principle Healthcare Corp. thc, -1.25% hospital/Nursing Management 67% -$10 -$53

Amazon.com Inc. amzn, +1.01% internet Retail 20% -$437 -$41

Monsanto Co. mon, -0.41% agricultural Chemicals 19% -$156 -$249

Source: Factset

Not those organizations have discharged second from last quarter results. Principle Healthcare Corp. THC, -1.25%  is booked to affirm income Nov. 3., with assessed GAAP income of $10 million, and Intuit Inc. INTU, +0.06%  will report Nov. 19, with experts expecting a net loss of $58 million.

A lot of experts accept financial specialists ought to stay with Amazon, yet Fuchs says speculators may be in front of Wall Street in requesting that Amazon turn predictable benefits. When its all said and done, examiners expect the organization's 2014 income to aggregate a bewildering $89.6 billion.

Twitter, of course, reported an unassuming working benefit of a penny an offer, and a GAAP net loss of 29 pennies an offer. The organization's second from last quarter GAAP net misfortune broadened 69% from a year prior to $175 million. Yes, Twitter is at a much prior development stage than Amazon. At the same time Amazon offers most customer items, while Twitter is attempting to develop its income from a free administration.

Something else that bears viewing is weakening from stock-based honors to Twitter representatives. The organization's weakened offer include developed by 3% the second from last quarter from the second quarter, when it developed 4% from the past quarter.

Twitter's second from last quarter GAAP net misfortune included $170 million in non-money costs for stock-based recompense to representatives. You may feel great hanging your cap on the balanced benefit of a penny an offer, if those presents to workers are prohibited, however there is a genuine expense to shareholders. To begin with, shareholders' positions are weakened by the issuance of additional shares. This implies that when the organization in the long run turns genuine benefits, EPS will endure. The extent that "non-money" costs go, Twitter's Board of Directors may well choose to start purchasing back shares to "wipe up" the weakening. Also that will be exceptionally costly for the organization.

Twitter's stock was down 11% in post-retail exchanging, after a 3% drop amid the normal exchanging day.

At this point, particularly after the wild ride for stocks over the previous month, which hasn't prompted any kind of "rectification," reasonability is in place. Why not take a gander at benefits and offer weakening for a change?

A new project from Apple and Google alumni aims to fix an annoying Android problem

Google does something comparable between Android Wear gadgets and Android telephones, proposing when something you're doing on your wrist may be more qualified for a bigger screen, then sending it over. Nextbit fellow benefactor and CTO Mike Chan, who formerly chipped away at three significant arrivals of Android for Google (counting form 1.0), depicts a comparative situation, where something you began on a telephone may be better completed on a tablet (like drawing), then exchanged over to a telephone when you have to bring it with you.

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Off camera, Nextbit is not really sending oveTwitter / Homer a duplicate of the application, simply a preview of the information that tells the application what you were doing. That is fundamentally the same to what Apple, Google, and Amazon all offer with client information. The enormous distinction here is that its been intended to remove the steps of discovering the application, and the right documents when you're juggling tasks between gadgets. As indicated by Chan, every one of these depictions is - as a rule - about a large portion of a megabyte. At the point when the telephone or tablet gets the ping from the gadget you're giving off from, the product opens the gadget you picked, dispatches the application, and loads up the information much the same as it was on the gadget you simply cleared out. In a demo I saw of this utilizing two separate applications, that is simply what happened.

The key thing Nextbit is pushing is that this all works without application engineers needing to do anything. What's more it doesn't simply exchange information between a solitary app,it matches up all the application information over your whole gadget. "When you need to synchronize application information, you don't need to keep in touch with a specific SDK like our own, or Dropbox. The [developer] application capacities as it does the very first moment," Chan says. In any case it does require the organizations that make gadgets or exceptional forms of Android for handsets to incorporate Nextbit's product, implying that in case you're an easy Android client, this isn't something you'll have the capacity to simply download from the Play Store. The principal accomplice that is bit is Cyanogen, which has included Nextbit's engineering into Cyanogenmod. It tried this with a little and private gathering of clients, and is opening it up today to a bigger gathering in an open beta.

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"Out of the case, our stage will be completely fit for it," says Steve Kondik, Cyanogen's prime supporter and CTO. "In case you're introducing it onto your gadget and you have [cyanogenmod], you'll have the capacity to utilize it on any application from the Play Store. Furthermore you'll be seeing it in a few gadgets as well."

Rod is free, however Tom Moss, Nextbit's prime supporter and CEO, says that the organization inevitably plans to charge for premium gimmicks that go on top of its administrations, and also augment this innovation to places like TV sets as well. It's additionally not offering this straightforwardly to Android clients who root their telephones, and is rather depending on gatherings like Cyanogen to help push this onto existing gadgets.

This is really the organization's first extend. It additionally fabricated a reinforcement instrument for telephones, which it has offered to a few transporters, including Japan's NTT Docomo, that name it as their own. Nextbit's next huge undertaking is an approach to store more client records in the cloud so that individuals don't use up space on their telephones as effortlessly. That is going on in light of the fact that everybody has approached capacity on gadgets the wrong way, Moss contends, however he kept mum on how Nextbit's really understood it.

"At this moment, there are PC-time arrangements: organizers and record frameworks. You're utilizing your telephone for applications, and application information. Something new is obliged," he says. "We think we've nailed something that is cutting edge."

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7 On Your Side: Beware of Craigslist car repair scammers

MCLEAN, Va. (WJLA) – Car repair tricksters appear in parking areas or even your own particular carport guaranteeing they can settle the dings and paint scratches on your auto at little cost. Yet in the event that you let down your gatekeeper, you could wind up with significantly more harm and a vacant wallet.

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Matt Mccollum and his harmed Infiniti. (WJLA photograph)

At a separation, Matt Mccollum's Infiniti looks impeccable, however get a little closer and the harm is evident.

"There's simply scratches and dings everywhere throughout the auto," Mccollum said.

The harm on Mccollum's auto is more regrettable than it was the point at which he purchased it.

"He spread painted here and its all sticky, and its simply a huge, awful wreckage there now," he said.

Mccollum's auto is currently a patchwork of sanded scratches, messy fixes and jumbled paint; its work deserted by an alleged portable auto repairman he found on Craigslist.

"He goes, 'Leave everything, don't touch anything, hold up three or four days, go to the auto wash, and after that everything will be impeccable, amigo,'" Mccollum said.

Not exactly; Mccollum is currently out more than $400 in what specialists call an exemplary trick.

"These individuals are smooth," said Eric Friedman, with the Montgomery County Office of Consumer Protection. "Remember, in the event that they were not persuading, they'd need to land a true position like whatever remains of us."

Why would they need to, when Friedman says auto repair con artists can take many dollars and vanish?

"These fellows will do loathsome work, they're unlicensed, trashy work, wrong materials," he said. "They'll likely cause more issues. They'll take the cash and run."

Getting these law breakers is almost unthinkable, on the grounds that the con artists continually switch their promotions on Craigslist, utilizing distinctive names and telephone numbers. They additionally won't provide for you much data when you reach them in individual.

7 On Your Side took our shrouded cam to perceive how these organizations function, calling one man whose promotion we found on the web. In simply a 60-second sweep, he decided he could alter all our scratches for $400.

"I could fill it with a first stage, put a pleasant cover of paint on there and make it look truly decent," he let us know.

Anyhow when he couldn't give a business card, driver's permit or business permit, so we'd know he was real, we quit. Friedman says numerous buyers don't.

"On the off chance that somebody simply drives up to you, they're gonna head out and you're never gonna discover them again," Friedman said.

Frequently, Friedman's office does; it helped bust two men—versatile repairmen who approached a 89-year-old man in a shopping plaza, charging $500 for messy repairs that cost significantly more to alter.

"A great deal of times, shoppers will say, 'Yet I thought I could believe the gentleman,'" Friedman said. "Actually, they trust that you get that impression and they're great at doing that …  that is the reason they're called con artists."

Mccollum didn't get his con artist, however he trusts his pricey lesson can be a cautioning for another person.

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Sources: Anderson Varejao, Cavs in contract extension talks

The Cleveland Cavaliers are occupied with genuine converses with fixate Anderson Varejao on an agreement expansion, group sources told Yahoo Sports.

Talks have advanced lately, however there's no understanding fast approaching, sources said.

Varejao, 32, could turn into an unhindered free operator in July 2015. By and by, he and Cavaliers authorities have a shared craving to achieve an assention within a brief period of time and proceed with a 10-year association.

Cavaliers star Lebron James has a solid bond with Varejao, with whom he played six seasons before James left Cleveland in 2010 to sign with the Miami Heat.

Cleveland mentor David Blatt picked Varejao to begin once again Tristan Thompson to start the season, and Varejao's playoff experience guarantees to be a critical piece of the Cavs' quest for a title.

Varejao is viewed as one of the NBA's most forceful rebounders and Miami Heat v Cleveland Cavaliersshields, components that'll be essential in contending with the physicality of the Chicago Bulls in the Eastern Conference this season.

In the wake of battling wounds in late seasons, Varejao played 65 diversions for Cleveland a season prior, averaging 8.4 focuses and 9.7 bounce back in 27 minutes an amusement. He will make $9.8 million in the last year of his arrangement.

Softbank purchases $627 million stake in Snapdeal

Softbank purchases $627 million stake in Snapdeal

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(Reuters) - Japanese telecom and media bunch Softbank Corp (9984.t) has consented to purchase a $627 million stake in Indian online retailer Snapdeal, looking to take advantage of conceivably tremendous e-business development in the business with the world's third-greatest Internet client base.

Highlighting India as another need in its forceful extension, Softbank said on Tuesday its additionally heading a $210 million round of interest in an Indian logistics business in a different arrangement. The money rich Japanese organization made waves with its plans to develop outside its home base a year ago when it purchased No. 3 U.s. versatile bearer Sprint Corp (S.n) for $21.6 billion.

Softbank said it will get to be New Delhi-based Snapdeal's greatest speculator, yet authorities at the Japanese organization declined to say instantly how enormous the stake in India's third-greatest online commercial center will be.

The interest in Snapdeal is the biggest in India's developing e-trade part since industry pioneer Flipkart brought $1 billion up in July. Snapdeal has more than 25 million enlisted clients and more than 50,000 business dealers, as indicated by an announcement by Softbank.

The Snapdeal venture was affirmed close by Softbank Internet and Media Inc's (SIMI) lead in a $210 million speculation with existing financial specialists in Indian transportation aggregator ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Softbank didn't determine the extent to which it was putting resources into ANI, which works a portable application for taxicab booking.

Both arrangements were arranged under recently selected Softbank Vice administrator and SIMI CEO Nikesh Arora, reflecting the organization's late forceful abroad extension.

"India has the third-biggest web client base on the planet, yet a moderately little online market at present. This circumstance implies India has, with better, speedier and less expensive Internet get to, a huge development potential," Arora, a previous Google official, said in an announcement.

Arora will be joining both Snapdeal and ANI's sheets as a major aspect of the venture, Softbank said.

In one of its most astounding profile ventures since purchasing Sprint, Softbank said recently it was taking a minority stake in Hollywood motion picture studio Legendary Entertainment for $250 mi

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60,000 Xiaomi Redmi 1S Units to Go on Sale via Flipkart on Tuesday

60,000 Xiaomi Redmi 1s Units to Go on Sale through Flipkart on Tuesday by NDTV Correspondent, October 27, 2014

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Xiaomi on Tuesday will hold the eighth glimmer deal for its Redmi 1s cell phones in India, by means of Flipkart. Quite, the Xiaomi Redmi 1s is the same cell phone that the Indian Air Force has cautioned its work force and their family from utilizing, however the organization has since downplayed the occurrence.

The glimmer deal on Tuesday will commence at 2pm IST on Flipkart for enlisted clients. The Chinese organization has uncovered 60,000 Xiaomi Redmi 1s units will be going discounted.

The Flipkart enlistment page notes that one and only cell phone will be accessible available to be purchased for every email ID furthermore encourages clients to log in no less than 2 prior hours it starts. Prominently, thxiaomi_redmi1s_rear_official.jpge organization won't be packaging the screen defender and Micro-SIM card connector it had on past events.

The seventh glimmer offer of the Xiaomi Redmi 1s saw 90,000 units going marked down by means of Flipkart. In a to begin with, the organization did not advertise the time taken for the Redmi 1s to go 'out of stock' in the last blaze deal, which may be an indication of blurring interest for the Xiaomi Redmi 1s, after the initial six glimmer deals saw a huge number of cell phones being gobbled up in seconds.

The sixth glimmer deal saw 1,00,000 units go marked down shockingly, and the organization later affirmed the cell phones had gone 'out of stock' in 4.2 seconds. Xiaomi had made 1,50,000 units accessible for Flipkart's Big Billion Day deal - the first Xiaomi deal in India that did not oblige an enrollment.

The fifth glimmer deal saw 60,000 Xiaomi Redmi 1s cell phones going out of stock in 13.9 seconds. The fourth blaze deal saw 60,000 Xiaomi Redmi 1s units going out of stock in 5.2 seconds. 40,000 cell phones went out of stock in only 3.4 seconds in the third blaze deal, a great second quicker than the second glimmer deal, which saw 40,000 Xiaomi Redmi 1s cell phones go 'out of stock' in 4.5 seconds, then the first blaze deal saw 40,000 units going out of stock in only 4.2 seconds.

The organization as of late published an OTA (over-the-air) framework upgrade for the Xiaomi Redmi 1s, including fixes for real bugs that as indicated by Xiaomi were accounted for by countless.

YouTube chief 'optimistic' site will launch music service 'soon'

Youtube boss "idealistic" site will dispatch music administration "soon"

Susan Wojcicki avoids an inquiry concerning Youtube's normal music membership item, saying at the Recode versatile meeting that her organization is "taking a shot at it."

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HALF MOON BAY, Calif. - Youtube's expected music membership administration could hit the business sector soon - possibly.

Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki, talking Monday at the Recode portable gathering, declined to say whether the administration will be accessible in the not so distant future, in spite of desires it dispatch before the end of 2014. Rather, she essentially said Youtube is "taking a shot at it" and it ought to arrive "soon."

"I think there's a great deal of chance," she said. "It's astounding the amount music we have. ... I stay idealistic that you can see it soon."

Youtube has been taking a shot at streaming music administration since a year ago. The offering is relied upon to be like Spotify with business free paid memberships and additionally a promotion underpinned free model - yet with features to boot. Google has allegedly been near propelling it a few times, however 2014 is attracting to a nearby without an uncovering yet. The administration has been hampered by reports of rubbing with autonomous music marks, and additionally the takeoffs of key administrators.

Google's inquiry and publicizing business is still the most prevailing in the business - it creates $50 billion a year in income - yet some budgetary investigators fear the business is abating. The organization reported a week ago that paid clicks for the second from last quarter climbed 17 percent from the same period a year ago. That contrasts and 26 percent development the prior year. So as Google looks to what's to come, its attempting to discover other income sources to verify it keeps its lead. In the United States, feature advertisement incomes from Youtube will hit $1.13 billion before the end of 2014, as per emarketer.

Google's Youtube feature webpage is an Internet juggernaut, indenting more than a billion one of a kind guests consistently and streaming around three months worth of feature to viewers consistently. All that viewing includes - its the No. 1 wellspring of activity on versatile Internet organizes in North America, as per scientist Sandvine, and second just to Netflix on settled access systems, in the same way as your home broadband administration.

Wojcicki is one of Google's longest-serving workers - she leased her carport to organizers Larry Page and Sergey Brin as they were building the organization in the late 1990s. She was designated the head of Youtube in February, after she had been Google's senior VP of publicizing.

Google on Friday said the organization is experiencing a significant revamping. Senior Vice President Sundar Pichai - who as of now runs Google's Android working framework, Chrome programming and Google Apps like Gmail and Docs - will take control of the majority of Google's real items, including inquiry and maps. Anyway while most item heads who used to report specifically to CEO Larry Page will now appear for Pichai, Wojcicki will keep on reporting straightforwardly to the CEO.
Wikileaks organizer Julian Assange cases Google is sleeping with U.s. government in new book

Assange particularly jumps on Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and Google Ideas executive Jared Cohen in 'When Google Met Wikileaks.'

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Wikileaks author Julian Assange sets his sights on Google in another book, guaranteeing the Internet goliath is sleeping with the U.s. government.

Assange particularly jumps on Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and Google Ideas chief Jared Cohen in "When Google Met Wikileaks."

In the book, Assange goes into points of interest of his gathering with Schmidt and Cohen three years back. The pair had approached to question him for their book, "The New Digital Age," which turned out a year ago.

"I was captivated that the mountain would come to Muhammad," Assange writes in a selection of "When Google Met Wikileaks," posted on the Wikileaks site. "Yet it was not until well after Schmidt and his sidekicks had been and gone that I came to comprehend who had truly gone by me."

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Assange depicts Schmidt as "a decent thwart," and says the meeting was "the best I have given."

"I asked Eric Schmidt to break U.s. government data solicitations to Wikileaks, and he cannot, abruptly apprehensive, refering to the illicitness of revealing Patriot Act demands," Assange composes.

Assange likewise composes that Schmidt "may not have been an emissary of Google alone." The Wikileaks organizer portrayed Schmidt as having "an overall reported association with President Obama" and close binds to Hillary Clinton.

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"While Wikileaks had been profoundly included in distributed the internal file of the U.s. State Department, the U.s. State Department had, as a result, snuck into the Wikileaks war room and hit me up for a free lunch," Assange jokes.

With respect to Cohen, Assange composes that the Google Ideas boss "could be wryly named Google's 'chief of administration change.'"

Assange notes that Cohen "was attempting to plant his fingerprints on a portion of the major recorded occasions in the contemporary Middle East."

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The Wikileaks originator likewise gives a blistering survey of "The New Digital Age," asserting it "neglected to convey."

"The book was not a genuine endeavor at future history," Assange states. "It was an adoration tune from Google to authority Washington. Google, an expanding advanced superstate, was putting forth to be Washington's geopolitical visionary."

Assange even calls the grant of the pair's book "poor — even deteriorate."

The 43-year-old Assange has been existing in the Ecuadorian consulate in London for two years in the wake of assault charges in Sweden. He documented an offer against the capture warrant, and a since a long time ago anticipated choice is normal at some point Monda

Is Facebook Inc (FB) Poised To Beat At Earnings

Is Facebook Inc (FB) Poised To Beat At Earnings

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The firm has income heading up really soon, and occasions are getting down to business pleasantly for their report.

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Black money case: Modi govt to reveal names of 3 account holders in Supreme Court today

Dark cash case: Modi govt to uncover names of 3 record holders in Supreme Court today

Indiatoday.in  New Delhi, October 27, 2014 | UPDATED 11:37 IST

The Central government will unveil the names of three dark cash account holders to the Supreme Court on Monday.

Sources say the record holders are not political identities and the names will be some piece of an affirmation the administration will document in the summit court.

Stung by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's comments on the dark cash issue, Congress had asked the Modi Government to stop "extortion" strategies and challenged it to turn out with full data, saying the gathering is above people.

A day after Arun Jaitley's comments that divulgence of names of those holding illegal remote records will humiliate the Opposition gathering, gathering general secretary Ajay Maken said Government ought to halt turning out with "misleading statements" and "particular spillage".

"Congress is not going to be coerced under any such risk. Don't attempt to extort us. Stricter conceivable move ought to be made against whoever is included in it yet that ought not be roused by noxiousness and it ought to likewise not be misleading statements," he told news hounds.

The issue of dark cash has prompted a war of words between the decision BJP and Congress.

The Modi government, which guaranteed to bring back dark cash stashed by Indians in outside banks, toed the line of UPA administration by illuminating the Supreme Court on October 17 that it can't uncover such points of interest given by nations with which India has twofold assessment shirking agreement(dtaa).

As Congress blamed the BJP government for "rehearsing "false reverence" on the issue, Jaitely had said, "The names (of dark cash account holders) will be open in the blink of an eye. I can guarantee you there is no humiliation I (BJP) will have when all the names are uncovered. There is some shame the Congress gathering will have in view of those names".

Responding forcefully to Jaitley's comments, Maken said, "There is no compelling reason to extort Congress. Whatever names they have, they ought to uncover and go about as they have a legislature. They ought not attempt to extort us.

"We additionally let them know not to farthest point the announcement of names just to 136 people. We need to tell the BJP and the Prime Minister that misleading statement is not reality. They ought not try for particular and pernicious spillages. They ought to turn out with all the names."

Maken additionally reviewed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, amid his Lok Sabha race crusade, had said that if the dark cash is brought back, every national will have Rs.15 lakh while Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who was then BJP President, had guaranteed to bring back dark cash inside 100 days.

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Facebook Offers Life Raft, but Publishers Are Wary

Facebook Offers Life Raft, yet Publishers Are Wary

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For distributers, Facebook is a bit like that enormous canine jogging to you in the recreation center. As a general rule, its difficult to advise whether he needs to play with you or consume you.

The interpersonal organization now has in excess of 1.3 billion clients — a fifth of the planet's populace and has turned into a power in distributed on account of its News Feed, which has been progressively calibrated to peculiarity great substance, the kind media organizations produce.

Amazingly and financial profit, Facebook has improved an occupation of cleaning some garbage from its bolster, emphasizing news that prompts stronger levels of engagement, which is a win for the stage, the distributer and the perusers.

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That part has gotten to be progressively critical when you figure in the enormous tilt to versatile, as my partner Ravi Somaiya brings up. For conventional distributers, the landing page might soon get to be much the same as the print release — pleasant to have, yet not the essential fascination. In the last few months, more than a large portion of the guests to The New York Times have come through portable — the figure increments with each one passing month — and that rate is higher for some different distributers.

Enter Facebook's prominent versatile application, which has caught more noteworthy measures of time and, all the more astoundingly, figured out how to fit a plan of action onto the little screen by giving amazingly important promoting. By complexity, distributers like daily papers and magazines and even some advanced locales have attempted to shoehorn old plans of action and web formats onto little screens. That hasn't worked so well.

Stacking distributers' pages on a cell phone can be enraging, impede by publicizing that goes out available to be purchased when perusers click. So while Facebook adores the substance, it scorns the inconvenient innovation numerous distributers use for versatile. Regarding the matter of the eager swarms on telephones, pace matters most importantly else.

I was in San Francisco a couple of weeks back and found an official who meets expectations in portable at Facebook. He wasn't representing attribution, however he disparaged the approach that conventional distributers take to cell phones, saying it made for an unpalatable client experience, harm client engagement and injured their endeavors to profit in a cell phone world.

Facebook trusts it has a fix for all that. The organization has been on something of a listening visit with distributers, talking about better approaches to work together. The interpersonal organization has been energetic to help distributers improve an occupation of adjusting perusers in the News Feed, including enhancing their methodology to portable in a mixture of ways. One probability it specified was for distributers to just send pages to Facebook that would live inside the informal community's versatile application and be facilitated by its servers; that way, they would stack rapidly with advertisements that Facebook offers. The income would be imparted.

That sort of wholesale exchange of substance sends a frosty, dull chill down the aggregate spine of distributers, both conventional and computerized agitators apparently equivalent. On the off chance that Facebook's versatile application facilitated distributers' pages, the association with clients, a large portion of the information about what they did and the perusing background would all fit in with the stage. Media organizations would basically be serfs in a kingdom that Facebook claims.

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It is a measure of Facebook's developing power in computerized domains that when I called around about those bits of gossip, nobody needed to talk. All things considered, let me reexamine that: Many needed to talk, just about unendingly, about how horrendous a percentage of the conceivable changes would be for makers of unique substance, yet not in the event that I was going to show their spot of job. (Numerous had consented to classifiedness arrangements, so there's that too.)

It's not that Facebook has a notoriety for concentrating retribution, so far as I know; its simply that the organization has turned into the No. 1 wellspring of movement for some advanced distributers. Yes, seek from Google still makes inbound investment, and Twitter can start consideration, particularly among media sorts, yet concerning sheer tonnage of eyeballs, nothing adversaries Facebook.

"The movement they send is bewildering and its been incredible that they have tried to connect and support quality substance," said one advanced distributed official, who declined to be recognized so as not to unsettle the plumes of the brilliant goose. "Anyway all any of us are discussing is the point at which the other shoe may drop."

Chris Cox, boss item officer for Facebook, realizes that the unnerved gab is out there, however says those stresses are unwarranted on the grounds that the diversions of Facebook and computerized distributers are essentially adjusted.

"We are at the absolute starting point of a discussion and it imperative that we get this right," he said in a feature call. "Since we assume an inexorably imperative part in how individuals find the news that they read consistently, we feel an obligation to work with distributers to think of as g

L&T secures ‘Statue of Unity’ construction work

Gujarat awards Rs. 2,979 cr work order for the project

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The Gujarat government on Monday issued work order for construction of the Statue of Unity – World’s tallest statue in the riverbed of Narmada near Kevadia in Gujarat to the engineering major Larsen & Toubro (L& T). The work order is worth Rs. 2,979 crore.

Conceptualised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his tenure as Chief Minister of the state, the Statue of Unity project involves construction of 182-metre tall statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. The project was announced by Modi on October 31, 2013, the birth anniversary of the 'Iron Man of India’.

 Officials from L&T and Gujarat government exchange work order document for ``Statue of Unity

The work order was handed over by the state government officials to the L&T officials in the presence of Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel here on Monday.

Speaking on the occasion Patel stated that the project will play an important role in socio-economic development of the tribal region, where the project is being taken up.



“This will help boost eco-tourism and development for the local community. Such mammoth project will also generate local employment for the people in Kevadia,” Patel told media persons here.



Of the total contract of Rs. 2,979 crore, Rs. 1,347 crore will go towards building the statue, Rs. 235 crore for constructing the exhibition centre and convention centre, Rs. 134 crore for research and development centres and Rs. 83 crore for building the bridge connecting memorial with the mainland. The construction will take place on the Sadhu bet – an island approximately 3.5 km south of Sardar Sarovar Dam at Kevadia.



As per the terms of agreement, L&T will be responsible for maintenance and management of the project site for 15 year after the completion of construction. L&T will be paid Rs. 657 crore for the same. The construction of the statue is likely to be completed in the next 42 months.



In the first phase, construction of the main statue, the bridge connecting the statue with the river bank and reconstruction of the 12-kms road along the bank will be taken up.



The entire project involves the main statue, a memorial park at the base of the statue, an artificial reservoir between the Dam and Garudeshwar town, a visitor facilitation centre and a reception desk at Kevadia.



The total height of the statue from the base (or reduce level) will be 240 metres, which includes base level of 58 metres. The statue will be double the size of 'Statue of Liberty' in US and four times that of 'Christ the Redeemer' in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Happy New Year box office collection: Shah Rukh Khan-Deepika Padukone’s latest release rakes in Rs 108.86 crores in three days!

Happy New Year box office collection: Shah Rukh Khan-Deepika Padukone’s latest release rakes in Rs 108.86 crores in three days!
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Shah Rukh Khan’s Happy New Year, produced by Red Chillies Entertainments Pvt Ltd, continued to break records by having the biggest Box Office collection in India for the opening weekend. It has collected Rs. 108.86 Crores on the opening weekend all India, with Rs. 104.10 Crores in Hindi, Rs. 2.92 Crores in Telugu dub and Rs. 1.84 Crores in Tamil dub.

HNY has become the highest opening weekend ranker in Indian films so far. Venky Mysore, CEO RCE said, “We are thrilled that after Chennai Express had set a new record in 2013, Happy New Year has set another new benchmark. We are grateful for the ongoing love and support of audience.” Gaurav Verma, Chief Revenue Officer RCE said, “We are thankful to all our partners, exhibitors and especially YRF for helping us achieve this significant milestone.”

Happy New Year is produced by Red Chillies and directed by Farah Khan. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Jackie Shroff, Boman Irani and Vivaan Shah in lead roles.Happy New Year

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