IT cos to hire from 7th semester in 2011

Industry body Nasscom and major Indian IT companies have agreed to spread out their campus hiring over seventh and eighth semesters this year.

 The move is in view of the significantly higher projected demand for talent and also to overcome the "operational difficulty" in covering hundreds of campuses in a span of two to three months. Till now companies used to go to campuses only in the eighth semester. 

"The industry's requirements are high and at the same time increasing dramatically. The projected requirement for next year is significantly higher than this year," said Som Mittal, president of Nasscom.

"Based on their experience, companies found that their logistic costs were shooting up since they were trying to cover ahuge number of campuses in aperiod of a few months in the eight semester period. It is an operational difficulty." Many big IndianIT firms recruit from hundreds of campuses.

This is a step back from the original agreement between the various member companies of Nasscom who had decided last year that they will only be hiring only in the middle or towards the end of eighth semester. The reasoning behind that was that it ensured the continuity of education and companies dealt with students who had properly finished their studies.

It also addressed the problem of students ignoring studies in seventh and eighth semesters after getting the offer letter. Core engineering courses are still present in seventh semester whereas eighth is generally meant for research project. 

"This time hiring will begin early, somewhere in October," said Mittal. "This is the outcome of our internal discussions. Details are to be still worked out." October falls in the middle of seventh semester.  

IT cos to hire from 7th semester in 2011

Industry body Nasscom and major Indian IT companies have agreed to spread out their campus hiring over seventh and eighth semesters this year.

 The move is in view of the significantly higher projected demand for talent and also to overcome the "operational difficulty" in covering hundreds of campuses in a span of two to three months. Till now companies used to go to campuses only in the eighth semester. 

"The industry's requirements are high and at the same time increasing dramatically. The projected requirement for next year is significantly higher than this year," said Som Mittal, president of Nasscom.

"Based on their experience, companies found that their logistic costs were shooting up since they were trying to cover ahuge number of campuses in aperiod of a few months in the eight semester period. It is an operational difficulty." Many big IndianIT firms recruit from hundreds of campuses.

This is a step back from the original agreement between the various member companies of Nasscom who had decided last year that they will only be hiring only in the middle or towards the end of eighth semester. The reasoning behind that was that it ensured the continuity of education and companies dealt with students who had properly finished their studies.

It also addressed the problem of students ignoring studies in seventh and eighth semesters after getting the offer letter. Core engineering courses are still present in seventh semester whereas eighth is generally meant for research project. 

"This time hiring will begin early, somewhere in October," said Mittal. "This is the outcome of our internal discussions. Details are to be still worked out." October falls in the middle of seventh semester.  

Satyam partners with Microsoft to offer Child Support Systems

Mahindra Satyam on Thursday partnered with Microsoft Corporation to offer modern tools and solutions for the Child Support Systems to improve the productivity of workers. 

The solution is based on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 technology and other enabling products from Microsoft, Mahindra Satyam said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. 

"Our partnership with Microsoft has enabled us to develop these solutions in a very flexible and rapid manner,"Mahindra Satyam Strategic Accounts Senior Vice-President Arvind Malhotra said. 

The solution can also integrate with systems to extract relevant data and generate and keep track of the numerous letters, notices and other correspondence that are needed to administer a Child Support programme. 

Shares of Mahindra Satyam today closed at Rs 87.20 on the BSE, up 1.57 per cent from previous close. 

Google launches Hotel Search Tool with Room Price Data

Google has launched Hotel Finder, an experimental search tool, which enables users to define key lodging preferences in hopes of finding the perfect hotel for their travel needs.

Users input their preferred location, dates, price and rating details, and Hotel Finder delivers its top recommendations, in a list or on a Google Map. For the moment, it’s only available in the U.S.

Here’s how Google aims to improve hotel hunting with this tool:

• Finding the perfect location. If you’re not a local, it can be difficult to figure out what area of a city you should stay in. Hotel Finder highlights popular areas on the map results. Google calls this the “tourist spotlight,” and it is used to determine an optimal zone for you to stay in. The shape of this area can be adjusted to focus on a smaller area. This is useful if you’ve got a rough destination in mind, such as along the Hudson River or near Times Square.
• Getting a good deal: Users can choose a price range to search within, as well as compare that hotel’s historical pricing data to its current listing price. Clicking on a hotel will bring up the cost of a room per night and how that compares to previous prices. Google calculates what percentage the cost is above or below the normal. Bargain hunters, start your engines.
• Comparing hotels: Hotel Finder simplifies comparative shopping. When users click on on a hotel, its full details pop up, including photos, Google Places reviews, pricing and other information. You quickly flip through results by using keyboard shortcuts (“J” and “K”) within the list view — a feature also found in Google Reader and Google News.
• Making a shortlist: Users can build a shortlist of hotels they’d like to compare further. These results are marked with a red dot in the Google Maps view, and appear at the top of the page in the list view.

Click on the “Book” button in either view and a list of external options are shown. Clicking on a booking option pulls up that site — such as Priceline or Expedia — in a new tab. (Google isn’t getting into the business of booking hotels itself.)

Take a look at Hotel Finder’s features in the gallery below, test it out and let us what you think about the new tool in the comments below. How does it compare to other hotel-shopping methods?

Google Maps Search Results

Hotel search results can be visualized with the tool's Google Maps integration. Shortlisted hotels appear with a red marker and all other results appear in blue.

Hotel Details

When a user clicks on a hotel, a multitude of details pop up, including photos, Google Places reviews, pricing and booking options.

Search Results in List View

Aside from visualizing results in Google Maps, search results can also be viewed in a list, with the user's shortlist of hotels appearing at the top of the page.

Google Hotel Finder

Hotel Finder's home page is simple and outlines its key benefits.

IT comanies to hire from 7th semester in 2011

Industry body Nasscom and major Indian IT companies have agreed to spread out their campus hiring over seventh and eighth semesters this year.

 

The move is in view of the significantly higher projected demand for talent and also to overcome the "operational difficulty" in covering hundreds of campuses in a span of two to three months. Till now companies used to go to campuses only in the eighth semester. 

"The industry's requirements are high and at the same time increasing dramatically. The projected requirement for next year is significantly higher than this year," said Som Mittal, president of Nasscom. 

"Based on their experience, companies found that their logistic costs were shooting up since they were trying to cover ahuge number of campuses in aperiod of a few months in the eight semester period. It is an operational difficulty." Many big IndianIT firms recruit from hundreds of campuses. 

This is a step back from the original agreement between the various member companies of Nasscom who had decided last year that they will only be hiring only in the middle or towards the end of eighth semester. The reasoning behind that was that it ensured the continuity of education and companies dealt with students who had properly finished their studies. 

It also addressed the problem of students ignoring studies in seventh and eighth semesters after getting the offer letter. Core engineering courses are still present in seventh semester whereas eighth is generally meant for research project. 

"This time hiring will begin early, somewhere in October," said Mittal. "This is the outcome of our internal discussions. Details are to be still worked out." October falls in the middle of seventh semester.  

Once you are fat, chances are you will never get slim!

London, July 25 (ANI): Researchers claim that fat people, who lose weight either by dieting or exercising, will put it all back on again within a year.

Their study of 25,000 people provides further evidence of the prevalence of "yo-yo dieting" where slimmers get into a cycle of losing weight and regaining it, reports the Daily Mail.

The scientists, from the Medical Research Council"s National Survey of Health and Development, have concluded it is better to avoid getting fat in the first place.hey followed 5,362 men and women from their birth in 1946 and 20,000 from birth in 1958, measuring their weight and blood pressure and assessing their lifestyles.

The researchers found both groups began gaining weight in the 1980s and have steadily increased in size ever since.

Dr Rebecca Hardy, the council's programme leader on body size, said: "Once people become overweight, they continue relentlessly upwards. They hardly ever go back down.

"A few lose weight but very few get back to normal. The best policy is to prevent people becoming overweight.

"For men [weight] goes up steadily through life. For women it starts slowly and accelerates in the mid-thirties," she added.

But the study's findings do not mean dieting is pointless, as eating less and taking more exercise can increase fitness and lower blood pressure. (ANI)

On a mission to save paralyzed Ariel

Flying car may soon be a reality

Britons may soon fly cars!

By Indo Asian News Service | IANS – Mon, Jul 18, 2011

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London, July 18 (IANS) A flying car which usually finds its mention in children books or animated cartoon movies, may soon become a reality in Britain.

Aviation experts are saying a flying car could be in regular use in Britain within five years after a model was formally approved by US authorities, Daily Mail reported Monday.

The $250,000 Terrafugia Transition is a two-seater aircraft, which has a top speed of 115 mph, a range of 500 miles on a tank of fuel and requires just 20 hours training to fly.

The car, at the touch of a button, takes just 15 seconds for its wings to fold up automatically and the power to be re-routed from the propeller to the rear wheels.

It can then be driven at up to 65 mph and will comfortably fit in a standard size garage.

'It's like a little Transformer,' said Terrafugia founder Carl Dietrich, referring to the children's toys that were turned into a blockbuster movie franchise.

Although aimed primarily at buyers in the US where there are plenty of airstrips and 600 'fly-in' communities - Boeing 707 owner John Travolta being the best-known fan - more than 20 Britons have already declared an interest in the carbon-fibre vehicle.

THE DEALMAKER:-How middle-class boy turned dealmaker

The dealmaker

Having transformed a village in Uttar Pradesh so much so that it's now called Snapdeal.com Nagar, the e-commerce specialist, Kunal Bahl tells us how its done.

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The start up
There weren't many career options I explored beyond academics growing up. I went to school at Delhi Public School RK Puram, New Delhi. We grew up in a middle class family and there was no concept of pocket money. But, if we wanted something, it was usually not refused, as long as the request was reasonable.

There was a significant focus on academics in our household from the beginning, and this discipline probably ensured that both my brother and I ended up doing reasonably well at studies. He went on to go to IIT-Delhi and then IIMCalcutta. I went to Wharton, which is honestly, something I regret in hindsight. But, it's never too late.

Nerves of steel
Entrepreneurship at a young age, especially if you have a good academic background, is a fairly irrational decision, because the short team economic opportunity costs as a result of becoming an entrepreneur would never make sense otherwise.

We faced every kind of challenge-funds, hiring good people, finding the right business model, dealing with daily problems, convincing potential partners that wisdom doesn't only come with age and 24 year olds can be good at something too. For both, me and my friend and co-founder, Rohit Bansal, giving up was never an option. After a certain point, we didn't know of a life outside building our company.

It was challenging, and continues to be. Rohit and my biggest contribution to our business is the team we built. Many respected people in the industry often tell us that Snapdeal has the best team in the Internet industry in India, and that's of course just not Rohit and I - it's our entire team of rockstar professionals.

Lose some, get some
Sacrifices are part of life and definitely a part of building a business. Both Rohit and I try our best to take time off to go on a vacation once or twice a year, or a Sunday off and play video games. We still go out for frequent dinners after work, which has been a ritual since the early days of the business. I would go as far as to say that our friendship when we first met in class 11th over a decade ago was based on our mutual love for food.

To be honest, professional life does take over most things, but as long as you are having fun, it doesn't really matter. One should spend time doing what they love and lead a regretless life. And for us that special thing is our company.

The good samaritan
We always wanted to build a socially responsible company, and recently we came across a situation where we found out about a village in Uttar Pradesh. The village has approximately 2,000 residents (about 650 families) and didn't even have access to basic necessities like water. We realised that we could solve this problem very easily. By investing a reasonably small amount of Rs 2 to Rs 3 lakh, we installed 15 hand pumps so that instead of walking 1 km everyday, the villagers now have easy access to clean water within 50-100m of their homes.

I spent a couple of days in the village, interacting with the villagers, and trying to understand how we can further help them, and how this initiative of ours, changed their lives. The community wanted to extend its gratitude through the gesture of renaming their village after our company to Snapdeal.com Nagar. One of our colleague's family hails from a place very close to Shiv Nagar and that is how the problems of the community were brought to our attention.

Food, movies and books
I love food and right now, I am experimenting with some innovative food related concepts, which may eventually be commercialised, but that is not the intent with which I am pursuing them. So, there is a lot of experimentation that is happening in my kitchen. In addition to food, I like reading and travelling, but my undying love is movies. Hopefully, one day I can write a book, which I can make a movie about. Now that would be something.

Reproduced From India Today. © 2011. LMIL. All rights reserved.

John Abraham

Birth Name

Farhan Abraham

Height

6' 1" (1.85 m) 

John Abraham (born 17 December 1972) is an Indian film actor and former model.

After modeling for numerous advertisements and companies, Abraham made his film debut with Jism (2003),^[1] which earned him a Filmfare Best Debut Award nomination. This was followed by his first commercial success, Dhoom (2004). He received two Filmfare Award nominations, for his negative roles inDhoom, and then in Zinda (2006). He later appeared in the major critical success Water (2005).^[2] In 2007, he was nominated for a Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film Baabul (2006).

Contents  [hide] 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2.1 Modeling 2.2 Acting 3 Personal life 3.1 Social causes 4 Awards and nominations 5 Filmography 6 See also 7 Notes 8 External links

[edit]Early life and education

Abraham was born in Mumbai to a Malayali father and a Parsi mother. His father is an architect from Alwaye, Kerala; his mother is named Phiroza Irani. Abraham's Parsi name is "Farhan" while his father being a Syrian Christian named him "John". He has a younger brother, Alan.

He studied economics at the Bombay Scottish School, Mahim in Mumbai and got his MBA from the Mumbai Educational Trust (MET).

[edit]Career

[edit]Modeling

Abraham started his modelling career appearing in the music video of the song "Surma" by Punjabi singer Jazzy B. He then joined the media firm Time & Space Media Entertainment Promotions Ltd., which, however, closed because of financial problems. Later, he worked for Enterprises-Nexus as a media planner.

In 1999, he won the Gladrags Manhunt Contest and went to the Philippines for Manhunt International, where he won second place. Following this, he was signed by Carrie Models in Singapore and did some modelling there; he later modelled in Hong Kong, London and New York City. He also appeared in a number of commercial advertisements and in other music videos for singers including Pankaj Udhas, Hans Raj Hans and Babul Supriyo. To improve his acting skills, Abraham joined the Kishore Namit Kapoor acting laboratory and completed an acting course while juggling modelling assignments.

[edit]Acting

Abraham made his acting debut with Jism (2003), a thriller film which, according to Box Office India, was "above average" grossing 13,25,00,000.^[3]

His next films included a paranormal thriller Saaya (2003), Pooja Bhatt's directorial debut Paap (2004) and Ahmed Khan's Lakeer – Forbidden Lines (2004).

He appeared, in a villainous role, as Kabir in Dhoom in 2004, an action film produced by Yash Raj Films. The film was one of the highest grossing films of that year.^[4]

In 2005 he starred in the supernatural thriller Kaal and the comedy Garam Masala both of which did well at the box office.^[5] Later that year, he had a major role in the critically acclaimed film Water, which portrayed the tragic fate of Hindu widows in British India of the 1930s. The film was written and directed by independent Canadian film-maker Deepa Mehta. It was popular internationally, and was nominated for the 2006 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 79th Academy Awards.

In the summer of 2006, Abraham performed at the "Rockstars Concert" along with fellow Bollywood actors Salman Khan, Zayed Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Esha Deol, Shahid Kapoor and Mallika Sherawat.^[6] In that same year, he starred in the films Zinda, Taxi No 9211, Baabul and Kabul Express.^[7] Among these Taxi No 9211 and Kabul Express were substantially successful.

Nikhil Advani's multi-starrer Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love was Abraham's first release in 2007. The movie failed to do well at the Indian box office,^[8] though it did well in the overseas markets.^[9] His last two 2007 releases included the arthouse thriller No Smoking and the sports film Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal.

In 2008, Abraham starred alongside Abhishek Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra in Dostana, his only release that year. Produced by Karan Johar, the film performed well at the box office.

His first release of 2009 was another much awaited production by Yash Raj Films, New York. The film was a critical and commercial success. It followed the lives of three best friends after theSeptember 11 attacks in New York City.

He has a fashion line— branded JA Clothes — which primarily features his favorite article of clothing, jeans.^[10]

[edit]Personal life

Abraham with girlfriend Bipasha Basu at the launch of the Filmfare magazine (2007).

Abraham was in a relationship with actress Bipasha Basu since 2002. They officially broke up in 2011.^[11]

[edit]Social causes

Abraham also associates himself deeply in the social causes and urges youngsters also to join hands in this humanity mankind. When asked about his work, he said:

“

"I work for social causes that I address. I love animals and I work for PETA. I have my own brigade called John's brigade for Habitat for Humanity, Habitat For Humanity is a Jimmy Carter foundation project."

”

.^[12][13]

He has also been associated with the Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre, located in Mumbai, where he donated a cheque of ten lakhs towards the hospital funds.^[14]

In January 2009, Abraham led a group of Indian celebrities in the Mumbai Marathon, an annual event to benefit the United Way.^[15]

[edit]Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by John Abraham

[edit]Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2003	Jism	Kabir Lal
	Saaya	Dr. Akash (Akki)	Nomination, Filmfare Best Debut Award
2004	Aetbaar	Aryan Trivedi
	Paap	Shiven
	Lakeer - Forbidden Lines	Saahil
	Dhoom	Kabir	Nomination, Filmfare Best Villain Award
	Madhoshi	Aman
2005	Elaan	Abhimanyu
	Karam	John
	Kaal	Krish Thapar
	Viruddh	Amar Patwardhan
	Water	Narayan
	Garam Masala	Shyam "Sam"
	Shikhar		Special appearance
2006	Zinda	Rohit Chopra	Nomination, Filmfare Best Villain Award
	Taxi Number 9211	Jai Mittal
	Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna		Cameo appearance
	Baabul	Rajat	Nomination, Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award
	Kabul Express	Suhel Khan
2007	Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute To Love	Ashutosh Raina
	Hattrick		Special appearance in promotional video
	No Smoking	K
	Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal	Sunny Bhasin
2008	Dostana	Kunal
2009	Luck by Chance	Himself	Guest appearance
	Little Zizou	Arjun	Special appearance
	New York	Samir (Sam)
2010	Aashayein	Rahul Sharma
	Jhoota Hi Sahi	Sid
	Hook Ya Crook	Viraj	Post-production
2011	7 Khoon Maaf	Jimmy Stetson
	Phillum City		Post-production
	Force		Filming
	Desi Boyz	Rahul Patil	Filming
	Alibaba Aur 41 Chor	Ali Baba (Voice-over)	Delayed
	Housefull 2	Unknown	Filming