BJP National Secretary joins Congress Party

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Secretary and Rajya Sabha MP from Tamil Nadu S. Thirunavukkarasar took a surprising decision by joining the Congress party in the presence of Home Minister P. Chidambaram, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K.V. Thangabalu. The Congress party announced the latest development in New Delhi.Thangabalu commented that he has joined our party unconditionally. His admission was approved by Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Thirunavukkarasar informed that he has resigned from the primary membership of the BJP and also from the Rajya Sabha.He admit that it is difficult to grow a party here. Hence he decided to quit from BJP.

Rajni praised Surya

Superstar has praised Surya for his superb performance in Aadhavan.Superstar Rajinikanth was at the Four Frames Preview Theatre recently for the special screening of the Suriya-starrer Aadhavan. Rajini was accompanied by his wife, daughters and grandson.The superstar was thoroughly bowled over by Suriya’s performance and had a good laugh over the comedy scenes that had Vadivelu.The actor shares a special rapport with Aadhavan’s director KS Ravikumar and congratulated him on the efforts. Speaking about Suriya, Rajini said that his performance and body language were perfect in the film and it was evident that the actor had put in a lot of effort.

Swine Flu attacks 17 Doctors in India:

Its very strange one to accept that in India 17 Doctors have affected with Swine Flu.A 28-year-old, Chandigarh based doctor has been tested positive for H1N1 virus, rising the toll of swine flu cases to 63 in this region.Health official informed that the patient is a resident doctor in the Government Medical College and Hospital in Sector 32. He was staying in the doctors' complex. His reports are positive and we have administered tamiflu to him.They have also quarantined four of his family members.H. C. Gera, the nodal officer for swine flu in Chandigarh said that the health department has issued special directives for the hospital staff. Collectively of about 17 doctors, working in various hospitals in Chandigarh, have tested positive for the contagious disease.

S Varalakashmi died at 84

One of the Popular veteran actress S Varalakashmi in kollywood died on September 22nd at 8 pm. The 84-year-old actress was survived by her producer husband AL Srinivasan and a daughter and son. S Varalakashmi has acted in over 500 films including Panama Pasama, Mattukara Velan and Neethikku Thalai Vanangu.She was admitted to a hospital six months ago for a leg fracture and was bed ridden even after the surgery. Finally she died due to respiratory problems.

Geoffrey Boycott criticised Pakistan wickets

Former England Batsman Geoffrey Boycott has criticized the Pakistan pitches by saying even his mom can score runs in the Pakistan wickets.He also said that the batsman can score lots of runs if they survive the new ball.The plan is simple, you see off a few overs from the new ball and you are set. Then you can just counter the bowling by planting your front foot down the track and playing almost everything off the front foot with ease.He had said that his mother could score runs out there.He also said that if Pakistan cannot change this situation then they cannot produce batsmen who can score runs away from the sub-continent.There has to be in future some sort of balance and equality between bat and ball, otherwise Pakistan will continue to produce batsmen who can't score runs away from the sub continent.

Ind-Pak series in USA

Everyone knows that November 26th Political tensions between India and Pakistan after 26/11 attacks has affected the cricketing relationship between the two countries.In this situation Minister of State of External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has suggested a bilateral series in a neutral venue like the US.Tharoor also hopes that it will be a big hit since US has considerable amount of Indians and Pakistanis.That's a very, very good way to organise cricket in third countries when terror strikes have stopped cricket.

India -- Top Market for Pepsi

Indra Nooyi, the CEO of PepsiCo announced that India stands among the top three growth markets for PepsiCo and she believes that India will top the market, in the long run.Reports from the third quarter (Q3) for the year 2009 shows that, PepsiCo has grown by over 50 percent, with net income rising to $ 1.72 billion, says Nooyi after holding discussions with Indian Trade Minister Anand Sharma.According to the last quarter report, PepsiCo has registered 35 percent growth.India is in the top two-three markets for every company in the world because India is a young country, India is a growing country, India is a well managed country. So for PepsiCo, it is one of the top three markets, top three growth markets and most importantly they just cross a billion sales in India.

Dell aims to make India IT literate

IT Gaint, Dell India informed that it is focusing on making India computer literate to bring India to the global front.Joe Kremer, General Manager for Public Sector (Asia-Pacific) and Managing Director, ANZ, Dell said that there are challenges like availability of teachers and connectivity including standardization of content. There is an increasing need to prepare the education sector with adequate technological tools.Certainly, the education sector should be patched with advanced technological tools to increase the pace of the current generation.Mr Kremer said that as per the needs of the students, it is important that they transform the learning environment to digital age and pace up with the new generation globally.He also pointed minister Kapil Sibal is strongly in favour of allowing foreign direct investment in Indian Education sector. The ministry seeks operation and maintenance to foreign education providers and prevention of dissemination of sub-standard education to the student.Laptops and netbooks help students in problem solving and critical thinking skills.