In a Suit, Meeting PM Modi: Mark Zuckerberg's Status Update

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi

NEW DELHI:  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, usually uniformed in jeans, a t-shirt and sneakers (hoodie optional), was today in a dark-coloured suit and tie to meet with the Prime Minister.

Yesterday, the 30-year-old said his social media network wants to help  the PM connect remote villages to the Internet.

He said India had huge potential, with only around 243 million of its people currently online.

"With more than one billion people still to be connected, India is just at the beginning. It is not only a challenge for Facebook but for everybody," he told a conference in New Delhi.

Mr Zuckerberg is on a two-day visit to India aimed at promoting the internet.org app, which allows people in underdeveloped areas to access basic online services.

"We believe that connectivity is a human right and one of the fundamental challenges for our generation," Mr Zuckerberg said in Delhi.

He denied accusations he is seeking to create a monopoly in access to online content in the developing world, saying mobile operators were free to decide which services they included, and did not have to include Facebook.

He said the app, which Facebook launched in Zambia earlier this year in cooperation with Samsung and other partners, will not be available immediately in India.

"India is such an important country with so many people that we didn't want to start here with the risk of not doing well," said Zuckerberg.

Mr Zuckerberg said Facebook is now "focusing on content in local languages" to address the needs of Indians in different parts of the country.

'If Not You, Then Who?' The Philosophy and Work of Kailash Satyarthi

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Kailash Satyarthi.

NEW DELHI:  Kailash Satyarthi, 60, won the Nobel Peace Prize today along with Pakistani teen Malala Yousafzai.

Here are 10 facts about his life and work:

1. He belongs to Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh. Trained as an electrical engineer, he turned into an activist for children's rights at the age of 26.
2. As a boy, he was moved by other children who had to work, and whose parents were too poor to send them to school.  He started a football club with membership fees paying the school fees of needy children.
3. He and a friend collected donations of 2,000 schoolbooks in a single day, a project that eventually became a book bank in his home town.
4. "If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery," Mr Satyarthi has said, summing up his philosophy.
5. In 1983, he founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement) to fight child labour. His efforts have helped rescue thousands of children from bondage, trafficking and exploitative labour.
6. With the help of NGOs and activists, he has organized hundreds of raids on factories and warehouses where children were being made to work. 
7. He created "RugMark", a scheme which certifies that carpets and rugs sold abroad have been made without the labour of children. The initiative turned out to be highly successful in raising international awareness about children's rights. 
8. In 1998, Mr Satyarthi was chairman of a global march against child labour that wound through more than 60 countries around the world.  Children rescued from jobs in Asia, Africa and Latin America were among more than 1,000 people who ended the march in Geneva, at a conference of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
9. A year later, the ILO approved an accord designed to protect children from jobs that expose them to danger or exploitation.
10. After Narendra Modi was elected Prime Minister, Mr Satyarthi tweeted, "A tea-boy dares his detractors by becoming the PM of India. Now it's his turn to ensure that no child is forced to become a child labourer."

In Return For Poor Service at a Restaurant, This Couple Did Something Amazing

Wouldn't it be a world (almost) too good to be true if we began seeing things from someone else's perspective? By putting ourselves in the shoes of those who at a given moment might be terribly annoying, unpleasant or simply inconvenient, we could make the world a happier place one smile at a time.  

When the wait time at a restaurant gets unbearably long, it becomes a sheer test of patience. What do you do while waiting for your food? Crib and blame the server for the delay? 

Add some empathy and gratitude to the situation and the result could be sweeter than any dessert on the menu. Take a cue from this couple.

Makenzie and Steven Schultz's heartwarming gesture deserves a loud round of applause. "So here's the deal. Our service tonight sucked. Took 20 minutes to get water, 40 minutes for an appetizer and over an hour for our entree," Makenzie wrote about the disappointing experience at a restaurant on Facebook.

While people around them were making fun of the server and getting mad at him, this couple chose to look at things differently.

"He (the server) was running around like crazy and never acted annoyed with any table. At one point we counted he had 12 tables plus the bar. More than any one person could handle! As I sat there and watched him run back & forth and apologize for the wait, I said to Steven... Wow, this used to be us," she shared on her Facebook profile.

Empathise with the plight of another human in a moment of crisis, is the couple's message to everyone. And here's what they did to show they cared - they left a $100 tip that in all likelihood made the server's day.  

"I'm just sharing this as a friendly reminder to think of the entire situation, before you judge. And always always always remember where you came from," Makenzie said on Facebook

Don't Want to Aggravate "Border Tension Between Two Nuclear Neighbours", Says Pakistan

A BSF jawan at the International Border. (Press Trust of India photo)

NEW DELHI:  Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will meet with top military officers tomorrow to discuss this week's heavy fighting with India at the Kashmir border, the worst violence in over a decade. Seventeen civilians have been reported killed - eight in India and nine in Pakistan and dozens more have been injured.

Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said today, "We don't want to convert border tension between two nuclear neighbors into confrontation" but stressed that "Pakistan is fully capable to respond to any Indian aggression" according to a statement released by his office.

His remarks came after Defence Minister Arun Jaitley warned this morning, "If Pakistan persists with this adventurism then our forces will continue to fight. The cost of this adventurism will be unaffordable."

Mr Sharif has called a meeting of the National Security Committee which includes the chiefs of the armed forces and the Foreign, Defence and Home Ministers.

India and Pakistan have been trading heavy mortar and gun fire along the international border and the Line of Control since October 1.

Mr Sharif has been criticised by the Opposition in his country, including cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan for failing to respond appropriately to  India's "aggression."

HAVE WE ALL BEEN BLIND TO THE TRUTH ABOUT GOOD VISION?

Visual conditions are not what we believe they are. In fact, there’s a truth about visual conditions that has been hidden from you by the eye care industry. Eye care has become a very profitable business and in order to keep being profitable, they need you to keep being a patient.

At 24 my eyesight started to degrade. I thought it was permanent and genetic. I couldn’t have been more wrong! 

But let me start from the beginning, because my story is one that you need to read if you are tired of expensive ineffective visual treatments that make you feel hopeless.

I know that feeling too well. I used to feel that way not so long ago, when I was diagnosed with severe astigmatism. Aside from the horrible headaches, the blurry vision and the scary thought that I may never be able to benefit from clear eyesight again, there was also the problem of driving at night.

I worked as a taxi driver and this condition meant that I would have to renounce the most profitable shift. I couldn’t afford that. I had two little kids to raise and a mortgage that meant half my salary. I was desperate and I simply couldn’t see a way out. I told myself there must be something I could do to change this.

So I tried everything in my power to restore my vision. I went to many doctors, I tried experimental treatments and I bought drugs and products to help my vision. Nothing ever worked. I felt like I was sinking in a pit of desperation and there was no one that could offer me a hand. I was living a nightmare, one that was blurry, with hidden faces in the dark that waited patiently as I sank deeper and deeper into my pit of desperation.

That was until I discovered the truth about my condition.

I thought it was permanent and genetic. I couldn’t have been more wrong!

In fact, it was learnt and temporary!

I read about this in an program called “Restore My Vision”. After I read it, everything made so much sense. Nearly all visual conditions are actually learnt traits and not genetic issues. This is the key to everything! Because if something is learnt, that means it is reversible.

You are not born with it; it is not part of who you are and so it can be changed. Glasses and contacts are actually worsening your condition, making you dependent on them.

I believe that anyone who suffers from a visual condition should have access to the information that saved my life.

Lungi Dance Like a Boss: In Kerala, a Flash Mob of IT CEOs

As a part of the ongoing Daan Utsav week, a group of CEOs from Trivandrum, Kerala, took part in a flash mob, surprising their employees and setting a brilliant example for head honchos elsewhere in the country. According to Technopark Today, about 30 IT bossestook to the dance floor to raise awareness and money for the underprivileged. 

These bosses get brownie points for the effort they made to put up a well-choreographed piece to a medley of several popular Hindi (LungiDance, anyone?) and Malayalam songs.  

The CEOs came onto the floor one by one, followed by a team of their colleagues, as the crowd cheered and egged them on.  "We wanted to attract the attention of all of the 45,000 plus employees in Technopark, to this noble cause, which is the reason the CEOs themselves hit the dance floor. I hope the message of 'Joy of Giving' is embraced by the larger society too," said Girish Babu, CEO of Technopark. 

Daan Utsav is an annual festival for the people and by the people that encourages donation and is being celebrated from October 2 to 8 this year. 

Watch as these IT honchos dance to popular songs as a part of the Joy of Giving Week:

When Border is Tense, it's Soldiers, Not Politicians Who Must Answer: PM Narendra Modi

PM Modi was addressing an election rally in Baramati

BARAMATI:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi today reiterated his government's tough stand on the confrontation with Pakistan at the Kashmir border. "Today, when bullets are being fired on the border, it is the enemy that is screaming," the PM said, adding "the enemy has realised that times have changed and their old habits will not be tolerated."

Addressing the criticism of political opponents who have charged him with not speaking directly about this week's clashes - the worst in a decade - the PM said, "When there is a challenge at the border, it is soldiers who answer with fingers on the trigger; it is not for politicians to respond."

His remarks, made at an election rally in Maharashtra, were a rebuke to the opposition, which has accused him of prioritising campaigning for the state elections in Maharashtra and Haryana over dealing with the border crisis. Eight civilians have been killed in India as Pakistan targeted dozens of army outposts and villages; more than 40 have been injured. Pakistan says it has lost 10 civilians.

Yesterday, in his first comments on the heavy fighting that began four days ago, the PM said "Everything will be fine soon" to reporters. But overnight, Indian forces retaliated to gunfire and mortar bombs on about 50 border security posts overnight, said senior officials. There was intermittent fire on Thursday. 

"If Pakistan persists with this adventurism, our forces will make cost of this adventurism unaffordable for it," Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said today. (Read More)

Indian officials say Pakistan's aggression is based on the need to shift attention from its politically volatile landscape - Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has confronted huge opposition protests. India also believes that Pakistan wants to use the attacks to help militants infiltrate Kashmir. (5 Strong Remarks from Government to Pakistan Over Ceasefire Violations)

India cancelled talks with Pakistan in August after Islamabad insisted on consulting Kashmiri separatists ahead of the dialogue. Though the Prime Ministers of both countries addressed the UN General Assembly last month, they did not hold a meeting.

A picture of the Red planet captured by MOM. Regional dust storm activities over Northern Hemisphere of Mars - captured by Mars Color Camera on-board Mars Orbiter Spacecraft from altitude of 74500 km on Sep 28, 2014

Champions League Twenty20: Suresh Raina Best T20 Player in the World, Says Brendon McCullum

 
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Suresh Raina celebrates his maiden ton in CLT20.

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New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum was left floored by Suresh Raina's blazing ton that helped Chennai Super Kings end Kolkata Knight Riders' run of 14 straight wins in the Champions League Twenty20 final in Bangalore on Saturday. (Also read: Raina's 109 best knock I have ever seen, says Faf du Plessis)

Chasing 181, the Super Kings were reduced to 9/1 in the first over, before Raina walked in to clobber an unbeaten 109 off 62 balls as the former IPL champs crushed the reigning IPL title-holders by eight wickets.

McCullum, who hit 39 in a 118-run stand for the second wicket with Raina was a mere spectator at the non-striker's end for most of the innings. Not very often has the explosive Kiwi batsman been reduced to an onlooker and that spoke volumes of Raina's dominance against a KKR attack that comprised Pat Cummins, Andre Russell, Piyush Chawla and Team India's latest entrant, Kuldeep Yadav. (Also read: Raina sets multiple CLT20 records)

McCullum, who had struck the first hundred in the IPL as a KKR batsman in the first match in 2008, conceded Raina was the best T20 batsman in the world.

"He (Raina) seemed to be playing a different game, to be honest. He is the best T20 player in the world under these conditions. He just continues to do it time and again," McCullum told CLT20.com. "His record is phenomenal and his ability to stand up in big games is huge as well. He is just so calm at the crease and he plays spin bowling exceptionally well."

"But I think the way he plays pace bowling under these conditions as well is fantastic. I know he has worked incredibly hard with the coaching staff and some of the senior players. It is nice to see a guy put in that amount of work and get some rewards for it."

Among those who were taken to the cleaners by Raina at the Chinnaswamy Stadium was 19-year-old Yadav, who went for 44 runs in his four overs on a day when the Indian selectors picked him up for the home ODIs against the West Indies. Not surprisingly, given his unique varieties as a chinman bowler, Yadav was expected to play a crucial role, especially in the absence of the other mystery bowler, Sunil Narine.

But Yadav came undone under a sustained attack from Raina and McCullum said he was awed to see his partner hit one shot after the other .

"There was a lot of talk about young Kuldeep Yadav playing a big role in this match. But it almost looked as if Raina knew where he was going to bowl at him," McCullum said.

"I thought Kuldeep Yadav bowled really well. But Raina just kept stepping out to hit him straight back over his head. Nothing against the youngster, but he was bowling against the best in the world on his day. Kuldeep is an exciting talent for sure and anyone who's got that sort of variation and consistency will land a big future in this format of the game."

Three-Year-Old Girl Missing From India Gate Found With Head Shaved

NEW DELHI:  A three-year-old girl, Jahnvi Ahuja, who went missing from Delhi's India Gate on September 28, was found on Sunday, her head shaved and a placard around her neck with her name.

"It feels like my daughter was reborn," Rajesh Ahuja said, holding his little daughter on Sunday night.

The child was with her family at the crowded lawns near the India Gate memorial when she disappeared while playing. Police are now examining footage from one of the 40 CCTV cameras at India Gate that shows the girl - dressed in a white frock - roaming alone around 9:20 pm before she went disappeared.

According to the police, a passer-by spotted Jahnvi 15 km from her home, near a gurudwara in Janakpuri in west Delhi. Her uncle identified her at the Mayapuri police station in west Delhi.

Jahnvi did not seem scared when she was found, police said. She could only say she was taken in a car.

The girl's family had suspected that she had been kidnapped, but said they hadn't received any call for ransom in the last seven days. A poster with her photo, along with an appeal to help trace her, soon went viral on social media.

"This is not a kidnapping case for ransom... This could be a childless couple who took the child... I think once the news got viral, they got scared and did this. We are also looking at an organised gang angle," said Additional Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) SBS Tyagi.

The family and relatives of the girl had held a protest on Saturday night at India Gate.

Jahnvi's disappearance had led to questions about safety of children in one of the most popular family haunts in Delhi, where the lighting is often patchy and security appears too inadequate for the surging crowds on weekends.

PM Narendra Modi Publicly Praises This Top Congress Leader

File photo of Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi

NEW DELHI:  A senior Congress leader has earned the Prime Minister's appreciation. "Glad to see Assam CM Tarun Gogoiji inspiring the people of Assam to work towards a Clean India," the PM posted on Twitter today.

Acknowledging the compliment, Mr Gogoi, who is serving his third term as Chief Minister of Assam, said "Together we can make Clean India happen," according to a spokesperson in his office.

On October 2, Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary, the PM launched a countrywide five-year Clean India campaign, which urges citizens and obliges government officials to clean up public spaces and focus on introducing better sanitation. The PM led by example, symbolically sweeping a narrow lane in North Delhi and then tackling garbage in a surprise check at a police station in the heart of the capital.

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Mr Gogoi yesterday was seen sweeping the compound at a park where the festival of Durga Puja had been completed.

Mr Gogoi then tweeted, "Formally kicked off the Clean Assam Campaign in Guwahati city. It evoked a good response. Our Government had started the Clean Guwahati Campaign in February 2012."

The mutual appreciation between the Prime Minister and Mr Gogoi appears to be controversy-free so far. That's not the case for another senior Congressman, Shashi Tharoor, who was one of nine people "tagged" by the PM to participate in the Clean India campaign. The PM said his movement is apolitical while nominating Mr Tharoor along with actors Salman Khan and Kamal Haasan and sports icon Sachin Tendulkar. Mr Tharoor, who said he was "honoured" by the PM's invite, has been attacked by the leaders of his party in his home state of Kerala who accuse him of betraying a softness for the ruling BJP. Mr Tharoor has denounced those allegations, declaring, "Being receptive to specific statements or actions of BJP leaders does not remotely imply acceptance of the party's core Hindutva agenda. The PM pitched his appeal as a non-political one and I received it in that spirit. I am not pro-BJP but pro-India.

Viral: This Dog Was Covered in Tar and Couldn't Move, Until These Guys Came Along

Here's one rescue story that will warm your heart and make you smile. 

Animal Aid Unlimited, a rescue centre for stray animals, posted a video about a stray dog that had fallen into a tar pit and was covered from nose to tail in nearly solid tar. The dog, they explain in the video, was found struggling and could barely move. 

The rescue foundation painstakingly massaged vegetable oil into the dog's coat to remove the solidified tar. It took them three hours over two days to accomplish the task. The after footage of the near-paralyzed mutt is nothing short of miraculous. 

The video posted on YouTube has received a lot of praise and has been viewed over 5.6 million times already. 

Watch the video to see how this doggie went from pitiful to perky: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25Jo-DPfYWg

Two Indian-Born Achievers to be Honoured in US

BANGALORE:  Indian-born Stanford University professor Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj and Indian techie Himanshu Asnani, pursuing research in mathematics at Stanford, will be honoured in Washington DC on Thursday by the US-based Marconi Society.

Paulraj, 69, is the winner of the Marconi Prize 2014 for his pioneering work on developing wireless technology to transmit and receive data at high speed.

Asnani, 27, was chosen for the Society's Paul Baran young scholar award for his outstanding work and contribution to point-to-point and multi-terminal channel coding and source coding problems.

"The prestigious awards will be presented to Paulraj and Asnani at our annual event Thursday at the National Academies of Sciences in Washington DC," Marconi Society chairman David Payne told IANS from the US.

Named after Nobel laureate Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), who invented radio, Marconi Society annually awards outstanding individuals whose scope of work and influence emulate the principle of "creativity in service to humanity" that inspired the Italian inventor. 

Marconi's daughter Gioia Marconi Braga had set up the society in 1974 through an endowment.

Paulraj will receive $100,000 (Rs.60 lakh) honorarium and a sculpture, while the award for Asnani includes a cash prize of $4,000 (Rs.2.4 lakh), which is given to research scholars who are 27 at the time of nomination, as Marconi was when he invented wireless telegraphy.

"Paulraj's contributions to wireless technology, and the resulting benefit to humankind, are indisputable. Every WiFi (wireless fidelity) router and 4G phone uses Multiple Input-Multiple Output (MIMO) technology pioneered by him," Payne asserted.

MIMO boosts data rate by creating multiple parallel spatial data streams and is the key to the latest wireless broadband networks like 4G cellular.

Born in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, about 360 km from here, Paulraj was also honoured with the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 2011 for his profound work on theoretical foundations of MIMO.

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"Paulraj is the only India-born scientist to receive both the Marconi Prize and the Bell Medal -- the two top global IT technology awards," IndiaTechOnline.com editor Anand Parthasarathy told IANS in Bangalore.

Asnani, who hails from Kota in Rajasthan, is also a system engineer at the Swedish telecom major's research and development centre in the Silicon Valley, off the US west coast, besides pursuing doctorate (Ph.D) at Stanford University's Electrical Engineering School.

Though Asnani aspired to become a neurosurgeon as a child under the influence of his parents who are medical doctors, his exposure to mathematics and physics as a teenage helped him earn the fourth rank in the IIT joint entrance exam.

Graduating from IIT-Bombay in electrical engineering in 2009, Asnani went to the US to do masters (MS) at Stanford and enrolled for Ph.D in the same subject.

"In addition to citation and cash prize, the young scholar award for Asnani provides travel stipends to enable him attend our events, as we consider him to be an integral part of the society," its young scholar selection committee head Bob Tkach said by e-mail.

As Security Struggled to Keep Up, PM Kept Walking. To Vajpayee's Home.

NEW DELHI:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has made it somewhat of a trademark to cross security cordons and interact with crowds, broke with his schedule and arrangements again today to walk with delighted school children in the capital.

This morning, at India Gate in the heart of the capital, the PM led a crowd of nearly 5,000 which included school children in taking a pledge to help clean up India in the next five years - in time for the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

After declaring, "If we can make it to Mars, surely we can clean up the country...India can do it," the PM began walking with some children and activists. He was meant to walk about 300 metres to where his car was waiting but as security guards struggled, he kept going, all the way upto the residence of former prime minister and iconic BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

That was the second surprise Mr Modi pulled this morning. After visiting Gandhi's memorial at Rajghat, the Prime Minister made an unplanned stop at a police station in Central Delhi. The parking area was littered with garbage, and the PM picked up a broom and swept for about 10 minutes. He then headed to Valmiki Basti, a colony where Gandhi once stayed - that was the location chosen for him to symbolically sweep a part of a narrow lane to launch the massive Clean India initiative.

While taking the Clean India pledge this morning at India Gate in the heart of Delhi, he said, "I urge every one of you to devote at least one hundred hours every year, two hours every week, towards cleanliness."

Ministers and other government officials have been ordered to clean their offices - including their toilets.

Many civil society organisations have also joined the campaign, spreading awareness in urban slums and villages by putting on street plays and distributing pamphlets with information about hygiene and sanitation

YotaPhone Dual-Screen Smartphone Set to Launch in India via Flipkart

It seems Yota Devices, the Russian company popular for its dual-display YotaPhone, is all set to launch its first device in India, if a newsletter from Flipkart is to be believed.

The e-commerce giant spilled the beans about the launch of the dual-screen smartphone in a newsletter sent to the affiliate partners.

Unfortunately, the newsletter only mentions the Yota brand; however, listed alongside Flipkart's other exclusive smartphone offerings from handset makers such as Motorola, Xiaomi, Asus, Huawei, Lenovo, and Spice Android One.

As of now, there is no word about the exact launch day or pricing details about theYotaPhone expected to launch in India, or even which model.

Yota Devices have launched two smartphones thus far. The first generation YotaPhonewas unveiled at CES last year while started shipping only by December 2013. The company upgraded its original dual-screen smartphone at MWC with the next-generation YotaPhone.

The company at the launch had claimed that the new YotaPhone (2014) is more 'intuitive and interactive', with new hardware and software features, than its predecessor. One of the biggest upgrades in the new device is the full-touch control for its always-on E-ink display, something missing in previous generation device. The new YotaPhone will launch Europe in late 2014, and thereafter in 2015 make its way globally. For now, no pricing details have been given.

The YotaPhone (2014) comes with a quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor and features a 4.7-inch E-ink display. The smartphone is Android-based, and as for version, Yota Devices had only said 'latest' version at the time of launch. The front display, a 5-inch AMOLED offering, bears a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels, with a pixel density of 442ppi. The next-generation YotaPhone is powered by a 2.3GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 processor with an Adreno 330 GPU, coupled with 2GB of RAM. It includes 32GB of built-in storage (no details about microSD card slot) and sports an 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash alongside a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. The handset measures 8.9mm thin and weighs 140 grams. It supports nano-SIM, 2550mAh battery and comes with 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, USB 3.0, Bluetooth v4.0, GPS/ A-GPS and Glonass, and NFC connectivity options.

The first generation YotaPhone features a 4.3-inch HD display; 4.3-inch E-ink display with 360x640 pixels resolution; 1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor, and was based on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. Other specifications include 2GB of RAM; 32GB inbuilt storage; 13-megapixel rear camera; 1-megapixel front camera, and 1800mAh battery.

India beat Pakistan, End 16-year Wait for Asian Games Hockey Gold

In a thrilling final, India got the better of Pakistan to win the Asian Games men's hockey gold after 16 years. India and Pakistan were locked 1-1 at the end of 60 minutes of regulation time. In a dramatic shootout, India prevailed 4-2 after goalkeeper Sreejesh brought off a couple of stunning saves. (Day 13 Blog | Medal Tally)

The win ensures India a direct ticket to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. India had to struggle to make the 2012 London Games where they finished last. This victory has been the best so far under Australian coach Terry Walsh. India were playing an Asian Games final after a gap of 12 years. (Also Read: Olympic Gold Quest Gives 10 Lakh to Aggrieved Sarita Devi | She Accepts Bronze Medal, Finally)

India had lost 2-1 in the group league match against Pakistan last week but on Thursday, Sardar Singh's young team had the last laugh. It was Pakistan who drew first blood in the third minute through Muhammad Rizwan but India equalized in the 12th minute of the second quarter when Kothajit Singh deflected a sizzling cross from the right.

Both teams adopted a hit-and-run approach and the classical game that one expected from India and Pakistan was clearly missing. Rizwan's first goal came off a fast counterattack and Kothajit's goal had more luck than design written on it. (Satish Kumar Settles for Boxing Bronze)

Sixty minutes of regulation time produced just three penalty corners - India 2 and Pakistan 1. All were wasted. Rupinderpal Singh tested Pakistan's veteran goalie Imran Butt in the eighth minute of the second quarter but a flying save denied the burly Indian. In the 10th minute of the last quarter, Rupinderpal struck straight into Butt.

India looked cagey in attack. With skipper Sardar Singh playing the role of a defensive midfielder, buildups were few and far between. Sunil was the only man who looked sharp upfront and his fifth minute dazzling run in the third quarter was a treat. Sunil slipped and failed to score from three yards out as India was happy to take the match into the shootout.

Sreejesh was India's hero. After Gurwinder Chandi gave India the lead in the shootout, Sreejesh denied Haseem Abdul Khan and Umar Bhutta to destroy Pakistani hopes. Rupinderpal, Birendra Lakra and Dharamvir Singh scored for India in the shootout with Manpreet Singh missing his attempt. (Read: Indian Men, Women in Kabaddi Final)

The Indian protested after the umpires disallowed Manpreet's goal. The Pakistan goalie seemed to have brought down the India player but the umpires thought otherwise. Dharamvir's goal was enough for India to seal the gold medal. It was well deserved at the end.

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Narendra Modi’s Hindispeak abroad hits its mark at home

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday addressed a conference of reporters and businessmen in Japan in Hindi even as he continued his preference for the national language in bilateral talks with Japanese leaders. The last time an Indian leader—Atal Bihari Vajpayee as foreign minister — chose Hindi over English in an international conference in 1970s, it made waves. Modi's speech, say experts, may have more impact though in terms of assertion of Indian identity and promotion of Hindi in his own country. 

Modi had only recently addressed a gathering of Isro scientists in English betraying no problems with the language even if he is seen more comfortable in Hindi. Thus his choice of language in Japan looks more a deliberate attempt tugging at his political constituency at home. It's an effort to break down language-linked walls that has won the hearts of many in an aspirational India. 

Commentator Santosh Desai said, "From an international perspective there is nothing significant about Modi's speech in Hindi. All world leaders speak in their mother tongue in bilaterals or international foras. But at home, he is breaking the presumptive hierarchy that existed earlier. It is indicative of a shift in power equation of people who run governance in India." 

When Vajpayee spoke in UN general assembly in Hindi in 1977, it was seen by many as an Indian leader's expression of personal love for Hindi. However, India has changed much since then and is now a force to reckon with in a multipolar world due to its rising economic power. With that background when a PM speaks in Hindi at an international conference, it has more significance, say many. 

Academic Pushpesh Pant, however, says Vajpayee's speech as the first such instance was as significant and historic. "But Modi's speech is significant on two aspects. First it shows that he is free from mental slavery (to the colonial legacy). Two, it has great potential to help Hindi at home. When the youth, in some ways besieged by the importance of learning English, hears its icon speaking in Hindi in a foreign country, it will embrace the language more freely. The humiliation heaped on Hindi by Nehru must change," says Pant. 

Desai, however, says Modi was not promoting Hindi alone. "Modi does not give any particular currency to Hindi on the world stage. But it sets precedence for the local Indian language. Tomorrow there could be a prime minister from Tamil Nadu and he could speak in Tamil in a foreign country," says Desai.

Narendra Modi’s Hindispeak abroad hits its mark at home

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday addressed a conference of reporters and businessmen in Japan in Hindi even as he continued his preference for the national language in bilateral talks with Japanese leaders. The last time an Indian leader—Atal Bihari Vajpayee as foreign minister — chose Hindi over English in an international conference in 1970s, it made waves. Modi's speech, say experts, may have more impact though in terms of assertion of Indian identity and promotion of Hindi in his own country. 

Modi had only recently addressed a gathering of Isro scientists in English betraying no problems with the language even if he is seen more comfortable in Hindi. Thus his choice of language in Japan looks more a deliberate attempt tugging at his political constituency at home. It's an effort to break down language-linked walls that has won the hearts of many in an aspirational India. 

Commentator Santosh Desai said, "From an international perspective there is nothing significant about Modi's speech in Hindi. All world leaders speak in their mother tongue in bilaterals or international foras. But at home, he is breaking the presumptive hierarchy that existed earlier. It is indicative of a shift in power equation of people who run governance in India." 

When Vajpayee spoke in UN general assembly in Hindi in 1977, it was seen by many as an Indian leader's expression of personal love for Hindi. However, India has changed much since then and is now a force to reckon with in a multipolar world due to its rising economic power. With that background when a PM speaks in Hindi at an international conference, it has more significance, say many. 

Academic Pushpesh Pant, however, says Vajpayee's speech as the first such instance was as significant and historic. "But Modi's speech is significant on two aspects. First it shows that he is free from mental slavery (to the colonial legacy). Two, it has great potential to help Hindi at home. When the youth, in some ways besieged by the importance of learning English, hears its icon speaking in Hindi in a foreign country, it will embrace the language more freely. The humiliation heaped on Hindi by Nehru must change," says Pant. 

Desai, however, says Modi was not promoting Hindi alone. "Modi does not give any particular currency to Hindi on the world stage. But it sets precedence for the local Indian language. Tomorrow there could be a prime minister from Tamil Nadu and he could speak in Tamil in a foreign country," says Desai.

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