As Per TRAI Mobile users can send 200 SMSes per day

Good News for Indians: New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) Mobile phone users will now be able to send upto 200 SMSes per day as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Tuesday raised the earlier imposed cap of 100 messages following requests from telcos and consumers. 'The authority has received representations from some of the service providers and consumers to increase the limit of 100 SMS per day per SIM. The authority has considered these representations and decided to increase the limit,' TRAI said in a statement.

At an effort to curb unsolicited commercial calls and messages, the regulator had in September restricted service providers from providing any SMS package or tariff plan permitting sending more than 100 SMSes per day per SIM. However, it had relaxed this restriction for some categories of users such as dealers of telecom operators, e-ticketing service providers and social networking sites. Besides, this restriction was not applicable on festivals. Earlier this month, the regulator had also imposed a termination charge of 5 paise per SMS on operators from whose networks commercial messages originate to further curb pesky messages.

Should Sushil Kumar rejoice or worry?; Big Jackpot 5 crore

Indian Sushil Kumar from Bihar just won the Rs 5 crores jackpot (Rs. 50 Million) on the fifth season of Kaun Banega Crorepati. (For those who do not know KBC, this is the Indian version of Who wants to be a Millionaire) He will not receive the entire Rs. 5 crores, the tax department will eat up about one third of his jackpot leaving him with about Rs. 3.5 crores; that's still a sizeable amount. Let us see how it can help Mr. Sushil Kumar - a post graduate in philosophy and an IAS aspirant - in his life. He is currently a school teacher earning a meager Rs. 6000 per month. In an interview Sushil Kumar revealed that he has some obligations that need to met first before he invests the rest of his money.

His elder brother who wants to set up his own business A younger brother wanting to quit his 'piddly' Rs. 1500 per month job and also wants to start a new business. His parents will want a nice big house - befitting the 'crorepati' son's status Sushil Kumar himself plans to quit his job in order to concentrate on his IAS exam. Sadly, along with a big amount of money God does not gift one with 'financial wisdom' - not even the wisdom of knowing that he needs unbiased financial advice. I can see a tomorrow and, therefore, find it difficult to rejoice in his success. Why you ask? Here's why.

His small village there will be a lot of people chasing him — "investment consultants" There will be greedy hands pulling from all sides: Namely, LIC agents, mutual fund agents, bank managers, other life insurance companies, pension providers, brokerage houses and bankers. It would be really interesting to track his life over the next 10 years on a year to year basis to see how much this money is scaring him, helping him, torturing him and helping him to meet his goals.

Knowledge in a point - 7

• Water boiled in a microwave can Explode.

• Your body creates 2.4 Million red blood cells every second.

• Arthur Wynne, England invented cross word puzzle in Dec 21,1913.

Invention and Inventors :

• Cycle = Mac Millan.

• Generator = Piciontti.

• Helicopter = D’Ascanio.

• Motor Car = Karl Benz.

• Cinema(talkie) = Warne Brothers.

• Telescope = Galileo

• Gramophone = Thomas Alva Edison.

• Cement = Joseph Aspdin.

• Cinema(Film) = Lumiere Brothers.

US President Obama makes surprise Oscar appearance

US President Obama appeared in a taped clip during Sunday's Academy Awards show on ABC, letting the world know that his favorite movie song was "As Time Goes By." The song by Dooley Wilson was featured in the classic "Casablanca." CNN's Bonney Kapp reports that the song also ranked No. 2 on the American Film Institute's list of top film tunes.


Barrak Obama, speaking at the 2011 Governors' Dinner in the state dining room of the White House on Sunday, was clearly in an Oscar state of mind. "I want to welcome some of you back, and I want to welcome those who are here for the first time. I know some of you may be confused and think this is the Oscars," he said, drawing laughs, according to the press pool report. "There are some similarities. First of all, everybody looks spectacular. And the second thing is, if I speak too long the music will start playing. So I'm going to be very brief."

Anodroid Phones under 10K

New Android phones releasing month after month, there can be no definitive way to declare a particular phone to be the best buy for too long. That's why we've made it a monthly habit to keep updating the Best Android phones to buy list, so that potential buyers have one place to seek advice.


Here is a growing number of options in this cost conscious smart phone range, with every manufacturer trying to one-up the other by marginally improving the features. As a rule of the thumb, I'm not even going to consider all those phones with resistive touch screens, and with good reason. As of now, we declare the newly launched Sam sung Galaxy Pop S5570 as the champion of the paisa vasool range. It's an upgrade to the popular Galaxy 5 i5500 model and it brings about some important changes -- the screen size is bumped up from 2.8 inches to 3.2 inches, although it still has the low QVGA (320 x 240 pixel) resolution. But for the price, we can forgive Sam sung of this sin. The camera resolution is upped from the pitiful 2 mega pixel to the not-so-pitiful 3.2 mega pixel. It still lacks auto focus and an LED flash; don't expect great photo quality from it.



Most important change is that it runs Android 2.2 Froyo from start, unlike the Galaxy 5 which still runs Android 2.1, with no clear update road map in sight. It may not be the most recent Gingerbread (2.3) version, but we still appreciate it running a fairly recent version, given how fast Google churns out OS updates every year. It still has the i5500's 600 MHz processor, and with the same QVGA resolution and the Froyo performance optimizations, you can expect the User Interface to fly swiftly. Apart from this, the Galaxy Pop also adds a proximity sensor and a compass to the package. Connectivity is sorted with 3.5G (HSDPA), Wi-fi 802.11n and A-GPS support. It sells for Rs. 9,000 -- the same price that its predecessor was sold at when launched. For the price, we think the Galaxy Pop S5570 is a good package for the Android lover who likes to hold back on splurging hard earned money.

Knowledge in a point - 6

• Leonardo Da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.


• The Human body has about 100 trillion cells.


• An Octopus's testicles are located in its head.


• O.K stands for “oll korrect”.


• Only one satellite has ever been destroyed by a meteor.


• Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first Email in 1976.


• The bones of a Pigeon weigh less than its Feather.


• Japanese people don't have Middle Names.


• 80% of the World's food crops are pollinated by insects.


• 10% of with World's food supply is consumed by insects.


• A Banana contains 75% water.

United States welcomes opening of Afghan parliament

United States welcomed the opening of the Afghan parliament Wednesday, calling it a "significant milestone," and urged the start of a dialogue on election reform. Afghan President Hamid Karzai swore in the country's parliament in Kabul after threatening to delay its opening pending an investigation into charges of irregularities in September elections. "The seating of parliament is a significant milestone in the progression of Afghanistan's democracy and an extremely important moment for Afghans who bravely cast their votes last September," said US National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer.


"The United States joins the Afghan people in celebrating today's achievement and we encourage the Afghans to begin an inclusive dialogue on electoral reform." Nearly a quarter of the five million votes cast in the parliamentary elections were thrown out, and there were relatively few wins by Pashtuns, Afghanistan's biggest ethnic group of Karzai's power base. Karzai has not endorsed the final outcome, and established a special tribunal to investigate claims of election fraud. The new MPs have demanded that the court be scrapped. The United States, the United Nations and the European Union all welcomed Karzai's decision to relent and finally open parliament.


US State Department spokesman Philip Crowley earlier welcomed the inauguration, saying the United States hoped all branches of government would "work together to advance the priorities of the Afghan people."

BP – Blood Pressure treatment discovery

Blood pressure treatment is safer and more effective with two medicines than one, a study has shown. The results are likely to change the way doctors treat the condition, a major risk factor for heart attacks and strokes. Patients are normally given one drug, with others added, if needed, over a period of months. But the Accelerate study shows it is best to start treatment with two medicines together at the same time as it can result in much faster and more effective control of blood pressure, with fewer side effects. Professor Morris Brown, from Cambridge University, who led the trial, said: "The Accelerate study breaks the mould for treating hypertension (high blood pressure). Most patients can now be prescribed a single combination pill and know that they are optimally protected from strokes and heart attacks."


Prof. Bryan Williams, from the British Hypertension Society, said: "This study is important and the findings could change the way we approach the treatment of high blood pressure." The research, which involved 1,250 patients with high blood pressure, is published in an early online edition of The Lancet medical journal. It shows that starting treatment with the two drugs aliskiren and amlodipine in a combination pill produces a 25% better response in patients than conventional "monotherapy". The scientists suspect taking the drugs in series allows the body to neutralise each of them in turn. Having them together may prevent this from happening.


Almost 10 million people in the UK are believed to have high blood pressure.

Knowledge In a point - 5

• Name the country which has no cinema theatre = Saudi Arabia.

• The word ‘Pakistan’ was invented by a Cambridge student namely? = Rahmat Ali.

• Sugar bowl of India = Uttar Pardesh.

• Scotland of the East = Shilong.

• Queen of Himalayas = Darjeeling.

• City of 7 Islands = Mumbai.

• National Emblem of Germany = Cornflower.

• National Emblem of Iran = Rose.

• National Emblem of USA = Golden Rod.

• National Emblem of Sri Lanka = Lion.

• National Emblem of Italy = White Lily.

• India is home to over 200 million cows.

• Only female mosquitoes bite.

• Sharks are immune to all known diseases.

• Horses sleep standing up.

Sugar Sweetened coffee helps you remember well

Sweetened coffee may be the best way to prepare the brain for a busy day ahead, say scientists. Researchers at the University of Barcelona in Spain found that taking caffeine and sugar at the same time boosted the brain's performance more than taking them on their own. They now believe each one boosts the effect of the other on brain functions such as attention span and working memory.

Findings come from brain scans carried out on 40 volunteers who were tested after they had coffee with sugar, coffee without sugar, sugar on its own or just plain water. "The two substances improve cognitive performance by increasing the efficiency of the two areas of the brain responsible for sustained attention and working memory," the Daily Mail quoted researcher Dr Josep Serra Grabulosa as saying. "The brain is more efficient under the combined effect of the two substances, since it needs fewer resources to produce the same level of performance than when volunteers took only caffeine, glucose or water," Serra Grabulosa added. But it's likely that coffee lovers who do not take sugar will get the same benefits from enjoying a sugary snack with their drink. The results have been published in the journal Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental.