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A Beautiful Mind

16th June 2015 Currently I'm in post movie hangover which one feels after watching an amazing movie that touches our heart in one way or the other. I saw "A Beautiful Mind", an Oscar award winning movie based on the life and achievement of John Nash. He was a genius mathematician who made several contribution to economics, mathematics, computer science and many more fields. His famous "Game Theory" got him the prestigious noble prize in economics. The movie depicts his struggle being patient of schizophrenia and his wife Alicia's immense love for him which proved as the medicine for his disease. 

Introduction to Techno India

Breathing at the heart of IT sector of eastern India is a technological cognoscenti named Techno India. This college is as flamboyant as it ’s name! Covering 10 acres of plush Salt Lake region and built with architectural marvel, the institution stands tall with pride.  Established in 2001 by the Techno India Group, Techno India Salt is the flagship college and serves as the main placement centre for all the Techno India Group colleges.The college currently offers 12 UG courses and 3 PG courses. With approximately 200 exuberant faculty member, ...

CEO:The heavenly profession of psychopaths

Who is a CEO? Who are psychopaths? Well, defining anything is all a matter of perspective. Psychopaths are not only those people who roam about with AK-47 in hand and randomly open fire on any biotic thing. Google says psychopaths are those who are suffering from chronic mental illness and have indifferent behavior. They lack empathy and are practically very ruthless with infinitesimally small place for love in heart. But these traits, are scientifically proven, to be the very traits required for being finest of CEOs who rule being at the pinnacle. Now, why psychopaths are attracted to this profession? The answer is very plain and simple- Being the CEO gives immense power and requires making clear objectives. In short, hitting the bull's eye! The vacant spaces which were rather reserved for kindness, empathy and remorse in their heart are instead filled with manipulative power and the ability the stay cool in harsh conditions. These characteristics are well suite...

Apple's OS X El Capitan promulgated at WWDC 2015

On 2nd June, Apple announced the latest operating system OS X El Capitan for the Macintosh at the WWDC 2015 keynote. Gestures have been added to ameliorate user experience. For instance, mails can the archived or deleted by just flicking the mouse in the Mail app. Apple's senior vice-president for software engineering Craig Federighi publicized a new feature called "Pinned sites" for the Safari browser. Favorite websites can now be pinned by dragging it to the left, which will later open in new tab for the convenience. The Spotlight search in El Capitan will now understand natural languages. On the performance front, Mac OS X El Capitan is 1.4 times quicker in launching apps and 40% faster in rendering graphics (Thanks to the new Metal technology). There has been a phenomenal uplift for the User Interface (UI)of Mission Control, all the windows can now be arranged just by dragging the mouse. (Source-TOI)

Apple iOS 9 rolled out!

Tech giant Apple unveiled it's latest operating system for it's iconic i-Phones and i-Pads this Tuesday, June 2nd. Top features of the premium brand's OS are:- Now multiple apps can be opened at the same time with iOS 9 on i-Pads. Two apps can be opened up simultaneously on the same screen in the format of 50:50 or 70:30 via drag-n-drop. Apple maps will be now equipped to provide transit directions. It also comprises of location cards which can search for and return the restaurants that support Apple Pay. The new low power mode in iOS 9 has promised the users to enhance the battery life by 3 hours. The users will be overwhelmed to know that the free space required to installing iOS 9 has been reduced from 4.6 GB (for iOS 8) to just 1.8 GB. (source-TOI)

Commemoration of The legend: Ram Navami

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This year 28th March marks the birthday of the Maryada Purushottam Ram, the biggest of Hindu festivals. When Adharma began outweighing Dharma Lord Rama was born. He slayed the evil powers to establish peace and tranquillity on this Bhuloka. He was born to the king of Ayodhya, Dasharatha and Kausalya. This day falls on the 9th day of the Shukla Paksha of the month of Chaitra (March-April). So it is also known as Chaita Masa Shukla Paksha and ends the nine day long celebration of Chaitra-Navratri. Lord Rama is supposed to be the oldest known god having human form. He is the seventh incarnation of the Lord Vishnu. According to the legend, when the five planets and the sun were in the first house of cancer at noon along with the lunar aster ism Pushya , Lord Rama was born. According to the vedic mythology it is supposed to be an extremely auspicious moment! In south India this is celebrated as the auspicious wedding day of Lord Rama and Sita known as S itarama kalyana...

Self Operating and Weather Adaptable Street Lights

This is the science project I've made in class 12th in 2012 under the category of Energy Conservation and stood first at school level and was further selected for the regional level at Kendriya Vidyalaya Salt Lake no. 2. But I failed to get selected any further so out of anger I broke my project. This is just the circuit arrangement which I have captured in this video and it's completely working. Documentation of this project can be seen here . Description: As the name suggests this system can adapt to the brightness of the environment and emit proper amount of light. Whenever there is complete darkness the LED gets automatically turned on and whenever there is enough light, the LED goes off. Hence conserving the electricity which gets wasted due to the idleness of common people or their ignorance due to which the lights are kept on even when there is no use of it. This system comprises of only a few elements like IC 555, a PCB, an LED, battery, switch, LDR etc. I feel this id...

The Pulitzer Prize 2015

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The winners of 99th edition of Pulitzer Prizes were announced on 20th April,2015 at the Columbia University. The administrator of Pulitzer, Mike Pride made the announcement and it was also streamed live on youtube in a channel named Pulitzer Prize announcement 2015. This year the Pulitzer office received roughly 1,200 journalism entries, 1,400 books, 200 music compositions and 100 plays considered.Two categories, investigative reporting and feature writing, were opened to magazines this year, which prompted 60 additional entries. The process of selection starts from Pulitzer jury which comprises of expert authors, scholars, photo journalists, poets, composers and critics. Some of them are Pulitzer prize winners themselves. They select three best works from each category in no order of preference. Then the finalists go to the 18 member Pulitzer prize board which deeply scans and observes each work to declare the winner with proper voting. The debates and discussions...