Posts Tagged ‘india’

Lindsay Lohan 'unwelcome' in India

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

Twitter tirade has made actress Lindsay Lohan unwelcome in India and Los Angeles, says the tabloid New York Post.

Quoting a British newspaper, it said on Saturday that the troubled actress faces ban from India for visa violations while filming a BBC documentary on child labour in December.

The actress worked in India while on a tourist visa, it said.

Under Indian laws, a work visa is required for any non-tourist activity. She also outraged Indian social activists for claiming her role in freeing child workers in Delhi.

These activists say she was nowhere near when 40 child workers were saved from sweatshops.

After India, another place where the actress is unwelcome is Los Angeles, the tabloid said.

The paper said the actress went on a Twitter tirade after security guards didn’t let her in LA club Trousdale.

After bouncers barred her because her name wasn’t on the list for a private party being held there, Lohan twittered that she was simply trying to say hello to a friend, wrote the tabloid.

“I’ve never been treated so poorly in my life, this is why I never come to LA… Aren’t they supposed to ‘protect’ us? Rather than man-handle and scare us (girls)?” she reportedly wrote on Twitter.

“That was scary, mean, arrogant, and unnecessarily aggressive. I pick new York just like Jay-Z,” she added.

SER, Sports Hostel UP triumph in women's hockey

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Star-studded team of South Eastern Railway, Kolkata outclassed Saharanpur XI by 8-1 in their league match of the 23rd All-India Invitation Prize Money Womens Hockey Tournament which commenced at the KD Singh Babu Stadium, Lucknow on Thursday. in another league match of the same tourney, helped by a goal each from Shrishti Singh (5th minute; through penalty corner), Vandana Katariya (21st minute) and Deepika Rai (48th minute), Sports Hostel UP defeated East Central Railway, Dhanbad by 3-0.

SER exercised an upper hand against Saharanpur from the word go. SER player P Minz made no mistake in capitalising on a penalty corner awarded to her team in the 6th minute to break the ice. A Kerketta sounded the boards in the 12th minute to increase the lead further. Though Harvinder Kaur succeeded in bringing down the margin to 2-1, however, A Kerketta made use of a penalty corner awarded to her team in the 22nd minute to make the half-time score 3-1.

The second-half was no different a story. SER players Sarita Lakra (27th minute), P Bhengra (36th minute; through penalty corner), L Kerketta (54th minute), S Lakra (57th minute) and P Minz (60th minute; through penalty stroke) found the target as SER Kolkata scripted a comprehensive 8-1 win against Saharanpur.

India's Twitter SMS GupShup Gets An App Store

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

Fresh off a $12 million investment, SMS GupShup, a Twitter-like service in India that is primarily accessed via SMS, is launching an App Store. the store aims to expand SMS GupShup’s ecosystem by allowing developers to create SMS-based mobile applications based off of the microblogging service.

Launched in April 2007, SMS GupShup (spawned from Webaroo) serves 26 million users across India. the startup has seen rapid growth in users primarily due to the immense popularity of mobile devices in India. according to the startup, there are 550 million mobile phone users in the country and only 50 million web users. with a 10 to 1 mobile-to-PC ratio and SMS serving as the most popular communications platform, the market is ripe for SMS GupShup to take off. SMS GupShup currently processes over 480 million messages a month and accounts for 5 percent of all texts sent within India.

Called AppShup, the app store allows developers to use the platform’s API to create and connect their apps to the GupShup stream, allowing developers make small SMS applications and widgets. App Shup pre-enables carrier approval processes, hoping to make the process of submitting apps easier for developers. currently, AppShup is integrated with the Indian carriers – allowing SMS services for Indian mobile subscribers. the startup says they are conducting discussions with carriers in other countries to expand the program. Close to 100 SMS apps are already available including Tic Tac Toe, Cricket Quiz, and Word Jumble. for now, most of the apps appear to be free.

Releasing an API and launching an App Store makes sense for SMS GupShup. the mobile social network has been growing fast and developing an ecosystem around its platform is the next step for development. the startup has even attracted the attention of leaders in the space, like Facebook. Last year, Facebook partnered with SMS GupShup to power and deliver its users’ status updates via text messages. Additionally, SMS GupShup has an advertising strategy. over 100 advertisers currently run on the network including local insurance provider ICICI Lombard and international brands like Puma, Microsoft and Cadbury.

India is a huge market for social networks, with Facebook, Orkut and even Twitter vying for a share of the growing number of web users who are increasingly flocking to social networks in their day-to-day routines. But clearly, SMS GupShup has tapped into the mobile side of social networks and is seeing success from this in India. it should be interesting to see if the service can develop the vibrant ecosystem Twitter has produced with its third party apps and API.

Which group of people has the worst guilt complex?

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

A. Asians
B. Greeks
C. Catholics
D. Jewish people
E. Indians (from India)
F. _________ Other

Also, state the reason(s) as to why you think________group has the worst sense of guilt.

Dalai Lama joins Twitter

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

DHARAMSALA:Watch out for tweets from no less than the Dalai Lama. the spiritual head of theTibetan Buddhist community has joined the social networking website Twitter tokeep in touch with followers.

“His Holiness the Dalai Lama has joinedTwitter,” said a post on the website of the Tibetan government-in-exileTuesday.

the Dalai Lama had fled Tibet after a failed uprisingagainst Chinese rule in 1959 and is now based in this Indian town. he wasawarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.

around 140,000 Tibetans nowlive in exile, over 100,000 of them in different parts of India. Over sixmillion Tibetans live in Tibet.

Awesome Indian Things hit Twitter

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

A flurry of tweets started to fill up on Twitter today as people decided to put in their little oar on the #AwesomeIndianThings topic.

Tweets ranged from cricket stars to bidis (pictured), and from Bollywood stars and Indian authors to the number zero.

The cypher, zero, first appeared in India, said one twitterer.

Other tweets praised Bollywood stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan and Rajnikanth.

Food items included paan – leaves filled with betel nut and other aromatic substances. Kingfisher beer and chilli chicken rated a mention. And the Indian Army rated a tweet or two, too.

One of the twitterati pointed out that there had been nothing erotic so far on #AwesomeIndianThings. another said: “You can hate someone and lose him in the crowd forever. It’s easy. the crowd is so big!” another said: “We don’t see bargaining only as a legitimate means of lowering prices. We see it as a sport.”

Another, referring to the tortuous Indian legal system, said: “How is [it] that only in India an open and shut case is a never ending one?”