Sachin Tendulkar has been named Master Blaster, Little Master, Legend by whole of cricket world. Right from ICC, Legends like Sir Don Bradman, rival players everyone a huge fan of Sachin .
But apart from these, Sachin has been called a kind hearted guy and named Gentleman.
Why do we call Indian Cricketer and legend Sachin Tendulkar a Gentleman.
Well Here is a small example to it
The Big G has been sued by a Chinese author Mian Mian. Mian Mian sued Google in October after Google scanned one of her books, Acid House, and added it to Google’s Library.
Google said it had removed the book as soon as it learned of the lawsuit, but had no further comment on the case.
She is seeking damages of 61,000 yuan ($8,950; £5,576) and a public apology.
A Beijing judge has told the Chinese novelist Mian Mian, who is suing Google over its plan to create an online library, to hold settlement talks. After a two-hour hearing, the court ordered both sides to talk but did not set a deadline for reporting back, according to the author’s lawyer.
Mian Mian writes risque novels – including titles such as Panda Sex and Candy – about China’s underworld of sex, drugs and nightlife. Most of her work is banned in China.
She is not alone in complaining about copyright issues raised by Google’s online library. The China Written Works Copyright Society is also looking for compensation for other Chinese authors whose work is included in the project.
In France, a court ordered Google to stop digitising French books without the publisher’s approval. The search engine was also told to pay 300,000 euros ($430,000; £268,000) in damages and interest to French company La Martiniere, which had sued for copyright infringement for scanning book excerpts.
In the US, Google agreed a $125m settlement with American authors and publishers – although this is still waiting for final court approval.
Source : BBC
The temporary burial of Interest rate in the world has again CAME back to life. Is it ridiculous, well Australian Government has come out and declared that the interest rate will be increased to 3.25% from 3%.
Australia who avoided the Recession last year was a lone nation to survive from the wrath of Economy downfall when the entire world was crying with financial loss.
The central bank of Australia is the first to come out and announce the increase in interest since the beginning of 2008. Adding if all goes well, then the interest rate will be back to the normal one 5%.
Now, this is the toughest thing to cope up seeing there is no jobs at all.
The Antipodes Islands is first of all a dream heaven to live on . The natural surrounding of the Island will drive every one mad. But the only issue here is, one cannot live in this place because of Active Volcano the island has.
The Island is located near New Zealand. The islands are 860 km far from the Stewart Island and the Antipodes Island is the biggest of the group, with an area of 20 square meters, followed by the Bollons Island and many more islets and stacks.
The Mount Galloway is Antipodes Islands’ highest point, at 402 m also being the most active volcano of the islands group. The Antipodes Islands are part of the Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra ecoregion.
The group, formerly known as Penantipodes is near to the antipodes of London, meant “next to the antipodes.” Captain Henry Waterhouse was the first that put the Antipodes Islands on a map. He was the captain of the British ship HMS Reliance.
According to dictionary, An ti pode
* Main Entry: An·ti·pode
* Pronunciation: \ˈan-tə-ˌpōd\
* Function: noun
* Inflected Form(s): plural an·tip·o·des \an-ˈti-pə-ˌdēz\
* Etymology: Middle English antipodes, plural, persons dwelling at opposite points on the globe, from Latin, from Greek, from plural of antipod-, antipous with feet opposite, from anti- + pod-, pous foot — more at foot
* Date: 1549
1 : the parts of the earth diametrically opposite —usually used in plural —often used of Australia and New Zealand as contrasted to the western hemisphere
2 : the exact opposite or contrary
— an·tip·o·de·an \(ˌ)an-ˌti-pə-ˈdē-ən\ adjective or noun
This August has brought about great news to all the People in the world who are looking with a grim hope of getting employed.
Yeah, its glad to say that Hong Kong economy is risen this month. The data recorded during April to June of this year 2009 shows that the nation has brought a rise of 3.3% growth in their economy.
This is really a good moment, cause only 2 days back did France and Germany officially announced that they are out of recession
Earlier HongKong revealed that their economy will down at 5.5% to 6.5% But now they have revised it to be 3.5% down. This is encouraging.
Economic growth is measured by gross domestic product (GDP).
“The GDP data was much better than we expected, partly because the exports were better and partly because of a pick-up in private consumption,” said Paul Tang, chief economist at Bank of East Asia.
The Australian government have proposed a budget of $16m to stop the growing mess of camel in their continent.
The plan proposed by the government is to kill the camel either from Helicopter or through foot using guns. Now this is not at all welcomed by the Animal Welfare Community who are in War path with the government.
What Camel got to do with Australia eh. Well, Australia in their mid 90′s imported Camels in order to make the desert travelling easy in their continent.
The camel though have grown excess in population and are about 1 million now. That is, for every 20 Australians there is atleast 1 camel. If the situation continues the population of camel will double in the current years leaving the government in very serious situation.
Considering every thing in hold, the Australian government finally decided to cull some camels. But this is not welcomed by Animal Welfare Community.
Instead, the community have proposed an alternate plan stating, “Instead of killing the camel, birth control pills or making the camel infertile options should be considered”.
There is no word yet from the Australian government on this issue.
China,a country which follows strict measures on punishments has now decided to limit the number of executions that the country does.
Its been found out that, China is the only country that has a maximum number of executions when compared to other countries for any year.The limit in execution step is taken by the government considering the social activist continues objection and on humanitarian grounds, reports from china.
To find out the number of executions that the country does, the Chinese government gave the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) power to check the death sentence issued by the lower court and review it. The SPC which gained the power 2 years ago has worked on each death punishments and suspended the death sentence for many of the cases. It reports that nearly 1700 people were executed in the year 2008 which is 72% of the world’s total execution done.
SPC vice president Mr Zhang, quoted in the state-run China Daily, said legislation would be improved to reduce the number of death sentences, and that the SPC would tighten restrictions on the use of capital punishment.
He said: “As it is impossible for the country to abolish capital punishment under current realities and social security conditions, it is an important effort to strictly control the application of the penalty by judicial organs.”
Mr.Zhang added further that , SPC had been working to ensure that the death sentence was imposed only on those who had committed extremely serious or heinous crimes that led to grave social consequences.
