The starboard side of the Titanic bow

The starboard side of the Titanic bow

Although Blackberry maker Research in Motion faced threats from Government of India of a nationwide service disruption, the government of India has decided to extend its deadline for another 60 days.

India had threatened to systematically shut off some Blackberry services after RIM refused to meet requests to allow government officials to access incoming messages that hit India's airwaves. It is part of the country's national security and a guideline that other mobile providers in the region have been able to accommodate.

However, RIM says that it does not offer "special deals" to countries that would lower its integrity as a secured mobile service network. It also notes that although there are mobile companies that provide the requested access, there are others that don't.

"Singling out and banning" Blackberry instant messages" would be "ineffective and counter-productive," said RIM. It promised to find an amicable solution but would not follow India's blanket request for sweeping access. India seemed to be firm in its demands and said a solution must be in place by tomorrow.

Now, in an about face, the country has given RIM another 60 days. RIM says it will continue to work with government officials to get an appropriate infrastructure in place.

Here are the various Harley Davidson bikes available at New Delhi. Bikes prices starts from Rs 6 lakh and varies upto Rs 35 Lakh ..

June 24 in Singapore, opened a new wonder of the world. "Sky Park" Marina Bay Sands is located on the 200-meter height on the three skyscrapers, as if on three pillars. Here is the most expensive in the world of casinos,bars, restaurants, the largest outdoor swimming pool, 150 meters long and even the Museum of Modern Art.

The Pakistani Taliban offered 2 million in aid for victims of the devastating floods in Pakistan. A statement issued by the Omar Khalid, chief of the Tehrik-e-Taliban chapter in the Mohmand tribal region said the militant shura or council had endorsed the decision to provide Rs 2 million as aid for flood victims.

Prometric, the firm that was responsible for conducting the rather disastrous first online CAT in 2009, has now come up with a way to ensure greater accuracy in the entrance exams by introducing unique sets of question papers different for each candidate in 2010.

"Each question paper will be a little different from the other, but its evaluation would be done on the same scale," Managing Director of Prometric, Soumitra Roy said.

"Since each question paper will be different, it might be possible that some questions are tougher than others. We'll keep this in mind while conducting evaluation," added Roy.

The Government will table the much-awaited Direct Taxes Code (DTC) bill in the Lok Sabha on Monday, that is expected to provide relief to income tax payers, both personal and corporate, though not as much as was proposed earlier in the draft.

The government is quite confident of replacing archaic Income Tax Act with DTC from 1st April, 2011. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said he would announce the slabs for personal income tax while tabling the bill and has refused to share the details before that. He has only said so far that the exemption limit will be raised from the current Rs 1.6 lakh in a year to Rs two lakh.

However, sources said that as per the bill, approved by the Cabinet on Thursday, income between Rs 2-5 lakh is likely to attract 10 per cent tax; for Rs 5-10 lakh it will be 20 per cent and above Rs 10 lakh, 30 per cent.

Currently income between Rs 1.6-5 lakh attracts 10 per cent tax; between 5-8 lakh, 20 per cent and beyond 8 lakh, 30 per cent.

The proposed tax slabs are much lower than originally proposed in the draft DTC bill -- 10 per cent for Rs 1.6 lakh to Rs 10 lakh, 20 per cent between Rs 10-25 lakh and 30 per cent for income above Rs 30 lakh.

In a first of its kind approach, a National Conference on Sexology is to be hosted in Chennai on September 3. The conference is to be jointly organized by the Council of Sex Education and Parenthood International (CSEPI), Indian Andropause Society (IAS) and Andrology India. While the conference will touch on tried and tested topics like premature ejaculation and problematic orgasms, other topics like temple erotica, gadgets for sex therapy, food and sex and sex and sanskar will also be examined.

CSEPI chairman Dr D Narayana Reddy said the idea behind the conference was not only to update medical knowledge, but also to spread awareness through lively discussions. "The conference is designed to cater to the immediate needs of healthcare professionals. It will be considered as a continuing medical education programme and participants will get 13.5 credit points," he said.

More than 400 movies will be available on YouTube for viewers to watch in full for free, the website has announced. Titles on youtube.com/movies will include a range that “brings together a library of film ranging from past mainstream hits to cult classics and beyond, and YouTube hopes the Movies section will grow in time”, the company said.

YouTube also says it will offer “cult classics, such as The Clan Of The Cave Bear (Daryl Hannah as a Neanderthal) and hidden gems like Loved (Sean Penn), a drama about physics in Oxford.”

Donagh O’Malley, YouTube’s Head of Video Partnerships, said: “This is one of many efforts to ensure that people can find all the different kinds of video they want to see, from bedroom vlogs and citizen journalism reports to full-length films and TV shows. This is a first step.”

Yet another scandal rocked Pakistan cricket on Sunday engulfing its captain Salman Butt, brilliant pace duo of Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Aamir and four other players, leading to the arrest of a bookie in London and questioning of the players by the Scotland Yard after a tabloid sting.

Scotland Yard detectives visited the Pakistan dressing room immediately after the third day's play to question the players after the tabloid sting operation exposed 'spot-fixing' and the alleged nexus between the players and bookies.

"Scotland Yard detectives had visited the team hotel where they had taken statements of captain Salman Butt, fast bowlers Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Aamir, and wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal," Pakistan team manager Yawar Saeed said.

The 'News of the World' tabloid alleged that a Pakistani man Mazhar Majeed, who is now under arrest, had paid bribes to the players to bowl no-balls in the series and the Lord's Test.

Internet telephone capabilities added to Google's free Web-based email service in the United States appeared to have been successful, with more than a million calls logged in the 24 hours after its launch.

More than a million Voice calls were racked up at Gmail by the time the feature was a day old, according to Google spokesman Randall Sarafa.

On Wednesday, Gmail was infused with Voice, a Google telecommunications service that lets people use a single telephone number for all of their phones.

A "call phones" option in Gmail chat enables people to make, screen or field Voice calls at their computers using Gmail.

Google made the service available to anyone in the United States in late June, but it wasn't until this week that it combined the Internet telephony feature with Gmail.

Along with letting users have one phone number that rings at all of their telephones, the service converts voice mail or text messages into email and allows for toll-free calls to the United States and Canada.

Voice boasts competitively low rates for international calls and is a challenge to global Internet telephony star Skype.

Google will launch this feature in rest of the world by the end of the year. However , Google collects charge for this feature. Users need to pay /buy prepaid top up charge in order to use this service. Users can buy online using credit card.