As per the latest spam report of Kaspersky Lab more than 50% of all spam messages in the world during the 3rf quarter of 2011 was generated from just 6 countries.


India was in top with 14.8 % of such messages followed by Indonesia (10.6 %), Brazil (9.65 %), Peru (6.65 %), South Korea (5.85 %) and Ukraine (3.7 %).

The report says that most of the users in this countries are not very experienced in IT security. This makes them a soft target for cyber criminals spreading spam-bots.

Whereas GCC countries Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and UAE was in last with just 1.33 % of originating spam mails.

Sachin Tendulkar created a new record at 1st test of Border-Gavaskar Trophy played at Melbore Cricket ground. Yes, Sachin Tendulkar breaks most half centuries record. Previously, this record was on the name of Allan Border who made 63 Fifties in 156 tests, while Sachin made 64 Fifties in 184 tests. With an average of 56.02, Sachin scored 15,256 runs in which he made 51 hundreds. Where as Allan Border scored 11,174 runs with an average of 50.56 in which he made 27 hundreds.

So, not making a 100th ton brings a new record to Sachin. While Rahul Dravid is in next place with 63 fifties next to Sachin and equals Border's record.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has declared 2012 as ‘national mathematics year’ in honor of maths wizard Srinivasa Ramanujan’s 150th birth anniversary.


He said the country was proud of Ramanujan and Tamil Nadu has a special claim on him for he was a Tamilian.

“Along with CV Raman and Subramanyam Chandrashekhar (both Nobel laureates), he is among the three great men of science and mathematics that Tamil Nadu and India have given to the world of modern times”, he said.

India's national anthem, Jana Gana Mana, completes 100 years today.

Rabindranath Tagore's 'Jana Gana Mana' was first performed on December 27, 1911, at the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress which was then a national movement. Decades later , after Independence, the Constituent Assembly adopted the song as the national anthem on January 24, 1950.


Written in highly Sanskritized Bengali , the passages conveys the immense power of India's diversity in unity. He translated the song in English called 'The Morning Song of India'.

Although he wrote five lengthy stanzas to 'Jana Gana Mana', only the first was recorded because of time constraints. Most people are unaware that the 52-second version we hear is part of the whole.

Rabindranath Tagore is the only individual in the world credited with the national anthem for two nations, the other being 'Amar Sonar Bangla' that was adopted by Bangladesh.

Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly on Friday joined the chorus in bestowing the Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian award, on Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar.

"Sachin is a Bharat Ratna. There is no doubt that he should be conferred the Bharat Ratna award. Sachin deserves all honours and I am his great fan," Ganguly said.


Till now only people belongs to art, literature, science and public service are eligible for this prestigious honour. But few days back government has changed the eligibility criteria for the Bharat Ratna to widen its scope. On the day of decision taken by Government, Union Sports Minister Ajay Maken has said that this move has cleared the decks for Tendulkar, legendary hockey player Dhyan Chand and others.

The demand for a Bharat Ratna for Sachin is becoming louder and now government sources say that it could be a matter of time before he gets the nation's highest award.

Sachin's name for Bharat Ratna started doing the rounds just before the world cup 2011 but it was felt that it would be too early to give it to him. And also with only arts, literature and public service as criteria, a sportsman would not find place.

A trial court in the New Delhi on December 24, 2011 issued summons to Technology and internet giants Google, Facebook, Yahoo to appear in court later this week. The court also issued summons to 19 other websites asking them to appear in court and take down 'inflammatory' images of some religious figures on their websites.

Google India received notices on behalf of their 4 sites like YouTube, Orkut, Blogspot, and GooglePlus. Other popular websites including Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, and discussion forums such as Topix, Exbii, Boardreader has also been summoned.

Previously, talks between the government and the internet companies such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo had failed earlier this month, as they declined to pre-screen or remove content which is legal but controversial.

The government which had planned to draft guidelines to remove objectionable content, made a U-turn later, and denied having any plans to regulate the internet, after pressure from the US government.

Internet companies received support from US Secretary of state Hillary Clinton this month saying that regulations on the internet would be disastrous for everybody and stifle conversations and businesses.

The IT major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced that it will expand its operations in the state of Maharashtra by building a new software development campus in Nagpur with an investment of Rs 600 crore in the first phase. The TCS Campus will be located on a 54 acre property in the Mihan SEZ on the outskirts. The Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Shri Prithivirajan chavan presided over the occasion and laid the foundation for the Phase 1.


Interestingly, once the two phases are completed, the state-of-the –art TCS campus will house 16000 associates in the facility built with a strong environment-friendly design. Apart from world-class offices, the TCS campus will have customer collaboration centers, cafeterias, gymnasiums and outdoor sports facilities to offers a holistic environment to knowledge professionals.

The world number four, Saina Nehwal became first Indian to make the final of the prestigious event BWF World Superseries. Saina Nehwal lost the final with 21-18, 13-21, 13-21 against the Chinese Wang Yihan in and ended as runner up.


This is Yihan's sixth title of the year, which includes the World Championships crown. For Saina, this is her third finish as runners-up.

The benchmark index BSE Sensex fell by 2.18% to 15491.35 has shed whopping 345.12 on Friday 26th December 2011. The index once crossed the 16000 mark to reach 16068.90 compared to the previous close of 15836.47. however, it was short lived as even the positive stance of the RBI in its mid- term monetary review didn’t keep the momentum.


The Index heavyweights L&T, SBI, HDFC bank, RIL and TCS shed by 5.33%, 3.67%, 3.57%, 3.43% and 3.31% respectively at the close of the markets. However, Infosys and Wipro gain by 0.15% and 0.07% respectively. The markets are volatile and choppy from the past few days due to the witnessed slow-down in the Indian economy. In addition, the policy paralysis at the helm of central government coupled with the turmoil in the western economies, especially the euro zone making the markets worse.

Interestingly, the sharp fall in rupee witnessed earlier has been arrested by the RBI intervention intervention. The Rupee closed at 52.81 compared to the greenback today.

Reserve bank of India unchanged the key policy rates such as Repo rate at 8.5%, reverse repo rate at 7.5% in mid quarter Monetary Policy review. The Repo rate is the rate at which banks borrow from the RBI and the reverse repo was the vice versa. Further, the central bank has kept the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) at 6% and the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate at 9.5%. Interestingly, the RBI has kept increasing the key policy rates continuously from the previous thirteen times.

The markets are expecting such move from the RBI as the global economy outlook has worsened significantly due to the turbulent financial situation in the Europe and sluggish growth in US economy. More importantly, the domestic growth decelerating and the inflation is 9%, way above the RBI comfort zone. Further, the crude oil prices remain elevated and sharp depreciation in Rupee from the August 2011, resulted the high import bill further resulted in higher fiscal deficit. This made the RBI to keep the key policy rate kept unchanged.


Meanwhile, the central bank mentioned in press release that, the inflation remains on its projected trajectory, downside risks to growth have clearly increased. In view of the moderating growth momentum and higher downside risks to growth, this guidance is being reiterated. Interestingly, monetary policy actions are likely to reverse the cycle, responding to the risks to growth. However, it emphasized that inflation risks remain high and inflation could quickly recur as a result of both supply and demand forces. Also, the rupee remains under stress. The timing and magnitude of further actions will depend on a continuing assessment of how these factors shape up in the months ahead.

Now Sachin Tendulkar is eligible for the Bharat Ratna as the government has changed the eligibility criteria for the Bharat Ratna to widen its scope. The country's highest civilian award was initially restricted to fields such as Art, Literature, Science and Public Service.


The Prime Minister's Office has accepted the Ministry of Home Affairs' recommendation of broad basing the Bharat Ratna category. The Home Ministry had spoken to the Prime Minister's Office recommending that sports be made a category for conferring the Bharat Ratna.

The demand for a Bharat Ratna for Sachin is becoming louder and now government sources say that it could be a matter of time before he gets the nation's highest award.

Sachin's name for Bharat Ratna started doing the rounds just before the world cup 2011 but it was felt that it would be too early to give it to him. And also with only arts, literature and public service as criteria, a sportsman would not find place.

Google announced today that it is donating $11.5 million to several coalitions fighting to end the modern-day slavery. 27 million people around the world will be benefited with this donation. Google has chosen few human rights organizations for this charity.

This human rights organizations fights against advocacy, intervention and rescue of people being held, forced to work or provide sex against their will.
Washington, based International Justice Mission, a human rights organization that works globally to rescue victims of slavery and sexual exploitation, was chosen by Google to lead the efforts.

The coalition would focus on three initiatives:
$3.5 million intervention project to fight forced labor in India;

$4.5 million advocacy campaign in India to educate and protect the vulnerable;

$1.8 million plan to mobilize Americans on behalf of the millions currently at risk of slavery or waiting for rescue around the world;

$1.7 million will go to several smaller organizations working to combat slavery.

Telcom Minister Sibal held a press conference on Saturday to say that the government rejected all allegations against Chidambaram, Finance Minister at the time of spectrum allocation, and alleged that elements in the NDA were trying to malign and defame him.


He also said the then Telecom Minister A Raja did not hold any meeting with Chidambaram prior to the issuance of the Letter of Intent (LoI) to telecom operators (2G spectrum allocation) on January 10, 2008.

"In fact, the record will show that the Ministry of Finance had no no knowledge that the LoIs would be issued on January 10, 2008," Sibal said.

He said, "Chidambaram as Finance Minister was in no way responsible for issue of Letter of Intent by Telecom Ministry then headed by A Raja in January 2008. No official of the Finance Ministry, including the then Finance Minister, had committed any "irregularity or misconduct" in the spectrum allocation."

"People in NDA are trying to malign and defame P Chidambaram. We reject all allegations against him in the 2G scam. Chidambaram is a valued colleague. He discharged his duties without any fear or favour," the Minister said.

On acceptance of Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy's petition in a Delhi court in connection with the 2G case, Sibal said, "the magistrate concerned was only following the law. It was wrong for a section of the media to paint this as a victory for Swamy".

Few days back Minister Kapil Sebel requested social networking sites like Google, Orkut, Facebook and Youtube to remove defamation, morphed photographs of Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh from their websites. Now hackers used the morphed images of Sonia Gandhi and uploaded on official website of Congress.


The news is, the official website of Congress was hacked yesterday, and the profile of President of the party, Sonia Gandhi was defaced with hackers placing sexual innuendo and other content on the webpage.

The site is up and running again, but hackers ensured that Sonia Gandhi wouldn’t have a stress-free day on her birthday, at least.

There will be a total lunar eclipse on Saturday(i.e. December 10,2011). According to the Planetary Society, India this is the longest lunar eclipse till 2018. This will last for 52 minutes. The next such eclipse will be visible in India in July 2018.


The eclipse will begin at 5:02 pm. From 8:28 pm, the moon will slowly emerge back from the earth's shadow.

India is the best place to watch the eclipse as it will be visible from various parts of the country in different phases from the beginning till the end.

The next lunar eclipse will be on April 25, 2013 but can be seen only partially. On October 8, 2014 and September 28, 2015 two more lunar eclipses will occur. But these can't be visible as they occur after sunrise.

According to a report by the internet search giant Google, It has received government requests for removal of 358 items from its services, including YouTube and Orkut, during the January-June period.


As many as 255 item removal requests cited the government criticism as the reason, said the Google Transparency Report. The government had asked Google to remove 236 items from Orkut and 19 items from YouTube for the same reason, it added.

Other reasons include defamation (39 requests), privacy and security (20 requests), impersonation (14 requests), hate speech (8 requests), pornography (3 requests) and national security (1 request).

Australian cricket all-rounder Andrew Symonds is set to enter the 'Bigg Boss 5' house this week as a participant.


Andrew Symonds will address a press conference to make a formal announcement of his entry in the show in Mumbai Tuesday.

Andrew Symonds will be the second international celebrity to enter the Big Boss show after Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone.

The fifth season of Big Boss was started on Oct 2 with 14 contestants.

Facebook's Chief operating officer Sheryl Snadberg has said their plans to hire thousands of high quality engineers over the next year to its office in New York. Currently around 100 employees are working at New York office in marketing and Recruitment department.


She said Facebook would also be adding engineers at its Palo Alto, California, headquarters and in Seattle in addition to New York. An engineering team in New York would be the company's first outside of the West Coast.

Facebook has more than 800 million members. The company is also expected to go public next year. At present nearly 3000 employees are working in Facebook at various locations in the world.

While many people may think it's an activity which should be best learned behind closed doors, an enterprising Swedish schoolmistress thinks otherwise.


Ylva-Maria Thompson has opened the world's first international sex school for teaching the art of being better lovers.

The Austrian International Sex School in Vienna offers 'hands on' lessons in seduction for 1,400 pounds a term. As per the 'headmistress', " anyone over the age of 16 can enrol at 'the world's first college of applied sexuality'. Our core education is not theoretical, but very practical".

Students of the course are expected to stay in a co-ed dormitory block where they are expected to practice their 'homework'. By the end of their course, they are awarded a qualification.

Source: Inputs from Daily Mail

India ranked 95 among 183 countries in Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index (CPI).

The study by the international watchdog shows the country's image declining consistently over the past three years. This year, the country scores 3.1 on 10, with 10 being the highest score. In 2007, India was ranked 72 among 180 countries with a score of 3.5. Last year, India was placed at 87.


The CPI ranks countries based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be and is a composite index that draws on data and studies by a number of specialised international agencies through a complex process.

New Zealand is at the top spot with a score of 9.5 followed by Finland and Denmark. The countries that occupy the bottom ranks in the index are Somalia, North Korea, Myanmar and Afghanistan, which are helmed in by unstable governments and conflicts.

The rank of India is down because of major scams, arrests of influential people over corruption and a movement for a Lokpal stealing headlines in India.