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TATA motors launches the cheapest car in the world “TATA Nano� tagged at Rs.1 lakh without taxes. The car was unveiled at Pragati maidan in New Delhi in mid of much funfare.
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Virgin Galactic has released the final design of the launch system that will take farepaying passengers into space. It is based on the X-Prize-winning SpaceShipOne concept - a rocket ship that is lifted initially by a carrier plane before blasting skywards. The Virgin system is essentially a refinement, but has been increased in size to take eight people at a time on a sub-orbital trip, starting in 2010.
Snow fell first time in a century in Baghdad, Iraq.
MESSENGER, a NASA mission, flies by Mercury, the second spacecraft to do so and the first in thirty-three years. It flew within 200 kms of the planet and if everything goes to the plan MESSENGER will be in the orbit of Mars by 2011.
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Academy Awards:
No Country For Old Men wins the Academy Award for Best Picture while the Coen Brothers win the Academy Award for Directing. Marion Cotillard wins the Academy Award for best actress for her portrayal of Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, while Daniel Day-Lewis takes home the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in There Will Be Blood.
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17 FEB ::On 17th February Kosovo declared it's independence from Serbia. Kosovo's parliament unanimously endorsed the declaration of independence from Serbia. Germany was the first country to recognize Kosovo asa separate nation and till 5th Dec 52 nations have recognized kosovo's independence.
A Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 becomes the first commercial aircraft to make a flight powered by biofuel flying between Heathrow and Amsterdam. The biofuel used was a 20 percent biofuel mix of coconut and babassu oil.
India wins the Commonwealth Bank series in Australia. A Newspaper heading next day in Austraian newspaper read “The Goliath was brought down by the unassuming visitors”.And the scorecard of this historic match for Indian’s read “CB Triangular Series, Brisbane, 2nd final: India 258-9 (50 overs) bt Australia 249 (49.4 overs) by nine runs”.
The price of gold reached a record, trading at $1,000 an ounce for the first time, pushed higher by a weak US dollar and fears about the US economy.
Jules Verne, the first of ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATVs), a new series of autonomous spaceships designed to resupply and reboost the International Space Station (ISS), was successfully launched into low Earth orbit by an Ariane 5 vehicle which later docked with ISS to supply 28 tonnes of payload.
A chunk of ice the size of the Isle of Man has started to break away from Antarctica in what scientists say is further evidence of a warming climate. Satellite images suggest that part of the ice shelf is disintegrating, and will soon crumble away. The Wilkins Ice Shelf has been stable for most of the last century, but began retreating in the 1990s. 102.5 km² was the size of the shelf which broke off from a 14,000 km² ice shelf.
HP Labs announces the creation of the memristor, at times described as the fourth basic electronic element. The memristor was first predicted in 1971 by Leon Chua. The discovery may have a tremendous impact on computing and electronics, joining the other basic electronic elements the resistor, capacitor, and inductor. Memristor theory was formulated and named by Leon Chua in a 1971 paper. Chua strongly believed that a fourth device existed to provide conceptual symmetry with the resistor, inductor, and capacitor.
For more than 450 years Sark stood alone as one of Europe's last bastions of feudal law,on 9th April Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council approves changes to the system of government on Sark, ending about 450 years of feudalism on the Channel Island.
The passenger train service between Calcutta in India and the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, has resumed after an interval of more than 40 years. Trains travelled in both directions on Monday - the first service since the 1965 war between India and Pakistan.
Danica Patrick becomes the first woman to win a race in any top-flight American motor racing series with her victory in IndyCar's 2008 Indy Japan 300.
The nineteenth deadliest earthquake of all time, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake which measured at 8.0 M on Richter Scale occurred at 06:28:01.42 UTC on May 12, 2008 in Sichuan province of China and by any name killed at least 69,000 less than three months before China hosted the world in the 2008 Summer Olympics. The earthquake hit only hours after the Olympic Torch was carried through the city. Executive vice governor, Wei Hong, on November 21, 2008 confirmed that 19,065 identified schoolchildren died, and more than 90,000 lives were dead or missing in the earthquake. He stated that 200,000 homes had been rebuilt, and 685,000 were under reconstruction, but 1.94 million households were still without permanent shelter. 1,300 schools had been reconstructed, with initial relocation of 25 townships, including Beichuan and Wenchuan, 2 of the most devastated areas. The government spent $441 billion dollars on relief and reconstruction efforts.
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Usain Bolt of Jamaica sets a new world record for the 100 metres in athletics in the Reebok Grand Prix at Icahn Stadium in New York City at 9.72 seconds. He lowered the previous best held by compatriot Asafa Powell, who three times ran 9.74secs.
Rafael Nadal wins the men's singles title at the 2008 French Open for the fourth year in a row, equalling Bjorn Borg's record.
Almost a year after upending the mobile-phone world with its first wireless handset, the iPhone, Apple unveiled a souped-up second version of the device, the iPhone 3G.
IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory have built the world's first petaflop machine, a supercomputer named Roadrunner designed to ensure the safety and reliability of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile.
Robert Mugabe sworn in as for the sixth time as the president of Zimbabwe. Official results showed he won 2,150,269 votes against 233,000 for opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who boycotted the election but whose name still appeared on ballot papers.
Ram Baran Yadav was sworn in as Nepal's first President. Yadav was sworn in as President on July 23, 2008.
The United Progressive Alliance led government in India survives a crucial no-confidence vote based on disagreements between Indian National Congress and Left Front over the Indo-US nuclear deal. Cash for Vote scam figures.
A suicide car bomber strikes outside the Indian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, with at least 41 people killed. A series of seven bomb blasts rock Bangalore killing 2 and injuring 20. A series of bomb blasts in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, kills 30 and injures over 100 people.
Rafael Nadal defeated Roger Federer by 6-4, 6-4,6-7 (5), 6-7 (8), 9-7 in the longest and historic final in Wimbledon history. No man since 1927 had come back to win a Wimbledon final after losing the first two sets, and none had overcome a match point to seize victory since 1948. "Probably my hardest loss, by far," Federer said. "I mean, it's not much harder than this right now."
The Dark Knight sets a new record for box office receipts for an opening weekend in the United States with US$158.4 million earned between Friday and Sunday.
The third launch of privately developed SpaceX launcher Falcon 1 fails to reach orbit.
The 2008 Summer Olympics starts with the 2008 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony at the Beijing National Stadium . Michael Phelps surpasses Mark Spitz in Olympic Gold Medals won at a single Olympics, with 8 gold medals. For India, Shooter Abhinav Bindra wins gold in the 10-metre air rifle event at the Beijing Olympics. He becomes the first Indian to win an individual gold medal. India bags a gold medal after 28 years. Wrestler Sushil Kumar bags a bronze at the Olympics. Boxer Vijender Singh wins the bronze at the Olympics.
Nuclear Suppliers Group clears Indo-US nuclear deal.
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The United States federal government places mortgage financing companies Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae into conservatorship. The Federal Housing Finance Agency will manage the companies on a temporary basis. Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after British bank Barclays and Bank of America pull out of emergency talks on a buyout. Bank of America negotiates to buy Merrill Lynch for $38.25 billion in stock. The American International Group seeks an emergency $40 billion loan from the United States Federal Reserve. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the two last remaining independent investment banks on Wall Street, become bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis.
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Shenzhou 7, the third manned Chinese spaceflight, is successfully launched with three crew members, with a planned first Chinese spacewalk.
Serena Williams defeats Jelena JankoviĂŚ to win the U.S. Open for the third time, regaining the World Number 1 ranking for the first time in five years. Roger Federer defeats Andy Murray to win the U.S. Tennis Open for a record-breaking fifth consecutive time.
CERN successfully circulates a beam through the entire Large Hadron Collider for the first time. The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva was later shut down until the northern spring while engineers probe magnet failures.
Nobel Prizes for 2008 Announced Physiology or Medicine : Harald zur Hausen of Germany Nobel Prize in Physics : Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi and Nobel Prize in Chemistry : Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien Nobel Prize in Literature : French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le ClĂŠzio Nobel peace prize : Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari.
Sachin Tendulkar becomes the highest aggregate run scorer in Test cricket and the first to pass 12,000 in scoring 88 during the second test against Australia at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in Mohali.
Indian novelist Aravind Adiga wins the Man Booker Prize for his debut The White Tiger. The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launches Chandrayaan-1, the country's first unmanned lunar exploration mission.
Barrack Obama Promises CHANGE The United States presidential election of 2008 was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. Democrat Barack Obama, the junior United States Senator from Illinois, won decisively, defeating Republican Party nominee, John McCain, the senior United States Senator from Arizona.
India wins the BorderG a v a s k a r Tr o p h y b y defeating Australia 2-0 in the five-Test-match cricket series. Former India captain Sourav Ganguly retires from international cricket.
MUMBAI ATTACKED: The November 2008 Mumbai attacks were a series of ten coordinated terrorist attacks across Mumbai, India's financial capital and its largest city. The attacks, carried out by Pakistani terrorists using automatic weapons and grenades, began on 26 November 2008 and ended on 29 November 2008. At least 173 people were killed and at least 308 were injured in the attacks. India's home minister Shivraj Patil submitted his resignation, taking "moral responsibility" for the Mumbai attacks.
NASA successfully tests the first deep-space communications protocol to pave the way for Interplanetary Internet. India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar exploration mission successfully completes its journey to the Moon, entering its intended operational orbit 100 kilometers (62 mi) above the surface.
Al-Baghdadia TV journalist Muntadhar al Zaidi is subdued after throwing both his shoes at United States President George W. Bush during his farewell speech in Iraq.
The Oberoi Trident and Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotels in Mumbai reopen less than a month after the November terrorist attacks.
Inaugural Twenty20 Champion League cancelled in the wake of Mumbai terror attacks. India's tour to Pakistan called off.
Israel initiates a series of airstrikes against the Gaza Strip, killing at least 375 (including at least 60 civilians) and wounding over 1,700.
Scientists say they have found evidence for water vapour and in the atmosphere of the extrasolar planet HD. 189733 b.
MIT says it has succeeded in using radio waves to mix 50,000,000 째C at its Alcator C-Mod fusion reactor.
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Best five: Softwares and websites by Utkarsh Software: 1.
Grand Theft Auto IV
The latest title in the Grand Theft Auto series was released in April 2008, breaking all records with sales of 3.6 million units on the first day of its release. One of the most popular action-adventure video games ever, the game is set in Liberty City, a fictional city based on New York. 2.
Google Chrome
The open-source Webkit-based web browser developed by Google didn't capture the browser market on the first day of its release, but it did generate a lot of interest. Chrome aims to be faster, friendlier and more stable than other browsers. It looks promising, and its future releases may give serious competition to Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer.
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Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)
If you installed Linux a few years ago, and gave up on it, thinking it was a toy for nerds, it's time to try the latest release of Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu 8.10, codenamed Intrepid Ibex, has wowed novices and expert Linux users alike. You can use the freely available Ubuntu Live CD to try the open-source operating system without actually installing it.
World Record with over 8 million unique downloads on the day it was released. The first choice of the most computer-savvy people, the latest major release of the Firefox is friendlier and faster. WorldWide Telescope 5.
categories such as mobile phones, laptops, digital cameras, Mp3 players, washing machines etc., and compare their features and prices. Apart from helping you to make the best buying decision, it also features buying advice, upcoming product launches and howtos.
Microsoft Research's WorldWide Telescope (WWT) turns your computer into a virtual telescope, enabling you to view the outer space. WWT uses images taken from the Hubble Space Telescope and about ten earth-bound telescopes. Announced in February 2008 at the TED conference, WWT is said to have 1.5 million active users.
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Websites: 1.
Jaago re! One Billion Votes
Probably the most influential Indian website of the year, jaagore.com aims to awaken and enable the citizens of India, especially the youth, to vote. Jaago re! One Billion Votes is a nonprofit, nonpartisan campaign supported by Janagraha and Tata Tea. The website provides the potential voters all the information and facilitation they need to register for voting. 2.
Stack Overflow
A free programming Q & A site that's a cross between a forum, a wiki and a social networking site. No matter what programming language or OS you use, you can find good answers to every imaginable programming question here. 3. compareindia
Mozilla Firefox 3 A Network18 venture, this website aims to India's one-stop destination to electronic products. You Released in June 2008, Mozilla Firefox 3 set a Guinness can select a wide range of products from a 4.
TATA NEN Hottest Startups
Pa t ro n i z e d b y TATA a n d t h e N a t i o n a l Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), the TATA NEN Hottest Startup Awards website showcases the crème de la crème of the Indian startups. 5.
eBay India Census 2008
“A fun way of knowing the hottest products that everyone is buying; business opportunities as a seller and the top communities when it comes to buying and selling online."
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