TN: 5 killed as lorry falls into gorge
TN: 5 killed as lorry falls into gorge ERODE: Five persons, including two children, died and 31 others sustained serious injuries when a lorry in which they were travelling from Andhiyur to Bargur Hill turned turtle at Thalakarai on Wednesday evening.The victims were identified as Manikandan (9), son of Madappan, Nandini (2), daughter of Rajan, Madammal (40), wife of Karuppasamy, all from Thalakarai, and Gurusamy (30) and Chinnathambi (45) of Thoppur Colony, Andhiyur.In the list of injured were 16 women, including two kids. Most of them were farm workers and tribals. The lorry driver-cum-owner Sakthi (25), of Bargur, was secured by police. He had reportedly jumped out of the lorry and escaped.Bus services to the Bargur Hill from Andhiyur had been erratic forcing people to travel atop vans and sand laden lorries. The few buses the ply between the two destinations are usually packed with people, forcing many passengers to [...]
Well: Does Facebook Turn People Into Narcissists?
Well: Does Facebook Turn People Into Narcissists? HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 20:50:36 GMT Server: Apache Vary: Cookie Last-Modified: Thu, 17 May 2012 20:50:18 +0000 Cache-Control: max-age=222, must-revalidate Set-Cookie: RMID=007f01003326955a4369003b; Expires=Fri, 17 May 2013 20:50:17 GMT; Path=/; X-Pingback: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/xmlrpc.php Link: ; rel=shortlink Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Well: Does Facebook Turn People Into Narcissists? Incoming search terms:does facebook turn people into narcissists?well: does facebook turn people into narcissists?
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Indians’ affinity for gold pushing country into debt
Indians’ affinity for gold pushing country into debt MUMBAI — Kumar Jain’s small shop in Zaveri Bazaar, Mumbai’s labyrinthine jewelry district, has the feverish atmosphere of a Wall Street trading room. Women wave calculators, quote the latest global gold prices and haggle fiercely over bangles laid out on velvet trays. These buyers are thinking about finance rather than finery. “Money can change value,” said Jain, as he watched his shop assistants and customers do battle. “But when you have gold, no one can cheat you.” In India, the world’s biggest annual bullion importer, gold jewelry plays a central role in weddings and festivals. But its main appeal is as an investment favored by both rich and poor. India imported 933 metric tons of gold for private consumers last year, a 35 percent rise over five years and just under a quarter of global demand, according to the World Gold Council. [...]
Guys have the edge going into ‘Idol’ finale
Guys have the edge going into ‘Idol’ finale By Craig Berman, TODAY.com contributor Michael Becker / FOX Will Phillip Phillips, Jessica Sanchez or Joshua Ledet get cut? It’s hard to tell this season who’ll make the final two. In most years, the penultimate week of “American Idol” serves to finally eliminate the interloper, the singer who’s clearly at a disadvantage compared to the top two. Last year it was Haley Reinhart, whose exit paved the way for the Scotty McCreery-Lauren Alaina finale that everyone expected, and Casey James ceded the floor to Lee DeWyze and Crystal Bowersox in season nine. (Hey, it made sense at the time.) In most other “Idol” seasons, by the time we got to the middle of May, everyone knew who the two favorites were. That’s not true in season 11. And while a gambler would probably lay the odds on a Joshua Ledet-Phillip Phillips final [...]
FBI initiates probe into JPMorgan trading loss
FBI initiates probe into JPMorgan trading loss US investigative agency FBI on Wednesday initiated a probe into the over $ 2 billion trading loss incurred by investment bank JPMorgan. The move comes hours after two separate lawsuits by shareholders were filed against the bank, accusing the bank and its management of excessive risk that led to trading losses of at least $ 2 billion. A spokesman for JPMorgan Chase declined to comment on the lawsuits, which were filed in US District Court in Manhattan, days after chief executive Jamie Dimon’s May 10 statement that a “failed hedging strategy” caused the massive loss over the last month. “What the company did not reveal was that those losses were the result of a marked shift in the company’s allowable risk model, undisclosed to investors, and the similarly clandestine conversion of a unit within the company that was touted as providing a conservative [...]
Vehicle falls into gorge in Doda, 10 injured
Vehicle falls into gorge in Doda, 10 injured Jammu: Ten persons were injured, two of them critically, when a vehicle fell into a deep gorge in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir this morning, police said here. The vehicle was on its way to Doda city, when it skidded off the road and rolled down into a gorge near Marmat, they said. In the mishap, Mohmmad Aslam and retired Assistant Sub-Inspector John Mohmmad were critically injured, they said, adding, all the injured were admitted to hospital. PTI First Published: Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 12:28 Vehicle falls into gorge in Doda, 10 injured
Indonesian searchers find ‘black box’ from Russian passenger jet that slammed into volcano
Indonesian searchers find ‘black box’ from Russian passenger jet that slammed into volcano JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesian special forces have found the cockpit voice recorder from a Russian passenger jet that smashed into the side of a volcano, killing 45 people. The recording of the plane’s veteran pilots could help explain what caused the crash. The “black box,” collected from the bottom of a 500-meter (1,500-foot) ravine, was shattered and badly burned, Tatang Kurniadi, who heads the National Commission on Safety Commission, said Wednesday. It had contained both a voice recorder and a flight data recorder, but the latter device remains missing, he said. The Sukhoi Superjet 100 — Russia’s first passenger jet model since the fall of the Soviet Union two decades ago — was being demonstrated for potential buyers when it roared into Mount Salak at 800 kph (480 mph) one week ago and exploded. Debris from the [...]
Justice Dept. launches criminal probe into JPMorgan’s $2B trading loss
Justice Dept. launches criminal probe into JPMorgan’s B trading loss The Justice Department has initiated a criminal probe into the $ 2 billion trading loss at JPMorgan Chase, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the situation. The inquiry is at a very early stage, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the matter is private. It is unclear what laws may have been violated. Dean Boyd, a Justice spokesperson, declined to comment. Video Richard Bove, an analyst at Rochdale Securities, talks about the outlook for JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the firm’s $ 2 billion trading loss. Video U.S. Senator Bob Corker, a Republican from Tennessee, talks about his call for the Senate Banking Committee to hold a hearing on JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s $ 2 billion trading loss. The news came as Jamie Dimon, the embattled chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, faced questions from [...]
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Facebook Needs to Turn Data Trove Into Investor Gold
Facebook Needs to Turn Data Trove Into Investor Gold Ryan Anson/Bloomberg Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook. The company has a huge amount of data about its users, who cannot seem to stay away from the site. SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief, has managed to amass more information about more people than anyone else in history. Now what? As Facebook turns to Wall Street in the biggest public offering ever by an Internet company, it faces a new, unenviable test: how to keep growing and enriching its hungry new shareholders. The answer lies in what Facebook will be able to do — and how quickly — with its crown jewel: its status as an online directory for a good chunk of the human race, with the names, photos, tastes and desires of nearly a billion people. Already, lots of investors are scrambling to buy Facebook shares, with [...]
Contracts Help Private Sector Edge Deeper Into Space
Contracts Help Private Sector Edge Deeper Into Space Scott Audette/Reuters SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force station in Florida in 2010. It sounds like a routine event for NASA: At 4:55 a.m. on Saturday, a rocket is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and carry cargo — but no people — to the International Space Station. But if all goes as planned, that morning will mark something transformative for the space industry: a victory for capitalism in what has been for decades a government-run enterprise. The capsule, built by Space Exploration Technologies Corporation — SpaceX, for short — would be the first commercial spacecraft to make it to the space station, and many observers view its launching as the starting gun in an entrepreneurial race to turn space travel into a profit-making business in which NASA is not necessarily the biggest customer. [...]
