Eid Mubarak....!!!!!

Kargil Vijay Diwas

Today is Kargil Vijay Diwas. 
It is observed to commemorate the success of Operation Vijay that ended on July 26,1999, and to pay homage to the 527 soldiers who sacrified their lives during the conflict.

Let us be thankful to those brave Indian soldiers because of whom we are alive today....

JAI HIND....!!!!!

My New Blog

I love traveling a lot. Since childhood I have been to many places in India and few abroad too, mostly with my family.

Here in my blog I’ll share my travel experiences alongwith some important information about those destinations. You may share your experiences which can be helpful to many. I will also try to write posts about other things related to travel which I hope you will like.

Join my new blog  Yun Hi Chala Chal Raahi.....

Great lines by Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam

• "When you speak,speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad..."

• "Conscience is a great ledger where our offences are booked and registered."

Eleven Minutes...

Taj Mahal : The Pride of India

Travellers from across the globe have ranked India's Taj Mahal among the top three landmarks in the world.

The top two places were taken by Machu Picchu in Peru and Angkor Wat in Cambodia respectively.

Some facts about our Taj Mahal:

Before his accession to the throne, Shah Jahan was popularly known as Prince Khurram.

Shah Jahan fell in love with the beautiful Arjumand Bano Begum and married her, making her his third wife.Arjumand Bano Begum was christened by Shah Jahan as Mumtaz Mahal, meaning the “Chosen One Of The Palace” or “Jewel of the Palace”.
Shah Jahan lost Mumtaz Mahal, when she died giving birth to their 14th child.
For the transportation of the construction materials, more than 1,000 elephants were employed.
As many as 28 different varieties of semi-precious and precious stones were used to adorn the Taj with exquisite inlay work.
Depending on what time of the day it is and whether or not there’s moon at night, Taj Mahal appears to be of different color every time. Some even believe that this changing pattern of colors depict different moods of a woman.
Passages from Quran have been used as decorative elements throughout the complex.
On the sides of the actual tomb of Mumtaz Mahal, 99 names of Allah can be found as calligraphic inscriptions.
Taj Mahal was built in stages, with the plinth and the tomb taking up roughly 15 years. Building of minarets, mosque, jawab, and gateway took additional 5 years to be completed.
Different types of marbles used in construction of Taj Mahal were brought over from many different regions & countries: Rajasthan, Punjab, China, Tibet, Afghanistan, Srilanka, & Arabia.
Many precious stones and Lapis Lazuli (a semi-precious stone) were ripped off from its walls by the Britishers during the Indian rebellion of 1857.Taj Mahal attracts 2-4 million visitors annually with over 200,000 from overseas.

Transferring large files to an external drive

 There were times when our files used to be in Kbs & MBs and pen drives had 512MB or 1-2GB of space. But now in the times of Full HD & BluRay videos and graphic intensive games all this has changed. Now 3D BluRay movies are in the range of 10-15GB.

Today we also have high capacity pen drives in the market even upto 1TB. Though you can store lots of data in these pen drives but you can't transfer a single large file (more than 4GB) in most of these even if you have lots of free space. You get a message 'There is not enough free space' or some other error message.
If you have experienced this, the most probable reason is that your external drive is formatted with FAT32 system. In this, size of each individual file cannot exceed 4 GB.

SOLUTION: It is quite simple. Just format your external disk to NTFS file system, and you are done!!! BUT before doing so don't forget to save the data from your drive as it will all get deleted during the formatting.
NTFS is a journaled file system and MAY decrease life expectancy of your device. So you MUST use "Safely Remove Hardware" to remove your device.

FOR MAC USERS:
Mac computers can read NTFS, but not write.
Mac users have to format the device to exFAT file system. exFAT is a new file system that allows files larger than 4GB to be stored.
Windows 7 is also compatible with exFAT. Older OS may need some upgradation to use exFAT.

Finally we have a proper Air Ambulance...

 India's first state-of-the art Air Ambulance, Flying Doctors India, has been launched in the national capital.

The new aircraft is tailor-made and equipped with a state-of-the-art Intensive Care Unit on a dedicated chartered aircraft. The goal is to provide critical care even when a patient is in transit.

"Earlier whenever we got a call, we would take a private aircraft, tape off the chairs and fit our equipment in. It was basically a 'jugaad' (temporary fix) of sorts. Now we have a dedicated air-ambulance ready for all emergency services," Dr Naresh Trehan of Medanta Medicity told NDTV.

With the air ambulance, flying doctors has taken a leap. The response time now is just 20 to a maximum of 90 minutes. Doctors say earlier it would take three hours just to prepare the aircraft.

Another timesaver is the aircraft's longer endurance level of upto seven-and-a-half hours unlike earlier when the aircraft would have to stop after 3 hours for refueling. 

"This could perhaps mean a matter of life or death for a patient," Dr Trehan says. 

However, Dr Trehan says hiring the aircraft it still not cheap. It can cost at least Rs. 50,000 per hour 

The aircraft can cater to patients even in smaller cities with the air ambulance having rough field capability which means it can land even on unprepared air strips.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/india-s-state-of-the-art-air-ambulance-376826

Back to the 90's....

Interesting thing about Thursday in
2013.
4/4/2013 Thursday
6/6/2013 Thursday
8/8/2013 Thursday
10/10/2013 Thursday
12/12/2013 Thursday.
Jo calendr 1991 ka tha,
............ wahi,,,
Calendar 2013 ka hai,
Date & Day...even Festivals
are same, Kaun kehta hai,
Ki, ................
Guzra hua waqt wapas nahi aata??.
...Enjoy the year of 1991 in 2013....!
So
We are back in the 90s....
GDP is back to 5%, Dalmiya is back
in BCCI, Murthy is back in Infosys,
Nawaz Sharif is back in Pakistan,
Madhuri is back in bollywood &
Sanjay Dutt is back in Jail