Government (or Sonia) finally introduced the Women’s 33% reservation bill and it was approved by RS. The path forward isn’t straightforward as it would need 66% majority in Lok Sabha as it is a Constitutional Amendment. At the same time Mulayam Singh’s Samajwadi Party has asked for Muslim reservation within Women’s reservation. BJP has naturally opposed it. This has raised Muslim reservation issue once again.
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Google should be congratulated on taking such a tough stance against China. As announced on Google Blogs on 22 March, Google Inc. has closed down its China (People’s Republic of China referred as PRC here onwards) portal www.google.cn and has started redirecting visitors to www.google.hk, its Hong Kong portal. Google had earlier declared that it will stop censoring search results in China and this decision is in line with implementing its promise.
PRC has always put several restrictions on MNCs operating in the country. One of most bitter is the censorship. Since China remains world’s biggest Internet markets, U.S. companies have always accepted these restrictions and rules. Google also had (unwillingly?) abided by search censorship rules so far, against to its own policy of compromising search results. This included blocking search keywords for words blacklisted by PRC. Read more…
Microsoft is a supporter of the jQuery JavaScript Library. Currently, Microsoft is shipping it with Visual Studio and ASP.NET MVC. Microsoft also builds features making it easier for ASP.NET developers to create rich standards-based web application using the jQuery JavaScript Library. At MIX10, Microsoft announced that it will take a more active role participating in the open-source, community-driven development of the jQuery JavaScript Library. Microsoft will work in concert with the jQuery JavaScript Library team to accelerate the creation of new features designed to simplify and expedite the creation of rich-web applications on any platform. Microsoft’s latest deliverable to the community creating the jQuery JavaScript Library is to propose a powerful templating feature that makes it easier for developers to build client-side, data-driven web applications.
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o Today, with the combination of Windows Phone 7 Series, Silverlight, the XNA Framework, Visual Studio, Expression Blend and Windows Phone Marketplace, developers have the richest, most productive development tools and platform for creating and deploying high performance, compelling mobile applications.
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