Ticking Heartbeats

Internet Explorer 8 is moving out of beta: The final version will be available today at noon ET. The new browser is packed with new features and improved security features, and early reviews and impressions have been largely positive. I am sure many of you will want to get your hands on the new browser and maybe some of you are hoping to switch over to IE8 as your browser of choice. Whatever your motivations, here are 5 things you need to know about IE8's release today. Manual Download Only: You can get IE8 only by going to www.microsoft.com/ie8 or Microsoft's Download Center . Microsoft has not specified when it will push IE8 through the Windows Update service, although IE8 beta users will see an IE8 Windows Update before the general public does. No Windows 7 version yet: If you're using the Windows 7 Beta you'll have to stick with IE8 Release Candidate 1 for now. Microsoft won't confirm when the final version of IE8 will be available for Windows 7, but it...

  INDIA’S SELF DENIAL Prologue Why is it that Indians, particularly its elite - the intelligentsia, the journalists, the writers, the top bureaucrats, the diplomats - hold an image of themselves which is often negative, and have a tendency to run down their own country ? The self-perception that Indians have of themselves, is frequently detrimental to their self-confidence. This is particularly striking amongst Indian journalists, who always seem to look at India through a western prism and constantly appear to worry how the foreign press views India , how the foreign countries - particularly the United States of America - perceive India , what the Human Right agencies say about India ... Thus, when one reads certain Indian magazines, one has the impression that they could be written by foreign journalists, because not only do they tend to look at India in a very critical manner, but often, there is nothing genuinely Indian in their contents, no references to India’s past g...

  Guest Blog Dr. Subramanian Swamy Dr. Subramanian Swamy was born in 1939 in Chennai. He got PhD in Economics from Harvard University at the age of 24. He taught Economics at the IIT Delhi from 1969. He was elected to the Parliament 5 times from Mumbai, U.P and Tamil Nadu between 1974-99. He served as Union Commerce and Law minister in the early 1990s. He is instrumental in fighting for the cause of preventing the destruction of Rama Sethu bridge. On many issues of national importance in India, Dr. Subramanian Swamy has been ahead of the time and always proved right, whether it is market economy, liberalization, improvement of relations with Israel and China. Even on the present Economic Scene in India Dr. Swamy had predicted in 2007 that the Sensex would go below 9000. He is noted for his consistent stance against the LTTE. He has been the President of Janata Party since 1990. Recently there has been some hectic efforts by some Tamil Nadu parties to get the Government of...