13-12-11

- Madras Regiment Centre(MRC), celebrated its 253rd Rising Day recently (Dec 4, 1758) - Robert Clive raised in consequent to the siege of Fort St George by the French - curerntly Only regiment in the IArmy that was not bifurcated after independence.
- Sohan Roy - Director of film 999
- Vineetha and Remya - the two Kerala nurses who sacrificed their lives after saving 8 patients
- Sodium Thiopental (generally used in anaesthesia) - in US used for executions - was exported by Kayem Pharma company due to lack of export controls
- Rajastan Patrika challenged the constitutional validity of Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Other Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 - ---What the notification?----
- Decline in IIP for october - way out is to reduce interest rates and revive consumer durable demand - could worsen in case of declining consumer demand and falling investment
- Industrial o/p registered a -ve growth of 5.1% in October - $33b target set for textiles sector - 21 new integrated textile parks was approved in Oct, 11 - 2100 crore for establishing infrastructure

- Desktop virtualization (sometimes called client virtualization[1]), as a concept, separates a personal computer desktop environment from a physical machine using the client–server model of computing. - NComputing's (a firm for desk virtualisation) solutions are now used by AP, Rajastan, Maharastra in thousands of schools
merits:
-a user uses only 5% of the capacity of a powerful desktop mainly beavuse of the chips
- 50-50% savings in hardware costs, 90% in power saving
demerits:
- limited to basic computing needs

- Rural BPOs become the next tech hub
cos of untapped talent, low employment and operational costs eg: Rural shores has operations in 5 states; big firms trying to tap the talent and set up centres

- LS passed the LIC (Amendment) Bill 2009 on Monday - capital base of the state-owned insurer to R.100Crores on par with private insurers as per IRDA norms.
- Govt ll continue to provide sovereign guarantee (Government's guarantee that an obligation will be satisfied if the primary obligor defaults)
- allows LIC to allocate 90% or more such surplus