DuggBack - Mirrors and Caches of popular Digg stories The Indian Express Columnists The special Prevention of Atrocities Act court on Thursday convicted a Mumbai-based columnist for making casteist comments in an editorial article written for a Mumbai tabloid in 2006. Anish Trivedi, a writer and a columnist for Mid-Day, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and slapped with a fine of Rs 25,000. The case pertains to an April 30, 2006 article in the tabloid in which Trivedi wrote about the "bad condition of government offices" and attributed this to the policy of reservation. Trivedi's column entitled 'Children of a Lesser God' blamed caste-based reservations as a primary reason for the poor condition of government offices. While a case was registered with the Bhoiwada police station, the police also made the editors of the publication accused in the case. All accused were booked under several sections of the Scheduled Caste and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. A senior editor of Mid-Day said it was inappropriate for the paper to comment on the case.
The future of the black box flight recorder explored This article was taken from the August 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. They were guarded by silent corpses, the passengers and crew of an Airbus A330 that plummeted to the bottom of the Atlantic in June 2009. For nearly two years, the boxes -- not black, actually, but bright orange -- had lain amid some of the most rugged undersea terrain in the world, 3,500-metre-high mountains rising from the ocean floor, covered with landslides and steep scarps. Until May when an advanced robotic submersible, the Remora 6000, brought the two black boxes from Air France flight 447 to the surface, they were among the world's most sought-after artefacts, the keys to understanding why a state-of-the-art wide-body jet fell out of the sky on a routine flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, killing all 228 aboard.
Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World's Most Ingenious Thief | Wired Magazine The plane slowed and leveled out about a mile aboveground. Up ahead, the Viennese castle glowed like a fairy tale palace. When the pilot gave the thumbs-up, Gerald Blanchard looked down, checked his parachute straps, and jumped into the darkness. He plummeted for a second, then pulled his cord, slowing to a nice descent toward the tiled roof. It was early June 1998, and the evening wind was warm. If it kept cooperating, Blanchard would touch down directly above the room that held the Koechert Diamond Pearl. A couple of days earlier, Blanchard had appeared to be just another twentysomething on vacation with his wife and her wealthy father. The docent began to describe the history of the Koechert Diamond Pearl, better known as the Sisi Star — it was one of many similar pieces specially crafted for Empress Elisabeth to be worn in her magnificently long and lovely braids. Blanchard wasn’t listening. He began to work immediately, videotaping every detail of the star’s chamber.
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Tencent: March of the Penguins It’s hot and crowded in the Shatang Internet Café in the southern coastal city of Shenzhen, where some 300 young factory workers sit amid flickering lights and discarded cigarette packs. At one computer, Zhou Qingqing chats with her boyfriend about 600 miles away in Zhejiang province using QQ, the popular instant messaging software. She interrupts the conversation to play an online game called QQ Dancer, maneuvering a fashionably dressed avatar to the beat of a catchy Chinese pop song. “This is the only game I know how to play,” she says. “It’s easy.” Across the smoky room, not far from one of the No Smoking signs, Yan Huan also has QQ open on two screens, mainly to accrue the loyalty points that come from spending time on the service. Zhou and Yan are both in their own digital worlds, yet like almost everyone else in the cafe, they’re mostly engaged with the products of a single company: Tencent. Tencent is the Internet Goliath you’ve either never heard of or know little about.