16 of the Most Memorable Google Doodles

16 OF THE MOST MEMORABLE GOOGLE DOODLES

On Friday, 21 May 2010, on the 30th anniversary of the arcade game Pac-Man, Google unveiled worldwide their first interactive logo. Anyone who visited Google could play Pac-Man on the logo, which featured the letters of the word 'Google' on the Pac-Man maze. The logo also mimicked the sounds the original arcade game made. The "I'm Feeling Lucky" button was replaced with an "Insert Coin" button. Pressing this once enabled you to play the Pac-Man logo. Pressing it once more added a second player, Ms. Pac-Man, enabling 2 players to play at once, controlled using the W,A,S,D keys, instead of the arrows as used by Player 1. Pressing it for a third time performed an "I'm Feeling Lucky" search. It was then removed on Sunday, May 23, 2010, initially replacing Pac-Man with the normal logo. Later on that day, Google released a permanent Google Pac-Man site, due to the popular user demand for the playable logo.

Five blue dots, three red dots, three yellow dots, four blue, three green and two red: yes, it's Google spelled out in Braille. This was issued on 4 January 2006, in celebration of the 197th birthday of Louis Braille, who invented the embossed-point alphabet for blind and visually impaired people.

 

Google's August 29th logo celebrated Michael Jackson's birthday a couple of months after his death. The two Os in Google were replaced with two feet, en Pointe, wearing patent leather shoes and shiny white socks below slightly-too-short trousers.

In 2009, Google marked the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street with a new 'doodle' featuring the programme's Cookie Monster. Users of Google in the UK, France and Canada were greeted with the hungry blue character's familiar 'googly eyes' in honour of the programme's four decades on air. 

The UFOs in Google's logo were designed to mark the 143rd birthday of author HG Wells. Although Google regularly uses its doodles to mark significant events, anniversaries and notable dates, it usually does so explicitly. This was the first time Google has used a series of mysterious logos to build up to an event, although the search page today shows a new Google doodle to mark Wells' birthday which takes web users straight through to a list of web pages related to the author.  

In 2010, Frida Kahlo's 103rd birthday was celebrated with a Google doodle  

Google's Doodle for world cup 2010 final with the 3 most important elements of that day: Spain, Netherlands and Octopus Paul  

This doodle that appeared online in Sept 2010 was meant to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Flintstones.  

This logo was featured on December 12, 2006 (Edvard Munch's Birthday). Featuring "The Scream," this composition was created by Munch and is said by some to symbolize the human species overwhelmed by an attack of existential angst.  

On Friday, October 8, 2010, to mark what would have been the day before the 70th birthday of John Lennon, a 32-second "Video doodle" appeared on the google homepage. The "E" of google was shaped like a play button. The video was a simple animation that was accompanied by Lennon's song "Imagine."  

20th anniversary of the Wallace and Gromit Characters.  

Google unveiled this logo to celebrate the 400th anniversary since Galileo Galilei, the Italian astronomer, showed Venetian merchants his new creation, a telescope.  

Google's Doodle for Charles Darwin's 200th Birthday, in celebration of the discoveries and life of Charles Darwin, the scientist and naturalist who first described biological evolution via natural selection.  

The 213th anniversary of the birth of Mary Shelley, the British author of Frankenstein, was marked by a very unusual Google doodle of a darkened room with ghostly portraits on the wall and a shadowy figure in a doorway.

On March 2010, the Pi Day, 3.14 was celebrated by math nerds and Google, worldwide. Having been conspicuously missing from Google's ever-growing repertoire of special-event doodles for years, Google finally relented and unleashed its inner nerd, not that it tried to hide it too hard in the past. And, perhaps to make up for all the years it skipped, Google went all out this time and showed off six common uses of the famous number. The Pi Day Google logo starts off with the formula everyone knows (?) for the area of a circle A = πr2, but goes on with some more advanced stuff. The two 'os' in Google are used to represent the sin(x) function over a 2π period.

On Thursday, April 1, 2010, Google jokingly changed their name (and logo) to "Topeka" for a day in response to the city of Topeka; Topeka, Kansas, had unofficially changed its name to Google for the previous month.

SINGAM PULI

'Singam Puli'

Directed by Sai Ramani, 'Singam Puli' stars Jiiva, Divya Spandana, Soundarya, Santhanam, Livingston and Lakshmi Ramakrishnan.

"The film features a unique style of scripting, and viewers will love one character while hating the other. One is a fisherman and the other, a lawyer. Jiiva has done both roles wonderfully. And no, the two are not long-lost brothers; they just happen to be lookalikes," says director Sai Ramani.

 

Citibank faces huge liability in fraud case; settlement seen

Citibank faces huge liability in fraud case; settlement seen

Citibank faces a significant liability from the Rs. 300-400-crore loss incurred by high net-worth customers. The loss followed a massive fraud allegedly committed by Shivaraj Puri, a relationship manager at the bank’s Gurgaon branch.

According to the Reserve Bank of India's customer service circular, banks need to have their own policies for compensating customers for erroneous debits due to fraudulence. Since every bank has its own policy, it is open to interpretation. Little wonder, then, that litigation is the only way out.

Citibank India's compensation policy says the following: "In case of any fraud, if the bank is convinced that an irregularity/fraud has been committed by its staff towards any constituent, the bank will at once acknowledge its liability and pay the just claim. In cases where the bank is at fault, we will compensate the customer without demur."

Pervez M Rustomkhan, a lawyer with the Mumbai High Court, said: "This paragraph of the compensation policy, along with the fact that the first information report was filed by the bank's Assistant Vice-President Binu Soman, it is clear that the bank has acknowledged the fraud. This also means that there will be civil liability on Citibank."
However, there will be no criminal liability on the bank because the fraud has allegedly been committed by Puri.

But the term 'just claim' is what could take matters to court. Lawyers said that while a court can only decide on the 'just claim', the bank might opt for an out-of-court settlement.

According to customer activist and lawyer Jehangir Gai, the customers -- all 20 of them -- may have to be fully compensated. "If customers handed over a self-cheque to Puri to invest on their behalf, Citi would not have been liable. But if they were sold 'so-called' bank-approved schemes, or entered into a contract with the bank that their representative can invest the money on the bank's behalf, the bank will be liable for its employee," he said.

What could help matters is that the money has been invested through brokerage houses. Senior Citibank officials told Business Standard that since there was a money trail, there could be recoveries. But the main cause of concern was the damage to the bank's reputation.

Reports suggest that the police have recovered Rs 3.85 crore of the duped money. Some of the accounts that Puri opened were in the names of relatives Premnath, Sheela and Deeksha in the Gurgaon branch of Citibank.

Two days after the Gurgaon police unearthed the Citibank financial fraud, the prime accused, Shivraj Puri, was arrested on Thursday. The police have yet not revealed how they managed to find him. Even though the city police have formed 40 teams to investigate the case, rough estimates indicate that the fraud could be more than Rs 300 crore.

Source: Business Standard

After Nano, Modi to drive Hyundai to Guj

After Nano, Modi to drive Hyundai to Guj

 

India's second largest carmaker Hyundai Motors has evinced interest in setting up a manufacturing facility in Gujarat, and its officials have visited a site at Dholera near here, which was suggested by the state officials.

The Korean carmaker may well have succumbed to the corporate charm of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi whose no-nonsense approach in his industrial policy has offered great opportunities to companies.

"A delegation from Hyundai Motors have visited a site in Dohlera 10 days ago as suggested by our department for their new plant," a top industry department official said on the condition of anonymity.

"After the site visit they have shown interest in setting up the plant here, but nothing is final yet," officials said.

The company officials who had visited Dholera will now be submitting its recommendations to the company board. Its board will be taking a final decision in this regard, he said.

They might also be exploring options in other states for setting up a manufacturing plant, he further said.

Dholera, is a special investment region (SIR) in the state spread across 80,000 hectares of land and falls near the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC). It is located just 90 kms from the city where the state government has decided to set up second international airport of the state also.

Hyundai Motors had announced that it will invest Rs 400 crore over the next three years to set up a diesel engine manufacturing plant in India with an installed capacity of 1.5 lakh units per annum. The plant is expected to go on stream by 2013-14.

Presently, the company imports its diesel engines from Korea for its models such as 'i20' and 'Verna'. With this proposed plant it will not have to import engines.

Hyundai Motors already has two manufacturing plants in India located at Sriperumputhur in state of Tamil Nadu, where it is looking to expand its production capacity by next year.

The company also has plans to roll out three new models in 2011. It had sold 5.6 lakh units in 2009 and is targeting to sell 6.3 lakh units in 2011.

Recently, Car maker Ford had consulted the Gujarat officials to set up its second manufacturing facility in India, as it gears up to introduce eight new products by 2015.

Gujarat government aims to make the state as a favourable destination for the car makers, after Tata's relocated its Nano plant from Singur in Kolkata to Sanand near here in 2008.

Source: Indian Express

Enthiran’s place in World Top 50 Movies

Enthiran’s place in World Top 50 Movies 

The Endhiran is not tiring yet. With records being broken on a regular basis right from the date of its announcement, the latest news may not be surprise at all. Endhiran finds itself among the Best 50 feature films released in 2010 in the Internet movie database (www.imdb.com). The list is based on the number of user votes for the movie. Seven Indian films feature in the Top 50 with others follow suit.

The rating, which is lead by Hollywood blockbuster Inception, has Bollywood movies Udaan (6), Love Sex aur Dhoka (15), Peepli Live (17) and Ishqiya (22) while Endhiran occupies the 39th place. Farhan Akhtar starrer Karthik calling Karthik and Hrithik Roshan starrer Guzaarish are at numbers 48 and 41 respectively. Interestingly, Endhiran is the only Tamil movie in the Top 50.

20 Stunning Images of Aishwarya Rai

20 Stunning Images of Aishwarya Rai

Aishwarya Rai most beautiful woman in the world was born 1 November 1973, in Mangalore, Karnataka, Bharat India. Her birth name Aishwarya Krishnaraj Rai, and nickname Ash, Gullu. The Queen of Bollywood Aishwarya’s height 5′ 7″. She can communicate in several languages, including her mother tongue Tulu, as well as Hindi, English, Marathi and Tamil.

Aishwarya is an Indian actress, model and former Miss World. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and gained fame after winning the Miss World title in 1994. During her career, Rai has acted in over 40 movies in Hindi, English, Tamil and Bengali, which include a number of international productions.

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