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Our national sport is in a mess from a long long time, we all know. But this mess has been converted into a disaster, is now proved from ongoing stir between players and the so-called controlling authority of the game in India i.e. Hockey India. Players have not been paid their dues from quite some time despite sponsors are constantly giving money to HI. Its a hard truth that hockey players not as iconic as cricket players in our country. But, at least, they should be respected. Yet the game officials belonging not only to hockey, but to other sports also behave like maharajas . Player's rights and welfare have no meaning for them. Today Indian hockey is on its knees, yet officials are threatening to sack or suspend the players instead of addressing their concerns and finding some amicable solution. World cup is almost one month away and they have scraped the training camp. Future does not seem very bright. KPS Gill episode in not very old. And, what is happening to CWG preparation...

Artificial Intelligence has always been a challenging field providing lots of opportunities of research and development in no. of areas like language processing, multi-agent systems, web mining, information retrieval, semantic web, e-learning, optimization problems, pattern recognition etc. And, there is growing interest in the field in India between academia and industria both. Keeping this in mind, The Special Interest Group on AI (SIGAI) of Computer Society of India (CSI) announces a workshop on “Emerging Research Trends in AI” . The workshop will be organized and hosted by CDAC, Navi Mumbai , and is meant to encourage quality research in various aspects of AI, among the Indian academia/industry. For more details, see Call for Papers and visit: http://sigai.cdacmumbai.in/index.php/ertai-2010

Today is another 26/11. Change? Figure in the year column of date has changed. Now it is 09 instead of 08. Remember same date one year ago? Mumbai and India saw the deadliest terror attack with surprise and agony that lasted almost 60 hour. Hundreds dead and wounded! Jawans shahid for Matrabhoomi! I also felt in the same way as thousands others. 365 days have been passed since then just like sand particles through a tiny hole. From morning newspapers to all-day news bulletins, all are filled up with the stories related to 26/11. Has something really changed in a year? Doesn't seem so. Some quotes: "I would prefer Sandeep to be at home." "When I went to Taj to see the spot where Sandeep died, the highest executive of Taj asked me, who Sandeep?" -Father of Late Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan "Why we? Why were we targeted? Who is responsible for this situation?" - Wife of Late Inspector Vijay Salaskar (As noted from Jindagi Live program on IBN7 dated 26/11/20...

Today Anumaan (alpha-0.1 version) has been released by C-DAC, Mumbai as a part of its activities and commitment in the area of accessibility. Anumaan is a perspective-based, on-screen predictive text entry system for GNOME desktop. Basically, it is an extension of an Input Method (IM) mechanism (on GNOME desktop) in the sense that it extends its (IM) notion by including the power of text prediction. It has support for UTF-8 unicode encoding. The system allows users to train it and personalize and as per their writing style into different named domains. Hence, it adapts to user's writing style in some sense. Although, the current version does not support live mode adaptation, still a user can train a domain as many times he likes. Anumaan is designed for a (text) sequence prediction based on a certain Context.The context can either be a partial word context or a partial sentence context. Therefore, it is intended to help people suffering from different kinds of motor disability by...

On Friday, it was the Thane local train accident that caused disruption in the routine life of Mumbai people, again on Monday, they once again suffered by the strike of Central Railway motormen. Now, on tuesday it was the turn of Bhuvneshwar-Delhi Rajdhani Express, when it was abducted either by naxalites or by some naxalites sponsored group near the Jhargram station in West Bengal. Really, this as a railway week :). No, No don't misunderstand :), it is actually :(. In all these incidents, the ultimate sufferer in the poor common man (R. K. Laxman listening?) and culprit who? - The establishment who has the responsibility of manging all those tasks that affect our lives in way or the other, either directly or indirectly, or our so called destiny. Why common people should suffer? Today's incident is serious. An elite train is hijacked by a group. They write slogans to release their leader onto the walls of the train. The visual of these activities are flashed across all channels...

Local is the life line of Mumbai and if this life line gets even a single cut into its body, how chotic life can be in Mumbai, it was evident from scenes spread over CST to Vashi to Thane. Yesterday, in afternoon, when I saw the news of crashing of a pipeline over a local train in Thane, I didn't give much attention to it. But what I saw on CST in the evening, while trying to catch a Panvel-bound local to come to Kharghar returning from Mumbai Central, I realized how wrong was and perhaps Railway machineary was also not able to properly assess the seriousness of the situation. Normally, one is able to get on the train on harbour line rather comfortably from CST. But, the first Panvel-bound train I saw was jam-packed. I left that thinking of catching another one. What a big deal it is, was the thought. But I was amazed on seeing the crowd onto the platform. It was a "Jan sailab" indeed. As the next train came, people rushed madly towards the train just to board any how. Th...

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