After making it to the cover of Maxim India, long-past-demure and now-bindaas Amrita Rao is all set to feature in an upcoming issue of the US version of the magazine too. The white outfit she wore for the cover must've upped her hotness quotient.

Among all the other B-Town beauties (Sushmita Sen, Sameera Reddy etc) to appear on the cover of the mag recently. Rao will be the first Indian actress to appear in the US version of the mag as well. Who'd have thought!

President Barack Obama “There is not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America, there is the United States of America”

Barack Hussein Obama (Honolulu (Hawaii), August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current president of the United States and a first black American in this position. A member of the Senate and Illinois state representative and state senator between January 3, 2005 and November 16, 2008 before he was in the assembly of his home state. After defeating Republican candidate John McCain during the U.S. presidential election 2008 Obama was on January 20, 2009 at the inauguration at the Capitol was sworn in as president.

President Obama in his early life:

U CAN MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO THE INDIAN ECONOMY BY FOLLOWING FEW SIMPLE STEPS.

Please spare a couple of minutes here... for the sake of India ... our country.

I got this article from one of my friends, but it's true, I can see this in day to day life, Small example,

Before 5 months 1 US $ = IND Rs 39

After 5 months. Now it is 1$ = IND Rs 50

Do you think US Economy is booming? No, but Indian Economy is Going Down.

Our Economy is in u'r hands

Thanks to his irrepressible sense of humour, Shah Rukh Khan comes across as an easy going person. But in real life the Bollywood star is little different and one of the things he is extremely finicky about is his socks.

“I have a strange attachment to socks. They should feel right. I could be missing a flight, but if my socks are wrong, I have to take them off… I won’t wear nylon socks with sneakers. The only time I get disturbed during shooting is over my socks. I hate brown socks and different-coloured socks,” said Shah Rukh said in an interview to the GQ magazine.

The interview will be published in the February issue of the lifestyle magazine.

In the interview, the 44-year-old also talked about his loneliness.

“I can come across as a user, manipulator, disinterested, weird, reclusive, strange, arrogant from the outside. But the people involved know the truth…there are days I feel lonely on the inside. I guess that’s the way I am.”

India's technology and services industry could face an employee shortage of up to 3.5 million by 2020, says a study. It also points that the sector will earn $225 billion in revenues by 2020 despite the current global economic crisis, said a study released here Tuesday.

Of this, $175 billion is expected from exports and the remaining from domestic sources, said the study by global consultancy Mckinsey and IT industry body National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom).

"This is absolutely feasible, the future of the industry remains secure in the medium to long term even in the phase of recent macro economic trends," Noshir Kaka, director of McKinsey and Co, said.

The report, 'Perspective 2020', highlighted the need for diversifying India's IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) industry to achieve higher growth.

A two-inch garden hose will carry four times as much water as a one-inch hose.

A type of rabbit can mate 12 hours after giving birth

A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.

A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.

A typical lightning bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles long.

A vexillologist is an expert in the history of flags

A volcano can shoot its debris as high as 50km into the sky.

A year after coming to office, President Barack Obama has reopened diplomatic lines of communication, but still has little to show for his efforts on the toughest US foreign policy questions.

While former president George W Bush’s foreign policy was driven by the necessities of the “war on terror,” Obama’s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared the new administration would begin “a new era of engagement.”

Whether dealing with the global economic crisis or the climate change summit in Copenhagen, Obama has demonstrated his conviction that the United States cannot solve international problems alone.

He has also worked to repair relations with Russia, engage in “strategic dialogue” with China and pledged the United States will no longer engage in torture and will respect the United Nations. Obama’s personal popularity has bolstered the impact of key international speeches, including his address to the Muslim world delivered in Cairo and his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Oslo.

ENEMY OF LARRY SUMMERS’ EX-BOSS DIES IN MYSTERIOUS HELICOPTER CRASH

What does the mysterious helicopter crash that killed one of India’s most popular politicians have to do with White House economic czar Larry Summers? Read on…

First, the crash: one of India’s most popular politicians, who heads the state of Andhra Pradesh, just died in a mysterious helicopter crash. What’s eerie is that the dead politician recently went public attacking India’s most powerful oligarch family, the Ambanis, threatening to take away their giant offshore gas concessions. Meanwhile the Ambani brothers, Mukesh (the world’s 7th richest man) and Anil (the world’s 34 richest) are battling each other in a blood feud that’s taking the whole country down with them–that’s not a hornet’s nest you’d want to stick your fingers into, even if you’re the governor of a huge Indian province.

Arthritis is one of common causes of chronic pain and there are over one hundred diseases associated with arthritis, affecting areas in and around joints. It can limit the ability to perform simple, everyday activities due to pain of arthritis. Many people believe that nothing is able to do with arthritis - but there are ways to relieve the pain caused by arthritis. There are a lot of useful herbs for arthritis. Many people prefer to use natural solutions for their pain instead of pharmaceuticals. Different herbs for arthritis are accessible online or in health food stores.