Tata crucible’ is a hot trends

Without much marketing effort from Tata’s, the sheer involvement of quizzers around the country (and few outside the country), has put ‘tata crucible’ search at 77^th position as on 4^th August (i.e just one day after the 16 cities voyage started in Coimbatore)

Now, the question is can it broke into top 50 or beyond that…..

TATA CRUCIBLE CORPORATE QUIZ 2008- Coimbatore

Won by: infosys Bangalore, represented by Harkirat (This year TC Student finalist, IMT, Ghaziabad.
Second: S. Bansali & Associates

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Which Indian airline has named its inflight magazine to reflect its unique seating arrangement.

Paramount Airways. magazine - Aisles & Windows as it has no middle seats, provides all business class 2x2 seating

Known as ASDA in UK, Seiyu in Japan....?

Walmart

First company to manufacture tractor in India?

Eicher

Nano Effect

Call it the Nano effect! The ultra-affordable “people’s car” might have launched India as a hotbed of ideas.

For instance, Godrej & Boyce is developing a Rs 2,500 refrigerator for Dharavi slum dwellers. Then Chennai-based Brakes India has found out a way to convert slag into construction material. Similarly, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of digital & analog offset plates, TechNova Imaging Systems, has invented a digital plate that can cut down the cost of commercial printing by almost 90%.

And, the list just doesn’t end there! Surinder Kapur, CMD of India’s largest manufacturer and supplier of steering systems, Sona Koyo Steering Systems, cites his own example. “We have managed to develop an indigenous steering system for off-highway vehicles for the US market at half the cost of what other international manufacturers quoted. We plan to use a similar approach to create an ultra-low cost steering system for the Nano as well.” Mr Kapur believes that innovation is contagious.

India’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki’s latest ‘one component, one gram’ drive seems to have taken a leaf out of the same book. The $3.7-billion vehicle manufacturer, along with its suppliers, has worked out a strategy to reduce one gram of weight per each component of a car. The mission to subtract 2.6 kg from a car would translate into a minimum annual saving of Rs 10-crore for the company, and better performance and fuel efficiency for the customer who would be driving a lighter vehicle.

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The World’s Worst Olympians

And…the honours goes to ….INDIA, well that’s what US’s foreign policies website is saying , to quote them:
“Think of India as the Washington Nationals of Olympic sport. India is by far the worst-performing Olympic country—no matter how you slice it. It’s not for lack of trying. A games participant since 1900, India still ranks behind Nigeria, a country with an economy one twentieth India’s size, in total medals. The country’s athletic ineptitude is so profound that a parliamentarian called for two minutes of silence to “lament the demise of Indian sports” after the squad failed to win any medals in Barcelona in 1992.”
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Real Indian Hero

Meet a ‘Real Indian Hero’, Mr. Rakesh Yadav who has to his credit the disposal of nearly 300 bombs in the last 13 years.

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Cuil, a new search engine

A start-up led by former star Google engineers unveiled a new Web search service that aims to outdo the Internet search leader in size, but faces an uphill battle changing Web surfing habits. Cuil Inc (pronounced "cool") is offering a new search service at its website that the company claims can index, faster and more cheaply, a far larger portion of the the Web than Google, which boasts the largest online index.

Cuil was founded by a group of search pioneers, including Costello, who built a prototype of Web Fountain, IBM's Web search analytics tool, and his wife, Anna Patterson, the architect of Google Inc's massive TeraGoogle index of Web pages। Patterson also designed the search system for global corporate document storage company Recall, a unit of Australia's Brambles Ltd. The two are joined by two former Google colleagues, Russell Power and Louis Monier. Previously, Monier led the redesign of ecommerce leader eBay Inc's search engine and was the founding chief technology officer of two 1990s Web milestones, AltaVista and BabelFish, the first language translation site.

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Summary of Cuil's features:

1. Biggest Internet search engine: Cuil has indexed 1.20 billion Web pages, 3x more than any other search engine.
2. Organized results: Cuil's magazine-style layout separates results by subject and allows further search by concept or category.
3. Different results: Unlike other search engines, Cuil ranks results by the content on each page, not its popularity.
4. Complete privacy protection: Cuil does not keep any personally identifiable information on users or their search histories.
Cuil (pronounced COOL) is a search engine that combines the largest Web index with content-based relevance methods, organized results, and complete user privacy. The company's next generation approach to search is the result of proprietary breakthroughs in search architecture and ranking algorithms.

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Indian Political League

BJP MPs show the packets of money they have been allegedly bribed to switch sides. (PTI)

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Bigg Boss Season 2

Bigg Boss, the reality show aired earlier on Sony , will now have its second season on Colors. The show will replace Akshay Kumar's Fear Factor – Khatron Ke Khiladi.
Shilpa Shetty will be the anchor of the show.

TATA Crucible’s Lucknow address

“Ravindralaya,
Motilal Nehru Marg,
Rly Station Char Bagh ke Samne, “

I guess people with grey caps must have enquired about the address from some local fellow, who in order to explain in more avadhi style must have said “Char Bagh ke Samne”. But please don’t perplexed nawabi junta by asking them where is “Char Bagh ke Samne, “ (in case any non-hindi quizzer coming down to Lucknow), otherwise they will reply “Char Bagh ke Samne “ there is only one famous place “Dr. Jain ki Sex clinic. As this is how the so-called world famous sexologist DR. PK Jain advertises himself.

Anyway address is very simple to locate in case team coming down to luck-now wann ask, i guess TC team knows that there will be a lot of outsider team; hence they have chosen the closest place to Char-Bagh, four-garden (Lucknow’s Main Railway Station)

TATA CRUCIBLE CORPORATE QUIZ 2008

Announcement for Biggest Quizzing Event is finally out…Yes its TC time gear-up, get prepare and wins the glory…

In order to increase the magnitude of the Business Quizzing in India, this year TC will see 4 more cities (my Lucknow also included). Anyway official website says "The extension of the quiz to 16 locations is reflective of new India and the emergence of the smaller cities as key business destinations"

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Date	City	Timings	Venue
03rd Aug'08	Coimbatore (Only Non-Tata Track)	Registration : 5.30 pm Quiz: 6 pm	The Residency, 1076, Avinashi Road , Coimbatore - 641 018 Contact: Mohd. Yahya Ph: 98434 30040
05th Aug'08	Cochin (Only Non-Tata Track)	Registration : 5.30 pm Quiz: 6 pm	Taj Residency, M G Road, Cochin. Contact: Satya Ph: 98460 03467
09th Aug'08	Hyderabad (Both Tracks)	Registration : 3.00 pm Quiz: 3.30 pm	RNR Auditorium, Opp. Lotus Pond Road, No. 12 MLA Colony, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad- 500 034 Contact: Saif Ph: 99856 84484
10th Aug'08	Goa (Only Non-Tata Track)	Registration : 5.30 pm Quiz: 6.00 pm	National Institute of Oceanography Dona Paula, Goa - 403 004. Contact: Ashish Ph: 98231 10601
12th Aug'08	Jaipur (Only Non-TATA Track)	Registration : 5.30 pm Quiz: 6 pm	Vidya Ashram, (Maharana Pratap Auditorium), Opp.Daini Bhaskar,Malaviya Nagar, Jaipur - 302 015 Contact: Pushpinder Ph: 98280 77557
19th Aug'08	Ahmedabad (Only Non-Tata Track)	Registration : 5.30 pm Quiz: 6.00pm	IIM - Indian Institute of Management, (Ravi Mathai Hall), Vastrapur, Ahmedabad - 380015. Contact: Prakash Ph: 098240 27387
24th Aug'08	Pune (Both Tracks)	Registration : 3.00 pm Quiz: 3.30 pm	Taj Blue Diamond,Garden Court, 11 ,Koregaon Road, Pune-411 001 Contact: Rohan Ph: 98909 49576
31st Aug'08	Bangalore (Both Tracks)	Registration : 3.00 pm Quiz: 3.30 pm	NIMHANS Convention Centre, Hosur Road, Bangalore - 560 029 Contact: Satya Ph: 98450 56834
05th Sep'08	Bhubaneshwar (Only Non-Tata Track)	Registration : 5.30 pm Quiz: 6 pm	Mayfair Lagoon, Bhubaneswar - 751 015 Contact: Sambit Ph: 94372 08345
07th Sep'08	Kolkata (Both Tracks)	Registration : 3.00 pm Quiz: 3.30 pm	Taj Bengal, Alipore,Kolkata. Contact: Vivek Ph: 98312 12585
11th Sep'08	Chandigarh (Only Non-Tata Track)	Registration : 5.30 pm Quiz: 6 pm	JBS Charitable Trust, Sector 27A, Chandigarh - 160 027 Contact: Lalit Ph: 98728 26242
13th Sep'08	Delhi (Both Tracks)	Registration : 3.00 pm Quiz: 3.30 pm	Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi. Contact: Harish Ph: 99104 47784
14th Sep'08	Lucknow (Only Non-Tata Track)	Registration : 5.30 pm Quiz: 6 pm	Ravindralaya, Motilal Nehru Marg, Rly Station Char Bagh ke Samne, Lucknow - 1 Contact: Sukvir Ph: 9839053844
18th Sep'08	Indore (Only Non-Tata Track)	Registration : 5.30 pm Quiz: 6 pm	Fortune Landmark, Adj.Meghdooth Gardens, Vijaynagar, Indore - 452 010. Contact: Bhalla Ph: 98930 50000
20th Sep'08	Mumbai (Both Tracks)	Registration : 3.00 pm Quiz: 3.30 pm	Y B Chavan Centre, Jagannathrao Bhonsle Marg, Mumbai - 400 021 Contact: Rahul Ph: 93202 32090
21st Sep'08	Chennai (Both Tracks)	Registration : 3.00 pm Quiz: 3.30 pm	Chinmaya Heritage Centre, Tapovan Hall, #2, 13th Avenue, Harrington Road,Chetpet, Chennai - 600 031 Contact: Giridhar Ph: 98411 67685
27th Sep'08	Jamshedpur (Only Tata Track)	Registration : 5.30 pm Quiz: 6 pm	XLRI Auditorium, C.H. Area (East), Post Box 222, Jamshedpur - 831 001. Contact: Kailash Ph: 92347 31143