Microsoft announced on Monday night in Los Angeles the Surface family of tablets designed to work with the new Windows 8 operating system and challenge Apple’s stronghold on the tablet market with the iPad.

The launch event, which marked Microsoft’s first foray into personal computing hardware in years, was in itself noteworthy. Tech journalists who turned up had no idea what to expect, and Microsoft managed to keep the contents of the event almost completely secret until the announcement was made.

The National Sample Survey says People Spend More Than Half Their Income On Food:

National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) 66th round – Key Indicators of Household Consumer Expenditure in India, 2009-10

The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released the key indicators of household consumer expenditure in India,  generated from the data collected in its 66^th round survey during July 2009 – June 2010. NSS surveys on consumer expenditure are conducted quinquennially starting from 27^thround (October 1972 – September 1973) and the last quinquennial survey was conducted in NSS 61^st round (July 2004- June 2005) for which, the results have already been released. The NSS 66^th round was the eighth quinquennial round on the subject.

The key indicators are based on the Central Sample consisting of 7,524 villages in rural areas and 5,284 urban blocks spread over all States and Union Territories except in (i) interior villages of Nagaland situated beyond five kilometres of a bus route (ii) villages in Andaman and Nicobar Islands which remain inaccessible throughout the year and (iii) Leh, Kargil and Poonch  districts of Jammu and Kashmir.

In the 66^th round consumer expenditure survey, the data on household consumption was collected with three reference periods of preceding 7 days, 30 days and 365 days for specified set of items of the consumption basket. Two types of schedules namely Schedule 1.0 Type 1 and Schedule 1.0 Type 2 were canvassed during the survey. The reference periods for different Item Groups divided in three Categories in both the schedules of  the survey are summarized below:

for more details of NSSO Report Please  see this link  http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/site/inner.aspx?status=3&menu_id=31

Apple’s new iPad 2

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has officially announced the iPad 2 yesterday (on March 2 )at San Francisco.

What’s New

The second-generation iPad will have an Apple A5 dual-core processor that Apple claims will provide more speed and power while not consuming more power than the original iPad’s A4 chip. This will give it faster performance than its predecessor, as well as support for high-definition video out thanks to a new adapter.As everyone was expecting, the iPad 2 has a front-facing video camera with FaceTime support, plus  a new rear-facing one. It will also be thinner and lighter than its predecessor and has excellent performance, and is relatively thin and light. Two cameras for FaceTime and HD video recording. The dual-core A5 chip. The same 10-hour battery life.1 All in a thinner, lighter design.It’s 33 percent thinner and up to 15 percent lighter to the ipad 1.
To know more about Apple iPad 2 and its features read
http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/

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The Indian Premier League (often abbreviated as IPL), is a domestic professional Twenty20 cricket competition in India. It was initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) headquartered in Mumbai and Lalit Modi, the then Vice President of BCCI and later on supervised by another BCCI Vice President Chirayu Amin, current chairman & commissioner of IPL, and CEO, Sundar Raman. It presently includes 10 teams (franchises) consisting of players from different countries. It was started after an altercation between the BCCI and the Indian Cricket League.

In 2010, IPL became the first sporting event ever to be broadcast live on the YouTube. Its brand value was estimated to be around 18,000 crore (US$3.91 billion)) the same year. According to global sports salaries review, IPL is the second highest-paid league, based on first-team salaries on a pro rata basis, second only to the NBA. It is estimated that the average salary of an IPL player over a year would be 17.7 crore (US$3.84 million).

First season :2008 Indian Premier League
Rajasthan Royals defeated Chennai Super Kings in a last ball thriller and emerged as the inaugural IPL champions.

Second season :2009 Indian Premier League
Deccan Chargers, who finished last in the first season, came out as eventual winners defeating the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the final.

Third season: 2010 Indian Premier League
The final was played between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians. Chennai Super Kings won by a margin of 22 runs.

Fourth season :2011 Indian Premier League
On 21 March 2010, it was announced at Chennai that 2 new teams from Pune and Kochi will be added to the IPL 4,the forth season.

The Players auction for IPL season 4 is scheduled For January 8 and 9 in Bangalore.

The IPL Team Names :

Mumbai Indians,Royal Challengers Bangalore,Deccan Chargers,Chennai Super Kings,Delhi Daredevils,Kings XI Punjab,Kolkata Knight Riders,Rajasthan Royals,Pune Warriors,Team Kochi.

The Commonwealth Games 2014 which is the 20th edition of these games will be held in Glasgow, Scotland.

SPORTS

Pakistan win by 3 wickets

Pakistan registered their first Test win against Australia in 15 years at Headingley

First-ever generic drug store of India

Jan Aushadi is the first-ever generic drug store of India.

It has been opened in Amritsar, Punjab. The
objective of the store is to provide  essential medicines like antibiotics,
painkillers and anti-allergics at half the market rate.