Bihar man wins Rs five crore on KBC

Diwali came early for Bihar's Sushil Kumar as he has become the first person to win the full prize money of Rs five crore in the fifth season of popular-quiz show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati'(KBC).

The 27-year-old Kumar correctly answered the jackpot question worth Rs five crore asked by megastar Amitabh Bachchan during the episode shot on Tuesday, to presumably win the highest prize-money awarded in Indian game shows, sources said.

Kumar, who recently got married, is a computer operator and a part-time tutor in Bihar.

The fourth season of KBC had seen Jharkhand contestant Rahat Taslim, winning Rs one crore, after she quit the jackpot question.

The episode will be aired on Sony TV on 2nd November, channel sources said.

Dennis Ritchie, founder of Unix and C, dies at 70

Dennis Ritchie : Father of C programming language dies .

Dennis Ritchie(September 9, 1941 – October 8, 2011), an internationally renowned computer scientist who created the C programming language, has died at age 70. He was suffering from cancer and heart disease.

Ritchie is credited with creating the programming language C, one of the most widely used and influential languages today. He was also one of the creators of operating system UNIX, whose variants — most notably Linux and OS X — are also widely used today.

Ritchie went to work at Bell Labs' Computing Sciences Research Center in 1967 and was widely known as "dmr"--his Bell Labs e-mail address. As part of an AT&T restructuring in the mid-1990s, Ritchie was transferred to Lucent Technologies, where he retired in 2007 as head of System Software Research Department.

He received a Turing Award in 1983 and the US National Medal of Technology in 1998 along with Thompson for his work on C and Unix.

Programmers will perhaps best remember Ritchie for his famous “hello, world” program, which is used in many programming textbooks, even those that don’t pertain to C, as an example of a very simple computer program .

Astro Kissing

Astro Kissing

Aries
Aries, your kisses are quick and passionate; fits of lustful pleasure that are there and then gone!

Taurus
Taureans, your kisses linger; they are deliberate, heartfelt and they can go on and on and on!

Gemini
Gemini, your kisses are interrupted by spasms of giggles, smiles and funny anecdotes!

Cancer
Cancer, your kisses are warm and tender, and you never want to let them go!

Leo
Leo, your kisses are wild and uninhibited, biting and clawing; you expect applause for your performance!

Virgo
Virgo, your kisses are so subtle and tidy, your lover only notices them once you've finished!

Libra
Libra, you kiss with an ardent passion and then like to linger for a while and begin again!

Scorpio
Scorpio, you are so passionate, you skip the kiss and get to straight… whatever comes next for you!

Sagittarius
Sagittarius, your kisses are surprising, spontaneous affairs that leave the kissed wanting more!

Capricorn
Capricorn, your kisses are intense moments of sublime pleasure that is slow and lasting!

Aquarius
Aquarius, your kisses tend to be wet and messy; till you perfect them; and then no one can French kiss like you!

Pisces
Pisces, your kisses are starry-eyed, amorous and long-lasting. You end one kiss, only to start on another!

Google+ Has 40 Million Users, But How Many Use It?

Google has announced its earnings for the most recent quarter, and—surprise!—they made lots and lots and lots of money, mostly off of search revenue. Which is the same story that's been written about Google earnings for the last ten years.

But! While the company didn't break out any specific numbers on Android usage, they did confirm that Google+ has over 40 million users. "Users," here, being loosely defined, since Google+ is a relative ghost town of privately shared links about how Google+ is a ghost town. And given how heavily Google+ was promoted in the early days—across however many millions and millions of Gmail accounts—is it wrong to be a little surprised that there aren't even more people who signed up?

Google will be hosting a call to discuss earnings (a not at all shabby $9.72 billion revenue, $2.73 billion net income) at 4:30EST, which will hopefully include some goodies on Android activations, Ice Cream Sandwich, and the Motorola acquisition.

Ghazal king Jagjit Singh no more

Ghazal king Jagjit Singh, the soul-stirring voice behind 'Hazaron khwaishe aisi', 'Ye kaghaz ki kashti and 'Jhuki jhuki si nazar', died Monday morning over a fortnight after he suffered brain haemorrhage.

The 70-year-old singer, who alongwith his wife Chitra almost rediscovered the ghazal genre for common Indian in 70s and 80s, was admitted to the Lilavati hospital on 23rd September and was in coma since then.

"Jagjit Singh passed away at 8.10 AM after having a terrible hemorrhage," said Dr Sudhir Nandgaonkar, hospital spokesperson.

The day he was admitted, he was supposed to perform at a concert at Shanmukhananda Hall, Matunga, in Mumbai but the programme was cancelled after he was taken ill. Despite a surgery, his condition did not improve and he remained on life support.

Singh, a Padma Bhushan recipient, was born in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, on 8th February, 1941.

After graduation, he shifted base to Mumbai, to explore career in the world of music. In the next decade and half, he earned nationwide fame as ghazal singer and music composer. He sang in several languages, including Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati, Nepali, Bhojpuri.

His personal life, though, was marked by a tragedy: His only son, Vivek, died in a car accident in 1990 when he was just 18.

The music world expressed grief on hearing the news of Jagjit Singh's death. Fellow ghazal singer, Pankaj Udhas, described Jagjit as an "extremely versatile singer".

"I am devastated after hearing the tragic news," Udhas said on phone from Pune.

PM condoles Jagjit Singh's death

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condoled the demise of noted ghazal singer Jagjit Singh, saying he would be remembered for his "golden voice".

Noting that he is among Jagjit's admirers, the Prime Minister said he shared the sorrow of his fans.

In his condolence message, Dr Singh said by "making ghazals accessible to everyone, he gave joy and pleasure to millions of music lovers in India and abroad....he was blessed with a golden voice".

The Prime Minister said the ghazal maestro's music legacy will continue to "enchant and entertain" the people. Jagjit Singh (70) passed away this morning at Lilavati hospital in Mumbai.