Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news. Show all posts

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Obamobile .Obama new car

THIS PRESIDENT IS MOREIMPORTANT THAN ANYBODYIN THE PAST. The Obamamobile: New presidential limo is unveiled - and it can withstand rocket and chemical attacks It's official call sign is Cadillac One, but it will always be known as the Obamobile. is

But his Secret Service agents have already been familiarising themselves with the machine they call 'The Beast', built by General Motors in Detroit and based on a Cadillac chassis. The company refuses to give precise details of how it will perform its primary purpose - protecting the president. But bulletproof glass and armourplatingare standard throughout and the car is hermetically-sealed to withstand chemical weapons. As with previous presidential limos it is packed with electronic communication systems to allow Mr Obama to keep in contact with the outside world. One personal touch will be the remote-controlled ten-CD changer on which he can play his favourite artists, said to include Stevie Wonder and Bob Dylan. Despite the protection afforded by Cadillac One, the Secret Service will be taking no chances when Mr Obama is sworn in as the 44th president. A three-mile security perimeter will be thrown around the U.S. Capital, with no vehicles allowed inside, to prevent a car bomb attack.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Tips for attending visa in American Embassy in Delhi

These are few tips to keep in mind when you attend Visa Stamping in American Consulate/embassy in New Delhi.

New Delhi getting visa is very easy when compared to Chennai consulate.Questions asked are also very less when compared to Chennai.Be confident is the mantra for getting American Visa.

.Be in consulate before 30 mins to your appointment.
.Wear formal dress ...no need of any tie and suit
.Wear shoes.
.Don't take your mobile phones with you.
.You will be verified the documents when your are in line outside consulate.
.You need show documents at one counter where they verify the documents.They just ask you some basic questions.
.Then after that you will enter the main building.You have a security check .
.You will stand in line to give your thumb impression(they take all 10 finger impressions).
.After thumb impression you will sit for your turn to meet the officer.
.Don't panic.
.Be confident while answering the questions.
.Don't tell unnecessary / unrelated answers,just answer to the point or question asked.
.If you don't know the answer just tell them what you feel realistic.
.Just answer the questions as what you wrote in the documents.Don't add anything on top of it.
.In New Delhi they give Visa to everyone in general.


When i attend it was on L1 visa.They just asked me one question

1.From when are you working with your company.

They will ask only simple questions

Address of Consulate

US Embassy
Shantipath,
Chanakyapuri,
New Delhi-110021
011 - 24198000
newdelhi@pd.state.gov
http://newdelhi.usembassy.gov

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Bad news follows Satyam ...World Bank bans Satyam from Offshoring

Satyam banned from offshoring work with World Bank
11 Oct 2008, 2013 hrs IST,AGENCIES


NEW YORK: Software major Satyam Computer Services has reportedly been banned from doing any off-shore work with the World Bank after forensic experts and bank investigators discovered that spy software was covertly installed on workstations inside the bank's Washington headquarters, allegedly by one or more contractors from Satyam Computer Services.

According to a FOX News report, apart from Satyam, two IP intrusions have been reported from China, and there have been six intrusions in all.

Investigators say that the software, which operates through a method known as keystroke logging, enabled every character typed on a keyboard to be transmitted to a still-unknown location via the Internet.

Upon its discovery, bank officials shut off the data link between Washington and Chennai, where Satyam has long operated the bank's sole offshore computer center responsible for all of the bank's financial and human resources information.

"I want them off the premises now," World Bank President Robert Zoellick reportedly told his deputies. But at the urging of CIO De Poerck, Satyam employees remained at the bank as recently as October 1 while it engaged in "knowledge transfer" with two new India-based contractors.

Satyam is publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange and boasts having two billion dollars in sales and more than 150 Fortune 500 companies as clients.

In 2003, Satyam won a lucrative five-year "sole source" contract to design, write and maintain all of the World Bank's information systems. The contract, which began at $10 million, had grown to over $100 million by 2007. This year, the contract was not renewed. Satyam has declined to comment.

FOX News claims that outsiders have raided the World Bank Group's computer network, one of the largest repositories of sensitive data about the economies of every nation, repeatedly for more than a year.

It is still not known how much information was stolen. But sources inside the bank confirm that servers in the institution's highly restricted treasury unit were deeply penetrated with spy software last April. Invaders also had full access to the rest of the bank's network for nearly a month in June and July.

The crisis comes at an awkward moment for Zoellick, who runs the world's largest and most influential anti-poverty agency, which doles out $25 billion a year, and whose board represents 185 member nations.

This weekend, the bank holds its annual series of meetings in Washington, and just in advance of those sessions, Zoellick called for a radical revamping of multilateral organizations in light of the global economic meltdown.

Zoellick is positioning himself and the bank as an institution that can help chart a new path toward global financial stability. But that reputation, more than ever, depends on the bank's stable information infrastructure.

According to internal memos, "a minimum of 18 servers has been compromised," including some of the bank's most sensitive systems, ranging from the bank's security and password server to a Human Resources server "that contains scanned images of staff documents."

One World Bank director told FOX News that as many as 40 servers have been penetrated, including one that held contract-procurement data. It took ten days for bank officials to detect that they'd been invaded. Once they did, they shut down all external servers, except for e-mail, which it turns out the invaders were already using as their entrance point.

A World Bank spokesman, however, rubbished the Fox News story, saying it is riddled with falsehoods and errors.


Source : The times of India
Link : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Business/No_offshoring_to_Satyam_World_Bank/articleshow/3584627.cms