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Two Armenian servicemen killed by Azeri fire
June 20, 2014 - 14:53 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Two Armenian servicemen were killed by Azeri fire at the contact line between the Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijani armed forces.
As Armenian Defense Ministry's spokesman Artsrun Hovhannisyan told PanARMENIAN.Net Narek Poghosyan was killed when on duty on June 19 while Grisha Khachatryan, 20, died on June 20.
Hovhannisyan said more information will be provided later.
Meanwhile, some Azerbaijani media reports said that "Armenian troops fired upon border villages, wounding 3 civilians. An APA report said that a soldier killed one and wounded another in an army unit and then committed suicide. The incident took place on June 20.
Armenian soldiers Andranik Yeghoyan, 26 and Boris Gasparyan, 22 received deadly injures in the June 5 Azeri shelling.
In recent months, Azerbaijan has been continuously violating the ceasefire, shelling Armenian and Artsakh frontline, as well as border villages of Armenia.
An Armenian soldier was killed in Azeri sabotage attempt in the southern direction of the line of contact on the night of May 28. On spotting the rival, the NKR army units acted to repel the attack, with 2 dead and 1 injured on Azeri side. The NKR defense army serviceman, corporal Erik Gasparyan, 19, died in action.
On May 23, Azeri forces have been shelling the village of Barekamavan and Armenian defense positions for around 6 hours. Azerbaijanis opened fire at a military vehicle heading to an outpost as well as a ZIL civil vehicle. Some bullets damaged the roof of the house that belongs to Hovik Gharakeshishyan, former head of the village.
Azeri sabotage attempt was thwarted on the night of May 22 at the line of contact between the Krabakh defense army and Azeri armed forces.
The defense army acted to rebuff the attack, reportedly leaving 3 Azeri soldiers injured. Armenian soldier Arthur Ohanjanyan, aged 20, received a deadly injury in Azeri frontline shooting in the southern direction of the line of contact of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan's troops on May 20.
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Every few years we have some middle east dictator go nuts over a short period of time and the US Navy ends up in a nearby ocean doing "military exercises." In the same way, Windows RT was a military exercise for Microsoft. At the time that the plans for RT came out Microsoft was watching Apple explode with ARM processor based sales. Had Microsoft simply elected to do nothing I believe the stock would be in the mid teens today. Analysts would be fast to call out Microsoft for missing the boat and when it became obvious it was time to take action, it would have put them much further behind. There was a cost for acting even with a $900 million mistake. I think there would have been a cost much larger to not act which would have driven shareholder wealth down.
If we truly lived in an era where low power CPUs were the real solution and Intel was not going to be a leader Microsoft would have figured a way to make RT work. For the viability of the survival of Microsoft $1 billion is nothing, they have many more billions to burn through. The money would have gone to support the development of a whole new ecosystem while enticing developers to write apps for them. What you saw was Microsoft coming to terms with the reality that the PC really isn't dead. The expense and effort was too great and besides Intel was coming out with more promising low powered processors. From the flawed introduction of RT Wallis called it right that it was DOA.
We're living in an era now of declining iPad sales. . The ARMH "Post PC era" hyperbole has run it's course and Microsoft discovered two things They make lots of money with Intel as a partner and lost close to $1 billion with ARMH as a partner. Who do you think they'll stick with? Last year this board was full of people saying "You don't get it, Intel is hated by the hardware Industry. And "There will be $200 RT laptops by (now)". What happened?
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So, are we now in the "Post iPad era"?
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Perhaps, this was what Intel/Microsoft were hoping would happen within the first year of iPad...unfortunately, the fad ran a lot longer.
I notice that most folks except finger-hopping youth have their tablets mostly hibernating on a shelf or in a closet. Or used as a boredom-killer on flights, airport lounges, and hotels.
Perhaps, it is going to be a "Back to the PC era" soon. The hybrids may just do the trick!


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ibis Auckland Ellerslie, Auckland
Main amenities
- 100 smoke-free guestrooms
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Breakfast available
- WiFi in the lobby
- Fitness center
- Valet parking
- Conference center
- 24-hour front desk
- Daily housekeeping
- Garden
- Front desk safe
- Laundry service
What's around
- In Remuera
- One Tree Hill Domain (2.5 mi / 4 km)
- Auckland War Memorial Museum (3 mi / 4.8 km)
- Mercy Ascot Hospital (0.2 mi / 0.3 km)
- Ellerslie Racecourse (0.3 mi / 0.4 km)
- Ellerslie Events Centre (0.3 mi / 0.5 km)
For families
- Refrigerator
- Private bathroom
- Television
- Free toiletries
- Garden
- Daily housekeeping
ibis Auckland Ellerslie, Auckland
Hotel Info: 866-539-8117from $71
- Standard Room, 2 Single Beds
- Standard Room, 1 King Bed
- Business Room, 1 King Bed (Ibusiness)
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At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 100 rooms
- 24-hour check-in
- Check-out time is 11 AM
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- No cribs (infant beds)
- No pets or service animals allowed
- WiFi in public areas *
- WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms *
- Valet parking (limited) *
- RV/bus/truck parking
Other information
- Smoke-free property
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In the hotel
- Buffet breakfast (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- 24-hour room service
- Fitness facilities
- Business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 6
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms 7
- Conference space size (feet) - 4164
- Conference space size (meters) - 387
- Conference center
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Elevator/lift
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Garden
- In-room accessibility
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room massage available
- Private bathroom
- Shower only
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Pay movies
- Satellite TV channels
- Desk
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Refrigerator
- Daily housekeeping
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DiningAcacia Restaurant - This restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast and dinner. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting).
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- Ibis Auckland Ellerslie
- Ibis Hotel Auckland Ellerslie
- ibis Auckland Ellerslie Hotel
- ibis Ellerslie Hotel
- ibis Ellerslie
Additional policies and fees may apply when booking more than 7 rooms. For more details, please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
The photos in this description reflect the brand standard and are provided for illustrative purposes only.
Optional extras
Self parking costs NZD 15 per night
Valet parking costs NZD 15 per night
Rollaway beds are available for an additional charge
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of NZD 32 per person (approximately)
WiFi is available in guestrooms for NZD 29.90 per day (rates may vary)
WiFi is available in public areas for NZD 29.9 per day (rates may vary)
High-speed Internet access (wired) is available in guestrooms for NZD 29.9 per day (rates may vary)
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
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Good 3.8 /5 from 161 reviews
Reception staff were very good, friendly and efficient. Note the hotel shares facilities including reception, bar, restaurant with Novatel so it is a little confusing approaching the hotel. It is also quite hard to locate tucked in behind other buildings. The address exactly as displayed on the website did not appear on our GPS ('Green Lane' not Greenlane from memory). The room was very small and quite cramped with a strange, almost nautical style one piece shower/toilet area. Nice bar area There is limited parking available on a first come first served basis, so if they have a conference on you may not be able to park on site. Also note there is a charge for the parking. There is also a charge for the WiFi! With the added cost of parking and WiFi I feel the hotel is overpriced
I booked this hotel as i only had one night stay in Auckland and wanted to stay close to highway for my next day tour. One of the issues that i had was to find the entrance of this hotel and had to spend 20 min as the entrance is at the back of the highway and if you miss it you have to take a next exit and do the same process again, anyways after first failed attempt i was able to find the entrance, novatel also shares the same check in so make sure that when you take the elevator for your room its for ibis :). Parking can be hard to find here and i was lucky to have the last parking spot. Check in was and lady at the front desk was very nice and helpful as she told what places to eat in auckland as there are no restaurants around this hotel and if you don't want to go out then you can eat at the hotel restaurant. We took the train to go Auckland CBD as its 5 min walk to the station and next 10 min train ride to city center. Its hard to find the parking if you are going during the peak seasons. It costs 8$(NZD) pp one way for the ride. The room was again small as expected from ibis was clean and lines fresh. The restroom was little cramped but again clean so no hard feelings. I will surely recommend this place if you want to stay close to main NZ highway.
the Ibis Hotel is good quality for what you pay for. It is close to Ellerslie and Penrose. The surrounding area is mainly businesses, but a short 5-10 minute taxi ride gets you to areas with nice restaurants. The rooms are small and don't offer much.
I was up here for a weeks course. The accommodation was good albeit the rooms are small. The breakfast was nice (loved the freshly baked bread) and the meals were also good. I had 3 buffet meals and I would rate 2 of them (Asian & Italian) 5/5 and 1 (Indian) 4/5. The hotel is well kept. I would stay again if I was in the area.
The Ibis Auckland Ellerslie is an Ibis, but a bit run down version. The room was small and cramped as usual for Ibis, with a small bathroom. We booked a business room thinking it would be a bit bigger, but is wasn't. Felt overpriced therefore, paid over NZD 200 for the room.
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ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick?
The ImageMagick (IM) suite of command-line graphics tools is a free software staple; Linux, other Unix-like operating systems, and proprietary OSes like Windows have supported IM for close to two decades. But there is also an alternative tool called GraphicsMagick (GM) that covers much of the same functionality. How do you know which one is right for you?
Though IM traces its own history back to 1987, when it was an internal tool developed at DuPont, the first public source code release was in 1990. The core package is a collection of roughly a dozen separate command-line tools: animate, compare, display, identify, mogrify, and so on.
Because its command-line interface exposes so much functionality, IM has long been employed in scripts and automated routines. It handles the server-side image manipulation duties in Web applications as diverse as personal photo galleries and Wikipedia. Over time, interfaces to many popular programming languages sprang up, opening up IM to programmers like a system library.
And in a sense, that was where the trouble began.
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This is not always the case. As this article says (and as you can see by comparing the actual tools and web sites), GraphicsMagick is nothing but a clone of ImageMagick.
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For the record, I would probably be willing to do VN reviews if I could get legal, translated versions and didn't have to pay out of my own pocket for them. I have actually done one before for this site, after all, and played (read?) a few others. The problem with doing VN reviews in general, though, is that licensed releases are fairly rare and generally don't involve VNs that people would hyped up to read about. You wouldn't get reviews on any of the hot big-name titles, for instance, because there are no legal sources for them, and ANN doesn't do reviews on non-legal content beyond one-shot Preview Guide entries.
And, as others have pointed out, VNs are immensely more time-consuming compared to watching an anime series or reading a manga or novel omnibus edition. Reviewing a one cour anime series typically takes 5-7 hours of viewing time for subtitled-only series and 6-9 hours for a dubbed series, more if there are extensive Extras. The actual write-up usually takes me 4-6 hours to do, more if there are a lot of historical and/or cultural references that I feel obligated to look up. That means a typical 12-14 episode review typically takes 10-15 hours of total time commitment. VNs can easily require double or triple (or more) of that time commitment, and that's just for playing them out. Can't get much else done in a month, review-wise, with something like that weighting down your schedule!
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Seems like it's going the typical "lol dumb comedy anime" route. If it continues like the first episode, it wouldn't even register close to the list of truly bad anime. That's why every single reaction to a bad anime calling it as such just seems like hyperbole to me. The most sexist anime ever is still Ranma 1/2, and I blame it for all that follows.
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On that visual novel discussion: it is the job of any adaptation to not merely be faithful to its source material but also to, well, adapt it in a comprehensible and entertaining way. If an anime falls short at accomplishing that, then it falls short at accomplishing that and no amount of contexualized explanation is going to alter that. A review that simply informs fans whether a checklist is met seems superfluous also.
Maybe there's a case for visual novels being regarded as unique and special and deserving of a very different standard apart from the way most people would judge an adaptation of a book or a comic or a video game, but if so I definitely don't know what it is.
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|why not start with Katawa Shoujo? its free and easily accessible, and could be a good starting point
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Oh there most definitely is. However it's not something that would be apparent after just one episode. VNs typically do not follow the standard linear storytelling. That is to say, that there are multiple 'routes' that may or may not be connected. It's not just one story. It's fractured into many different parts. And for an adaptation of a VN, the transition between these arcs (which in the game all take place on the same timeline) can be incredibly difficult. Take Tsukihime: Lunar Legend for instance, where JC Staff only had a very short time to deal with an incredibly lengthy visual novel. So what they did was take elements from several different routes and smash them all together. What they didn't realize is that by taking all these separate elements and trying to string them together they lost any and all continuity that the creator had set up. Characters were a mess and the overall story even went to all hell.
It is not at all an easy thing to adapt a visual novel, particularly ones with interconnected routes and an overarching story as common in Type-Moon and Key visual novels. Of course, sometimes there are VNs that only have one route (like Utawarerumono) and those are much easier to adapt as they are more akin to a standard novel/manga/comic/video game.
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C'mon, we need more humorous reviews from Zac. Speaking of humorous reviews, moesucks did a good job:
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That moesucks review is hilarious, but is Sakurasou no Pet THAT damn bad? Like...I have trouble believing that a show that patently offensive could exist. I have trouble believing that Mashiro is THAT infantile.
I mean, jesus, that blog wasn't kidding, I'm amazed she doesn't actually wear diapers, though if she did I'd probably suffer through just one episode solely because of that >_>
Dammit, author! You missed a chance to make me watch your god-awful show! Wait, maybe that's a good thing...
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Probably because it's not a 'real' VN, just a fan created one.
It's not really comparable to School Days, Fate/Stay or Little Busters.
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|I haven't played KS, nor do I really hae any strong opinions on it one way or the other, but given a lot of people who consume "real" VNs (I'm just going to ignore that No True Scotsman wording), like the denizens of /a/, like it a lot, I'd wager that the novel's pretty good.
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Its not that bad. Its not good by any means, but that review was exaggerating for comic effect.
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Whatever it's quality, it made Bamboo lacerate into it in a way I've never seen her do before. She's never been this offended at a show before. Not even the schlockiest of fanservice garnered this much anger from her.
I think we've found the divisive show of the season. And for once, it wasn't the incest show!
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Nah, no one really is giving a shit.
We already had our divisive show, in fact everywhere but here had a very interesting discussion on it. Well, we tried, but we were shut down. So whatever.
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|Yeah, this season really didn't have anything TOO divisive. There certainly was no Mysterious Girlfriend X in here.
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|Jormungand: Perfect Order aired, and that might be the priority of the season. I do miss this bunch of characters, and it appears the stakes and tension are on the rise.
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I know that feeling since you are all bound by contracts to review legit/translated games. I've personally reviewed umineko arcs 1-4, since they have R7's permission to do a translation. clannad and kanon which are not supported. Unlike anime as you stated VN's take a huge amount of time to get through clannad alone is 300hrs through every route to get the best ending in after story. Most people do have lives, schedule time to do things and you guys don't really have that amount of time to do so.
Going way off subject sorry... I'll go back to lurking.
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Anthony Regan, former COO for Digital Partners, is giving evidence in a case in the High Court at Auckland brought by Christchurch Central MP Nicky Wagner.
Wagner has accused Auckland businessman Robert Gill of asset-stripping his companies to avoid repaying her $340,000 she is owed from the sale of 75 per cent of her gardening and fashion websites to him for $700,000 in 2008.
She was paid all but $280,000 before disputes arose which eventually went to arbitration.
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Regan said in evidence today that he and Gill had agreed the former companies were valued around $1.7m in January 2010, just two months before the alleged asset stripping began.
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The coach of the Maple Leafs and Team USA is standing in the press conference room at GM Place, having just finished his last set of interviews before Sunday's gold-medal game, when he was asked what it would mean to win the hockey gold medal for Brian Burke.
"It would be huge," Wilson said. "But this is real life, it's not Field Of Dreams. We can't win and make some kind of movie and ease his pain. That's not what any of this is about.
"We didn't come here to dedicate this to Brian. In fact, it hasn't really even come up. But everyone who is part of this team knows what Brian has meant to us, and how much he has been a part of everything we've accomplished. Brian's in our minds all the time. But we didn't come here to win it for him. We came here to win it, period."
Burke wants none of the focus on himself. In fact, long before the Feb. 5 car crash that killed his son 21-year-old Brendan,
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Performance Tolls - Why you cannot correlate 100% of your logs...?
Compounding the combinatory explosion in the number of static-based correlation rules, it is impossible to correlate 100% of all your logs, it is just too expensive and not practical. Read on...
A correlation engine works really hard, even when dealing with a limited set of scenarios:
- Each scenario requires lots of rules and exceptions, and most of these rules need to be interpreted further as dozen, if not hundred of simple checks and tests. For example, you may want to flag loops with a simple rule such as "IP Origin" = "IP Destination". If you have 1 000 logs this means that for each log you need to do 1 000 tests. Imagine having a million logs, a trillion logs, which is not uncommon on a medium sized infrastructure over a couple days.
- Each scenario requires state information to be kept and managed for hours, or even days. For example, you may want to be alerted if A happens then within 1 day B happens and then within 1 day C happens. This means that lots of state information needs to be kept over a 2-day span, the engine is constantly monitoring for A to happen, then as soon as A happens the engine starts the clock and monitors for B, and if B happens within that day then a new countdown starts to look for C, all the meanwhile also constantly monitoring for A so as to start a new A then B then C condition... If A happens a lot, and B also happens frequently after A then the engine will need to store lots of A then B state information while monitoring for all the required C.
This requires:
- Extremely powerful servers needed to run these rules and their corresponding "if then else" tests and checks when there are lots of logs.
- Vast amounts of temporary memory needed to keep state information in memory and speed up processing while avoiding swapping to disks.
So the correlation engine needs to be fed very carefully, don't give it more than what it can chew or it will essentially run out of resources and die.
Knowing which logs need to be part of scope is an important part of tuning a correlation engine.
No, you cannot ask your correlation solution to manage all of your logs. It's not designed for that. Managing only the most critical ones is already a daunting task for it.
Correlation load for one simple correlation rule over one hour
As an example, let's have a closer look at Attack Scenario 1 - Identity Theft that we elaborated on, and put a threshold of 1 hour for flagging Identity Theft.
Assumptions - at that time, we have:
o 5 logins/sec average from local logins
o 5 logins/sec average from VPN logins
o 1 000 events/sec average total infrastructure
o Logs kept for a total of 1 week - for reporting etc.
Total data space of 1000*3600*24*7 = 604 800 000 events
For each local login event - which is 5 times per second
o Look in the VPN login events - for the past 3600 seconds - and check if that same person logged in through VPN
Total data space of 3600*5 = 18 000 events VPN logins
Total of 18 000 * 5 = 90 000 checks per second
Size of that 1 hour data space in which to perform the 90 000 checks
o 1000 events/sec * 3600 = 3 600 000 events
So, for this one correlation rule:
- Among the 604 million records total for the past week
- Among the 3.6 million records for the past hour
- The Correlation Engine needs to perform:
90 000 database reads and checks per second
While at the same time doing 1000 record writes and inserts per second
- And at the same time, continue collecting, parsing and normalizing, reporting, alerting, "signing of logs", housekeeping and allowing users to log in and use the tool etc etc...
Correlation load for one complex global rule over one day
Imagine now a complex correlation rule that requires the engine to look 100 times per second, and to do this over the full 1-day sliding window.
The assumptions are then:
- Full data space
Same 1 week = 604 800 000 events
- One-day sliding window data space
1000 * 3600 * 24 = 86 400 000 events
- For each correlation rule, we are doing
Number of tests = 100 times per second, look into each record in the 1-day sliding window data space
100 * 86 400 000 = 8 640 000 000 tests per second
That's 8 billion reads per second!!!
Sure you can use tricks and shortcuts to avoid doing all the 8 billion checks, but that gives an idea of the searching power required... for this 1 scenario!!!
Imagine having to enrich this 1 correlation rule with geolocalization information, or somehow putting a dynamic dimension to it.
Imagine having 100's or 1000's of correlation rules, what would be the impact on number of database reads and load?
This is just not practical, and you cannot always solve this problem by throwing more hardware at it.
Did you know that APT attacks can last weeks and months? Stay tuned for what this means for static rule based correlation...
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International Olympic Committee said it welcomed on Saturday the IAAF's "strong stance against doping" following athletics ruling body's extension of Russia's ban
Diesel Price Hiked By Rs 1.26/Litre, Petrol By 5 Paise/Litre
Press Trust of India | Wednesday June 15, 2016
Petrol price was on Wednesday hiked by a marginal 5 paise per litre while diesel rate was increased by Rs 1.26 per litre - the fourth increase in rates in six weeks.
Indian Oil, MRPL Make $330 Million Iran Payment Via Germany-Based EIH Bank
Press Trust of India | Wednesday June 8, 2016
Domestic refiners Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) have made a second tranche payment using Germany-based EIH bank to help clear past oil dues to Iran.
Hockey India Congratulates Nita Ambani For IOC Membership Nomination
Saturday June 4, 2016
Nita Ambani became the first Indian woman to be nominated to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and it came as a recognition of her passionate work in the area of education and sports.
Sachin Tendulkar, Abhinav Bindra Back Nita Ambani's Nomination To The IOC
Friday June 3, 2016
Nita Ambani has been nominated for membership in the International Olympic Committee and will become the first Indian woman to be on the apex sporting body, if she gets elected at the IOC Session scheduled to take place in August.?
Nita Ambani Becomes First Indian Woman To Be Nominated To The IOC
Press Trust of India | Friday June 3, 2016
Nita Ambani has been nominated as a candidate in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and could become the first Indian woman to be present in the sporting body, if she gets elected in the August elections.
Indian Oil 2nd Most Profitable PSU; Posts Rs 10,399 Crore Profit In FY16
Press Trust of India | Friday May 27, 2016
Indian Oil Corp (IOC) on Friday reported a record net profit of Rs 10,399 crore in 2015-16 to become nation's second most profitable PSU, even as it posted an 80 per cent drop in March quarter earning because of inventory losses.
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