23 interesting facts about Animal Behavior!

1. The European eels spend three years the journey and then travel far inland up rivers, where they stay Up to nine years. They then return to sea and begin  their 3000 mile swim back to the breeding grounds of the Sargasso sea and that without eating!
2. Most traveled butterfly is the monarch butterfly of North America, which migrates 25,00 miles Hudson Bay to Florida and back.
3. Most amphibians lay their eggs in water a leave them. But the male mid wife toad carries eggs in strings around his legs until they hatch.
4. Greatest depth at which sponges have be found living is more than 280,00 feet.
5. An amoeba, a shapeless animal reproduce sexually by fission (splitting nucle apart). The nucleus divides first and the rest of the amoeba follows.
6. Largest octopus is the common pacific octopus which can measure 32 feet the tip of one up to from tentacle to the tip of the opposite one.
7. A potter wasp makes a clay cell stocked with caterpillars, in which she lays eggs. She seals the pot and flies away to die.
8. Whenever ants make a nest by binding leaves with silk.
9. There are more than 200,00 species of spiders.
10. Largest group of insects are the beetles of which 300,000 species are known. The lady bird is not a bird. It is a beetle.:)
11. Spiders eat insects in much large numbers than most people realize. In England and wales for example there are well over 2000,000 spiders in every acre of meadow land. It has been estimated that in one year the spiders in the country eat a weight of insects that exceeds the total weight of the human population of England and Wales.
12. Sea horse has strange eyes, by which it can focus in two different directions at the same time. The eyes of the giant squid are still strange. They have big eyes to clearly in see poor visible conditions.
13. Gastric frog of Australia gives birth its young ones to through its mouth.
14. A butterfly has 120,00 eyes.
15. Dolphins sleep with one of its eyes open.
16. Do you know that an earth worm can pull ten times its own weight and silk worm has eleven brains ?
17. One kg of honey is obtained from 4 million flowers by bees. To collect one ounce of honey, a bee may have to fly about 130 km.
18. Snails can sleep for 3 to 4 years continuously.
19. Some insects can live about a year after their heads have been separated.
20. A house fly has big compound eyes, each having about 40,00 tiny lenses.
21. A termite queen can produce over 300,00 eggs in one day.
22. The largest species of scorpion found in India measures 25 cms from the end of the sting to the the pincers. If it stings, the man dies in about four hours.
23. Wolf spider has 8 eyes, while a honey bee has five eyes. 

Tata Nano's World Record for the longest Journey!

The Indian auto giant, Tata Motors today celebrated not one but two iconic Nano expeditions. Mr. Ranjit Yadav, President, Passenger Vehicle Business Unit, Tata Motors and India’s first Formula One motor racing driver, Narain Karthikeyan today felicitated Mr. Srikarunya Subrahmanyam, a Bangalore based motoring enthusiast and his team, for entering the Guinness World Records. This significant achievement has been achieved with a national expedition in a Tata Nano.

Mr. Yadav and Mr. Karthikeyan today unveiled the book ‘Atop the World’ which has been written and edited by Mr. Thomas Chacko. Mr. Chacko is a Kochi-based, 63-year old motoring enthusiast, who completed a 78-day long national expedition in a Tata Nano, covering the length and breadth of the country. These momentous achievements come from sheer passion for motoring, backed by a robust and reliable car like the Tata Nano.

Speaking on this remarkable achievement, Mr. Ranjit Yadav, President – Passenger Vehicles Business Unit, Tata Motors said, “The Tata Nano has put India on the world motoring map when it comes to frugal engineering. The car has made us proud yet again with this record. The Tata Nano has proved its robustness and reliability in many car rallies and expeditions undertaken by Tata Motors and by customers on their own. It is motoring enthusiasts like Karun and Thomas who emote true passion for motoring. We are proud to be associated with them and we will continue to encourage such expeditions as it will enable customers to further understand and experience the brand’s true value.”

Celebrating a dream come true:

Tata Motors today unveiled the book ‘Atop the World’ written and edited by Mr. Thomas Chacko. The book captures Mr. Chacko’s dream project of exploring the country in a Tata Nano. Mr. Chacko successfully completed his 78-day long dream project on July 21, 2012. The 78-day all India drive has tested the Nano across the some of the most rugged terrains of the country and through all kinds of weather. The car emerged successful in this test of endurance.

Felicitating the two motoring enthusiasts, the Ace Racer, Mr. Narain Karthikeyan said, “I lately have seen a new breed of traveller emerge, one who has a streak of adventure and passion for motoring. I have known people who have driven immense distances just for the fun of it, even though a far more painless option of taking a flight or a train was always there. This is exactly the spirit that encourages enthusiasts like Srikarunya and Thomas to overcome challenges that comes with driving long distances especially the sort of mileage that they have done. But all this effort has to be backed up by a reliable package – which is the car and having been involved with the Nano since it existed on a drawing board, I am not surprised that it has managed to achieve this.”

Source: CarDekho 

Kaspersky Lab: Phishing attacks increased by 87%.

India is emerging as very big internet market now a days. And because of that rapid growth have seen in internet users. In recent report by Kaspersky Lab it's reveled that phishing attacks have been increased by 87%.

Phishing is a kind of internet fraud where cyber criminals create fake web pages of popular web sites to get personal information from users. The sites are usually related to popular websites like banking, email service, or can be any popular networking site. Most of the emails sent are from established websites like Yahoo, Facebook or Google.

"In 2012-2013, 102,100 users around the world were subjected to phishing attacks on a daily basis. In Russia, 19,000 users were attacked each day, 12,000 in the US, 10,000 in India, 6,000 in Germany, 3,000 in France, and another 3,000 in the UK," the Kaspersky Lab report stated. The report further reads that in 2012-2013, roughly 37.3 million users were subjected to phishing attacks globally, up 87 percent from 2011-2012.

"Most often, phishing attacks targeted users in Russia, the US, India, Vietnam and the UK. Phishing attacks were most frequently launched from the US, the UK, Germany, Russia and India," the report highlighted. Yahoo, Google, Facebook and Amazon are top targets of malevolent users. Online game websites, online payment sites, the bank websites and other credit and financial groups are also frequent targets, it added.

The Kaspersky Lab report also highlighted that India, Russia, US, UK, Germany and Russia are the countries most hit by the attacks.

Source: TOI

Micromax Canvas 4 Spotted Online!

Leaked images on the Internet show that the MIcromax canvas 4 will be available in white as well. The commercials that were released showed a black smartphone. The device is listed on Saholic as the Canvas 4 A117. According to Saholic’s listing, the Canvas 4 will run on Android Jelly Bean, have a quad-core processor coupled with 2GB of RAM. If the device runs on a quad-core processor we think it will be the same MediaTek chipset that powers the Canvas HD. The 2GB RAM will ensure that the device runs very smoothly. The smartphone will also sport 64GB expandable storage. The device also shows off dual-SIM capabilities.

There is no other information available about the specifications of the device and all we can do is speculate as to what the Canvas 4 will offer until Micromax lifts the curtain from the device. Considering that the device is the successor to the Canvas HD we think that it will sport a full HD display. Rumours do suggest that it will have a 13MP rear-facing camera. Cameras on budget smartphone have had some questionable output in the past but there are few devices like the Spice Stellar Pinnacle Pro that has a really good camera on a budget device.

We can also hope that the Canvas 4 will have a bigger battery ensuring better battery life. Stay tuned, as we will bring you the complete scoop on the Canvas 4 as soon as we get the information.

Tiger - Undisputed Hero of Jungle!

All the zoo-bred white tigers of the world come from Rewa, Madhya Pradesh in India. Tigers are the largest of the big cats family. Its roar can be heard from more then 2 miles away. One adult tiger can eat 60 pounds of fresh meet in one seating.

Do you know that tigers have been known to kill and eat crocodiles. At other end tigers were neither a bloodthirsty killer nor a man eater by nature. They are also known to kill and eat sometimes the cubs of other male tigers.

Tigers can spend up to 18 hours in sleeping. it can leap more than 30 feet in one bound. No two tigers have the same pattern of stripes. If you shave the fur from tigers it would still have stripes. J

They have excellent vision, estimates at 6 times better than human eye. The most developed sense of tigers is hearing.

When several tigers are present at a kill, the males will often wait for females and cubs to eat first, unlike lions, which do the opposite. Tigers rarely argue or fight over a kill and simply wait turns. Most tigers have yellow eyes, but white tigers usually have blue eyes, due to the gene for blue eyes being linked to the gene for white fur. The gene for being cross-eyed, or boss-eyed, is also linked, so many white tigers have crossed blue eyes.

Tiger parts were widely used in Chinese medicines.

Brain – To cure laziness and Pimples

Blood – For strengthening the constipation and will power

Teeth – For rabies, asthma and sores on panis

Skin – To treat mental illness

Bile – For convulsions in children

Work-from-home employees toil harder than their office peers!!

Employees who work from home slog away for at least seven hours a week longer than those in office, according to a new study.

Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin found that contrary to popular opinion, home workers toil harder than their colleagues who commute.

The study found that employees who work from home add five to seven hours to the standard 40-hour week compared with those who work exclusively at the office, the Daily Express reported.

Employees admitted to using technology such as email to perform office work even when sick or on vacation.The study found that so-called teleworkingblurs the boundary between work and home.

Rising petrol prices and increasing demand for a more equal work-life balance had prompted many white-collar staff to work from home.The study, published in Monthly Labour Review, concluded that teleworking is not helpful in reducing work-family conflicts.

The researchers also found that parents with dependent children are no more likely to work from home than the population as a whole.

Tata Nano emax - CNG Officially Announced!

One of the most awaiting car has been finally announced. Today during the Tata Motor's HorizonNext event they have announced new 2013 upgraded tata nano with CNG variant called emax. emax will be the badge used on all upcoming tata cars with cng option. In today's event tata have also launched CNG powered indigo eCS and eV2.

As per the ARAI new CNG nano will provide 35 KM/Kg. milage with CNG. Tata nano emax comes with 32 Ltr/5 Kg. CNG tank under the driver's seat. So if we consider the running cost then it'll be somewhere around 1.75 Rs./Km. in Ahmedabad. Apart from the class leading mileage nano emax will be the most greenest non electric vehicle in india with co2 emission of 75g per km. There will be additional switch provided in CNG variant for use of CNG as fuel.

Tata motors have said that CNG varaints will hit the showrooms in next 90 days. And updated nano will be available on sale by next month. Nano emax also have few more custom changes like

• Dashboard mounted integrated speaker with glove box
• Integrated CD player with Bluetooth connectivity
• Front and rear chrome stripe
• Rear parcel tray with speakers.
• emax badge on back

We can expect reasonable increase in the price in tata nano CNG variant by Approx 20,000 INR. 

Tata Motor's refreshed products showcased at HorizonNext!

Tata Motors is all set to fight back in Indian automobile market. In Horizonnext tata motors displayed 8 new variants of their vehicles. This display includes new upgraded indigo eCS, sumo, indica, safari storme and nano. Among them all the major upgrade are seen in sumo, eCS and nano. 

The Indigo eCS gets a refresh in looks and also technically as the gear shifts have even improved. The new F-Shift gearbox makes it easier to shift. Features added are new smoked headlamps, rear parking assist, duo flat suspension and dual colored bumpers. And surprisingly new eCS now comes with company flitted CNG option.

At Horizonext, Mr. Karl Slym, Managing Director, Tata Motors, said, "While the Indian automobile market has become intensely competitive, our goal is to enhance our market leadership in commercial vehicles and move to a strong podium finish in the passenger vehicle market. Horizonext is the next step in line with the company's mission to be passionate in anticipating and providing the best vehicles and experiences that excite our customers globally. We are igniting that passion -- so that customers are central to us, in what we are offering in our products, in the manner we are engaging with them at our dealerships, and in the processes we have adopted in servicing their vehicles." 

Addition to that company also introduced new tata indica and special explorer edition of safari storme. New indica now have transmission with Smart-Shift gear technology is coupled to a refined and powerful diesel engine. This will allow a smooth gear shifts and a class leading fuel economy of 25kmpl claimed by company. It also gets a new refined Dual Path Suspension that ensures great ride, handling and drivability on all kinds of roads. 

Tata nano also gets upgraded looks with chrome strip on front and rear bumper and with integrated audio with Bluetooth connectivity. Now nano will also come with new color options as well. which is very much same as we have described in last article.

TATA Nano 2013 Spotted in Nano Drive With MTV Season 2 !

It's been a long time that we have seen lots of stories about upcoming nano 2013 over the internet. But no official announcements have made by tata motors so far. We are expecting that nano 2013 should be officially released by tata motors on 19th June with face lifted indigo e-cs and sumo gold. additionally you may also see some additionally sport accessories for safari strome as well on that day.

But before the official release of nano 2013, it's spotted in nano Drive With MTV Season 2. As the nanos provided to participants are looks like 2013 nano spotted testing in spy shots circulated over the internet. so we are not very sure that what kind of strategy tata motors do have to promote nano 2013. :)

Following features we have seen in nano 2013.

1. Roof mounted antenna (front)
2. Front bonnet chrome lip
3. Rear Tailgate chrome lip
4. Rear bumper with additional ventilation 
5. Front bumper, or rather, the lower part of the front bumper will have a grille behind it to prevent stones etc from hitting the A/C condenser
6. Glovebox on both sides
7. Front speakers - dash integrated - on both sides - so no more rickshaw fittings :)
8. Integrated stereo with all media inputs provision
9. Rear parcel shelf with rear speaker provision
10. Covered Rear "C" - pillars on the inside - no more bare metal
11. Vanity mirror on LHS sunvisor . The fair ladies should be happy
12. Redesigned console with a bigger storage area in front of gearlever.
13. Underseat storage trays a la Vista (still being debated apparently)
14. Bigger , stronger horn 
15. Hazard light switch moves to centre console above a/c vents from steering column
16. Remote central locking availability
17. New Colours 

Now lets compare the spy shots available over the internet quite long with the nano spotted with Drive With MTV Season 2

Spy Pics

Now lets take a look at nano spotted in Drive With MTV Season 2

Checkout the chrome strip and ventilation on rear bumper

Roof mounted antenna and front chrome strip

So, we can expect that nano 2013 will hit the showrooms very soon. 

Trouble Sleeping? Your Tablet or Smartphone Could Be the Reason!

Do you need good sleep? Make sure that you keep brightness of your smartphone/tablet low, a new study research presented at SLEEP 2013, the Associated Professional Sleep Societies annual meeting in Baltimore.

Additionally, holding the smartphone or tablet at least 14 inches from your eye sight while using it will also reduce its potential to disturb your sleep.

Smartphones and tablets can make for sleep-disrupting bedfellows. One cause is believed to be the bright light-emitting diodes that allow the use of mobile devices in.

The Mayo Clinic study suggests dimming the smartphone or tablet brightness settings and holding the device at least 14 inches from your face while using it will reduce its potential to interfere with melatonin and impede sleep.

"There's a lot of concern about using mobile devices and that prompted me to wonder, are they always a negative factor for sleep?" said co-author Lois Krahn, a psychiatrist and sleep expert at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona.

"We found that only at the highest setting was the light over a conservative threshold that might affect melatonin levels. If it's at the mid setting or at a low setting it's bright enough to use," Krahn said.

In the study, researchers experimented with two tablets and a smartphone in a dark room, using a meter on its most sensitive setting to measure the light the devices emitted at various settings when held various distances from a person's face.

They discovered that when brightness settings were lowered and the devices were held just over a foot from a user's face, it reduced the risk that the light would be bright enough to suppress melatonin secretion and disrupt sleep.

This research can help you in getting better sleep after the long working day… J