Reports are coming in on how young medicos in hundreds have taken seige of the Connnaught Place area in New Delhi and have stopped movement of all traffic.

Demanding a reply from the government on the reservation issue, they are holding hands and standing ground against water cannons being used by the police to disperse them.

Cynapse - the inventor of SyncNotes and Flickr Gadget has recently launched their new invention NeoBinaries a web2.0 community powered by users, industry experts, application creators and team Cynapse, designed to help users decide upon the perfect web based application for their wide ranging requirements.

NeoBinaries makes it easy for you to find the web based application that works best for your usage. At NeoBinaries you can find the newest & most popular Web 2.0 applications, compare details, read reviews and comments from people like you. You can subscribe to the RSS feeds and keep yourself updated with the latest news from the world of Web 2.0.

IndiaMarks.Com seems like an India specific del.icio.us. It claims to be a social bookmarking service for the global indian community.

From the site:

Here you can save your bookmarks, organize all your online research, share your bookmarks with friends & family and find useful and interesting sites saved by the global indian community.

Let us not delude ourselves. IIT is a very efficient and consistent breeding ground for productive mediocrity.

It is very fashionable for the young upper middle class `global' Indian citizen to inveigh against the `sectarian', `populist' and `parochial' policies of the government. The article `Reservation saga' (Open Page, April 23) denouncing 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in the IITs and IIMs falls under this category. It seeks to question the validity of the anti-reservation lobby. As a specific case, we will examine their claims with regard to IIT.

The most feasible approach towards analysing the argument against reservation in IIT is to view the underlying axioms that its proponents cheerfully assume to be unquestionably true.

The geek political party Lok Paritran has set it sights on the forthcoming assembly polls in Tamil Nadu.

The Lok Paritran has hit its campaign trail on a rather ambitious note. 38-year-old Ilanthirumaran, an IIT alumna, is the party's candidate for the Chepauk constituency.

And guess who the former US-based software professional will take head on? None other than DMK chief ministerial candidate M Karunanidhi!

But the fact that he'll face a tough contest from a veteran has not unhinged Ilanthirumaran.

Read more at Yahoo India, and if you are in Tamil Nadu, please VOTE.

The growing Indian IT market has started attracting global E-Business biggies too.

Trilogy E-Business Software, best known for cutting-edge analytics and configuration solutions, with development centres in Bangalore and Austin, has launched YourBillBuddy.Com.

The site helps users find out the best mobile plan suited for their needs. The service works by requesting users to upload past bills. The system analyzes these bills and using a database of currently offered plans by different service providers it recommends the cheapest plan based on the user's calling pattern.

I am an MBBS student at AIIMS (All india Institute of Medical Sciences). I was one of the protestors at the New Delhi incident on 26th. Believe me, the feeling of hatred, bitterness and the sense of abandonment that comes over you when you see your friends and classmates struck by water cannon and having tear gas shells thrown at their faces can never be explained in words.

I felt like my nation has betrayed me, and the criminals in the government are not listening.However even as I write this, our organisation YOUTH FOR EQUALITY (comprised of students of all five delhi medical colleges) is trying to shore up suport for our cause from all sources....

Young India is finally beginning to believe. On Wednesday, April 26 medical students in Delhi took the reservation debate right back to Arjun Singh's home.

The anger and frustration brewing among students over the proposed government move to reserve seats for other backward classes in Central educational institutions degenerated into a mass protest on Wednesday when hundreds of medical students staged a strong protest right in front of the residence of Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh.

Police fired water canons and tear gas in an effort to prevent the students from staging the protest.

"We were protesting peacefully, they started treating us like animals. We work so hard and the to the top medical colleges and suddenly this reservation comes up," one of the protesting students said.

Read more on IBN Live, DNA India and Telegraph India.

Indian companies are finally breaking into the Web 2.0 party. The latest to join
the bandwagon is Pixrat - which is a kind of del.icio.us for photos.

The functionality is pretty similar to del.icio.us, although they also support personal bookmarks. There is also a popular page, which ranks most bookmarked images. They differ from flickr in the sense that they won't host your photos, but will just bookmark photos which are already online.

Recently I came across a nice photograph of a rag-picker who seems to be withdrawing money from an ATM. I found the photograph at Arun's Weblog, and posted it also on My Weblog. I don't know if the picture is photoshopped or real, but truly reflects a stark face of the changing India.