Life in India

RGUKT IIIT Admissions Fiasco

2011-11-20T21:29:00.001-08:00

The admissions of the prestigious IIITs (International Institute of Information Technologies) of Andhra Pradesh have become a farce, with the government cancelling this year's provisional merit list for the second time yesterday. IIITs & the Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT) are the initiative of the Government of Andhra Pradesh. RGUKT offers 6 years full time residential

Home Loans - SBI My Home Mela

2011-11-20T21:28:00.001-08:00

The State Bank Of India is running "My Home" Mela this Saturday. The SBI plans to offer loans at attractive interest rates during this Mela. The SBI My Home Mela will run through the festive season of Aug, Sep and Oct 2009. SBI offers loans to different segments of customers. Under its Hi Five scheme, they offer loans upto Rs 5 lakhs, with an interest rate of 8% for the first 5 years. Under

Banking Ombudsman - Complaints On Banking Services

2011-11-20T21:27:00.001-08:00

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) started the Banking Ombudsman (BO) services to help customers who are not happy with the deficiency of services at any Bank in India. The Banking Ombudsman helps citizens in resolving complaints related to credit cards, service charges, promises given by the sales agents of banks, but not kept by banks, and delays in delivery of bank services. Customers who have

Online NCERT Text Books

2011-11-20T21:26:00.001-08:00

National Council of Educational Research And Training (NCERT) started offering the Text Book Material Online. NCERT is an autonomous organization of Government of India with a mission to assist and advise the governments at the Centre and in States in the Education Policy Implementation. NCERT’s Online Textbooks initiative will help students and teachers where teachers can adopt a more modular

Janmashtami Greetings

2011-11-20T21:25:00.001-08:00

India celebrates Krishna Janmashtami (Also called as Krishnashtami or Gokulashtami or Sri Krishna Jayanti) on Friday 14th August 2009. Janmashtami is the birth day of Lord Krishna. On this day, devotees remember the baby krishna’s naughty deeds by dressing up the kids at home in Krishna’s attire. People imprint foot marks of Krishna in front of their houses as a gesture of Krishna walking into

Voter ID Card - Register Online

2011-10-29T23:52:00.001-07:00

Mumbai District Collector office launched a web site to help voters register online. The website http://www.mumbaicityelection.org/ provides all the information on how to register and get voter ID card online. Mumbai voters can register online at http://www.mumbaicityelection.org/forms/htm_registernew1.php However, for online registration, a voter has to locate his assembly segment by

Women Leadership In India - Training Program

2011-10-29T23:51:00.001-07:00

The Center for Social Research (CSR) and the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) started a new initiative to nurture leadership aspirations in women in India. Over the past decades, women were vastly underrepresented in Indian political decision-making bodies. Though there were symbolic representations at various levels of legislature, the women were shadowed by their male partners, who held

Telangana - Its different, Says Pranab

2011-10-29T23:50:00.001-07:00

Tasting the domino's affect of Telangana, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee says, "Telangana does not mean new states everywhere. The demand for Telangana was old. Its different!" Yes, Telangana is different!! But Pranab Da didn't get the real difference yet. In all other regional agitations, the region (typically neglected & is geographicallly far from state capitals) wanted to separate from

Kailash Manasarovar Yatra Notification

2011-10-29T23:49:00.000-07:00

Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India, announced the Kailash Manasarovar Yatra 2012. Last Date to Apply: 05-Mar-2012 Manasrovar Yatra is extremely arduous, high altitude, religious, trekking expedition under inhospitable weather conditions The duration of Yatra is 26 days and cost will be approximately around Rs. 75,000/- Indian Nationals of age 18 years and above, who are

RBI Scholarship for Lecturers

2011-10-29T23:47:00.001-07:00

Reserve Bank Of India announced research Scholarship for Faculty Members. The scholarship involves a 3 month paid research activity during May-Jul 2010, in the areas of Financial Economics, Banking, Real Sector Issues. The paid research activity helps faculty members to gain exposure to RBI's activities in different areas. Last Date to Apply 05-Feb-2010 Selection Process Eligible candidates

Buddhist Pilgrimage - Indian Railways

2011-10-29T23:46:00.001-07:00

Indian Railways will operate a special tour on Mahaparinirvana Express that connects the Buddhist shrines across India. The tour is currently scheduled for 13-Feb, 09-Mar, 20-Mar-2010 The all paid expenses tour will cost Rs 14,999/- for AC-3tier, Rs. 19,999/- for AC-2tier. The train, Mahaparinirvana Express, is a Buddhist circuit special train, that will pass through the places of importance

Online SBH - Explore New Way of Banking

2011-10-29T23:32:00.001-07:00

State Bank of Hyderabad introduced its new online and mobile banking facilities under the title SBH explore Customers can use the internet banking features of SBH at their website http://www.onlinesbh.com/ Customers can also take advantage of the mobile banking features by subscribing to the same. To Subscribe to SBH mobile banking facility, send the following SMS to 567676 MBSREG They

Email Id of Sri Krishna Committee on Telangana

2011-10-29T23:30:00.000-07:00

Indian Government has set up the Sri Krishna Committee to study the current situation in Andhra Pradesh. The committee will study the contemporary political and social issues that are plaguing the state of Andhra Pradesh, including the demand for a separate state of Telangana. The committee started its work last week and is now inviting opinions from all quarters of public, on the topics of

Financial Assistance for Projects

2011-10-29T23:28:00.001-07:00

The Technology Development Board (TDB) is a statutory body under the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. TDB helps innovators & entrepreneurs in commercializing the innovative technology solutions. TDB provides the required financial assistance to take the innovation to market. TDB provides financial assistance in all sectors and project proposals are accepted through out

Temples Online - Puja, Rituals, History

2011-10-29T23:27:00.000-07:00

For the benefit of pilgrims, most of the Indian temples are coming up with websites which give information the temple history, rituals, facilities and darshan timings. Some of these websites provide online Pooja, Homa, Havan facilities too. Here is a list of such websites 1. Siddhi Vinayak http://www.siddhivinayakaonline.com 2. Varanasi Temple http://www.shrikashivishwanath.org 3. Guravayur

BSNL Customer Mela

2011-10-29T23:26:00.001-07:00

BSNL Hyderabad Telecom District (http://ap.bsnl.co.in/) is conducting a Customer Mela. BSNL Customer Mela runs from 15-Feb t- 24-Feb-2010 During this Mela, BSNL offers many services including: - Resolutions to complaints related to billing & additional usage - Renewal of old disconnected phone services - New connection requests - Booking for new services like IPTv, Broadband BSNL offers

ESI Pehchan Card

2011-10-13T06:18:00.000-07:00

Employees' State Insurance Corporation of India, social security system tailored to provide socioeconomic protection to workers in organized sector, announced the introduction of Pehchan Card. Using this ESI Pahchan card, workers can get Health Care services, financial transactions, anywhere in India. Eligible workers can contact their nearest ESI facility to register for this Pehchan card.

Online PF Settlement

2011-10-13T06:17:00.000-07:00

The Employee Provident Fund Organization of India is planning to facilitate Online Settlement of Provident Fund Claims The facility is expected to go live by the end of 2010-11 financial year The Labor ministry of Government of India has started this initiative in collaboration with the National Informatics Center For more updates on this facility, visit EPFO's website at http://

Download Sensex Mobile Streamer from bseindia

2011-10-13T06:15:00.001-07:00

Bombay Stock Exchange, now provides live streaming quotes on your mobile. These quotes will be streamed real-time, along with the details on the price movements. To access these, one has to install the BSE Sensex Mobile Streamer software on to their handsets. Here is the link to download the Mobile Streamer software http://www.bseindia.com/sensexstreamer.jad For any help on using this

Book TTD Seva online - Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams

2011-10-13T06:13:00.000-07:00

Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams (TTD) has started online Seva booking facility to provide better service to the devotees through web based interface TTD Seva Online website provides the following facilities to pilgrims: 1. e-Seva - To book a Seva (Worship) online 2. e-Accommodation - To book cottages at the pilgrim town of Tirumala/Tirupati 3. e-Hundi - To offer Donations to temple 4.

Cyber Crimes - How To Lodge A Complaint

2011-03-15T21:49:00.000-07:00

The IT department of Andhra Pradesh Government has changed the way the Cyber Crimes complaints are handled. Till date, the victims are supposed to lodge their complaints at police stations From now on, the IT department will act as the cyber appellate tribunal. So, the victims can directly complain to the IT department. Here is how to lodge complaints 1. On Fax: 040-23450103 2. On Email:

Get Counted - CENSUS 2010

2011-03-13T23:18:00.000-07:00

Indian Government is currently running Census 2010. As part of this exercise, a variety of demographic data is collected. This time, if you happen to miss the Census officials who visit your home, you can call/mail the authorities and request for a re visit at your convenient time. So, to get counted, call the toll free number 1-800-110111 or drop a mail to rgoffice.rgi@nic.in

Veda, Vedanta and The Upanishads

2011-03-13T23:17:00.000-07:00

Off late, I’m seeing many netizens writing incorrect interpretation of this topic. And thus I write here, a _brief_ dummy’s guide to Veda, Vedanta & Upanishads. 3000 years B.C, Every good preaching of wisdom was called a Veda. Thus, “Anantavai Veda” = There are infinite Vedas. Then came Sage Vyasa. He collated all the Vedas and classified them into 4 Vedas and assigned a Sage each as the owner

Copconnect.in - Connect With Mumbai Police

2011-03-13T23:15:00.000-07:00

Mumbai Police have started Copconnect website The purpose of this website is to help the Mumbai citizens in matters related to Safety & Crime in Mumbai. Through this website, Mumbai Police aims to awaken optimism, inspire initiative and mobilize youth to make a fundamental contribution to their community. The website hosts Mumbai Police Commissioner's blog too. Here is the link to the website

India Mobile Telephony - Telecom Circles

2010-12-26T04:52:00.000-08:00

Here is some notes that I took from my recent study of Indian Mobile Telephony Indian Telecom market is divided in to 22 Telecom Service Areas (otherwise known as telecom circles) Telecom Operators have to obtain circlewise licences to operate in these circles. The 22 Circles are inturn classified as follows: Metros (2) Delhi, Mumbai Category A Circles (5) Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat