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Posted in Bollywood, Entertainment, India, Life, Movies.
First day, late night show of Avatar in 3D Ambience’s Hall and then next day first day last show of 3 Idiots. Life could not have asked for more.
Two extremely different movies, one takes you into unheard ocean of imagination and other shows you hard-hitting reality with one of the best comic scenes. Continued…
– December 25, 2009
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Posted in Finance, Investment, Mutual Funds.
As per SEBI, they will provide a online system starting March 2010 where investor can buy and sell mutual fund without any intermediaries. For sure, this will make investment process transparent and convenient.
NSE (National stock exchange) along with NSDL(National Securities Depository) will create a platform for the same where mutual fund units will be traded. It will be an investor friendly self service application. This will also reduce the overall cost incurred in MF transaction (paper work, submission etc.)
It will be of great benefit for people like me who do not want to transact through agents and distributors. Earlier, agents had comission so they used to service small investors but now they also don’t seem to be interested in providing services. I am currently also doing most of the mutual funds transactions online but on respective AMC website (Read here for more details). So I have to apply for and maintain different HPIN for all AMC sites and is painful.
– November 6, 2009
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Posted in Travel.
Bali is truly unique, in that it is the only Hindu island in Indonesia, a country dominated by Islam. Hinduism is a religion that developed out of the way of life of the people living on the banks of the Indus river in India and Hinduism came to Indonesia many centuries ago. Bali’s more than 95% population is Hindu and they still follow rituals and 4 caste system. Everywhere you go, you will find inspiration of Ramayana, But version of Hinduism that is practiced in Bali differs from that practiced in India.
– November 5, 2009
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Posted in Internet.
My First Google Adsense paycheck
It feels great to earn first paycheck from Google AdSense.
– September 7, 2009
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Posted in Government, India, Internet, Technology.
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), National Remote Sensing Center (NSRC) and Department of space, Govt of India has launched Bhuvan (means Earth in Sanskrit), a satellite mapping tool. It has been launched on 12th August, 2009; 90th birthday of Vikram Sarabhai, the father of Indian space program.
Bhuvan would be able to provide local information of towns, cities and villages of India. It uses the data recorded by Indian satellites.
Its very similar to Google Earth or Wikimapia, But has many advantages over them. The best feature is its powerful zoom. Google Earth shows details upto 200 meters distance and Wikimapia upto 50 meters, Bhuvan can show images upto 10 meters. Thats good enough for even 3 floor high buildings.
But Google Earth, Bhuvan application will not be downloadable and can only be accessed after logging into the website.
Features:
- Provides Measurement tools for Horizontal distance, aerial distance and vertical distance
- Provides Shadow Analysis; sets the sun position based on the given time creating shadows and effects the lighting on the terrain
- 2D and 3D image data of Indian Cities, Towns and Villages with information on Soil, wasteland and water resources.
- Bookmark places.
- Population and other factual data about places.
The link to the official website is : http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/
Before using the tool, you have to Register Here.
After you register with a username, download browser plugin from links below:
System with Direct X 9.0 and .Net framework 2.0 : Click Here
System with Direct X 9.0 only : Click Here
After installing the plugin, Open Bhuvan website (in internet explorer only). Login with your username and start travelling The India.
I already have registered and tried to lookup my current city Gurgaon. Below is the screen shot:
Screen Shot from Bhuvan
Bhuvan is already at the center of controversy regarding its possible use by terrorists as Google Earth was known to be used in the Mumbai attacks last year. In Bhuvan, masking of important buildings will be considered later to avoid such cases.
– August 15, 2009
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Posted in Education, Finance, Government, Income Tax, India.
Indian government has taken steps to make income tax return filing easier and simple.
In past few years there have been many improvements and use of technology by income tax department like introduction of E-filing, online tax payment, digital signature etc.
In order to spread the knowledge, I am writing steps on how you can file income tax return online yourself.
– June 27, 2009
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Posted in Education, Finance, Income Tax, India.
Just out of curiosity and to learn more, for past few years, I have been calculating tax, making whatever extra payment other than TDS online, filling return forms and submitting tax return myself. I am always excited to try new ways government implements.
I registered myself 3 years back to view tax credits paid by my employer as TDS. You can also register here : Check you tax credits. You can also download Form 26 AS here and see how much tax has been deposited on your name from your employer or any other firm.
– June 25, 2009
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Posted in Education, Internet.
Recently I saw a new education website StudyTimes.com. Amazingly they have more or less copied pasted design/creatives from another website Studyplaces.com, which is there from past two years.
At some places (http://www.studytimes.com/studyabroad/), They even copy-pasted same internal banners as on StudyPlaces. See screenshot below:
StudyTimes - same creatives used as on StudyPlaces.com
WTF, Is there not any legal issue in this. You can get inspired from others on web but can you just save someone’s creative images and use on your site.
– June 24, 2009
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Posted in Government, India, Politics.
आदमी आज़ाद है, देश भी स्वतंत्र है, राजा गए रानी गयी, अब तो प्रजातंत्र है
जन के लिए जन के द्वारा जनता का राज है, प्रजातंत्र सबसे बड़ा हम सबको नाज़ है
Finally much awaited Indian election results are out.
Indians eventually have thrown out power traders, dividers and self acclaimed king makers.
Its a win of India and its people.
They do not want any regional and small party to blackmail government and stop their country’s progress.
They want development, jobs, infrastructure and quick recovery from recession.
Bye Bye Maya, Lefties, Lalu, Paswan and Mulayam !
For recession hit corporate India, the big bang reforms may be coming soon. India Inc. is full of Hope.
– May 17, 2009
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All parties are trying to catch voter at younger stage. Every party trying to project that they have younger leaders which connect to youngsters.
Congress have many young faces. Buy did they actually projected them?
Last time at election, they had Murli Dewra, Sachin Poilet, Jyotiraditya Scindia won the elections, but old party did not believe in giving them ministership and did not gave them a chance to manager India Inc.
Congress may claim that they have younger leaders but they are not ready to give them power and their old aged politicians want to suck blood from Indians first. Is it not double fascism. At time to votes, they ask votes in name of young leaders and when they win, they do not care for young leaders.
I strongly believe that Indian need CEOs to manage the country and not the 80 years old politicians.
In current economic conditions, recession and jobless environment, younger generation have become restless and frustrated. They need somebody who can lead them to good future and not play caste, religion and reservations based politics.
Next generation, Come out and change the country and this world. Throw these age old politicians out of the world. Bring a change !
– May 10, 2009
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