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Union Budget 2010-2011 (Govt. of India)

More services to be brought under service tax net Service tax to result in net revenue gain of Rs 3000cr Customs duty on gold to be reduced; silver at Rs 1500/kg Uniform concessional duty of 5% on all medical appliances Rationalising of customs on gaming software Custom duty of one of the key component of microwave oven reduced

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28 February 2010 at 16:21 - Comments

Highlights of Union Budget 2010 (Govt. of India)

Finance Mister, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee presented the Budget for 2010 – 2011 today with an eye towards growth, yet targeted to enforce fiscal discipline. With the reduction in income tax rates (providing much relief to the already stretched wallet of the Indian tax payer!) as well as the hike in rates of petro products, the [...]

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27 February 2010 at 07:44 - Comments

Ways to type in Hindi …

There are several ways to type in Hindi. Some of these include:

Using Google Transliteration: http://www.google.com/transliterate

Using Google Transliteration Bookmarklet: http://t13n.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/blet/docs/help_hi.html Using an IME. Common IME’s include those from Google, Microsoft Bhasha and Baraha. [...]

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2 February 2010 at 10:14 - Comments

Indian Animation Industry

In possible good news for a faltering animation industry in India, NASSCOM has forecasted that the industry will grow to USD 1 billion by 2012 from an estimated USD 494 million in 2008. The report, released at the NASSCOM Animation & Gaming Summit 2009 in Hyderabad, outlines the key challenges for the animation and vfx [...]

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12 November 2009 at 01:16 - Comments

Internet Statistics in India

Akamai Technologies has released its ‘State of the Internet’ study for the second quarter 2009. The study analyses internet statistics in Indian states, and takes into account traffic attacks, outages, network connectivity, and so on. Following are few of the highlights related to Internet in India Average internet speed in was above 768 kbps. India has [...]

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23 October 2009 at 12:16 - Comments

Happy Birthday Father Gandhi Ji ..

There is a name that profounds too big than anyone when we think of our freedom, India’s freedom. Though we are talking about freedom fighter but the irony is that this person is known for non violence or zero violence. Simple, Zero violence, follower of Ahimsa principles … the none other than … my and [...]

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3 October 2009 at 05:31 - Comments
Even Google is celebrating Gandhi birthday by tributing their home page logo to Gandhi's image ..
3 October 09 at 05:32

Nandan Nilekani’s Fully integrated ID card system!

Indian govt is thinking of issuing fully inegrated ID card to every Indian, this initiative is headed by Nandan Nilekani. Following is a small hilarious act on how the Life then would be as follows: Operator : “Thank you for calling Pizza Hut . May I have your…” Customer: “Helo, can I order..” Operator : “Can I [...]

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18 August 2009 at 23:04 - Comments

World celebrates India Independence day

Today 15 August is the day we(Indians) celebrate our independence day “At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. Happy Independence Day to everyone !” These was the first announcement which was made by Our First PM Jawaharlal Nehru Also see the world celebrating India’s independence day [...]

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15 August 2009 at 11:36 - Comments

Deutsche Bank : Gujarat offers the most favourable outlook for growth

Gujarat is the Topmost Investment Destination of India: Deutsche Bank: “Gujarat offers the most favourable outlook for growth of demand for infrastructure projects”.

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30 July 2009 at 21:49 - Comments

Be truthful, be confident, and go bell the CAT

Following is a story of an IIM topper. I received this as a forward email, but it is inspiring and funny too …. Why not have a look at it .. may be it help you to grab the CAT Preparation 2005: In March 2005 the CAT 2005 fever picked up in IIT. A lot of people [...]

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23 July 2009 at 01:10 - Comments