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AIEEE Paper Leak Cost

Sun, 01 May 2011 06:30:00 -0400

Today, AIEEE paper leaked and I just estimated its direct association with our economy. Here is the figure that will amaze you about how a culprit in the greed of few lakh Rupees can harm our National Economy.

Total Students to appear (my estimate at minimum side): 12 Lakh = 12,00,000 Students = 1.2 Million Students
Cost of Extra one day's travel and conveyance to re-appear in the examination (if happens) = Rs. 1,000
(I had taken minimum average only)
So 12,00,000 x 1,000 = 12,00,000,000 = 1200 Million = 120 Crore Rupees only!

So, we can loose 120 Crore Rupees and 12 Million Work days.

Now, feel more proud of being an Indian as this is just half of the money expensed over British Royal wedding of Kate and Williams which I mentioned in my earlier Notes which I calculated just one year interest amount of OUR Kohinoor diamonds estimated worth.

Thank you.
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44,404 files missing! Reg Trademarks are protected but not the files

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:43:57 -0400

The Office of the Controller General issued a Public Notice about missing of a total of 44,404 files relating to registered trade marks from different branches of the Trade Marks Registry. This Public Notice was issued in pursuance of the directions issued by the Hon'ble Delhi High Court in a Civil Writ Petition.

Good that the Trade Marks Registry is having critical information in digital format in respect of all these missing files such as the trade mark applied for, the name of the applicant, the address for correspondence, agent on record as available in the Trade Marks Journal and details of renewal and subsequent changes available in the electronic history records of the concerned mark.

The trade mark office mentioned that it has now become necessary to reconstitute these files with inputs from the registered proprietors. It would also be in the interest of the registered proprietors to have the files reconstituted for better protection and maintenance of their marks.

New Overseas I-Tax Units

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:22:18 -0500

8 New ITOUs to be Operationalised in Next Fiscal
The Minister of State for Finance, Shri S.S. Palanimanickam, in written reply to a question raised in Lok Sabha today, said that the Government has taken steps to operationalise 8 new Income Tax Overseas Units (ITOUs) in France, Germany, Netherlands, Cyprus, U.S.A, U.K., U.A.E. and Japan in the next financial year

Two ITOUs have already been operationalised in Singapore & Mauritius in F.Y. 2010-2011. These Units are not engaged in tax collection process directly.

The mandate of ITOUs is to assist Indian Competent authorities, under the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements (DTAAs)/ Tax Information Exchange Agreements (TIEAs), in its various works as well as to provide clarity on Indian taxation law in order to promote investment in India.

Uniform Civil Code

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:18:11 -0500

Bringing in a Uniform Civil Code involves changes in the Personal Laws including those of the minority communities. Therefore, it has been the consistent policy of the Central Government not to interfere in the Personal Laws of the minority communities unless the necessary initiatives for such changes come from a sizeable cross-section of such communities themselves.

This information was given by Dr.M.Veerappa Moily, Minister of Law and Justice in the Lok Sabha in a written reply.

F.C.C. going to Regulate Net Access!

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 01:30:00 -0500

STATEMENT BY FCC COMMISSIONER MIGNON L. CLYBURN
ON FCC MEETING TO VOTE AN ORDER PRESERVING THE OPEN INTERNET

The open Internet is a crucial American marketplace, and I believe that it is appropriate for the FCC to safeguard it by adopting an Order that will establish clear rules to protect consumers access. The Commission has worked tirelessly to offer a set of guidelines that, while not as strong as they could be, will nonetheless protect consumers as they explore, learn, and innovate online. As such, I plan to vote to approve in part and concur in part the Open Internet Order during the FCCs open meeting tomorrow.

I appreciate the hard work of my colleagues, and I am especially grateful for the commitment and dedication of Commissioner Copps, who has worked many years on behalf of consumers to ensure an open Internet. I also want to thank the many stakeholders who have worked diligently on these issues and took the time to call, write, and visit me to convey their concerns. I am also grateful to Chairman Genachowski, his staff, and the many others at the Commission who worked around-the-clock on this proceeding.

As a Commissioner whose task is to safeguard consumers and the public interest, I will continue to watch the growth of the Internet and will applaud industry advances and milestones. I will also seek out and facilitate any collaboration between myself, my colleagues, corporate stakeholders, and public interest representatives, as there can be no better path forward than that which is achieved through consensus.

Source: http://www.fcc.gov/

Govt to check for Active Mobile Users

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:44:42 -0500

A decision has been taken by the Department of Telecommunications that an exercise should be done on pilot basis in a representative area to know the actual number of active users {Visitor Location Register (VLR) based} as against number of active Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) in that area, subsequently information be collected from all areas for the same month. Accordingly, Delhi and Haryana Telecom Enforcement, Resource and Monitoring (TERM) cells of the Department of Telecommunications have been asked to obtain the information on the same.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Communications & Information Technology, Shri Sachin Pilot in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.
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Modernisation of Employment Exchanges

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:40:46 -0500

For a long time, the Employment Exchanges have been fulfilling the objectives by carrying out various activities assigned to them, such as registration of job seekers, submission of candidates against notified vacancies, collection of labour market information and providing vocational guidance & career counseling to the job seekers. However, with the passage of time, due to the shrinkage of job opportunities in organized sector, setting up of major recruitment agencies such as Staff Selection Commission, Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS), State Public Service Commissions, State Subordinate Service Selection Boards, etc., many vacancies are not notified to the Employment Exchanges. Supreme Court judgement of 1996 gave freedom to employers to advertise their vacancies to seek nominations from open market besides notification of vacancies to Employment Exchanges. A number of private recruitment agencies and web portals have also come up for recruitment, particularly, in the private sector.

Up-gradation and Modernization of the Employment Exchanges (EEMMP) has been taken up as one of the Mission Mode Projects (MMP) under National-e Governance Plan (NeGP) of Government of India. The project is under finalisation.

Under the project, a national web portal is proposed to be developed which will work like a virtual job market. This will contain all the data regarding availability of skilled persons on the one hand and requirement of skilled persons by the industry on the other. It will help youth in getting suitable placement and enable industry to procure required skills on real time basis.

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment Shri Harish Rawat gave this information in reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.

Mughal Garden to Open for Public from Feb'13th

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:26:21 -0500

Mughal Gardens to be opened for public viewing from February 13th

New NCTE Rule for Min Qualification for Teachers

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:11:12 -0500

Amendment to the National Council for Teacher Education Act, 1993

The Union Cabinet today approved a proposal from the Ministry of Human Resource Development to amend the National Council for Teacher Education Act, 1993 to clarify its applicability to matters relating to norms for minimum qualification for appointment of school teachers and clarify its applicability to schools and school teachers.

POPs - the Dirty Twelve

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:47:08 -0500

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), i.e. Dirty Twelve are Dioxins, Furans, DDT, Poly-Chlorinated By- Phynel (PCB), Aldrin, Chlorodane, Deldrin, Endrin, Hepata-chloro, Hexa-Chloro Benzene (BHC/Lindance) Mirex and Toxaphene.