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Delhi Approves Special Telanga State

Finally Its done. Good News for telangana guys. Government meeting in Delhi approves Telangana. Today, 26th July 2013, in New Delhi, the Congress party has held up a special meeting. Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh Kiran kumar reddy and other top ministers were urgently called for the meeting this morning.

The meeting was led by the congress party president Sonia gandhi and prime minister. There was lot of debate and discussion in the Congress war-room in Delhi.

The meeting discussions mainly had their focus on whether to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh to create a new state of Telangana. Congress leader Digvijaya Singh said that a decision is "now awaited" from the government. 

But the updates are as follows
  • After this evening's meeting of the Congress's senior most leaders including Sonia Gandhi and the PM, sources say that decision has been taken to create a new state.
  • As a compromise, the Centre is reportedly in favour of making Hyderabad a shared capital between the new and old state for the next five or 10 years. Hyderabad being the state capital. Leaders of the other two regions say they cannot afford to lose the employment and investment opportunities invested in the city.
  • The government's decision may be announced before Parliament meets for the monsoon session on August 5.
  • Seemandhra Ministers are against the decision and are resigning to their positions. They want the state to be together
  • Will the decision be reverted? Stay tuned for updates
Source: NDTV

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Bihar School Principal Arrested

Patna, July 22: Bihar court on Monday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against the absconding principal of the government primary school in Saran district where 23 children died after eating contaminated food last week, an official said.

Saran District Magistrate Abhijit Sinha said Chapra district civil court issued the warrant against Meena Devi, the headmistress of the school at Gandaman village, after hearing a police application.

A government inquiry report earlier blamed Meena Devi for the deaths of the children who had consumed mid-day meal July 16.

Source: Yahoo

Read the Mid Day Meal tragedy in Bihar

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Tatkal Booking Rules and Latest News July 2013

Tatkal booking is one of the most top note feature of Indian Railways. To benefit the unplanned travellers, Indian Railways has introduced the scheme few years ago.

During the last few years the scheme has been revised several times to prevent misuse of the scheme and eliminate any fradulent activities. The ministry of railways is striving best to give the most to the common man.

Recent Rules and News for Tatkal booking

1. The Advance Reservation Period (ARP) of Tatkal scheme is reduced from two days to one day excluding the day of journey from the train originating station. For example, if train is to depart from the originating station on the second of the month, the Tatkal quota booking for that particular train will open at 10:00 hrs on the first of the month from originating station.

2. For booking Tatkal e-tickets, each of the passengers (mandatory for at least one passenger) can enter his/her ID proof type and number against his/her name in reservation form, which is to be used for travel. These details will be printed on the ERS/VRM as well as in the reservation chart.

3.During the journey, at least one passenger, whose identity card number has been indicated on the ticket, will have to produce original proof of identity indicated on the ticket, failing which all the passengers booked on the ticket shall be treated as travelling without ticket and charged accordingly.

4. Maximum of four passengers per PNR can be booked on Tatkal e-tickets.

5. No refund will be granted on cancellation of confirmed Tatkal ticket except in case of circumstance mentioned in para 2 of instructions contained in Commercial Circular no. 53 of 2006 issued vide letter no. 2006/TGI-I/20/P/Tatkal, dated 30.06.2006. Incase of Waitlisted Tatkal tickets, the money shall be refunded for e-tickets and for tickets purchased in counter, the cancellation charges shall be applied

6. Partial cancellation of Tatkal e-tickets is allowed but at least one passenger with ID card printed on ERS/VRM should not be cancelled. On cancellation of all the passengers whose ID card details is printed on ERS/VRM, all the passengers on that e-ticket will be cancelled.

7. Authorized ID – The personal Photo Identification card falling in any of these nine categories
  • Voter Identification Card
  • Driving License
  • PAN Card
  • Photo ID card issued by Central Government or State Government which are having serial number
  • Student Identity Card with photograph issued by recognized School/College for their students
  • Nationalized Bank Passbook with photograph
  • Credit Cards issued by Banks with laminated photograph
  • Unique Identification Card "Aadhaar” For Non-Indians, their Country's Passport will constitute sole authorized ID
8. Ration card will be accepted as proof of identity for undertaking journey under Tatkal scheme only if the passenger whose photograph is available on the ration card is travelling.

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Indian Railways: Advance Reservation Time Limit reduced

The time limit for Advanced Reservation has been reduced by the Indian Railways. Ministry of Railways has decided to change the existing time limit for advance reservation by trains shall be reduced from 120 days to 60 days (excluding the date of journey).
As a part of this, they have issued a circular 34 of 2013. The change shall be effective from 01 st May 2013.

The rules are as follows
  1. With effect from 01.05.2013, the ARP (Advance Reservation Period) will be of 60 days (excluding the day of journey) and bookings will be done accordingly. 
  2. There will be no change in case of certain day time express trains like Taj Express, Gomti Express etc, where lower time limits for advance reservations are at present in force.
  3. There will be no change in case of limit of 360 days for Foreign Tourists.


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E Filing of Income Tax July 2013

Its July and most of the individuals have to submit their tax statements to the Income Tax departments of India. IT department has come up with a different mode this time.

With an aim to reduce the rework and miscalculations, Income tax department

Individual, HUF are required to file return of income according to source from which they are deriving Income.

Steps to file form offline
  1. Download the applicable ITR form from Downloads
  2. Fill it offline
  3. Generate XML
  4. Register on e-Filing website using your PAN
  5. LOGIN to the portal.
  6. Go to e-File link - Upload Return 
More at https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/

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CCS News and Updates

The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) is a committee constituted by the Government of India. it decides on India's defence expenditure, matters of National Security, and makes significant appointments. The CCS is chaired by the Prime Minister of India and comprises the ministers of major ministries like the Minister of Defence, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Home Affairs, and the Minister of External Affairs.

The CCS is also responsible for reviewing and clearing the National cyber security policy.

News from CCS

Jul 18 2013: The cabinet committee on security (CCS) on Wednesday gave its approval for raising a mountain strike corps along the China border. This would be India's fourth strike corps, meant chiefly for offensive operations into enemy land, as well as India's first dedicated corps for offensive mountain warfare. Source: times of india

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Bihar tragedy : Mid day meal kills 20 children

Mid day meal has brought death to the children in Bihar, Patna. Nine children have died in Bihar, allegedly as a result of food-poisoning from the free mid-day meal provided at their school near Chhapra in the central part of the state, 60 kms from the state capital Patna. Those who died were all younger than 10.
Hoping that their children would study and eat well in school, the parents were working in fields. But the basic idea of mid day meal has lost its charm leaving everyone in vain.

Another 40 children have been admitted to a local hospital; 10 of them are in critical condition, said sources.
The mid-day meal caused severe food poisoning, said sources. Several hundred people surrounded the local police station this evening demanding action against the school.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has ordered an inquiry and announced compensation of Rs. 2 lakh each to the families of the children who died.
The opposition BJP , which was dumped recently by the chief minister after a 17-year partnership, was quick to politicize the tragedy. "Such incidents did not happen even during Lalu Prasad's government," said BJP leader Giriraj Singh. 

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Violation by Air India Pilots

Air Republic of India (AI) pilots on a Bangalore-Hyderabad flight, allowed a distinguished south Indian actress to travel within the cockpit occupying the observer’s seat. 

The observer’s seat is reserved for examiners and observers authorised by aviation regulator DGCA to conduct checks and for tyro pilots throughout their initial coaching. “Both the pilots are suspended associate degreed an inquiry has been ordered. 

The thespian was allowed to travel within the cockpit,” aforesaid associate degree AI exponent confirming the incident. Sources aforesaid the captain, a former workplace bearer of pilot union, the Indian industrial Pilots Association, allowed the thespian within the cockpit and let her stay there for the period of the flight. 

“Rules don't allow cockpit entry,” aforesaid aviation safety skilled Captain Mohan Ranganathan. “Apart from the distraction issue, just in case of associate degree emergency, the crew action would be impaired if associate degree undisciplined person is within the cockpit. this is often associate degree act of undiscipline,” he said. While AI failed to disclose the date of the incident, sources aforesaid it came about last month. 

The matter came to light-weight when a senior government official, WHO was on board the flight, created a criticism. “The emergency equipment within the cockpit is extremely totally different from that within the cabin and may solely be utilized by someone acquainted with its operation. the other person can ought to be power-assisted to use it associate degreed one shudders to assume what would have happened had an emergency occurred requiring the employment of the emergency crew O thereon flight. 

The crew would are sufficiently distracted to place the protection of the whole flight in danger,” aforesaid a senior commander, requesting obscurity.

Update:
The pilots - Jagan Mohan Reddy and S. Kiran - had allegedly allowed Kannada actress Nithya Menon in the cockpit while operating the Bangalore-Hyderabad flight last month.

Threat SMS to West Bengal Minister

Transport minister of West Bengal, Madan Mitra has received a threat SMS from Maoist. It is believed that the SMS is sent in respsonse to the decision of the minister to form anti-terror committees to thwart the left-wing extremists.

The SMS read as "Ak Madaner madote Trinamool birodhi jekono bektike Maobadi bole Chinhhito korte Gestapo bahini toiri hochhe, Sesher she din Voyangkar (We are setting up a Gestapo brigade against identification of any anti-Trinamool person as Maoist under the insistence of some Madan.
Last days are terrifying)," 

"I received this SMS last night. Already lodged a complaint with the police and informed this to the city police commissioner. I am not afraid of such a threat. The decision taken by me will remain unchanged. Those behind this SMS are cowards. If courageous, they should come forward," Mitra said. 

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IRCTC SMS based Mobile Booking

Now Book your train tickets using Mobile Phone, anywhere and anytime WITHOUT using Internet connection. Train passengers will be able to use their mobile phones to book tickets through a simple text-messaging-based-SMS facility or a menu-based dialling service –USSD service. Currently, only registered IRCTC users can use these services.


  • THE TWO OPTIONS

  • SMS Based Booking
  • SMS Services are currently offered by:-
  • Bharat BPO

    - Book by sending SMS at 139. Click here for details.
  • Frequency Weekly

    - Book by sending SMS at 5676714. Click here for details.
  • Pyro Group

    - Book by installing BSNL PrePaid Card Application in your Java based phone. Click here for details.

    1. For SMS Bookings, send a Booking SMS in specified format with information of Date of Journey, Class , Train Number and Passenger Details. You shall receive Seat Availability.

    2. In the second SMS make the Payment, which can be initiated in either two ways:-
      • Using Mobile Money Identifier MMID* and one-time password (OTP) as received from Bank for registered Mobile Number.
      • Using PrePaid Wallet Cards or mWallets.

    3. Booking confirmation SMS is sent by IRCTC.

    * MMID generation is a single click process available with more than 26 Indian Banks covering over 90% of the total banking subscriber base. The banks for the same are listed at    http://www.npci.org.in/bankmember.aspx

    * “OTP” is a One Time Password generated and provided by your respective bank.






  • USSD (Menu-based dialling)
  • USSD Services are currently offered by:-
  • Airtel Money

    - Airtel subscribers Dial *400# on their mobiles. Click here for details.
    1. Dial designated number, you shall receive a Menu Based Screen dialling. Select 'book tickets' option, select 'reservation' (user is prompted to enter his IRCTC user ID once only), enter details     (date of journey, station, train no, class, etc)

    2. Enter mPIN for authorizing payment through mobile wallet

    3. Booking confirmation SMS is sent by IRCTC
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    ISRO launches first dedicated navigation satellite

    PSLV - C22 successfully launches India's first dedicated navigational satellite IRNSS-1A from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota

    ISRO has successfully launched on Monday, its first dedicated navigation satellite using the Polar satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) which blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 11:41 pm on Monday.

    Developed by India, the IRNSS-1A, the first of the seven satellites constituting the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) space segment, has a mission life of 10 years.  It is designed to provide accurate position information service to users in the country as well as the region extending up to 1,500 km from its boundary, which is its primary service area. The IRNSS constitutes of 3 satellites in Geo stationary orbit and four in geo synchronous orbit. 
     IRNSS will be on lines with Russia's Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), United States' Global Positioning System (GPS), European Union's Galileo (GNSS), China's BeiDou satellite navigation system and the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System.     

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    Ford ECOSPORT Launched in India

    Ford EcoSport

    Ford launches ECOSPORT in India. The EcoSport lets you discover your city like never before.

    Features: 

    200mm ground clearance

    Like any SUV, this urban SUV is about getting you where you want to go. It puts 200mm of ground clearance between you and the road, potholes, ditches or whatever else is in your way. Add good approach and departure angles, plus 550mm water wading, and you’re pretty much ready for anything.


    The quietest urban SUV around  

    Cities are noisy. But not inside the EcoSport. The city’s soundscape is subdued...


    Fit in just about anywhere

    You want an SUV but your life is in the city. That’s why the EcoSport is the perfect fit. Its city-sized design makes it easy to park and get around crowded city streets. Yet its SUV capabilities let you go places you wouldn’t normally go – in the city or on the open road. 

    Hill Launch Assist

    The secret to perfect hill starts. Hill Launch Assist holds the brake for a few seconds after you take your foot off, giving you time to smoothly accelerate away, without rolling. So if others park too close, there’s no need to sweat. And it works in both directions: uphill or down. (Automatic transmission only.) 

    Higher seating

    Even roads you travel every day will look different in the EcoSport. It seats you higher so you can see more of what’s going on around you. Who knows what you might discover on the way?


    Ford ECOSPORT Models
    For Country Wide price list - ECOSPORT PRICE INDIA

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