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Take Banks to people

2010-05-17T01:25:00.001-07:00

Banking is good. But When the complex procedures involved in creating an account, the outright intimidation an economically unfortunate person can suffer limits the vast majority form taking advantage of it , it hurts. It hurts the very growth of this country.

Mr JS Parthiban, a Bank manager has changed it. He has proved that to help others you need not make huge sacrifices, actually no sacrifices at all. All you need to find out is how you can make your job work for them.

Banking On Change (12 min version) from Pilgrim Films on Vimeo.

Chennai coporation has a tweet account

2010-04-03T10:40:00.001-07:00

Surprised to see that Chennai corporation has got a tweeter account . It is @chennaicorp . Another interesting fact - The Chennai Corporation is the Oldest Municipal Institution in India.

Kashmir should have never been an issue in the first place.

2009-07-17T03:25:00.001-07:00

An excellent article by S Gurumurthy comparing the Kashmir issue in India with similar issue in China. I still couldn't understand why when we were in a strong position in 1965 war and won the 1971 war , we intentionally agreed for the LOC. It should have got resolved long back. Worst of all, we still have not improved out Foreign policy. Look at Bangladesh and Nepal, they are slowly turning against us.

The reason is that China prevented Xinjiang, its Kashmir, from becoming an international issue like India’s Kashmir. Xinjiang, which had a majority of Turkish Muslims (Uighurs) in 1949, had a short-lived state of East Turkestan. China invaded it, crushed it, and won back its territory. The name Xinjiang literally means ‘old frontier returns to China’. See the contrast. A year earlier, in 1948, India almost won back most of Kashmir from Pakistan which had invaded it, but voluntarily offered and turned it into an international issue. It was India, not Pakistan, which went to the United Nations; made it an international issue. It is struggling to say it is a bilateral one. Now, on to how China handled Xinjiang, its Kashmir, and integrated it with mainland China.

Vehicle details via SMS

2009-07-06T22:01:00.001-07:00

You can now get any vehicle's details from RTO.

Just SMS, RTO followed by registration no. (Example: RTO KA-05-MR-7678) to 56006.

This will be very useful in hit & run cases and while buying used vehicles.

This works well for Karnataka (KA) registered vehicles. Haven’t checked for other states yet.
SMS charge will be Rs.3

Important facts to know about traffic police

2009-06-28T22:53:00.001-07:00

Jagran CityPlus caried an article on the what and what not a traffic police is authorized to do as par of his duty. Surprised to read that the traffic police has no authority to stop moving vehicles and subject them to test. They can stop a vehicle only if they find a violation.

Mad employee of Chennai metro water

2009-05-03T07:46:00.001-07:00

Thanks to Source. dinakaran dated 18.04.2009.Am employee of Chennai Water Corporation enjoys with the drinking water that is supplied to chennai people by washing his legs , taking bath and at last for his drinking purpose he used a bottle to fill pure water..