Archive for July, 2010

KBC Quiz : Middle name of Sachin Tendulkar

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

What is the middle name of Sachin Tendulkar ? Options Ravi Ramesh Rajesh Ramakant Right answer is Ramesh. Full name Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. This question was asked in Kaun Banega Crorepati by Amitabh Bachan.
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Show Voting Mark on Finger and get Discounts…!!!

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Avail a bunch of offers and discount for your vote, show the inked finger that shows you voted and a whole range of freebies and discounts could be yours at many of the capital’s stores, eateries, bars and even amusement parks. 


Many retailers are offering a flood of discounts to encourage the potential voter to vote. 

  • Louis Philippe is giving 20% off on all purchases as part of its “Luxury to Vote” drive. 
  • Bausch and Lomb is offering 5,000 students who’ve voted in Delhi and Chennai pairs of daily disposable contact lenses free.
  • Bikanervala restaurants are knocking 15% off from the bill. 
  • One of the hip nightclub ‘Elevate’ promises free entry and a buy-one-get-one-free on drinks. 
  • A toy shop that has a 10% discount as a part of  “Vote for Democracy Discount’’.
  • Some HDFC branch will be giving away gifts including travel bags and cheque-book covers to account holders who’ve voted. 
  • Cafe Turtle is offering a complimentary coffee, a chocolate chip cookie and 10% off on books.
  •  Many stores are offering discounts ranging from 5% to 30%

Showing your finger was never more fun many children will force parents to go to polling centres inorder to get themselves a brand new toys to enjoy the current vacations. I really think this is a rubbish idea to give a freebies and discount for the voters. Its as if like a kind of bribe being offered indirectly to benefit the shops for increasing their sales. Thamks to the Marketing Honchos for discovering such innnovative ideas to attract customers during this recession, as many are losing the business with low customers walkins. One thing which worries is that; how far the incentives will translate into votes?? 

This is, of course, another story. There are some people who will be excited but I don’t think it’ll make a great difference to the voter turnout. However, the idea itself generates a lot of talk value. Its impact can be measured in such terms rather than actual results.

Also how can this business minded people think of  rewarding the customers with such offers???
It seeems as if the voters take a lot a pain and trouible to vote. 
Why don’t they understand that it is a right of every Indian Citizen???
Why these people want to increase business by converting the right to favours by such offers???


    

Indian Politics

India expects progress on US export control issue

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

New Delhi : Ahead
of President Barack Obama”s visit here, India today said it expects
progress on the issue of relaxation of US export control regime on
dual-use items. “Yes I do see.

we are expecting progress in that
field,” India”s Ambassador to the US Meera Shankar said here when asked
about New Delhi”s expectations on relaxation of US export control laws
which prohibit transfer of dual-use items. The issue, which has been a
major area of concern for India, is expected to figure prominently
during the talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Obama here on
November 8.

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Random Musings – II

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010





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How Preity Zinta prepared for ‘Heaven On Earth’

Monday, July 26th, 2010


The spunky and outspoken actress had to do a lot of preparation to play a character that is in contrast to her real self. In Deepa Mehta’s Heaven On Earth , Preity plays a meek, submissive Punjabi wife who is physically and psychologically assaulted by her husband in Canada.

Now, even though Preity is the owner of Punjab’s IPL team, the actress admits she can’t speak Punjabi fluently. But all her dialogues, including long monologues, in the film required Preity to speak the language. So Preity slogged hard, took a crash course in Punjabi, and learnt to speak her dialogues properly after a practice of over one-and-a-half months.

However, this was only half the battle won. Preity, who hasn’t experienced domestic violence in real life, had to get an insight into the lives of wives who suffer violence at the hands of their husbands.

So she read the relevant books (including ‘The Woman Who Walked Into Doors’ by Roddy Doyle). She also saw a documentary by Deepa Mehta in which the director interviews kids that saw domestic violence in their homes.

Preity says going through all this material gave her a reference point for her character.

And Preity’s performance has been so terrific in the film that Deepa Mehta has unhesitatingly said that Preity is the most talented actress she has worked with so far. That’s certainly a great compliment coming from a director who has worked with the likes of Shabana Azmi , Nandita Das and Seema Biswas in her past films.

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How far will you go to ‘eat’ that problem?

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

I was talking to a friend of mine just yesterday. In the course of our discussion came up the topic of Customer Service Jobs and how taxing they must be when one is faced with an irate customer.

Luckily, when working at a BPO job, I had never been faced with an angry client, but the reality is there, and one always has the chance of seeing it first hand, as happened when I was visiting a restaurant yesterday.

The restaurant was swarmed with people, and the atmosphere was noisy. A table in the absolute corner had ordered – and paid for – a plate of vegetarian paneer tikka. Instead, they’d been served chicken tikka. Oddly enough, they ate halfway through the plate of it before realizing it was most definitely not paneer tikka. With irritation that could’ve won an audition for some of Shakespeare’s plays, they annouced to the employees that they would not rest till the General Manager had heard all about it. I for one, had better things to do on a weekend, than wait around to see the end of that.

As I was relating this experience to my friend however, he mentioned how he’d spoken to someone working in a pizza joint who had an interesting story along these line. The guy with the pizza job told my friend the following story:

A customer had ordered a vegetarian pizza. As there was only a single pizza knife for both the veg and non-veg pizzas, a sliver of chicken had accidentally landed up on the new customer’s veg paneer pizza.

Holding up the piece of chicken, the irate customer stormed up to the counter and told the employees what they’d done. He demanded that they explain to him why he’d found chicken in his paneer pizza. He also informed them that he’d called the press, and that they were on their way. One employee asked to see the chicken piece.

As the customer handed it over to him, he promptly put it in his mouth and promptly declared that it wasn’t chicken, but in fact a piece of paneer.

By the time the press arrived, I’m told the conversation went something like this:

“There was NON-veg chicken in my VEG paneer pizza!”

“Very well. Can you show the evidence to us?”

“No! He ate it!”

That quick-thinking employee certainly saved the day for his company and I’m sure he was aptly rewarded.

How many situations can be solved with not only quick-thinking employees, but from employees who are quick to take action to resolve negative situations. Are you a quick-thinking employee who is willing to ‘eat’ that piece of problem before it turns nasty? If you are, you’re a resource your company is depending on and you have a skill that will keep you recession-proof.

We know that not every situation can be resolved by eating it. What are some situations you have found yourself in and what means did you use to get yourself out of it? Write about it here and let others learn from your experiences.

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Walk-In at CDAC Mohali for IT Jobs on 3rd Nov 2010

Saturday, July 24th, 2010



Published by Manisha for sarkari-naukri.blogspot.com
Canter for Development of Advance Computing (CDAC),
Mohali, Punjab

Interested candidates may appear for the interview for the following posts in CDAC Mohali on 03/11/2010 :

  1. Database Administrator : 01 post, Pay : Rs. 20000 
  2. Hardware/ Network Support Staff  : 01 post, Pay : Rs.12000
  3. Programmer : 23 posts, Pay : Rs.10500 


The appointment shall be initially on contract for a period of one  year.

Candidates should bring with them copies of their complete Bio-data, one latest passport size photograph, original certificates with all detailed mark sheets and experience certificates for verification. If eligible, candidates can appear for more than one post but should bring with them separate application form duly filled for each post.

For further information and application format, please visit at http://www.cdacmohali.in/careernew.aspx

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Movie:’Singh is Kinng’

Monday, July 19th, 2010


Producer: Vipul Shah
Director: Anees Bazmee
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Neha Dhupia, Javed Jaffrey, Ranvir Shorey, Kamal Chopra, Singh, Om Puri
Music: Pritam Chakraborty

Burp re burp! At last a thali filled to the brim with spicy, pickled, ‘ghar ka khaana’ fried in the sinfully calorie-filled desi ghee prepared in the heartland of Punjab and then imported to the West. Crocodile Pug-Dundee, anybody?

At last, a blast. Dunno if Singh is king with two ‘n’s or not. But he sure is entertaining. Damn entertaining. This film is one of those feasts of flurry that leave the on-the-run characters and the audience breathless. Chalk up another winner for Akshay Kumar.

As the ‘happy-go-looking’ Happy Singh who leaves his village in Punjab to look for a colleague who has disappeared into Australia, Akshay is a revelation. He is strong and vulnerable, funny and tragic. He’s Charlie Chaplin and Jim Carrey rolled into one.

‘Happy’ Akshay Kumar’s mission is simple. Get Lucky. And boy, does he!

As Lucky Singh, Sonu Sood – all spruced up and dapper-dolled in Australia – has to stay risibly inert for half the film as he goes into a coma and is replaced by fellow villager Happy Singh as the new underworld don.

The film, its plot and characters are a crazy, adrenaline-induced rush of caricatures and other spaced-out creatures.

To his credit, writer-director Anees Bazmi retains the broad raillery of his earlier hit ‘Welcome’ but abandons the slapstick and ribaldry to style one of most disarming comedies in recent times.

The plot is cluttered with the most elementary action and adventure in the incredulous tone of ‘Crocodile Dundee’ goes from Punjab to the land of the Aussie-rans. Akshay takes care of the rest.

Adapting his comic stance to a patently comic-book mood and attitude, Akshay swims through the tittering tides of zany humour to emerge with one of his most finely-tuned comic performances in recent times.

It wouldn’t be wrong to call ‘Singh is Kinng’ a showcase for Akshay’s vibrant virtuosity. He goes from being a buffoon in a Punjab village to a native-abroad (with a nubile broad as arresting arm candy in the romantic songs) with the cheerful fluency of a trapeze dancer who knows his territory but still manages to make it look challenging for the onlookers.

Akshay’s bravura performance is punctuated by moments of bridled subtlety such as the one where our incredulous hero informs Katrina’s nerdy suitor (Ranvir Shorey, wasted) why the lady they both adore must be treated in a special manner.

Bazmi treats his audience as special as Akshay’s gentle, caring affections for Katrina. The narration is a pulsating patchwork of goofy crime and culturally-challenged adventure where anything can happen.

A ‘rose lady’ (Kirron Kher as engagingly broad in her matronly ministrations as ever) pops up in the middle of an Australian suburbia offering ‘khana’ and ‘maa ka pyar’ to the ‘pyar ka bhooka’ Sardar hero.

In all fairness, certain portions of the film are insufferably edited. What in the name of maudlinism are those sequences showing the Sikh dons’ benevolence and charity towards Black Australians? Post-colonial Asian snobbery at its slapdash-worst.

Keeping the pretensions out of the plot and focusing on the multiple mirthful masquerades that motivate the amusing plot would have done the general health and wellbeing of this pleasantly-diverting entertainer a wealth of good.

The supporting cast, specially Om Puri is in splendid form, adding fuel to the funny-lines with just that right dash of devilish bravado. Akshay is effortless. The film is not.

What we see here is a big, broad Bollywood entertainer celebrating screen heroism in all its giggling, grunting, groaning glory.

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Has 2010 brought a hiring boom in India?

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Mr Elston Pimenta, HR Head, Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. hosted a Live Chat session on the possible hiring boom in India in 2010. It was organized by TimesJobs on Jan 20th, 2010.

Some highlights/ excerpts of the chat are as follows:

“Recruiters need to be innovative all the time by looking for cost – effective ways of hiring. Some suggestions:

1.Check ROI carefully.

2. Use referral systems.

3. Network.

4. Have strong internal databases.

5. Keep in touch with all the past applicants/ employees.

6. Use sites to attract attention of prospective candidates, etc.”

Other highlights of advice that Mr. Pimenta gave to candidates include:

“Branding is vital for any firm. Work on this aspect and grow through networking.”

“Look at how “employable” you are at the moment. It has always been a challenge and it will always remain so. That is the “spice” of work-life. If you have kept abreast with technology advancements, you will not face a problem.”

“Unfortunately a boom is never forever. It will iron out in due course of time as…the “demand” and “supply” stabilize.”

“Do not compromise on quality and at all times maintain internal equity first, before being influenced by the industry.”

To read the complete chat transcripts, click here.

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K LOGIC SOFTECH recruits FRESHERS : Programmers – BE / B.Tech / BSc / MCA

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

K Logic Softech Solutions Private Limited ( http://www.klogicsoftware.com )

K Logic is a global software solution provider specilizises in enterprise, web application development for global clients . K Logic is people oriented employing the best of practices in HR.

Recruitment for Programmers( Freshers )

Roles and Responsibilties:
- Design and Programming using Java and J2EE.

Desired Profile :
- The candidate should have completed a gradutation in BE or BSc or MCA.
- Should have good verbal, analytical and quantitative skills.

Location : Coimbatore
Experience : 0-1 Years

Apply here

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