Google Plus a better option than Facebook ?

     Will Google+, a social networking website from google, a better alternative of Facebook ? Although this product has not launched yet but debates have begun. Social networking is all about connecting with friends, colleagues, parents and known ones by sharing status, photos, videos etc. But sharing all of the items with all has never been desirable, which is a main concern on Facebook. On the other side, Google+ offers better security. It gives freedom to share information with a particular group of people and not with other group of people.

Child Labour | Another way of corruption

      

        Capital Corruption : Child Labour generates Rs. 120,000 crore black money annually. A report " Capital Corruption " released on 11th June, 2011 by an NGO " Bachpan Bachao Andolan " say child labour generates Rs. 1, 20,000 Crores of black money every year.  

Read More ; Bachpan Bachao Andolan

World Environment Day ; 05 June

    World Environment Day (WED) is one of the global events of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which is celebrated annually every year on 5th day of June.  WED was established, with intentions to stimulate awareness of the environment and encourage political attention & preventive actions towards continuously deteriorating earth's environment, by the United Nations General Assembly on 5th day of June in 1972, when United Nations conference on Human Environment began. The same day United Nations General Assembly created an organization namely United Nations Environment Programme.

       WED has been celebrated 39 times since its first celebration in 1973.  Every year, UNEP choose a different theme and a different country as a global host for World Environment Day celebrations. Every year, different activities like planting trees collectively, marathon running events, & concerts, press conferences, etc., are organized nationwide, which run for a week and concluded with a big event on 5th of June.

        For the first time, since 1973 when WED celebrated first, India has been chosen as the host country for WED, 5 June, 2011. Theme for WED this year is Forests with official slogan - Forests ; Nature At Your Service, which aims on spreading awareness of importance of forests in sustaining life on earth and maintaining balance of environment.  Theme, 2011 also emphasize on conserving forests and their role in serving humans in different aspects of life. Earlier UN also declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests.

Amazing goal

Should IPU students not get extra marks for their brave efforts ?

       Should IPU students not get extra marks in each paper for going & attempting exams in examination centers located at outskirts of Delhi like HMR college in Hamid Pur ?


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Facebook now at mobile phones

     Facebook has recently launched a text-only version of Facebook for mobile phones. To access text-only version of Facebook for mobiles phones, type "http://www.0.facebook.com" in address bar of your mobile phone browser. 

5 things you should never share on Facebook

For more, visit at Yahoo News.

Vijender Singh got married with Archana Singh

     A 25 years old, star Indian Boxer, Vijender Singh married with Archana Singh, a Delhi-based girl, on May 17, 2011. Vijender Singh has given his country many medals in numerous international boxing events, while his wife, Archana Singh is a Software Engineer.

Zangoora - A Theatre Show in talks (at Kingdom of Dreams)

     Now a days, Zangoora, a theatre show hosted by Kingdom of Dreams at there world class theatre 'The Nautanki Mahal', has been in everybody's talks across Delhi-NCR. The USP of the show is the technology used in the theatre such as sets are changed in seconds on stage according to different scenes, its sound system, its lighting system, animation incorporated in show and also its casting. Also the show is in talks because of its storyline. The efforts are made to bring interesting storyline of Bollywood live on stage. 

      The Cast crew of the show is also its USP. Hussain Kuwajerwala, Gauahar Khan and Kashmira Irani are in main lead. The story have also come from the brain of one of the Bollywood supremes ; Mr. Javed Akhtar. Music & Choreography has been done by Shankar Ehsaan Loy & Shiamak Davar respectively. 

      Apart from this show, one more attraction point of Kingdom of Dreams is their Restaurant, where they offer   food of 14 different states. 

Mobile Number Portability

     After a long wait of years, mobile number portability service for mobile phone users finally started in Rohtak of Haryana on 25th of November, 2010 on trial basis. However, this service on full fledged basis was started on 20th of January, 2011 throughout across India.

Mobile Number Portability

• What is Mobile Number Portability (MNP) ?
• Mobile Number Portability service allows mobile phone users to switch their service provider or mobile phone operator without changing their existing number. This means mobile phone users can retain their existing number while switching from one network to another.

• How to avail Mobile Number Portability or how to switch from one network to another ?
• Following is the procedure to switch to a new network ;

1. Contact the new mobile service provider to whom you want to port your mobile number.
2. Obtain Customer Acquisition Form (CAF) & Porting Form.
3. Read the eligibility, probable reasons for porting rejection and other conditions carefully.
4. If eligible, fill up the CAF and Porting Form. For filling up of porting form you need a ‘Unique Porting Code’ (UPC).
5. To obtain UPC send SMS from the mobile number you want to port to the number ‘1900’ with text ‘PORT’ followed by space followed by your 10 digit mobile number you want to port. [ As pre-paid SMS is not permitted, in Jammu & Kashmir the subscriber has to dial ‘1900’ to get an UPC, the operator at ‘1900’ provide the UPC after verifying subscriber number with CLI. ]
6. It may be noted that you will receive an auto generated 8 digits UPC from the Donor operator. The first two characters of the UPC consists of ‘Alphabets’ and remaining 6 digits will be numerical characters except zero. [Please note that the Unique Porting Code is valid for a period of 15 days or till that time the switching to new network takes place, whichever is earlier for all service areas excluding Jammu & Kashmir, Assam and North East, where UPC is valid for a period of 30 days or till that time the switching to new network takes place, whichever is earlier].
7. Submit the duly filled Porting Form and CAF along with requisite documentary proof to the mobile service provider.
8. If you are a post paid subscriber, submit a paid copy of the last bill issued along with Porting Form and CAF.
9. Obtain new SIM card from the new service provider.
10. Service provider may charge porting charge maximum upto Rs. 19/-

• Points to remember before switching from one network to another.

REGARDING ACTIVATION

1. One can withdraw his / her porting request within 24 hrs of applying. However, the porting charge is non-refundable.
2. New mobile service provider will intimate the date & time of porting on your mobile phone.
3. Change over takes place on the 7th working day (15th working day in case of Jammu & Kashmir, Assam and North East service areas).
4. During porting process, the phone will remain out of service. The service disruption time shall be around 2 hrs during night time of the date/time of porting.
5. Replace the old SIM with the new SIM provided by your new mobile service provider after the specified date and time.

ELIGIBILITY & OTHER CONDITIONS [IMPORTANT]

1. You are allowed to move to another mobile service provider only after 90 days of the date of activation of your mobile connection or from the date of last porting of your mobile number, which ever is applicable.
2. You are allowed to change mobile service provider within the same service area only. This means the user cannot take his/her Delhi mobile number to Punjab. A subscriber from Delhi can change his/her service provider within Delhi service area.
3. If you are a postpaid subscriber, please ensure that you have paid all the dues as per your last bill (You will have to sign an undertaking in the Porting Form also).
4. If you are a Pre-paid subscriber, please note that the balance amount of talk time, if any, at the time of porting will lapse.
5. A CDMA user can change to GSM or vice versa.

Also see Vehicle Number Portabiltiy

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Unique Porting Code

• Unique Porting Code is an eight character alphanumeric code provided by the mobile phone service provider on the request of subscriber. This code is essential for switching from one network to another (porting process).
• The Unique Porting Code is valid for a period of 15 days or till that time the switching to new network takes place, whichever is earlier for all service areas excluding Jammu & Kashmir, Assam and North East, where UPC is valid for a period of 30 days or till that time the switching to new network takes place, whichever is earlier.
• The first two characters of UPC are alphabets, which represent the service provider code & service area code (for example; TD for TATA Teleservices Ltd. in Delhi service area). The remaining six characters may contain 1 to 9, A to N & P to Z and small letters and the alphabet 'O' are not allowed.
• To obtain UPC send SMS from the mobile number you want to port to the number ‘1900’ with text ‘PORT’ followed by space followed by your 10 digit mobile number you want to port. [ As pre-paid SMS is not permitted, in Jammu & Kashmir the subscriber has to dial ‘1900’ to get an UPC, the operator at ‘1900’ provide the UPC after verifying subscriber number with CLI. ]

Source ; TRAI

Red Light Blinking in Reliance Netconnect

     It is surely a network problem or speed has been degraded by the company. One may register a complaint at Reliance Web World or connecting to Reliance Customer Care at 180030005555. To locate a Reliance Web World visit Reliance.

Encourage Creativity Prevent Dropouts

Children are precious for future of any Nation.  Prevent it from spoiling. 

No Child Labour

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     Child Labour is referred to those children who have not completed their fourteen years of age but have been working in factories, offices, shops or in any commercial establishment illegally. So, the minimum legal age of employment in India is 14 years.

     According to THE CHILD LABOUR (PROHIBITION AND REGULATION) ACT, 1986" ;


Hours and period of work – 


No child shall be required or permitted to work in any establishment in excess of such number of hours as may be prescribed for such establishment or class of establishments

No child shall be permitted or required to work between 7 p.m. and 8 a.m

No child shall be permitted or required to work overtime.

No child shall be permitted or required to work in any establishment on any day on

which he has already been working in another establishment.

Weekly holidays – 

Every child employed in an establishment shall be allowed in each week, a holiday or one whole day, which day shall be specified by the occupier in a notice permanently exhibited in a conspicuous place in the establishment and the day so specified shall not be altered by the occupier more than once in three months.

Maintenance of register – 

There shall be a register maintained by every occupier in respect of children employed or permitted to work in any establishment, a register to be available for inspection by an Inspector at all times during working hours or when work is being carried on in any such establishment showing –

1.  the name and date of birth of every child so employed or permitted to work;
2.  hours and periods of work of any such child and the intervals of rest to which he is entitled;
3.  the nature of work of any such child; and
4. such other particulars as may be prescribed

No child can be employed in any of the following –

Any occupation concerned with: -

(1)     Transport of passengers, goods or mails by railways;

(2)         Cinder picking, clearing of an ash pit or building operation in the railway premises;

(3)         Work in a catering establishment at a railway station, involving the movement of a vendor or any other employee of the establishment from the one platform to another or in to or out of a moving train;

(4)         Work relating to the construction of a railway station or with any other work where such work is done in close proximity to or between the railway lines;

(5)         A port authority within the limits of any port;

(6)    Work relating to selling of crackers and fireworks in shops with temporary licenses;

(7)    Abattoirs/Slaughter House;

(8)    Automobile workshops and garages;

(9)         Foundries;

(10)   Handling of toxic or inflammable substances or explosives;

(11)   Handloom and power loom industry;

(12)   Mines (underground and under water) and collieries;

(13)   Plastic units and fiberglass workshops;

PART  B 

Processes

(1)         Beedi-making.

(2)         Carpet-weaving.

(3)         Cement manufacture, including bagging of cement.

(4)         Cloth printing, dyeing and weaving.

(5)         Manufacture of matches, explosives and fire-works.

(6)         Mica-cutting and splitting.

(7)         Shellac manufacture.

(8)         Soap manufacture.

(9)         Tanning.

(10)   Wool-cleaning.

(11)   Building and construction industry.

   (12)     Manufacture of slate pencils (including packing).

   (13)     Manufacture of products from agate.

(14)   Manufacturing processes using toxic metals and substances such as lead, mercury, manganese, chromium, cadmium, benzene, pesticides and asbestos.

(15)   “Hazardous processes”.

(16)   Printing as defined in Section 2(k) (iv) of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948)

            (17)   Cashew and cashewnut descaling and processing.

               (18) Soldering processes in electronic industries.

               (19) ‘Aggarbatti’ manufacturing.

(20) Automobile repairs and maintenance including processes incidental thereto namely, welding, lathe work, dent beating and painting.

(21) Brick kilns and Roof tiles units.

(22) Cotton ginning and processing and production of hosiery goods.

(23) Detergent manufacturing.

(24) Fabrication workshops (ferrous and non ferrous)

(25) Gem cutting and polishing.

(26) Handling of chromite and manganese ores.

(27) Jute textile manufacture and coir making.

(28) Lime Kilns and Manufacture of Lime.

(29) Lock Making.

(30) Manufacturing processes having exposure to lead such as primary and secondary smelting, welding and cutting of lead-painted metal constructions, welding of galvanized orzinc silicate, polyvinyl chloride, mixing (by hand) of crystal glass mass, sanding or scraping of lead paint, burning of lead in enameling workshops, lead mining, plumbing, cable making, wiring patenting, lead casting, type founding in printing shops.  Store type setting, assembling of cars, shot making and lead glass blowing.

(31) Manufacture of cement pipes, cement products and other related work.

(32) Manufacture of glass, glass ware including bangles, florescent tubes, bulbs and other similar glass products.

(33) Manufacture of dyes and dye stuff.

(34) Manufacturing or handling of pesticides and insecticides.

(35) Manufacturing or processing and handling of corrosive and toxic substances, metal cleaning and photo engraving and soldering processes in electronic industry.

(36) Manufacturing of burning coal and coal briquettes.

(37) Manufacturing of sports goods involving exposure to synthetic materials, chemicals and leather.

(38) Moulding and processing of fiberglass and plastic.

(39) Oil expelling and refinery.

(40) Paper making.

(41) Potteries and ceramic industry.

(42) Polishing, moulding, cutting, welding and manufacturing of brass goods in all forms.

(43) Processes in agriculture where tractors, threshing and harvesting machines are used and chaff cutting.

(44) Saw mill – all processes.

(45) Sericulture processing.

(46) Skinning, dyeing and processes for manufacturing of leather and leather products.

(47) Stone breaking and stone crushing.

(48) Tobacco processing including manufacturing of tobacco, tobacco paste and handling of  tobacco in any form.

(49) Tyre making, repairing, re-treading and graphite benefication.

(50) Utensils making, polishing and metal buffing.

(51) ‘Zari’ making (all processes)’.

      (52) Electroplating;

(53)  Graphite powdering and incidental processing;

(54)  Grinding or glazing of metals;

(55)  Diamond cutting and polishing;

(56)  Extraction of slate from mines;

(57)  Rag picking and scavenging.

Information taken from Ministry of Labour website. 

For more information one may refer the same.

India marked its presence in Space once again by placing 3 satellites.

     India once again marked its presence in Space by launching 3 new satellites on Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully  placed 3 satellites in space with the help of a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket from its Sriharikota Space Centre. The three satellites are ;

1. Resource-Sat 2,
2. Youth-Sat, &
3. X-Sat.

     The Resource-Sat 2 has powerful cameras and will gather data on natural resources. Resource-Sat 2 will replace its previous version Resource-Sat 1, which was launched in 2003. Resource-Sat 2 is expected to work for next 5 years.

     The Youth-Sat is an Indo-Russian joint effort built with the participation of students of the two sides. It will gather data on changes in solar & upper atmospheric layers.

    The X-Sat is Singapore's first locally made satellite built by Nanyan Technological University, Singapore. X-Sat is expected to remain in space for next 3 years and will sent data on environmental changes.