Monday, March 30, 2009

Online Tax payment e-tax or e-payment service

e-Payment service by Tax Information Network (TIN) National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) facilitates payment of direct taxes online by taxpayers.
To avail of this facility the taxpayer is required to have a net-banking account with any of the banks listed below, which are the only banks offering this facility at present.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Sexiest butts in Bollywood: John Abraham and Malaika Arora-Khan

Well, the results aren't shocking for obvious reasons. The two celebs, after all, do have the sexiest bodies in Tinseltown. But with new 'taut' entrants, we thought it was time to do a repoll on the hottest butts in Bollywood and surprise, surprise - John Abraham and Malaika Arora-Khan still managed to beat the other contenders.

John's yellow trunk act in Dostana apparently still has women drooling. Out of 1,000 women polled, 55% thought John's tushy was the best. Ranbir Kapoor came a distant second with only 17%. Hrithik Roshan, often referred to as a Greek God, got 13%, Saif Ali Khan got 7% and Akshay Kumar got 6%. Salman Khan got the least votes with just 2% voting for him. Maybe he should start dropping his pants now, instead of his shirt, what say?

The competition among the women was tougher, but Malaika won comprehensively in the end. Out of the 1,000 men we polled, 25% felt she had the best butt in B-Town. Shilpa Shetty came a close second with 23%, while Lara Dutta and Bipasha Basu were tied at 19% each. Like her beau, Katrina Kaif also found herself almost at the bottom of the table with just 12.5% votes. Deepika Padukone hardly had any takers with only 1.5% voting for her.

Malaika was pleasantly surprised. "Wow! What can I say? Thank you for voting for me 'butt naturally'."As for who she thinks could be worthy contenders for our 'butt-iful' title, she had two choices, "Jennifer Lopez and Kylie Minogue".

Friday, March 13, 2009

Rcom launches India's fastest broadband internet service

Telecom major Reliance Communications on Thursday launched what the company said would be the fastest internet service in the country to date.

The company said the new service called Reliance Netconnect Broadband Plus offers huge potential and would help increase the broadband penetration in the country manifold.

Speaking to reporters, Mahesh Prasad, President, Reliance Communications said the new service will be available in 35 cities which covers 80 to 85 per cent potential of broadband users in the country.

The subscribers, to avail of the service, will need to buy a device costing Rs 3500 and select a tariff plan which varies from monthly charges of Rs 299 going upto Rs 1750. The service will be available from the next week.

Prasad said the company's existing service Netconnect has a subscriber base of 10 lakh and they could consider upgrade their subscription to the new service.

Prasad said the company has upgraded the software in its network for launching the new service which can offer downlink speed of upto 3.1 Mbps and a separate uplink speed of upto 1.8 Mbps offering 30 per cent higher downlink rate in comparison to any other wireless broad band offering.

The new service is best suited for video streaming, video surveillance, rich media content and superior internet browsing, a company press note said.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Lok Sabha polls from April 16 to May 13

The much-awaited schedule for the Lok Sabha elections was announced on Monday afternoon, by Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami.

The country will go to polls from April 16 to May 13. Counting of votes will be done on May 16 and the 15th Lok Sabha will be constituted by June two.

Polls will be conducted in 124 constituencies on April 16, 141 constituencies on April 23, 107 constituencies on April 30, 85 constituencies on May 7 and 86 constrituencies on May 13.

Five-phased polls will be held in Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh, Bihar will have four-phased elections, Maharashtra and West Bengal will witness three-phased polls, while Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Punjab will have elections in two phases, N Gopalaswami announced at a press conference.

Remaining 15 states and seven union territories will have one-day polling.

Treating Manipur as an exception, polls will be conducted in the state on April 22, considering April 23 is a local holiday there.

Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim and Orissa will simultaneously hold assembly polls.

On Sunday, the President rejected the controversial recommendation by the Chief Election Commissioner for the removal of Election Commissioner Navin Chawla. The President’s decision will now pave the way for Chawla’s elevation as CEC after Gopalaswami demits office on April 20.

The Election Commission headed by Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami decided the dates of the general elections after completing consultation process with political leaders, home secretary and secretaries of key ministries.

Earlier in the day, the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) led by Ajit Singh announced its entry into the opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA). The RLD will have a poll pact with the main NDA constituent the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

In a late development on Sunday, the Trinamool Congress formed an alliance with Congress in West Bengal to fight the Lok Sabha elections against the Left Front. (Times of India)

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