Monthly Archives: February 2010

Idea lucky recharge contest

Idea, the top mobile service provider in the country is introducing lucky recharge contest for its customers. The contest begins today (March 1,2010). The contest will last for next 7 week. All prepaid customers of idea cellular can participate in this contest. Lucky offers are awaiting all customers. Apart from this special prizes such as car and bike are also there for the luckiest ones. Each week a bike will be awarded for a lucky customer. The bumper prize is a car.

Prepaid customers can participate in this contest by dialing 5001 from their mobile for the details of their particular lucky offer. This is a toll free number. The recharge can be done at any idea outlet. Many surprise offers are awaiting the customers at the time of recharge. The lucky offers are in accordance with the usage of each customer.

Idea cellular is having about 50 lakh customers in Kerala.

Bharat Darshan Tourist Train

Bharat Darshan which is the special train to explore India will start its trip from Trivandrum on March 11, 2010. The booking has already started. This train is exclusive for the tourists. Bharat Darshan train is having 7 coaches and a pantry car. Tourists can catch this train from Trivandrum, Kollam, Kottayam, Ernakulum, Thrissur, Kozhikode, Shornoor and Palaghat. The train will be visiting places such as Madurai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Delhi, Agra, Allahabad, Varanasi, Gaya etc. The journey is of 15 days. On the 15th day the train will come back in Kerala.

The charge for this journey is 7695 Rs/person. For more details and booking contact 0484 4044668,9995638561.

Motor Vehicle Strike in Kerala tomorrow

The motor transport employees of Kerala will be conducting strike tomorrow (02-03-2010) against the hike in petroleum price. They are demanding the withdrawal of the price hike of the petroleum products. The strike is from 6 am to 6 pm. Employees of private buses, taxis and autorishaws will took part in this strike. The K.S.R.T.C employees will also join the strike. This was announced by the general secretary of K.S.R.T.E.A (CITU) union.

Honorary Doctorate for Resul Pookutty

Resul Pookutty, the Oscar winning sound Engineer and pride of India will be awarded with honorary doctorate by Sankaracharya Sanskrit University . Mr. Resul told media that he is very happy and felt very honored of this doctorate from the Sanskrit university. The doctorate will be awarded by Kerala Sree Sankaracharya Sanskrit University on March 16 2010.

Resul Pookutty is now busy with 2 projects from Hollywood.

Wimax in Kerala

People of Kerala can experience high speed wireless broadband service from tomorrow onwards through Wimax technology. BSNL is the service provider of this 4G mobile wimax technology. Kerala is the first state in which wimax is being launched. Te inauguration of this new service will be done by minister of state K.V. Thomas tomorrow (27-02-2010) afternoon at Ernakulum.

Wimax is the abbreviation for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access. This the most effective and latest among the available wireless technologies. Wimax utilizes 20 MHz bandwidth spectrum which is much higher that the 3G spectrum of 5MHz bandwidth. Wireless connection with speed of up to 72 Mbps can be possible using Wimax.

Wimax promises full time fast Internet connection at a very low cost. Wimax offers a wide scope to mobile entertainment sector and promises a speed and performance which is 3 times better than the 3G.

BSNL is planning to establish 900 basic transmitting stations to provide Wimax Internet service to all district centers and important cities and selected towns. In the first phases 450 stations will be constructed. 25 stations will start working at Cochin on the first day of launch itself. BSNL will invest about 100 crore for the Wimax project in Kerala.

In the first phase of launch, there will 2 plans available. The home plan is of 999 Rs and business plan is of 1999 Rs. Both these plans offer unlimited Internet usage. Both these connections assure a speed of 512 Kbps. In the initial phase it offers a speed up to 2 Mbps. The users of home plan will be given 2 e-mail ids and of business plan will be provided with 5 e-mail accounts. The business plan is configured with a static ip address. The rent for one month has to be given in advance at the time of taking the connection.

No telephone connection is required for Wimax connection. Wimax offer various services such as high speed fixed and mobile internet connections, Voice over IP, Mobile TV, Mobile games,Online games, Telemedicine, Mobile geo location application, video and data based services, virtual networks, distance education services, fixed TV over IP, audio and video streaming etc.

 

Petrol and Diesel Price hike

The price of petrol and diesel will increase with effect from today midnight. The price of the petrol will have a hike of 2.67 Rs and diesel of 2.58 Rs. The immediate increase in the oil price is in accordance with the proposals in the union budget 2010. As per the budget, the excise duty of petrol is 7.5 %. The central excise duty of petrol is increased by about Rs 1 per litre.

New Income Tax Scheme

The Revised tax scheme proposed in the Union budget 2010

No taxation up to income of 1.6 lakh

Income tax for revenue between 1.6 and 5 lakhs -10%

Income tax for revenue between 5 and 8 lakhs – 20%

Income tax for revenue above 8 lakhs -30%

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