Category Archives: Kerala News
INSET 2010 IT fest
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- Inset 2010
MG University School of Technology and Applied Science (STAS) Pathanamthitta is organizing an IT fest Inset 2010 on 4th and 5th of March 2010. The fest will be held at Aban Arcade . The inauguration will be done at 10 am on March 4th by university vice chancellor Dr. Rajan Gurukkal. The fest includes seminars, projects and competitions that bring before us the latest trends in the field of Information technology. Various cultural activities and programs are also included in the fest. There will be a class about Advanced Networking by Dr. Tanudas of V.S.S.C Trivandrum on 4th March. On 5th there will a seminar on Cyber crime and Forensics by S.P K. Sanjay Kumar. Seminar on Biocomputing by Dr.Raju is another major attraction of the day. The afternoon section is for games and competitions that add color to the tech fest.
Idea lucky recharge contest
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- idea lucky recharge
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.
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
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- 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
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- bsnl wimax
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
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- Petrol 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.
Union Budget 2010
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- Budget 2010
The whole country is looking at the Union budget 2010. It is expected that the budget gives importance to programs that could control the revenue deficit. The price of the commodities and inflation rates are increasing daily. The budget will give importance in controlling this.
The budget is having special packages that could boost the agricultural sector. The budget is also having plans for the step by step withdrawal of the financial boosting packages.
The budget will be presented in the parliament today noon.
Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee reached parliament for the presentation of the budget. The session for the budget acceptation started.
The budget presentation is now going on in the parliament. The important declarations in he budgets are
The budget says that India had overcome the effects of global financial crisis
The food security will be improved and the country is expecting a growth rate of 9%
The packages that were implemented during the time of financial crisis were very effective
The decrease in the agricultural growth rate is threatening
This year there will be a selling of shares of about 25000 crore Rupees
More licenses will be allowed for banks. licenses to non banking institutions too,if the guidelines are followed
Goods service tax will be implemented from April
More programs to reduce the expenditure.
Special packages with in 6 months to control the public debt
16752 crore for Indian railway
1000 crore for Solar energy
165000 for public sector banking
5 Mega food parks
5130 crore in the energy sector
31036 crore for the educational sector
66100 for rural development
22300 crore for the health sector
Special flexible guidelines for attracting foreign investors
40100 crore for the national job assurance program
22300 crore for family welfare
300 crore for Rastruya Krishi Vikas Yougana
10000 crore for Indira Awaz Yogana
200 crore for the development of goa
5400 crore for city planning
National security fund will be organised
173552 crore for improvement of basic facilities
Reduction in interest rates for home loans below 20 years. The term also got increased
746651 crore expected as revenue from taxes.
4000 crore for the agricultural sector
