1. General students - Answer ALL questions.
2. OBC - WRITE ANY one question.
3. SC - ONLY READ questions.
4. ST - THANKS FOR COMING..
AND
5. Gujjars/Jats - THANKS FOR ALLOWING OTHERS TO ATTEND THE EXAMINATION . !!
CHEERS TO RESERVATION......
Oh well, another one of those forwards that we find in our mail every morning - but I liked the sarcastic humor (is there any such thing??) evident in the mail. I mean, the way we are going about harping on reservations for people of all castes and creed, it would be a wonder if we have any seats left for the general students, say 20 years down the line! I don't hold any grudges against the so-called minorities but screaming for reservation all the time is not going to solve their problem. Demand better infrastructure, more educational spending - make efforts to match the levels of the general population so that they don't have to scream and fight for reservations.
And until that happens, be prepared for the above examination pattern!
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Online Gambling - A booming menace!
Caught this interesting article in the Economic Times:
Quite a serious problem, huh? Especially considering the amount of money which is being circulated around but what is the solution to this? Why not follow suit and legalise the entire online gambling business similar to what the U.K. and the Caribbean have done? Atleast, countries would then stand to benefit from the revenues generated through online gambling (in terms of taxes). Along with the legalisation of gambling, make betting on sports, especially cricket, legal too! According to some reports on the Internet, the current IPL season has seen betting activities to the tune of Rs. 4,000 crore!
Legalise them and then tax them and subsequently pass on the tax benefits to the common people (and this time in equal amounts to either genders :-) ). Try as hard as they may, governments will never succeed in truly eradicating betting and gambling, so why not profit from this burgeoning industry? Atleast, legalisation provides the governments with a way to regulate and profit from the revneues generated by this industry - As they say, if you can't fight them, then join them! :)
The rapidly mushrooming number of illegal sports betting websites is
heightening concerns among authorities about global corruption, money laundering
and gambling addiction.
There are now an estimated 15,000 such sites on the World Wide Web,
including some 13,000 illegal ones, shuffling around $23.6 billion a year,
according to the authorities.
[---]
Declan Hill, a journalist and British expert on the problem, says the
amount of corruption in global sports has increased almost 100-fold in the past
five years thanks to Internet-based gambling.
"Ten years ago, national lotteries controlled 100 per cent of the sports
(betting) market," Hill said.
Quite a serious problem, huh? Especially considering the amount of money which is being circulated around but what is the solution to this? Why not follow suit and legalise the entire online gambling business similar to what the U.K. and the Caribbean have done? Atleast, countries would then stand to benefit from the revenues generated through online gambling (in terms of taxes). Along with the legalisation of gambling, make betting on sports, especially cricket, legal too! According to some reports on the Internet, the current IPL season has seen betting activities to the tune of Rs. 4,000 crore!
Legalise them and then tax them and subsequently pass on the tax benefits to the common people (and this time in equal amounts to either genders :-) ). Try as hard as they may, governments will never succeed in truly eradicating betting and gambling, so why not profit from this burgeoning industry? Atleast, legalisation provides the governments with a way to regulate and profit from the revneues generated by this industry - As they say, if you can't fight them, then join them! :)
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Crazy as ever!
Hey readers, how is it going on with you? I am super-busy here what with having to write an article for the ICFAI Charter magazine, composing questions for FRM 2008 and simultaneously working on 2 top-secret (not defense level) projects! Besides, having to constantly go up against my IT team and the HR guys here at office and I got my hands full! And oh, I forgot to add the bit about me missing out on my reading and the arrival of my cousins, along with their daughters, for the summer vacations! All in all, life sure is super crazy / busy / fun at the moment!
I hope to share with you more on my secret projects in the days to come – provided my efforts bear fruit! Else, it will all go down the toilet with not even a trace left for you to ponder over! Meanwhile, work at office is exciting – got 2 downgrade/upgrade calls right on the button! But heck, this isn’t the place to discuss my work, is it? Oh, and are any of you wondering why I haven’t published any photos from Canon S5 camera that I dedicated so much space to a month back?
Well, frankly, though I do have a lot of photos on the camera, the net connection at home has been nothing short of pathetic – I am using Reliance’s NetConnect and man, the speed is not only super slow, but it also takes an eternity to open a page! I am super tired and fed up of the slow connection – I’ll upload a bevy of photos once I get a new connection – probably sometime next month.
By the way, I have finished reading James Patterson’s Hide and Seek – I might be tempted to write a review of this book sometime during the weekend! ‘Til next time, take care and play safe!
I hope to share with you more on my secret projects in the days to come – provided my efforts bear fruit! Else, it will all go down the toilet with not even a trace left for you to ponder over! Meanwhile, work at office is exciting – got 2 downgrade/upgrade calls right on the button! But heck, this isn’t the place to discuss my work, is it? Oh, and are any of you wondering why I haven’t published any photos from Canon S5 camera that I dedicated so much space to a month back?
Well, frankly, though I do have a lot of photos on the camera, the net connection at home has been nothing short of pathetic – I am using Reliance’s NetConnect and man, the speed is not only super slow, but it also takes an eternity to open a page! I am super tired and fed up of the slow connection – I’ll upload a bevy of photos once I get a new connection – probably sometime next month.
By the way, I have finished reading James Patterson’s Hide and Seek – I might be tempted to write a review of this book sometime during the weekend! ‘Til next time, take care and play safe!
Monday, May 26, 2008
Weekend Diaries!
Hey readers, hope you all had a lovely weekend.. I had an awesome 2 days where I got plenty of time to catch up with my family, sleep, shopping and loads of other things! All in all, I'd a rocking gala time! But thanks to my defunct net connection at home, I couldn't really catch up with news - financial or otherwise - over the weekend!
Hence, my surprise when I caught sight of a Moneycontrol headline saying that RComm and MTN have agreed to enter into exclusive negotiations - now where did Bharti Airtel disappear? Wasn't Bharti the lead horse that was expected to acquire MTN? Oh well, doesn't really surprise me - RComm is entering into a lot of acquisitions of late and the latest deal with MTN simply reiterates the views of Anil Ambani -Dream BIG!
Hence, my surprise when I caught sight of a Moneycontrol headline saying that RComm and MTN have agreed to enter into exclusive negotiations - now where did Bharti Airtel disappear? Wasn't Bharti the lead horse that was expected to acquire MTN? Oh well, doesn't really surprise me - RComm is entering into a lot of acquisitions of late and the latest deal with MTN simply reiterates the views of Anil Ambani -Dream BIG!
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