Traffic Manangement in Emergency

February 8, 2010

Have you ever observed that in the midst of traffic, whenever siren sound of an ambulance or fire brigade is heard, the first reaction from the public as well as the traffic police will be to look towards the approaching ambulance in amusement to find how far is it from them and how the vehicle [...]

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In the Limelight of Print Media

February 6, 2010

It has been a great fortnight so far with a couple of mentions of self and this blog in the print media. Yes! an article named ‘Adopt an Animal & get Tax Benefit‘ posted on this blog has made it to an English daily featuring local news from Bangalore called Bangalore Mirror. The second mention [...]

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Bus Day Bangalore – 4th Feb

February 3, 2010

Bangalore is gearing up to celebrate Bus Day tomorrow, ie., 4th February 2010. I know it is a bit late to blog about it, but never too late spread the word since still a lot of time is left to join hands for a great cause. Not just tomorrow, feel free to opt it for [...]

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Photos from Leh and Ladakh

February 1, 2010

As promised before in one of the earlier posts on the occasion of republic day, here I am sharing all those exquisite photos from Leh & Ladakh regions. These photos have been sourced from my cousin who works with Indian Army. All these photos have been captured using a mobile phone camera! If you wish [...]

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Decoding Financial Advisers – Part 2

January 29, 2010

Before reading this article, hope you have read the first one – “Decoding Financial Advisers – Part 1“. We covered few scenarios on the usual suggestions made by the financial planners/advisers. In this article we cover the few more such scenarios.

• “The number you have called is not responding to your call”
• “I’ve sent several mails but [...]

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Decoding Financial Advisers – Part 1

January 27, 2010

This is a guest post by Jayant Bhat. He has over 7 years experience in life insurance and reinsurance field as a senior financial underwriter and risk analyst. Jayant has been writing guest articles on this blog and you can read his previous article called “Are you investing in the right way?“. You can [...]

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Republic Day… So What?

January 25, 2010

Any working class Indian would cry foul if national festivals like ‘Republic day’ falls on a weekend. Because, we need such holidays to skip work on a weekday and pamper ourselves with sleep till noon or go out with loved ones for a movie or even a day trip etc., If we all dig our [...]

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Seagate BlackArmor – USB 3.0 HDD

January 22, 2010

Seagate has launched a new 500GB external hard disk drive (HDD) called BlackArmor PS110. This drive has support for USB 3.0, which means the data can be transferred at 100MB per second compared to 30MB of current USB 2.0 standards. This product was introduced at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at Las Vegas this year. I [...]

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