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LIC Jeevan Ankur – Policy Review

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LIC

Life Insurance Corporation of India announced a new insurance policy called 'Jeevan Ankur'. This policy on the outlook seems to be aimed at attracting those parents belonging to the age group of 25 to 40 years. The official sales brochure of LIC on this product goes on mentioning that "LIC’s Jeevan Ankur is a conventional with profits plan, specially designed to meet the educational and other needs of your child". Well, I shouldn't miss this opportunity to congratulate LIC's marketing team for … Read more… about LIC Jeevan Ankur – Policy Review

Coming out of writers block!

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Paddy Fields

Seasonal greetings to all my readers! Hope everyone is having a fantastic 2012 so far and here is my wishing for all the good health, success and the best of everything you do through out the year! It has been a long time since I wrote here, hoping to revive it all over again and certainly look forward to be more frequent than what it was like in 2011. Do browse through if you haven't seen the archive page of this blog. Let me start this year with a photo that I clicked last year around the same … Read more… about Coming out of writers block!

Navaratri Special : Dasara Toys

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Dasara wishes to everyone. This festival signifies the victory of good over evil. The word 'Dasara' is derived from the Sanskrit phrase 'Dasha-hara' which means 'remover of bad fate'. The festival is celebrated in many ways across India. Predominant form being offering prayers to goddess Chamundeshwari (Durga), who fought Mahishasura. The battle raged for nine days and nights and at the end of it Mahishasura was defeated and killed by Durga. During these 'Navaratri' days, many people across … Read more… about Navaratri Special : Dasara Toys

Trade a laptop for Galaxy Tab 750?

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 750

Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 is the latest gadget that is making buzz in India. Geeks are already busy with a wide split of opinions among latest tablets. Gone are the days when people used to talk about the so called notebooks aka laptops! Welcome to the era of 'Tablets' now. While many like Android based tabs, Samsung was pretty fast in setting up the war with its range of soon after their launch of Galaxy series of Android OS mobiles. Let us look at a close reality of what a tab is all about and … Read more… about Trade a laptop for Galaxy Tab 750?

Facebook digs history wall

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Facebook has started to dig its own database of users to show what they were up to a year back on a given calendar day. I noticed this new feature on my facebook page yesterday. Must say that the idea is very nice to keep the users glued to facebook for longer durations. As far as I know, this is the very first attempt by Facebook to show an user's content to self than showing content from friends in network. There was another facebook app called 'My year in status' which did almost the same, … Read more… about Facebook digs history wall