Happy new year to all :)
Saturday 31 December 2011
Wednesday 28 December 2011
JUST A STORY BUT REALLY WORTHY *MUST READ*
A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and the boy was the apple of their eyes. When the boy was around two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open. He was late for work so he asked the wife to cap the bottle and keep it in the cupboard. The mother, preoccupied in the kitchen, totally forgot the matter.
The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle and, fascinated with its color, drank it all. It happened to be a poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages. When the child collapsed, the mother hurried him to the hospital, where he died. The mother was stunned. She was terrified how to face her husband.
When the distraught father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and uttered just four words.
What do you think were the four words?
The husband just said "I Love You Darling"
The husband's totally unexpected reaction is proactive behavior. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault with the mother. Besides, if only he have taken time to keep the bottle away, this will not have happened. No
point in attaching blame. She had also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her.
Sometimes we spend time asking who is responsible or who to blame, whether in a relationship, in a job or with the people we know. We miss out some warmth in human relationship in giving each other support. After all, shouldn't forgiving someone we love be the easiest thing in the world to do? Treasure what you have. Don't multiply pain, anguish and suffering by holding on to forgiveness.
If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be much fewer problems in the world.
Take off all your envies, jealousies, unwillingness to forgive, selfishness, and fears and you will find things are actually not as difficult as you think.
By : Safia Afreen
Monday 26 December 2011
10 Things You Should Not Say to Your Boss
10 Things You Should Not Say to Your Boss
Telling off your boss is a temptation impossible to resist. But letting your guard down can have disastrous consequences. Here’s a list of phrases most bosses hate to hear
When you are interacting with the boss, the most trivial thinking-aloud moment can turn into a nightmare — who knows how your words would be interpreted. So it is absolutely necessary to ensure that your foot doesn’t find a place in your mouth at the workplace, especially around the people you report to. Agreed, telling off your boss is a common fantasy and a temptation almost impossible to resist. But bear in mind, letting your guard down and telling the power-that-be exactly what you feel can have disastrous consequences.
It could be just an innocuous statement, but you may come across as lazy, careless and/or disrespectful to your boss. So, if there isn’t a mental filter in place, or if the existing one has proved to be ineffective, here’s a list of phrases that most employers would hate to hear. Make no mistake, this list is not exhaustive and is in no-particular order.
That’s Not in My Job Description
Nowadays, companies hire those who can wear many hats. So, if a particular task doesn’t come technically under your job description, try not complaining about it — unless it’s completely off the track. “If your boss thinks you are unwilling or incapable of doing what you’ve been asked, you will be considered a weak player,” says Vinay Grover, CEO of Symbiosis Management Consultants, a headhunting firm.
Nowadays, companies hire those who can wear many hats. So, if a particular task doesn’t come technically under your job description, try not complaining about it — unless it’s completely off the track. “If your boss thinks you are unwilling or incapable of doing what you’ve been asked, you will be considered a weak player,” says Vinay Grover, CEO of Symbiosis Management Consultants, a headhunting firm.
I Can’t Do This Task
You maybe nose-deep in work but an instant refusal gives an impression that you just don’t want to carry out a particular task. “You should always give valid reasons first and then say no,” says Sunil Goel, director, GlobalHunt, an executive search firm. If you happen to be one of those who find it difficult to say no, don’t fall into the trap of saying an instant yes, only to go back on your word later.
I Just Never Got Around To It
It’s quite simple: if your boss has entrusted you with something, you’ve just got to do it. “I was given an interesting assignment to work on while I was on something else. Call it poor time-management, I was unable to work on the project. When my manager inquired, I decided to be honest,” says Nishit Mishra, a marketing executive with a multinational banking giant. Mishra had to hand over the assignment to a colleague; never a pleasant thing to do, and you’d agree.
It’s quite simple: if your boss has entrusted you with something, you’ve just got to do it. “I was given an interesting assignment to work on while I was on something else. Call it poor time-management, I was unable to work on the project. When my manager inquired, I decided to be honest,” says Nishit Mishra, a marketing executive with a multinational banking giant. Mishra had to hand over the assignment to a colleague; never a pleasant thing to do, and you’d agree.
I Don’t Know How To Do It
You may actually be clueless but you need not say it in as many words. Saying “I don’t know” shows a weakness and it also may be interpreted as an excuse that you just don’t want to do it. “Tell your boss that you are prepared to do the task but that you may require assistance or guidance because you haven’t done it before,” says Grover of Symbiosis.
You may actually be clueless but you need not say it in as many words. Saying “I don’t know” shows a weakness and it also may be interpreted as an excuse that you just don’t want to do it. “Tell your boss that you are prepared to do the task but that you may require assistance or guidance because you haven’t done it before,” says Grover of Symbiosis.
I Am Overqualified For This
The task at hand might appear ‘lowly’. However, you are at work and instead of playing a big shot, you should just roll up your sleeves and get to work. “This is what your boss expects of you and anything less will show that you are actually not qualified to get things done,” says Ronesh Puri, managing director, Executive Access, a headhunting firm. Do it yourself or delegate it to someone else — come what may, but get it done!
The task at hand might appear ‘lowly’. However, you are at work and instead of playing a big shot, you should just roll up your sleeves and get to work. “This is what your boss expects of you and anything less will show that you are actually not qualified to get things done,” says Ronesh Puri, managing director, Executive Access, a headhunting firm. Do it yourself or delegate it to someone else — come what may, but get it done!
Sorry, I Missed That Point
You might be nursing a hangover or missing your caffeine shot while sitting in a painful early morning meeting. No matter what, be clued in to what is being discussed. Don’t dream of the sundae you plan to have post-lunch when the boss is talking to you. “This phrase can do more harm than good. If you are coming up with such excuses then it leaves an impression that you are not attentive and are losing interest in your work,” says Goel of GlobalHunt.
You might be nursing a hangover or missing your caffeine shot while sitting in a painful early morning meeting. No matter what, be clued in to what is being discussed. Don’t dream of the sundae you plan to have post-lunch when the boss is talking to you. “This phrase can do more harm than good. If you are coming up with such excuses then it leaves an impression that you are not attentive and are losing interest in your work,” says Goel of GlobalHunt.
I Need to Talk to You, It’s Important
Two simple rules that will justify the presence of this statement in this list.
Two simple rules that will justify the presence of this statement in this list.
Rule#1: Your time is only half as precious (or even lesser) as your boss’.
Rule#2: What is important to you might not be all that important to your boss. Consider both of these unsaid rules and you will end up making some qualitative changes like saying “slightly urgent” or “somewhat important”.
Rule#2: What is important to you might not be all that important to your boss. Consider both of these unsaid rules and you will end up making some qualitative changes like saying “slightly urgent” or “somewhat important”.
I Will Try
Your bosses don’t want you to try doing a task, they want you to do it. Trying is not an option here. Saying “I will try” will tell your boss that they cannot depend on you. It will not give them the assurance that the task will be taken care of. You wouldn’t want to hear what management trainee Swati Pillai was told when she muttered the unacceptable. “The company pays you for doing not trying.” Ouch!
Your bosses don’t want you to try doing a task, they want you to do it. Trying is not an option here. Saying “I will try” will tell your boss that they cannot depend on you. It will not give them the assurance that the task will be taken care of. You wouldn’t want to hear what management trainee Swati Pillai was told when she muttered the unacceptable. “The company pays you for doing not trying.” Ouch!
Don’t Blame Me — It’s Not My Fault
In the face of criticism or a reprimand, your defense mechanism will inevitably kick in. However, avoid dodging the responsibility or blaming someone else. Of course, you would want to clear the air, but there’s a time, place and way to do it. Don’t defend when the boss’s voice is at a higher-than-comfortable pitch.
In the face of criticism or a reprimand, your defense mechanism will inevitably kick in. However, avoid dodging the responsibility or blaming someone else. Of course, you would want to clear the air, but there’s a time, place and way to do it. Don’t defend when the boss’s voice is at a higher-than-comfortable pitch.
Why Do I Need To Do This? This is Stupid!
You maybe on back-slapping terms with your boss, but at the end of the day, he’s the senior. Anything that questions his authority and judgment is to be avoided at all costs. “If your bosses have asked you to do it, they must think it is important enough. By saying this you openly challenge their competency as a boss,” warns Grover.
You maybe on back-slapping terms with your boss, but at the end of the day, he’s the senior. Anything that questions his authority and judgment is to be avoided at all costs. “If your bosses have asked you to do it, they must think it is important enough. By saying this you openly challenge their competency as a boss,” warns Grover.
Sunday 25 December 2011
11 Global Trends That Defined 2011
It was a year when tyrants ceded power, economies teetered on the edge of collapse, the world’s most wanted terrorist was killed and a tech icon departed. Here’s looking back at the key events of 2011
With austerity pummelling society across Europe with no prospects of economic growth, treaty changes for “more Europe, not less”, i.e. more doses of Brussels — and Frankfurt-based technocratic control over spending priorities of member states — will fuel disenchantment of citizens that they are being exploited by distant, investor-beholden policymakers.
As 2011 ended, the allure of the EU had worn thin. A juggernaut that had absorbed 27 member states in two decades now looks febrile and dangerously close to disintegration. Tough love leadership that can steer the ship towards a ‘United States of Europe’ is the best we can hope from this region.
The year began with talk of a faster-than-expected economic recovery for the US, which had gained momentum and shown some growth tendencies in exports and consumer spending. But this stimulus-induced effect evaporated in no time, partly due to the infectious Euro zone woes and mostly because of political paralysis caused by a divided government between a Democratic presidency and a Republican Congress.
The politics of balancing budgets and reining in the runaway public deficit consumed America and left a wreck of indecisive policies in its wake. With stimulus drying up and unemployment soaring, Republicans butted in with proposals for across-the-board spending cuts and tax breaks. The resulting chaos behooved a failed state rather than the world’s largest economy, as a countdown began for a dreaded ‘government shutdown’ in September that was narrowly averted. Institutional torpor is all set to keep pegging the US economy back, as political brinkmanship becomes the ‘new normal’ in 2012, a presidential election year.
The politics of balancing budgets and reining in the runaway public deficit consumed America and left a wreck of indecisive policies in its wake. With stimulus drying up and unemployment soaring, Republicans butted in with proposals for across-the-board spending cuts and tax breaks. The resulting chaos behooved a failed state rather than the world’s largest economy, as a countdown began for a dreaded ‘government shutdown’ in September that was narrowly averted. Institutional torpor is all set to keep pegging the US economy back, as political brinkmanship becomes the ‘new normal’ in 2012, a presidential election year.
Protests, camping and laying siege to public places in the vicinity of financial temples across America and Europe brought back memories of the anti-Vietnam era. 2011 looked a lot like 1969, with a gradually coalescing sense that ‘the people’ had common interests against establishments. Millions agitated and sacrificed personal comforts in ways unfamiliar to a generation that preceded them, implying that change is speeding and new paradigms of power are emanating from the indignation of the masses.
Social mobilisation with an economic justice platform was not as potent in recent history as it was this year, and it threatens to return in even bigger proportion along with the flowers of the spring season in 2012.
Although the Arab Spring commenced spontaneously, it was usurped and tweaked in the later half of 2011 by other despots in the region and their foreign benefactors. The destructive wars waged by anti-Qaddafi forces in Libya and anti-Saleh tribal militias in Yemen forced more regime changes, but not without dragging in regional and extra-regional ‘humanitarian’ interventions. War displaced revolution as the central theme by the time 2011 ended, as status quo tyrants like Assad dynasty in Syria hung on with every sinew left in their armoury. Can people savaged by brutal dictators not only overthrow oppressors but also rebuild anew with institutions that distribute power more evenly between state agents and social actors? This is the most key question vis-Ã -vis the Arab world for 2012.
For international security in the coming year, the undeclared USPakistan war is going to pose more headaches than the declared war between the Americans and the Taliban/Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The unswerving pursuit of institutional self-preservation by the Pakistani military, which has warned the Americans that it has nuclear weapons and is hence not a pushover, puts the US in a situation where it can only declare “victory” and pull out of Afghanistan if Pakistan is realistically tamed and democratised. Al Qaeda has enough traction left in Pakistan to make this a deadly proposition filled with terrorist violence in 2012.
6. China’s Rise: It sneaked past the West and riled Asians
On the tenth anniversary of the 9/11, some wondered whether the West’s war against “Islamofascism” was a strategic blunder or diversion that allowed China to close the power gap with the US. The China of 2011 was much more formidable than the China of 2001 in economic and military means to compete with and outplay the US. While America and its allies were busy battling Al Qaeda, China conserved its vitality, and focused on growth, military modernisation and global relations.
In 2011, the drumbeat of an “Asian century” sounded ever louder as China put to rest speculation that it would stutter from global downturn and clocked 9.3% GDP growth. 2011 also showcased a China that was combative in disputes with its neighbours, evoking fears of a new dominion in Asia. The theory of China’s “peaceful rise” was met with growing cynicism and hand wringing that no one, least of all the US, is able to restrain Chinese aggression any more. With the EU in a shambles and rest of the ‘BRICS’ not yet in China’s league, 2011 could be the year when we settled into a bipolar world order with Washington and Beijing as the two axes.
On the tenth anniversary of the 9/11, some wondered whether the West’s war against “Islamofascism” was a strategic blunder or diversion that allowed China to close the power gap with the US. The China of 2011 was much more formidable than the China of 2001 in economic and military means to compete with and outplay the US. While America and its allies were busy battling Al Qaeda, China conserved its vitality, and focused on growth, military modernisation and global relations.
In 2011, the drumbeat of an “Asian century” sounded ever louder as China put to rest speculation that it would stutter from global downturn and clocked 9.3% GDP growth. 2011 also showcased a China that was combative in disputes with its neighbours, evoking fears of a new dominion in Asia. The theory of China’s “peaceful rise” was met with growing cynicism and hand wringing that no one, least of all the US, is able to restrain Chinese aggression any more. With the EU in a shambles and rest of the ‘BRICS’ not yet in China’s league, 2011 could be the year when we settled into a bipolar world order with Washington and Beijing as the two axes.
7. The Iraq war folded while war with Iran still loomed As 2011 closed, the US withdrew all its combat troops from Iraq, with few positive outcomes to take home. The colossal costs in Iraqi and American lives might still be justified ex post facto if a stable and non-discriminatory political system emerges in Baghdad. But authoritarian impulses remain rooted in Iraqi politics along with the vicious strain of Shia-Sunni-Kurdish enmities.
Did America “liberate” Iraq after all or has it abandoned it to the machinations of wily Iran? Suspenseful shadowboxing between the US, Israel and Iran continued in 2011, stoking fears of a regional or even a world war. With the Palestinian statehood drive stalemated, chances of a fireball of military conflicts engulfing West Asia remain on the cards for 2012. Iran’s oppressive polity could also generate internal mass discontent of a scale that could put the Arab Spring to shame.
Did America “liberate” Iraq after all or has it abandoned it to the machinations of wily Iran? Suspenseful shadowboxing between the US, Israel and Iran continued in 2011, stoking fears of a regional or even a world war. With the Palestinian statehood drive stalemated, chances of a fireball of military conflicts engulfing West Asia remain on the cards for 2012. Iran’s oppressive polity could also generate internal mass discontent of a scale that could put the Arab Spring to shame.
8. A media mogul’s empire creaked & new media arrived
The travails of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch overflowed in 2011, triggering a climate of introspection about unethical press practices and concentration of information power in the hands of a connected few. Calls for regulating the media echoed from Murdoch’s English heartland all the way to developing countries like India.
2011 was the year of popular pushes for democratic accountability of states, corporations as well as media houses. Internet-based whistleblower journalism of the WikiLeaks variety mushroomed and took on old media stalwarts, powerful militaries, privileged diplomats and corporate bigwigs. Media democracy was a phrase increasingly thrown into the public arena.
The travails of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch overflowed in 2011, triggering a climate of introspection about unethical press practices and concentration of information power in the hands of a connected few. Calls for regulating the media echoed from Murdoch’s English heartland all the way to developing countries like India.
2011 was the year of popular pushes for democratic accountability of states, corporations as well as media houses. Internet-based whistleblower journalism of the WikiLeaks variety mushroomed and took on old media stalwarts, powerful militaries, privileged diplomats and corporate bigwigs. Media democracy was a phrase increasingly thrown into the public arena.
9. A nuclear disaster unleashed new energy politics
Just as more and more states were moving in the direction of developing nuclear energy sectors, 2011 introduced a dark shadow of doubt in the form of the Fukushima accident in Japan. Its aftermath saw feverish campaigning against nuclear energy and pushed countries like Germany to declare abandonment of this source.
The role of nuclear lobbies in bending regulatory strictures and flouting safety standards came for intense scrutiny, adding fuel to an anti-nuclear mood in countries as far apart as India, Mexico, Italy and Taiwan.
Will the post-Fukushima blowback give wind to wind and solar energy technologies and help them leap past the nuclear energy sector in 2012? The politics of industrial lobbies, environmental activists and green political parties hold the answer.
Just as more and more states were moving in the direction of developing nuclear energy sectors, 2011 introduced a dark shadow of doubt in the form of the Fukushima accident in Japan. Its aftermath saw feverish campaigning against nuclear energy and pushed countries like Germany to declare abandonment of this source.
The role of nuclear lobbies in bending regulatory strictures and flouting safety standards came for intense scrutiny, adding fuel to an anti-nuclear mood in countries as far apart as India, Mexico, Italy and Taiwan.
Will the post-Fukushima blowback give wind to wind and solar energy technologies and help them leap past the nuclear energy sector in 2012? The politics of industrial lobbies, environmental activists and green political parties hold the answer.
10. The world’s largest democracy coped with new democratic currents India’s economic bandwagon slowed in 2011 under the duress of policy drift; the central government scored self-goals while trying to usher in fresh reforms. The flip-flop made by the government on opening the retail sector was one manifestation of what former Malaysian strongman Mahathir Mohamad termed as “too much domestic politics and abuse of freedoms to protest and argue at will”.
Yet, anti-corruption movements and exposure of governance failures that abounded in 2011 happened, thanks to new, non-electoral democratic stirrings in Indian society. They held out hope that the ‘India story’, which was a leading global narrative alongside China’s rise, may return to track in 2012.
Yet, anti-corruption movements and exposure of governance failures that abounded in 2011 happened, thanks to new, non-electoral democratic stirrings in Indian society. They held out hope that the ‘India story’, which was a leading global narrative alongside China’s rise, may return to track in 2012.
11. A business icon shed mortal coils and gave capitalism back its good name The death of Apple’s saintly genius, Steve Jobs, produced a subtle counternarrative to the anti-capitalist mass protests that swamped 2011. Here was a daring entrepreneur and an innovative business leader whose products and services not even ‘Occupy Wall Street’ could skewer with honesty! Karl Marx grudgingly admired the creativity and revolutionary nature of capitalism. In contrast to the ‘greedy bankers’, Jobs’ exemplary life conveyed that not all was lost for the free market in a seesaw year. 2011 is special because it spawned conditions that would define the rest of this decade. Such transformative years come at rare conjunctures in history when existing forms and principles of organising economies, polities and societies become untenable and adjustment or change are inexorable. We can look back at 2011 with the thought that it was the year when the wheels of time took fateful turns.
2011 Biggest Winners & Losers
Like every year, 2011 changed the fortune- for better or worst - of Public figures, Companies, Brands and countries. Some started the year strongly , but finished lamely. a few leaped into the big league unexpectedly.
Some of the names show why a year can be so volatile in the life of a Person or a Company or a Brand or a Country.
Source : ET
Some of the names show why a year can be so volatile in the life of a Person or a Company or a Brand or a Country.
Source : ET
Saturday 24 December 2011
All about banning 3G roaming pacts
This argument is specious, because the government's own auction rules limited the number of players in each circle to two. State-owned BSNL was given 3G spectrum for free earlier, and it was the first player to start intracircle roaming. By limiting the number of players in each circle, the government created a scarcity and raised the price: the government raised nearly $13 billion from the 3G auction alone. The revenue loss it refers to now would easily be offset by the scarcity premium it has earned earlier. The revocation move will also aggravate the wasteful use of spectrum, a scarce natural resource. If one player has spare capacity to rent in one circle, it should be allowed to do so, thereby maximising usage. Can the government afford to return the $13 billion if 3G players surrender the spectrum they bought earlier? It's a pity that fear of ill-informed criticism forces the government to embrace suboptimal, anti-consumer policy.
Mobile companies like Vodafone, Bharti Airtel slam government for banning 3G roaming pacts
Open warfare has broken out in the country's telecom sector once again, with a clutch of top mobile operators taking on the government and accusing it of reneging on promises with "retrograde", "irrational" and "illegal" decisions.
A day after the department of telecom (DoT) declared 3G roaming pacts between mobile operators illegal and ordered them to stop them within 24 hours, the country's top mobile phone companies hit back at the government, terming its actions as harmful to customers and to the cause of investments in the sector.
"This decision is tantamount to reneging on a promise," Bharti Airtel, the country's biggest mobile operator, said in an uncharacteristically harsh statement on Friday evening. The company said it was 'shocked' at the 'retrograde' decision and warned that it will take "appropriate recourse to protect its rights".
Vodafone India termed the telecom department's actions as "completely unreasonable" and "totally irrational".
Idea Cellular said it was dismayed and shocked by the government's decision, which it said would adversely impact investor sentiment. Officials said Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular had approached the Telecom Dispute Settlement & Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) to stay the telecom department's order. The case will be heard on Saturday.
The outbreak of open hostilities risks plunging the sector, once viewed as a poster child of the success of liberalisation and now riven by internecine warfare, into further chaos. The sector is already at the centre of the political discourse in the country.
The 2G spectrum sale of 2008 has snowballed into a huge scandal that has jailed a former telecom minister, top officials and embarrassed the government.
Earlier this year, operators, such as Bharti, Idea, Vodafone, Tata Teleservices and Aircel, entered into 3G roaming deals, enabling them to sign up 3G customers across the country even in areas where they did not have third-generation spectrum.
These pacts allowed them to use each others' airwaves and offer 3G services, such as video calling and high-speed Internet, on phones seamlessly across the country. Bharti, Idea and Vodafone entered into one agreement while Tata and Aircel forged another.
But the telecom department and sector regulator Trai viewed these pacts as illegal, a position that received the backing of the law ministry. Various sections of the DoT warned that such agreements could have negative revenue implications for the government.
On Thursday, DoT moved to strike down these pacts saying companies could not offer 3G services to subscribers in service areas where they do not have licences and ordered them to stop offering roaming within 24 hours.
This will mean that an operator like Bharti Airtel will not be able to 3G services to customers outside the 13 service areas where it has 3G spectrum.
The DoT's action came despite vigorous opposition from industry bigwigs. Last month, Airtel boss Sunil Mittal, Idea chief Kumar Mangalam Birla, Vodafone's global CEO Vittorio Colao and a raft of other senior industry officials met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to plead for an endto policy flip-flops and a stable regime.
Mobile operators, none of whom were able to secure all-India 3G licences in auctions in 2010 and were therefore banking on using each other's network to plug in the gaps in networks, were particularly scathing of the DoT's order to discontinue roaming in 24 hours.
A day after the department of telecom (DoT) declared 3G roaming pacts between mobile operators illegal and ordered them to stop them within 24 hours, the country's top mobile phone companies hit back at the government, terming its actions as harmful to customers and to the cause of investments in the sector.
"This decision is tantamount to reneging on a promise," Bharti Airtel, the country's biggest mobile operator, said in an uncharacteristically harsh statement on Friday evening. The company said it was 'shocked' at the 'retrograde' decision and warned that it will take "appropriate recourse to protect its rights".
Vodafone India termed the telecom department's actions as "completely unreasonable" and "totally irrational".
Idea Cellular said it was dismayed and shocked by the government's decision, which it said would adversely impact investor sentiment. Officials said Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular had approached the Telecom Dispute Settlement & Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) to stay the telecom department's order. The case will be heard on Saturday.
The outbreak of open hostilities risks plunging the sector, once viewed as a poster child of the success of liberalisation and now riven by internecine warfare, into further chaos. The sector is already at the centre of the political discourse in the country.
The 2G spectrum sale of 2008 has snowballed into a huge scandal that has jailed a former telecom minister, top officials and embarrassed the government.
Earlier this year, operators, such as Bharti, Idea, Vodafone, Tata Teleservices and Aircel, entered into 3G roaming deals, enabling them to sign up 3G customers across the country even in areas where they did not have third-generation spectrum.
These pacts allowed them to use each others' airwaves and offer 3G services, such as video calling and high-speed Internet, on phones seamlessly across the country. Bharti, Idea and Vodafone entered into one agreement while Tata and Aircel forged another.
But the telecom department and sector regulator Trai viewed these pacts as illegal, a position that received the backing of the law ministry. Various sections of the DoT warned that such agreements could have negative revenue implications for the government.
On Thursday, DoT moved to strike down these pacts saying companies could not offer 3G services to subscribers in service areas where they do not have licences and ordered them to stop offering roaming within 24 hours.
This will mean that an operator like Bharti Airtel will not be able to 3G services to customers outside the 13 service areas where it has 3G spectrum.
The DoT's action came despite vigorous opposition from industry bigwigs. Last month, Airtel boss Sunil Mittal, Idea chief Kumar Mangalam Birla, Vodafone's global CEO Vittorio Colao and a raft of other senior industry officials met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to plead for an endto policy flip-flops and a stable regime.
Mobile operators, none of whom were able to secure all-India 3G licences in auctions in 2010 and were therefore banking on using each other's network to plug in the gaps in networks, were particularly scathing of the DoT's order to discontinue roaming in 24 hours.
"It is going to affect millions of our customers adversely," Vodafone said. A Bharti statement added: "To add to our and customer's dismay compliance is being forced within 24 hours without stating why this haste! ... Customers have to be informed and their financial commitment towards the service has to be protected."
Operators said they had entered into these roaming deals with the full knowledge and blessings of the DoT, which they said had allowed such pacts before the auction of 3G airwaves.
"The 3G roaming agreements... are in complete compliance with all government rules and regulations and this issue was specifically clarified by the DoT before the 3G auction was held-...Based on this clarification, we went into the auction in good faith," Vodafone said. Independent experts sided with the operators.
Prashant Singhal of Ernst & Young said the agreements were not illegal as the government had told operators before the 3G spectrum auction that roaming agreements would be allowed.
"It's a lose-lose situation for customers and telecom companies," he said, adding the decision would create doubt and uncertainty in the minds of investors and "goes against the government's policy of providing broadband to millions".
Mobile industry body Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) called the government's decision a "major setback" and said "the huge investments and tremendous efforts of the operators in rolling out and provisioning 3G services to subscribers" was at stake.
"The unfavorable policy decisions of the regulators and the DoT, scarcity of funds from lending institutions... are all leading to further delays and difficulties for service operators. This is putting at serious risk the ambitious plans of the government itself to close the digital divide in India," COAI President Rajan Mathews said.
Just 10% beneficiaries of NREGA are poor, if you believe statistics
An inconvenient truth? Or yet another case of shoddy data collection by state agencies? The government is scrambling to prove that it is the latter, after data on the UPA's flagship poverty alleviation programme shows that it may not be reaching its intended beneficiaries, those classified in official-speak as below the poverty line (BPL).
A recent note circulated to all state departments by the rural development ministry revealed that only one crore (10 million) out of the 12 crore job cards registered under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (or NREGA) were officially classified as poor during 2010-11.
Further, the note stated that only 36 lakh (3.6 million) so-called BPL families have worked for at least 15 days during 2010-11 compared with 366 lakh families classified as above the poverty line (APL). This ratio remains little changed this year too, so far in 2011-12, some 20 lakh BPL families are shown to have worked for at least 15 days compared with 202 lakh APL families.
Concieved and enacted as a job guarantee scheme in 2005, the NREGA, which guarantees 100 days of employment to its beneficiaries, became one of the trophy schemes of the Congress-led UPA, giving it a pro-poor halo and helping it land a second term in office after the 2009 elections.
Spending under this scheme steadily rose to Rs 39,377 crore in 2010-11 from Rs 8,823 crore in 2006-07. For 2011-12, the government has budgeted Rs 40,000 crore for NREGA. While talk of fraud and misuse has bedeviled the scheme for years, these have become more common in recent months.
States such as Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh have in the last two years taken action against hundreds of elected representatives respectively for misappropriating NREGA funds. The irregularities include forming musters of ghost workers leading to payments into ghost accounts, delayed and nonpayment of wages and preferential treatment to some farmers.
A clutch of influential ministers and economists have also lately blamed NREGA for rising inflation and acute farm labour shortages in the hinterland. If the rural development ministry's numbers in its note to state governments are to be believed, it means that APL beneficiaries have monopolised the scheme at the expense of the poor.
But ministry officials say this is not correct, noting that data underpinning the numbers was highly unreliable because most states did not correctly mark the BPL status of registered families.
"Basing any conclusions on these numbers will be highly misleading. States have not marked all the families that are BPL and that has resulted in the high numbers of APL," said one official, asking not to be identified. The official contended that if state governments did not have data regarding the status of families and do not mark beneficiaries specifically as BPL, the system automatically classifies it as APL.
A recent note circulated to all state departments by the rural development ministry revealed that only one crore (10 million) out of the 12 crore job cards registered under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (or NREGA) were officially classified as poor during 2010-11.
Further, the note stated that only 36 lakh (3.6 million) so-called BPL families have worked for at least 15 days during 2010-11 compared with 366 lakh families classified as above the poverty line (APL). This ratio remains little changed this year too, so far in 2011-12, some 20 lakh BPL families are shown to have worked for at least 15 days compared with 202 lakh APL families.
Concieved and enacted as a job guarantee scheme in 2005, the NREGA, which guarantees 100 days of employment to its beneficiaries, became one of the trophy schemes of the Congress-led UPA, giving it a pro-poor halo and helping it land a second term in office after the 2009 elections.
Spending under this scheme steadily rose to Rs 39,377 crore in 2010-11 from Rs 8,823 crore in 2006-07. For 2011-12, the government has budgeted Rs 40,000 crore for NREGA. While talk of fraud and misuse has bedeviled the scheme for years, these have become more common in recent months.
States such as Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh have in the last two years taken action against hundreds of elected representatives respectively for misappropriating NREGA funds. The irregularities include forming musters of ghost workers leading to payments into ghost accounts, delayed and nonpayment of wages and preferential treatment to some farmers.
A clutch of influential ministers and economists have also lately blamed NREGA for rising inflation and acute farm labour shortages in the hinterland. If the rural development ministry's numbers in its note to state governments are to be believed, it means that APL beneficiaries have monopolised the scheme at the expense of the poor.
But ministry officials say this is not correct, noting that data underpinning the numbers was highly unreliable because most states did not correctly mark the BPL status of registered families.
"Basing any conclusions on these numbers will be highly misleading. States have not marked all the families that are BPL and that has resulted in the high numbers of APL," said one official, asking not to be identified. The official contended that if state governments did not have data regarding the status of families and do not mark beneficiaries specifically as BPL, the system automatically classifies it as APL.
"This is totally not what the situation on the ground is. We have asked states to update the information. This is wrong," he added. Independent analysts who closely track NREGA agreed, saying the scheme largely catered to the very poor. "From experience I can tell that people who turn up for work are poor. There is some truth that a lot of benefits are being misappropriated, but on a national basis that cannot be true.
This must be a case of faulty classification of poor and non poor," said Pramathesh Ambasta of Samaj Pragati Sahyog, a grassroots organisation that implements the scheme in the tribal areas of Madhya Pradesh.
State government officials also concur with the line taken by the rural development ministry, blaming district authorities for poor recording of data. "Many districts have plainly forgotten to collect the BPL, APL data of workers. That is the reason the MIS data is unreliable as we have not been able to update the status for majority of beneficiaries," said an official in Uttar Pradesh's rural development ministry.
This must be a case of faulty classification of poor and non poor," said Pramathesh Ambasta of Samaj Pragati Sahyog, a grassroots organisation that implements the scheme in the tribal areas of Madhya Pradesh.
State government officials also concur with the line taken by the rural development ministry, blaming district authorities for poor recording of data. "Many districts have plainly forgotten to collect the BPL, APL data of workers. That is the reason the MIS data is unreliable as we have not been able to update the status for majority of beneficiaries," said an official in Uttar Pradesh's rural development ministry.
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This official said that in UP for instance, while 80% of the job cards belong to BPL families, but state departments have marked only 20% as such in their monthly reports due to unavailability of data from districts. Similarly, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra say that BPL families logically account for up to 80% of the overall work demand.
The central government has started asking for greater granular information, notably the APL or BPL status of beneficiaries, as part of attempts to extend health insurance cover under the Rashtriya Swathya Bima Yojna to all MGNREGA families. Most BPL families already have this insurance cover and the government's wants to better capture data on APL families which fall under the unorganised worker category.
Source :ET
Sunday 18 December 2011
Can Nokia win market share in iPhone era with its first Windows Phones Lumia 800 & 710?
Weight watchers will know how it feels: to cut the flab and get going with more energy, more buzz. Stephen Elop is now on that side. The Nokia president and CEO has got two new phones, Lumia 800 and 710, out of the lumbering giant in under nine months. They were launched in India three days ago.
For a moment, ignore Lumias' specifications (they don't read half bad). Don't compare them with other Windows Mango devices. Consider what it means for the company. From idea to the store shelf, the Lumia journey is a quick turnaround from handset industry standards. Benchmark it to the old Nokia, it looks like a sprint.
But the real mad dash was the slew of dual SIM phones. More than two years late into India and other emerging economies, the company has announced seven such phones since June. And though late, Nokia came good. It loaded the dual SIM phones with features: Ovi services and specific innovations. The result: it shipped over 18 million such phones since their launch.
Elop is already gushing. In a media interaction in September he claimed that the success of dual SIM phones had a "halo effect on our single-SIM phones. India has shown that brand plus team plus great execution can deliver strong results".
Innovation and agility at both ends of the handset market: does this signal that Nokia is getting its act back together? Or do the achievements pale against the goings on in Apple, Samsung and local manufacturers in emerging economies?
ET on Sunday dissects the anatomy of the dual SIM success to find out whether it can be replicated across phone segments and questions whether Nokia's Lumia can win mind and market share in the iPhone era.
BEST LATE THAN NEVER
There are a lot of things that Nokia did right in the dual SIM segment. But the most important one is that it entered this market at all. Many consumers bought Indian brands because there was no Nokia option. As soon as they had one, the choice was Nokia.
"The brand enjoys high credibility, especially at the low-end. It did the right thing by launching handsets at competitive price points. A consumer did not have to spend more, if anything at all, to switch from an Indian brand to a Nokia dual SIM," says Kunal Bajaj, director India, Analysys Mason, a telecom consultant.
But Nokia did not rely on brand power alone. It included relevant value-additions and innovated for the consumer. Says D Shivakumar, managing director, Nokia India: "We refused to treat the dual SIM market the way the industry was treating it, as a vanilla commodity. We segmented the dual SIM user on parameters like form factors and usage patterns and addressed the pain points of owning multiple SIMs."
For instance, the devices have nudged the second SIM slot on the side of their phones so that users don't take out the battery each time they swap SIMs. They also remember settings of up to five SIMs which spares users the hassles of re-configuring the phone each time.
Jaideep Ghosh, executive director, KPMG India, a consultant, says Nokia's job was made easier as the launches coincided with the period Indian handset manufacturers started struggling: "Most local brands did not invest in the market or build robust supply chains. The import-cheap Chinese-and-sell model is not sustainable for long without any back end. These brands will inevitably suffer when MNCs like Nokia enter their domain. Many of them are now stuck with a lot of inventory as they are also facing credit issues with the distribution network."
Nokia has played on its strengths: great build quality, innovations like a touch-and-type dual SIM phone and support from an FMCG-like distribution network. But some analysts say the low-end is a low-hanging fruit for Nokia. In India and other emerging economies, the brand is synonymous with durability and value-for-money. Smartphones, the real money spinners, is another matter. "Lumia won't have it so easy. Its task is cut out," says Bajaj.
NOT-SO-LUMINOUS FUTURE
It is the segment which clobbered Nokia in the West: smartphones. And though there is cheer at the quick launch of the Lumia range, the numbers of Nokia's profitability must dampen Elop's spirit.
According to Asymco.com, Symbian's share in smartphone platforms fell to 16% in the quarter ending June, from a high of 47% in the same period of 2008. In this quarter, Nokia was one of the four vendors to make losses whereas Apple grabbed two-thirds of the operating profit. Nokia's third quarter performance is better: the company is profitable again. But at $180 million, the profit is about 2% of the top eight brands.
What should worry Nokia more is that Windows Phone 7 remains a no show. The operating service it is betting its existence on has scraped up only 2-5% of the market. This despite all the biggies, HTC, Samsung and LG, launching an assortment of handsets with Windows.
Few doubt Nokia's hardware capabilities. It has long been famous as an engineering-driven organisation. But the choice of software drives a smartphone. Consumers want more apps, simpler user interface, multitasking capabilities and higher speed on their smartphone. Everything that the Android offers, at very reasonable prices. Does Lumia offer any reason for users to move away from the super-hit Android or the super-niche iOS?
Nokia's biggest threat maybe the iPhone and Android-powered devices, but there is a battle heating up in its backyard. New-found partner Microsoft is not committed to Nokia alone. Windows Phone 7 or Windows Mango is the operating system for Samsung ,HTC, LG, Dell and Acer. So what is special about Nokia's Windows?
If you go by the Lumia, not much. You can draw similarities between Lumia, HTC Titan and Samsung Focus S. But there are some 'Nokia only' apps and designs too.
"Given the limited time which Nokia has had to design, build and release the phones, it has suitably differentiated the Lumia devices from other Windows Phones. On the hardware front, the Lumia 800 has a unique and identifiable industrial designs on any smartphone and the 710 is the only Windows Phone to feature changeable covers. From a software perspective, there are applications and services which are unique to Nokia, such as Nokia Music, Maps and Drive, and they are expected to build their differentiated offering in 2012," says Nick Dillon, an analyst with UK-based telecom consultancy Ovum.
Nokia has other plans up its sleeve. For instance, a few months ago, it killed the Ovi brand in favour of the Nokia Store. Ovi Contacts is the latest to be booted out. Experts claim that Nokia is planning to extend the visibility of its services through the Windows OS on other phones. Imagine seeing Nokia Maps on a Samsung Windows phone.
This is speculation. What's sure is that 2012 is critical for Nokia: Operation Rolling Thunder, codename for launching phones across price points in the US, will be in full show. Rumours are that the Lumia 900 will debut by March and a Windows 8 tablet in summer. Nokia's future will be clearer then.
Nokia report card: Year One of Stephen Elop
BEFORE 2010... Nokia misreads Dual SIM as a market fad. Does not launch any phone in the segment Indian companies cash in on demand. Brands like Micromax, Spice and Karbonn lead the way Nokia's low-end consumer base shrinks
COMEBACK STRATEGY
Nokia enters the market about 3 years late with two models: C1 and C2
C1(about Rs 2,000 ) is a vanilla phone aimed to challenge cheap Indian brands
C2 loaded with Ovi Mail and Ovi Life Tools. Boasts hot swappable feature: the phone can switch SIMs when it is on
Nokia brand credibility draws consumers from local brands as all dual SIM phones priced to compete with them
At low price, the phones loaded with more features. For example, the C2-03 saves settings of 5 SIMs
Attention to small details, second SIM slot on the side and not under the battery -enhances user experience
Real challengers in mid-segment emerge: Android-based dual SIM phones
Source : ET
Nokia enters the market about 3 years late with two models: C1 and C2
C1(about Rs 2,000 ) is a vanilla phone aimed to challenge cheap Indian brands
C2 loaded with Ovi Mail and Ovi Life Tools. Boasts hot swappable feature: the phone can switch SIMs when it is on
Nokia brand credibility draws consumers from local brands as all dual SIM phones priced to compete with them
At low price, the phones loaded with more features. For example, the C2-03 saves settings of 5 SIMs
Attention to small details, second SIM slot on the side and not under the battery -enhances user experience
Real challengers in mid-segment emerge: Android-based dual SIM phones
Source : ET
Thursday 15 December 2011
I really like the message sent to Americans.. can they Imagine what they/their government does in the rest of the world?
I really like the message sent to Americans..
can they Imagine what they/their government does in the rest of the world?
Imagine!: speech written & given by Ron Paul
CREDITS:
Obviously Ron Paul for the speech
Voice & Music: Jeremy Hoop
Video animation: Nicholas Bozman & MysteryBox.
Original text:
Imagine for a moment that somewhere in the middle of Texas there was a large foreign military base, say Chinese or Russian. Imagine that thousands of armed foreign troops were constantly patrolling American streets in military vehicles. Imagine they were here under the auspices of "keeping us safe" or "promoting democracy" or "protecting their strategic interests."
Imagine that they operated outside of US law, and that the Constitution did not apply to them. Imagine that every now and then they made mistakes or acted on bad information and accidentally killed or terrorized innocent Americans, including women and children, most of the time with little to no repercussions or consequences. Imagine that they set up checkpoints on our soil and routinely searched and ransacked entire neighborhoods of homes. Imagine if Americans were fearful of these foreign troops, and overwhelmingly thought America would be better off without their presence.
Imagine if some Americans were so angry about them being in Texas that they actually joined together to fight them off, in defense of our soil and sovereignty, because leadership in government refused or were unable to do so. Imagine that those Americans were labeled terrorists or insurgents for their defensive actions, and routinely killed, or captured and tortured by the foreign troops on our land. Imagine that the occupiers' attitude was that if they just killed enough Americans, the resistance would stop, but instead, for every American killed, ten more would take up arms against them, resulting in perpetual bloodshed. Imagine if most of the citizens of the foreign land also wanted these troops to return home. Imagine if they elected a leader who promised to bring them home and put an end to this horror.
Imagine if that leader changed his mind once he took office.
The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would be if they were stationed in Texas. We would not stand for it here, but we have had a globe-straddling empire and a very intrusive foreign policy for decades that incites a lot of hatred and resentment towards us.
According to our own CIA, our meddling in the Middle East was the prime motivation for the horrific attacks on 9/11. But instead of re-evaluating our foreign policy, we have simply escalated it. We had a right to go after those responsible for 9/11, to be sure, but why do so many Americans feel as if we have a right to a military presence in some 160 countries when we wouldn't stand for even one foreign base on our soil, for any reason? These are not embassies, mind you, these are military installations. The new administration is not materially changing anything about this. Shuffling troops around and playing with semantics does not accomplish the goals of the American people, who simply want our men and women to come home. 50,000 troops left behind in Iraq is not conducive to peace any more than 50,000 Russian soldiers would be in the United States.
Shutting down military bases and ceasing to deal with other nations with threats and violence is not isolationism. It is the opposite. Opening ourselves up to friendship, honest trade and diplomacy is the foreign policy of peace and prosperity. It is the only foreign policy that will not bankrupt us in short order, as our current actions most definitely will. I share the disappointment of the American people in the foreign policy rhetoric coming from the administration. The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.
can they Imagine what they/their government does in the rest of the world?
Imagine!: speech written & given by Ron Paul
CREDITS:
Obviously Ron Paul for the speech
Voice & Music: Jeremy Hoop
Video animation: Nicholas Bozman & MysteryBox.
Original text:
Imagine for a moment that somewhere in the middle of Texas there was a large foreign military base, say Chinese or Russian. Imagine that thousands of armed foreign troops were constantly patrolling American streets in military vehicles. Imagine they were here under the auspices of "keeping us safe" or "promoting democracy" or "protecting their strategic interests."
Imagine that they operated outside of US law, and that the Constitution did not apply to them. Imagine that every now and then they made mistakes or acted on bad information and accidentally killed or terrorized innocent Americans, including women and children, most of the time with little to no repercussions or consequences. Imagine that they set up checkpoints on our soil and routinely searched and ransacked entire neighborhoods of homes. Imagine if Americans were fearful of these foreign troops, and overwhelmingly thought America would be better off without their presence.
Imagine if some Americans were so angry about them being in Texas that they actually joined together to fight them off, in defense of our soil and sovereignty, because leadership in government refused or were unable to do so. Imagine that those Americans were labeled terrorists or insurgents for their defensive actions, and routinely killed, or captured and tortured by the foreign troops on our land. Imagine that the occupiers' attitude was that if they just killed enough Americans, the resistance would stop, but instead, for every American killed, ten more would take up arms against them, resulting in perpetual bloodshed. Imagine if most of the citizens of the foreign land also wanted these troops to return home. Imagine if they elected a leader who promised to bring them home and put an end to this horror.
Imagine if that leader changed his mind once he took office.
The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would be if they were stationed in Texas. We would not stand for it here, but we have had a globe-straddling empire and a very intrusive foreign policy for decades that incites a lot of hatred and resentment towards us.
According to our own CIA, our meddling in the Middle East was the prime motivation for the horrific attacks on 9/11. But instead of re-evaluating our foreign policy, we have simply escalated it. We had a right to go after those responsible for 9/11, to be sure, but why do so many Americans feel as if we have a right to a military presence in some 160 countries when we wouldn't stand for even one foreign base on our soil, for any reason? These are not embassies, mind you, these are military installations. The new administration is not materially changing anything about this. Shuffling troops around and playing with semantics does not accomplish the goals of the American people, who simply want our men and women to come home. 50,000 troops left behind in Iraq is not conducive to peace any more than 50,000 Russian soldiers would be in the United States.
Shutting down military bases and ceasing to deal with other nations with threats and violence is not isolationism. It is the opposite. Opening ourselves up to friendship, honest trade and diplomacy is the foreign policy of peace and prosperity. It is the only foreign policy that will not bankrupt us in short order, as our current actions most definitely will. I share the disappointment of the American people in the foreign policy rhetoric coming from the administration. The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.
Wednesday 14 December 2011
Virus in Govt. Page .... where i can complain ??? help?? my mail Delivery failed.
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Today i was going through your website and i found virus on your web page. here by i am posting the title and photo of it.
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