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Ever faced problem for not charging your mobile , your battery is down for talking very long hours or you are travelling to a place where there is no provision to charge your phone…

Vodafone has come up with a new concept of solar phone. No need of electricity to charge your battery or wait for the power to come.Just use the Sun God’s power to charge your phone and keep talking.

Vodafone has named the model as VF 247. The phone is priced at an affordable rate of Rs. 1,500, keeping in mind the target audience which mostly is the rural mass, and will be available across India from next month.

Normal Day light is enough to charge the phone and it needs eight of direct sunlight for a full charge.The features of the phone includes a a color screen, a torch light and FM radio.

Hope it covers the requirements of basic phone. So this will make more rural people also to have the mobile phones.

APPLICATIONS ARE INVITED FROM INDIAN CITIZENS FOR APPOINTMENT FOR THE POSTS of PROBATIONARY OFFICERS (500 Vacancies, 1500 Probationary Clerks)

Recruitment of probationary officers and probationary clerks

Applications are invited from Indian citizens for appointment to the posts mentioned below

Eligible candidates are requested to apply on-line through Bank’s website www.canarabank.com. No other means/mode of application will be accepted

Important Dates

Opening date for online registration in website: 25.03.2010

Closing date for online registration in website: 24.04.2010

Tentative date of written test: (for probationary officer) 04.07.2010, (for probationary clerk) 18.07.2010

The details of number of posts (Vacancies) are as follows

Probationary officer, JMGS-I, total posts – 500, age: minimum – 21 years maximum – 30 years

Probationary clerk, total post – 1000, age: minimum 18, maximum 28

The recruitment for the post of probationary clerks shall be on state-wise/Union territory-wise basis. Candidates can apply for probationary clerk post in one state/union territory only and have to appear for the test, from a centre allotted for that particular state/union territory. On selection, candidates will be placed anywhere in that state/union territory depending up on Bank’s need and candidate has to work in the place of posting for a minimum period of 5 years. Candidates belonging to reserved categories, for which no post has been announced, are free to apply against the un-reserved posts, provided they fulfill the eligibility criteria mentioned.

Eligibility criteria and other details: All the eligibility, qualification, age etc shall be computed as on 01.03.2010

Probationary Officers (JMGS-I)

Qualification:Graduation with first class with 60% (SC/ST/PwD candidates 55%)

Job profile: General banking, House keeping, supervisory functions etc and any other work assigned by the Bank from time to time

Probationary Clerks

Qualification: Pass in 10+2 with 60% (SC/ST/PwD candidates 55%) or a pass in graduation. Should have studied the local language of the state/union territory for which he/she is applying (as I/II/III language) either at SSLC/SSC or 10+2 or graduation level

Job profile: General Banking, House keeping etc and any other work assigned by the Bank from time to time

All the qualifications mentioned should be from a recognized university/Institution

Computer literacy: Operating computer systems in MS-DOS, MS windows, basic concepts of Networking and connectivity, MS office (Word, Excel, Power Point, e-mail etc) shall be an essential qualification, which a candidate must either possess or acquire within 6 months from the date of joining the Bank.

Hindi knowledge: The candidates shall acquire working knowledge of Hindi, if not possessed already, before completion of probationary period.

Salary and Emoluments

Probationary officer; Rs 10000-470/6-12820-500/3-14320-560/7-18240

Probationary clerk; Rs 4410-215/3-5055-335/3-6060-470/4-7940-500/3-9440-560/4-11680-970/1-12650-560/1-13210

(DA, HRA, CCA, Medical aid, Hospitalization expenses, leave fare concession, conveyance etc shall be paid as per rules) perquisites like quarters, furniture etc shall be provided to officer-employees as per rules.

Application fee and postal charges (non refundable)

Probationary officers; SC/ST/PwD Rs 50/-, all others Rs 300/-

Probationary clerks; SC/ST/PwD Rs 50/-; all others Rs 200/-

Procedure for making payment of application fee/postal charges: The application fee/ postal charges can be paid by; directly crediting the amount in any Canara Bank branch or paying the amount through NEFT in any other Bank.

The procedure for payment of fee is; directly crediting the amount in any Canara Bank Branch; take print-out of the payment challan from website; fill the particulars viz, Name, Canara Bank branch name, city, amount, post applied for; submit the fee payment challan and amount in any Canara Bank branch; collect the candidate’s copy of fee payment challan from the Branch. Please check that challan is properly signed and the details of transaction Id/message user reference no (MUR), branch name and DP code number, deposit date are noted in the challan by the Branch authorities; log on to bank website for applying on-line

Paying the amount through NEFT in any other Bank (if the candidate opts for payment through other Banks); fill the NEFT challan as required by the bank with beneficiary details as follows; name of the account, Canara bank recruitment project-2010; account number 1173201002125, payee bank, Canara bank, South end road branch, Bangalore, IFSC code, CNRB0001173; make payment; collect NEFT payment receipt. Please check that receipt is properly signed and the details of NEFT UTR No., IFSC code of the sending branch, Name of the sending bank, city, deposit date, amount etc are noted in the challan by the Branch authorities; log on to bank website for applying on-line.

After on-line registration, candidates are requested to write their Registration Number, Name, Date of Birth, post applied for on the back of the Payment Challan/NEFT Receipt. Candidates have to submit this original Payment Challan / NEFT Receipt along with Test Call Letter at the time of Written Test.

The application fee/postal charges should be paid on or before the following dates; Probationary officer/Probationary clerk – 24.04.2010

Even if the last date of registration changes due to technical reasons, the valid dates for payment of application fee / postal charges will not be changed.

Payment of fee by Demand Draft/Cheque /Money orders / Postal orders etc will not be accepted.

Selection Procedure

Probationary officer and probationary clerk; written test + Interview

There will be negative marks for wrong answers in objective test. The descriptive test is only for qualifying purpose. Bank will decide the minimum cut-off marks for each subject as well as total weighted score (TWS). Depending on the number of vacancies, such of those candidates who rank sufficiently high in the order of merit in the written test as per the cut off marks decided by the Bank will only be called for interview.

Mere eligibility/admission to the test/pass in the test does not imply that the Bank is satisfied beyond doubt about the candidates’ eligibility and shall not vest any right in a candidate for being called for interview. The Bank reserves the right to call only the requisite number of candidates for interview.

Other details regarding the test will be given to the candidates in the Acquaint Yourself Booklet, which will be sent along with the call letter for written examination.

The Bank reserves the right to change the selection procedure, if necessary. The change, if any, shall be communicated to the candidates in advance.

The Bank would be free to reject the candidature of any candidate at any stage of the recruitment process, if he/she is found to be ineligible. If appointed, such a candidate may be summarily removed and the fees paid by the ineligible candidates shall be forfeited.

Maximum marks for Interview is 100 for Probationary officer and Probationary clerk posts.

The final selection for the above posts shall be on the basis of performance in written test and Interview.

Candidates applying for the post of Probationary clerks have to appear for test, from a centre allotted to the state/union territory for which he/she is applying

Andaman and Nicobar – Port Blair; Andhra Pradesh – Hyderabad, Vishakhapatnam; Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya, Sikkim– Guwahati; Bihar – Patna; Chandigarh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh – Chandigarh, Delhi; Chhattisgarh – Raipur, Goa – Goa; Gujarat – Ahmedabad; Haryana – Karnal, Delhi; Jammu and Kashmir – Jammu; Jharkhand – Ranchi; Karnataka – Bangalore, Hubli, Mangalore; Kerala – Trivandrum, Calicut; Madhya Pradesh – Bhopal, Maharashtra – Mumbai, Nagpur; Orissa – Bhubaneshwar; Rajasthan – Jaipur; Tamilnadu, Puducherry – Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai; Uttar Pradesh – Agra, Delhi, Lucknow; Uttaranhchal – Dehradun; West Bengal – Kolkata

However, the Bank reserves its right to change the date of written test, to add/cancel the test centres and to call the candidates for the test at any other centre at its discretion, under unforeseen circumstances, if any. The Bank also reserves the right to allot the candidate to any centre other than the one he/she has opted for. The candidates have to appear for the written test at the allotted centres at their own expenses. No request for change of centre will be entertained. The centres mentioned above are for written test only. The Bank will inform the candidates about the date, time and venue for the interviews separately

Probation: Probationary officer – 2 years; Probationary clerk – 6 months

How to apply (for all posts): The eligible candidates are required to apply online through bank’s website www.canarabank.com. The guidelines for filling on-line application are as follows; candidates should have a valid personal e-mail id. In case, candidate is not having valid e-mail id, he/she should create a new e-mail id. This e-mail id should be valid for the duration of the project; candidates should have remitted the requisite fee in any branch of Canara Bank and should have details of payment made or candidates should have remitted the requisite fee in any other Bank through NEFT and should have details of payment made; please note that without valid payment details, on-line registration of application will be summarily rejected; candidates are required to visit the Bank’s website www.canarabank.com->Careers->Positions Open page and click on the link recruitment project-2010 and apply for appropriate post. Alternatively, candidates can click the link recruitment scrolling in the news update; the link for registration of application will be open on website on the dates indicated at the top of this advertisement; after filling in all the required particulars, candidates shall submit the application on-line; there is provision to modify the submitted on-line application. Candidates are requested to make use of this facility to correct the details in on-line application, if any. This Modification facility shall be available up to the last date for on-line registration. After the last date, no modification will be permitted; candidates should take utmost care to furnish the correct details while filling in on-line application; retain a copy of on-line application print out along with registration number and password safely for your records; candidates applying for more than one post are required to make payment for each post separately and are required to apply on-line for each post separately. Candidates need not send application print-out/documents at this stage. While attending for the written test, candidates have to submit original payment challan/NEFT receipt along with test call letter, without which candidates are not allowed to take up examination.

The applications can be applied  online

 for the post of Probation officers

for the post of clerks

Now Start to pay for tax for the amount you have in the Savings account, if the tax is not deducted at the source.To avoid this you have to provide your PAN (Permanent Account number). The tax on this amount could be around 20 percent of the amount deposited in your savings account which is 2 -10% for usual transactions. Yes, the Union Budget had made it mandatory for residents and non-residents to quote this number or face a higher rate of withholding tax. This tax deduction effects from Thursday, April 1. The goal of the new rule is to encourage more people to obtain PAN, a 10-digit alphanumeric tax payer identification number, and thereby become visible to tax authorities. This way, it will help the income tax authorities to cathch the tax defailters. Senior citizens could just file Form 15H in absence of tax liability and become eligible for exemption from TDS. Other wise they ahve to face a TDS rate of 20 percent. Ideally all indians should obtain a PAN number and cote at quote it where required. GOod policies to track those who are not paying proper taxes.

Here is a good news for the people applying for passport . Govt of India has introduced online feature to apply for passport to avoid long standing queues at the passport office. As a start up with the new feature , this is introduced in only the majour cities like Chennai and secondary major cities like Madurai and Coimbatore.

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Chandrayaan finds significant amount of water on moon. Chandrayaan has discovered a some amount of water on the moon. Water was found in an area adjacent to the North Pole. The scientific instrument mini SAR weighs about 10 kgs.

There are about 40 craters ranging from 2-15 kilometers in diameter. NASA has announced the news this week and the scientists at NASA are expecting to find about 600 million metric tons of water-ice in the craters.

After analyzing the data, our science team determined a strong indication of water ice, a finding which will give future missions a new target to further explore and exploit. The estimated amount of water ice potentially present is comparable to the quantity estimated solely from the previous mission of Lunar Prospector’s neutron data (several hundred million metric tons).

NASA also said ” It interprets this relation as consistent with water ice present in these craters. The ice must be relatively pure and at least a couple of meters thick to give this signature. Mini-SAR, a lightweight (less than 10 kg) imaging radar, and Moon Mineralogy Mapper are two of 11 instruments carried by the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO)
Chandrayaan-1.

The Mini-SAR has imaged many of the permanently shadowed regions that exist at both poles of the moon. These dark areas are extremely cold and it has been hypothesised that volatile material, including water ice, could be present in quantity there.