Important for all Internet Users in India

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NN Changes TRAI

In response to pressure from telcos and their lobby COAI, TRAI went ahead and brought up a consultation paper on:
  1. Should OTTS be licensed? If yes, under current rules or new ones?
  2. Should we leave net neutrality undecided and let the market decide its fate?
You can find the consultation paper here:http://trai.gov.in/content/news/71241_0.aspx

How Consultatiuon Process Works

The public has been asked 20 questions based on above 2 points. You have to send mail to a TRAI email ID with answers to these questions. You can do this till April 24, 2015. Time will be provided for counter comments from April 24th to May 8th.
To make sure that anti net neutrality rules aren’t formed in India, we need your help.
You need to send a mail to TRAI mail id advqos@trai.gov.in in support of net neutrality and against differential pricing/speeds
If TRAI does not get enough public mails in support of Net Neutrality, this is what you can expect:-
You will have different packages for accessing internet.
  1. 1 GB data for Rs 252 + Rs 50 for Google + Rs 25 for facebook and so on.
  2. 1 GB data pack would be like the base pack of your DTH.
But you will have to add packs for carrier decided pricing to be able to use all apps.
Isn’t this SCARY? Its just the start!
ISPs can slow down some sites on while giving faster speeds to the companies that pay them more.
Why does this matter?
Say its a “big sale day” of Amazon and Flipkart and you are customer of ISP ‘BIGTELCO’.
BIGTELCO can strike a deal with Flipkart for better speed on their network. Due to this you won’t be able to purchase on Amazon even if something is cheaper.
Governments will no more need draconian laws to curb free speech. It can just ask the operators to make critical sites costly to access and also clamp down their speeds. Telcos that already have vested interests from the governments will happily oblige.

You can make a difference!

You can make a difference.
If you choose to stay silent today thinking that things will eventually sort out, they won’t.
You will have to pay for Youtube, Gaana.com etc. like TV packages.
Do you want this?
If not, then please support us. Here’s what you can do to help:

1. Mail TRAI

Send email to advqos@trai.gov.in with content as to how such a law from TRAI would effect an internet user like you and mention that you dont want TRAI to regulate OTTs or bring any services under a license framework and add that TRAI should support net neutrality and not the greedy telcos.
We are working on an automated form and will put it here soon.

2. Tweet to Prime Minister and RS Prasad

Here are some sample tweets:

How often you should wash your hair ?

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You’ve probably wondered how often you need to wash that (sometimes greasy, sometimes not) hair of yours. The question is a vexing one. It’s so common, in fact, that it’s the third suggestion that pops up when typing “how often” into Google (following queries about showering and pooping).

Outside the shower, our scalps gradually get shinier, darker, and more oily. So why does it happen, and how often should you wash to keep the grease at bay?

Click Here for the interesting article

Courtesy : Roshan Pastakia

Gardasil Vaccine : The decision we will always regret

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We were very diligent with our children’s health. We never missed an annual check-up and we also followed the pediatrician’s recommended vaccine schedule including annual flu shots. Our pediatrician recommended the Gardasil vaccine. The Gardasil vaccine was heavily advertised on TV. We read the vaccine Disclosure. It said that the vaccine should not be given to those with HIV. Katie did not have HIV so we signed the Consent.

We found many stories about devastating health changes post-vaccine. These stories are eerily familiar to our daughter’s. The Gardasil vaccine is known to activate latent infections and viruses, such as Epstein Barr and Bartonella. The Gardasil vaccine deregulates the immune system and that allows latent infections and viruses, which were kept in check pre-vaccine by a then properly functioning immune system, to activate post-vaccine. Now, there is evidence that the HPV vaccine is linked to the onset of autoimmune diseases.

We recently consulted Katie’s LLMD and also her Primary Care Physician, who reviewed Katie’s vaccine log and extensive medical records. Both agree that Katie’s immune system was injured by the Gardasil vaccine and that it was the catalyst to her cascading health problems and chronic illness. Katie’s LLMD is now treating her for a vaccine injury in addition to treating multiple tick-borne diseases, other infections/viruses and autoimmune thyroid disease.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/048745_Gardasil_vaccine_injury_Big_Pharma.html

 

 

Tax benefit for Sukanya Samridhi Scheme

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Depositors in the ‘Sukanaya Samridhi’ scheme, notified by the government in November 2014, can now avail tax benefits under Section 80C of the Income Tax Act.

The maximum deposit under the scheme for planning the future of the girl child will be ₹1.50 lakh in a financial year. Apart from this scheme, an individual also has the option of getting tax benefits through investments in National Savings Certificates, five-year Post Office Time Deposits, Public Provident Fund, Life Insurance, Equity-Linked Tax Saving Scheme, Five-year Tax Saving Bank Fixed Deposits or even principal repayment of home loan under Section 80C.

Scheme specifics

As per a Finance Ministry notification, tax benefits for the Sukanya Samridhi scheme have come into effect from January 21, which means anyone investing on after the said date will get tax benefits.

The scheme prescribes opening of a deposit account with post offices in the name of girl child by her biological parents or legal guardian. One girl will have one account, while the parent can open such an account for a maximum of two girl children till the age of 10.

However, if there are twin girls, then the facility will also be available for the third girl child.

Though the account will mature in 21 years from the date of opening of account, one can withdraw half the balance (at the end of preceding financial year) for higher education and marriage.

There is one condition — this withdrawal will be possible only after the girl attains the age of 18 years. The account will be closed if a girl marries before the scheme’s maturity period.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/banking/tax-benefit-for-sukanya-samridhi-scheme/article6853292.ece

India’s renewable energy plans to create over a million jobs

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A new study reveals that, if successful, India’s wind and solar energy plans can give employment to over a million people

The study, called Clean Energy Powers Local Job Growth in India, was undertaken by the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC) and the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW). It found that these jobs would come from project planning, construction, installation and operations required to meet the renewable energy targets and could be created in less than a decade.

Government officials find the results encouraging for the renewable energy sector.

“These job projections give us even more drive to make our solar target, the most aggressive one in the world, a reality,” said Tarun Kapoor, Joint Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE). “Now we know what type of skill creation we need to invest in and can take the necessary steps to make that happen.”

A previous study estimated that the Indian solar market has already employed approximately 24,000 workers during the first phase of Solar Mission in 2011-14. According to the government estimates, the wind sector development has produced an additional figure of 45,000 FTE (Full-time equivalent) jobs so far.

“Prime Minister Modi’s clean energy plan creates enormous potential for India’s booming population. It provides job opportunities and access to electricity that will power rapidly growing cities and villages,” said Anjali Jaiswal, Director of NRDC’s India Initiative. “India is aiming to produce more solar energy than any other country in the world, which is an ambitious goal and shows how serious the government is about creating a clean energy economy. Our research has found unequivocally that renewable energy can drive economic development in all corners of the country.”

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Online Registration of Leave and License Agreements in Maharashtra

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HOUSING RENTAL E-REGISTRATION SINCE 01/02/2014

The Maharashtra government has introduced E-registration for Leave and License (Rental) Agreement(best way to do so is via www.anulom.com).Maharashtra governments E-registration module for the below cities
1) Mumbai
2) Mumbai Suburban
3) Thane
4) Nashik
5) Pune
6) Nagpur
7) Raighad
8) Aurangabad
9) Nanded

Prequisite for e registration are 
All Owners ,tenants and identifiers(witneses) should have Adhaar and PAN number + Biometric device to scan fingerprint

Click Here for more information on the steps to be followed.

Check your Employees’ Provident Fund Balance Online

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Now, an easy way to get your money out of dormant PF account.

The EPFO now has an online facility to trace and recover PF money lying in dormant accounts from old jobs

While shifting jobs, many employees don’t transfer their Employee Provident Fund to the new organisation as they either forget or find the procedure too complex.

The numbers are surprising. As of last financial year, about Rs 26,496 crore of provident fund money was lying with Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) in inoperative accounts. The government body stops crediting interest to those accounts which fail to make contributions for 36 months continuously and classify them as inoperative or dormant.
Until now it required lot of paperwork like filling up forms and attestation of claim from previous employer and so on. This has changed now. From January, the retirement fund body has launched a special drive to help such account holders. The organisation has asked field offices to identify the beneficiaries of inoperative PF accounts and settle those either by making payments, or transferring money to their active accounts. And to help them in this process, EPFO has launched an online helpdesk.

All you need to do is log onto EPFO’s website www.epfindia.com. Under the section ‘For Employees’ there’s a link to ‘Inoperative A/c Helpdesk System’. You need to put in your details and the organisation will communicate you the further procedure.
The web helpdesk is meant to help EFPO members trace out their provident fund numbers or find the total fund accumulated. The organisation has seen that the biggest problem with subscribers is that they don’t remember their account numbers.
When you click the link, it first asks to fill in the problem. Then you have to fill in details such as the name of the employer, PF account number, date of joining and leaving the company, personal details and so on. One done you will receive a reference number. Make sure to make a note of it as it’s not communicated through email or mobile.

If the details are traced, then the helpdesk will guide the subscribers for transferring the amount lying in inoperative account to their existing accounts. The subscribers can also withdraw money from the inoperative accounts by filling the claim form. EPFO has a web facility which helps users to transfer their old account dues to existing accounts.

Account holders should immediately act if they have not transferred or claimed provident fund when they changed jobs. PF is the key to retirement planning. “Even if a person has not earned interest for a year or two, it can drastically impact retirement corpus,” said a certified financial planner. He also suggested that it’s better to transfer the balance to the new account rather than withdrawing it.

It’s not just about losing interest and consequently not benefitting from power of compounding. Dormant accounts can be targets of fraudsters. For example, two years back EPFO discovered that fraudsters siphoned off money from inactive PF accounts by forging documents and by opening bank accounts using forged identity documents. This was prominent in establishments where remittances had not been received for many years, records not updated and the establishment had not submitted statutory returns.

…………Tinesh Bhasin – Business Standard

http://www.business-standard.com/article/pf/now-an-easy-way-to-get-your-money-out-of-dormant-pf-account-115021600370_1.html

Searching for ‘Sickness’

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Cancer screening is not only useless but downright dangerous. The best studies (these are studies done over 10-year durations in Canada, the US and Europe) have found that you have to screen 2,100 women every year for 11 years to prevent one death. So, to answer the question, ‘Is it lifesaving?’ Yes. One in 2,100 women would benefit from being screened over an 11-year period.
But, at the same time, of those 2,100 women, about 600 to 700 will have a false-positive. They will find something unusual or something abnormal and that will require biopsies, open surgeries, mastectomies and psychological trauma wrote Alan Cassels of University of Victoria (BC) who has authored several books on screening. The best one, according to me, was: Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Diseases. This book is an encyclopaedia of the scam of screening.

 

Screening in apparently healthy people is encouraged mainly to make lots of money from post-screening activities. It is just another marketing trick and a potentially dangerous one at that.
One can have a cancer in his/her body and live a perfectly long and healthy life. The cancer literature in medical science which is funded by the industry is mostly wrong. John Ioannidis at Stanford found that most of those studies cannot be replicated independently. Of the hundreds of studies by John Ioannidis, most did not stand up to scrutiny. This applies especially to cancers and statin drugs for prevention.
I would end this by quoting Dr Andrew Oxman of the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services in Oslo, who told Reuters: “There are lots of examples where things start to be used and have entered the market based on surrogate outcomes and then actually proved harmful.” He mentioned the heart rhythm drugs encainide and flecainide which, for many years, were given to people with acute heart attacks. But trials showed they were actually bad for these patients.
“These drugs were given by well-meaning clinicians, but they actually killed more people than the Vietnam War did,” Oxman said. I still remember the days when I was senior registrar in cardiology at The Middlesex Hospital, London, where the protocol in the CCU was to give all these drugs one after another even if a couple of innocent premature beats are seen on the monitor in this order—Lignocaine, procainamide, encainide, flecainide. Most of these drugs were later shown to be killers!
“When it comes to screening, a doctor who says ‘Let’s err on the side of caution,’ may actually err on the side of reckless ignorance and grave harm.” – Otis Webb Brawley
(Professor Dr BM Hegde, a Padma Bhushan awardee in 2010, is an MD, PhD, FRCP (London, Edinburgh, Glasgow & Dublin), FACC and FAMS.)
Click Here for the full article in MoneyLife