Delhi Metro – A dream come true. Started in Delhi just a few years ago, its already rocking. I still remember visiting Metro from Shahadra to Kashmiri Gate and vice versa when it first started and even since it has become part and parcel of life.

Is Metro a success?

No second thoughts on whether Delhi Metro is a success. Every Delhitie will proudly say YES. You can see hundreds, no thousands of people traveling via Metro each passing day. Kashmiri Gate comes and the train gets filled up, gets empty on Rajiv Chowk

Kashmiri Gate is the largest metro station till now. Metro is going to be extended upto the NCR region soon and Delhities are eagerly waiting for it.

Why Metro is success?

1. Fast
2. Cheap
3. Fully Air Conditioned
4. Connects major places
5. Secure

Problems?

The Metro is constantly becoming popular, but Govt is not able to cope up with this. The security checks are good, but lose sometimes. The trains are late and late (actually on time according to Indian punctuality).
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You are probably Chinese, if…

1. You eat rice for breakfast.
2. Your friends and everybody else assume you know Kung Fu.
3. You remember or still use “the bowl” for haircuts.
4. Your folk’s kitchen have a constant lingering aroma.
5. You notice the main topic at family get-togethers is food.
6. Your parent’s lifelong ambition is to go to Las Vegas.
7. You never ever sat down on Popo’s warm chair after she got up.
8. You seldom ever owned new clothes if you were a second child.
9. Your folks never speak under 10 decibels at family gatherings.
10. You never made the school football or basketball team.
11. You have two middle initials instead of one.
12. You have an inherent “fear” for bamboo feather dusters.
13. Your “hot” date is going to your parent’s house to have “jook”.
14. Your living room sofas have covers on them.
15. You laugh at Kan Tong and Chung King commercials.
16. You inform the ticket clerk that your 13 year old is 12 to avoid paying adult fare.
17. You sneak in snacks at the movie [ ......... ]

Paypal just showed their business secret / tactic of how to make money fast.

If you see the many payment processors they are having little tough time of making money. Many pyment processor like moneybooker.com , alertpay.com are struggling to take the market share. But paypal made a million $ profit from indian market in just 10 days that to from only Indians.

you can see one blog post about paypal tactic of making money by holding users money in bank and enjoying the interest of that money.

Here is a sample transaction from my paypal account

29-Jan-2010 Currency Conversion Completed Details -$200.00 USD

29-Jan-2010 Currency Conversion Completed Details Rs.8,956.34 INR

09-Feb-2010 Cancelled Transfer Completed Details Rs.8,956.34 INR

09-Feb-2010 Currency Conversion Completed Details -Rs.8,956.34 INR

09-Feb-2010 Currency Conversion Completed Details $185.22 USD

i lost 14.78$ for their crappy processing system

so just imagine how much money they have made from this kind of scam from all paypal indian users.

when we withdraw they gave currency rate 44.7817

now when they adding to amount they want 48.35 ( even now it is 46 )

so basically it is a well planned scam from paypal company.

After these lot of idiotic moves this company not given any explanation still. Because it knows how effectively scam users [ ......... ]

Top 22 things an Indian does after returning to India from “US”.

22. Use Nope for No and Yep for Yes.

21. Tries to use credit card in road side hotel.

20. Drinks and carries mineral water and always speaks of health conscious.

19. Sprays deo such so that he doesn’t need to take bath.

18. Sneezes and says ‘Excuse me’.

17. Says “Hey” instead of “Hi”.
Says “Yogurt” instead says “Curds”.
Says “Cab” instead of “Taxi”.
Says “Candy” instead of “Chocolate”.
Says “Cookie” instead of “Biscuit”.
Says ” Free Way ” instead of “Highway”.
Says “got to go” instead of “Have to go”.
Says “Oh” instead of “Zero”, (for 704, says Seven Oh Four Instead of Seven
Zero Four)

16.Doesn’t forget to crib about air pollution. Keeps cribbing every time he steps out.

15. Says all the distances in Miles (Not in Kilo Meters), and counts in Millions. (Not in Lakhs)

14. Tries to figure all the prices in [ ......... ]

Paypal the most used medium to send money (http://www.paypal.com) has started returning payments to be sent from or to India. Here is the letter they have sent -

Dear SENDER,

Your payment of $XX.XX has been returned to you. If you sent the payment with a bank account, the funds will be returned to your PayPal balance. If you paid with a credit card, the amount will be credited back to your card.

We returned the payment to you because we have stopped allowing personal payments to be sent to or from India.

If this was a payment for a purchase of goods or services, and not a personal payment, then you may resend the payment to the seller by following these steps on the PayPal website: (a) click the Send Money tab, (b) select “Goods,” and (c) provide a shipping address.

If this payment was a personal payment, such as a gift to a friend or family member, then we request that you find another payment method until we restore personal payments to and from India.

We are trying to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and we’re sorry for any inconvenience.

Thank you,

PayPal

Now, thats really unfair on Paypal’s part. People are contacting paypal with literally no good support apart from copy pasted content.

Here is the digital point thread – http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1681660

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Despite posting a 13% rise in net profit at Rs 2,321 crore on 9% higher sales of Rs 9,846 crore for the quarter ended September, Bharti

Airtel’s shares plunged over 6% on Friday. With the latest round of tariff cuts impacting the financials of all companies, Bharti Airtel’s CEO Manoj Kohli talks to ET NOW on the road ahead and how India’s largest telecom company plans to respond to competition. Excerpts:

Bharti Airtel’s shares crashed close to 7% despite posting profits. The stock has closed at year’s low and has lost 18% this year. Are you concerned?

At Bharti, we don’t look at our performance based on the reaction of the stock markets. We look at the real market and we are satisfied that we have improved our marketshare even as competition is heating up.

But, your market share has fallen over the past 12 months…

When we refer to market share, we refer to revenue share. Bharti accounts for about 32.7% of the mobile sector’s revenues. This indicates the quality of our customers are better and that their usage is higher. Over the next few quarters, our primary objective is to improve our revenue market share.

How long do you expect the ongoing price war to continue? What is Bharti’s strategy ?

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Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation
and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

“A wave is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.”

The service seems to combine Gmail and Google Docs into an interesting free-form workspace that could be used to write documents collaboratively, plan events, play games or discuss a recent news.

Google Wave has been designed by the founders of Where 2 Tech, a start-up acquired by Google to create a cutting-edge mapping service, which later became Google Maps.

“Back in early 2004, Google took an interest in a tiny mapping startup called Where 2 Tech, founded by my brother Jens and me. We were excited to join Google and help create what would become Google Maps. But we also started thinking about what might come next for us after maps. As always, Jens came up with the answer: communication. He pointed out that two of the most spectacular successes in digital communication, email and instant [ ......... ]

India Sunday expressed disappointment over the outcome of the recent climate change summit in Copenhagen.

“We were able to make only limited progress at Copenhagen summit and no one was fully satisfied with the outcome. Yet there is no escaping the truth that the nations of the world have to move to a low greenhouse gas submissions and energy efficient development path,” Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in the southern Indian state of Kerala’s capital Thiruvananthapuram.

India and developing countries wanted developed nations like the United States to make commitments on the Kyoto Protocol but that failed to materialize at Copenhagen.

The prime minister said that global warming has been posing fresh challenges to India.

“Climate change is a problem that is challenging the knowledge and wisdom of humankind. India now faces new challenges of climate change and the management of our scarce water resources,” he said.

“As far as energy is concerned, renewable and clean energy supplies will need to play a much bigger role that what they do currently. Nuclear and solar energy supplies will need to increase considerably,” Singh said. [ ......... ]

The BMW X6 , is something even nastier than its brother X5!The X6 M is a piece of automotive engineering that shouldn’t exist, its total lack of practicality suggesting it is more about art than function, the automotive equivalent of Mount Everest–BMW built it because it could.

Upholding its engineering reputation, BMW fits the 4.4-liter V-8 with its double-VANOS continuously variable valve timing and direct injection, making for an engine that produces plenty of torque at low speeds. The twin turbos, one for each bank of four cylinders, force air into the engine at 22 psi, cranking up overall engine output to 555 horsepower and 501 pound-feet of torque which is incredible.

Given the similar power train and chassis, the X6 M should be virtually identical to the X5 M.The X6 M’s roofline, sloping radically down toward the hatchback, tortures rear-seat passengers with minimal headroom. Cargo space is also limited to things that can lie flat.

The X6 M seems designed with the sadist in mind, a person who would welcome people into the back seat, grin, then proceed to drive like a madman until the rear-seat passengers were suffering neck pains that would keep a team of chiropractors in business [ ......... ]

In the heart of London, a British school has made Sanskrit compulsory subject for its junior division because it helps students grasp math, science and other languages better.

“This is the most perfect and logical language in the world, the only one that is not named after the people who speak it. Indeed the word itself means ‘perfected language.” –Warwick Jessup, Head, Head, Sanskrit department

“The Devnagri script and spoken Sanskrit are two of the best ways for a child to overcome stiffness of fingers and the tongue,” says Moss. “Today’s European languages do not use many parts of the tongue and mouth while speaking or many finger movements while writing, whereas Sanskrit helps immensely to develop cerebral dexterity through its phonetics.”

Gives a great pride as being Indian right? Obviously

Just stay tuned with more news and more views on India by the youth. From now on, I have got a cameraman with me (my Nokia 6208c) So you’ll find great pics and nice articles soon.

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