General Awareness World

Cautiously place your footmarks on Internet

2009-06-29T02:12:00.000-07:00

Now days, the usage of Internet has increased tremendously and most of the users are teenagers. Photo sharing sites, social networking sites, video uploading sites are high in demand. The main concerning point for the entire Internet savvy is to put a step ahead by thinking all positive and negative of that thing. In present times, peoples are using social networking sites like Twitter, Digg for sharing a lot of information, You Tube and Flickr for photo sharing and uploading private videos, Orkut and Facebook for stay in connection with more and more friends, joining communities, for personal interests and hobbies etc.

This is true that a virtual adverse effect has occurred to social networking on the Internet and besides this fact, people who are using Linkedin, Facebook, Orkut and lots more, they are totally unaware of the electronic imprints, they are leaving for all of us to envision. Some years back, these social networking sites were only meant for remaining in touch with each other through communities and scraps. Now, to subscribe on same sites, it needs many intimate details of personal life. This is quite risky and may prove hazardous for all.

Recently in the country UK, IT commissioner has given a warning to numerous youths that they would spoil their future careers due to the intimate details they have made public on such sites. One of the social networking site, Twitter accredits its customers to send tweets, text based posts that gets reflected in user’s profile pages and displayed to other ones also who have been subscribed to them. The site collects personal information of users and shares it with external third parties. The appeal of the digital world is now less defending and crossing boundaries needed for privacy. This is the right time to take a major step, as a plea to have a harder look not to globalize lot of your personal life. Think first and make use of such sites in more professional way.

Healthy and hygienic living - The melody of life

2009-06-23T00:34:00.000-07:00

Now days, the craze of healthier lifestyle is emerging in the country (India) and majority of the individuals are saying a big no to smoking, alcohol and fried foods. Large percentages of peoples are quitting alcohol, smoking and unhealthier lifestyles and gradually moving towards healthier intake. Besides India, as per a survey conducted all over country, the findings depict that the people’s attitude towards healthy living style is quite differing.

All over the globe, there are large variations, according to which China is second biggest nation for smoking after Bulgaria. From several years, Indian government has put taxes and some excise duties on the cigarette industry that are raised every year and also prohibits mass media advertising industry. When it is related with alcohol, large mass of peoples have said that they do not drink alcohol. It can be either the state of living life in a healthier way or just denial of the fact. Around 85% of Indians focus their daily intake of food attentively and 90% feel better after having healthy food. Presently, people are becoming more aware about healthier eating options. Infact, lower caste peoples are also getting adapt to fresh living and eating habits.

In a nutshell, education and awareness are the best keys to promote healthy living as well as eating activities. Still, in some parts of rural areas, lack of awareness has bounded the growth of healthier lifestyle. Dear readers, if feel satisfied with the section, disperse this information and make people aware of the benefits of healthy living style.

India blacklisted 7 companies indulged in corruption

2009-06-20T00:03:00.000-07:00

The country (India) expelled seven companies entailed in corruption in defense deals. The Indian defense ministry has hold all defense accretions occurring from these firms, involving companies from all across the world like Poland, Israel and Singapore. The hit list companies involve Singapore technologies, Israeli Military industries, Poland’s BVT, Singapore based media architects etc. In previous times, when bigger extortion was briefed in Indian defense deals regarding bribes and commissions, India had aborted the deals due to exploitation involved in them. This corruption has leaded the country in the wrong path, which is consistently deteriorating the growth of country.

Nokia – Taking back scheme from July’09 (Recycling of phones)

2009-06-11T00:03:00.000-07:00

Nokia company has decided to take back the scheme from the country India, regarding the recycling of phones. Finally, it has been decided that the company will take back your useless mobiles and plant a tree in your name. The company wants to take a serious move to get release from trash phones, which stick untouched in many houses. The company is also helping Indians in many different ways. Example- One of its worthy service known as Nokia life tools has helped Maharashtra farmers on the ground.

Nokia plays a vital role in connecting people’s lives by new and better techniques through different devices and services that they love to apply and improvise individual lives. Only in the Indian arena, Nokia has been taking back the phone recycling program because as per a survey, India was at the bottom showing only 17% knowledge about recyclability of phones. In return of old phones and accessories, Nokia will be presenting surprise gifts and plant a tree in case of every handset ceded.

Apart from this all, now Nokia is planning to project action in electronic waste management priory targeted at India. This action will be applicable in country very soon and afterwards move across other countries in well organized manner. In just one line, the company has been trying to apply the best practices in the country. Let’s appreciate this noble cause started by Nokia…

Accomplishment of wrong cyber crimes in India

2009-06-08T00:24:00.000-07:00

Now days, it has been becoming a trend in the country India about illegal cyber crime executions. The occurrence of these kinds of prosecutions was not justified by any law till yet. The situation is really pathetic and a critical need is required in this manner. Proper training has been required to be given to police personnel that is currently lacking all over country. A step must be taken now by our country towards opening of more cyber crime cells and police stations. General awareness of cyber laws is not only missing in common mass but also media and police force. One main provocation in front of police is to get updated with the prime basic cyber laws of India i.e. under IT act 2000.

The major convicts are DIT (Department of IT) and GOI (Govt. Of India) who are mainly authoritative for duping the youths, media, police and all. Both of them are responsible for the awry cyber accomplishments happening in country. Despite this, if still, no act has been taken in this regard, there will be no more existence of right of Indians. What we can do is get more attentive, alert and aware of such kind of crimes…

Do you think that pictorial notifications are convincing and impressive?

2009-06-04T02:45:00.000-07:00

Yes, it’s true to some extent that apart from being only cost effective, pictorial warnings are beneficial as well as effective. Majority of the smokers try to quit smoking habit after viewing these pictorial figurations. Picturesque makes it a bit difficult for third person to avoid the dangerous chemicals and effects of tobacco. From May 31, it has been done mandatory in the country India, to have lifelike warnings on all tobacco products.

There is an awesome response achieved due to pictorial warnings in countries like Brazil and Canada. Majority of the smokers wants to avoid smoking as an outcome of picturesque. The persons who wanted to quit smoking serves as a motivational support for others. Certain individuals already know that smoking is injurious to health and affects lung cancer; still they are unable to leave this habit. Though, horrible pictures of the diseases are certainly helpful in avoiding this cause. What matters mainly in the last, is the emotional impact retrieved after the person reads about these pictorial specials.

Along with basic knowledge of causing lung cancer, pictorial warnings serve many other purposes like harmful for causing oral cancer and acute heart diseases. In India, these kinds of warnings are highly important to develop awareness and acquaintance, peculiarly amongst illiterate and buffoons. Kindly, spread this information more and more and make people aware of this.

“Go green” Nokia – Encouraging recycled used phones

2009-06-02T00:34:00.000-07:00

Now it’s the time to recycle used phones. Nokia Company has taken an initiative in this path of improvement. Whether your old phone has been kept in the useless things, kitchen or store room, Nokia has organized a global campaign, which came forward to reuse mobile devices into different utility things. Several Nokia care centers located at different places of country were encouraging mobile users to let go of their abandoned devices at its dealer points and centers.

As per Nokia, its 70-80% phones are recyclable. Though, 80% of consumers don’t think about recycling their phones. The least response has been aroused for this awareness in India, about 17%. Besides this, it has been figured out that one unused device of Nokia, if brought back can accomplish up to 2.40 lakh tones of raw material and lower greenhouse gases to high extent.

Be careful – All Facebook and Twitter users

2009-05-30T01:37:00.000-07:00

Now days, the hackers are targeting social networking sites and its quite preferable for the users, not to reveal their true identities and displaying up their personal mobile number and other details like credit card etc. In past few days, as per a report, geeks have intervened Facebook, which is the most popular site, compelling a lot of users to expose their privy information. The trick used by hackers, cunningly copies the site’s messaging service to send information to the users. The naïve users just have to click on the link, log in the page and supposed to fill the details. Those individuals who have attempted this task lead in betraying their private details.

The thefts and hackers are recognized usually by their emails, which normally present either a reckoned company or any bank that reaps private information. Since the World Wide Web has been become popular, hacking has come into existence and re established now days to raise access to privy data. Recently, a global technique has been used by geeks that lead spam advertising links to some fake sites. This resulted the users searching for some useful information was addressed to some artificial sites.

Sometimes, this may also happen like when you go for browsing something related with bank, number of other links just gets popped up and particular individual has to be sure while clicking a single link. In India, about 12 banks in year 2008-09 have been phished, involving Bank of India and ICICI bank. Different solutions have been taken against hacking strategies, but no solution affirms 100% safe network. The user has to be careful and must cross check any URL before just clicking on it. On the contrary, as per a study, approx. 56k cases of hacking have been ascertained in year 2008, risen by 66% as compared to year 2007. Main mantra of anti hacking is the awareness. Dear Readers, kindly spread this information and make people aware of this…

All About Social Networking Sites

2009-05-23T05:25:00.001-07:00

Now days, social networking sites are not only meant for making new friends, remain in touch with them, but have created a niche for themselves in the market, comprised with innovative and new features coming with each new day. In online media, Google and Yahoo are the explorers, who have actualized different options to beat the entire world. The social networking intonation has spread at a very speedy and fast rate. Some examples can be Myspace, Twitter, Orkut, Yaari, Facebook etc. Most likely feature in these sites is individuals can regularly check and update their profiles and share with everyone. Besides this feature, much other functionalities are attainable at these sites like public relations, businesses, fund raising and time passing games.

The medium comprised of creating groups, opening forums, discussion rooms and community intelligence have pushed several businesses to the potential channel of the market. These sites are free of cost and perfect medium of advertisement. Comprised with Podcasts, Web casts, Video emails, Wikis, Blogs, RSS, Contextual banner advertisements, the platform of social media is cramped with many participants like Jhoom, MingleBox, Yaari, Humsubka, Yo4Ya and many more. Main front leaders in this race are undoubtedly Orkut and Facebook.

As more and more mass is getting interested in this technology, few business icons firmly believes that there must be proper key technology trends, key enablers of content generation and social network capitalization all across the globe. This is all about an online platform, where there is a unity between network effects and rich user experiences for the end user.

Hepatitis - More dangerous than HIV

2009-05-21T01:52:00.000-07:00

Recently, as per a study, doctors have estimated that around 1 in every 12 person all across the worldwide are suffering from Hepatitis B or C, which affects greater number of people as compared to HIV or any kind of Cancer. It’s really pathetic that occurrence of such measures is higher and awareness among individuals is comparatively lesser. Chronic hepatitis can results in fever, nausea, vomiting, fever and lot other diseases.

Hepatitis is defined as an infection of liver, vitiated by several viruses. With the passage of time, it damages the liver and leads to hospitalization. There is the possibility of liver cancer or liver transplantation. Hepatitis C is also named as silent killer. Including Hepatitis A, B or C, minimal six different species are there of Hepatitis virus. The most serious strains affecting the large number of people are Hepatitis B and C. If undetected and undetermined, this virus can be life threatening. Along with this, the virus can be easily transmitted from a bearer mother to her baby, affecting other family members also. Well, hepatitis B is curable and can be prevented by taking 3 doses. But, no cure has been there for Hepatitis C. Just abstain high-risk activities to get rid of hepatitis C.

Each year around 3 to 4 million people are affected with hepatitis virus all across the worldwide. In India, the death rate has increased over 100,000 per year due to hepatitis C. This has been proved that hepatitis kills approx. 10 times more people as compared to HIV. What you can do readers, pass this information to large number of peoples as soon as you can do. After all this is all about our health..

BJP vs Congress: 15th General Election

2009-05-19T02:17:00.000-07:00

Indians have already given their authority for the 15^th general elections. More the number of people more will be the views. Some of them think this order is against the regional parties and in support of national parties. On the other hand, some might feel this mandate is for a stable union government. Despite of all this, all the political analysts collectively thinks about this behest that the Indians have concealed the communistic, narcissistic and pretentious politics of BJP. This time BJP seats have been reduced from 138 to 116 and Congress seats have been increased from 145 to 205.

To win 15^th general elections, BJP had used several promulgations and war like strategies. Exclusive of the slogan, “Strong leader and decisive government”, Advani was announced as the PM in waiting of BJP. Along with Advani, another leader supposed to lead the campaign was CM of Gujarat, Narendra Modi. He had also addressed various public meetings but all these eloquences failed to influence the Indian voters. The party lost most of the seats where Modi campaigned. Indeed of this fact Modi was praising himself for his speeches and styles on TV screen, people have entirely ignored these kinds of communal and dialectic speeches. Indian individuals have noticed that Modi had made some harsh comments in the past on Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi. Even he compared the Gandhi family with the fish of aquarium and himself as the leader who can bear off ‘Tsunami’.

On the contrary, Rahul Gandhi tried to visualize people as dream of ‘Young India’. Along with putting aside the schedule of development before the country, he talks about national integration and preserving secular values. The congress members spread the message of all round development of nation, unity and social harmony. Indians have seen the hard work, sincerity and honesty of Manmohan Singh. This seems to be more good and practical. In a nutshell, we must accept that the mass populations of India are backward and illiterate. Gradually with each and every day, people are becoming much more aware of politics. The main thing is, in this era of bewilderment and socialism, getting stable and materialistic government is the greatest proof of awareness among Indian individuals.

Lok Sabha Elections 2009

2009-05-18T00:04:00.000-07:00

It is the first time in history of India, when new standards have been set in Lok Sabha elections 2009, comprised with certain ups and downs. A serious effort has been applied to raise the citizen participation in election process. Lot of civil society organizations came in front with awareness, knowledgeable campaigns, to inspire the individuals for voting, getting registered and providing high knowledge of political process and its significance on their lives.

There was a major role of offline as well as online media in highlighting the different voter awareness campaigns. Blogs and networking sites made attempts to address the youths to vote. The main focus of the campaigns embarked upon is to develop democratic trust in the country, construct appropriate campaign approach and to run awareness programmes on a nourishing basis.

A new turn has been introduced in the Indian election scenario, gaining importance with the regional parties and themes. One of the low was bring off, when Mulayam Singh Yadav announced that he would give support to the individuals, who were ready to fire the Mayawati government. The UP government is a democratic government and such statements like this ruin the democracy of country. Well, elections are over for now, but the spirit is far more essential as compared to the measurable prospects of elections. In a nutshell, with ups and downs of elective process, we should move forward towards empowering our country and its democracy.

Boost your Self-confidence

2009-05-16T01:35:00.000-07:00

Self-confidence is the most significant thing; you must have to make your dreams true. It is really important to accomplish your goals in life. Some techniques through which, you can create self confidence are:

Fantasize yourself as the person you wish to be – This is the first prime step towards development of self-confidence. Dream as the person, you want to be, every morning and determine the way you dress, carry yourself etc.

Read this line – After visualizing, just read loudly this line, “ I have the capability to accomplish my goals in life, thus I will take consistent actions to achieve it”.

Be always well dressed – This step can helps you a lot in creating self-confidence. If you are well dressed, you will be more confident about your moves and decisions. There is absolutely no need to purchase a whole new wardrobe, just have a small collection of good quality apparels.

Posture – Always stand up straight and do not show droopy or leaned postures. Yoga can also help you in learning positive postures. Try to move with a sense of purpose. These small-small things can do wonders for you.

Be active participator – While in a conference or meeting, try to sit at the front side of the room. Participate in the discussions and do not hesitate to speak your views.

Meet with confidence – Whenever you meet someone, always have eye-to-eye contact with him/her and smile on your face.

Success record – It helps in restoring your self-confidence. You must keep a file, in which collect all past achievements and positive outcomes, you have received from others.

Practice – Practice makes the person perfect. The more you prepare for an event, the more self-confident you will become. The key assets of self-confidence are experience and repetition.

Hope, these points will help you out in building self-confidence. All d best readers…

Retinoblastoma - Childhood Cancer

2009-05-11T04:35:00.000-07:00

Cancer occurring in eyes, also known as Retinoblastoma has been now days targeting kids in a very large scale, which are under 6 years of age. Few symptoms of retinoblastoma are squinting red eyes or white shining glow inside the eyes. It is a life threatening cancer, in which tumors were formed in the retina, the screen at the back of the eye. Basically, it is a genetic disease, caused by genes due to mutation or inherited by parents.

Also named as “Silent Killer”, in most of the cases it affects both eyes. It is really very important and essential for parents to have check up of their children at regular intervals, even from childhood. If this cancer gets examined in the first-born baby, it is likely to be developed in the second one also, which the couple would have in future. In such condition, high care is demanded in which the infant must go through a proper eye examination from the day they were born. If examined timely, retinoblastoma is a curable childhood cancer.

You should be more alert and attentive from the white glint catty eyes. Besides this, The World Retinoblastoma Awareness Week has already been started from year 2007, in the second week of month of May. Different renowned treatment specialists of eye cancer are located in Hyderabad, New Delhi, Chennai etc. Dear readers, kindly spread this message as much as you can to more and more people. After all, its all about humanity..

How can you look younger, dynamic and slimmer?

2009-05-09T04:14:00.000-07:00

You might have read somewhere that certain foods can make you look more fresh and younger. I also find it true to some extent, only if they are the part of your daily routine and in this hot summer, I can help you out by sharing some thoughts with you, which can also defeat with your age and make you feel best.

Water – It has been founded that in 80% cases, when you feel that you are hungry, it’s the thirst for which you are craving. Drinking enough water can help you in weight loss as well as making your skin stimulating. Different individuals have different needs, but in general it is highly recommended from 48 to 64 ounce per day.

Sleep – Proper and adequate sleep is highly advised, lack in sleep can be the cause for early aging and weight gain. As per a study, sleep deprival can exaggerate
hunger hormones, which in turn leads to craving for more sweets. Right amount of sleep depends upon your body and lifestyle, though 7-hour sleep for everyone is acclaimed.

Beat stress – Exercise will be really helpful in burning calories and relieving out stress. Along with exercise, yoga can also help you out in beating stress and make you more flexible.

Deep breathing – When it really comes to fight with anger and anxiety, proper deep breathing can make a difference and also acts as stress reliever.

Fatty fish – Fatty fish like salmon is comprised with omega 3 fatty acids that is good for improvising your cardiovascular system, skin refinement and reducing your stress level.

Be positive – An average person has approx. 60,000 thoughts per day and if majority of the thoughts are negative, it can affect your body by creating more stress, worried lines, wrinkles etc. According to research, a person with positive thoughts and smiling face raises the endorphins in human body and make you appeal younger and energetic.

I understand, it’s a bit difficult but my dear readers make first an effort and see what happens. All the best and try to have more and more positive people around you.

Will Smith: Best black bond material

2009-05-08T01:33:00.001-07:00

Recently, Hollywood actor Will Smith has added his name in the list of stars, wishing to be the first black James bond. He commenced that he is the perfect choice for producers for the iconic spy role. Along with him, Jamie Foxx, Rap mogul Diddy, Idris Elba have been in the queue and already submitted their names for the replacement of bond 007. Will Smith has also said, I am the Legend star and perceived as the most bankable star in showbiz. He also added by saying this, “I can give guarantee at the box office”.

NGO’s urge to put constraint on Child labor

2009-05-05T23:50:00.000-07:00

Different social organizations are working for the upliftment and improvisation of child labor in India and they all have been interconnected to remove the hazards and risks of child labor. Recently, a seminar was also held on “Sensitization and Awareness on child labor and child rights”. It was estimated that in every year, approx. hundreds of children below 14 years of age are released from different states and all of them face the problem of rehabilitation and reestablishment. These children were bereaved from the benefits of varied government schemes that are destined for them, issued by different government organizations.

Around 50 children belonging to different age groups are rescued from brassware industry located in Moradabad and they were forced to work as bonded labor there. As per a discussion with them, they were captivated to abuse and discuss about the health hazards at their workplace. In pursuit of government schemes like “Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan”, in urban slums, several programmes have been running that proffers free education to children along with meals available twice a day.

NGO’s are suggesting some more ideas to government on tackling the issues related with child labor, which have extremely affected the economy, hence society. Chairman of Satya NGO has affirmed a model; according to which saved children will impel other child labors to leave commercial activities. One more suggestion has been passed, which depicts the need for bonded vigilance committee in each district, monitoring the child labor activities in the state and the committee members must be from police, judiciary and individuals working for child labor cause and social activists.

How can you enhance your stamina level?

2009-05-04T00:22:00.000-07:00

Every individual requires good stamina level to constantly feel energized about the duty he/she has in his/her hand. If you are too tired and busy, it enhances your chances of making mistakes. Some ways to raise your stamina level are:

Lift your fitness level – Vision your fitness level as a part of your job and schedule fitness activities into your day. If you are fit, it will blossom energy, mental clarity and stress beating advantages. You can also go for some progressive techniques like interval training, which yields higher level of fitness and endurance.
Select your food properly – Get more intake of GI (Glycemic Index) foods during your working day. Include more and more cereals, brown rice, pasta, baked potatoes, fruits, grain breads in your food. Do not have excess amount of high GI foods as some of them like white bread, doughnuts, corn syrup, honey, candies will for sure deliver high calories to the bloodstream but also cause abrupt fall in energy later on.
Find your career interests – Find your career interest areas, in which you are good, have a deep interest and enjoy doing it. Spending more time in your likable areas means less stress, high energy and satisfaction.
De stress on the job – More stress creates less emotional control and diminution in decision-making and interpersonal skills. Make use of stress management strategies like positive self-talk lowers anger as well as anxiety; calm breathing and yoga stretching can break up tightness and tension.
Time optimization – Make full utilization of your time by spending bulk of your time in 3 categories: Nice to do, Need to do and Need to do well tasks. Amongst them, nice to do tasks can be ignored, need to do tasks have to be completed and need to do well activities needs your utmost effort and attention.
Proper relaxation - Proper relaxation will be really helpful in soothing your body as well as mind. This gonna raise your stamina level.

Is recession affecting Indian gaming business?

2009-04-29T05:05:00.000-07:00

Now days, recession is like a jargon, which has infringed into almost every industry spread all across the globe. As far as the gaming industry is involved, from a global frame of reference, different individuals have different views. According to positive thinkers, video games are low cost full entertainment thrust whereas negative peoples believe in this fact that no industry is insusceptible with the effects of recession and video games are the things that are purchased in very small quantities.

2008 year is a stellar year in the Indian gaming industry. Since last year, gaming spread ness has gone up in a major way. Microsoft and Sony have done a good work in promoting gaming consoles with TV ads, offers and price cuts. As per Atindriya Bose of Sony computer entertainment Europe limited, Indian gaming industry is in a flowering stage, thus not the best candidature for reviewing the effect of recession on it. Still, there is healthy growth number in sales of games and consoles in the Indian market.

Ex GM, Ajay Khanna, Electronics art limited, commenced that globally the more interactive gaming industry in India is comparatively less affected as compared to its traditional analogues. In accordance of COO of Zapak, Rohit Sharma, The Indian gaming industry is recession free and people might lower down their expenses in movie fares and other entertainment activities, but not movies. In a nutshell, lot of tremendous growth is there in this developing gaming industry and recession and other economic factors do not tend to affect them.

Discard Smoking to keep Cancer at nook

2009-04-28T05:14:00.000-07:00

Still after having innumerable exemplary from social groups, doctors and Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss, tobacco is the top-notch reason causing oral Cancer. In India, approx. 7 lakh people are facing oral, head and neck cancer and mostly 80% of them are deceased with it. On an average, rise by 30% has been determined in cancer cases each year. Mainly this accredits to changing lifestyle and habits of individuals.

In accordance with a Cancer Specialist, Cancer can be cured if it is diagnosed in primary stages. Even the patient can lead a normal life after the treatment. Some symptoms occurring in case of oral, throat and head cancer are prolonged cough, throat pain, changing of voice etc. Individuals should be aware of these symptoms and must cooperate with doctors to analyze the condition. Apart from tobacco and gutka, passive smoking, alcohol, banned Narcotics, unsafe sex, hookah smoking and cellphone radiations are also the causes, which exaggerate this condition.

Government has also implied different schemes focusing on bearing the expenses of Cancer patients. “Tobacco is an evil, that kills”. Spread this message among more and more peoples, especially youths. Wake up and feel the danger of an unhealthy lifestyle. Most of the Cancer patients belong to the age group of 40-60 years. Comparing Cancer rate in India with western countries, Indian peoples are more affected by tobacco due to poor immunity levels and bad socio economic conditions.

New IT mantra – “Go Green”

2009-04-26T23:54:00.001-07:00

Several IT companies have renewed their pledge to preserve environment and save energy. Green term is pacing up speedily in corporate sector and celebration of Earth day also adds up a sparkle to this occasion. Considered as a good business strategy, as per the energy and utility head of IBM, approx. 18% of companies are conducting greenness and approx. 30% are expected to do this in the coming future. As per study, green data center has cut down its operational cost by half. Virtualization technique increases the utilization of resources by approx. 30 to 40% and lowers the costs related with power, cooling and hardware approx. by 30 to 70%. Besides this, a virtual server also reduces the carbon dioxide levels substantially.

IBM company has promised $1 billion to the Big Green Innovation initiative catapulted in year 2007. This project mainly assists on water management, carbon management, producing intelligent energy through smart grids and computational modeling. Considering globally, the major objective of companies is to chop carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 54 million tonnes a year and cut energy costs by $5.5 billion by 2010. In pursuit of this, as per Sonia Srivastava director of corporate affairs Intel, information & communications technology (ICT) industry has guaranteed to cut back its carbon footprint by 40 lakh tonnes a year and save more than Rs 2,250 crore in energy costs.

In this cause, Cisco has also commenced a technology, which makes it possible to reduce carbon dissipations by organizing energy consumption of devices on the network while they are not in usage. Recently, India’s third largest company has signed an agreement with WWF to coordinate in different areas of sustainability such as application of IT solutions to ecology sustainability. Likely, HCL Technologies Infrastructure Services Division (HCLT ISD) has also established a Green Data centre solution on this Earth Day. On the other hand, some companies are aiming on energy conservation and e-waste. Employees are being applauded more to save energy costs by switching off air conditioners and lights, when not in usage. More enthusiasm has also been shown to make more usage of car pools. These are some of the tricks, adopted by several IT companies to create greener environment.

(3R’s)- Reduce, reuse and recycle to save Earth

2009-04-22T23:27:00.000-07:00

In Nagpur, at Raman science center, a test has been conducted to check the general knowledge of common peoples as a part of earth day celebrations. Out of approx. 70 adults, almost everyone has secured 50% marks that was above the expectations of center persons as the test was quite difficult, technical and comprise questions based on green house effect, ecology, climatic change etc. Teachers are but obvious expected to know the basics of these subjects, but the general public awareness is astounding. The level of understanding is remarkable.

Along with adults, even students are highly knowledgeable about the topics given to them, right from drawing competition to the general science knowledge. Students studying in primary level and higher secondary level, acknowledged great about the impact of climatic change on earth resources and related queries that were aroused by senior scientist, deputy director and NEERI (National environmental engineering research institute). The institute has also given detail description about the preventive measures, which can help in examining the global warning through endurable environment. Besides this, an NGO working for environment protection in Nagpur has put together an exhibition on several topics related to Earth, its resources and ways to conserve them.

!! Celebrities promoting humanitarian convictions

2009-04-20T23:02:00.000-07:00

Several movie stars, models and musicians all across the world are commanding media’s attention, while promoting charity for environmental and merciful causes. Some most famous amongst them are Angelina Jolie, Bono, Leonardo Di Caprio. Since several years, songwriters and singers were trying to draw attention towards poverty and famine in Africa.

Leonardo Di Caprio major focus lays on climatic change. He commented, watching the cultural understanding of the issue now is, in itself, encouraging. Baroness Caroline Cox, a member of the House of Lords has spent years in traveling to raise awareness of the poor and oppressed in countries like Burma, Uganda and East Timor. She said, "I know with our little organization what a huge difference we can make with a little bit of money. I'd like to know where the big budgets go."

Late last years, Actor Ben Affleck put together a campaign film for the U.N. about the refugee crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Actress Mia Farrow has become a career celebrity diplomat who even traveled to refugee camps in Sudan more than a dozen times and told VOA in 2007 the situation there was reckless.

After the number one hit famous 1985 song, ‘We are the world’, several celebrities are working to help the needy and necessitous persons. Though as per U.N children fund UNICEF, poverty still sources the deaths of up to 30,000 children per day.

An event is occurring to raise awareness on HIV/AIDS at Wednesday, 22 April, DACC

2009-04-20T04:47:00.000-07:00

The event is especially taking place on coming Wednesday for spreading awareness among youths. Danville area community college is sponsoring for an annual event to increase awareness of this incurable disease. As per the vice chairwoman of the Vermilion County AIDS Task Force, the message which is going to be spread through this event is very important and plays a vital role in the young people’s life. Caseworkers from the Champaign-Urbana Public Health Department who have worked closely with HIV or AIDS patients and Women’s care clinic will be the representatives in the event. The organizers are targeting people of age between 15 to 25 years.

Global companies set to hold up salaries, this year 2009..

2009-04-10T03:37:00.000-07:00

A large quad of world’s companies planned to freeze salary this year, though South America and Indian employees can expect hefty rises, as per a global survey. According to this, employees of Ireland, Lithuania and Japan will behold least pay rises. As compared to previous year 2008(6.2% decrease), there will be an average increase in salaries by 4.7% this year 2009. Since last September, there is an economic revolution, due to which many firms have revised their co-workers salary, better as per predictions. On the contrary, companies situated in Venezuela, are set to pay the biggest amount of rise in salaries by 24%, followed by Argentina set to have increase by 12%.

Employees in Chile and Brazil could also expect higher pay hikes as compared to last year 2008. Indians can expect on an average 10.8% increase in pay along with some other countries like Indonesia, Vietnam, Latin America etc. due to rise in inflation. Pay hikes in Indonesia and Vietnam will be by 9 and 10.6% respectively. About one third portion of companies, located at Asia pacific region will suspend salaries, according to the study. Along with this, about 29% of European companies have also planned to peg incomes this year. In this year 2009, top 10 countries that will face rise in salaries are Venezuela, Argentina, India, Vietnam, Egypt, Indonesia, Russia, Romania, South Africa and Latvia. On the other hand, 10 countries that will freeze salaries are Hong Kong, Singapore, France, Taiwan, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, Irish Republic and Lithuania.

What to do when someone forces you to take out money from ATM machine?

2009-04-07T03:27:00.000-07:00

If this is the situation, don’t panic and just enter the pin code in reversed form. For example, if your number is 1234, enter it 4321. The machine will fetch your money and side by side automatically creates an appeal for help and will alert police, which is all unknown to the third person or thief. This facility is available in all ATM machines; hence try to spread this information to more and more people.