Monthly Archives: January 2010

Very interesting solution against corruption in india. I am not that daring that i can use this note.

But really interesting idea. This could also be used to catch corrupt officials. Slip one of these notes in a bundle of money and pay them, once they accept it bring a TV channel and show it.

One such story was our earlier case about the old lady and her troubles with the Revenue Department official over a land title. Fed up with requests for bribes and equipped with a zero rupee note, the old lady handed the note to the official. He was stunned. Remarkably, the official stood up from his seat, offered her a chair, offered her tea and gave her the title she had been seeking for the last year and a half to obtain without success. Had the zero rupee note reached the old lady sooner, her granddaughter could have started college on schedule and avoided the consequence of delaying her education for two years. In another experience, a corrupt official in a district in Tamil Nadu was so frightened on seeing the zero rupee note that he returned all the bribe money he had collected for establishing a new electricity connection back to the no longer compliant citizen.

Paying Zero Rupee note agains corruption in India

Who knew being slim was also a bad thing.

I think its because when you are old, you get sick quite often and if you are slim you body doesn’t have the energy to resist it. It could also be because if you are slim you will go place and do things which can only increase you chance of death. So the right mantra is be slim now get over weight as you get older. Until some one else comes up with a study saying even that is a bad idea.

But being very overweight or being underweight shortened lives.

Overweight elderly live longer

India will soon get new currency Symbol similar to the $. Which can easily be typed. It is expected to be released in march of this year.

Very soon, the Indian Rupee too will get a distinct identity — an identification symbolThe Indian government had announced a competition in March last year inviting creative designs from Indian residents to represent the rupee in a simple form.The finance ministry guidelines stated that the symbol should represent the historical and cultural ethos of the country. It should be applicable to a standard keyboard and has to be in the Indian national language script or a visual representation of it. The size of the final design should not be smaller than 232 square cm (36 sq inches).Five designs were short-listed from over 25,000 applications received from across the country. The short-listed candidates made a presentation on the design in December and the winning design is set to create history in March.The five selected designs are simple, easy to write and are designed to appeal to the Indian and international community. Some of these designs reflect the Devanagari script.The finalists are not allowed to reveal the details of their design till the results are declared, expected in March 2010.

Rupee symbol design: Meet the 5 finalists