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  • Reissue of Indian Passport at Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) Gurgaon

    Passport Seva Kendra better known as PSK are launched by Ministry of external affairs in partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to facilitate and simplify the process of issue of Indian passport. They promise a much better infrastructure and facilities than the days when I ran from pillar to post for Reissue of passport after…

  • Being Juvenile – Licence to Rape

    In law, a minor or Juvenile is a person under a certain age — usually the age of majority — which legally demarcates childhood from adulthood; the age depends upon jurisdiction and application, but is generally 18. In all honesty the law were made and are executed to ensure that everyone gets justice. The juvenile…

  • Kasab Hanged

    Ajmal Kasab was finally hanged today at Yervada jail, Pune. One of the terrorist responsible for the attack on Indian soil and death of hundreds of innocent citizens. The day brought India to halt. It took 4 long years but finally the justice has been delivered. And It’s not about death, its about bringing justice.…

  • Diwali

    Diwali brings back so many sweet memories of childhood. The celebrations used to start a month in advance with Dusshera holidays and Ramlila. Ramlila always meant swings and food. My father would drive us to ramlila maidan at red fort. We would straight head to the food stalls and give the stage performance complete miss…

  • Why I would recommend Flipkart

    My personal online shopping is more or less restricted to travel, web products, movie booking , Bill pay etc which are very standardized products/services. I have made most of my online product purchases on non indian ecommerce sites (google, amazon , bestbuy etc) though I have few transactions in my name in erstwhile baazee.com (now ebay.in) way…

  • Signs of India

    “You will be back . we guarantee it ” – Just above the return policy 🙂

  • Integrating FB social Plugin Like and Comment

    Facebook has made integrating of ‘Like’ , ‘Send’ and comments really a simple process with social plugin. I have implemented all three of them without using any plugin in my wordpress blog or creating an application ID on Facebook. You can find the complete documentation of the three social plugin on Facebook developer’s Page for…

  • Passport for minor in India

    As promised I am back to lock horn again with the Passport office. Three years back I had a tough time to reissue passport after expiry of 10 years. But this time its for my sweetheart little baby. She now has a Date of Birth Certificate , a Pan Card and a Postage Stamp of her…

  • Google +1 for your blog

    Google launched +1 recommendation button for publishers yesterday. This could possibly be the turning point in the Google vs Facebook war to control the web. Facebook has taken a lead by share and like button but google +1 is a bigger counter to all this. With Google controlling the major portion of publishers organic traffic…

  • What is QR code

    There is so much buzz around the QR code recently. Frankly I initially thought its some feature available with Blackberry phone , when I purchased one last year. So what is QR code ? By definition its Quick Response Code and look like a square bar code. The information stored on the QR code can…

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