After writing how to register .co.in and .in domains post I felt to write another post on them to tell the difference between them and which of them is better.

.co.in stands for country India and is a second level tld (top level domain) where as .in stands for India and is a top level domain. Earlier .co.in were popular but nowdays I see more and more people choosing .in domains over .co.in for ease of remembering them.

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If you are looking to register .in and .co.in domains through godaddy, you are after a surprise, as most of teh international registrars like godaddy, enom do not offer registeration of .in and .co.in domains due to them being india specific unlike generic .com, .org, .info etc

So if you want to buy .in or .co.in domains, you need to contact some indian registrar. Now there are few big players in the domain registering market and many small players which are just resellers and if you are looking for a really good Indian domain seller you might want to give a try to IndiaLinks which are one of the premium domain sellers in India, specially if you want to purchase .in and .co.in tld extensions.

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If you are looking for live streaming of IPL matches you can look at this link or this link (currently down) where various posters along with owners post live working TVU, sopcast, flash and OCX streaming links of IPL matches.

These sites are also useful for not only IPL for other cricket streaming links too.

I barely gets any time to watch television as I spend my most of the time online and to be honest, I am not a great fan of what is being shown on Indian television either, but a so called news channel India TV is taking the concept of sensational journalism to totally new level.

India TV channel it seems only shows bogus news with absolutely no credentials and other channel like aaj tak, CNN IBN which are more into infotainment, India TV leaves them far behind with programs which are a joke with no base. They seems to cook up news stories too in news room instead of going out as probably making stories sitting in AC rooms is a better thing then to go out and take interview and to real journalism work like others used to do.

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If you are looking to make a fixed deposit account in bank like HDFC, ICICI or any other private or even public banks like SBI, you may like to think twice as the current interest rates are around 8% as compared to 10% previous year. Also with the interest coming under tax deduction, this whole putting money in fixed deposit thing don’t’ make lot of sense, you may be better of investing money in real estate right now as prices are low and you can get good deal currently.

Anyway if you still want to open a fixed deposit bank account, I will advice you to go with HDFC bank because they are the once offering highest interest rates of 8.25% per year. ICICI is offering around 8% interest rate but the premature withdrawal fine is alot less in HDFC as compared to ICICI.

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Being an ex software engineer, I know cricinfo and many such sites are blocked in offices so employees don’t keep on checking them every now and then during IPL and when other cricket series are going on. So if you want to check instant cricket score, you can use google search as it also gives cricket scores of live games

Just Open Google.com and type “Cricket” or “Cricket India” and you should be able to see google showing scorecard of any live cricket match taking place.

I was just looking to see which of .co.in or .in tld (top level domain) is more popular among Indian websites and it looks though earlier it was .co.in which was popular, now most of the indian sites perfer .IN as top level domain.

But this post is not about that, this post is about domainers registering allmost all good combinations of .IN domains which are strictly meant for Indians only. No matter what the domain you come up with, the chances are its already taken.

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I am not an expert in Income tax laws but I do have decent knowledge of it so if you are an Indian having some queries about income tax laws and how much income tax you should pay then you ask your question here in the comment box and I will try to answer them.

Just to clarify, everyone has to pay taxes who satisfy these conditions -

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I am seeing Humsurfer for over 3 years now and it seems to be ranking for almost everything in search engine thanks to its age and google algorithm. Now the problem with humsurfer is, its juat a spam aggregator of news items, most of them not even related to india.

It has couple of million pages in Google and there is absolutely no useful information on the site, since it has no community whatsoever. People submit the pages to it which makes for probably 10% of its total pages, the rest are automated rss feeds pulling.

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The last date for filing Income Tax returns is 31st July 2009 this year and if you still haven’t given too much thought about your income tax returns, may be this is the good time to start doing it, since there is no point in filing it too late.

Now india does have a sizeable population working in metros in busy schedules with no time to go to Chartered Accountants and explain them the whole thing as it can easily take half of their day. So for such people, there are online websites and services in India using which you can submit online taxes return paying small fees. You can instantly pay your return by credit card and can also get income tax advices from them.

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