Well Indian Train Enquiry Site broken is not really broken but CRIS certainly look what links have expired!

Look at this page which is PR 7 and if you see the first word shimla, it is pointing to some domain ksr100.com which probably expired and now the domain is redirecting to some japanese website.

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I am not a avid traveler and what ever traveling I do, I do by air as I feels indian trains are way too time consuming, I mean a 1000 KM journey can take 16 hours by superfast trains + few hours spent on coming/going to railway station and normally these trains journey are also very tiring.

My biggest problem with unconfirmed tickets is the inquiry office numbers which I always find it busy (not having PC or smartphone handy do have its consequences unfortunately) and with this online website and reservation system giving all kind of errors though I am not much more versed with it.

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Indian Railways are one of the biggest employers in the world with around 2 million people working for them! Each day millions of people travel by Indian railways and I remember when I was 7-8 years old, it was great fun to travel by train, All most all of my journeys were in sleeper class (though my last few journeys are in AC II class ). If you want to know more about History of Indian Railway you can check the link or wiki link, I am sure there are more resources on the web too.

IR has certainly come a long way from manual ticketing to everything getting computerized and now online so you can get e tickets and infact its a great way to travel, just use your credit card, get the printouts and show it at the time of inspection. What this whole process of online Reservation has done is it has cut down on manual hours and people don’t have to spend hours standing in lines. I know the lines are still there but at least people have option now

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So I am in mumbai now and will stay here for few months. the weather is good though its raining heavily and I am looking to send some inland letters but not able to send due to pin code problems,
This has always bothered me to get the pincodes of all cities of india, I am in mumbai right now and don’t know all the pin codes of mumbai but anyway I just made a search on ekikrat and surprisingly they do have all the mumbai pin codes including the once of suburbs like navi mumbai and thane!

I will be back to delhi in September and will catch up all the work! If you live in metro and wondering what are the pin codes of them, you can check them out Delhi pincodes, Chennai pincodes, Kolkata pincodes, Ahmedabad pincodes, Bangalore pincodes, Pune pincodes and Hyderabad pincodes.

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Finally CAT is becoming online in 2009-2010. It has put itself on the track of GMAT and GRE. Last year there were around 300 thousand CAT aspirants and they are growing like anything. With CAT becoming online and people getting a chance to select a date and time to give the exam, this figure of CAT aspirants will shoot up tremendously especially in case of working people. Now they will have the convenience of avoiding their working deadlines and try for a management carrier through CAT.

CAT has been known for its surprises in the exam. Every year it comes up with something no one has expected. But with the online exams it will be an all together a new ball game. The questions which are coming to the minds of the CAT aspirants are how the paper will look like, will it take more time to mark answers on computer than OMR sheet, what if the computer goes down, can we scroll through the pages, will only one question will appear on the screen at a time, will CAT will be more on luck as different questions will come to different students.. These questions will be answered by the IIMs when they will come up with the CAT forms. But one thing I can tell you is that the IIM has given the contract to the Prometric center which has the specialization in conducting online exams such as SCJP, Tofell, GRE etc. Let’s see how CAT goes this time.

What to do when you Lost HDFC ATM card ?

HDFC bank is privately managed a financial institution, established in 1994. The bank started to operate its commercial services by 1995, aiming to facilitate the customers a complete satisfaction. The bank apart from corporate and retail services for the customers across the nation, also offers HDFC ATM cards. ATM cards issued by HDFC offer easiest money transactions to the customers as well as operates multitude of ATM centers in almost every city of the country. In addition to withdrawal of money, you can also get access to your current savings account and view the mini statement of the previous transactions by using HDFC ATM card.

Steps to follow to confiscate the lost HDFC ATM card

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If you lost your ICICI ATM Card, do the following -

Things to do to discontinue the lost ICICI ATM card

• One of the foremost things to do after losing the ICICI ATM card is to lodge a FIR.
• Another step is to call the customer care number of ICICI Bank telling them about lost ATM card. Here is the list of ICICI Phone numbers through which you can contact them. These ways, the ICICI bank will be able to assist in protecting the financial liability (if any) mounting from any monetary transaction made after the card is lost from the reporting time.
• The cardholder should draft a letter mentioning the mishap as soon as possible, to confiscate or cancel the transaction made from the lost ATM card.
• Within a week’s time ICICI bank, after verifying all the details provided by you will issue new ATM card. You can know more about disabling lost ICICI ATM Card here

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This is shocking but it seems the passport site of Indian government has https (SSL) misconfigured and some pages don’t work due to connection failure in firefox. First of all, using https for the whole site don’t make any sense, https should only be used for pages where a person is entering his/her information, like checking passport status. If you are using ssl for the whole site, then at least make sure it is not misconfigured as many people who don’t use internet may get confused with the firefox error of accepting ssl certificate on temporarily basis message.

So yesterday I catch an episode of much talked and hyped rakhi ka swayamvar show, I am not sure what I was thinking as I don’t watch hindi television or any reality show and stick to finance news and sports occasionally but anyway, I watched it for 10 minutes and then gave it away. I just can’t watch it

The show is certainly created to appeal a certain segment of crowd and I don’t belong to it and I am worried that with so much masala content being shown on TV, and with so many infotainment masala news channels, what is happening to Indian news media ? it is understandable that they are looking to increase the presence by spreading horizontally to other domain rather then sticking to news (not to mention, creating news in studio is alot cheaper then going all over india to find news) but really if these news and entertainment channels are thinking that this is the long term solution then they are wrong, very quickly this will fade out, and probably rakhi sawant and NDTV imagine are just striking when the iron is hot.