CAT Online
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.
Lost HDFC ATM card
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
Lost ICICI ATM card
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
Indian Passport Site Problem
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.
Rakhi ka Swayamvar
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.
Get Admission to DPS Schools
If you live in delhi you have to look to get your kids to DPS schools which are run by DPS academy and are about 50 years old. The schools are renowned for its alumni, high teaching standards and the overall abilities of students and environment. There are now various DPS schools opened in India but I think there are only 4 DPS schools which are very famous, three in delhi which are DPS RK Puram, DPS Mathura Road and DPS Dwarka where as another famous DPS is DPS bokaro in bokaro steel city which has produced tons of IITians in the past including the topper in 93.
I think the biggest advantage in getting admission in DPS schools is the culture which you culture as a student, with such high level of competition, students tends to raise their level. Now with lot of DPS opening in various parts of India, people from small cities can also look to get admission in these schools.
Andhra Pradesh Intermediate Results
Andhra Pradesh Intermediate Results have been announced for Inter first year and second year. You can check the results here
The results for inter general and vocational exams 2009 are also out and you can see them through the site or sending SMS to following numbers
So India is out of T20 World Cup
As much as it sucks, Indians were outplayed in both of their matches by west indies and England. There can be plenty of reasons for them going out, poor fielding and not able to handle short pitch has to be the primary reason for this though.
Here are 5 reasons why India is out of T20 world cup -
MHT CET 2009 Results
Maharashtra CET 2009 which was conducted on 7 May 2009 are announced. You can check the MHT CET 2009 results from here
The results are for MBA MHT CET exams.