Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Indian Railways train ticket through mobile

Book your train ticket on Indian Railways through your mobile. Yes this is possible. It is yet another hassle free feature introduced by Indian Railways. You can book your ticket on Indian Railways through your mobile via “ngpay”.

Follow the steps given below:-

SMS “ngpay” to 56767 and you will receive a sms giving a link to download the application.

or

enter you mobile no in ngpay portal http://www.ngpay.com/site/ and receive ngpay on your mobile.

Choose the link and follow the instructions to download and install

Provide a few personal details and register with ngpay.

Select your service i.e. IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation) and the ngpay menu driven interface is user friendly to guide you step by step to book a railway ticket.

You will get a confirmation on the mobile and email id regarding your transaction details

“ngpay” registration is free of cost. You have to pay only for the price for the service provide by the partner (in this case IRCTC ) All you have to do to activate this service is to ask your mobile operator to activate GPRS on your mobile. You can complete a transaction by spending only a few paise in data usage charges.

“ngpay” comes with a host of benefits like earning points for referrals and redeeming the points for select products and also special offers and discount.


Safety of transaction is ensured as you have to provide a 6 digit pin number everytime you make a transaction. ngpay provides 128-bit end-to-end financial grade security from the user’s handset through to the application servers. ngpay provides a mobile wallet which stores all the confidential nos in an encrypted form, so that even if you loose you mobile phone you can be rest assured that unauthorized persons cannot access your account. Moreover you can call ngpay at Customer Care @ +91 80 67004000 or SMS to +91 99009 06677, to block ngpay on your phone.



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AIEEE (All India Engineering Entrance Examination)

This is an common engineering entrance examination on all India basis for admission to the engineering and Architecture/ Planning programmes in the country. To solve the overlaping of various entrance exams and to reduce the mental, physical and financial burden of the students and parents, it was decided to conduct an common engineering exam for admission to various engineering colleges all over India. IIT JEE is the other exam which is conducted on all India basis for admission into the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) all over India.

The following is the eligibility criteria for appearing in the exam:-
The candidate must have passed in the 10+2 stream

The following are the names of disciplines in Degree Engineering & Technology/Architecture/Town Planning which has been approved by AICTE:-

A. ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY COURSES

1. Aeronautical Engineering
2. Agricultural Engineering
3. Automobile Engineering
4. Applied Electronic and Instrumentation
5. Automation and Robotics
6. Bio-Medical Engineering
7. Bio-Technology
8. Ceramic Engineering
9. Chemical Engineering
10. Civil Engineering
11. Computer Science and Engineering
12. Electrical Engineering
13. Electronics and Communication Engineering
14. Environmental Engineering
15. Food Technology
16. Industrial Engineering and Management
17. Information Technology
18. Instrumentation and Control Engineering
19. Leather Technology
20. Marine Engineering
21. Materials Science & Technology
22. Metallurgical Engineering
23. Mechanical Engineering
24. Mining Engineering
25. Oil & Paint Technology
26. Polymer Science and Rubber Technology
27. Printing Technology
28. Production Engineering
29. Pulp & Paper Technology
30. Sugar Technology
31. Textile Engineering & Technology
32. Transportation Engineering

B. ARCHITECTURE AND TOWN PLANNING



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Saturday, July 24, 2010

APSRTC Online Reservation of Bus Tickets

APSRTC is the State Road Transport Corporation of Andhra Pradesh.APSRTC, a 77 year old organisation is carrying around 144 lakh passengers everyday. It operates mainly in Andhra Pradesh and to important towns and cities in the neighbouring states of Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Maharastra, Goa, Orissa and Chattisgarh.

Since we are in an internet era where tickets for travel by air, rail are brought through internet, tickets for travel by road can also be booked online. You can book tickets online for APSRTC buses. Booking an APSRTC bus ticket online is simple and the steps are detailed below.

Go to http://www.apsrtc.in/APSRTCOnline/ and sign in if you are a registered user. Else, Register by clicking “New User" button

After signing in, click Advance Ticket Booking. You will be taken to the “Search Place” screen (click on the screenshots to have a closer look)



On the “Search Place” screen, Enter your Journey originating Place Name & Destination Place Name. Then click get places. you will be taken to the “Search For Services” screen.


On the “Search For Available Services” screen, select the date of journey, origin, destination & the appropriate number of passengers. You can choose to book tickets for either the “One Way Trip” or “Return Trip“.You will be shown the “service category ” list. Make the proper entries and click "search services". You will be taken to the "available services" screen.


Select a APSRTC bus service from the available list of services. You will be taken to the screen showing the seat layout of the bus. Select the seat and proceed



In the next screen details of the ticket will be given. Select the pick up and drop off points in the journey and proceed to the next page if the travel summary appearing in the screen is ok.


In the next screen payment modes are given. Choose a method of payment suited for you and submit your email id to receive the e ticket through e mail.


So book your ticket online and enjoy your journey.



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Friday, July 23, 2010

AIRTEL BROADBAND

Airtel is one of the leading service provider for broadband internet access in India. They cover over 94 cities in India. It promises to offer 16mbps speed of browsing with lots of add on features. The airtel broadband connection does not stop the existing telephone line while browsing. You can talk over the phone while you browse the internet. Both can be done simultaneously without any hitch. There is no dial up to connect internet. The facility is on as soon as you switch on the computer.


The following are the add on features available:-

1) Website builder

You can build you own website easily with Airtel. You can chose from any of the 15000 templates readily available for building your website. You can also give a free domain name.You can drive traffic to your site using SEO techniques, traffic analyser etc. For more information go to http://airtel.in/broadband-vas/website-builder.html

2) Speed on demand

We may require to download from the internet at certain times only. Downloads may not be required at all the times. We can increase the speed of the internet during the the period of downloads with speed on demand facility. We would pay only for what we have used. There will be no extra data transfer charges.For more information go to http://airtel.in/broadband-vas/speed_on_demand.html

3) Games on demand

There are around 300 games available online. You can download these games.They are no viruses and no spyware. There is a system check for all the games. To get more details go to http://airtel.in/broadband-vas/games_on_demand.html

4) PC secure

Internet and viruses are synonymous. To protect your PC from Trojans, worms, and viruses, Airtel provides PC Secure a popular antivirus software. It gets automatically updated to keep your PC safe. You can block undesired content for your children. It gives spyware protection so that personal information is not viewed by third party. For details go to http://airtel.in/broadband-vas/pc-secure.html

5) Wi-Fi Services


Apart from broadband we can upgrade to Wi-Fi services offered by Airtel. You can use internet anytime and anywhere you go. This is wireless internet service. Go to http://www.airtel.in/wifi/ to submit details

6) Net PC Advantage

Airtel offers Net PC a computer system which will never crash. We can store 10GB of data in this PC Latest licensed software from Microsoft will be available. Cloud computing technology used.To submit details go to http://www.airtel.in/applications/genericlead/netpc/netpc.html?source=airtelin

7) IPTV

Airtel also offers internet protocol based service - IPTV. We can watch our favorite movies tv shows at anytime of our choice. You can view 135 channels in this facility.For details go to http://www.airtel.in/interactive/


Broadband tariff:-

Airtel broadband tariff varies from place to place. Go to http://www.airtel.in/wps/wcm/connect/airtel.in/airtel.in/home/foryou/broadband+and+fixed+line/broadband/tariffs/ to check the various tariffs and plans Airtel offers for broadband.



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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

An Official Website on School Education in Tamilnadu

www.pallikalvi.in, is an exclusive government portal for school education in the state of Tamilnadu. It gives comprehensive information about all the facets of school education. The site caters to all the players in the school education namely:

1) Schools
2) Students
3) Teachers
4) Parents
5) Department

1) Schools

This section gives information about the various schools available in Tamilnadu. You can find a school in any district at the click of the mouse. In fact all the details of the schools such as location, address, phone, email id, no of students studying in each class, category of school are given in this section.Also the student teachers ratio in each school and various social welfare measures for children are available.

Results of various board exams like XII std, X std, NTSE results are displayed. The syllabi of the samacheerkalvi (to be introduced by the Government of Tamilnadu) is also published here. Teachers, Parents and students can browse these pages and see what is in store for them.

2) Parents

Parents can get immensely benefited from this site. One of the highlight of this site, is that you can view the details of educational loans offered by various banks. In this section you can also compare the loans offered by various banks through a ready reckoner available. The EMI to be paid is calculated automatically.

3) Students

Here the whole syllabi from LKG to Std XII is given.Students can also browse textbooks online. They also can know about the details of board examinations conducted by Government of Tamilnadu. Question bank is also available online. A lot of online resources for various subjects covering various topics are available. Called as e-learning, the students stand to benefit a lot by browsing these pages.

4) Teachers

This section also has useful literature for teachers. Teaching resources are available for various subjects. This will greatly benefit the teachers. Also all information regarding their department like Government orders, transfer orders are available. Application forms relating to their service are also available here.

5) Department

This section features information about the various directorates available in Department of School education in the government of Tamilnadu. We can also view important government orders on education.

All in all it is a comprehensive site on school education in Tamilnadu. Lon on to www.pallikalvi.in to browse this site and benefit.