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HR Process

All of us at some stage would have experienced what we will deliberate in this post. It has been common practice for the consultants to scout for suitable candidates with similar experience as required by the organization. It will be strange that the way of search is very unique, if the consultant is looking for some candidate with testing experience, then the search word would be testing, the results will even display a person from the laboratory testing to even some in the field of soil testing. After this exercise is carried out the candidates are contacted and somehow convinced to attend the interview sometimes even against their interest for even the count. There would have been instances where you would have gone for some position as said by the consultant; you are being interviewed for some other position. If the position is lucrative it is fine else you would feel what kind of process is this? Recently there was an instance in which I had applied for an organization by mail and...

Quit Mumbai?

We are often talking about the unity of the country in various forms, but when it comes to reality it looks a lot different from the speech. We can take a closer look at what had happened in Mumbai the so called commercial capital of the country where we have witnessed a bizarre incident calling for the north Indians to quit Mumbai. If the north Indians want to have their culture or festivity to be celebrated in their way they must have their say in it. Let us address a unique question which comes to my mind immediately as there are so many maharashtrians settled all over the world, do they not celebrate their culture and want to do some for their own community. Are they being questioned anywhere in the world? Why that is always Shiv Sena gets itself into a controversy of this kind or it is just cheap publicity are aiming at? Quietly strangely most of the politicians seem to have turned a blind eye towards on the issue. This is followed suit in Delhi too which means if you were go to a...

Income Tax Planning

All of us who are in the profession of earning only white money must be constantly worried about the Income Tax and what to do save from paying the tax? First thing is that you should do is that when you have crossed the yearly earnings of Rs.2.20 Lacs and for women who have crossed 2.55 Lacs should plan in advance rather than crying over spilled milk as the saying goes. If you are earnings are between 1.10 and 2.20 Lacs for men and for women between 1.45 and 2.55 lacs, then you need to only plan for the investment of the money in the 80CC Act which comprises of the Provident Fund that you are accumulating from the earnings which is deducted in your pay slip, any Insurance for Life paid, Investment in Mutual Funds, Infrastructure Bonds, Tax Relief Bonds, Fixed Deposits in Banks. If you are above the 2.20 Lacs for men and 2.55 Lacs for women, then think in the beginning of the year itself what is the method you would like to adapt rather than in the year end which will be too late. The ...

General - Is it end of the tunnel?

What a dramatic sequence of events that we have seen in the last month or so? Finally looks like it is all over for the great general turned politician,who else but Gen Parvez Musharraf. After he had taken control of the nation by the military upsurge and proclaiming that the country needed to be brought into shape before handing over to the democratic rule. In the meantime, US had started the attack against Iraq which helped him to gain some ground as to clear the Al-Qaeda from his soil. He also tried to proclaim himself the president by changing some of the rules by force of power. It did not last long under the pressure of US Senate internally which needed to have head of the state under democratically elect. This meant that he had to call for the elections. When he did that the powerful leaders presence in the country erstwhile Benazir and Nawaz Sharif were imminent. This signified trouble for the President that with the entry of them he will transfer power to the winner in the dem...

Struggle as Reporter

After the first interview in the field of reporting, took my article to look for a newspaper that can help in publishing the same. I was not very encouraged about the response by the editors, largely being from the field of IT they thought these guys will fade after some time. I feel that it is contrary whose write in the newsprint are who want to make a living for themselves and not those are keen on writing. There are many people in the society who take the job for the heck of it without any involvement and these kind of jobs involves a lot of it I feel at the end of the day. But the fact is that, more I was told by the editor the more it motivated me to keep writing articles. After a long discussion with the editor, he asked me to write about the events in the area initially and later can grow with them. I decided to take it up as challenge as had more than a point to prove to him.

Breaking Rules

Today morning ,i went to the ATM for withdrawing some cash for expenses. I was patiently waiting for the my turn, the man before with the helmet went in to my amusement. In spite of the fact with so much talk about the ATM freak incidents where bank has been forced to enforce certain rules which are only going to benefit the customers who will be using. Inspite of the fact that the Notice bearing on the glass door of the ATM reading as "Please Do Not wear Helmet", but the person standing in the queue for nearly five minutes went into the ATM with his helmet. When he came out I indicated the helmet , told him that the notice saying about not to wear helmet in the ATM, but he seem to be unfazed about the whole incident is just to show that we seem to have the mental attitude of not adhering to the simplest of the rules which is for our convenience. We seem to have strange attitude when we are forced to wear the helmet and drive for our safety, some tend to avoid it. On other...

How to Control Asthma

Asthma (Az-muh) comes under the chronic ailment which affects the airways in the lungs that are the tubes for carrying air in and out of the lungs. The person who has is suffering from asthma, the inner walls of the airways are inflamed and it tends to be very sensitive, and react strongly to things that the body’s immunity system is allergic to or find irritating. When the airways react, they get narrower, and reduce the air flows to the lung tissue. This causes symptoms like wheezing (a whistling sound when you breathe), coughing, chest tightness, and trouble breathing, especially at night and in the early morning. When the symptoms of this ailment become worse than usual, it is also called an asthma attack. During this, muscles around the airways get stiffened, reducing the airways and less air flows through to the lung tissues. Cells in the airways also make more mucus than usual and which results further narrowing of the airways, which makes breathing more difficult. Asthma attack...

First Experience of Free Lance Reporting

The week beginning i had decided to get into the field of free lance reporting and started to think about it pretty seriously. In the Previous week, had started off with few articles for the local newspaper which had good reviews from the editor. This gave the impetus to think the lines that it is not a bad thought for me to think about writing more. Then I had checked with the editor who had told me that I can also start to do some interviews of the prominent personlaities in our area (Chennai South) in the field of fine arts and sports. On the way back home from the editor office, I had seen a new showroom coming up on health clinics. After coming home, quickly checked the website and sent in an email for an appointment for the interview on Sunday. Did not get any reponse I decided to go their office on Week beginning. On reaching their office which new one built wiht plush interiors even though i was nervous about the first interaction, i held my nerves . I informed the receptionist...

Use of Technology in Cricket

In the last decade or so, the game called cricket has become more and more competitive, the use of technology in the game has been on the anvil and finally the stage has been set for it take the center stage. Today’s debate will largely be centered on the extent of the usage of the technology in the sport. If you are keen watcher of this sport, would have taken cognizance of the fact that, the usage of the technology has been to some extent. During the length of time we could a larger chunk of the decisions using the technology for the betterment of the sport. In the present times, it is being used for run-out,stumping or an inconclusive catch. This gets referred to the third umpire for the judgment of the decision which is translated through the giant screens in the major cricketing grounds. This has actually led to fear-feeling in the minds of the stand-in umpires who have come from the era of no-technology times to the present times. They feel that by using the technology will mea...

Cure and Prevention in Osteoporosis

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What is osteoporosis? In osteoporosis, the bones become porous from inside due to the loss of calcium (see the picture below). This is also called as bone mass loss. Over a period of time, this weakens the bones and makes them brittle and prone to breakage or fracture. Osteoporosis is much more common in women than in men. This is because women have less bone mass than men, tend to live longer and take in less calcium. They need to take the female hormone estrogen to keep their bones strong. If men live long enough, they are also at risk of getting osteoporosis later in life.Once the total bone mass has peaked—around age 35—all adults start to lose it. In women, the rate of bone loss speeds up after menopause, when estrogen levels fall. Since the ovaries make estrogen, faster bone loss may also occur if both ovaries are removed by surgery. What are the signs of osteoporosis? It is difficult to identify as you may not know about it till it shows up with some serious signs. Signs include...

Change - Betterment or Wrong Path

Constantly we are looking at improving the lifestyle in comparison with the previous generations. We will just look back into grandpa’s generation of style of living. They were satisfied with the Old Inherited Village House with some agriculture lands they had either possessed or be way of inheritance. The next generation underwent a change of thought from shifting from the rural to urban living. In the next generation they had built their dreams on having their own house / flat in the city and religiously working towards the same goal. They have brought up during the changing scenario of the freedom struggle which was on nationwide invariably in most cases. In those days life would have been hard, tough and would have necessarily grinding their way to success at each step. The change that would have been seen through by them was the Green Revolution followed by the Industrial change with a series major engineering industries being set up for the growth of the country. They would have ...

Changing Trends in Fine Arts

In the fast changing world, the arts and culture has also undergone some change in the styles. As we talk about fine arts which is vast subject to deal in a small article. We all know that it is spread from Music, dance, drama, films & lot of other cultural activity. To understand a little more about the fine art in the human life – it was developed as a source of the mind diversion from the regular activity that was being carried out by them. It helped in having better mind control, relaxation of the mind, bit of humour & entertainment with also some of the kind delivering a message to the mankind and some of them to the society. We will take a look into the fine arts with a special mention towards music both the classical as well light version. Today we have a lot of opportunity available for the younger generation to perform in many stages. This has created many openings in the various stages for more performance from artistes as a platform for improvement. ...

Protecting your Eyes

Everyone wants to look nice, charming and beautiful as we all know that eyes are the most important feature which makes the person attractive. The striking feature of any person could be healthy, sparkling eyes , sometimes we can call them as a person with a sparkle in the eye which is reflection of the bright human being. It would be meaningless to mention that eyes are centre point of the attractive feature of the face and serves as indicator natural beauty. How does anyone really to get these attractiveness we have mentioned above! It is all that difficult to reach the pinnacle of beauty. It is always nice lesion to be learnt that being calm you would have understood how to weather a storm, and being still in the middle of the storm you will have all the energy in the soul congregated to win over the same. The same holds good for the ultimate natural beauty of the soul some prefer to say as inner beauty. We will now take a closer look at how to handle these situations for the retent...

Company Management

We always spend a lot of time in the building up a process, the need for the process to exist in its place for the reason it helps in better management of the organization however big or small the company might be. It is often said that the process makes better performance and also process enable the company to look beyond the outstretched sights. In the pursuit , certain managers who are the key to hold the policy in place they are one who deterred the growth of the companies. In most of the cases you would see that due to some personal liking or vendetta the managers who are key or what I would call as the front runner of the policies decide to sit over the same and try to ignore the mere fact that they are custodian of the policy makers and forget the need to put their foot down in the need of the hour. Often we talk about the company taking care of the employees by organizing get-together and other activities which will help in better relationship building among the co-employees an...

Passion – Cause of Inconvenience?

In Recent times, we have seen a spurt of increase of the Pets being reared in the household which is a passion. Until Recent Past, it used to be the Occupants of Sprawling Bungalows, Farm Houses and Lonely Houses who had the fancy or habit of this passion which we are deliberating on. It used serve the purpose of meeting the passion and Protection against intruders. Recently, we have seen that the passion has caught the eye of the Residents of the Flats which is of Course debatable to the extent – Whether the Neighbor’s Freedom is being threatened. It is nice to see more and more of the City residents are cultivating the passion for the Pets in Household, but at the same time have to understand the inconvenience it can be of. It is quite inexplicable on the Road, as you would see some Elderly People as well as Young Girls trying to take their pets, but they all never seem to be in control of the pet dog even though...

Are We Serious in Streamlining of the City Traffic …?

We are facing the hardships on day-to-day life due to the city traffic problems which are due to the Infrastructure Development in the form of Road- Widening , New Flyovers for reducing the Traffic Congestion in the Arterial Roads, laying of the New Optic Fiber for the Improvement in Communications and Many Others reasons. This also further compounded by the Non-Compliance of the Traffic rules by the so-called Public Transport Providers in the form of MTC better known as Most Troublesome Corporation , Auto rickshaws and add to the misery with the latest inclusion of the Share Auto / Meter Taxi. This has in fact led to the Owner vehicles to Deviate / Break the Traffic Rules which in turn makes life difficult for all people – whether they travel in Mass Transport System , Owner Driven Vehicle or be a pedestrian. What is mystifying is that whenever it comes to the Public Service Provider be it MTC , Water Tankers , Today’s Neel Metal Fanaca or the Yeste...

IT Parks in Chennai

In the world of ready-to-serve attitude most of the software development companies are looking for the infrastructure built-in facilities to meet the needs of the business. This has meant immense business potential for commercial space with built-in infrastructure to make the most of the conditions prevailing which would not be understatement to say that “Make hay when Sun shines”. This has resulted in huge infrastructure complexes in the old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR) especially in the sprawling areas of wasteland which has virtually overnight turned into gold mines with the advent of IT development; of course it would not be an exaggeration to say so as Tamilnadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) has played a vital role by initially setting up miniature version of the IT parks - ELNET software city and then followed with a more improved version of the IT Park in the form of TIDEL Park – phases, TICEL Park and which culminated with the Siruseri IT Park n...

Real Estate

With the developing business after the fast paced rapid growth that has been triggered by the boom of the Indian economy, the real estate has been accelerating at very disconcerting pace which the common man is unable to really cope with. We will look at the changing face of the real estate with the exponential growth that we are experiencing with the growing business in the city, which means that there is tremendous increase in the business opportunity that has opened up in the Commercial as well residential spaces. Due to increase of the demand for the new spaces both in the business as well as residential needs has caused escalation of the prices in the real estate. A lot of the companies have started acquiring acres of land on the main Road both in East Coast Road(ECR) and Old Mahabalipuram Road(OMR). This has meant direct impact on the prices of the land which has resulted in the land owners to reorganize the prices in line with the market needs. ...