LATEST WHO'S WHO TILL OCTOBER 2014 CURRENT AFFAIRS

MR. PRANAB MUKHERJE  : president, supreme commander of armed forces

MOHAMMED HAMID ANSARI : vice president

MR. NARENDRA MODI : prime minister, charge of ministry of personnel, public grievances and persions; department of atomic energy; department of space.

MR. RAJ NATH SINGH : home affairs.

MS . SUSHMA SWARAJ : external affairs and overseas Indian affairs.

MR. ARUN JAITLEY : Finance corporate affairs; and defence.

MR. M. VENKAIAH NAIDU : urban development;  housing and urban poverty and parliamentary affairs.

MR. NITIN GADKARI : road transport and highways, shipping; rural development.

MR. D.V. SADANANDA GOWDA : railways

MS. UMA BHARTI : water resources, river development

DR. NAJMA A. HEPTULLA : minority affairs

MR. RAMVILAS PASWAN : consumer affairs.

MS. MANEKA SANJAY GANDHI : women and child development

MR. RAVI SHANKER PRASAD : communication and information 

technology and law & justice

MR. ASHOK GAJAPATHI RAJU PUSAPATI : civil aviation

MR. ANANT  GEETE : heavy industries and public enterprise

MS. HARSIMRAT KAUR BADAL : food processing industries

MR. RADHA MOHAN SINGH : agriculture

MR. SMRITI ZUBIN IRANI : human resource development

DR. HARSH VARDHAN : health and family welfare

MS. SUMITRA MAHAJAN : lok sabha speaker

H.L. DUTTA : chief justice of India

MR. RANJIT KUMAR : solicitor general of India

MR. MUKUL ROHATGI : attorney general of India

GENERAL DALBIR SINGH SUHAG  : chief of the army staff

ADMIRAL R.K. DHAWAN  : chief of the naval staff

AIR CHIEF OF MARSHAL ARUP RAHA : Chief of the Air Staff

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One advantages of Group Update Provider use is that it helps you to conserve bandwidth by offloading processing power from the server to the Group Update Provider. Group Update Provider are ideal for delivering content updates to clients that have limited network access to the server. You can use a Group Update Provider to conserve bandwidth to clients in a remote location over a slow link. Setting up a Group Update Provider is easier than setting up an internal Live Update server. Group Update Provider are less resource-intensive and so reduce the load on the management server.

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Bangalore, 11 other cities will get new names

BANGALORE: Karnataka got a festival gift on Friday when the Centre approved renaming 12 cities, including Bangalore and Belgaum.

Bangalore's new name will be Bengaluru. Mangalore will be renamed Mangaluru, and Mysore will become Mysuru. Bellary will be called Ballari in official records, while Belgaum will be renamed Belagavi. Hubli will become Hubballi. The new names of other cities are Tumakuru (Tumkur), Vijapura (Bijapur), Chikkamagaluru (Chikmagalur), Kalaburagi (Gulbarga), Hosapete (Hospet) and Shivamogga (Shimoga).

Union home ministry officials said the Karnataka government, Survey of India, railway ministry, department of posts, ministry of science and technology and Intelligence Bureau gave their clearance to the proposal. Minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju, too, gave his approval, which will now be followed by a final clearance from home minister Rajnath Singh.

The NDA government waited for the Maharashtra assembly elections to conclude because the decision to rename Belgaum could have cost theBJP votes in villages bordering Karnataka.

Sources said chief minister Siddaramaiah spoke to Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday. Things moved fast afterSiddaramaiah, at a meeting with Kannada litterateurs on October 10, announced that Belgaum would be renamed Belagavi.

The issue of renaming Belgaum was triggered by Jnanpith awardee U R Ananthamurthy at a meeting to discuss celebration of Karnataka's golden jubilee in December 2005. He suggested to then chief minister N Dharam Singh that Bangalore be renamed Bengaluru to mark the celebrations. Even as Singh readily agreed, demands from other quarters cropped up — and it became a list of 12 cities.

The state government mooted renaming the cities nine years ago, but the UPA government put the issue on the back burner. The proposal got stuck as the Maharashtra government filed a counter appeal before the Centre stating that the proposal to rename Belgaum had a motive to hurt the sentiments of Marathi-speaking people.

The UPA-I government cleared the names with the rider that Belgaum be dropped from the list as it did not want to antagonize Maharashtra over the Mahajan Commission report. The issue went into cold storage as successive governments did not pursue the matter.

Source :The Times of India

KERALA CIRCLE : PA / SA FINAL RESULT PUBLISHED ON 20/10/2014

Final list of candidates selected for various divisions in Kerala Circle published today 20/10/2014

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How do you tell if your computer has a virus

How do you tell if your Windows computer has a virus? Seriously! You have an  antivirus software installed and you go about using the computer with the feeling that it was well-protected and hence malware-free. But maybe, just maybe, there could be malware or a Trojan or a key logger operating on your computer without your knowledge and compromising your security or damaging your data.

How do you tell if your computer has a virus

Is your Windows computer infected? Learn to recognize malware infections and signs, symptoms that will tell you if your Windows PC has a computer virus. In this post we will see some of the symptoms of malware infection, that will tell you if you computer was compromised or infected with computer virus.

Symptoms of Malware Infection

The typical symptoms that your computer may have been compromised are:

1. Change in your browsers home page or default search
2. Your web browser hangs or becomes sluggish
3. Your computer starts behaving sluggishly or hangs often
4. You are unable to open security-related sites or Microsoft.com domains.
5. You get re-directed to web pages you did not intend to visit
6. Unexpected toolbars in your browser
7. Security software or Firewall disabled
8. Your security software throws up warnings or its icon turns red or something.
9. Pop-ups while browsing, unknown or excessive
10. Balloon Notifications from your system tray
11. Excessive CPU or Memory utilization
12. Internet or data transfer activity – Modem appears to be working overtime
13. You start seeing unexpected Windows error messages
14. Some programs start automatically
15. Some important Windows functions or features disabled. Eg, Task Manager, Registry Editor, Control Panel, Command Prompt, etc.
16. New unknown unwanted software installed, etc.
17. You see new icons on your desktop suddenly.

If you see any of these signs, if is quite possible that your computer may have become infected with a virus or malware.

Starting with Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced many security features in the operating system which were further improved upon in Windows 7 and Windows 8. Nevertheless, should your computer get infected with malware.

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India Post to play an important role in online shopping

India Post to play an important role in online shopping now

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Keeping in view the enormous growth of the e-commerce sector in the country in recent years, India Post has recently joined hands with the e-retail  giants Flipkart, Snapdeal, Amazon. India Postal Department will soon be delivering products of these online companies in every corner of the nation in the near future.

The prospects of collaboration were discussed in a press conference held on Saturday on the occasion of 'mail diwas' during 'National Postal Week'. The machine installed on latest 'Automated Mail Processor Center' was also displayed.

John Samuel, Member of the Postal Service Board informed that the Indian Post will soon convert 1.55 lakh post offices of the country to the high-tec 'Parcel hubs' and  an investment of Rs 4.90 crore  is being pitched for this plan.

“India Post will play a major role in e-commerce industry and would be using latest machines. It would be transforming according to the needs of the world,” he further added.

Chief Post Master General Vashumitra stressed that automated mail processing centre built at IGI airport, is important for the modernisation of India Post. He also shared that letter sorting machine, mixed mail sorter machines installed in the centre work quickly. The letters and parcels are sorted out as per the different states and different areas (as per Pincodes).

33,000 letters per hour can be sorted by this machine. He urged the customers as well to write the addresses and pincodes on the letters and parcels correctly , avoid using coloured envelopes, so that there may be no problems in sorting of the letters and parcels.

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http://www.iamin.in/hi/west-delhi/news/india-post-play-important-role-online-shopping-43774

Central employees attendance can be monitored by public also

Not only is Big Brother watching the pen pushers, even the public can now keep a tab on them through a web portal, attendance.gov.in.

It tells you which babus reported for work on any given day, how punctually they arrived, if some of them left midway and where. It even provides a graph on each employee’s attendance trends to reveal how often he tends to take leave.

The portal went live quietly on September 30, covering 50,233 employees across 149 offices in Delhi. The idea is to enrol the capital’s one lakh-odd central government employees on the scheme before bringing the rest of the country under it, a senior official said.

A senior official at the National Informatics Centre, the agency for e-government initiatives, said the idea had come personally from Prime Minister Narendra Modi in July. The source insisted that there had been “no complaints” from the babus about the scheme being intrusive.

At 6.45pm today, the attendance dashboard on the portal showed a figure of 26,951, which means less than 54 per cent of those enrolled had turned up to work.

The system is based on the Aadhaar biometric identity card, launched by the previous government, that now covers 68 crore people.

Every employee who has such a card has to enter the last six or first six digits of his Aadhaar number into a device at the entrance to his office, and then undergo an iris and fingerprint scan. Senior civil servants can do it without queuing, using devices attached to their workstations.

The process is repeated while leaving. If a babu goes to some other government office on an assignment during work hours, his arrival and departure is marked there too.

The National Informatics Centre source said the idea was not just to improve punctuality but to “weed out ghost employees and proxy attendance and instil a sense of equality among staff”.

Not everyone is happy.

“I can’t understand how the number of leaves I take is a matter of public interest,” said a senior bureaucrat who didn’t want to be named.

Another bureaucrat pointed out loopholes. One, if an employee wants to slip out for a while, there’s no way of ensuring that he records his departure in the machine at the gate.

Two, as a bureaucrat said: “If I have a meeting with the home secretary and go to North Block, everyone will know I was there but can anyone guarantee that I actually met him? So, how can this guarantee better output?”

He regretted the “move to have control over the bureaucracy” through a “weird public display at an increasing cost of governance, with expensive biometric devices and what not”.

Once the portal receives cabinet approval and is formally launched, all central government employees will have to register themselves with it. Those who lack an Aadhaar card will have to get their biometrics done.

As of now, the Prime Minister’s Office is not enrolled, though sources said it had approached the National Informatics Centre to get registered with the portal.

Neither cabinet secretary Ajit Seth nor foreign secretary Sujatha Singh is registered yet. The highest number of enrolments is from the Planning Commission, which is on its way to extinction.

The nine-day-old online register shows that home secretary Anil Goswami has not visited his North Block office the past four days.

Suhaib Ilyasi, editor of Bureaucracy Today — a magazine for and about the country’s bureaucrats — said the response had been positive.

“People like it even though they have to be punctual,” he said. “There is no sense of intrusion.”

But a bureaucrat asked why the scheme didn’t cover the ministers.

“Politicians, who call themselves public servants, have kept themselves out. If attendance is so important to this government, why have half the cabinet ministers skipped work to go camping in poll-bound states?” he said.

It isn’t clear whether Modi would be enrolled.

Source : The Telegraph

Is Interim Relief Likely for Central Government Employees?

Is Interim Relief Likely for Central Government Employees?

Is it really possible for Central Government employees to get an interim relief this time? Let us look at it in detail.

‘Interim Relief’ may be defined as the temporary relief given to employees before the new Pay Commission’s recommendations are implemented. ‘Interim relief will be treated sui generis’, most of the Finance Ministry orders included the sentence when sanctioning interim relief.

If one looks at the interim relief granted in 1983 and 1993, it can also be inferred that interim relief is granted in order to correct the errors in salary revision once every ten years. One gets the feeling as if an entire Pay Commission was lost simply for the sake of a small hike.

During the previous Pay Commission, particularly in 5th CPC, since 50% DA Merger was granted, there was no interim relief.

Here are some of the reasons why interim relief is normally granted :

* It has been granted a number of times before, in the past.

* DA Merger hasn’t been sanctioned this time

* Prices have touched the skies

* Some errors in the formulation of once-in-a-decade Pay Commission…etc.,

Reasons cited for the Government’s refusal to sanction DA Merger/interim relief:

* 7th Pay Commission was constituted at the justify time.

* There was no recommendation for DA Merger in the 6th Pay Commission

* There was a recommendation against DA merger in the 6th Pay Commission (the Commission is, therefore, not recommending merger of dearness allowance with basic pay at any stage).

* In the event that the Price Index is taken as 115.76 instead of 306.33 for the DA calculations.

All the Central Government Employees Unions and Federations are functioning with the intention of getting the DA merged with the basic pay. If that doesn’t happen, these federations are hoping that interim relief will be offered through the 7th Pay Commission’s interim report.

This is very much possible if Modi Government is willing to accept the demand.

Source : 7thpaycommissionnews.in

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2.) YAHOO : Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle .

3.) WINDOW : Wide Interactive Network Development for Office work Solution

4.) COMPUTER : Common Oriented Machine Particularly United and used under Technical and Educational Research.

5.) VIRUS : Vital Information Resources Under Siege .

6.) UMTS : Universal Mobile Telecommunications System .

7.) AMOLED : Active-matrix organic light- emitting diode

8.) OLED : Organic light-emitting diode

9.) IMEI: International Mobile Equipment Identity .

10.) ESN: Electronic Serial Number .

11.) UPS: uninterruptible power supply .

12. HDMI: High-Definition Multimedia Interface

13.) VPN: virtual private network

14.)APN: Access Point Name

15.) SIM: Subscriber Identity Module

16.) LED: Light emitting diode.

17.) DLNA: Digital Living Network Alliance

18.) RAM: Random access memory.

19.) ROM: Read only memory.

20.) VGA: Video Graphics Array

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21.) QVGA: Quarter Video Graphics Array

22.) WVGA: Wide video graphics array.

23.) WXGA: Widescreen Extended Graphics Array

24.)USB: Universal serial Bus

25.) WLAN: Wireless Local Area Network

26.) PPI: Pixels Per Inch

27.) LCD: Liquid Crystal Display.

28.) HSDPA: High speed down-link packet access.

29.) HSUPA: High-Speed Uplink Packet Access

30.) HSPA: High Speed Packet Access

31.) GPRS: General Packet Radio Service

32.) EDGE: Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution

33.)NFC: Near field communication

34.) OTG: on-the-go

35.) S-LCD: Super Liquid Crystal Display

36.) O.S: Operating system.

37.) SNS: Social network service

38.) H.S: HOTSPOT

39.) P.O.I: point of interest

40.)GPS: Global Positioning System

41.)DVD: Digital Video Disk

42.)DTP: Desk top publishing.

43.) DNSE: Digital natural sound engine .

44.) OVI: Ohio Video Intranet

45.)CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access

46.) WCDMA: Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access

47.)GSM: Global System for Mobile Communications 

48.)WI-FI: Wireless Fidelity

49.) DIVX: Digital internet video access.

50.) .APK: authenticated public key.

51.) J2ME: java 2 micro edition

52.) SIS: installation source.

53.) DELL: Digital electronic link library.

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56.) TFT: thin film transistor

57.) AMR: Adaptive Multi-Rate

58.) MPEG: moving pictures experts group

59.)IVRS: Interactive Voice Response System

60.) HP: Hewlett Packard