Bhagat Singh

On 23^rd March 1931 our young heroic leader BHAGAT SINGH along with Rajguru and Sukhdev was hanged. These heroic leaders were hanged a day before the assigned day because the British officials were afraid of the revolts that would have occurred on the appointed day.  March 23 is celebrated at MARTYR’S DAY to pay honor to our great leaders who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of the country. They were the enlightenment for the country and our country can never forget and pay back the contribution made by them. We owe our freedom to them.

WE SALUTE OUR GREAT MARTYRS

Remember Saheed Diwas ? by Nidhi Paul originally appeared on Technospot.IN on 2010/03/23. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

You need to memorize this list/chart quickly and then take a quiz. Have a look at this animation below, which fist shows the list of words, and then the quiz.

Hindi Learning Games Animation

Digital Dialects is not a full featured language learning resource, but is a great way to exercise the words you have recently learnt when you are learning a new language, it has same types of games for several other languages.

Visit Digital Dialects

Learning Hindi? Try these simple games to help you learn faster by Manav originally appeared on Technospot.IN on 2010/03/19. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Cat 2009 Scorecard form

You can also check out the list of shortlisted candidate in different IIM’s on the same page. Good Luck!!.

Where to check Cat IIM scores online ? by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.IN on 2010/03/01. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

 Many of us have done this just to save our income from tax. They are not planned or organized. When we know that we will have to pay tax why not plan it from early months say April itself? This will help us in making systematic and planned moves and getting free from the cash flow in the January and February months. This will help us not only in saving your income but also maximizing the gain.Here are few tips how one can plan out :

Investing in PPF ( Public Providend Fund ) – Regular investment or rather monthly investments in PPF A/C should be followed. Many of us don’t know but if you invest within 5^th of every month you get the annual interest return of 8%. So next times even if you are depositing cheque in your PPF A/C make sure that it get realizes by 5^th of the month.

Investing in Health Insurance– Normally every employee is covered under group Insurance policy of the Co upto a max limit of 2Lacs to 5 Lacs as per the Grade of the employee. So one Should not feel like doing a separate policy. But this can be essential in case of Job loss , Transition period in case of switching of Job or In case of retirement. You can Opt for a family floater policy for dependants or parents. This can save your tax up to 15K

Investment in House property – Many people invest in House property  and take housing Loan to avail interest benefit . Interest repayment up to 1.5 Lacs annually is exempted under present Income Tax rule to an individual. In case of joint ownership of a property this can fetch a higher exemption if housing loan repayment is been done from joint account.

Ready reckoner on various sections of Income tax under which different investments can be claimed for Tax exemption.

• Sec 80C / 80CC : Investment up to Rs 1Lac in NSC, 5 Yrs tax saving bonds, EPF , PPF,ELSS,LIC,ULIP premium, pension, annuity plan, Registration fee for Purchase of House, Principal repayment of Home Loan,5-Yrs post office time deposit, Children’s tuition Fees are exempted under this section.
• Sec 24 : Maximum amount can be claimed is 1.5 Lacs under this section and in case of joint ownership the limit is caped till 3 Lacs
• Sec 80D : A maximum limit of 15K under mediclaim or health insurance offered by Life insurance Cos. An additional limit 15K is covered for coverage of dependent parents. For senior citizen limit is upto 20K.
• Sec 80DD: The maximum amount is 50K to 100K for treating maintenance of a dependent family member with severe disability.
• Sec 80E : Tax relief is on Interest payment on educational loan for higher studies of self, spouse or children.
• Sec 80G: 50% or 100% of Donation amount to Charitable institutions is exempted up to a overall celling of 10% of your gross total income.

These are few ways through which you can save tax but I do believe there are many more you also must be knowing. Do let us know in comments.

Handy tips to save Income tax in India by Nidhi Paul originally appeared on Technospot.IN on 2010/01/06. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

English Kannada dictionary

This dictionary has 50000 words with advantages of Print, managing your own version and do an Import and export if you want to share it with others or when you switch computers.

Manage Kannada english dictionary

Kannada Kasturi is an Indian Website dedicated to help people do a Kannada to Kannada-English, English to Kannada, Sanskrit to Kannada and also do a Spellcheck using their online version. Download the file from here, you will have to register to download it.

Download Free English-Kannada Dictionary by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.IN on 2009/11/18. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Unicode Conversion Gateway is an intiativeby Harshita Vani which can convert or transliterate these pages written in Indic Scripts into standard Unicode which anybody can read. Here is an example of Daily Kesari before and after the conversion:

Kesari before Transliteration

Kesari after Transliteration

This gateway as of now supports following scripts.

• Bengali
• Devanagari
• Gujarati
• Gurmukhi
• Kannada
• Malayalam
• Tamil
• Telugu

Also you can find direct link on the gateway which you can use it for reading sites like this. Along with this it also allows you to convert any other site which is not into the list once you had entered the url here

Transliteration engine

How to read Indain proprietary encodings : Unicode Conversion Gateway by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.IN on 2009/09/24. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Find details of undermenioned  freedom fighters on their site :

• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
• Mangal Pandey
• Lal Bahadur Shastri
• Sarojini Naidu
• Bhagat Singh
• Chandrasekhar Azad
• Bal Gangadhar Tilak
• Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
• Gopal Krishna Gokhale
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Indira Gandhi
• Annie Besant
• Rani Lakshmibai
• Bhikaji Cama
• Lala Lajpat Rai
• Sukhdev
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
• Subhas Chandra Bose
• Dadabhai Naoroji
• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
• Bipin Chandra Pal
• Sucheta Kriplani
• Tantia Tope and Khudiram Bose

Freedom fighters

The site also provides with pictures of Freedom fighters most of which are hand drawn or in the form of sketches. IMO this is specially useful for children and people who are intrested to find details on Freedom fighters.

Indian Freedom Fighters : Find comprehensive details about them by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.IN on 2009/08/27. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Voicetap can be seen as a platform for the aspirants who are preparing for entrance exams or a business processes etc. to interact with people who have been one of the top performers in the domain.

How does Voicetap work?

You can see the details of upcoming calls on the homepage, if you are interested in some call, then all you need to do is, click on the call details to know more about it, if you are interested in attending the call, all you need to do is, register yourself for the call. Now once the schedule of call is finalized you will be intimated via SMS, now you will have to login to get the profile of the expert who will be talking, and other details.

You can post your questions which you want to get answered during the call, relevant questions will be asked to the expert during the call by the moderator, users are not allowed to ask the questions directly to the experts, and this sounds logical enough, saves time.

There is also a provision to listen to this discussion (Podcast) online after the call is over, so if you somehow missed the call, you can always get most of the general questions answered just by listening to it.

If you want to get more insight about the working of Viocetap you can visit this page.

I must say, Voicetap is an awesome service, and probably one of its kind, so go ahead and interact with experts to get some great tips.

Visit Voicetap

Need guidance on GMAT, CAT or business ? Talk to experts @ Voicetap by Manav originally appeared on Technospot.IN on 2009/08/24. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Hindi alphabets

Like that chart ? Akhlesh.Com is one initiative which is documenting an easy way to learn hindi thropugh images and charts. Infact you would even love the way numbers are shownup. You can actually spell them as it is availble in Hindi making it easier for people who do not knwo hindi.

You can find Alphabets, Numbers, Words, Poems, Charts, Quiz, Devotional, Patriotic stuff  which would make you feel so Indian. There is also a special section which is prepared keeping Foreigners in mind

• Common Words and Phrases
• Animals
• Food Items

Hindi common words and phrases

Overall it is an excellent resource to learn hindi and make yourself more prepared if you are coming from outside. Dont miss to bookmark it.

Learning Hindi : Back to School but Online Style by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.IN on 2009/08/14. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

There is a list of video tutorials (yes you read it right) where a scenario is created like how the conversation goes on in a market place. A subtitle keeps running below which rolls as the video plays. This helps you relate words and grammar.

Hindi learning with video

Whenever a grammar is used and important is linked to a detailed description of it. This will help you a lot if you are interested to get better understanding of Hindi grammar.

Hindi learning verb recognition

 There is a list of 24 video tutorials which can be watched over and over again. All the tutorial relates to one aspect of India place and helps you to understand how do you talk at those places. The conversations are really simple and effective. 

So if you are willing to learn Hindi, Door to Hindi is the best place to start with it. Check out Hindi Tutorials  there.

Learning Hindi made easy with Video tutorials by Ashish Mohta originally appeared on Technospot.IN on 2009/08/05. Please see our terms for use of feeds.