Union Minister and senior BJP leader Ananth Kumar died at a hospital in Bengaluru this morning. He was 59. Ananth Kumar was suffering from cancer and had returned from the US last month after treatment in New York. 

The minister's wife Tejaswini and two daughters were with him in his last moments. His body will be kept at National College grounds in Bengaluru for last respects.

The national flag will fly at half mast across the country as a mark of respect to the union minister. Karnataka has announced three-day state mourning and all schools, colleges and offices are closed today. 

Ananth Kumar was one of the few ministers to have also served in the earlier BJP-led government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee. In fact, he was the youngest minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee's cabinet in 1998 and was minister for Civil Aviation, Tourism, Sports, Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation.

The six-time MP from Karnataka was the first person to speak in Kannada in the United Nations.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi described him as a remarkable leader, an able administrator and a great asset to the BJP.

A graduate in Arts and Law, Mr Kumar was associated with the Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a student organisation of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), before joining the BJP in 1987. 

As a student activist, he was also jailed along with other ABVP leaders during the Emergency of 1975.

He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1996. In 1998, he became the youngest member of the Vajpayee cabinet and he returned as minister in 1999.

In 2003, he became the BJP's Karnataka chief. The party won the highest number of seats in the assembly and the Lok Sabha under his stewardship.

The parliamentarian from south Bengaluru constituency held charge of two ministries in the Narendra Modi government -- Chemicals and Fertilisers since May 2014 and Parliamentary Affairs since July 2016.

Facebook Dating feature is only offered to users who are 18 or older. Also, apparently the users must have their relationship status set to “single”.


Post opting for Facebook Dating, you will have to create a dating profile on the site. Facebook is handholding the users here and has simplified the whole process in significant ways.

Users who are building their profile need to provide information on workplace, education, religion, height, and whether they have kids or not. They will also have to select 10 odd photos from the pictures in which they are tagged on Facebook. And to build a personality profile, Facebook Dating will ask users to answer 20 generic questions like “What song always makes you sing along”.


Once you find a match, send your “match” a message. You will be able to send only one text message and then you will have to wait for your match to respond before you can send another message. If the reply comes in, the chat will move to People Conversation tab and you will be able to chat to and fro like on Tinder.

A hoax email has resurfaced that claims that UNESCO has declared the Indian National Anthem Jana Gana Mana to be the best in the world. This email message has gone viral on Facebook and Whatsapp again. It appears to have first emerged in 2008 to till date. This message is believed to be fake and reports say that UNESCO has denied any such declaration on their part.

A Facebook page has also been created asking Indians to be proud because the Indian National Anthem has been declared the best in the world by UNESCO.

Jana Gana Mana is based on a Bengali-Sanskrit poem written by Rabindranath Tagore, India’s great poet and author of pre-Independence era who had also put his poem to tune.

When is Friendship day and know about Friendship day

As most of we know that friendship day is celebrated on the first Sunday of August every year.

The first International Friendship Day was proposed in 1958 in Paraguay. Means it’s started almost sixty years ago in 1958. South American countries, especially people in Paraguay started observing Friendship Day and began celebrating it with much fanfare.

Friendship day was originated by the founder of Hallmark cards, Joyce Hall, on August 2, 1930.

According to experts, the idea behind Friendship Day was conceptualised by the greetings card industry. Before that, this special occasion was promoted through greeting cards, but later on, people realised it was a scheme to increase consumerism.

This day is still very popular among people worldwide including countries like India and other countries.

Surprisingly, the third week of May is observed as Old Friends, New Friends week.

Friendship Day is Celebrating by Exchanging cards, tying friendship bands or going out with friends for dinner to celebrate the day are common practices. But there is also a less popular custom of giving pink and yellow roses to friends who have been with each other during difficult times.

Aadhaar is issued by the UIDAI to a resident of India, PAN is a 10-digit alphanumeric number allotted by the IT department to a person, firm or entity. 

The Income Tax department has launched an 'instant' Aadhaar-based PAN allotment service for individuals seeking to obtain the unique identity for the first time.

PAN is a 10-digit alphanumeric number allotted by the I-T  department to a person, firm or entity.

The new facility has been introduced in view of an increasing number of people applying to obtain the Permanent Account Number (PAN) for their financial and tax mater's.

Here is the step by step guide on how to get instant e-PAN based on Aadhaar First you will have to log on to Incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in. In the left hand side you will see below the tab there is an option 'Instant e-PAN' You will have to click that option Click "Apply instant e-PAN' tab.

·       You will see a form for applying instant e-PAN now fill in all the required details.

·       A fresh new PAN will be allotted on the basis of a onetime password (OTP) sent over the "active mobile number" linked with the valid Aadhaar number of a person.

·       The new PAN will have the same name, date of birth, gender, mobile number and address that is present in the individual's Aadhaar.

·       After completion of Aadhaar based verification system the PAN is allotted to an applicant, this process takes a few seconds.

·       Applicant will be received the PAN card by post in few days.

The customer "C Kumar" an account holder of the Pallavaram branch of Kancheepuram Central Cooperative Bank had been running from pillar to post for the past five years to get back the jewels worth around Rs. 3.50 lakh.

A co-operative bank here has allegedly refused to return 138 grams of gold jewels, claiming a default of Re 1 in repayment

of a loan pledged for the loan which made customer to move the Madras High Court for relief.

C Kumar said he had taken a loan of Rs. 1.23 lakh from the bank by pledging 131 grams of gold jewellery on April 6, 2010.
And in between, he took two fresh loans totalling Rs. 1.65 lakh by pledging a total of 138 grams of gold.

He closed the first loan by settling the amount along with interest on March 28,2011 and also repaid the two other loans shortly thereafter, but the bank refused to return the jewels saying there was a balance of Re 1 in each of the loans.

Petitioners counsel M Sathyan said even after repeated requests by C Kumar, the bank refused to release the jewellery or accept payment of pending Re 1 for each account.

The petitioner submitted that he nurtured a doubt with regard to the safety of his jewels

SBI customer "Mahindra Kumar Yamanappa" has lost Rs 49,500 by pressing a wrong number in Cash Deposit Machine (CDM), the victim, had deposited the amount in a CDM machine located at north Karnataka’s Kalaburagi on July 18, 2017.

After depositing the money, Yamanappa had waited for a moment to get the receipt of credited
amount. But, even after 48 hours, he failed to get the credited slip or text message on his phone.
He then approached his SBI home branch located at Kalaburagi’s SB Temple Road and filed a complaint on the CDM complaint form on July 20. He registered a second complaint with them in August.

Khan Shabab, also an SBI customer in Telengana’s Adilabad had swiped his Debit card at an ATM and found an excess of Rs 49,500 in his bank account.
Shabab spent no time in withdrawing the entire amount.

The bank authorities responded on August 30, 2017. In its response, the SBI authorities said that the amount was sent to Shabab’s account after Yamanappa had mistakenly typed digit of 8 (eight) instead of 0 (zero) on the CDM.After running here and there for four months, Yamanappa registered a formal complaint against SBI at the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum in Kalaburagi on November 28. In his complaint, Yamanappa had accused SBI authorities of failing to act inappropriate time to block his money. Yamanappa also claimed that he lodged a complaint with SBI authorities within 48 hours of the incident.

In the consumer forum, bank’s counsel had argued that it was the fault of the customer since he had entered the wrong account number. The counsel also stated that Yamanappa had failed to mention the erroneous account number during the first complaint with the SBI. The counsel further stated that SBI had done its duty by informing Yamanappa in August 2017 about the mistake he had committed.

The judge also scolded Yamanappa for failing to mention the erroneous account number. The judge also urged the bank to take effective steps to reverse the transaction. In its verdict on June 5, 2018, the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum dismissed Yamanappa’s case.

On the face of it, this may appear to be helpful data that could come in handy during road accidents and rash driving cases, before purchasing a second-hand vehicle or for law enforcement and investigation purposes. But making such information so easily available will jeopardise the privacy of individuals, especially that of women.

Any vehicle on the road, if you want to know the name of the owner, it is very simple. Just type VAHAN space Vehicle No and send to 7738299899 

Note: It will charged be according to Your tariff.

E.g. VAHAN KA28EGXXXX

You get return message (SMS) with following details. 

- Registration number
- Registration date
- Owner name
- Father's name
- Colour of the vehicle
- Year of manufacture
- Type of owner (government, trust, individual etc.)
- Type of fuel used
- Registration type
- Class of vehicle

It will be easy to complain on vehicles who do not follow traffic rules, and Commit Road Accidents.

In Karnataka many of my government employee friend’s in conversions I always listen most common word HRMS (Human Resource Management System). Then with curiosity wanted to know more about HRMS Software, A few points I notice facts about HRMS which you may know or may not but feel to share with all.

·        Karnataka is the First State in the Country to have implemented the total HRMS.

·        HRMS is designed & developed by TCS (TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES).HRMS takes care from Recruit to Retirement of employees.

·        The HRSM in the Government environment is a very complex system involving many rules and procedures.

·        The Government of Karnataka has started implementing HRMS during March 2005 with the World Bank Assistance. Project was implemented in phased manner starting from January 2007, covering few districts at each phase. Complete HRMS was rolled out during February 2008.

·        The HRMS helps in to create an exhaustive and accurate database of Government employees for effective administration and improving productivity and efficiency.

·        The Project is helping the DDOs to generate the pay bill electronically. Easy implementation of any of the Government policy related to salary or service because of the centralized system.

·        The system will helps the management in getting various MIS reports in decision making viz. the list of employees getting the annual increments in any given month, number of employees retiring in any month of the year, budget planning and controlling etc.

·        The project is having various modules like: Employee basic details, Annual Property returns, Qualification details, Nominee details, Leave details, annual performance, Family and dependent details, Employee service details, Award details, Home town details, Departmental Exams, Training details etc.

With below Objects of HRMS

•       To create and maintain a database of all Government employees. 

•       To get a consistent and unified picture of the employee data for HOD.

•       To Digitize Service Registers of all employees.

•       To improve the productivity and efficiency of Government. 

•       Incorporation of computation rules across the state in unified manner.

•       Error free generation of timely pay bill and electronic transfer of pay bill to treasury.

•       Accurate and timely maintenance of service records to facilitate HODs for taking effective management decisions. 

•       Generation of Annexure B of Budget Estimation (salary estimates).

•       Generation of MIS reports for timely decision making for senior government officials.

Features

•       It is Web based application, 24/7 availability.

•       All category of officers/employees and different pay scales like State, Central, AIS, UGC, AICTE, Judicial are drawing salary from a centralized single platform.

•       Maintains HRMS database for 550,000+ employees spread across 30 districts and 176 Taluka of State of Karnataka.

•       It is an integrated system to capture the Service particulars of an employee from day one of the service till the end of the service.

•       Depending on the service information, generate the monthly salary bill of employees by the concerned Drawing and Disbursing Officer (DDOs).

·        This system also helps to generate arrears bills due for an employee, (viz. DA, Increment, Promotion etc. automatically)

·        Extended to Grant in Aid Institutions (80,000) and Few Boards and corporations.

It's proud moment 

World gears up to celebrate International Yoga Day

Countries across the globe are gearing up to celebrate this year's UN International Day of Yoga.

International Day of Yoga, or commonly and unofficially referred to as Yoga Day, is celebrated annually on 21 June since its inception in 2015. An international day for yoga was declared unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Yoga is a physical, mental and spiritual practice attributed mostly to India. The Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in his UN address suggested the date of 21 June, as it is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and shares special significance in many parts of the world.

The United Nations has declared June 21 as the International Day of Yoga in 2014.

The idea of International Day of Yoga was first proposed by the current Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi during his speech at the UNGA, on 27 September 2014.

He stated: Yoga is an invaluable gift of India's ancient tradition. It embodies unity of mind and body; thought and action; restraint and fulfilment; harmony between man and nature; a holistic approach to health and well-being. It is not about exercise but to discover the sense of oneness with yourself, the world and the nature. By changing our lifestyle and creating consciousness, it can help in well-being. Let us work towards adopting an International Yoga Day. - Narendra Modi, UN General Assembly

UN Declaration

On 11 December 2014, India's Permanent Representative Asoke Mukherji introduced the draft resolution in UNGA. The draft text received broad support from 177 Member States who sponsored the text, which was adopted without a vote. This initiative found support from many global leaders. A total of 177 nations co-sponsored the resolution, which is the highest number of co-sponsors ever for any UNGA resolution of such nature.

When proposing 21 June as the date, Modi said that the date was the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere (shortest in the southern hemisphere), having special significance in many parts of the world. From the perspective of yoga, the summer solstice marks the transition to Dakshinayana. The first full moon after summer solstice is known as Guru Poornima. Shiva, the first yogi (Adi Yogi), is said to have begun imparting the knowledge of yoga to the rest of mankind on this day, and became the first guru (Adi Guru). Dakshinayana is also considered a time when there is natural support for those pursuing spiritual practices.

Following the adoption of the UN resolution, several leaders of the spiritual movement in India voiced their support for the initiative. The founder of Isha Foundation, Sadhguru, stated, "This could be a kind of a foundation stone to make scientific approach to the inner well-being of the human being, a worldwide thing... It's a tremendous step for the world."

The founder of Art of Living, Ravi Shankar, lauded the efforts of Modi, saying, "It is very difficult for any philosophy, religion or culture to survive without state patronage. Yoga has existed so far almost like an orphan. Now, official recognition by the UN would further spread the benefit of yoga to the entire world."

What is YOGA?

Yoga is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India. There is a broad variety of yoga schools, practices, and goals in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.

Among the most well-known types of yoga are Hatha yoga and Raja yoga.

The origins of yoga have been speculated to date back to pre-Vedic Indian traditions; it is mentioned in the Rigveda, but most likely developed around the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, in ancient India's ascetic and sramana movements.

The chronology of earliest texts describing yoga-practices is unclear, varyingly credited to Upanishads. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali date from the first half of the 1st millennium CE, but only gained prominence in the West in the 20th century.

Hatha yoga texts emerged around the 11th century with origins in tantra.

Yoga gurus from India later introduced yoga to the West, following the success of Swami Vivekananda in the late 19th and early 20th century. In the 1980s, yoga became popular as a system of physical exercise across the Western world.

Yoga in Indian traditions, however, is more than physical exercise; it has a meditative and spiritual core. One of the six major orthodox schools of Hinduism is also called Yoga, which has its own epistemology and metaphysics, and is closely related to Hindu Samkhya philosophy.

Many studies have tried to determine the effectiveness of yoga as a complementary intervention for cancer, schizophrenia, asthma, and heart disease.

The results of these studies have been mixed and inconclusive. On December 1, 2016, yoga was listed by UNESCO as an Intangible cultural heritage.

·        Yoga is a timeless tradition from Rig Veda with a history of over 5000 years

·        Yoga is an ancient philosophy that educates on health and harmonious living 

·        Yoga is a science of self-awareness, self-development and self-transformation

·        Yoga is a holistic discipline that integrates body and mind, creates perfect balance

·        Yoga is not just physical exercise, it builds emotional stability and calms the mind

·        Yoga is a powerful health discipline that heals many health issues without medicine

·        Yoga is a way of life that boosts positive energies and improves quality of life 

·        Yoga bestows self-understanding, love, knowledge, wisdom and happiness

·        Yoga awakens the spiritual self, makes the practitioner experience inner divinity  

·        Yoga is a natural therapy that makes one look healthy, youthful and beautiful 

·        Yoga is an amazing inward journey that illuminates life beyond pain and suffering   

·        Yoga, as a disciplined method for attaining a goal;

·        Yoga, as techniques of controlling the body and the mind;

·        Yoga, as a name of one of the schools or systems of philosophy (darsana);

·        Yoga, in connection with other words, such as "hatha-, mantra-, and laya-," referring to traditions specialising in particular techniques of yoga;

·        Yoga, as the goal of Yoga practice."

Reference: Wikipedia.  

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