Self Defence Weapons for Women

Women's security is a big concern in many societies these days. News of rape, kidnapping and eve-teasing has become very common and women fear to venture out alone even in day broadlight.

Women are not safe and there is no one who can provide round-the-clock protection to them. However, some manufacturers have come up with self-defense weapons for women so that they can get through the difficult situations and protect them.

Here are the 5 security weapons women can use to secure themselves:

Personal Alarm

Personal alarm is one of the security weapon, women used for security purpose. If a woman explodes the loud signal prior to the person closing in on woman, it is going to make them think twice about attacking, while signaling anyone in the area for help.

Pepper Spray

Pepper spray is an irksome merge of cayenne and other hot peppers. When sprayed continuously 2-3 times at an aggressor it cause burning sensation on skin and both the eyes and nose to reluctantly shut, burn, tear and swell. Pepper spray is highly effective in exposing the attacker helpless so that woman can get away and get help.

Stun Gun

A stun gun is an electrical self-defense weapon that utilizes high current to stop an attacker. He feels helpless but the effect of stun gun leaves him permanently safe and sound.

The most effective part of attacker, a woman can attack with the stun gun is upper hip, below the rib cage or the upper shoulders. Three seconds will render most attackers debilitated and allow a woman to escape.

Taser

Taser is a special nitrogen gas cartridge enables it to shoot a pair of pointed projectiles at women’s aggressor. Taser will work from up to 15 feet away. When a woman touch a taser on the chest of the attacker , the wires that connect the projectiles send up to a 50,000-volt shock through the attacker, causing spontaneous muscle twinges and exposing him out of action.

Mace

Another weapon women can use to protect themselves is Mace. It is a chemical tear gas very similar to pepper spray. Mace has a penchant to disperse into the air, so it is not as effective in some situations so for its effective use, it is advisable to spray it directly on the face of the attackers.

There is no perfect way to defend them other than to be prepared, which includes appearing confident, having an action plan and having the right tools with which to carry it out.

2G Scam: Vodafone and Airtel office raided

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday conducted raids at Vodafone office in Mumbai, Airtel office in Gurgaon in connection with the massive 2G scam.

The agency also carried out searches at the residences of a former telecom secretary and an ex-BSNL director in connection with the scam.

A fresh case has been registered over allocation of additional spectrum during late telecom minister Pramod Mahajan's tenure.

Countrywide Protests if Jan Lokpal Bill not passed

Kiran Bedi, key member of Team Anna, warned the UPA government to start the nationwide protests if the Jan Lokpal Bill is not passed in winter session of Parliament.

The former IPS officer said that Team Anna is not against Congress, but the onus for getting a Bill passed lies on the party in Power - Congress. If Congress fails to pass the Bill in the winter session, they would trigger the Ramlila Maidan-like protests in more than 300 cities across the country.

Speaking to media persons in Allahabad, Bedi said that the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Congress President Sonia have promised to bring a strong Lokpal Bill in the upcoming session starting from November 22.

She said that Team Anna is analysing the situation and expects the Congress will keep its word. If the bill is not introduced and passed in the Parliament, the country would witness another agitation on a larger scale.

Actress Bhairavi Goswami makes a shocking disclosure about Aishwarya Rai?

Actress Bhairavi Goswami has made a shocking disclosure. She claims that Aishwarya Rai, who was four months pregnant, has undergone an IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) procedure at a Bangkok clinic that specializes in providing male babies.

Bhairavi particularly took on Abhishek Bachchan who earlier posted on his Twitter page that he hopes for a baby girl.

Bhairavi Goswami wrote on her Facebook page: “Nauseating 2 read superstars giving interviews about wanting a girl baby when she has gone 2 Bangkok to an IVF clinic which specializes in boy babies. Height of hypocrisy. They know damn well its a boy, after all she has to produce a male heir at any cost - Typical UP mentality, no wonder that state has such high female foeticide.”

Bhairavi is so confident of her claim that she has refused to retract her statement even after a backlash from the fans of the Bachchans.

“Only people with no balls retract statements, issue denials & clarifications. I have never felt the need to do any of the above ever,” she tweeted.

A reply or reaction from the Bachchans is still awaited.

Amdavadi among world's top 30 management gurus

Gujarat Inc may not have taught exemplary management lessons to the world, but an Amdavadi has grabbed a place in the list of world's top 30 management gurus for 2011 released by a UK-based agency.

Shailesh Thaker, Chairman and Managing Director of city-based Knowledge Inc is the first Gujarati to find a place in this list that also features three other Asians besides world-renowned experts like Jack Welch, Tom Peters, Michael Porter and Jim Collins.

The list is compiled by Global Gurus International, a UK-based agency that independently rates trainers and speakers from Asia, the Americas, Australia and Europe. The 30 top management gurus were selected on the basis of originality of ideas, practicality of ideas, presentation style, international outlook, impact of ideas, quality of publications and writings, dispersion of publications and writings and public opinion.

"It is a great honour for me as an Indian and a Gujarati," Thaker told TOI.

In 2010, he was included in the list of world's 100 best management gurus by UK-based Black Pearl UK Ltd. "I had given Global Gurus International a presentation on management lessons that everybody can learn from the lives of Lord Krishna and Bhagwat Gita and leadership and management lessons we can learn from potters, Mumbai's dabbawallahs and even from our own mother.

Dabbawallahs teach us project management whereas our mother can teach us error-free management," he said. Talking about Gujarat Inc., Thaker said, "Our of the five Ps - profit, people, product, principles and planet-that are important for any corporate firm, Gujarat companies excel when it comes to profit and product.

But, they need to dramatically improve in valuing their people and adopting proper principles at workplace. By planet, I mean, it is important for all CEOs to find out ways to make our planet a better place to live." Thaker, who has conducted 1,400 workshops on management and leadership, across 62 countries so far. , also plans to start an institute for learning with Gujarat Technical University. "We intend to start PhD programmes in Indian wisdom, culture and values."

Google launches Online Music Store

Google Inc entered the online music market today. By launching Google Music, the Internet giant took a significant step into online music retailing, which means an endless comparison to Apple’s iTunes.

Android handset users in the US will now be able to get access to Google Music. They can buy their favorite songs starting at just 69c. The service is not available outside the US because Google has not completed negotiation with records labels to allow it to sell songs elsewhere.

Google was successful at signing licensing agreement with three out of the four top record companies except Warner music.

The Google music offers some of the exclusive contents from the legendry bands like; Rolling Stones, Coldplay, Busta Rhymes, Shakira, Pearl Jam and the Dave Matthews Band.

The songs are available in MP3 format encoded at 320kbps. The price of each song ranges from 69c to 99c and $1.29. The cost is same as Apple’s iTunes.

“We are the first that enables users to share their purchased music with their friends. This is the single most important way that people discover new music. I think that has the potential to transform purchasing behavior” said Zahavah Levine, Android’s director of content Partnership.

Android is the world’s No. 1 smartphone operating system, powering about 200 millions devices worldwide. But without a music service, Android based smartphones and tablets may not be as attractive to customers as other smartphones like Apple’s iPhones.

The biggest challenge to Google Music will be Apple’s iTunes and more recently Amazon’s Kindle Fire Tablet that provide music purchasing services. But, Google offers free cloud storage for upto 20,000 songs, which can be uploaded by the customers.

In its Blogpost, Google said that its online music store offers more than 13 millions tracks from Universal, Sony Music and EMI as well as thousands of independent labels. You can either purchase individual song or the whole album right from your computer or your Android device and they will be instantly added to your Google Music Library and will be accessible from anywhere.

So let’s see who will win this battle of Music? Whoever that may be, but competition has always been good for consumers. So, we will say rock on Google.

Women are more Argumentative than Men

Many men believe that it is impossible to win an argument with women and it is very true to a large extent. For many years it has been the job of women to systematize and converse the restrained things in societies and families.

Argument between genders is common, and women are good in it as they know how to win and handle the men.

The reasons of argument between men and women are different.  In general, when women are upset, they want to be heard. Men, tend to be more accurate and intent. Sometimes, when women are talking, it can sound illogical, but their purpose is just to let off steam. Once that's done, the real issue can begin to be solved.

“NO” is a word, women hate to hear, when she needs or desire something. She knows how to win and prove her correct with the means of arguing. They’re better at expressing themselves emotionally and through words, at playing without rules out the window in order to get the last word. Whereas, men are not that much good in arguing, no matter if they win but the fact is women has more capacity to argue and prove her point than men.

As per the statistics collected they also reached the finale that women have a faster mind as compared to men. She can argue without taking a break and getting tired. The best way to change a woman’s mind is to change her mood and her logic will change accordingly.

As a result, majority of women are far quicker and way better at the so-called “mind-reading” and communicating than most men.

મુખ્યમંત્રી નરેન્દ્ર મોદીએ હાલમાં જ ચીનનો પ્રવાસ સંપન્ન કર્યો હતો, આ પ્રવાસ દરમિયાન તેમણે ચીનના પ્રધાન સમક્ષ પાકિસ્તાનનના કબજા હેઠળના કાશ્મીરમાં ચીનના સૈન્યની ઉપસ્થિતિ તથા પોતાના નકશામાં ખોટી રીતે અરૂણાચલ પ્રદેશની કરાયેલી સામેલગીરીનો ચર્ચાસ્પદ મુદ્દો ઉઠાવ્યો હતો, જેના જવાબમાં ચીનના પ્રધાને જણાવ્યું હતું કે ‘આ મુદ્દે તેમની ચીન ભારત સરકાર સાથે ચર્ચા કરી રહી છે, ગુજરાતે ચિંતા કરવાની જરૂર નથી.’

ચીનની જેલમાં કેદ ગુજરાતીઓનો મુદ્દો

આ સાથે મોદીએ ચીનની જેલમાં કેદ 22 ભારતીયોનો મુદ્દો પણ ચીનના ઉચ્ચ નેતાઓ સમક્ષ ઉઠાવ્યો હતો, આ ભારતીયોમાં કેટલાક ગુજરાતીઓનો પણ સમાવેશ થાય છે. ચીનની જેલમાં કેદ ગુજરાતીઓના મુદ્દે ચીનના નેતાઓએ હકારાત્મક પ્રતિભાવ આપ્યો હતો, મોદી સાથેના પ્રતિનિધિમંડળમાં સામેલ એક સભ્યએ જણાવ્યું હતું કે ‘આ મુદ્દે ચીન ટૂંક સમયમાં નક્કર પગલાં ભરશે એવી પ્રબળ સંભાવના છે.’

મોદીના માનમાં ‘શાકાહારી બેન્કવેટ’

પ્રતિનિધિમંડળના સભ્યએ વધુમાં જણાવ્યું હતું કે નરેન્દ્ર મોદીના માનમાં ચીન સરકાર દ્વારા ખાસ બેન્કવેટનું આયોજન કરવામાં આવ્યું હતું, અને ગુજરાતમાં પ્રોહિબિશનથી વાકેફ ચીનના નેતાઓએ આ સમારંભમાં માત્ર શરાબ નહીં પીરસાય તેની કાળજી રાખી હતી, એટલું જ નહીં ભોજનમાં પણ તમામ વાનગીઓ શાકાહારી રાખવામાં આવી હતી.

રાષ્ટ્રના વડાને છાજે એવું મોદીનું સ્વાગત

નરેન્દ્ર મોદી ભવિષ્યમાં રાષ્ટ્રીય કક્ષાએ મહત્વની ભૂમિકા ભજવી શકે છે એ હકીકતથી વાકેફ ચીન સરકારે તેમની રાષ્ટ્રના વડા હોય એવી આગતા સ્વાગતા કરી હતી. મોદીના રીસેપ્શન, એસ્કોર્ટ, બેન્કવેટ, મુલાકાતો તથા સલામતીને લઈને ખાસ કાળજી રાખવામાં આવી હતી. સ્વયં મોદીએ પણ ચીનના વેપાર-ઉદ્યોગ તથા રાજકીય નેતાઓમાં ભારે રસ દાખવ્યો હતો.

The three tests for successful diversification set the standards that any corporate strategy must  meet; meeting them is so difficult that most diversification fails. Many companies lack a clear concept of corporate strategy to guide their diversification or pursue a concept that does not address the tests. Others fail because they implement a strategy poorly.

My study has helped me identify four concepts of corporate strategy that have been put into practice - Portfolio Management, restructuring transferring skills, and sharing activities. While the concepts are not always mutually exclusive, each rests on a different mechanism by which the corporation creates shareholder value and each requires the diversified company to manage and organize itself in a different way. The first two require no connections among business units; the second two depend on them.

While all four concepts of strategy have succeed under the right circumstances, today some make more sense than others. Ignoring any of the concepts is perhaps the quickest road to failure.

Jindal Steel signs MoU with Odisha Govt

The Jindal Steel and Power (JSPL) has signed a MoU with the Odisha government for setting up an industrial park at Parang in Angul district of the state.

The Jindal industrial park will come up at an investment of Rs 5,500 crore. It will be spread over an area of 1,400 sq. ft. area. JSPL will invest Rs 500 crore itself, while other business establishments would invest Rs 5,000 crore.

The project would provide direct and indirect employment to 32,000 people. So, it would be a great opportunity for the unemployed youth of Odisha to explore their options. The Industrial Park is expected to become operational by 2013 and 2014.

Joint Managing Director of JSPL, Anand Goel and Industry Secretary T. Ramachandru signed the MoU at a ceremony held in the Conference Hall-3 of R.D. Department, Odisha Secretariat.

Kingfisher does not need Govt Bailout, says Mallya

Kingfisher Airlines Chairman, Vijay Mallya has dismissed the reports that they seek a bailout package from the government. "We never wanted the taxpayers' money", he said.

Mallya said that he wants the lenders to help the cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines, but won't seek a bailout from the centre under any circumstances.

Vijay Mallya also showed the results of the second quarter, which showed the losses incurred by Kingfisher at Rs 468.66 crore. However, he again dismissed the speculations that Kingfisher is going to shut down.

Mallya confirmed that he won't fly on the loss-making routes from the business perspective. He regretted that, but expressed helplessness.

Mayawati proposes Division of UP into Four States

Uttar Pradesh Cabinet today approved the proposal for the reorganisation of the state. The proposal will be tabled in the winter session of the assembly, which starts from November 21.

Chief Minister Mayawati said that the division of the state is required for better administration and development. She said that the formation of smaller state was the jurisdiction of the Centre, but both the NDA and UPA had been ignoring the issue.

The government has decided to send the proposal to the Centre for approval.

The move was described by the opposition as a political stunt. The opposition said that the move is another card of Mayawati for the upcoming assembly elections to divert people's attention from the alleged corruption charges against her.

If the proposal will be approved, the state would be divided into four parts - Poorvanchal (East UP), Paschhimanchal (West UP), Bundelkhand and Awadh (central UP).

Mayawati said that the decision has been taken after discussions with her cabinet and thorough analysis. She said that the state is considered as the backward due to its big size. Therefore, she had created smaller districts earlier.

The move came after the then Prime Ministers ignored the state. The centre could have taken the decision of the division of the state, but neither NDA nor UPA took any decision in favour of the state's division.

Accusing the Centre, Maya said that she had requested the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for a special financial aid for UP, but Dr Singh did not respond to her appeal.

Vijay Mallya - The spirit behind the Kingfisher brand

The Western world has for long had the flamboyant CEOs promoting their brands from the front. Sir Richard Branson and Steve Jobs are the two prominent names that come to mind. Though Asia has not had its share of CEO brand ambassadors for long, things are changing fast across the region.

Vijay Mallya, the flamboyant CEO of United Breweries - the company that owns the Kingfisher brand - is one of the most flamboyant CEOs in Asia. Vijay Mallya believes in leading his brand from the front by leveraging his personality.

Vijay Mallya is referred to as India's Richard Branson. A great part of the personality of the Kingfisher brand is based on Mallya's personality. He is credited with having single handedly changed the image of his beer brand from a commodity to a lifestyle brand. The Kingfisher brand commands a 29% share of the beer market in India and is sold in over 52 countries.

Vijay Mallya has built a reputation for splurging his money in the public. He is the key sponsor to many of India's top derby championships, he owns a yacht once owned by Elizabeth Taylor, flies a personal Boeing business jet, owns super stylish homes in London, US, Dubai and India. Vijay Mallya is a diehard party animal, and is seen as the personification of a luxurious life!

Vijay Mallya's associations with the rich, trendy and the luxurious have rubbed on his business venture and the brands. Similarly to Richard Branson, he recently launched Kingfisher Airlines, which draws a lot of its brand equity from Mallya himself.

Vijay Mallya is a classic example of how Asian CEOs can lead their brands by being the most vocal ambassadors of their brands to build and sustain brand equity.

Clean Bold

The Kingfisher Airlines, which is going through a turmoil these days, has reported a loss of Rs 469 crore in the second quarter, ending September 2011.

The airliner had suffered a loss of Rs 231 crore in the corresponding quarter of last fiscal. The company is now reeling under a high debt of Rs 7,000 crore. Even though there has been a rise in revenues, it was not enough to cover the expenses and debt.

Kingfisher Airlines Chairman Vijay Mallya has called a press conference today to discuss the company's finances. The Kingfisher Board will meet a consortium of 13 banks tomorrow to discuss about its debt and finance options.

Don't Mess with Your Customers

Everyone knows that companies have to keep customers happy. But far too many companies still make them angry. Customer rage results in lawsuits, mass defections, and social media attacks. Here are some some ways to prevent your customers from revolting:

1. Don't squeeze them: Often a company's most profitable customers have the most reason to be dissatisfied. Be sure that all of your customers feel the value they get is equal to what they pay.

2. Get rid of unnecessary rules: Eliminate rules that you want customers to violate (i.e. charging for ATM transactions). They make customers feel taken advantage of and rightly so,

3. Rely on satisfaction, not contracts: If your customers are only sticking around because of lengthy contracts, something's wrong. Demonstrate confidence in your value proposition and give your customers good reasons not to defect.

Many transactional giants have not pushed their R&D operations to innovate for the great mass of middle market consumers in developing countries, or tried to tailor products to local preferences, or even localized their marketing activities. For example, how does BMW's tagline, "The Ultimate Driving Machine", translate in China, where BMWs are usually driven by chauffeurs?

How do luxury companies change their product lines from the understand markers of status that are popular in the west to the "bling" that many emerging market consumers covet?

A few western companies do develop products exclusively for China and India, but most are content to skim the surface of these market's potential. Multinational subsidiaries in emerging markets must reorganize themselves so that they can cope better with two sets of pressures. On the customer side, they need to move faster, make more decisions locally and alter the incentives and career opportunities offered to employees. In other words, their front-end operations must become highly localized. Given the size of emerging markets like China and India, a high level of localization doesn't preclude economies of scale.

Making an operational lean is a journey of many years, not a big-bang endeavor. Still, we discovered that the lean approach is already having a significant impact. The lean projects we studied performed no better than others on measures of quality, perhaps because standards were already high. 

But they produced superior results in terms of time and cost. On average, the lean projects were completed in 5% less time than had been anticipated; the other projects typically finished at the forecasted time. And the lean projects came in 9% under budget; the others were 2% under budget.

Kingfisher asked to explain cancellations of flights

Kingfisher airlines, owned by Vijay Mallya, has been asked to explain why it cancelled at least 80 flights over the last three days.

Passengers have been complaining that they were given virtually no notice about the cancellations.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), which is the regulatory body for airlines, has said that Kingfisher has been sent a notice.  Rules mandate that airlines need permission from the DGCA before rescheduling flights.  The DGCA also asked Kingfisher how to plans to compensate the passengers whose flights have been affected.

Kingfisher, which has been hit by severe losses, has been criticized over the last few weeks by its passengers.  Flights have been delayed by hours because payments to fuel companies were not made, preventing aircraft from taking off.

Jet fuel supplies were stopped by state-run HPCL as the airline owes about Rs. 600 crore to it, aviation sources said. BPCL is also not supplying fuel to the airline following an ongoing court case over alleged non-payment of about Rs. 250 crore dues. Indian Oil Corporation has stopped credit to the airline and put it on a cash-and-carry mode, implying that it would have to pay for fuel on a daily basis.

(With inputs from PTI)

Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/kingfisher-asked-to-explain-cancellations-of-flights-148517?pfrom=home-india&cp

IIM-A students prefer journals to books: Study

Rather than books, journals are the food for thought for the research students of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A). A recent study at the institute pointed out that 65% of the references in research works of the doctoral students of IIM-A are journals.

The study conducted by the librarian of the institute's Vikram Sarabhai Library, Anil Kumar, and professional assistant at the library, Mallikarjun Dora, revealed that out of the total references that students go through for writing their theses, only 19.5% are books.

Intellectual Capital

In an intellectual capital world, talent is what matters, and we are told that the companies that will win in the competitive arena are those that are the best at locating, assessing, recruiting and keeping the most talented people. As John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, has noted, great teams our perform collections of individuals - even when the individuals are more talented.

Even in professional sports, the teams with the best talent, often nicely proxied by the highest salaries, don't always (or even usually) have the best records or invariably win championships. In business and nonprofit organizations, characterized by interdependence among individuals so that productivity is affected not only by one individual's skills and abilities but also by the capabilities and actions of others, individual talent matters even less in determining organizational success.

As W. Edwards Deming and the quality movement pointed out a long time ago - a lesson that we clearly need to relearn - what is important is not so much individual motivation or ability but the attributes of the system in which the person works.

Visible Aspects

At any level - from regional to division to enterprise - a company's most visible aspects to its customers and the rest of the outside world are its products and services. It's not that most companies define themselves this way: "We are a car company", managers say, introducing their firms. "We are a phone company". "We sell accounting Services". 

Even companies that migrate to other businesses in a coherent manner still retain their original identity: IBM and Apple are still referred to as "Computer Makers", and Disney as a "Cartoon Company", even though all three companies do so much more with the same capabilities system. 

Internally, product and services categories are even more closely tied to a company's identity. Companies count their revenues and costs accordingly, thereby reinforcing the roster of products and services as the company's organizational spine. This is a natural thing to do, but it has unfortunate side effects. Instead of differentiating you, it sets you up with the same structure as just about every other company in your industry. IT amplifies the incoherence penalty, with its costs and inefficiencies.

India loses more than 100 000 lives

India loses more than 100 000 lives due to road traffic crashes every year. It has a road traffic fatality rate of 16.8 deaths per 100 000 population. Approximately half of all deaths on the country's roads are among vulnerable road users - motorcyclists, pedestrians and cyclists. 

To create public awareness about road safety in India, WHO along with its consortium partners is implementing the Road Safety Project (RS 10) to reduce death and disability through road traffic injury prevention projects. The project will be implemented in two states, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh. Both states will include a component on improving trauma care, which will be carried out through training of casualty staff using international recognized and accredited training courses.

India is one of the ten countries included in the WHO Road Safety in 10 countries project which will be conducted over 5-years by a consortium of six international partners.

Global Success

The organizational structures of many multinationals are inadequate to the task of capitalizing on opportunities in emerging markets. Locating customer facing processes in each country and even using transnational structures that exploit location specific advantages - just doesn't cut it anymore. How the growth of China and India as lead markets and as talent pools, coupled with advances in technology, enable companies to optimize their organizations by segmenting R&D both vertically and horizontally, thereby creating T-shaped structures.

The greatest challenge of the T-shaped structure is managing integration across countries. The solution is to allow your corporation's center of gravity to shift eastward. That means globalizing the top management team, moving headquarters outside the home country, and genuinely valuing the cultural shifts that those two changes require. Companies such as GE, Intel and AstraZeneca have had some success in these endeavors, and all multinationals have the potential to secure the advantages of deploying a T-Shaped structure.

Effective sponsors can help catapult junior talent into top management tiers, an good proteges can greatly expand the reach and impact of senior leaders - but the relationship works only when both parties recognize that it's a mutually beneficial alliance, a truly two way street.

Sponsors should among other things, advocate for their proteges promotions, coach them, call in favors for them, and help them make connections. Proteges must be loyal, contribute 110% and bring complementary skills and networks to the table. No matter what your career level, such relationships are lifelong projects to be carefully cultivated, consistently nurtured an periodically refreshed.

A Smarter Way to Network

Networking can work very well when you know what you are looking for, but most often we build relationships with people without knowing if they will be of great help in the future. The trick lies in creatively forging networks with a long term view. 

We focus on the kinds of connections that matter and then let people determine strategies for connecting. But we are finding that overuse of online media can significantly hurt productivity and well being by driving network overload. Over the past five years we have seen a definite need for executives to become more facile at pruning networks because of the way these tools provide access to already busy people. 

If you want to build a genuine network, remember this: when you meet someone don't think about what he can do for you - think about what you can do for him.

આજે અકિલાના ન્યુઝપેપરમાં વાંચતો હતો કે અમેરિકામાં ઓક્યુપાઇ વોલસ્ટ્રીટ આંદોલન વધુ ઉગ્ર બન્યું છે. મોટી સંખ્યામાં માણસોએ કોર્પોરેટ કંપનીમાંથી પોતાના બેંક ખાતા બંધ કરી દીધા છે. અને આ બધું માત્ર એ લોકો પર્યાવરણને બચાવવા માટે જ કરે છે. ચોક્ખું પાણી અને હવા મળી રહે તે માટે લોકો જાગૃત થયા છીએ જયારે અહિયાં આપને જેવું હોય તેવું રાખવામાં અને જીવવામાં મજા આવે છે. કારણ કે મને નડતું નથી તો હું શા માટે બોલું? બીજા લોકો બોલશે અને કામ કરશે એવી મનોવૃત્તિ રાખનારા માણસોને એ વાતની ખબર નથી કે ભવિષ્યમાં એમના બાળકોને જ આ તકલીફ થશે.

કોર્પોરેસન આજે કામ કરે છે કે નહિ, મારા ઘર પાસે કચરો નીકળી ગયો છે કે નહિ તેની ચિંતા કરવાને બદલે આજે આપને પૈસા કમાવામાં અને તેને સાચવવામાં પડી ગયા છીએ. સાચું જ કહ્યું છે કે જે બીજો ઉપર આધારિત છે, એના પર આપને સંપૂર્ણ આધાર કેવી રીતે રાખી શકીએ? જે બીજાની સહાય માંગે છે, એ કોઈક વખતે આપણને અસહાય અવસ્થામાં મૂકી શકે. પણ જે પોતે સ્વતંત્ર હોય, બીજા બધાનો આધાર હોય, સર્વગુણ હોય, અનંત શક્તિશાળી હોય, જ્ઞાન અને સંપતિનો સાગર હોય એવા પર આધાર રાખવાથી આપને અસીમ સહાય મેળવી શકીએ. મૂળ શક્તિના ઉદગમ સાથે જ જો મારો સંપર્ક થઇ જાય, પછી મારે શા માટે ચિંતા કરવાની?

એકમાં એકનો ઉમેરો કરવામાં આવે તો સંખ્યા બે થાય. પણ એકની બાજુમાં એક મુકવામાં આવે તો અગિયાર થાય. તેવી જ રીતે અનંત શક્તિમાન પરમેશ્વરને સાથે રાખીને પ્રયત્નો કરવામાં આવે તો તે અનંત થઇ જાય છે.

ભેંસ કરતા ખાતર મોંઘુ

ખંભાલિયાથી રાજકોટ ૧૯૨ કિલોમીટર જવાનું ટ્રેનનું ભાડું ૨૧ રૂપિયા અને કાંકરિયા લેકમાં ૪ કિલોમીટર ફરવાનું ભાડું ૨૫ રૂપિયા !

આ વાત સામાન્ય માનવી માટે છે. જનતાને જાણીને નવાઈ લાગશે કે કેન્દ્ર સરકાર દ્વારા ચલાવવામાં આવતી ભારતીય રેલ નું ભાડું અને ગુજરાત સરકાર દ્વારા વચ્ચે ચલાવવામાં આવતી રમકડાની ટ્રેનમાં શું ફરક છે.

અમદાવાદમાં આવેલા કાંકરિયા ફ્રન્ટ લેક પ્રોજેક્ટમાં દોડાવામાં આવતી રમકડાની ટ્રેનનું ભાડું સાંભળીને તમારા કાનમાં બહેરાશ આવી જશે.

માત્ર ૪ કિલોમીટર ફરવાના ૨૫ રૂપિયા !

આ વાત સામાન્ય જનતાને જ પચે એમ છે. કારણ કે આપને ૨૫ રૂપિયા આપવા માટે બંધાયેલા છીએ. આ ગુજરાત સરકાર આપણને છેતરે છે અને આપને છેતરવા ટેવાયેલા છીએ. આજનો મધ્યમ વર્ગ જો રવિવારે પરિવાર સાથે ફરવા જશે તો ઓછામાં ઓછુ એમણે ૧૦૦૦ રૂપિયાની વ્યવસ્થા રાખવી પડશે કારણકે કાંકરિયામાં અંદર જવાની ફી ૧૦ રૂપિયા, ટ્રેન માં મુસાફરી કરવી હોય તો ૨૫ રૂપિયા વ્યક્તિદીઠ, હોડીમાં ફરવું હોય તો ૧૦ રૂપિયા અને નાસ્તો કરવો હોય તો ૨૦ રૂપિયાની સેન્ડવીચ ખાવી જ પડશે અને આ બધું માત્ર વ્યક્તિદીઠ ભાવ છે. સંપૂર્ણ પરીવાર લઈને જો સામાન્ય માનવી જાય તો થોડા જ દિવસમાં એમણે માગવાનો વખત આવે. 

 

થોડું હવે જોઈએ કે ટ્રેન ચલાવનાર સરકારને કાંકરિયામાં રોજના કેટલા રૂપિયા મળતા હશે. રોજના ૧૦૦ રાઉન્ડ લગાવનારી ટ્રેન ૨૫૦ માણસોની ક્ષમતા ધરાવે છે. અને તેવી બે ટ્રેન છે. અટલ એક્ષ્પ્રેસ્સ અને સ્વર્ણિમ જયંતી એક્ષ્પ્રેસ્સ. આપને જો વિચારીએ કે ૨૫ રૂપિયા એક વ્યક્તિના તો ૨૫૦ માણસોના ૬૨૫૦ રૂપિયા થાય અને તેવા ૧૦૦ રાઉન્ડ એટલે કે ૬, ૨૫,૦૦૦ રૂપિયા એક ટ્રેનના થાય. તેવી બે ટ્રેન છે માટે ૧૨, ૫૦,૦૦૦ રૂપિયા એક દિવસના.

સોમવાર સિવાયના દિવસોમાં ટ્રેન દરરોજના ૧૦૦ રાઉન્ડ લગાવે તો મહિનાના ૨૯૦૦ રાઉન્ડ થાય અને તેના પૈસા ૪,૨૦,૫૦,૦૦૦ (ચાર કરોડ વીસ લાખ પચાસ હજાર રૂપિયા) માત્ર એક મહિનાના!!!

અને ટ્રેન ને સાફ સુફી રાખવાનું ખર્ચો આપને જો ૫૦,૦૦,૦૦૦ લાખ રૂપિયા પણ ગણીએ તો બાકીના ગુજરાત સરકાર પોતાના ખીસામાં નાખે છે.

Spot-Fixing: Jail for Pakistan Players

In a significant ruling, former Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt was sentenced to 2 year and 6 months in prison and fast bowler Mohammad Asif was awarded one-year jail term in a spot-fixing case.

Bookie Mazhar Majeed was sentenced to 32 months in jail and Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Amir was jailed for 6 months on Thursday for his role in a Test match against England last year.

Judge Jeremy Cooke had convicted three Pak cricketers and their agent in the case and deferred the pronouncement of sentences for Thursday. He said that the Test captain Butt was the main culprit in the scam.

He said that the charges were serious the action of the cricketers have damaged the reputation of the team. On Tuesday, Butt was convicted of conspiracy to cheat and accept illegal money, while Asif was found guilty of cheating.

The Judge announced the sentences at Southwark Crown Court. Amir's sentence was revised.  Justice Cooke was looking sympathetic towards him and pronounced 6 months imprisonment for him.

Nano @ Home Now

In a huge setback for the farmers in Singur, the Calcutta High Court on Thursday passed a stay order on the re-distribution of the land among the farmers, which were acquired for Tata Motor's Nano car project.

The order suggests that the West Bengal government cannot distribute land among farmers till the matter is heard. The case will be heard from November 8.

A division bench of justices Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Mrinal Kanti Chaudhuri reserved the stay order of the trial court till the next hearing validating the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act.

The trial court judge Justice I P Mukherjee had stayed the re-distribution of the land on September 28 till November 2. Kalyan Bandopadhyay, appearing for the state government appealed that the stay order should be restricted to acres of land in Singur.

However, the bench rejected the government's appeal and said that the entire 997 acres of land will be restricted.

The move came after the Tata Motors moved the High Court praying for the continuation of the stay order and to validate the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011.

Who's Been Trafficking in Your Data?

In the movie Enemy of the State, John Voight, playing an NSA official who suspects Will Smith's character of wrongdoing, says: "Let's get into his life." Through satellite technologies, communications monitoring, and active tracking devices, he proceeds to do just that. 

Even if you haven't angered the NSA lately, rest assured: Someone at this very moment is getting into your life too. Not some security official in the U.S. government, but someone in a publicly traded company whose activities are equally opaque to you. Our love of smart phones, mobile devices, and apps puts high-value data about us into the hands of legions of consumer marketers, and they're making the most of the opportunity.

Consumers generally don't understand the risks of having their personal data floating around out there. A recent legal case filed in Ireland offers a hint of what some of the dangers are. In the lawsuit, Facebook was accused of creating "shadow profiles" of nonusers. Social media members who seek long-lost friends sometimes leave traces of their searches on the sites, including email addresses of nonmembers and the contents of messages to those individuals. The concern is that these data might include unverified information about nonmembers' "political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, and so forth." Facebook categorically denies that it creates profiles of nonusers. But you can easily imagine who might be interested in such information: Insurance companies, health care providers, employment agencies, even the government.

Consumers should be asking some serious questions: "Why am I being tracked?" "Who is tracking me?" and "What is happening to my data?"

The first question has a simple answer: Don't take it personally, but you're not a customer anymore. You've become a commodity, one of 7 billion datapoints on the planet. Your every activity, tracked and logged, has a potential value.

As for the second question, chances are you're being tracked by a lot of organizations, including telecom companies, credit agencies, search engines, major software firms, and probably several government agencies.

The answer to the third question depends on what kind of data we're talking about. You generate different types when you interact digitally with different kinds of organizations, from supermarkets to telecoms. Each data type follows its own route from you to a database and out into the marketplace. Take, for example, the data you create when you use an app on your smart phone to look up information about a movie. Your mobile operator processes the information and augments it with your demographic data before "irreversibly" anonymizing the information and putting the "aggregated" version — what's known as "unified census plus demographic data" — up for sale. These highly detailed, low-level data are valuable to a number of companies because they allow for analysis of what device and features you used, what apps and web sites you visited and for how long, and where you were (physically) at the time.

The major data-collection foci have evolved rapidly in recent years and today center upon telecommunication industry associations such as GSMA, whose membership includes more than 800 mobile operators worldwide, representing more than 5 billion consumer connections. GSMA is capable of providing subscribers' app, web, voice, usage, and personal data to analytics firms such as comScore, which sell analyses to clients.

That's a lot of connections and a lot of data. All this selling and reselling and aggregating and 

merging contribute to making the amount of data in circulation truly immense. The Economist estimates that information is being created at a compound growth rate of 60%, and data storage firm EMC says information is expected to grow 44 times over the next 10 years. According to a McKinsey study, Tesco alone generates more than 1.5 billion new items of data every month. Walmart's data warehouse now includes 2.5 petabytes of information.

Is there anything that a datapoint can do about all this?

You can always do what Gene Hackman's character in Enemy of the State calls disappearing off the web: Set up a false consumer ID, complete with false email name and false account name (the NSA calls this creating a "legend"). Or you can go even further, using pay-as-you-go phones with multiple SIM cards and conducting all of your transactions in cash. (Remember cash?)

But if setting up a legend strikes you as a bit extreme and you don't like the thought of missing out on the convenience that smart phones and the internet offer, here are some other thoughts:

• You can make the subject of data privacy part of the national conversation. Although the U.S. Senate has created a subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, chaired by Al Franken of Minnesota, too few candidates face questions about where they stand on data use and other privacy issues. In the coming electoral season, find out the views of the people who want your vote and your check.

• Don't delete or throw away those messages from wireless carriers labeled "Important Update About How We Use Information." Read them. When the company says it will not share individual information, what it means is it will anonymize and aggregate the data before sharing it. But it's likely that the company will have the individualized data in a server somewhere. You can try emailing the CEO to ask the company to create a binding bidirectional "customer contract" or policy statement, but it would probably be more effective to simply go viral — start a Facebook page identifying the company and sign up "customers against data trafficking," urging all your contacts to join and stir up debate. Alternatively, you could just publicly voice objections at the next shareholder meeting where the press is present.

• Strongly consider opting out. In online notifications, the link to do this is usually at the very end. Apple, for example, states in its privacy disclosure that it may need to collect information including U.S. users' Social Security numbers, but it provides a way to opt out (http://oo.apple.com). Unfortunately, Apple doesn't say whether this action blocks the collection of app data by third parties or mobile operators. If you do opt out, follow up with an email to all your contacts on every social media platform you use, as well as to your favorite senator on the privacy subcommittee, saying how and why you chose to opt out.

It's abundantly clear that companies have come to value even the most mundane information generated by consumers. It's time consumers woke up to the value of maintaining control over that data.

The beginning and the end of the Euro

The countries that are part of the Euro area joined under different political agendas. There is the core (France, Germany) who has been driving European integration through the years (for reasons linked to the end of WWII). There is the periphery (Greece, Spain) who wanted to be like the core. With relatively low income per capita, their societies aspired to converge not only in terms of development but also from an institutional point of view to the levels of the rich Euro partners. And this was the reason why these countries supported every step of European integration, including membership to the Euro area.

And now are looking at the possibility of exit. In the last months, when I have been asked whether Euro exit was a possibility I have always said that it would be economic suicide for any country to leave the Euro area. But economic and political incentives are not always aligned and I have also argued that I could imagine a country leaving the Euro area if the political dynamics of the country produce a potential referendum where the question of Euro membership is simply read as "us versus them". In that environment you could imagine a country leaving the Euro area simply because its citizens have lost faith in the European project and the other countries are seen as enemies not allies. This has happened in recent times in Europe, where a referendum (about the Maastricht Treaty or the European constitution) was turned down in several countries and the only thing the European politicians could do is to repeat the referendum over and over again until it was approved.

Today the Greek government has surprised other Euro members and financial markets announcing a referendum on the last Euro bailout plan. This can be the end of the Euro, at least in some countries. Given the difficult economic situation in Greece and Europe, a "No" vote is not just possible but very likely. And while the vote will be just on the details of the plan, it will be seen as a referendum on the Euro. And this time there will be no second chance to repeat the vote if we do not like the outcome. And my fear is that just the announcement of a vote and the anticipation of that scenario might lead to a crisis months before the referendum takes place.

Amazon's Supply Chain System

Amazon must be able to manage its vendors, to keep customers from being disappointed if the suppliers don't deliver with the same accuracy and speed. That is one reason Amazon also makes its in house logistics available to its independent suppliers, who get, on average a 70 per cent lift in sales and a 30 per cent reduction in returns by switching to the "Fulfilled by Amazon" program. 

The supply chain is linked closely to the Website, so that customers can reroute orders on the fly or cancel them until the last moment, with no questions asked.

Don't let the means become the end: Apply the Model

A competency model by itself has no value. Too many companies interviewed admitted that they had spent a disproportionate amount of time on developing competency frameworks but very little on their application.

As one person interviewed said, "We're very good at designing but wickedly weak at implementing". Competency frameworks have a lot of "face validity", and developing them is apparently engaging to their creators, if not fun and exciting. But all of the work in development is wasted if it not actually used in improving selection, development and other applications.

મુંબઈમાં બનેલી તાજ હોટલ આમ તો પોતાની ભવ્યતા અને સ્થાપત્ય માટે આખા દેશમાં જાણીતી છે, પરંતુ 2008માં થયેલી આતંકવાદી ઘટનાએ તેને વિશ્વ પટલ પર આકર્ષણના કેન્દ્રમાં લાવી દીધી હતી. ઉલ્લેખનીય છે કે દેશની પ્રતિષ્ઠિત હોટલોમાં તેનું નામ સૌથી ઉપર લખવામાં આવે છે, પરંતુ જેમ દરેક સારી વસ્તુ સાથે કોઇક ઉણપ છુપાયેલી હોય છે , તેમ તાજના ભવ્ય ઈતિહાસ સાથે એક અધ્યાય એવો પણ છે, જે ખાસ્સો ડરામણો છે.

એ વાત સર્વવિદિત છે કે હોટલ તાજની ઈમારત 100 વર્ષ કરતા વધારે જૂની છે. કહેવામાં આવે છે કે ખાસ્સા સમય પહેલા આ ઈમારતમાં એક ફ્રેન્ચ એન્જીનિયર રહેતો હતો, જે આ ઈમારતને પોતાની રીતે બનાવવા માંગતો હતો. અચાનક કોઇક કામથી તેને ફ્રાંસ જવુ પડ્યું. જ્યારે તે પાછો આવ્યો તો તેણે જોયું કે ઈમારતનો મુખ્યદ્વાર તદ્દન ઊલટી દિશામાં બની ચૂક્યો છે. આ ઘટનાથી તેને ખૂબ જ ધક્કો વાગ્યો અને તેણે આ ઈમારતમાં જ આત્મહત્યા કરી લીધી. લોકોનું કહેવુ છે કે આ એન્જીનિયર મોટે ભાગે આ હોટલની લોબીમાં ફરતો દેખાય છે. મજાની વાત તો એ છે કે તેનો પહેરવેશ એકદમ ફ્રેન્ચ જેવો જ છે, જો કે આ વાતમાં કેટલી હકીકત છે, તે હજુ સુધી સાબિત થઈ શક્યુ નથી.

શિકાગોની ફ્લાઇટ મોડી પડતાં અધિકારીઓને ધક્કે ચઢાવાયા

અમદાવાદથી દિલ્હી થઈને શિકાગોની ઉડાન ભરતી એર  ઇન્ડિયાની ફ્લાઇટ રવિવારે રાતે ચાર કલાક મોડી પડતાં મુસાફરો રોષે ભરાયા હતા. એરલાઇન્સ અને એરપોર્ટના અધિકારીઓ દ્વારા મુસાફરોને યોગ્ય અને પૂરતી માહિતી ન અપાતાં એક તબક્કે ઇન્ટરનેશનલ ટર્મિનલમાં મુસાફરોએ અધિકારીઓને ધક્કે ચઢાવ્યા હતા. માંડમાંડ મામલો શાંત પડતાં ૧૩૦ મુસાફરોને રાત્રે ૧૦-૩૦ને બદલે ૨-૩૦ વાગ્યે રવાના કરાયા હતા.

અમદાવાદ એરપોર્ટના ઇન્ટરનેશનલ ટર્મિનલ પર મોડી રાત્રે બનેલી આ ઘટનાએ એરપોર્ટ અધિકારીઓ અને એરલાઇન્સના સ્ટાફને દોડતા કરી મૂક્યા હતા. સૂત્રોએ જણાવ્યું હતું કે,‘દિલ્હીમાં ગ્રાઉન્ડ સ્ટાફ ન હોવાથી શિકાગોથી વાયા દિલ્હી થઈને અમદાવાદ આવતી ફ્લાઇટ અઢી કલાક મોડી પડી હતી, જેથી આ ફ્લાઇટમાં દિલ્હી થઈ શિકાગો જનારા મુસાફરો પણ હાલાકીમાં મુકાયા હતા. આ મુસાફરોને બોર્ડિંગ પાસ પણ અપાઈ ગયા હતા અને તેઓ ફ્લાઇટની રાહ જોઈ રહ્યા હતા, પરંતુ ફ્લાઇટ મોડી પડતાં મુસાફરોએ પૂછપરછ શરૂ કરી હતી પણ કોઈ સતોષકારક જવાબ મળ્યો નહોતો. સમય વેડફાતાં રોષે ભરાયેલા મુસાફરોએ એક તબક્કે એરલાઇન્સના અધિકારીઓને ધક્કે પણ ચડાવ્યા હતા.’ઉલ્લેખનીય છે કે, એર ઇન્ડિયાની નેવાર્ક માટેની ફ્લાઇટ પણ રવિવારે રાત્રે મોડી પડતાં તેના મુસાફરો પણ એરપોર્ટ પર ફસાયા હતા, જેથી બે ફ્લાઇટના મુસાફરો ટર્મિનલ પર ભેગા થઈ ગયા હતા અને તેમને સંભાળવા એરલાઇન્સના અધિકારીઓ માટે મુશ્કેલ બન્યું હતું. એરલાઇન્સના અધિકારીઓએ જણાવ્યું હતું કે,‘ફ્લાઇટ આગળથી જ મોડી આવી હતી. અમે મુસાફરોને તમામ સુવિધા પૂરી પાડી હતી.’નેવાર્કની ફ્લાઈટ પણ મોડી પડતાં બે ફ્લાઈટના મુસાફરો ભેગા થઈ ગયાએર ઇન્ડિયાની નેવાર્ક માટેની ફ્લાઇટ પણ રવિવારે રાત્રે મોડી પડતાં તેના મુસાફરો પણ એરપોર્ટ પર ફસાયા હતા, જેથી બે ફ્લાઇટના મુસાફરો ટર્મિનલ પર ભેગા થઈ ગયા હતા. જેથી વ્યવસ્થા ખોરવાઈ જવા પામી હતી. મુસાફરોમાં અનેક મહિલા અને વૃદ્ધોનો પણ સમાવેશ થતો હતો. તેઓ ભારે મુશ્કેલીમાં મુકાઈ ગયા હતા જેના કારણે તેમના સ્વજનો રોષે ભરાયા હતા. આ સ્થિતિ સર્જાતા તેમને સંભાળવા એરલાઇન્સના અધિકારીઓ માટે મુશ્કેલ બન્યું હતું. એરલાઇન્સના અધિકારીઓએ જણાવ્યું હતું કે,‘ફ્લાઇટ આગળથી જ મોડી આવી હતી. અમે શક્ય તેટલા તમામ પ્રયાસ કરીને મુસાફરોને તમામ સુવિધા પૂરી પાડવાનો પ્રયાસ કર્યો હતો.’

દેશમાં પ્રથમ વખત ગુજરાત ST વોલ્વોમાં જોવા મળશે આ સુવિધા

સમગ્ર દેશમાં પ્રથમવાર ગુજરાત એસ.ટી. નિગમની અમદાવાદ-વડોદરા અને વડોદરા-અમદાવાદ વચ્ચે દોડતી વોલ્વો બસનાં પેસેન્જરો માટે ફ્રી વાઇફાઇ ઝોનની વ્યવસ્થા ઊભી કરાઇ છે. ખાસ કરીને વોલ્વો બસમાં મુસાફરી કરતા અને કોર્પોરેટ એક્ઝિકયુટિવ અને વિદ્યાર્થીઓ મુસાફરી દરમિયાન પોતાના લેપટોપ કે મોબાઇલ ફોન દ્વારા ફ્રી વાઇફાઇ ઝોનની સુવિધાથી સમયનો સદુપયોગ કરી શકશે. ટૂંક સમયમાં રાજ્યનાં અન્ય રૂટ પર દોડતી એસ.ટી. નિગમની તમામ વોલ્વો બસોને આ સુવિધાથી આવરી લેવાશે. 

વોલ્વોનાં પ્રોજેક્ટ ઇન્ચાર્જ તેજસભાઇ પોપટે જણાવ્યું હતું કે, વોલ્વોમાં મુસાફરી કરતા પેસેન્જરોની સુવિધા વધારવાના આશયથી સમગ્ર દેશમાં સૌ પ્રથમવાર ગુજરાત એસ.ટી. નિગમની વોલ્વો બસમાં દશેરાથી ફ્રી વાઇફાઇ ઝોનની સુવિધા ઊભી કરવામાં આવી છે. તેમજ હાલમાં કોઇ પ્રાઇવેટ બસ ઓપરેટર દ્વારા પણ આવી સુવિધા પૂરી પડાતી નથી.

એર ઇન્ડિયાનો હોબાળો : સરકારી તંત્રનું બેકાર તંત્ર

જયારે જયારે સરકારી તંત્રનું કામ કાજ બગડતું જાય છે ત્યારે ત્યારે વિદેશી કંપનીઓ ભારતમાં આવીને પોતાનું રાજ ચલાવે છે જેનો ખુબ જ ઉત્તમ ઉદાહરણ છે એર ઇન્ડિયા. 

ગઈ કાલે મારે એર ઇન્ડિયામાં બીઝનેસ કલાસ ટીકીટ બૂક કરાવેલી હતી એ તેમના અધિકારીઓએ કેન્સલ કરી નાખી કારણકે તેમને મોટા એરક્રાફ્ટને બદલે નાનું એરક્રાફ્ટ બદલી આપ્યું જેના કરને બીઝનેસ કલાસ સીટ ઓછી થઇ ગઈ અને તેના પરિણામે એમને બીજા લોકોને પ્રથમ ક્રમ આપીને તેમને સીટ આપી દીધી. આના પરિણામે દિલ્હી એરપોર્ટ ઉપર બહુ જ મોટી બબાલ થઇ ગઈ. આવડી મોટી સરકારી કંપનીના પરિણામે આજે બીજી એરલાઈન ફાવી ગયી છે અને ખુબ જ સરસ સર્વિસ આપે છે.

S K Saikia is new CP of Ahmedabad

S K Saikia, IPS officer of 1977 batch has been appointed Commissioner of Police of Ahmedabad as Sudhir Sinha retired after three month extension today. This is the third tenure of Saikia as Commissioner of Ahmedabad.

Saikia has emerged as dark horse for the coveted post as his name did not figure in speculations. Outgoing CP Sinha had retired on July 31, but he was given three month extension.

Sinha hit headlines in the national media with the arrest of controversial IPS Sanjiv Bhatt. There was very visibile resentment against him for the way Bhatt was arrested and police posse was sent to his residence for search.

Saikia was appointed Commissioner of Police of Ahmedabad in October 2007 on the basis of recommendations of Election Commission. He had replaced J Mahapatra at that time. He was appointed CP of Ahmedabad for the second time in February 2009 replacing O P Mathur.