Saturday 21 April 2012

Service Tax @ 12.36% for booking WNX shipments from 01/04/2012.

To
1.             The Chief Postmasters General,
All Circles [Except Maharashtra]
                2.             The Postmasters General,
                                Mumbai, Aurangabad, Goa, Nagpur & Pune Region
No. Tech/2/B-15/WNX/Service Tax/11-12                                                                                      Dated 30/03/2012.
Subject: Service Tax @ 12.36% for booking WNX shipments from 01/04/2012.
Sir/Madam,
                This is regarding revision of service tax to 12.36% from the current 10.3% w.e.f 1-4-2012 while booking WorldNet Express shipments. 
                The Post Offices are presently booking shipments using Meghdoot after checking the rates on a ‘WNX Query Tool’ provided to Post Offices. While PTC Mysore is being requested to make the service tax changes in the WNX module, changes are to be made in the Query Tool for which a zip file is attached along with instructions.  
                The system administrators may be directed to make changes in the query tool using the zip file and contact Mr. Rakesh Joshi, DHL on 09769492880 or mail him at Rakesh.Joshi@dhl.com
                This is Most Urgent & Important.
Dr. N. Vinod kumar
Director [PLI Investment & WNX Project],
                                                                                             GPO Annexe Bldg., Mumbai 400001
                                                                                    PH 022-22617264/7167, Mob 09833442524

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Soon, mobile phones to be turned into credit cards


LONDON: Under a payment system unveiled any mobile phone can be turned into a 'tap and go' credit card. 

Advocates of the technology argue it could mean the end of small cash payments within five to 10 years. 

The system, which can be used to make purchases up to 15 pounds, involves sticking asmart card or PayTag - about a third of the size of a normal credit card - to the back of ahandset

To make a payment, the phone is tapped on a specially adapted till. The tag, which contains a microchip, communicates with the till terminal via an antenna to confirm the credit card account of the customer and authorise a payment without the need to enter a PIN

The system is being launched by Barclaycard, which says it comes with 100 per cent fraud protection, but is likely to be adopted by other major banks. 

Previously, only a few hi-tech handsets could be used for tap and go payments, but the new tag means any phone could be. 

An increasing number of retailers offer or are introducing tap and go tills, including Waitrose,McDonald's, Boots and Tesco. By the end of this year, London buses will also accept these so-called contactless payments. 

"More than half of us say that the item we're most lost without is our mobile phone, so we're giving people the option of using them to make easy, convenient, everyday payments," the Daily Mail quoted David Chan, chief executive of Barclaycard Consumer Europe as saying.

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Web Portal of DGET for Effective Implementation of Skill Development Scheme (SDIS) Unveiled

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Union Labour & Employment Minister Shri Mallikarjun Kharge today unveiled and dedicated the Official Web portal Directorate General of Training & Employment (DGET), M/o Labour & Employment to the nation for the effective implementation of Skill Development Scheme (SDIS) to promote training of around 6 lakh people in the Country annually. The portal is is developed by the Helwatt Paackard, India.

Unveiling the Web Portal Shri Kharge termed the occasion as a new beginning and is making one step forward in fulfilling the main aim of our Government to bring good governance. He said any Govt. scheme is always supported by funding incurred from public exchequer which needs to have a proper in-built mechanism to check & monitor the physical progress and financial expenditures on regular basis. Such a scheme like Skill Development Initiative encompassing a huge number of people from all over the country is quite difficult to handle and hence, tracking must be based on setting up of an efficient “Management Information System(MIS)”. I am quite confident that this powerful Web-portal would not only facilitate DGET in all these aspects but also enable to keep a track over outcome of the Scheme, Shri Kharge added.

The Minister said the National Skill Policy has been articulated at the behest of Prime Minister’s National Council on Skills Development. He reiterated the mission statement of the National Policy on Skill Development that it will empower all individuals through improved skills, knowledge and nationally-internationally recognized qualifications to gain access to decent employment and ensure India’s competitiveness in the global market. The minister said we must remember that this national Skill Policy is an integral part of comprehensive economic, labour and social policies so as to establish a framework for better coordination among various Ministries, States, industry and other stakeholders.

He expressed the hope that this On-line access to the countrymen from enrollment & admission to training and Certification will certainly begin a new chapter with true inclusiveness in the skill building process of our country.

In his welcome address, Shri Sharda Prasad,Director General, DGET and Joint Secretary in the M/o Labour & Employment said with this webportal, timely access to information across stakeholders would be available, thereby enabling better citizen centric services in a transparent manner. The SDIS Web Portal will also help in State Governments in registering candidates, the Vocational Training Providers (VTPs) and empanelled Assessing Bodies (ABs). It also tracks the creation of training/assessment batches, publishing test results and dispersal of online certificates.

The SDIS is a 100% Centrally Sponsored Scheme and is launched by the Directorate General of Training & Employment (DGET), M/o Labour & Employment for the early school leavers and existing workers especially in the informal sector. It was operationalised on 24th May, 2007 and initially the project target for training and testing of one million persons over a period of 5 years was fixed. Thereafter the the target of training of one million person per year has been taken up. The Modular Employable Skill (MES)- National Council for Vocational Training (NCVT) certificate issued after the prescribed training is recognized nationally and internationally for gainful employment.
 
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Now, ‘illegal’ strikers face 6 months in jail

Mumbai, April 20, 2012(TNN): The state government has introduced a law that will penalize employees striking work in any service, type of employment or class if it deems that the strike would adversely impact public life. Until now, the ambit of the legislation was limited to government, semi-government staffers and a few others.
 
New provisions of six months jail for strike introduced in the bill violated the fundamental right .

“Illegal” strikers face a six-month jail term, while those instigating them could be sent to jail for a year.
Despite objections from the opposition, the government on Thursday managed to gain the legislative council’s approval for the Maharashtra Essential Services Maintenance Act, 2011. The legislative assembly had given its nod to the bill during the winter session last year.
Under the new Act, the government can take action against employees in any service, type of employment or class if they strike work and it affects maintenance of services essential to the community.
The previous form of the Act, which expired on May 26, 2010, covered government or semi-government staffers as well as employees of public transport services, power and gas utilities and public health and sanitation entities. These services were identified as “essential” and employees engaged in them were not permitted to strike work.
The new Act still gives the state the power to prohibit lockouts, layoffs and strikes in establishments. Employees resorting to “illegal ” strikes could face a six-month jail term and a fine of Rs 2,000.
The new provisions also permit the state to prosecute those lending financial support to such strikes. People instigating employees to go on a strike could face a one-year jail term or a fine of Rs 2,000.
Shiv Sena members Deepak Sawant and Neelam Gorhe claimed that new provisions introduced in the bill violated the fundamental right to protest.

Repairing damaged hearts by healing affected cells

A RAY OF HOPE: There will be tremendous gains if the promising results seen in mice studies can be replicated in humans. Photo: M. Karunakaran
A RAY OF HOPE: There will be tremendous gains if the promising results seen in mice studies can be replicated in humans. Photo: M. Karunakaran 
 
Reprogramming helped to reduce the scar tissue size and improve heart functioning in mice
Scientists have found an easier way of repairing hearts damaged by cardiac arrest — reprogramming one kind of heart cells into another. A paper published today (April 19) in Nature details how the remarkable feat of reprogramming cardiac fibroblasts into adult cardiac muscle-like cells (cardiomyocyte) produced promising results.
A few years ago, researchers introduced stem cells directly into the heart and saw some improvement in heart functioning. With further progress, scientists were able to reprogram adult heart cells into pluripotent cells in the lab and inject them into the heart.
A step further
Deepak Srivastava of the University of California and his team went a step further and reprogrammed cardiac fibroblasts into adult cardiac muscle-like cells in the lab.
But in the work reported today, Dr. Srivastava and his team were able to change (reprogram) the cardiac fibroblasts into adult cardiac muscle-like cells inside the body of mice.
This was accomplished by injecting three transcription factors directly into the heart. Behold, the cardiac fibroblasts, which make up nearly 50 per cent of the heart cells, reprogrammed into heart muscle-like cells.
Significant changes were seen three months after the researchers induced heart damage in the mice and the transcription factors were introduced.
Significantly improved
“The fraction of blood ejected with each ventricular contraction (ejection fraction), the volume of blood ejected (stroke volume), and the total cardiac output per minute were significantly improved” in the mice, they write. The most significant being the “stroke volume and cardiac output,” they note.
It is not difficult to find out why the mice with damaged hearts showed an improvement in cardiac functions — ejection fraction and stroke volume.
Shrinking scar area
The researchers found the scar area (damaged heart cells) shrinking in size eight weeks after the transcription factors were directly introduced into the hearts of the mice. Shrinkage of the scar tissue is proof that the damaged heart muscle cells were healing.
It was once thought that heart muscle cells once damaged after a heart attack (due to lack of oxygen) turn into scar tissue, and can never be healed. Scar tissue reduces the heart's pumping ability.
They also found a “significant increase” in vascular density in the “border zone of reprogrammed hearts at eight weeks.”
One more important observation was that the initial reprogramming efficiency was the same as that obtained in the lab. Also, the cardiac fibroblasts were “more fully reprogrammed” into heart muscle cells and “more closely resembled endogenous cardiomyocyte [heart muscle cells] than their cultured counterparts,” they write.
“The ability to regenerate adult heart tissue from endogenous cells is a promising approach to treating cardiac disease that may face fewer obstacles to clinical translation than other approaches,” they write. “Conducting trials in large animals will be important to refine the technology and assess its safety and efficacy.” The next logical step is to achieve the same level of success in large animals.