Nawab of IPL, 2009

New IPL Champion

For the second year in a row, the Indian Premier League was won by a team that had a fairytale run to the title. If it was Team Jaipur that went from underdogs to champs last year, this time it was the turn of a squad that could do nothing right last year, Team Hyderabad, to pull off an amazing turnaround.
Hyderabad rose from rock bottom, shaken and stirred, to pull off a sensational victory in the final here at the Wanderers, thus adding another chapter to the sweet irony of last year’s wooden spoon holders. If 2008’s number seven and eight teams were destined to make the final, it was perhaps only apt that the number eight won the title. Knight Riders may well derive some hope for next year.
The IPL ended in spectacular fashion as one IT city barely held off the other in a match that went down to the wire. Defending a mere 143 runs, Adam Gilchrist’s men provided the much needed spark to swing their side’s fortunes in an exceptional manner. Some electric fieldwork by Andrew Symonds, Rohit Sharma and Herschelle Gibbs, excellent left-arm spin from Pragyan Ojha and aggressive captaincy by Gilchrist worked wonders.
But the overall discovery of this IPL is Manish Pandey

A new face of Pune's politics

Today the word “Politics” is synonymous with Corruption and Black Money. It’s a field filled with Lust for Power. Pune is also facing the same problem, the politics has degraded here. Every party has its own agenda and they are ultimately destroying pune’s cultural environment. There was a time when pune was known as cultural capital of Maharashtra. It is education hub also (though now it has ruined!!!!!). But due to some nuisance and idiotic politicians, students have stopped coming here. Pune is loosing its dignity.

But a new face has emerged in pune’s politics, it can create new phase into politics, That is Mr. Arun Bhatia.
The situation in Indian politics is, where, a Politician is a Promise-Breaker; he never cares for the poor and underprivileged. He indulges in vote-bank politics, which is not the right way of dealing with people. He even cheats his own party by jumping to other parties which offer him nice seats with loads of money. He will do anything to get a party ticket and is prepared to avenge for his not getting any party ticket in any possible manner. The coalition politics sums up the real color of the today’s true politician. Wherein parties which join hands together to form the government, go against themselves fighting for some petty matters and then threaten the survival of the government as a whole. Such a person is not at all a politician. He is just an opportunist, a blackmailer. He is just a man who loves money and power. He cannot be a true representative of people at all.

Whenever Bhatia detected corruption and initiated action against the culprits protected by the establishment, he was transferred. In subsequent postings when he raised the old issues and asked for action against offenders, he was told that this was no longer his concern. Transfer is an instrument not only of harassment but also of silencing protest within the system. Bhatia's protests and findings remained suppressed and law breakers walked away unpunished, unassailable and stronger than before.
And so in 26 years of service (excluding the training period and service in the United Nations), Bhatia was removed from his post (transferred) 26 times.



According to Bhatia, as many as 68 per cent families had taken loans from moneylenders for food. "This episode of malnutrition leads on to governance issues. How can they serve a notice on an officer for expressing an opinion based on a scientific survey? It is an indication of how feudal, autocratic and unprofessional the situation is; of how dissent is treated. It is a serious governance issue and should be taken up."
This civil servant should know. In 1982, he had unearthed massive corruption in the Employment Guarantee Scheme in Dhulia district. As Collector of Bombay, he exposed land scandals involving senior IAS officers. More recently, when Bhatia was Commissioner of the Pune Municipal Corporation, he swung the baton against illegal encroachments and construction by builders and politicians. Bhatia has now initiated a citizens' campaign against corruption. "The test of a good bureaucrat," he says, "is what he does to reform the system." :-arun bhatiaelect

May he can change pune’s face. Vote for him and save pune politics from being ashamed.

Jai ho ...

IPL in danger

The Centre on Friday rejected the revised schedule of the mega event (Indian Premier League, IPL) , saying it was not feasible to hold the matches as all states, except Tamil Nadu, have either refused to provide security on match days or made their nod conditional on large numbers of central forces being made available to them, to which the Centre has said no. Although the home ministry kept hopes alive by advising the organizers to work out a fresh schedule, and the IPL organising committee taking up the task, it now seems rather difficult to rejig the dates so as to take care of each and every state’s security concerns at this late stage. A communication was sent to the IPL after Union home minister P Chidambaram and home secretary Madhukar Gupta took stock of the states’ response to the revised schedule on Friday. State officials remained in touch with the ministry all day. IPL commissioner Lalit Modi refused to comment on the sudden development. The IPL organizing committee was locked in a late night meeting, apparently to work round-theclock on a re-revised schedule.

I am hopeful for this to happen, ALL THE BEST TO THE ORGANIZERS. World is waiting for the event.

Networking: A new World

Are you spending hours and hours on Facebook, orkut? If so, you are not alone. Networking and blogging sites account for almost 10% of time spent on the internet — more than on email. According to a study released by Nielsen Online. “While two-thirds of the global online population already accesses member community sites, their vigorous adoption and the migration of time show no signs of slowing,” said John Burbank, the CEO of Nielsen Online. One in every 11 minutes spent online globally is on networking sites. Between December 2007 and December 2008, the time spent on the sites climbed 63% to 45 billion minutes. The figure was even higher for the world’s most popular networking site, Facebook, where members spent 20.5 billion minutes, up 566% from 3.1% the previous year, according to the study. More people are also visiting networking sites. In the past year, the reach of online networking sites grew more than 5%. Brazilians are the most avid fans of networking sites, according to the report. Eighty per cent of online Indian visit networking sites. They also spend the largest portion of their time online — 23% — on networking sites. Although Facebook is the most popular networking site globally, with 108.3 million unique visitors, preferences differ by nationality. Facebook is the top site in Australia, Spain, Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom and Italy. But Americans favour MySpace, in Japan, local site Mixi reigns, and in Brazil, Google’s networking site, Orkut, is number one.

Orkut has overshadowed face book at least in India.
Many social networking sites were originally geared toward younger audiences, but the sites are no longer just for kids, the report showed. The biggest growth in Facebook membership comes from the 35-49 year old set. Facebook has added twice as many 50-64 year old visitors as it has visitors under 18. REUTERS
(Source - Times of India)

Women Empowerment in Pune

The principle of gender equality is enshrined in the Indian Constitution in its Preamble, Fundamental Rights, Fundamental Duties and Directive Principles. The Constitution not only grants equality to women, but also empowers the State to adopt measures of positive discrimination in favour of women. Within the framework of a democratic polity, our laws, development policies, Plans and programs have aimed at women’s advancement in different spheres. From the Fifth Five Year Plan (1974-78) onwards has been a marked shift in the approach to women’s issues from welfare to development. In recent years, the empowerment of women has been recognized as the central issue in determining the status of women. The National Commission for Women was set up by an Act of Parliament in 1990 to safeguard the rights and legal entitlements of women. The 73rd and 74th Amendments (1993) to the Constitution of India have provided for reservation of seats in the local bodies of Panchayats and Municipalities for women, laying a strong foundation for their participation in decision making at the local levels.

These are all the provisions which the Constitution has assured for women empowerment. But can we say these goals have been achieved? NO, NOT AT ALL. From past, i would say that Indian women is still unprivileged in villages and in cities, still they have to face difficult problems. There are some NGOS who are trying to strengthen women not only mentally but physically also.

In pune, two city based social organization working for women empowerment very efficiently. They have received international recognition too. The United Nations Human Settlement Program UN-HABITAThas recognized the working model of Savitri Marketing institution for Ladies Empowerment (SMILE) headed by selecting it as the ‘best practices’ organization, while another organization Manasi, founded by Dipti Choudhari has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Mauritius Government for a marketing centre and training their officials. The two organizations have been running with infrastructural help from the Pune Municipal Corporation. (Source : Pune Mirror)

Fortunately, Pune is some better and safer than other Indian towns, where the news papers are full of rape and domestic violence. As everywhere, pune is also getting affected of this evil these days. I think, this is the High time when the Government has to make sure for the execution of various women empowerment programs. ‘Bell Bajao’ mission program is a good step toward it.
Women's empowerment refers to the ability of women to transform economic and social development when empowered to fully participate in the decisions that affect their lives through leadership training, coaching, consulting, and the provision of enabling tools for women to lead within their communities, regions, and countries.

Ask yourself one question, one side we claim ourselves a superpower and on the other hand we have not even overcome with the problem of Gender inequality. Is it possible for India to become a superpower with this Male dominated society?? ?

In pune with these small achievement, we can say that women empowerment program is shaping up here but its needs our support, active support. This is our pune, our India.

ARISE AWAKE

Recession: India & Pune

“A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose your job.”

Oil prices have been surging. Housing markets have been dropping. Interest rates keep getting cut by the Banks in order to help curb the negative effects of possible recession. Now the situation has arrived when all of the current economic activity sent the U.S. into an economic recession. Are you prepared? Included in this article are several helpful tips and advice on ways to potentially avoid some of the pitfalls that occur as a result of a recession. But, as we all know, a recession is something that no one can ever be completely prepared for as it effects nearly everything that has anything to do with finance. That is, except for the few nations that seem unaffected by the US economy, which is unusually rare :-).

Recession in India :-

Recession is a drastic slow in economy, where gross national or domestic product has fallen in two consecutive quarters. A recession would be indicated by a slowing of a nation's production, rising unemployment and falling interest rates, usually following a decline in the demand for money.
The word 'recession' is being frequently used in India in recent months despite the fact that the economy continues to grow and that even at 7 per cent in the current fiscal and perhaps 6 per cent in the next one, these will be amongst the better growth years for the Indian economy since independence.

Recession in Pune :-

Though there are many industries in India which is badly affected by the so-called recession. With a sharp fall in demand for commercial and passenger vehicles, small vendors supplying parts to the auto units in the Pune industrial belt of Pimpri-Chinchwad are worried a lot. The area which houses two Giants auto makers — Tata Motors and Bajaj Auto Ltd — has a large number of small industries and ancillary units that are now reeling under the cascading effect of the recessionary trends, showing no signs of abatement, being noticed since September last year. However Ganesh Natarajan, CEO of Zensar, and President of NASSCOM, gave a talk last week about how the Indian IT/ITES industry is tackling the recession. Specially, LPO industry in pune, like Mindcrest, is very safe and taking benefit of recession.

Effects of Recession :-

Bankruptcies
Credit Crunches
Deflation (or ··disinflation)
Foreclosures
Unemployment
So how to prepare for a recession? Here are five things you can do:

• Identify the particular skills or experience you have that you could provide to others on a freelance basis.
• Identify who would want to use the skills you have - and how to let them know about the services you can provide.
• Identify your strengths and weaknesses. Strengthen your weaknesses.
• If necessary, identify who you could team up with to make your offer stronger - someone whose strengths complement yours. Be sure to work out a very clear agreement as to how you'll work together in order to avoid disputes later.
• Develop a practical, achievable plan and take all the steps necessary to make sure you can put it into action quickly if the need arises.
• And if you do start your own business be sure to keep good records from the start. You'll need to report your income to the tax people and pulling all the details together at tax filing time is not fun.

But friends, do not worry India is on a safer side, Market is affected, but very less. Job sector will also revive very fast. In my view, India suffers global economic slowdown only and not recession.

Legal Process Outsourcing : An introduction

Outsourcing is subcontracting a process, such as product design or manufacturing, to a third-party company. Outsourcing involves the transfer of the management and/or day-to-day execution of an entire business function to an external service provider. Enter the new millennium, and law firms were sleek, new age hubs of strenuous legal activity, ranging from tedious to investigative to groundbreaking. Gradually, as world economy harmonized as one, and the global business community started outsourcing its key, albeit repetitive processes to reduce costs, time, effort, and manpower, the legal world developed too.

Present day economics is governed by technological growth where advanced communication systems rule the roost. Information technology has shrunk time and distance to such an extent that geographical boundaries are mere contours instead of dividers. Following in the wake of the financial world, the legal firms across the globe realized that to adapt themselves to the constantly evolving, competitive, economic scenario, they would have to develop strategies that would balance not only their deadlines but also provide efficient support systems. This brought about the evolution of Legal Process Outsourcing industry, where law firms obtained legal support services from key service providers, who were located halfway across the globe. Initially legal outsourcing involved low-end work like transcription. But soon the outsourcing pattern evolved to such specialized tasks as legal research, library services, pre-litigation document creation, consultation, application drafting, analysis, and so on. In the current scenario, approximately 80 per cent of companies, federal agencies, and leading law firms, opt for legal process outsourcing to reduce high operational costs and improve efficiencies.

There is some point indicating on the drawbacks of legal outsourcing and offshoring. There is a strong public opinion regarding outsourcing (especially when combined with offshoring) that outsourcing damages a local labor market. Outsourcing is the transfer of the delivery of services which affects both jobs and individuals. It is difficult to dispute that outsourcing has a detrimental effect on individuals who face job disruption and employment insecurity; however, its supporters believe that outsourcing should bring down prices, providing greater economic benefit to all. There are legal protections in the European Union regulations called the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment). Labor laws in the United States are not as protective as those in the European Union. A study has attempted to show that public controversies about outsourcing in the U.S. have much more to do with class and ethnic tensions within the U.S. itself, than with actual impacts of outsourcing.

Protections for the outsourcing firms can certainly be put into place. First and foremost, the contract between provider and client should make it absolutely clear that the provider must inform the client as soon as it learns of any possible conflict issues. Second, the firm should make sure that the provider it chooses is able to clearly articulate - and, if possible, demonstrate - the security safeguards it has implemented to ensure the validity of the process. These safeguards should be included in the statement of work agreement, in list format, along with the additional provision that the security devices must be maintained for the breadth of the contract. Thus determination of liability of the contracting parties for any security breach that results in measurable damages will be easier to ascertain. Third, due to the fact that technology and business procedures must often become intertwined in order for the outsourcing process to run efficiently, the security program used by the vendor should exist on both the physical and virtual levels for it to be as comprehensive as possible. It would be somewhat contradictory for an outsourcing company to rely on the fact that the production staff for two adverse law firms exists in separate offices, on separate floors or even in different cities. The very premise behind the outsourcing process is that physical separation is not a complete bar to the sharing of information - as such, a company cannot on one hand praise the concept that geographical differences are no longer barriers to the exchange of information and data, while relying strictly on geographical barriers as the only security measures put in place by the company. There is no doubt that physical separation of the production staff for adverse businesses is a good step; however, virtual separation is needed as well in order to create a robust security model.

By all this we can conclude that legal process outsourcing has tried to overcome with the financial problems in the country and and has great impavt on the common people. The legal complexity and great fees of lawyers have been minimized by this. As everything has two aspect, one is of good and other is of bad, it has also some drawbacks, like data security, productivity etc., but on a whole it is a great initiative in legal field and has changed the Legal age.