Filing of tax return deadline extended till August 4
** ** *The Income Tax Department on Saturday extended the last date of filing income tax returns to August 4 due to inclement weather and some technical snags.* *The last date for filing income tax returns was to expire today.* *The Central Board of Direct Taxes has decided to extend the due date of filing of income tax returns to August 4, 2010, the board said in a statement.* *All paper or e-returns filed till August 4 will be considered as filed within the due date, the statement added.* *The decision was taken in view of some technical snags in the e-filing computer system, and inclement weather at various locations, due to which tax payers have reported difficulties in filing or uploading income tax returns, it said. * * * * *
Re: A CHILD'S VIEW OF THUNDERSTORMS
--- On Sat, 7/31/10, Thrity-Mahesh Mankodi manko...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: A CHILD'S VIEW OF THUNDERSTORMS *A little girl walked to and from school daily.* * Though the weather that morning was questionable and clouds were forming, she made her daily trek to the elementary school.* *As the afternoon progressed, the winds whipped up, along with lightning.** * * The mother of the little girl felt concerned that her daughter would be frightened as she walked home from school and she feared the electrical storm might harm her child.* *Full of concern, the mother quickly* *got into her car and drove* *along the route to her child's school.* *As she did, she saw her little girl walking along.* * * * At each flash of lightning, the child would stop, look up, and smile .** ** **Another and another flash of lighting followed quickly and with each, the little girl would look** **at the streak of light and smile.** ** **When the mother's car drew up beside the child, she lowered the window and call ed to her** **'What are you doing?'** ** ** **The child answered,** ** **'I am trying to look pretty because God keeps taking my picture.'** ** ** * *May God bless you today and everyday ** as you face the storms that come your way.** ** *** -- The dark side of terrorists revealed in MSN Internal Security Get it now.http://news.in.msn.com/internalsecurity/ -- Have A Nice Day!!!
Fw: Friendship day greetings.
Happy Friendship Day ! For some people friendship is everything and every person has some view about friendship. A famous quote by Anais Nin says: “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” Friendship day is the day of celebrations of the most warm feelings of the heart: Friendship. It is celebrated on the first Sunday of August every year. Friendship day 2010 is on 1st of August. It was in 1935 when the idea of dedicating a day in honor of friends was conceived. US Congress proclaimed that there should be some day dedicated to friendship. They chose it to be the first Sunday of August. This charming idea was joyfully accepted by several other countries across the world. Since then friendship day has become an annual day for reflecting on sacred feeling of friendship. Here are a few interesting facts about the International Friendship day: * The United Nations named Winnie the Pooh as the world’s Ambassador of Friendship in 1997. * Women’s Friendship Day is on the 3rd Sunday of September. So, dear girls, do not forget to celebrate this special day. * International Friendship month is February. * The 3rd week of May is called Old friends, New friends week. * Dia del Amigo is Spanish Friendship day that is celebrated every year on July 20. S.V.SAI BABA
Fw: Fwd: FW: English made interesting by Indians
Tamils are always proud to be Tamizhs. Pretty courteous. They speak yenglish but sorry, no indi (Hindi). The more common Madarasi (chennaisi now) is an ardent fan of kireeket matches wharever he may be. Their counterparts in Mumbay think they live in America, but speak Hinglish like, 'are you sure ki Sujata aa rahi hai ya I'll go akela!' And they take great pride in making stupid mistakes in Hindi Grammar. The BEST hypocrites in the world. Kyaa...??? Thamizhs, are verry lecky to have 'simble' neighbours like the keralites who are a komblex race of peoblle (they migrated around 2000 BC from the Middle East and now the Sheikhs are wary of them), but they have excellent GK, eat a lot of chok-lyte and own 99.998765% of tyre shops in the world and form 99% of nursing community. Not far behind the kerals is the telugu desam who are totally againeshtu flaunting their wealthu to the worldu. Though they occasionally come out withu brick red shirtsu and parrot green pantsu with pleetsu. Worstu, no? But they are greatu in CICSu, Microsu and COBOLu! Generally sane peoplesu (and so you can always find them judgingu, probhingu, queschioningu othersu ...) The Canadians, excuse me, the Kannadigas aor (are) the coolest in the south but if there is political unrest in Hersogovnia oare (or) an ebola virus outbreak in Uganda they bash up the Tamils in Karnataka. Cauvery very bad! When it comes to actor Rajkumar if a fly sits on his nose, they'll burn the entire city of Bengaluru to kill the fly! To hell with Silicon valley! I-ron firshtu, girlu, Lasht Bussu, roadu, crickeatu, filamu are some of their favourites. Maharashtrians are a conservative, confused, complex lot-kar. Kar? That is because gavaskar, tendulkar, bahulkar.. confused?? that is because sitting in southern part of India they would ask the other person 'are you from Maharashtra or from South India..?' and genuinely wonder why the other person takes some time to answer the question. They like the principles of pheejix and their favourite character in the alphabet is Zay (god knows where that came from). Although soft, peace loving people. And right there next to the Maharashtrians are the Gujjubhais. They like to keep kesh in the benk and their favourite passtime is eating snakes (like paav bhaji, masala papad and pijja) at the local snake bar. They gobble down alak sev like their life depends on it and believe in the brotherhood of man and sisterhood of woman (everybody is a bhai or a ben). If you go further eesht, you land of Udissa- the land of i-ron where sombalpuroa and Bhubaneshbara are big towns. The people are bery cordial and if you are Vikram they bill soorly ask you B or Bhe. They do not sout, sam or soot but occasnally bawsh their phace at the wasbashin. James Bond Mohanty in our colleze roll nomber jero, jero, sebhen. AAnd his brother was Asees (Ashish). Bengalees are bery bery similor, but or bery proud oph Subas Chondro Boash and Shoatyojit Roy and everybody is Xda. I used to have a friend by name Dada. Bot I most conphess roshgollas and sawndesh are bery god, tho! Bihari kids are supposed to be the smartest kids in India if not in the universe! How we wish they grow up the same way ... but... And Biharees are bery phond of Laloo, Rabdi, Ranchi, Chaara. ka isse bhadiya tumre pass kooch hai, kaa? spit spit... spit paan.. UPites and MPites are busy going to ischool with their Ishstainless ishsteel tiffin boxes and istudying metals to make lots of ishteel. Punjabis are very sweet and aggressive and offer Rotti Whotti Khayega, to which I once replied No. He said Tage itu, yaar! By Godu! Surjeetu, what happenedu, oi? Then of course, everybodys a paappe or a kaakke.Thats P'njab for you. And Kashmir (called Cashmir by many, may be because of the amount of cash spent to keep it in India)?? I know Roja (or Roza?)was shot (I mean filmed) somewhere nearby... But at the end of the day, wherever you are in the world, whether it is in Sunnyvale, CA; Birmingham, UK; Ummar Quwain, UAE or Serangoon Road, Singapore, ask them who they are and you'll get just one answer - 'INDIAN'
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Arun Shourie's experience in Gurcharan Das book
Hi, Read “The Difficulty of Being Good” by Mr.Gurcharan Das Dharma is discussed quoting various incidents in Mahabharata. Chapters bear titles like Duryodhana’s Envy, Draupadi’s Courage, Yudhishthira’s Duty, Arjun’s Despair,etc. While answering Draupadi’s question on the accountability of the ruler, the author provides the following contemporary example. “ A friend of mine from my schooldays, Arun Shourie, recounts his experiences minister of administrative reform. On 13 April 1999, a query came to his department from the ministry of steel: ‘Can officers use inks other than blue or black?” It seems two officers in Steel had made notings on official files in green and red inks, and this had raised eyebrows. There were serious consultations in Shourie’s department and it was decided that since the matter concerned ink, the Directorate of Printing had to be consulted, and so an OM (office memo) was sent to it on 3 May. On 21 May, a reply came, saying that the matter had been deliberated in the Directorate and no rules were found about the use of different inks. However, they opined that heads of the departments may be allowed to use colours while the other officers must confine themselves to blue and black ink. They suggested that the department of personnel in the home ministry may be consulted on this matter. It was now the department of personnel’s turn to start holding meetings on the subject of inks, and after 3 weeks they wrote back on 6 July to say that the matter concerned the Manual of Office Procedures, and since this was regulated by the department of administrative reform, it was in their competence to decide. Like good bureaucrats, they had thrown the ball back. The matter was next discussed at a senior level officer’s meet of the dept of administrative reform and it was agreed that the longevity of inks was an issue on govt records and so, on Aug 12, a letter was sent to Director General, Archives. On 27 Aug a reply came that as regards fountain pens blue, black ought to be priscribed but in the case ballpoint pens blue, black,red, and green could be permitted. But whtever ink was used its quality ought to comply with the Bureau of Indian Standards. At the next senior officers meeting, the chairman of the dept of administrative reform felt that before deciding on this natter, the manual of armed forces, particularly, the army, should be consulted, Accordingly, a letter was sent on 4 Oct to the joint secretary in the ministry of defence, who replied on 22 Dec that red was by the chiefs of army, navy, and air, green was used by principal staff officers, and blue was used by the rest. After several months of deliberations, it was finally decided on 28 March that the initial drafting will be done in black or blue, modifications at subsequent levels may be made in green and red with a rider that only an officer of the level of joint secretary and the above may use green or red in rare cases. Arun Shourie adds with irony, “ A good bureaucratic solution: discretion allowed but circumscribed”.”
