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Dear Friends, Yesterday only I came to know of a case from a friend of mine which is very scary. One of his friends was traveling to UK via Dubai. Unfortunately he was carrying a packet of Khas Khas which is a commonly used spice in some Indian curries and sweets. Khas Khas is also known as poppy seed which can be sprouted to grow narcotics (afeem etc.). This innocent person did not know that recently the laws in UAE and other Gulf countries have been revised and carrying Khas Khas is punishable with minimum 20 years of imprisonment or even worse with death penalty. Currently, the person is in a jail in Dubai for the last two weeks. His friends are frantically trying hard for his release but are finding that this has become a very very serious case. Lawyers are asking huge fees amounting to AED 100,000 even to appear in the court to plead for his innocence. Never ever carry even minute quantities of the following items when travelling to Gulf countries: 1. Khas Khas w...

1. Q: Why are many coin banks shaped like pigs? A: Long ago, dishes and cookware in Europe were made of a dense orange clay called 'pygg'. When people saved coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as 'pygg banks.' When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a bank that resembled a pig. And it caught on. 2. Q: Did you ever wonder why dimes, quarters and half dollars have notches, while pennies and nickels do not? A: The US Mint began putting notches on the edges of coins containing gold and silver to discourage holders from shaving off small quantities of the precious metals. Dimes, quarters and half dollars are notched because they used to contain silver. Pennies and nickels aren't notched because the metals they contain are not valuable enough to shave. 3. Q: Why do men's clothes have buttons on the right while women's clothes have buttons on the left? A: When buttons were invented, they were very expensive and worn primaril...

There are many countries in the world who have abolished death penalty & there are even more associations who rally for the cause to abolish it in India but what effect will this bring about in the mindset of criminals ????? Will you be able to digest the fact that a notorious criminal will be able to save his skin from the clutches of justice ??? Will you feel safe if all these butchers are set free to roam around in jail where they might tutor & breed even more criminals ???? Will a person feel vindicated to see the life of the criminal who tortured to death his loved one just end in a few seconds by hanging ???? PLOT : " A legal counselor tries to pen down a novel about a case of rape & murder that took place 25 years before. " " El secreto de sus ojos " aka " The Secret in Their Eyes " is a spanish film that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards .The interest to watch the film became even more af...

How do we judge a person ??? It differs from people to people as to how they evaluate a person ,some look for a person's character ,some for skills ,some at their background & the like. How does one fall in love ?? Even to be specific ,What are the Rules of Attraction ?? Likewise ,this also differs from people to people ,some get attracted by the person's skills ,some by their charm ,some by companionship they provide & most get attracted by the person's LOOKS . So the X factor in getting attracted is a person's LOOKS ??? PLOT : " A very handsome & rich man's life is turned upside down when a car accident severely disfigures his face. " " Open Your Eyes " aka " Abre los ojos " is a spanish film written & directed by Alejandro Amenábar ,who is one of my favorite & inspiring directors.He is also critically acclaimed for many of his works which include The Others & three other spanish films of which one e...

Gmail has come up with a new feature called Prioritize your Inbox which is in beta state. This would really help not to miss the important emails from the other junk emails which we generally recieve. Most of you would have see Prioritize your inbox link inside your gmail account. What doest this do. When you click on the link it show a video tutorial to use it and gives a Try now button. When you click on it it show the list of some emails. You can see two sections one as Important and the other as Not important. You can check the email and decide whether its important or not by using the add and remove signs. Once you are done with choosing click on the Goto Priority Inbox button. Now you see a different version of your gmail with section's as Important and Not Important. The emails which you added as Important are displayed on the Important section and rest of the emails are under Everything Else section. Now you see two controls to Mark your email as Important and Not Important...

For savers and investors, who were living in dread of new Direct Tax Code (DTC) completely transforming their tax-planning approach, the new law must come as a relief. There are two main reasons for this. One, generally, the basic structure and the approach to taxation is very much the same. And two, specifically, long-term capital gains on equity and equity-backed mutual funds remain untaxed. The retention of the zero-tax rate on long-term equity gains is probably the fundamental difference between the DTC as it was proposed originally and the shape it has finally taken. However, on a relative basis, long-term capital gains are now more attractive by a smaller margin than earlier. Since short-term gains are now taxed effectively at half the rate of the income tax slab the investor is in, they can be no more than 15 per cent and potentially as low as 5 per cent. The basic bias of the tax laws for shorter-term gains remains intact. For mutual fund investors, there are two big change...