Pongal the Great Harvest Festival of India

Pongal, the most celebrated harvest festival of the country which is is celebrated to thank Almighty God for the good crop harvest during the year. 

On the occasion of Pongal, people wipe away all the evil experience of the past year by burning their old goods and looking forward for a new beginning for the coming year.

Pongal 2012 is going to be quite important because of the transit in which Sun enters Capricorn on 15th -jan. This transit is an opportunity to change the old ways and reallocate the rules for coming year. It is a mythological believes than on the occasion of Pongal even Indra, the king of heaven, rejoices with abundance, fun, luxury and happiness.

The dates of Pongal Celebrations

January 14th – Bogi Festival: On the morning of 14th January, before the transit, is a time to clean homes and mind. Spiritually this means an overhaul of your current self and getting ready for a higher self.

January 15th – Pongal: Sun Enters Capricorn and winter comes to an end.

January 16th – Mattu Pongal/Cow Pongal: Pongal usually being the Harvest Festival of India is traditionally a time to celebrate the harvest and share the yield. People, cows, ants and crows are all well fed and their part in the big eco wheel is acknowledged.

January 17th – Kaanum Pongal: A time to gather along with family and rejuvenate .

Demographic Transition Theory

Demographic transition theory was put forwarded by  W.S Thompson(1929) and F.W.Notestein who studded the trend of population growth of various countries across the globe and then framed the most acceptable theory of demography which is still relevant.

Demographic transition theory can be used to describe and predict the future population of any area. 

The theory tells us that population of any region changes from high births and high deaths to low births and low deaths as society progresses from rural agrarian and illiterate to urban industrial and literate society. 

These changes occur in stages which are collectively known as the demographic cycle.

He defined several stage of population growth which is as follows.

STAGE-I: The first stage has high fertility and high mortality because people reproduce more to compensate for the deaths due to epidemics and variable food supply. 

The population growth is slow and most of the people are engaged in agriculture where large families are an asset. 

Life expectancy is low; people are mostly illiterate and have low levels of technology. Two hundred years ago all the countries of the world were in this stage.

STAGE-II:  High birth rate and declining death rate and rapid population growth

 STAGE-III:  Fertility remains high in the beginning of this stage but it declines with time. This is accompanied by reduced mortality rate. Improvements in sanitation and health conditions lead to decline in mortality. Because of this gap the net addition to population is high.  

STAGE-IV: In the last stage, both fertility and mortality decline considerably. The population is either stable or grows slowly. The population becomes urbanized, literate and has high technical knowhow and deliberately controls the family size. 

This shows that human beings are extremely flexible and are able to adjust their fertility. In the present day, different countries are at different stages of demographic transition.

STAGE-V:  Birth and death rate almost equal which in time results in zero population growth.

.net is third most popular top-level domain of Internet

The domain name .net is one of the generic top-level domain (gTLD) used in the Domain Name System of the Internet. 

The name itself derived from network, which indicates it is originally intended purpose for organizations involved in networking technologies, such as Internet service providers and other infrastructure providers.

There is no restrictions never enforced and .net domain is now used as the general purpose name space.

.net is a popular domain among network operators, and it is considered as an alternate to most popular domain .com.

Most demanding domains other than .net are com, .edu, .gov, .mil, and .org despite it is not being mentioned in RFC 920, having been created in January 1985. As of last year, it is the third most popular top-level domain, after .com and .de.

VeriSign, an operator of .net after acquiring Network Solutions, held an operations contract that expired on June 30, 2005. 

ICANN, the organization who takes care of domain management work, sought proposals from organizations to operate the domain upon expiration of the contract. 

VeriSign rejected the contract bid, and insured its control over the net registry system for another six years.

 On June 30, last year, the deal with VeriSign was renewed for another six years. 

This is because of a resolution approved by the ICANN board earlier, which states that renewal will be taken through automatic route as long as VeriSign meets certain ICANN requirements.

NSIM an Introduction

In pursuance of the announcement made by the Finance Minister in his Budget Speech in February 2005, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has established the National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM) in Mumbai. SEBI, by establishing NISM, has articulated the desire expressed by the Indian government to promote securities market education and research.

Towards accomplishing the desire of Government of India and vision of SEBI, NISM has launched an effort to deliver financial and securities education at various levels and across various segments in India and abroad. 

To implement its objectives, NISM has established six distinct schools to cater the educational needs of various constituencies such as investor, issuers, intermediaries, regulatory staff, policy makers, academia and future professionals of securities markets .NISM brings out various publications on securities markets with a view to enhance knowledge levels of participants in the securities industry. 

NISM is mandated to implement certification examinations for professionals employed in various segments of the Indian securities markets.

UPPSC conducts Lower PT cut off Expected Higher

Allahabad,Jan,9:UPPSC  has conducted the lower subordinate PT examination, paper were of objective type with multiple answer choice.

Several questions were asked from the areas like economic and social development and general issues on, biodiversity, environmental ecology and ecological changes in GS paper.

It seems from the students reactions that they were  found themselves comfortable with the Paper as question asked in the examination were in line with the expectation.

The Cut off is expected to upper side as vacency is low,questions are easier and applicants were more.