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Wishing you ALL Happy and Prosperous Deepavali/Diwali celebrations and festivities of the season!

Cheers!

Now LinkedIn comes with complete redesign home page. It is nice and clean. Its system navigation is extremely userfriendly which helps mange your professional network and similar to Facebook.

LinkedIn is giving you quick and immediate access to the majority of the personal items on left-hand side bar. LinkedIn includes three customizable modules. The modules are limited to People Search, Job Search, and LinkedIn Answers.

From yesterday I have been facing slower Internet connection but today my Internet service provider informed me the reason behind slow browsing.

Due to damage of submarine cable systems, we are having difficulty to accessing the Internet or experience slow browsing and to making international calls.

This failure has affected Gulf Arab region, Egypt, India and other countries as well. Egypt’ 70% of Internet network was down, while India reported it has cut 50% to 60% in bandwidth.

Nobody know how the cables were cut or weather was a factor because Storms had forced Egypt to close the northern mouth of the Suez canal on Tuesday.

It is expected to full restoration would take 10 to 15 days.

Hope you all did something nice today. Today, India celebrated its 58th Republic Day. In 26th January 1950 the constitution of India came into force and India became a truly sovereign state. In this day India became a totally republican unit.

I am proud person being Indian origin. Have a Happy Republic Day folks, Jai Hind!!

Sorry me no post for a while as I have been pretty busy with clients work and shifting to my new house.

Finally, I shifted to my new house at Greater Noida today. It happens smoothly and feeling very tired now.

PayPal has added new withdrawals features for its Indian members.

You can directly withdraw funds from PayPal to your Indian bank account.

At the moment you can transfer your money in following banks:

• State Bank of India
• Bank of India
• Canara Bank
• Union Bank of India
• HDFC Bank
• ICICI Bank
• ING VYSYA Bank
• Axis Bank (UTI Bank)
• Standard Chartered Bank
• HSBC
• Citibank

If your withdrawl amounts less than 7000 Rupees, there will be a fee of 50 Rupees but NO FEE for more than 7000 Rupees. It will take minimum 5 to 7 business days depending on your bank’s policies.

For adding a bank account with PayPal, you need IFSC code, account number of your bank’s branch. Click here to download the IFSC codes of Indian banks.

Paypal has announced new money withdrawal features to your Visa branded credit or debit card. This funds transfer feature is availabe in 26 countries, including India, Malaysia and Philippines.

Now India, Indonesia and the Philippines can receive funds from 190 markets and 17 currencies but you have to be a verified member to use the new withdrawal features. US$5.00 is a withdrawal fee (or local currency equivalent) per transaction. Currency conversion and return fees may also apply.

If you withdrawal funds to debit card, then funds will appear on your bank account and for credit card, it will show on your credit card statement. PayPal takes 5-7 working days for the transfer but Visa card issuer’s policies may affect the processing time.

It is a good news for Indian professionals. Isn’t it?

According to “Press Trust Of India” Eros International said on on Thursday, ‘Bollywood Channel’ launched recently on YouTube has registered over 1 million visits to the site.

This is the first partnership between YouTube and a major content owner from Bollywood – the Indian movie industry.

“We are extremely pleased with the initial success of the channel; this has helped us validate the demand for our exclusive content library”, Manu Kaushish, VP New Media, Eros International, said in a release on Thursday.

“Over the next few months, we will be launching our own ad supported platform and will be pioneering this model for the Indian movie industry,” he said.

The channel has also been ranked consistently in the Top 20 ‘Partner Channels’ of YouTube that include mainstream channels such as the NBA, CBS, NBC and more.

Taj Mahal – The Symbol of Love & Beauty, is now one of the New 7 Wonders of the world. Taj Mahal, pride of every Indian, was chosen as one of the New 7 Wonders in a spectacular event held at Estadio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal on 07/07/2007.

Before the New 7 Wonders were presented it was announced that the list was not given in any special order and that the seven were greatly appreciated. As for the whole list, the new 7 wonders are:

- The Taj Mahal in India
- The Great Wall of China
- Petra in Jordan
- The Statue of Christ Redeemer in Brazil
- Machu Picchu in Peru
- Chichen Itza pyramid in Mexico
- The Colosseum in Rome

Although contest organizers do not want to release how many votes each monument received it was stated that over 100 million votes were cast through the internet and over the phone.

The huge event, compared by some to the opening of the Olympics, was hosted by British actor Ben Kingsley, American actress Hilary Swank and one of Asia’s sexiest women, Indian supermodel/Bollywood actress, Bipasha Basu. The contest was broadcast to over 170 countries and is estimated to have had a viewing audience of 1.6 million.

Congratulations to all who have won!

SprightlyMedia has launched a new 247WebLog on 24th June. This blog will provide information on technology, online marketing and development and other related industries, simultaneously also cover other useful topics like Travel, info on interesting useful resources and the topics.

I personally wish them Very Good Luck!

Update: SprightlyMedia is closing this blog on 28th September due to lack of time and resources for maintaining it.