Stunning Social Media Statistics Plus Infographic

Do you wonder why your productivity has dropped over the past 2 – 3 years?
There is a time sink and it’s not television!
Those of us who are connected to the internet and that is 2 billion of us, have been distracted by social multi-media publishing machines that are pumping out staggering amounts of content with enticing high definition images and videos!
You cannot escape their allure as they tempt you to log in when you are out and about with either with your laptop, iPad or smart phone.
These enticing, tempting distractions are robbing us of time that should be spent doing productive work like washing your car, cleaning the house or doing your tax… and I know how much you all enjoy those activities!

20 Social Media Statistics

These figures reveal the huge black hole that our time disappears into when we visit Facebook, Twitter or YouTube or other social media sites.

1. One in every nine people on Earth is on Facebook ( This number is calculated by dividing the planets 6.94 billion people by Facebook’s 750 million users)
2. People spend 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
3. Each Facebook user spends on average 15 hours and 33 minutes a month on the site
4. More than 250 million people access Facebook through their mobile devices
5. More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook
6. 30 billion pieces of content is shared on Facebook each month
7. 300,000 users helped translate Facebook into 70 languages
8. People on Facebook install 20 million “Apps” every day
9. YouTube has 490 million unique users who visit every month (as of February 2011)
10. YouTube generates 92 billion page views per month (These YouTube stats don’t include videos viewed on phones and embedded in websites)
11. Users on YouTube spend a total of 2.9 billion hours per month (326,294 years)
12. Wikipedia hosts 17 million articles
13. Wikipedia authors total over 91,000 contributors
14. People upload 3,000 images to Flickr (the photo sharing social media site) every minute
15. Flickr hosts over 5 billion images
16. 190 million average  Tweets per day occur on Twitter (May 2011)
17. Twitter is handling 1.6 billion queries per day
18. Twitter is adding nearly 500,000 users a day
19. Google+ has more than 25 million users
20. Google+ was the fastest social network to reach 10 million users at 16 days (Twitter took 780 days and Facebook 852 days)

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Qutub Festival last day today in Delhi

Delhi’s musical line-up just got bigger. The annual Qutub Festival is back, and this time around, they are celebrating contemporary music, with some of India’s best known singers.

The musical extravaganza, which kicked off on 4th of Nov, will see singers Sunidhi Chauhan, Sonu Nigam, Shreya

Ghoshal, Sukhwinder and KK perform in the coming days. Until 2010, the festival focussed on Sufi and classical music and dance, but this year, they’ve decided to keep things contemporary. “Keeping in mind the response we received on the new format of this music festival last year, this year, we shall be focusing on contemporary music and displaying the performances of some of the best singers in this genre,” says Rawel Singh, Secretary Punjabi Academy, the organisers of the festival under the aegis of the Department of Art, Culture and Languages. 

This year, the five day festival aims to offer a fresh experience to the audience by showcasing a different singer everyday with their own concert. “We want to give the audience time to enjoy each day of the festival,” says Singh.

The fans of the film, Slumdog Millionaire, can get to hear singer Sukhwinder Singh croon the Oscar winning track - Jai Ho. “On public demand, Sukhwinder has confirmed that he will mesmerise the audience with Jai Ho,” says Singh.

While singer KK will be performing his famous number - Chhod Aye Hum Woh Galiyan from the film Maachis among other popular songs, singers Sunidhi Chauhan and Sonu Nigam will sing their hit Bollywood numbers.

The passes for the event are free of cost and are available at Dilli Haat (INA), Dilli Haat (Pitampura), Delhi Tourism Office (Baba Kharak Singh Marg) and Punjabi Academy (Motia Khan).

Catch the stars!
November 4: Sunidhi Chauhan
November 5: Sonu Nigam
November 6: Shreya Ghoshal
November 7: Sukhwinder
November 8: KK Enjoy it hereWhat: Qutub Festival
When: November 4-8
Timing: 7pm onwards
Where: Qutub Minar,
Delhi-Gurgaon Road, Mehrauli
Nearest Metro Station
Qutub Minar on the Yellow Line

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Aish Abhi - A AB Baby

Aish Abhi baby seems to be indeed lucky and has started playing with money even before entering into  the world. Following the trend of Bollywood celebrities, the baby has built up a connection and has already become favorite of Mafia.
It’s common knowledge that bookies bet millions of rupees whenever India plays cricket with other countries, but we rarely hear of them betting on Indian celebrities. Betting mafia who set to see millions of rupees change hands everyday, this time calls betting on the sex of unborn baby of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
Days after Big B broke the news of daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s pregnancy on micro-blogging site Twitter, the bookies have gone into an overdrive guessing when the baby would arrive and what would be its sex. It has become hot pot for bookies to cash in on. Aishwarya Rai is the first Indian Actress on whose baby betting is done by mafia.
According to reports, the betting mafia has been gambling millions of rupees over the sex of the unborn child of Abhishek Bachchan and the former Miss World. Bookies around the country have been investing money these days betting whether the new member in the Bollywood’s first family would be a boy or a girl.
It is reported that the betting mafia is pumping in millions of rupees to predict the sex of Aishwarya Rai’s unborn child. The news is also doing the rounds that bookies are trying to contact the actress’ doctor to know the gender of the unborn child.
As the delivery date would draw near, betting would be intensified and the betting amount would see steep ups and downs.

Most are expecting that it could be on 11-11-11 and it would be a girl and there will be no media coverage.

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Speak Asia Online Website Working Back - 8 November 2011

I congrats all Speak Asians for logging in speak asia website again . On this All India Speakasia Panelist Association was also reacted as “This is a wonderful surprise, because for the last five months we have not been able to log into our website and see our RP’s. "

But According to our information SpeakAsia Login Error 21 August 2011 in month of august 2011 their was strong protest by speak asia panelist to get back Speak Asia Company. If We Calculate from 21 August 2011 till today 8 November 2011 it’s less then 4 Months when website is in the hand of EOW Mumbai.

Speak Asia Online Website by Which Speak Asia Member Login to Do Survey and Other Works. Its Start Showing the Error of Database is full. This Type of Problems are faced when a database website have reached its limit of database this error can be corrected by allocating more space for the database area.

May Be Every Body remembers the black Friday Speak Asia Tarak Bajpai Arrested 29 July 2011
When Tarak Bajpai was arrested at that time website was working.. Website goes in the hand of EOW Mumbai.. Still the Peoples can login in website.

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People 1 View

Dear SpeakAsian,

As promised, the surveys are back today. However, as you know, our bank accounts continue to be inoperative
as per directives from the authorities and we are unable to process any cash request or payouts. Therefore
the Reward Points generated from Surveys will be credited to the Shopping ewallet which can be used for
shopping. This arrangement is till such time the situation improves and cash requests are allowed
to be processed.

We regret for any inconvenience caused to you.

Team SpeakAsia

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People 2 View

Dear All,

Server Access is still not in our hands.

To Know The Exact Status, Please Wait Till Tomorrow Evening.

Regards.

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People 3 View

Dear Speak Asian

This  is  quite disappointing that  till now  the company  has  not  received  website...I talked  to authorities of Speak Asia  ...they  told me that  till now we have not received The Website.....Crime Branch EOW  is  investigating the matter ..and for some time they  cleared the cache  memory  of  Website  and  now  it is operating  for  some  time...as EOW completes  his  final  verifications  it  will be  closed  soon..So no need to celebrate  ...we will  win  but  it  will take  time.
thanks
anand

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Concluded View

If every thing was coming to back from EOW Mumbai they will soon give any press release on this topic and as we all know their reports 2 copy will be submitted 1 will be submitted in court and other will be submitted to the Government of India.
In the Speak Asia Case we have to open ears for all the direction may be today any channel will publish news on this issue.
So we suggest "" Let us not over celebrate, let us be calm and wait patiently, for the inevitable to happen. ""Website is Only a Part of Speak Asia Online Company until the control gets in the Hand of Company webmasters nothing can be happened and according to last news all are in custody.

Major Point: Legal System of India is not stopping website and people to login in the website Government concerns only on the cases which are against speak asia company such as Andhra Pradesh high court case and Supreme court case .

People have different views on all the news. Many time some of the speak asians try to publish their views as by saying the latest news on speak asia . We All have to understand a very simple thing no body from us is a government agency or court. If we don't understand the legal matter we must contact to some lawyer so that reader can get a clear picture on that.

Please go through the following link on the website of the honorable Supreme Court of India to know that the next date of hearing for Speak Asia case is on 14th Nov, 2011.

http://courtnic.nic.in/supremecourt/casestatus_new/caseno_new_alt.asp

You may also very well track down the history as well as complete detail of the case on this link. 

On the left of the web page click on "case number" - > In the first box Case Type select "Writ Petition (Civil)" and in Case Number type "383"; you'll get all the information required.

I wish to caution all the Speak Asians that there are many people out there who are spreading many rumors both positive as well as negative. We are writing this article just to make sure that each and every Speak Asian must know as to where to look for authentic information related to this case.

I  also advice our readers to go through from the last judgment comes on 17th October 2011 http://courtnic.nic.in/supremecourt/temp/3832011317102011p.txt and also make it read from any legal advisors so the no body rumors can effect from the exact information on the supreme court case. Their are no way from which you can get out of rumors until any known legal advisor will give you the exact information on the case in court.

I will also try broadcast the video of 14th November 2011 from the Supreme Court so that speak asians confusion will come to an end and hope a clear picture will take a good news for all the speak asians and their family. Let’s Hope for The Best.

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Love shouldn`t be sacrificed - 'Gnomeo and Juliet’- A Happy Ending

Imagine a world where Romeo and Juliet did not say farewell. Imagine a different ending to one of the most famous Shakespearian plays, not ending with two people dying in the name of love.

In Touchstone’s new animated movie, “Gnomeo and Juliet”, two little gnomes try to define what true love is by living a life that reenacts William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Separated by a long garden war, Blue and Red gnomes rage in a bitter battle over who has the most beautiful garden.

What began as a simple quest to get the Cupid’s orchid from a garden next door, Juliet, voiced by Emily Blunt, leaves the Red garden. While she is trying to retrieve the flower she bumps into someone very unexpectedly, Gnomeo, voiced by James McAvoy, a gnome from the Blue Garden.

Debating whether or not she should even have feelings for Gnomeo, Juliet talks to her friend Nanette, the garden frog, to see what should be done. Eventually, Juliet decides love is worth more than a gnome battle, due to Nanette telling her “her love is dead. Her love is doomed.”

Because Juliet’s father, Lord Redbrick, has no clue that Gnomeo and Juliet are secretly in love, he asks the garden’s flower genius Paris to court Juliet. But, Juliet does not have any feelings for him. Nanette steps in and she falls in love with Paris.

From there, it becomes harder for Gnomeo and Juliet to encourage the war between Red and Blue to continue. Even after the Blue’s most prized flower plant is destroyed, Gnomeo tries to stop the war without giving up his secret and creating an even more confusing battle between the two Gnome families.

Unlike the play’s constant dry dialogue, it is more colorful and filled with life. It has many comical references to the actual play with play on words.

This play continues to be brought to life by Touchstone. Even though this is a story that has been told more than once, this view was not dull or boring. Instead, the writers and creators found a new way to brighten up the Shakespearean play and make it extremely family friendly.

Throughout this movie, the conflict between good and evil is even more relevant, and the message is that one’s love should not be sacrificed based on what others think.

In this new twist to Romeo and Juliet, Touchstone shows how there is always a happily ever after story no matter what the situation is.

“Gnomeo and Juliet” is extremely fast paced for an animated movie. The plot makes Shakespeare’s play more bearable, even though there are several changes.

From a Christian worldview, the message to put others before yourself is conveyed. Juliet personifies this message when she is debating whether or not she should leave with Gnomeo. She questions herself as to what would happen to her family, the Red garden, and how her father would react if she did leave with a Blue Gnome.

She debated whether or not she should sacrifice her own happiness in order to please her father and others.

“Gnomeo and Juliet” is rated G for all ages, but do not let the rating scare you. Even though it might seem as though it would be a little too childish, this movie is worth it. It is worth a night off from your homework to see this little cartoon.

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कर्म का सिद्धांत

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Advance Tax

As the name suggests, it refers to paying a part of your yearly taxes in advance. Advance tax is the income tax payable if your tax liability exceeds Rs 10,000 in a financial year. Advance tax should be paid in the year in which the income is received.
Advance tax is applicable when an individual has sources of income other than his/her salary. For instance, if one is earning through capital gains, interest on investments, lottery, house property or business, the concept becomes relevant.
Any rebate due fetches you an interest of 0.5 per cent every month, or, six per cent annually, as in the case of an income tax refund. However, if you don’t pay the advance tax on time, you’ll be charged one per cent every month, or, 12 per cent a year.

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PAN must to buy jewellery worth Rs5 lakh and more or paying an insurance premium of Rs 50,000

Any person planning to buy jewellery worth Rs5 lakh and more or paying a life insurance premium of Rs50,000 or above, has to quote PAN (Permanent Account Number) from July 1. As per the amendments in the income tax (I-T) rules, coming into effect from July 1, quoting PAN will be mandatory for any payment of Rs5 lakh and above for purchase of jewellery or insurance premium of Rs50,000 or abov.
The customer would need to submit copy of his PAN and quote it as well with the jeweller, while buying jewellery.
High-value purchase of jewellery, among valuables, have often been feared to be a much favoured route for circulation of black money and quoting of PAN would help the tax authorities in tracking such transactions.
From July 1, if a bank wants to issue a debit card to its customer, the latter has to quote PAN.
Till date it is applicable in the case of issuance of credit card.
The PAN will also become mandatory in the case of paying a life insurance premium of Rs50,000 and above.
Transactions that already require PAN include sale or purchase of any immovable property valued at Rs5 lakh or more, sale or purchase of vehicles other than two-wheelers and bank deposits exceeding Rs50,000.

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Post Office savings schemes to be taxed

The government has decided to levy tax on the interest obtained on Post Office savings schemes from the current financial year.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has brought out a notification in this regard recently, which stipulates that any interest earned beyond Rs 3,500 (in case of individual accounts) and Rs 7,000 (in case of joint accounts) will be taxable from the running fiscal.
The CBDT– which is the administrative authority of the Income Tax Department– has issued the notification to all the tax collection ranges across the country for implementation.
Taxpayers will have to reflect this investment on their income tax returns.
“Taxpayers who now invest in the post office saving accounts schemes will now have to show the interest earned on this scheme while filing their income tax returns. Interest upto Rs 3,500, in case of single accounts and and Rs 7,000 in case of joint accounts, is exempted,” a senior I-T official said.
The Assessing Officer (AO) will compute the tax on the interest earned, beyond the exemption limit, accordingly, he said.

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E-filing of Income Tax Return

E-filing of income tax return is an easy, 15-minute job. And it is definitely smoother than finding a tax consultant, haggling for the right price and then waiting endlessly for him to do the job at his whims.
So, how do you do it?
STEP 1
Go to the website of directorate of income tax, India, and register yourself, that is if you are not registered already. As you register, you need to fill in your PAN number and other details in order to set your login and password.
STEP 2
Once you are done with registration, log out and log in again with your PAN number as user ID and the new password you have set earlier. Click on e-filing A.Y. 2010-11 on the left side and download the e-filing form for INDIVIDUAL, HUF (HUF stands for Hindu undivided family)
STEP 3
The form comes in a ZIP file. Save it to your desktop and extract the Excel file from it to a new folder. Open the excel file and enable macros. Mind you, you have to enable macros in order to complete the process.
STEP 4
Fill in details like Name, Address, City, State, Pin Code in the sheet for INCOME DETAILS; fill in your PAN number wherever required and then fill in details of your income, investments and tax paid as provided to you in the Form 16 as per the instructions on the sheet. Then click on the VALIDATE button to check. If the details are correct. It will show the sheet is ok. (That is if no errors are found).
STEP 5
The next sheet of the file is TDS. Fill in the details for No 23 only if you have income only from salary. If you have income other than salary, fill in details for No 24 also. Fill in details of TAN number, name of company, address, city, state, pin code as given in form 16.
STEP 6
Fill in details of income charged under salaries, deductions from Chapter VI-A, tax payable and tax deducted. All these information is found on your Form 16. Click on VALIDATE button to check for correctness.
STEP 7
Next sheet is taxes paid and verification. Fill in details of name, father’s name, place, date and PAN number under the VERIFICATION section shown in RED. Click validate once again. If all the three sheets are shown OK on validation, you are ready to generate an XML file of the details.
STEP 8
Click on Generate XML and it will ask you to save the file. Once saved, go back to the website and log in (if you are logged out) with your user name and password. On the left side, click on submit return with 2010-11 as assessment year. Upload your generated XML to the site. Your e-filing is done.
STEP 9
It sends you a copy of acknowledgement to your email ID and also allows you to download the acknowledgement by clicking on blue link. The acknowledgement again comes in a ZIP file. Extract the file, take a printout of the PDF file and sign it manually.
STEP 10
Send a signed Acknowledgement to Income Tax Department address shown at the bottom of the PDF file by ORDINARY POST only. You will get a confirmation from IT department within one week.

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Save Income Tax : Section 80C and Section 80D

Section 80C Deductions
Section 80C of the Income Tax Act  allows certain investments and expenditure to be tax-exempt. The total limit under this section is Rs. 100,000 (Rupees One lakh) which can be any combination of the below:
* Contribution to Provident Fund or Public Provident Fund
* Payment of life insurance premium
* Investment in pension Plans
* Investment in Equity Linked Savings schemes (ELSS) of mutual funds
* Investment in specified government infrastructure bonds
* Investment in National Savings Certificates (interest of past NSCs is reinvested every year and can be added to the Section 80 limit)
* Payments towards principal repayment of housing loans.Also any registration fee or stamp duty paid.
* Payments towards tuition fees for children to any school or college or university or similar institution. (Only for 2 children)
The investment can be from any source and not necessarily from income chargeable to tax.

Section 80D: Medical Insurance Premiums
Medical insurance, popularly known as Mediclaim Policies, provide deduction up to Rs 30,000 . This deduction is additional to Rs.1,00,000 savings. For senior citizens, the deduction up to Rs. 20,000 is allowable. This deduction is available for premium paid on medical insurance for oneself, spouse, parents and children.It is also applicabe to the cheques paid by proprietor firms.

Interest on Housing Loans
For self occupied properties, interest paid on a housing loan up to Rs 150,000 per year is exempt from tax. However, this is only applicable for a residence constructed within three financial years after the loan is taken and also the loan if taken after April 1, 1999.
If the house is not occupied due to employment, the house will be considered self occupied.
For let out properties, the entire interest paid is deductible under section 24 of the Income Tax act. However, the rent is to be shown as income from such properties. 30% of rent received and municipal taxes paid are available for deduction.
The losses from all properties shall be allowed to be adjusted against salary income at the source itself. Therefore, refund claims of T.D.S. deducted in excess, on this count, will no more be necessary.

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How To Save Income Tax In India?

As per the government law, it is mandatory for every citizen to pay the income tax. Tax assessment takes place every year in the month of March. Government has given so many benefits to the taxpayers. Tax payment is applicable for a person who is generating profit by any mode either by the business or from the job. In any of the public or private limited company, there are shareholders then the tax will not be exempted on the individual basis. The calculation is based on the annual profit generated by the organization.
In India, there are various tax slabs for the male and female and as per the annual salary, the tax deduction takes place. If a male individual earns (in Rs) 160,001 to 500,000, the tax would be 10% if it exceeds from 500,000 to 800,000 the tax would be 20% if it exceeds from 800,000 the tax would be 30%. Tax slabs for the female individual is different from the male individual, the tax limit for the female start from 190,001. For 190,001 the tax is 10%, from 500,000 to 800,000 tax is 20% whereas for above 800,000 tax would be 30%.

To get the tax benefit,  it is important to show the investment proof. Tax waiver is applicable if the investment has done in the following:

Insurance Policy- Government has given tax benefit on different type of insurance policies such as life insurance policy and health Care. This should be noted that no tax benefit is given for the General insurance like motor insurance etc.
Mutual funds – There are several government and private mutual funds available in the market such as State Bank of India mutual funds, Franklin Templeton, Kotak Mahindra and ICICI. Investor has to take care that tax waiver is available only on those mutual funds that have a locking period; a fund without a locking period is not eligible for the income tax benefit.
Home Loan – If an individual has purchased any property on loan, a tax waiver is applicable on it.
House Rent – House rent is another mode to save the income tax. While filing for income tax, tax receipt should be attached.


While filing for the income tax it is useful to attach the receipt of the documents as per the above list.

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