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Friday, February 26, 2010

Union Budget 2010-11:Impact on Tax,IT,Banking,Urban development,Power,Education,Infrastructure,Agriculture,Export,Textile,Gold,TVs,ACs,Air Travel,



Highlights of 2010-11 budget presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in parliament Friday,26th feb 2010:

Pranab set to present a watershed budget

Reactions & Budget impact
  • Budget a right mix, says PM
  • Dictatorship of Congress government will not work: Lalu
  • Pranab had no choice on fuel price hike: PM
  • Markets happy, Sensex jumps 300 points as FM concludes Budget speech

Taxation
  • 25% tax savings for people who are earning upto Rs 1 lakh pm
  • Service tax unchanged at 10%
  • Online news agencies to attract tax
  • Account editing for companies with income above Rs 15 lakhs
  • More services to be taxed
  • Peak custom duty unchanged at 10%
  • 5% custom duty on crude petrol back
  • Minimum alternate tax hiked from 15% to 18%
  • Corporate surcharge down from 10% to 7. 5%

Tax slabs
  • Upto 1.6 lakhs- Nil
  • Above 1.6 lakhs to Rs 5 lakhs- 10%
  • Above 5 lakhs to 8 lakh: 20%
  • Above 8 lakhs 30%
  • R&D deduction hiked

What cost less

  • Rationalisation of custom duty on gaming software; gaming software to cost less
  • Mobile phones to be cheaper

What cost more

  • Petro products to cost more
  • Cement to cost more
  • Large cars, SUVs to cost more
  • Cigarettes, non-smoking, chewing tobacco to cost more
  • Gross Tax Receipts Rs 7. 46 Lakh crore
  • Fuel price hike in due course
  • Gold, silver to cost more
  • TVs, air-conditioners to go up
  • Air travel to get costlier

Govt. expenditure
  • Fiscal stimulus to be partially rolled back
  • Defence allocation up by 6000 cr
  • 15% rise in plan expenditure
  • Fiscal deficit 5.5% for FY 11
  • Fiscal deficit 4.8% for FY 12
  • Special allocation for unorganized labour sector

IT- sector
  • Technology Advisory Group to function under Nandan Nilekani

Banking & Finance
  • Rs 16,500 cr allocated to public sector banks
  • Divestment proceedings to be spent on social sector
  • Double digit food inflation a worry
  • RBI considering giving banking licenses to more private players
  • Medium term growth plan to cross double-digit figure
  • Private investment can sustain 9% growth
  • Need to review fiscal stimulus
  • GDP to reach 10% soon
  • Efforts on to reduce inflation in two months

Urban Development

  • Slum free India at the earliest
  • Bharat Nirman outlay Rs 48,000 cr
  • NREGA allocation Rs 40,100 cr
  • Banks in all villages with over 2000 population
  • Subsidy for affordable housing increased

Power
  • Plan allocation to renewable energy ministry hiked
  • Coal regulatory authority to be set up
  • National clean energy fund to be set up

Education
  • Increase in allocation for school education

Infrastructure

  • Plan allocation doubled for power sector
  • To construct 20 km highway everyday
  • 13% rise in allocation for transport sector
  • 5 mega food parks to be set up
  • Infrastructure thrust to be maintained in rural and urban areas
  • Govt. committed to SEZ growth

Agriculture sector

  • Budget gives strong focus to boost agri production
  • Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojna to get Rs 300 cr
  • Four pronged strategy to boost agri production
  • Repayment of loans to be extended to 6 months in drought and flood hit areas
  • Fertilizer subsidy to be reduced
  • Failure in agriculture sector compensated by good show in manufacturing sector

Exports

  • 2% interest subvention for exports extended
  • Interest subvention to benefit handicraft, jewellery and gem exports

Textiles

  • One-time 200 cr for allotment to Tripura Textile sector in Tamil Nadu

Social and welfare sector

  • New pension scheme for unorganized sector
  • Exclusive skill development programme for textile sector
  • Plan outlay increase for women and child welfare
  • Plan outlay increase for ministry of social justice and women empowerment
  • Outlay for Ministry of minority welfare increased
  • Rs 1,900 cr for Unique Identity Authority (UIDA)
  • Social sector spending up to 1.37 lakh crore


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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Best quotes on Sachin Tendulkar:By Hayden,,Lille,McGrath,Lara,Sir Bradman,Flower,Donald,Gavaskar,Boycott,Chappel,Warne,V.Richards,Sidhu,Chappel,Symond

Best quotes on Sachin Tendulkar:By Hayden,Roebuck,Lille,McGrath,Lara,Sir Bradman,A.Flower,A.Donald,Gavaskar,Boycott,Chappel,Warne,Viv Richards,Sidhu,Chappel,Kumle,Symonds,Taylor

Sachin is God, God is Tendulkar! CONGRATULATIONS to him! "No record is unbreakable. Records are made to be broken and I would like to see an Indian breaking this record," Tendulkar said, dedicating the knock of 200* to all his fans. Tendulkar’s innings was a dreamy one, layered well with fours, sixes and smart running between the wickets. Here’s a tribute in quotes to the man from Mumbai, it only reinforces the fact that Mr. Sachin is indeed the ‘greatest player of the game’.
Sachin Tendulkar


Mathew Hayden:
"I have seen God, he bats at no. 4 for India"

Peter Roebuck:
"On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!!"

Dennis Lillee:
If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard.

Glenn McGrath:
I still think Tendulkar is the best batsmen in the world ahead of Steve Waugh and Lara.

Brian Lara:
Sachin is a genius. I'm a mere mortal.

Sir Don Bradman:

Sir Don Bradman
I saw him (Sachin) playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two...hi compactness, technique, stroke production... it all seemed to gel.

Andy Flower:
"There are 2 kind of batsmen in the world. One Sachin Tendulkar. Two all the others."

Allan Donald:
"Sachin Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has
many medals on his chest to show how he has conquered bowlers all over the
world"

Sunil Gavaskar:
India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.

Richie Benaud:
He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.

Geoffrey Boycott:
Technically, you can't fault Sachin. Seam or spin, fast or slow nothing is a problem.

Greg Chappell:
He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows perfectly well when to attack and when to play defensive cricket. He has developed the ability to treat bowlers all over the world with contempt and can destroy any attack with utmost ease.

Shane Warne:
Shane Warne
I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player.

Viv Richards on Sachin Tendulkar:
I think he is marvellous. I think he will fit in whatever category of Cricket that has been played or will be played, from the first ball that has ever been bowled to the last ball that's going to be. He can play in any era and at any level. I would say he's 99.5% perfect.

Navjot Singh Sidhu:
Navjot Singh Sidhu:
"India me aap Prime Minister ko ek Baar Katghare me khada kar sakte hain..Par Sachin
Tendulkar par Ungli nahi utha Sakte.."

Barry Richards:
Sachin is cricket's God!

Ian Chappell:
Harder he works, the luckier he gets.

Anil Kumble:
"I am fortunate that I've to bowl at him only in the nets!"

Andrew Symonds:
"To Sachin, the man we all want to be"
What Symonds wrote on an aussie t-shirt he autographed specially for Sachin.

Mark Taylor:
"We did not lose to a team called India...we lost to a man called Sachin" -Mark Taylor, during the test match in Chennai (1997)


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Railway Budget 2010:List of new trains,Duranto trains,Karmabhoomi Exp trains,Janmabhoomi Exp,Bharat Tirth trains,New trains


New Delhi: Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday 24th feb announced the introduction of 10 new Duranto Express trains ,Karmabhoomi, Janmabhoomi trains.

Mamata-Banerjee-Indian-Railways

Some of the new Duranto trains would connect the following cities:

  • Mumbai-Secundrabad
  • Pune-Howrah
  • Jaipur-Mumbai
  • Chennai-Comibatore
  • Unreserved Karmabhoomi Exp trains
  • Dharbhanga –Mumbai
  • Guwahati-Mumbai
  • New Jailpaguri-Amritsar
  • New Janmabhoomi Exp between Ahmedabad and Udhampur

Karmabhoomi Exp trains:

Karmabhoomi trains to be introduced for migrant labour

  • Dharbhanga –Mumbai

  • Guwahati-Mumbai

  • New Jailpaguri-Amritsar

  • New Janmabhoomi Exp between Ahmedabad and Udhampur


Bharat Tirth trains

In a bid to promote tourism, Railways will be launching 16 special 'Bharat Tirth' trains connecting popular tourist sites as also pilgrimage centres in different parts of the country.

  • Howrah-Gaya-Agra-Mathura-Vrindavan-New Delhi-Haridwar-Varanasi-Howrah

  • Howrah-Chennai-Puducherry-Madurai-Rameswaram- Kanyakumari-Bangalore-Mysore-Chennai-Howrah

  • Howrah-Vizag-Hyderabad-Araku-Howrah

  • Howrah-Varanasi-Jammu Tawi-Amritsar-Haridwar- Mathura-Vrindavan-Allahabad-Howrah

  • Howrah-Ajmer-Udaipur-Jodhpur-Bikaner-Jaipur-Howrah

  • Mumbai-Pune-Tirupati-Kancheepuram-Rameswaram- Madurai-Kanyakumari-Pune-Mumbai

  • Pune-Jaipur-Nathdwara-Ranakpur-Jaipur-Mathura- Agra-Haridwar-Amritsar-Jammu Tawi-Pune

  • Pune-Ratnagiri-Goa-Bangalore-Mysore-Tirupati-Pune

  • Ahmedabad-Puri-Kolkata-Gangasagar-Varanasi- Allahabad-Indore-Omkareshwar-Ujjain-Ahmedabad

  • Bhopal-Dwaraka-Somnath-Udaipur-Ajmer-Jodhpur- Jaipur-Mathura-Vrindavan-Amritsar-Jammu Tawi-Bhopal

  • Bhopal-Tirupati-Kancheepuram-Rameswaram-Madurai- Kanyakumari-Thiruvananthapuram-Kochi-Bhopal

  • Madurai-Chennai-Kopargaon-Mantrayalam-Chennai- Madurai

  • Madurai-Erode-Pune-Ujjain-Veraval-Nashik-Hyderabad- Chennai-Madurai

  • Madurai-Chennai-Jaipur-Delhi-Mathura-Vrindavan- Allahabad-Varanasi-Gaya-Chennai-Madurai

  • Madurai-Varanasi-Gaya-Patna Sahib-Allahabad- Haridwar-Chandigarh-Kurukshtra-Amritsar-Delhi-Madurai

  • Madurai-Mysore-Goa-Mumbai-Aurangabad-Hyderabad- Madurai


New trains

  • Sulatanpur-Mumbai Exp

  • Sulatanpur-Ajmer Exp

  • Asansol-Digha Exp

  • Howrah-Puducherry Exp

  • Kolkata-Ajmer Exp

  • Kolkata-Anandpur Sahib Exp

  • Pune-Haridwar Exp

  • Rajgir-Howrah Exp

  • Nagercoil-Bangalore Exp

  • Bhubnaeswar-Bangalore Exp

  • Pune-Ernakulam Exp

  • Coimbatore-Tirupati Exp

  • Kolhapur-Solapur Exp

  • Madurai-Tirupati Exp

  • Sambalpur-Howrah Exp

  • Ahmedabad-Agra Exp

  • Gandhidham-Ahemdabad Exp

  • Gwalior-Porbandar Exp

  • Tata Nagar-Hatia Exp

  • Miraj-Pandharpur Exp

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Railway Budget 2010:Bharat Tirth tourist train & Railway to lead partner for Commonwealth Games


Mamata’s budget to ride on plenty of Ps



New Delhi: In a bid to promote tourism, Railways will be launching 16 special 'Bharat Tirth' trains connecting popular tourist sites as also pilgrimage centres in different parts of the country.

"The running of Bharat Tirth is to emphasise our unity in diversity and bring to reality Kabiguru's (Rabindranath Tagore) words in our national anthem Punjab Sindhu Gujarat Maratha, Dravida Utkala Banga, Vindhya Himachal Yamuna Ganga," Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said.

Presenting the 2010-11 budget in Lok Sabha, she said the trains are proposed to run on the following routes:

1. Howrah-Gaya-Agra-Mathura-Vrindavan-New Delhi-Haridwar-Varanasi-Howrah;

2. Howrah-Chennai-Puducherry-Madurai-Rameswaram- Kanyakumari-Bangalore-Mysore-Chennai-Howrah;

3. Howrah-Vizag-Hyderabad-Araku-Howrah;

4. Howrah-Varanasi-Jammu Tawi-Amritsar-Haridwar- Mathura-Vrindavan-Allahabad-Howrah;

5. Howrah-Ajmer-Udaipur-Jodhpur-Bikaner-Jaipur-Howrah;

6. Mumbai-Pune-Tirupati-Kancheepuram-Rameswaram- Madurai-Kanyakumari-Pune-Mumbai;

7. Pune-Jaipur-Nathdwara-Ranakpur-Jaipur-Mathura- Agra-Haridwar-Amritsar-Jammu Tawi-Pune

8. Pune-Ratnagiri-Goa-Bangalore-Mysore-Tirupati-Pune;

9. Ahmedabad-Puri-Kolkata-Gangasagar-Varanasi- Allahabad-Indore-Omkareshwar-Ujjain-Ahmedabad;

10. Bhopal-Dwaraka-Somnath-Udaipur-Ajmer-Jodhpur- Jaipur-Mathura-Vrindavan-Amritsar-Jammu Tawi-Bhopal.


New Delhi: Railways will run a special exhibition train across the country to mark the Commonwealth Games to be held here apart from being the lead partner of the mega sporting event.

"Indian Railways will be the lead partner of the Commonwealth Games being hosted by India this year. To mark this event and also to spread the message, Railways proposes to start a Commonwealth Exhibition train," Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said presenting the Rail Budget.

The Commonwealth Games will be held in the capital from October 3 to 14.

She also said five sports academies would be set up across the country to strengthen the infrastructure. The proposed locations are Delhi, Secunderabad, Chennai and Mumbai.

To promote hockey, Bannerjee said it is also proposed to provide astro-turfs.

The Railways will also provide increased employment opportunities for sports persons.

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Railway Budget 2010:No fare hike, 54 new trains,no hike in freight rate

New Delhi: Passengers were spared a fare hike, freight rates were lowered for some essential items and 54 new trains announced in Rail Budget for 2010-11 that promises a new model to promote private investment in expanding the world's second largest railroad network under a single management.

No fare hike, 54 new trains announced in Rail Budget

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee spared passengers of a fare hike, while lowering freight rates on some essential items and announcing the launch of 52 new trains in Rail Budget for 2010-11.

  • No increase in passenger fares
  • Rs.100 reduction in freight per wagon for fertilisers and kerosene
  • Free travel for cancer patients in 3rd AC classes
  • Cost-sharing in public-private-partnership (PPP) mode in some gauge-conversion projects
  • Further extension of Kolkata Metro on priority basis; stations to be named after Bahadur Shah Zafar, Tagore family
  • Karmabhoomi trains to be introduced for migrant labour
  • New Janmabhoomi train between Ahmedabad and Udhampur
  • Special 'Bharat Teertha' train to be run around India to commemorate Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birth anniversary
  • Railway line to be extended from Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh to Leh in Jammu and Kashmir
  • Andaman and Nicobar Islands to get railway line from Port Blair to Diglipur
  • Sikkim capital Gangtok to be connected by rail from Rangpo
  • 2011 being 150th anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, special train to be run from West Bengal to Bangladesh
  • Gross earnings in 2009-10 estimated at Rs.88,281 crore
  • Working expenditure in 2009-10 estimated at Rs.83,440 crore
  • Expenses during 2010-11 estimated at Rs.87,100 crore
  • Thrust on expansion in 2010-11 with allocation of Rs.4,411 crore
  • Kashmir rail link to be extended to Sopore in the north of the valley
  • Net profit of Rs.1,328 crore in 2009-10
  • 10 automobile ancillary hubs to be created
  • Twenty-two million energy saving CFLs for lighting distributed already
  • Policy decision to employ one member of family whose land is requisitioned for railway projects
  • North-south, east-west dedicated freight corridors to be created
  • Construction of high-speed passenger rail corridors envisaged
  • More multi-functional hospitals to be set up
  • Educational facilities to be set up for children of 80,000 women families
  • Special facilities to be established for gangmen
  • Insurance facilities for licensed porters as part of railway's corporate social responsibility
  • Centre for railway research to be established with Indian Institutes of Technology and
  • Defence Research and Development Organisation
  • Will involve unions in policy making
  • Integral Coach Factory Chennai to be further modernised
  • New wagon repair shop in Mumbai
  • Design, development and testing centre for railway wheels at Bangalore
  • Within five years, all unmanned level crossings to be manned
  • Construction of more underpasses, besides road overbridges
  • Greater coordination with state governments to protect railway property
  • Security of women passengers to be improved
  • Ex-servicemen to be employed in Railway Protection Force
  • Five sports academies to be set up
  • Astroturf to be provided for development of hockey
  • Employment opportunities for sports persons
  • Railways to be lead partner for Commonwealth Games
  • Special drive to increase passenger amenities
  • Upgrade of 94 stations
  • Six new drinking water bottling plants in PPP mode
  • Modern toilets at railway stations
  • More ticketing centres to help the public
  • Acquisition of cutting edge safety technology
  • 1,000 route km to be created
  • Special task force for clearing investment proposals in 100 days
  • New business model to be created
  • No privatisation of railways
  • But greater participation of private sector
  • 117 of 120 new trains for current fiscal to be flagged off

Famous Funny Quotes on Women: By Laurence J. Peter,Cindy Crawford,Carrie Snow,Dave Barry,Marcel Achard,Bill Maher,Marianne Williamson and others

Famous Funny Quotes on Women: By Laurence J. Peter,Cindy Crawford,Carrie Snow,Dave Barry,Marcel Achard,Bill Maher,Marianne Williamson and others


Some quotes are a little naughty and funny please don't mind and take it as a part of fun nothing personal towards women these are just quoted text from famous people :-)

  • If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. ~Dave Barry


  • Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ~Marcel Achard, Quote, 4 November 1956


  • Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece. ~Author Unknown


  • Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace. ~Marianne Williamson, "A Woman's Worth"


  • Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. ~Bill Maher


  • A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. ~Carrie Snow


  • You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping. ~Cindy Crawford


  • Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. ~Laurence J. Peter


  • The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. ~Author Unknown


  • A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon. ~Arnold Haultain


  • Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. ~Charlotte Whitton


  • Women are always beautiful. ~Ville Valo


  • The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy. ~Ellery Queen


  • Curve: The loveliest distance between two points. ~Mae West


  • Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. ~Nicole Hollander


  • Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~Author Unknown


  • Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage. ~Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly


  • A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. ~Chauncey Mitchell Depew


  • The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself. ~Elizabeth Metcalf


  • There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women. ~Madeleine K. Albright


  • A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~Oscar Wilde


  • There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that. ~Harold Robbins


  • When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute. ~Author Unknown


  • Men get laid, but women get screwed. ~Quentin Crisp


  • The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges. ~Germaine Greer


  • Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked. ~Ovid


  • Howiver, I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men. ~George Eliot, "The Harvest Supper," Adam Bede

  • Women really do rule the world. They just haven't figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we're all in big big trouble. ~"Doctor Leon," drleons.com
  • Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one. ~W.C. Fields
  • Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


  • I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. ~George Meredith


  • Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


  • Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. ~Cornelia Otis Skinner


  • Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners. ~George du Maurier


  • Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly. ~Sam Slick (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)


  • The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. ~Guy de Maupassant


  • I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm. ~Ogden Nash


  • When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. ~Gail Sheehy


  • The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. ~Simone de Beauvoir


  • They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken. ~Author Unknown


  • Be to her virtues very kind,Be to her faults a little blind.~Matthew Prior


  • They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. ~Oliver Goldsmith


  • A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women. ~Edgar Wallace


  • It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



  • You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone. ~J.M. Barrie, What Every Woman Knows


  • If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. ~Aristotle Onassis


  • Men will always delight in a woman whose voice is lined with velvet. ~Brendan Francis


  • Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


  • I married beneath me - all women do. ~Nancy Astor, speech, Oldham, England, 1951


  • Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. ~Elsa Schiaparelli


  • Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness. ~Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand, Letters to Voltaire


  • If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments. ~Art Buchwald, 1974


  • Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. ~Oscar Wilde


  • She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak. ~Woody Allen, Getting Even, 1973


  • It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman. ~Alexandre Dumas, fils


  • I'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four. ~Fred Allen


  • When a woman comes to her glass, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress. ~Joseph Addison


  • All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


  • A woman should soften but not weaken a man. ~Sigmund Freud


  • Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones. ~Camille Paglia


  • When I glimpse the backs of women's knees I seem to hear the first movement of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. ~Author Unknown


  • A woman wears her tears like jewelry. ~Author Unknown


  • If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody. ~J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye


  • No woman wants to see herself too clearly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


  • I prefer the word homemaker, because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. ~Bella Abzug


  • The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panti-girdle, crinoline, camisole, bustle, brassiere, stomacher, chemise, virgin zone, spike heels, nose ring, veil, kid gloves, fishnet stockings, fichu, bandeau, Merry Widow, weepers, chokers, barrettes, bangles, beads, lorgnette, feather boa, basic black, compact, Lycra stretch one-piece with modesty panel, designer peignoir, flannel nightie, lace teddy, bed, head. ~Margaret Atwood


  • Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


  • Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


  • You have to have the kind of body that doesn't need a girdle in order to get to pose in one. ~Carolyn Kenmore


  • There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women. ~Alfred Capus


  • No matter how good she looks, some other guy is sick and tired of putting up with her crap. ~Author Unknown


  • Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman. ~Honoré de Balzac, The Physiology of Marriage


  • The girls that are always easy on the eyes are never easy on the heart. ~Author Unknown


  • Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


  • I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on. ~Billy Joel


  • A man gives many question marks, however, a woman is a whole mystery. ~Diana Stürm


  • In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on woman. ~Nancy Astor, My Two Countries


  • God did it on purpose so that we may love you men instead of laughing at you. ~Mrs Patrick Campbell, in reply to a male acquaintance who asked why women seem to have no sense of humor


  • Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson


  • A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


  • The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is. ~Helen Rowland


  • I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. ~Stanley Baldwin


  • I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss


  • Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves. ~Elissa Melamed


  • If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


  • Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen. ~Compton Mackenzie, Literature in My Time, 1933


  • One is not born a woman, one becomes one. ~Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949


  • Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination. ~Marcel Proust, Albertine disparue, 1925


  • Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty. ~James Thurber, Time, 15 August 1960


  • Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater. ~Bette Davis, about Jayne Mansfield


  • A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ~Washington Irving




  • The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge


  • After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of that one. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate. ~Mel Gibson, about what women want


  • Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular. ~E.V. Lucas


  • I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be. ~Benny Hill


  • A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares. ~Elbert Hubbard


  • You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"


  • The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. ~Robert Graves


  • What men desire is a virgin who is a whore. ~Edward Dahlbert


  • Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


  • A woman should be an illusion. ~Ian Fleming


  • There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. ~Stephen Stills


  • It is because of men that women dislike one another. ~Jean de La Bruyère, Characters, 1688


  • If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt. ~Thomas Carlyle


  • Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


  • Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket. ~Mary Roberts Rinehart


  • It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time. ~Tallulah Bankhead


  • A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


  • A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. ~Karl Kraus


  • A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb


  • Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem. ~G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, 1910


  • Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away. ~Méré


  • Brains are an asset, if you hide them. ~Mae West


  • With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


  • Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her. ~John Vanbrugh, The Relapse, 1696


  • Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? ~Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch, 1970


  • A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. ~Edna Ferber


  • Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. ~Germaine Greer


  • Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak. ~William Shakespeare, As You Like It


  • Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football. ~Fran Lebowitz


  • You're booty-blinded. You know what that is? It's like being snow-blinded only it ain't no snow, it's a cute little piece of ass. ~From the movie I Spy


  • Men have been paying taco tax for centuries, millennia probably. ~Rick Claro


  • Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


  • To get to a woman's heart, a man must first use his own. ~Mike Dobbertin, quoted in A 5th Portion of Chicken Soup for the Soul


  • Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention. ~Cornelia Otis Skinner, attributed


  • Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. ~Samuel Johnson
Hope these help :-)

  • Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal. ~William Shakespeare


  • Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. ~James Thurber


  • I hate women because they always know where things are. ~Voltaire


  • Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


  • Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. ~Hermione Gingold


  • The people I'm furious with are the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket. ~Anita Loos, New York Times, 10 February 1974


  • Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember. ~Author Unknown


  • No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. ~H.L. Mencken

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Top 500 most valuable brands

Top 500 most valuable brands


In Indian brands, Tata is at 64th position, while Reliance is at 107. India’s largest public sector bank, The State Bank of India is ranked 186, while mobile giant Airtel is placed at 288th position. Software tycoon Wipro is at 379, while its competitor Infosys is at 423. India’s largest private sector bank, ICICI was ranked 439

  1. Walmart
  2. Google
  3. Coca-Cola
  4. IBM
  5. Microsoft
  6. GE
  7. Vodafone
  8. HSBC
  9. HP
  10. Toyota
  11. AT&T
  12. Santander
  13. Verizon
  14. WELLS FARGO
  15. Budweiser
  16. Tesco
  17. McDonald’s
  18. Walt Disney
  19. Apple
  20. Nokia
  21. The Home Depot
  22. Samsung
  23. China Mobile
  24. Orange
  25. Mitsubishi
  26. Shell
  27. Intel
  28. BMW
  29. AXA
  30. Pepsi
  31. L’Oréal
  32. Nike
  33. Target
  34. Siemens
  35. Citi
  36. BNP Paribas
  37. Goldman Sachs
  38. Mercedes-Benz
  39. Chase
  40. Christian Dior
  41. Amazon.com
  42. Bradesco
  43. UPS
  44. Barclays
  45. Honda
  46. GDF SUEZ
  47. Allianz
  48. Oracle
  49. American Express
  50. Ford
  51. Sony
  52. BP
  53. ICBC
  54. China Construction Bank
  55. Comcast
  56. JP Morgan
  57. Sberbank
  58. Société Générale
  59. CISCO
  60. Volkswagen
  61. Chevron
  62. Heineken
  63. DOCOMO
  64. Tata
  65. Nestlé
  66. BBVA
  67. Nissan
  68. T-Mobile
  69. Walgreens
  70. Avon
  71. PWC
  72. Deutsche Bank
  73. Lowe’s
  74. Dell
  75. ExxonMobil
  76. Movistar
  77. Bank of China
  78. Carrefour
  79. Sam’s Club
  80. ASDA
  81. Hitachi
  82. Toshiba
  83. Generali
  84. Telecom Italia
  85. Johnson & Johnson
  86. BT
  87. FedEx
  88. KPMG
  89. TimeWarner
  90. Credit Suisse
  91. UniCredit
  92. Philips
  93. H&M
  94. UBS
  95. Telefonica
  96. Porsche
  97. Kellogg’s
  98. EDF ENERGY
  99. Morgan Stanley
  100. CVS
  101. Volvo
  102. E.ON
  103. SAP
  104. Deloitte
  105. Standard Chartered
  106. DHL
  107. Reliance
  108. Total
  109. Ericsson
  110. ZURICH
  111. Boeing
  112. ING
  113. Renault
  114. China Telecom
  115. Banco Itaú
  116. Gillette
  117. Banco do Brasil
  118. TEPCO
  119. Nintendo
  120. Münchener Rück
  121. 3M
  122. Danone
  123. Ernst and Young
  124. China United Network
  125. Canon
  126. MUFG
  127. Enel
  128. Sainsbury’s
  129. FOX
  130. Costco
  131. Pfizer
  132. Motorola
  133. RWE
  134. Caterpillar
  135. T-Home
  136. O2
  137. Agricultural Bank of China
  138. Woolworths
  139. Best Buy
  140. AVIVA
  141. Xbox
  142. China Unicom
  143. adidas
  144. Gazprom
  145. Rabobank
  146. Roche
  147. Petrobras
  148. Marlboro
  149. Morrisons
  150. Merck
  151. AIG
  152. Intesa Sanpaolo
  153. Accenture
  154. Fujitsu
  155. VINCI SA
  156. Maggi
  157. Panasonic
  158. Safeway
  159. Unitedhealth
  160. CNP Assurances
  161. sanofi aventis
  162. Starbucks
  163. TD
  164. RBC
  165. eBay
  166. NEC
  167. Yahoo!
  168. ConocoPhillips
  169. Abbott Labs
  170. DIRECTV
  171. Kroger
  172. VISA
  173. DZ BANK
  174. PetroChina
  175. ArcelorMittal
  176. Sharp
  177. Metro Cash and Carry
  178. MTN
  179. Lambert & Butler
  180. Crédit Agricole
  181. CBS
  182. Iberdrola
  183. SYSCO
  184. Corona
  185. Publix
  186. State Bank of India
  187. SoftBank
  188. macy’s
  189. Medco
  190. Nordea
  191. Peugeot
  192. edp
  193. Fiat
  194. Honeywell
  195. O-I
  196. Telstra
  197. NESCAFÉ
  198. M&S
  199. Sears
  200. Aeon
  201. Sinopec
  202. LG Electronics
  203. BlackBerry
  204. Beeline
  205. Lafarge
  206. National Australia Bank
  207. Staples
  208. Kimberly-Clark
  209. BHP Billiton
  210. AEGON
  211. Zara
  212. HYUNDAI
  213. KDDI
  214. Kleenex
  215. Swisscom
  216. Johnson Controls
  217. telenor
  218. Medtronic
  219. U.S. Bank
  220. Asahi
  221. China Life Insurance
  222. Astrazeneca
  223. ABB
  224. Singapore Airlines
  225. SAIC
  226. Swiss Re
  227. EXPRESS SCRIPTS
  228. MetLife
  229. Jardines
  230. Petronas
  231. Norton
  232. VEOLIA
  233. Lexus
  234. Manulife Financial
  235. Commerzbank
  236. Raytheon
  237. Mountain Dew
  238. TSMC
  239. BASF
  240. Holcim
  241. OptumHealth
  242. Lufthansa
  243. Commonwealth Bank of Australia
  244. ACS
  245. SMFG
  246. China State Construction
  247. EMC2
  248. International Paper
  249. eni
  250. Nivea
  251. Colgate
  252. LG Display
  253. Purina
  254. MOL
  255. Sanyo
  256. Audi
  257. Nestle Pure Life
  258. StatoilHydro
  259. PNC
  260. Universal Music Group
  261. Bell
  262. Claro
  263. QVC
  264. Lilly
  265. Media Markt & Saturn
  266. Bridgestone
  267. KitKat
  268. Tokio Marine
  269. Louis Vuitton
  270. JR-East
  271. Westpac
  272. Bank of Communications
  273. Cadbury
  274. Texas Instruments
  275. Ping An
  276. Sky
  277. ERSTE
  278. Michelin
  279. Gatorade
  280. MTV
  281. SUSUKI
  282. Sara Lee
  283. la Caixa
  284. Foster’s
  285. Randstad
  286. Lukoil
  287. KEPCO
  288. Airtel
  289. Wyeth
  290. Telcel
  291. Dow
  292. ESPRIT
  293. Fresenius Medical Care
  294. Travelers
  295. Hermès
  296. ADM
  297. Groupe Banque Populaire
  298. Groupe Caisse d’Epargne
  299. endesa
  300. Adecco
  301. Alcatel-Lucent
  302. Emerson
  303. Crédit mutuel
  304. Polo Ralph Lauren
  305. Bharat Petroleum
  306. CSC
  307. Citroën
  308. Harley-Davidson
  309. CIGNA
  310. Air France
  311. Deutsche Post
  312. zain
  313. Aetna
  314. Thomson Reuters
  315. ANZ
  316. Bouygues
  317. MTS
  318. Scottish and Southern Energy
  319. KBC
  320. T-Systems
  321. TNT
  322. Sprint
  323. Rio Tinto
  324. Royal Bank of Scotland
  325. Cablevision
  326. Danske Bank
  327. Virgin media
  328. OTE
  329. MAPFRE
  330. acer
  331. Qualcomm
  332. YAMAHA
  333. Bank of Montreal
  334. Kirin
  335. Capital One
  336. Amstel
  337. Thales
  338. J.C Penney
  339. Merrill Lynch
  340. Stella Artois
  341. Smirnoff
  342. POSCO
  343. Schering-Plough
  344. Mazda
  345. RICOH
  346. Rolls-Royce
  347. Bristol-Myers Squibb
  348. Kohl’s
  349. Natixis
  350. FCC
  351. Etisalat
  352. AIRBUS
  353. State Street
  354. SANDVIK
  355. Duke Energy
  356. Lloyds TSB
  357. Agip
  358. Tyson
  359. Scotiabank
  360. Thermo Fisher SCIENTIFIC
  361. PRUDENTIAL
  362. gasNatural
  363. Camel
  364. RTL
  365. CANAL+
  366. NORDSTROM
  367. Great-West Lifeco
  368. Covidien
  369. GRUPO BIMBO
  370. Pearson
  371. Estée Lauder
  372. Carlsberg
  373. Portugal Telecom
  374. Mizuho
  375. Scottish Power
  376. Applied Materials
  377. wilmar
  378. Edison International
  379. WIPRO
  380. ERGO
  381. The Bank of New York Mellon
  382. Qwest
  383. HEILDELBERGCEMENT
  384. Allstate
  385. American Airlines
  386. HVB Group
  387. Royal Caribbean Cruises
  388. Falabella
  389. Whirlpool
  390. SEPHORA
  391. McGraw-Hill
  392. Dominion
  393. STC
  394. Ferrovial
  395. Bed Bath & Beyond
  396. LOCKHEED MARTIN
  397. CHS
  398. Winston
  399. Vodacom
  400. Qtel
  401. ROGERS
  402. Xerox
  403. ROSNEFT (????????)
  404. BOMBARDIER
  405. ECHOSTAR
  406. National Bank of Greece
  407. Schindler
  408. TDC
  409. 7-Eleven
  410. Mild Seven
  411. Lagardere
  412. Colruyt
  413. Ch?bu Electric Power
  414. KERRY
  415. SK telecom
  416. Nippon Steel
  417. KIA
  418. Kuehne + Nagel
  419. Marathon
  420. Telmex
  421. CIBC
  422. Japan Airlines
  423. Infosys
  424. Henkel
  425. VIVO
  426. Campbell’s
  427. GENERALI DEUTSCHLAND
  428. Maersk
  429. Warner Bros.
  430. ACE
  431. China Merchants Bank
  432. JR West
  433. BNSF RAILWAY
  434. TELIA
  435. bhpbilliton
  436. Kraft
  437. Gerdau
  438. Areva
  439. ICICI Bank
  440. KYOCERA
  441. GAP
  442. Legal & General
  443. Vienna Insurance
  444. Casino
  445. SHINSEGAE
  446. Telesp
  447. Toray
  448. FUJIFILM
  449. SHISEIDO
  450. Yamato
  451. Hannover Re
  452. CSX
  453. Mobil
  454. Continental
  455. EIFFAGE
  456. BRITISH AIRWAYS
  457. Aisin
  458. Sodexo
  459. CN
  460. Marriott
  461. BYD
  462. Magnit
  463. Wendel
  464. BB&T
  465. Hochtief
  466. Cetelem
  467. SEB
  468. BAXTER
  469. Severstal
  470. C.H. ROBINSON
  471. Tokya
  472. Blackstone
  473. Midea
  474. PUMA
  475. G4S
  476. CSR
  477. Continental Airlines
  478. UNITED
  479. Oxy
  480. NTT DATA
  481. ADP
  482. DnB NOR
  483. Syngenta
  484. Shanghai Pudong Development…
  485. KEPCO
  486. FNCA
  487. Vale
  488. Telekom Austria
  489. T.J. Maxx
  490. Televisa
  491. TELUS
  492. UNIQLO
  493. Rexel
  494. next
  495. Sumitomo
  496. Xstrata
  497. Yamada
  498. Franklin Templeton Investments
  499. KOMATSU
  500. LIBERTYGLOBAL

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