Happy Sankranthi

The ubiquitous harvest festival is here! It signifies new beginnings and brings with it a spirit of togetherness, success and prosperity.

Here's wishing you and your Family a Happy Sankranthi and Pongal !!!

Kite Festival at Necklace road

For three days, there is a Kite Festival is celebrated at the People’s Plaza, Necklace road. On the eve of Sankranthi Festival, every year Kite Festival is celebrated at the Necklace road located on the banks of the Hussain Sagar lake. Every year, the admirers of Kites from all over the world come here to participate in this Kite festival and the local citizens of Hyderabad take the pleasure of flying the kites along with these admirers with their variety designs of Kites.

In this year of 2009, A Voluntary Organization working for the Hearing impaired Children “ASHRAY-AKRUTI” is organizing the KITE Festival in order to support the hearing impaired children. The Inaugural ceremony of Kite Festival will start at 4:00 pm on Tuesday, January 13, 2009. This Kite Festival is long for three days and ends on the 15th of January at 10:00 pm. The Fans and admirers of Kites will participate in this event to make the Celebration even more brightful.

About Pongal

How kite flying and Pongal (or Makara Sankranthi) are related no on eknows for sure, but this is the day when you can see people across India flying kites, more so in Hyderabad. Kites of all sizes,colours, designs and patterns fight with each other for their place under the sun. Pongal marks the beginning of the harvest season and the sun’s journey to the ‘Tropic of cancer’.

Pongal (or Sankranthi) is one of the biggest festivals of South India and it is celebrated for Three continuous days. These days are known as Bhogi Festival, Sankranthi Festival and Kannuma Festival.

How does a lie detector work?

Lie detector, also knows as a polygraph, is generally used using interrogation by police.

The instrument works by recording our physiological functions such as blood pressure, heartbeat, respiration and perspiration. A pnuemograph tube is fastened around the subject's chest and a blood-pressure-pulse cuff is strapped around the arm. Psycho-galvanic skin reflex (electro-dermal response) and flow of current between different parts of the body are also measured.

Sensitive electrodes are used to pick up the impulses which are recorded on a moving graph paper. The parameters are recorded when a suspect answers questions put to him by an operator. The data is then used as a basis for deciding whether the person is lying or not.

When a person lies, the graph deviates from the normal shape in one or more of the body functions. Such changes occur due to our emotional response to telling a lie.

While most of the questions asked are interrelated, some are included to improve the test's accuracy. The questions are usually answered in ‘yes', ‘no' mode only.

The modern polygraph was first constructed in 1921 by John a. Lagoon, a medical student at the University of California, along with a police officer. His instrument was capable of continuously recording blood pressure, pulse and respiration. As it recorded these conditions simultaneously it was called a polygraph. Though this has been in use since 1924, it has not developed into a complete fool-proof system and is yet to be accepted judicially.

Citizens can reach Cops through a SMS to 9010100100

It is found that, when we dial a Toll Free Number 100 to reach the Cops of Hyderabad, either the number will be in a Engaged mode or No one lifts the call. People are finding it difficult to access the dialed number `100'. Though the caller hears the ring when they dial the number, the call was not landing at the control room.To find a solution to this problem, The Police department has come up with a special feature as – ‘SMS to Cops at number 9010100100.

From this New Year 2009, everyone can send their complaints or information about a Terror through this SMS facility. When any Short message service(SMS) is sent to the number, operators at the control room will alert the concerned police station based on the information obtained through SMS.

Every Cell phone user who wants to send a SMS can send their message based on these various categories – the complaints can be anyone among Traffic, Terrorism, Women, Crime, and Others. The SMS sender should first enter the category then followed by their composed complaint/issue message. But just like Toll Free Number ‘100’, these SMS messages sent will be charged by the Mobile Service providers which may vary from 50 paisa to Re.1.

Note while claiming insurance

Excess Amount:
The insurer will define a amount that can be managable by the insured for general insurance(Insurance for vehicles, etc). This amount is called the excess amount.If your claim is less than or equal to this excess amount, you will not get the claimed amount because excess amount will be deductible from claim.
Please cross check what is the excess amount while applying insurance for your vehicles.

Logic of Emergency 108 in Hyderabad

Do you know the logic of emergency "108" (ambulance) ?
Your birthday year(last 2 digits)+ your current age=108 for anyone. Its great, try this. It worked for me, sorry for not getting.