Monday, March 21, 2011

Heart and Teeth relation

In one of the study conducted in Japan revealed that there is relation between teeth and cardiac arrest. The study unveiled, people having less than 24 teeth’s are more prone to heart attacks.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Television channel Permission

PERMISSION FOR UPLINKING A NON-NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS
TV CHANNEL.

TO set up Television channel
1.single tv channel 1.50 crore
for addinational channel 1 crore
Permission granted for ten years
processing fee ten thousand rupees

After being held eligible, the applicant company shall pay a permission fee at the rate
of Rs. Five Lakhs per channel.

For news channel
26% fDI allowed
51% equity stake should have indian citizen
All appointments of key personnel (executive and editorial) shall be made by the
applicant company without any reference on from any other company, Indian or
foreign.

The applicant company must have complete management control, operational
independence and control over its resources and assets and must have adequate
financial strength for running a news and current affairs TV channel.

CEO of the applicant company, known by any designation, and/ or Head of the
channel, shall be a resident Indian.
The Company should have a minimum Net Worth as prescribed below:
Item Required Net Worth

Single TV channel Rs. 3.00 Crore
For each additional TV channel Rs. 2.00 Crore

the applicant company shall pay a permission fee at the rate
of Rs. Five Lakhs per channel.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Price of Spectrum

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in their letter dated February 08, 2011 to the Secretary, Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has recommended the following estimated price as per the 2010 value of spectrum in 1800MHz band on per MHz basis for a period of 20 years.

i. Rs. 1769.75 Crores per MHz all India upto 6.2 MHz

ii. Rs. 4571.87 Crores per MHz all India beyond 6.2 MHz (incremental spectrum)

TRAI also recommended that these prices may be made applicable from 1.4.2010, prorated for the remaining validity of the respective licences while charging for excess spectrum. These recommendations are under consideration of the Government

Sharing of Messenger Services by Blackberry

Government had given January 31, 2011 as deadline to Blackberry as per their own commitment to provide a solution for Lawful Interception of messenger services in readable format to Intelligence and Security Agencies.

Research in Motion (RIM), the providers of Blackberry services, have not yet given the solution for interception of their Blackberry Enterprise Service (BES). According to RIM they do not possess any key for this service because communication offered through this service is dynamically encrypted. However, message in clear text can be obtained from the Enterprise Email Server, where it is in readable format.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Communications & Information Technology, Shri Sachin Pilot in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.

Protection of Sensitive Installations from but ‘Free Virus’

sophisticated virus called as “Stuxnet” was reported to be spreading worldwide since July 2010. The virus targets Industrial Control Systems. Some computer systems in India were also infected by the Stuxnet, but none of the infections have so far been reported in sensitive Industrial systems.