If you are like me who has spent lot of time in various cities of India, you too must be aware of the problems you faces when you need your ration card details and you don't have it. My ration card is with my parents who live in some other city and I am not even sure if the ration card exist or not.

Anyway so if you are looking to apply for ration card is not that difficult, though time consuming. I found this and this articles which covers most of the points but let me talk about few more things in detail.

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If you are fond of taking pics and posting it on various sites like photobucket and flickr to show it to your friends, you better be careful. The default settings of these sties allow anyone to view these pics which means the whole world has access to your pics and this can probably cause lot of embarrassment to you as once anything goes on internet, it can never be brought back

If you have even got poor service or support from any indian company (and the chance are very high that you have) then now you can write a complain about them at Complaints section of ekikrat website.

This is created by a friend of mine, aneesh and I think its an excellent idea that those guy are providing a platform for people to write so much, now what they need to do is to ask the authorities to write responses too as only then the circle will be completed as just people alone writing complaints probably won't solve the purpose.

Northern Indian Railways, the largest zone of the railways, was established in 1952. Headquartered in Baroda House, New Delhi, it serves eight states including Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh and the union territory of Chandigarh. This zone has always been a pioneer in the modernization of the Indian Railways.

The first computerized Indian Railways Ticket Reservation system was introduced here. Interactive Voice Response Systems, Automatic Teller Machines, Electronic Display Screens, Self Dial Telephone Reservation Inquiry Booth, Recorded Coach Guidance Display System, Reservation Availability Position Information Display and currency exchange facilities were introduced in this zone first before been implemented across the country.

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If you are looking to know everything about Indian Railways like how to check PNR status, about indianrail.gov.in or about IRCTC in general, here is a small guide for you.

1. To check PNR status of your ticket, you can look at indianrail.gov.in (it is the main site of indian railways and used by millions every month)

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Ok this is a little trivia question - what is the full form of IRCTC ? most of you probably knows , IR stands for Indian Railway but what about the rest ? IRCTS stands for Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation and it is part of Indian railways which manages food distribution and tourism as a part of indian railway service.

You can know more about catering department from this page as I myself dont' know much about it other then the fact that the cateerers who manages pantry cars charges way too much for stale parathas and curd which is almost water.

Employers scan your resume in 30 seconds. So, this is the actual time you get to impress him.

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You can know your PAN card status online from this service. Normally it takes 3 weeks for them to dispatch the card but it can take upto 6 weeks as well (as in my case) and since I don't live on the address where the card was dispatched, it was important for me to know when will I get it. So that service to know your Pan card did come handy. It is saying the card has been dispatched on 12th Sept, so it should have arrived by now. I will update this post when I will get my PAN card

Opening an bank account with Indian banks is not a very big issue today. If you fulfill the criteria, then you can get an account easily.

Know what you need

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