What are NRI Bonds?
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The Rupee has fallen significantly this year, and with Friday’s Current Account Deficit data release – it tumbled to a new low of 72.63 to a dollar today. There are reports of the government thinking about issuing NRI bonds to help with this depreciation and it seems like the government will be forced into action
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PCC: What to do when police verification is not clear?
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I had written about obtaining PCC (Police Clearance Certificate) about a month ago, and as a follow up to that post today I’m writing about a situation where you get a message that tells you the following: Police verification not clear, application under review at regional passport office My wife and I had applied for PCC
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Book Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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I’ve recently finished reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick, and it is quite a good science fiction novel. If you have ever seen Battlestar Gallactica then this book will remind you of that show a lot, although the movie Blade Runner is the one that’s actually based on this book.
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Weekend Links: July 24 2015
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The Greek crisis has subdued a little, and I think I’ve not seen anything more ludicrous recently. The Greek government seemed to have ruined their case terribly, and this article does a good job in providing a brief summary of how this played out. Germany played a leading role in working through the Greece situation, and
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A practical way of generating strong and unique passwords
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A few days ago OneMint was attacked, and embarrassingly enough someone or some machine had simply guessed my password. I now know that this wouldn’t be too hard as it would have taken a desktop PC just 3 days to figure out my password. I have been on a mission to change my passwords since
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Weekend Links: 17th July 2015
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Images of Pluto’s surface were all the rage this week, and I must have gone through several links, and still wanted to see more. Perhaps, what was more surprising about this was the cost of the expedition, at less than the cost of an American football stadium, this project costs much less than what I would have
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Book Review – A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan
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I recently finished reading A Bed of Red Flowers : In Search of My Afghanistan, and I was deeply moved by this book. This book is written by Nelofer Pazira who lived for ten years under the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan, escaped to Pakistan and emigrated to Canada from there. The book is her story about growing up
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Weekend Links: July 10 2015
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One of the most interesting things I came across this week was Google’s Deep Dream program. Basically, this is Google’s Image recognition program which they have flipped on its head to now create images. The results are a little freaky right now, but people have already found incredible uses with it and none more incredible than what Turkish
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How to apply for a Police Clearance Certificate for a Passport or Visa?
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I had to apply for a PCC (Police Clearance Certificate) recently, and I was surprised at the lack of information about this online even though this is a very important thing without which you can’t get a passport, and some countries don’t issue you a visa. In this post, I’m going to recount my experience
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