Career News 17 August 2013

Career News 17 August 2013 , Part 1

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How to submit Employees Provident Fund Organisation online transfer claim

Employers under the jurisdiction of Chennai region should obtain and upload their digital signature certificate on to the EPFO portal, said S D Prasad, regional provident fund commissioner.

The digital signature certificate can be obtained from sites like www.safescrypt.com, www.nic.in, www.idrbtca.org.in, www.tcs-ca.tcs.co.in, www.mtnltrustline.com, www.ncodesolutions.com and www.e-Mudhra.com.

After obtaining the digital signature, employers have to register and upload it on to the EPFO portal. On completing the process of registration and uploading, the employer has to forward a photocopy of the system generated letter to the nodal officer, EPFO, regional office, Chennai.

The letter should be signed by the employer and an authorized signatory.
The employer can upload details of maximum three authorized signatories.

Glimpses of the India Story Second Phase Unveiled

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on 14 August 2013 unveiled the second phase of comprehensive multi-media initiative Glimpses of the India Story. 

The initiative captures the journey of the country’s development through various programmes and policies launched by the UPA government during the last ten years.

The programmes of the UPA include Direct Benefits Transfer, Aadhar, Food Security, Real Estate regulation and Land Acquisition Bill. The content of the initiative reiterates the commitment of the government to the people.

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has taken an initiative to inform the people about the measures taken by the UPA Government during last 10 years which empowered them, brought a silent resolution and developed a basic structure based on rights.

NASA’s Kepler space telescope will no longer

NASA’s Kepler space telescope will no longer scan the universe for Earth-like planets, the space agency has said, after attempts to fix a critical piece of equipment failed.

Chief Kepler scientist William Borucki said-

Now at the completion of the Kepler observations we know that our galaxy is filled to the brim with planets.” He said it is likely most stars have planets and many host Earth-like planets. 

Just a few of those planets however are close enough to their stars to potentially host life.

Kepler has identified 135 confirmed planets and more than 3,500 potential planets, including a handful that look similar to Earth.

The Kepler space telescope is finely tuned enough to detect Earth-sized planets orbiting distant stars. The 590-million-dollar telescope programme scanned a large swath of the Milky Way galaxy, which contains about 4.5 million stars.

Its primary mission ended last year, but scientists had hoped to extend it to 2016 to identify planets in the so-called habitable zones that like Earth could harbour life. 

Chidambaram launched national skill certification and monetary reward scheme

Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram launched the National Skill Certification and Monetary Reward Scheme in New Delhi today.

This scheme is likely to benefit about one million young men and women in the next 12 months.

The Finance Minister had first announced the scheme in parliament in his budget speech for this fiscal, and set aside a provision of 1,000 crore rupees towards this.

The minister said the National Skill Development Corporation will set the curriculum and standards for training in different skills and any institution or body may offer training courses. Upon completion the candidate then has to take a test conducted by authorised agencies.

Chidambaram had said that upon passing the test, the candidate will be given a certificate as well as a monetary reward of an average of 10,000 rupees per candidate.

In his Independence Day address yesterday, the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh promised a new scheme soon, targeting some one million beneficiaries, under which trained youth will get some form of financial assistance.

C. Aravindhavalli’s 73 year-old to get PhD from Madras University

C. Aravindhavalli will receive her doctorate, on the music of Thirumangai Alvar.

Ms. Aravindhavalli will be one of the few candidates who will receive their PhDs from Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.

She had completed B.A. in music.

She had grandchildren to look after and I did not know how it would seem if I attended classes at that age. 

But then her granddaughter sent her  notebooks from Mumbai to encourage her , and she decided to go ahead.

She said, --was a tribute to her father who was a Tamil professor. “This year is his 101st birth anniversary. He has guided many students into finishing their studies. He would be proud of me today.

Free bicycles for Tripura BPL girl students

50,000 girl students in Tripura living below the poverty line would get a bicycle each free as an incentive to reduce the school drop out rate, CM Manik Sarkar said.

The state government has decided to give some incentives to girl students to reduce drop out rates. 50,000 girl students living below poverty line will get bicycles free of cost in addition to existing benefits like free text books,

Girl students in Class XI and XII with a family income less than 1.25 lakhs per annum would get the benefit.

The total financial implication for the scheme would be Rs 15 crore per annum on the state exchequer.

Zara founder Rosalia Mera dies at 69

Spanish billionaire who co-founded the Zara fashion label and helped turn the holding company into one of the world's largest clothing retailers, has died. She was 69.

Mera co-founded Inditex with her then-husband, Amancio Ortega, who began his career in clothing manufacturing in 1963 before the couple opened their first Zara store in the 1970s. 

Initially making women's bathrobes, the company expanded to sell eight different brands, including Massimo Dutti and Bershka, with more than 6,000 stores in 86 markets. Sales in 2012 reached $21 billion.

Mera's estimated net worth of $5.5 billion made her Spain's richest woman, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Rosalia Mera Goyenechea was born on January 28, 1944, in a working-class neighborhood of La Coruna, a northwestern city in Spain's Galicia region. 

She dropped out of school at age 11 to work as a sales assistant in a clothing shop. 

Mera married Ortega in 1966.