Surajkund International Crafts Mela 2016

30th Surajkund Crafts Fair (Mela) is one of the most famous fairs, organized every year in Surajkund, Haryana, Near Delhi, by Haryana Tourism Department to promote handicrafts items. Many talented artists come from India and across the World to showcase their handlooms, handicrafts, traditional handicraft items of their respective states. It's starting on 1st of February.

A splash of colours, rhythm of drum beats and joy de-vivre merges at Surajkund in Faridabad, Haryana during the first fortnight of each February. It is a celebration of Indian folk traditions and cultural heritage. This is an international event as it attracts hundreds of foreign travellers. The Mela sees a footfall of over a million visitors through out the fortnight. 

The Mela is organized by the Surajkund Mela Authority & Haryana Tourism in collaboration with Union Ministries of Tourism, Textiles, Culture and External Affairs. This year the state of Telangana has been chosen to be the Theme State. All the Indian states and 20 different countries will be a part of this huge gala festival. 

Telangana’s diverse crafts and dance forms will offer a veritable treat for visitors. Get ready to witness Telangana’s rich culture, tradition and exclusive artefacts made by the artisans that are in great demand throughout the world. Telangana’s historical designs on cloth and folk and traditional arts are well known and have been passed down to generations of artisans and weavers.


How to Reach:


Click to checkout the Haryana Tourism website for details. 

Mumbai Bazaar Biggest flea of 2016 | Mumbai

Get ready for 3 Days of Total Bliss, Tempting Food, Shopping Madness and Unlimited Fun and Masti? Mumbai Bazaar - A perfect start of New Year 2016 and Celebrate Makar Sankrati. Satiate your shopping appetite by getting your hands on Super Creative Designs, variety of Fashion, Art, Accessories, Home décor and Lifestyle Products. Or simply Indulge into Mouthwatering, Delicious Dishes of your choice be it Roadside Fast Food, Experimental World Cuisine or Mumbai’s famous vadapav you name it and you’ll get it.

A separate World of Fun and Frolic for our Little Chipmunk Guests . A Kid’s Zone with Play Area lot of Games and fascinating Art Workshops. Also witness some Jaw Dropping Live Performances by fine artists and young talented troops and Famous DJ and Celebrities like Vidyut Jamwal, Zulfi Sayed, Shawar Ali, VJ Andy will grace the event. Special attraction Master chef Emanuel showcasing his skills.

Day Wise Schedule

Day 1 - 15th Jan
The Cascading twilight emanates with the intervention of serene flow of music.

Mumbai Streets are filled with extra ordinary talent.

Talent is an ability which is a gift from the divine and if it is gifted by the divine then there is no chance of discrimination.

Such few talents we have hand-picked and intend to showcase them and offer them their deserved 15 mins of fame.

6-6:50 pm :: The old man and his hypnotic flute
7:00 pm – 7:50 :: The mystical Accordion played by Mr. Lobo
8:00 pm – 8:45 pm :: Wonder woman Mrunalini
9:00 – 10 pm  :: Vasudha Sharma

Day 2 – 16th Jan
The subtle shades of the eve changes with spunk …because there’s no more to say but…its Saturday!!!!

Glee and frolic is going to be the flavor and energy will be the nights Acid.

With PARTY in the mind, will commence the eve with a scintillating performances.

6:00 pm – 7: 00 pm  :: the stage is going to be fired up by this troop known as the Nach Dance Academy.
7:15 – 7:45 ::  Hip Hop Time (Vishal Nitish group will give you that push and grind)
8:00 – 8:15 ::  follow the genre we got B3G in the house!!!!
8:30 – 9:45 ::  Sponsor prime slot
9:45 – 10:15 – 9:30 pm  :: Shantanu Sudame (A musical voyage of all the Eras by our very own Shankar Bhattacharjee)

Day 3- 17th Jan
The weekend ends in a Pace and as it’s the finale, so we set the electrifying.

5:30- 6:00 pm :: 5 DJ’s , Zulfi Sayed – 45 mins, Kya Kool Hai Hum Grand Promotion with full cast- hosted by Andy, Vidyut Jamval

Come, Indulge and Shop till you Drop Only at Apna Mumbai Bazaar.
What : Mumbai Bazaar (Fb)
When: 15th -16th -17th January, 2016
Where: MMRDA Ground, Bandra Kurla Complex

Entry Fees : 150/Per Day 

Launch of India’s 1st Neighbour-Network App – NearGroup

To unlock the potential of neighbourhood and solve various concerns, NearGroup.in – India’s first social networking app for neighbourhood has been launched in the market today. The launch is backed by a survey indicating 72% of people in India face neighbourhood related issues every month. NearGroup is India’s 1st Free Mobile-App for Neighborhood-Network for users to interact with verified neighbours, build a better neighbourhood, meet like-minded people living nearby, find support for work, solve problems together etc.

The app will assist users to solve women-safety issues in their colony; carpool with nearby people; make local-friends; seek child-care advice from nearby parents; meet similar professionals; borrow items like hammer/ladder etc. More than 20,000 users in Delhi NCR alone registered for the app before its launch.

Speaking at the launch of NearGroup, its Founder, Prashant Pitti, an alumni from IIT-Madras, said “We live in a digital world where boundaries have blurred and people across geographies are connected like never before. Yet, most of us are unaware of who lives in our neighbourhood and in times of need, we travel distances without seeking the help of our neighbours. With the launch of NearGroup, we aim to connect like- minded neighbours for networking opportunities, resolve concerns, build a better neighbourhood to ultimate make our country an even better place to live in. We are confident that the app will appeal to all users”

How will it help people?

1. Seek Help from Neighbours:
- Lost Dog or Keys
- Need to Borrow a Book or a Ladder
- Need to Carpool
- Find Maid, Plumber, Doctor, Electrician, Cook
- Solve together Electricity, Water, Sanitation & Safety issues
- Refer-Jobs within neighbours for career growth
- Discuss their Job with same-field professionals

2. Develop Hobbies along with Neighbours:
- Play Sports together
- Hangout for dinners or movies
- Volunteer together for a nearby-cause
- Exercise, Yoga, Jogging or Mediate together

How to join?

To be a part of your neighbourhood community, users need to download the App (Android / iOS) and register themselves by selecting their Location & Interest. User interest could be: carpool, parenting, sports, yoga, running, gym, dance, painting, cooking, exam-preparations, travelling, start-ups, work-profile, and many others. Depending upon their selection, each user will become part of Groups. Users can only communicate, discuss & meet with members of the Joined-group.

What about Privacy and Security?

NearGroup App allows its users to interact with neighbours. We wish to keep only genuine-users & good-quality of discussion on NearGroup.
Each user has to sign-in via Facebook only so the company can verify their profiles before approving them to be a part of NearGroup. Only genuine users are approved to be members of the group.
User’s mobile-number, Facebook profile, & Location are not shared with any other user.

Starting work before 10 AM is equivalent to torture and is making staff sick and stressed: Researcher

When I saw this study, I knew I needed to compose an article about it, however I chose immediately that it would most likely must be composed after 10 AM.

Dr. Paul Kelley, a researcher at Oxford University, has deductively validated the claim that about each worker to ever live has made: that it sucks to work before 10 AM. In an interview, Kelley said:

"Before the age of 55, the circadian rhythms of grown-ups are totally out of sync with normal nine-to-five working hours, representing a "serious threat" to performance, mood and mental health."

With that data, Kelley has verified that there should be a global shift in the way we work beginning our work days after the fact, as well as beginning our kids' school days after the fact also. Studies have demonstrated that the normal 10-year-old battles to concentrate on school work on the off chance that it happens before around 8:30 AM and that the best instructive results happened at around 11 AM.

Dr. Kelley affirms that the general instructive experience youngsters get, if it somehow managed to happen toward the evening as opposed to morning, would bring about a general evaluation increment by 10% no matter how you look at it. Obviously, beginning mid-morning doesn't simply help kids.

"Staff are generally sleep denied." Kelley declares. "We have a sleep-denied society. It is enormously harming on the body's frameworks in light of the fact that you are influencing physical passionate and performance frameworks in the body. Your liver and your heart have distinctive patterns and you're requesting that they shift a few hours. This is a global issue. Everybody is enduring and they don't need to."

"On the off chance that we take a gander at the associations between the human body, Earth, and the light from the sun's common rhythms, it isn't generally conceivable to change its 24 hour cycle. Later begin times ought to influence each part of society, including jails and healing facilities. In these settings, individuals are typically woken up and given nourishment they don't need. You're more biddable in light of the fact that you're thoroughly out of it. Sleep deprivation is a torture," Kelley proceeded.

Facebook Announces The Winners Of The Internet.Org Innovation Challenge In India

The Internet.org Innovation Challenge in India bolsters our vision of a joined world by perceiving individuals why should working make the internet more relevant to women, understudies, farmers and migrant laborers in India. We will probably empower the advancement of applications, sites and online administrations that give genuine quality to the individuals from these critical groups.

In India, just 18 percent of the population has access to the internet. To get one billion individuals India online, the internet should be open, moderate and, in particular, we have to individuals comprehend the conceivable outcomes accessible to them online. Each of the entries we got has a section in making an associated India and we are eager to declare the 12 winners crosswise over four categories: Farmers, Migrants, Students and Women.

We are displaying four $250,000 USD Innovation Challenge Award prizes: one to the main application, site, administration or thought that best addresses the issues of each of the assigned populace categories, and two $25,000 USD Impact Award prizes have been allowed in every class. The winners are:

Farmers

Innovation Challenge Award Winner: eKutir, gives farmers devices and resources to bolster them all through the whole farming lifecycle, from harvest determination to the support and deals process. The administration empowers farmers and groups by changing over a divided framework into a worked together and associated disseminated model.

Impact Award Winner: Farmily, empowers farmers to reach new purchasers and arrange better costs for rural produce. Disintermediation of the center man in the farmer and purchaser interface.

Impact Award Winner: Farmalytics, expects to make Precision Providing so as to farm simple and moderate cutting edge sensor innovation with strong Analytics to offer farmers some assistance with making data driven decisions like each different business of the 21st century.

Women

Innovation Challenge Award Winner: mySangham, gives vocational training and skill building designed for women empowerment in 100 beginning recognized towns and groups. The administration means to fortify the financial and social security of the country by empowering India's masses with vocational skills in a quick paced, savvy, adaptable path through an online stage.

Impact Award Winner: Embrace Angel, outfits the power of mobile, internet, sensor, and huge data advances to take into account the requirement for neo-natal consideration in non-urban (level 2/3 markets), where an application permits healthcare and therapeutic experts to broaden their backing from a focal arrangement of pooled resources to far off areas.

Impact Award Winner: Rang de Habba, an eStorefront for ethnic products, with an emphasis on supporting neighborhood women artisans. The objective is to likewise expand the worth maintenance to the artisans who are generally abused by more business brands and stages, famous in the business sector.

Student

Innovation Challenge Award Winner: BodhaGuru, makes self-learning products, immersive mobile based learning applications, recordings and a book distributed stage to make learning for youngsters from KG to eighth grade fascinating, relevant and reasonable. Concentrates on creating inventive intuition in kids through storytelling.

Impact Award Winner: Fundamentor, utilizes gamification to fabricate and ingrain life skills for youthful kids in third through ninth grade. The administration concentrates on scientific, verbal, reasoning and basic deduction skills.

Impact Award Winner: LetsIntern, gives understudies from level 2-3 urban communities with internship opportunities by uniting them with small to media estimated businesses by means of an online portal.

Migrants

Advancement Challenge Award Winner: Helper4U, an online database of jobs that matches semi-skilled migrants in particular categories with potential employers. Concentrated on handling a large need to make straightforwardness, and help migrants specialists discover jobs by removing the mediator who take a large divide of their salary as commission.

Impact Award Winner: Mygram, empowers migrants by offering them some assistance with securing a computerized personality. The SMS-based email administration is focused for clients who are new to the internet. At whatever point some individual sends you an email, you will get a SMS with a connection to that mail. Their email location is <your-telephone number>@mygram.in

Impact Award Winner: mHS City Labs, gives an online store of resources and specialized instruments for migrants who are included in minimal effort development and may need direction on fundamental building workmanship. Objective is to enhance their skill set through how-to instructional exercises.

The challenge was judged by:

Arun Bansal, SVP and Head of Radio, Ericsson
Chris Daniels, VP, Internet.org/Facebook
Ameet Suri, Partnerships Manager, Internet.org/Facebook
Raj Talluri, SVP of Product Management, Qualco

European court declares Bitcoin exchange tax-free

The European Court of Justice decided on Thursday that Bitcoin and other virtual currencies can be exchanged tax-free, reports Bloomberg. 

The order takes after a dispute in Sweden that emerged last June between the nation's tax power and Bitcoin forum operator Daniel Hedqvist about whether cryptocurrencies ought to be conceded tax-free status in the nation. 

The court ruled: 

"Transactions to exchange conventional currencies for units of the bitcoin virtual money (and the other way around) constitute the supply of administrations since they comprise of the exchange of distinctive method for installment." 

It additionally noticed that barring such transactions from the tax exceptions given to customary exchanges "would deny it of some portion of its belongings," since the exclusion's point is to counter "the troubles joined with deciding the taxable sum and the measure of VAT deductible." 

In July, the court's Advocate General said in an opinion document that Bitcoin operations ought to be absolved from Value Added Tax (VAT). 

The decision spells a major win for Bitcoin adopters, as it implies that individuals in Europe can purchase Bitcoin with fiat coin without paying taxes on their buy. It puts forth an in number defense for utilizing cryptocurrencies for international transactions. 

It presents an in number defense for utilizing cryptocurrencies for international transactions.

Akismet XSS Vulnerability : Wordpress Security Update

A scientist from Sucuri told us of a XSS vulnerability in the Akismet WordPress plugin. This bug influences all versions of the Akismet WordPress plugin since 2.5.0, however we have no confirmation that it has been misused in nature. 

A vulnerability in Akismet found a week ago and due to fact that Akismet is a standout amongst the most broadly utilized plugins for WordPress, we needed to draw it out into the open. 

Akismet is a comment spam channel for WordPress and when all is said in done, it makes an awesome showing. The Akismet team reported on their web journal a week ago that a cross website scripting (XSS) vulnerability had been found in all versions of Akismet since 2.5.0. 

The vulnerability permits an hacker to post a remark on a WordPress site which will execute javascript in the WordPress administrator console. This is a normal XSS vulnerability example and one of the assaults it empowers would permit an aggressor to take a WordPress head's treats and increase regulatory access to a WordPress site. 

There is no proof that the vulnerability has been abused in nature. The Akismet and WordPress teams instantly took the accompanying activities: 

• They released updates for every single influenced version of Akismet. 
• The WordPress.org team issued an automatic upgrade of the Akismet plugin on influenced sites. In the event that you saw that your WordPress site was automatically moved up to the freshest version of Akismet, that is the reason. 
• The Akismet team adjusted their API so that if a hacker did attempt to endeavor a helpless version of Akismet, their API would shut the assault by sifting through the remark the hacker attempted to post. This means when the vulnerability was found and the Akismet team rolled out this improvement, even defenseless versions of Akismet were no more exploitable. 

Kudos to the Akismet team for reacting to this so quickly and completely. In case you're running Akismet, we prescribe you sign into your WordPress site and ensure that Akismet has been redesigned to the most up to date version. 

To update, visit the Updates page of your WordPress dashboard and take after the instructions. In the event that you have to download the plugin compress document straightforwardly, links to all versions are accessible in the WordPress plugins directory.