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PayPal India hits reboot
Mar 1st
PayPal confirmed late last week that the Reserve Bank of India had given it the go ahead to restart bank withdrawals in the country for settlements for exports of goods and services.
However, the company’s Asia-Pacific boss Farhad Irani warned that personal payments remained switched off.
“We are currently making changes to comply with Indian regulations for settlements for exports of goods and services, and we anticipate that as of Wednesday, March 3rd, we will be able to resume the bank withdrawal service,” he said in a PayPal blog post.
“As part of the changes, you will be required to fill out a new field entitled ‘Export Code’ when you request a withdrawal. This information is required under the current laws of India in order to identify the nature of cross-border merchant transactions.”
The RBI told PayPal to get its house in order by getting specific approvals to allow personal inward remittances to India, which Irani admitted the firm doesn’t currently have.
“Until we get these approvals, personal payments into India will remain suspended,” he said.
Paypal blocked Indian Transections
Feb 8th
Popular online payment service PayPal shocked several Indians and rest of the world by suspending payment transactions to and from India for more than a week. Anuj Nayar, spokesman from communications team for PayPal, posted on the official PayPal blog, that personal payments to and from India and the transfers to local banks in India have been suspended. This directly impacts several freelancers from various fields and businesses that depend on PayPal as a transaction gateway.
Though temporarily, PayPal has given a mini cardiac arrest to several India-based PayPal users by shunning payment transactions to and from India. Apart from that, these users can’t even transfer their funds to local Indian banks to withdraw their balance. All this was conveyed by a standard mailer that every India-based PayPal user received.
A.R.Rehman sings for Australia – India F’ship
Jan 16th
Forty thousand Sydneysiders Saturday night clapped and cheered as the ‘Mozart of Madras’ A.R. Rahman and his troupe provided a spectacular musical extravaganza to salute India-Australia friendship.
Seamlessly blending the traditional with the modern, the music spanned the differences of language, enthralling old and young, touching the very heart strings at a time when Australia-India bilateral relations have come under strain following attacks on Indians in this country.
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SRK & Twitter, simply cherry on a cake
Jan 7th
Shah Rukh Khan is a hit on Twitter. So is his imposter. The actor, who goes by the ID ‘iamsrk’ on the microblogging site, joined Twitter at 2:38 am on January 3, and the fake Shah Rukh followed up with the similar sounding ID ‘imsrk’ just an hour later, at 3:31 am.While the real Shah Rukh is amassing followers at a record speed, having a total of 41,890 followers so far, the fake ID is also garnering popularity, with over 3,190 followers already.
Interestingly, while Shah Rukh Khan follows 12 people, including actors Uday Chopra, Priyanka Chopra, Abhishek Bachchan and filmmaker Karan Johar, the fake one, only follows two — Johar, and The Onion, an American news source.
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Wow, Cartoon on mobile….Finally…
Dec 16th
Cartoon Network is very much popular channel, which serves cartoon with fun and that is the reason it has attracted everyone, including me 
.
Now, this channel will add one more feature to entertain cartoon lovers. Cartoon Network on Tuesday said it would make available its comic characters like Ben 10, Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo and Dexter on mobile handsets. hurray!!! “Comics of kids’ favourite Ben 10, Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo and Dexter will be now available on mobile handsets through telecom operators like Airtel, Idea, Reliance Mobile and TATA DoCoMo,” Cartoon Network said in a statement. Mobile users can download Cartoon Network comics at varied price points from Re one per day, Rs 10 per week and Rs 30 per month, depending on their operator.