RAS 2007 Medical Test of Candidates

Date, time and venue of Medical test of RAS 2007 Exam

 

Raj.State & Sub-ordinate Services Exam. 2007 : List of Candidates for Medical Test

 

 

 

 

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Rajasthan HC stayed the Quota for Gurjars and Other Economically backward classes

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Today on 13th Oct. 2009 The Rajasthan High Court has stayed the quota provided by the state government to Gurjars and other economically-backward communities as it breached the 50 per cent limit set on reservations.

A division bench of Chief Justice Jagdish Bhalla and justice M N Bhandari yesterday stayed the reservation given by the state government to these communities as it exceeded the 50 per cent limit fixed for total reservation.

The order was passed on a letter petition filed by some students of University of Rajasthan.

The division bench in the order observed that "we have examined the letter in the light of the order of Supreme Court in the light of Indra Shwayani's judgement and find that the reservation granted by the government to Gurjar community and EBCs is not in consonance to the settled legal provisions and hence the excess reservation is stayed".

source : PTI NEWS

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 jointly to
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge,
United Kingdom
Thomas A. Steitz, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Ada E. Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"

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Phishing attempt at many hotmail and live email account

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As per BBC NEWS and Microsoft's site there has been a big phishing attempt on several e mail accounts specially hotmail and live email accounts were compromised so if you have logged in on your hotmail or live account during the last weekend then check out whether your account is safe or not and even if you have not logged in its better to change your password. It's said that the email id and password were posted on a site named http://pastebin.com/ said to be used by developers for code purposes but as per some other sites it's used by many people for sharing such things from last few months.

Phishing :

In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT administrators are commonly used to lure the unsuspecting public. Phishing is typically carried out by e-mail or instant messaging, and it often directs users to enter details at a fake website whose look and feel are almost identical to the legitimate one. Even when using server authentication, it may require tremendous skill to detect that the website is fake. Phishing is an example of social engineering techniques used to fool users, and exploits the poor usability of current web security technologies. Attempts to deal with the growing number of reported phishing incidents include legislation, user training, public awareness, and technical security measures.

A phishing technique was described in detail in 1987, and the first recorded use of the term "phishing" was made in 1996. The term is a variant of fishing, probably influenced by phreaking, and alludes to baits used to "catch" financial information and passwords.

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