Tujhe Bhula Diya : A Nice Song from Anjaana Anjaani

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Just saw this movie Anjana Anjani. Nice movie, but the plot is somewhat crap.

Ranbir went to commit suicide and met Prinaka while trying to jump from a bridge. They were about to jump and suddenly coast guards and cops catches them. Again they tried to commit suicide and failed. They tried again and again and failed all the time (can you believe that?).

Then they decided to try again after 20 days and meantime they…

No, not gonna tell you more than that, go and watch the movie. You’re gonna like it for sure.

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IPL 3 : KKR Started with a blast

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Cheers to all the KKR fans around the world.

At last we have something to cheer about. The first mach in IPL 3 (IPL 2010) between Deccan Chargers and Kolkata Knight Riders just over and KKR defeated the defending champion DC by 11 runs. wow!!!

KKR had a bad start early by loosing 2 precious wickets of Manoj Tiwary and Sourav Ganguly with no runs at scoreboard and then Hodge and Pujara at 31. Then Angelo Mathews (65 Not Out) and Owais Shah (58 Not Out) took the game to DC.

Kolkata Knight Riders

Kolkata Knight Riders

DC had a vary good start as Adam Gilchrist scored a knocking 54 in just 35 balls and Laxman was well supporting him. Laxman, who was out for 22 runs was first to go. Then Gilchrist and Gibbs tried to build the partnership. After their departure, no one was enough to stand in front of KKR Bowlers.

KKR All the way :)

PayPal Resuming Services to India

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From 1st February, 2010, PayPal stopped the Bank Withdrawal and receiving money as “Personal Payment” to and from India. That created havoc panic throughout Indian PayPal users and they (PayPal) claims that they have restored the withdrawal process.

PayPal

According a blog post made by Farhad Irani (Head in PayPal Business, Asia Pacific) on 26th February, PayPal resumed the withdrawal.

I’m pleased to tell you that the RBI has now allowed us to resume bank withdrawals for settlements for exports of goods and services.

But, the actual scenario is a little different. A screenshot bellow will show that a withdrawal request made on 1st March is still pending as on 6th March, 2010. It’s because the user requested it before the fully implement the “Purpose Code”.

PayPal Withdrawal

There was another update from Farhad on 1st March, with instructions on how to proceed to withdrawals in proper way. According to him, you have to select a purpose for your withdrawal. I guess this is something that force users to show the money on tax files.

When you select the ‘Withdraw Funds’ option on your PayPal account after March 3rd, we will ask you to fill out a new field entitled ‘Purpose Code’.   This information is required under the laws of India in order to identify the nature of cross-border merchant transactions.

The last update was from Anuj Nair on 4th of March officially stating the restored service.

But, there is still no update for the “Personal Payment” option to send/receive money to or from India and no update on the fees taken while reversing those payments. This is still a concern as many of us lost thousands of dollars for that. I hope that they now focus on the matter.

PayPal India Crisis Spreading Panic

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As we all might know, PayPal a leading online payment processor is reversing all the personal payments to and from India which are made on or after 1st February, 2010. Which spread a panic to merchants all over the India who uses PayPal to send or receive money.

Below is a Standard Notification Email that people are receiving.

Hello XXXX,

Your payment of xxx.xx has been sent back to the sender of the payment.

We reversed this payment because we have stopped allowing personal payments to be sent to or from India.

If this was a payment for a purchase of goods or services, and not a personal payment, then you may contact the buyer and have him or her resend the payment as follows: (a) click the Send Money tab, (b) select “Goods,” and (c) provide a shipping address.

If this payment was a personal payment such as a gift, then we have requested that the sender find another payment method until we restore personal payments to and from India.

We are trying to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and we’re sorry for any inconvenience.

Thank you,
PayPal

Personal payments is a mode of payment is PayPal where neither the sender nor the receiver has to pay the transaction fee as the payment was made as Gift or Payment Owned. Later, the payments sent as “Services” or “Good Sales” with a shipping address also were getting reversed.

This made the situation worse as the email they sent out for reversals clearly mentioned that payments are allowed only if the payment made as Service or Goods with a Shipping Address.

Its not only that. Withdrawals to Local Banks in INR is also halted since January 26. PayPal is canceling the withdrawals to cover up the negative fund balance which caused due to the reversals.

There are various blog posts and News Article on the issue, but I’d like to highlight some of them. A post by Manish at plugged.in a thread in Digital Point Forums and a post in TechCrunch. You can see how people are panicked, angry, frustrated and hopeless loosing all their money.

There was absolutely no notice given prior to take the actions and no official updates on the issue till yesterday. There was a post on official PayPal Blog from Anuj Nair, Communication Team, PayPal. He Says..

Hi blog readers, it’s Anuj from the communications team here.

I’m writing to let you know that personal payments to and from India and transfers to local banks in India have been suspended while we work with our business partners and other stakeholders to address questions they have about the service.

During this time, customers can still make commercial payments to India but merchants cannot withdraw funds in Rupees to local Indian banks.

We’re trying to resolve the situation as quickly as possible and we’re really sorry for the inconvenience that this may cause our customers in India and around the world.

I’ll update the blog as soon as we have more information to share.

Anuj

Who are these business partners, Anuj? RBI? Government of India? Indian Banks? Or you are trying to hide something from customers? No one knows. If that, its not a safe and legal business practice. You have so much questions to answer.

No one knows how long it might take to resolve the issue and I’d suggest everyone who got compromised to keep cool and wait till the next update from PayPal officials.

Update (09 Feb, 2010)
It seems the withdraw issue is being resolved slowly. PayPal is now reversing the pending bank transfers through EFT to PayPal account. The fees (Currency Conversation Fee and Withdrawl Fee) are also being reverted.

They are sending out emails again to notify people. Below is a standard email format that they are using.

Thank you for your patience while we work to address the issue of processing withdrawals to Indian bank accounts.

We expect to have this issue resolved within the next few days. In the meantime, we’re going to restore the amount of your recent withdrawal into your PayPal balance so that you can know your money is safe in your account. You should see the balance restored within 24 hours. In addition, you will see a reimbursement of any withdrawal fees charged. We will ensure that you are not adversely affected by currency fluctuations during the last week.

In your transaction log, you will soon see that your PayPal withdrawal request has been reversed. We ask that you wait to submit another bank withdrawal request until we have addressed the processing issue. We will contact you again in a few days with an update and, if the issue is resolved, you can initiate another withdrawal at that time. In the meantime, you will have the ability to spend your balance to purchase goods or services if you choose.

Again, we apologize for the inconvenience this has caused.

Thank You,

PayPal

But still no update for the reversed personal payments.

Starting to Hate Nokia

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I know it’s not possible to satisfy all the customers, but at least providing them a good after sale service should have some priority.

I bought my new Nokia N97 Mini the day it released in India, i.e 28th November, 2009 from a Nokia Priority Dealer at Barasat, Kolkata. I has a born faulty touchscreen and QWERTY keypad. Since the bill was generated and I payed for the phone, there was nothing that NPD can do but console me.

Nokia N97 Mini
Anyway, I bought that phone and made a hard format by the 3 combination keys and the phone back to normal. Can you believe it, I had to hard format the handset even before I can start using it!! Shame on Nokia.

Everything was okay for a week and suddenly the phone hung. Nothing was working, the touchscreen, keypad or even the Power button. I had to remove the battery and then insert it again to power up the phone. It booted till the handshake logo appeared. Tried this several times and resulted the same.

I bought the phone to the Nokia Care (Not mentioning the Care Center name, but it’s at the Sector V, Salt Lake, Kolkata) and they told that a firmware upgrade is required. To let you know, there is no upgraded firmware available at the writing of this post for N97 Mini. What the did is flash the phone and reinstall the same version of the OS.

They returned the phone within one hour. When I was checking, it was still had that touchscreen issue, but the said, it’s nothing to worry about. Fine, I returned my home with the phone and as soon as I reached home, the problems are back. I called them and they said to bring the phone again for checkup. The next day I went there and another engineer attended me. He said, they have to send the phone to factory and might take a couple of weeks. It was okay with me as I was having a fully dead phone by then. Its now almost three weeks and they yet to return my phone.

I hate Nokia

Update (22-01-2010) : Finally I receive the handset yesterday, i.e 21st January. It seems to working now. I’ll do some hard test again to check it’s functionality. What I wonder is that Nokia didn’t even provided a standby set while it was repaired.