Top Indian Online News Websites.......

With internet penetration increasing in India, the online news consumption is also on the rise. According to latest ComScore report, India’s daily readership of online news and information has increased significantly. It has jumped by 34 percent in past one year.to 9.4 million average daily visitors to this category

The increase is not only in the number of visitors, but also the amount of time spent by Indians on these news sites. The report points that in August 2012, average minutes spent on news sites were pegged at 31.6 minutes as compared to 41.6 minutes in August 2013, an increase on 31 percent!.

Total user visits in month of August 2013 were 364.6 million as compared to 259.7 million in the same month last year.

Times of India is the clear leader in the news category with 12.7 million unique visitors in August 2013.

Here is the list of Top 20 Indian online news website:

1.   The Times of India (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/)

2.   Yahoo-ABC News Network (http://abcnews.go.com/)

3.   HT Media Ltd. (http://www.htmedia.in/)

4.   India Today Group (http://www.indiatodaygroup.com/)

5.   India.com Sites (http://www.india.com/)

6.   About (http://www.about.com/newsissues/)

7.   Jagran Sites (http://www.jagran.com/)

8.   NDTV (http://www.ndtv.com/)

9.   Oneindia.com Sites (http://news.oneindia.in/)

10. The Economic Times (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/)

11. The Hindu Group (http://www.thehindu.com/)

12. IBN Live (http://ibnlive.in.com/)

13. The Indian Express Group (http://www.indianexpress.com/)

14. Bhaskar (http://www.bhaskar.com/)

15. CNN Network (http://edition.cnn.com/)

16. BBC (http://www.bbc.com/)

17. Sify News & Information (http://www.sify.com/)

18. Navbharat Times (http://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/)

19. Firstpost.com (http://www.firstpost.com/)

20. HPMG News (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/)

Interestingly, 16 of the top 20 news sites in India are from local news publishers. India.com sites showed significant 25 percent growth and is now the 5th highest visited news site in India.

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Happy Janmashtami.........!!!

Pocket Money Rising: 75% of Indian Youth Spend INR 6000 per month On Cosmetics, Apparel & Mobile!

It’s unbelievable the amount of money today’s youth spend on things like cosmetics, apparels and mobiles. Go to any coffee shop and you will see teenagers spending over Rs. 100 for one coffee. I am just not able to digest this fact. And, this is not the case only with rich kids, the spending happens across the board.

An ASSOCHAM study conducted on the eve of “World Youth Day”, celebrated on August 12th, shows that about 75 percent of Indian youth (16 – 21 years old) spend more than Rs. 6000 on cosmetics, apparels and mobiles.

The findings were based on interactions with 2000 youngsters in 10 Indian cities. It revealed that their cosmetic consumption has gone up by about 65 percent in last 10 years.

10 years back, in 2003, the average expenditure done by urban Indian youth was less than Rs. 1500, which has risen multifold to Rs. 6000 in 2013.

According to the study, cosmetics and apparels account for majority of this spend. Majority of Indian youngsters spend over Rs. 4500 per month on cosmetics alone. This clearly points to the fact that looking good and appearances are increasingly becoming important to them. The rise in spending has been more pronounced in last 3 years since 2010 as compared to previous years.

Eating out is also one of the passions of today’s youth with around 15 percent of the pocket money is now being spent on food items as per the survey.

Interestingly, male counterparts spend more on cosmetics compared to females, mainly on items like men’s hair care products, deodorants, razors and blades.

Brands also play an important role for today’s Indian youth with 85 percent of them preferring expensive branded quality products over cheaper local ones.

The most surprising finding (which I am not too sure of) is that according to survey male consumers frequently change their handsets as many as two or three times in a month and generally have two mobile handsets with them.

Steps to update project detail on GTU website...!!

1.      Open link in Mozilla or Google Chrome

Link: http://projects.gtu.ac.in/

2.      Go to Phase-I

3.   Enter Enrollment No. and Date of Birth. (Full name, College name and Department name will be updated automatically) Then enter your E-mail ID and Mobile No. and click on Add button.

4.     This process (step-3) is to be repeated till all members are added.

5.    After adding team members click on register team button. You will get TEAM ID with PDF generated. Keep it saved in your system for further use.

6.      Now go to main page i.e. http://projects.gtu.ac.in/

7.   Enter your team ID (Which is generated in PDF) and any one enrollment No. of your team member.

8.      You will get your team detail there.

9.      Now fill up all the details:

a.       Project title (Capitalize each word except in, on, an, a, etc.)

b.      Abstract of your project in one paragraph (You have to reduce your abstract in one paragraph. It should cover your core work detail only which you are going to do in future)

c.    Company name if IDP. If UDP write DIET or your project ID given by college i.e. 10MEPR….

d.    Company Detail in short if IDP. If UDP write college name i.e. Darshan Institute of Engineering & Technology, Rajkot.

e.       Fill up internal guide details

f.        Company representative detail if IDP.

g.       Click on Update.

h.   Then generate a pdf and take a print out of it and submit it to me on Monday (19/8/2013)

A seminar on "Utilization of Indian Standards in Education Institutes" @ DIET

 A seminar on “Utilization of Indian Standards in Education Institutes” was organized at Darshan Institute of Engineering & Technology, Rajkot on 25^th July, 2013. It was an excellent learning experience for our students of B.E. 7th semester Mechanical Department.

A seminar was conducted by Mr. Bir Raj Bans Singh Scientist ‘E’, Bureau of Indian Standards, Rajkot and Mr. R. Tirumdarao Scientist ‘B’ to aware our students about Indian Standards and also to motivate for the utilization of Indian Standards in their research/project work.

Priorities of Present Generation....!!

Yesterday night while I was talking to one of my college student, I happened to ask about his exam results. Seeing how coolly he replied he had failed and based on our further talk, I got an idea for the attached cartoon.