I have a new headache now. Well, apart from the sorrow of Ms Rai deciding to getting married without checking with me first, they seem to have decided to hurt my page rank by hiring an astrologer attacking my corner of the namespace.
“This year is going to be very good and productive for him
in which new developments are seen,” astrologer Arun Sharma
told NDTV channel. “Even for Aishwarya her stars are strong.
But she will have to look after her dietary habits.”
Those of you with the infinite patience to put up with all the flashy ads on samachar.com and other assorted desi news sites which continually test the limits, Just Samachar might be a welcome change.
Just imagine: you walk into a bank and open an account with a check from another bank. The bank opens the account with zero balance, takes 21 days to cash the check and then charges you INR 561 (USD 13) for not maintaining a minimum balance!
Sounds too stupid to be real? Why would any bank want to do this to a new customer? This is exactly what ICICI bank does. The customer service folks are either so dense that they can’t understand a simple situation such as this or have no authority to credit $13 to a customer (or both). Either way, the typical response is a cut-n-paste email message repeating their policy on minimum balance.
I would fully expect other Indian banks to have worse (or non-existent) customer service. But it baffles me how/why people put up with this kind of crap.
I don’t want to go to any school. I want to go to a dance class instead.
– Chirag Sharma Jan 2007