Monday, May 26, 2014

Modi's Dream Team

Prime Minister: Narendra Modi: Personnel, public grievances and pensions, department of atomic energy, department of space, all important policy issues and other portfolios not allocated to any minister.

Cabinet ministers:

Rajnath Singh: Home affairs

Sushma Swaraj: External affairs, overseas Indian affairs

Arun Jaitley: Finance, corporate affairs, defence

M Venkaiah Naidu: Urban development, housing and urban poverty alleviation, parliamentary affairs

Nitin Gadkari: Road transport and highways, shipping

D V Sadananda Gowda: Railways

Uma Bharati: Water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation

Najma A Heptulla: Minority affairs

Gopinathrao Munde: Rural development, panchayati raj, drinking water and sanitation

Ram Vilas Paswan: Consumer affairs, food and public distribution

Kalraj Mishra: Micro, small and medium enterprises

Maneka Gandhi: Women and child development

Ananth Kumar: Chemicals and fertilizers

Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and information technology, law and justice

Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil aviation

Anant Geete: Heavy industries and public enterprises

Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food processing industries

Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines, steel, labour and employment

Jual Oram: Tribal affairs

Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture

Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social justice and empowerment

Smriti Irani: Human resource development

Harsh Vardhan: Health and family welfare

Minister of states:

V K Singh: Development of northeastern region (independent charge), external affairs, overseas Indian affairs

Inderjit Singh Rao: Planning (independent charge), statistics and programme implementation (independent charge), defence

Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Textiles (independent charge), parliamentary affairs, water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation

Shripad Yesso Naik: Culture (independent charge), tourism (independent charge)

Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and natural gas (independent charge)

Sarbananda Sonowal: Skill development, entrepreneurship, youth affairs and sports (independent charge)

Prakash Javadekar: Information and broadcasting (independent charge), environment, forest and climate change (independent charge), parliamentary affairs

Piyush Goyal: Power (independent charge), coal (independent charge), new and renewable energy (independent charge)

Jitendra Singh: Science and technology (independent charge), earth sciences (independent charge), Prime Minister office, personnel, public grievances and pensions, department of atomic energy, department of space

Nirmala Sitharaman: Commerce and industry (independent charge), finance, corporate affairs

G M Siddeshwara: Civil aviation

Manoj Sinha: Railways

Nihalchand: Chemicals and fertilizers

Upendra Kushwaha: Rural development, panchayati raj, drinking water and sanitation

P Radhakrishnan: Heavy industries and public enterprises

Kiren Rijiju: Home affairs

Krishan Pal: Road transport and highways, shipping

Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Agriculture, food processing industries

Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava: Tribal affairs

Raosaheb Dadarao Danve: Consumer affairs, food and public distribution

Vishnu Deo Sai: Mines, steel, labour and employment

Sudarshan Bhagat: Social justice and empowerment

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

STC's first regional conference in Delhi (NCR) on 31st May

The India chapter of Society for Technical Communication (STC) is pleased to announce the first regional conference in Delhi (NCR) on 31 May (Saturday), 2014. Please visit STC India Website to know more details about this event.

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 Sponsor: Mahindra Comviva, Gurgaon

 There is no registration fee for the event.

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 Venue: Mahindra Comviva (Gurgaon)
 Address:  A – 26, Info City, Sector 34, Gurgaon
 Landmark: Near Hero Honda Chowk

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 Agenda

 09:30 am – 09:45 am – Introduction

 09:45 am – 10:30 am – Generating ‘Localizable’ Technical Content – Vidhi Kapoor

 10.30 am – 11:00 am – Networking Break

 11:00 am – 01:00 pm – Workshop on FrameMaker Extend Script – Peter Barraud

 01:00 pm – 01:45 pm – Lunch Break

 01:45 pm – 03:00 pm – Workshop on FrameMaker Extend Script – Peter Barraud

 03:15 pm – 04.00 pm – Developing and delivering content through oXygen XML Editor – Abhijit Paul Choudhury

 04:00 pm – 04:30 pm – Unconference/Power Talk

 04:30 pm – 05:15 pm – UX VIBGYOR of Technical Documentation – Rajeev Kumar Tiwari and Rajesh Khurana

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 Session Abstract 

 Generating ‘Localizable’ Technical Content

 The content technical writers create is often translated into different languages. 
 Modern day technical writers cannot remain ignorant of this fact and need to keep 
 in the mind the localizability of their content.

 This session aims to:

 ·         Discuss the challenges of writing for a global, multi-lingual audience

 ·         Introduce the element of localizability in technical content

 ·         Suggest strategies that reduce the burden on technical writers and localization experts

Workshop on FrameMaker Extend Script

In this workshop, we will start with a basic Introduction to JavaScript. This will be followed by the description of the FrameMaker Extendscript IDE covering Breakpoints, Callstack, and Stepping through code. We will then use the following examples as a means to get an understanding of ExtendScript:

 Saving All Open Documents
 Update all the message URL markers in all documents in book
 Search for text in all documents in book
 Delete empty rows in all tables in all documents in book
 Update the location of graphics in a document
 Insert text into a location in a document
 Import a graphic into a document
 Create a table to include text and graphics

  

Prerequisites for the Workshop on FrameMaker Extend Script

The workshop will include hands on implementation of ExtendScript in FrameMaker. To make this easier to follow the participants are advised to install the latest version of FrameMaker prior to attending the session. A 30-day trial of FrameMaker 12 is available for free download from http://www.adobe.com/in/products/framemaker.html.

Since it is a 30-day trial period, you should install this about 5 days before the workshop.

  

Developing and delivering content through oXygen XML Editor

In this session, users will learn:

 ·         How to create content using the oXygen XML Editor

 ·         Resolved map view

 ·         Map-wide spell check and search and replace text

 ·         Drag and drop to create cross references

 ·         Smart paste

 ·         Single Source XML publishing-—generate a “draft” PDF of a document or topic on your desktop

UX VIBGYOR of Technical Documentation

Based on a survey from one of the customers, a need was felt to restructure the current product documentation for better user experience. The session covers a new strategy that was initiated to address the customer feedback. The strategy is inspired by some of user experience concepts.

  

Developing and delivering content through oXygen XML Editor

 In this session, users will learn:

 How to create content using the oXygen XML Editor
 Resolved map view
 Map-wide spell check and search and replace text
 Drag and drop to create cross references
 Smart paste
 Single Source XML publishing-—generate a “draft” PDF of a document or topic on your desktop

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About the Speakers

Vidhi Kapoor

Vidhi manages Localization and Technical Communication in GrapeCity India and has 10 years of cross-domain experience in these fields. She currently recruits, trains and handles a global team of language professionals/technical communicators working on content for US, Japan, and rest of the world. Her area of expertise is localization in East Asian languages and she is currently involved in implementing a common multi-lingual content framework in her organization.

  

Peter Barraud

Peter Barraud is a content lead at Adobe System, NOIDA. He has over 20 years experience in the industry with over 8 years experience in programming. This experience provides for an interesting mix of writing and programming. It also means that when he’s not writing, he’s finding excuses to code. And when he’s not writing, coding, or playing with his son, Daniel, he either reads or follows the trials and tribulations of the Indian cricket team.

  

Abhijit Paul Choudhury

Abhijit Paul Choudhury is in the technical communication field for the past 7+ years. Currently, Abhijit is working in Freescale India Pvt. Ltd., as a Sr. Technical Writer. Earlier, he was a part of EFY Enterprises Pvt. Ltd where he worked as a Technical Correspondent and had written for Electronics For You and Linux For You magazine. His interest areas are: Technical Writing, Web designing, Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), Image editing, Content Management System (CMS), Extensible Markup Language (XML), Linux and Open source software.

  

Rajeev Kumar Tiwari

With more than four years of experience in technical communication, Rajeev is IMP certified (2012 to 2015) and specializes in Information Mapping. He loves to explore new and innovative tools that could be of help to the technical writing community, and has presented a paper at STC Regional Conferences.
 LinkedIn http://in.linkedin.com/pub/rajeev-tiwari/2b/1bb/ba2/ 

Rajesh Khurana

With more than nine years' experience in technical communication, Rajesh specializes in Information Mapping, Training and Mentoring, and Usability Analysis. He is IMP certified (2012 to 2015) and is an active STC member. Rajesh has written and presented a paper on Agile documentation at Ericsson Global.
LinkedIn http://in.linkedin.com/pub/rajesh-khurana/7/291/ab/

  

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Registration Details

To register for the event, please submit the following form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qbr3knkmyV5xkBI1SEdn21WRot63mMsMg3cG8lM5dmQ/viewform



Regards
Delhi (NCR) City Representative

Sunday, May 11, 2014

SSLC results out today afternoon


The Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB) will announce SSLC results on Monday at 11am. They will be available online after 12.30pm.

Check these websites for results:

http://sslckar.nic.in (KSEEB)

http://karrsults.nic.in (NIC)

www.indiaresults.com

www.examresults.net

www.myresultplus.com

www.manabadi.co.in

www.karnatakaeducation.net

www.bangaloreeducation.net

www.schools9.com

www.results.manabadi.co.in

http://kannada.oneindia.in

www.oneindia.in

www.karnataka.com

www.exametc.com

www.jagranjosh.com

www.bharatstudent.com

www.vidyavision.com

www.resultsout.com

www.bangaloreeducation.com

For result via SMS

1.SMS results KAR10 for SSLC (Class X) Exam 2014 Results Roll No to 5676750

2.SMS KARRegistration Number to 56263 or 54242

3.SMS Karsslc to 9243355223

Airtel users can call 52070 and Vodafone users 5888851. Other users can call 58888 or visit Knowyourresult.com

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Twin blasts at Chennai Central Station, woman dead, at least 10 injured

Two minor intensity bomb blasts took place on the Bangalore-Guwahati Express as it was approaching platform number 9 at the Chennai Central Station, killing one and injuring at least 10 others. The explosions took place on coaches S4 and S5 of the train.

At least 10 people are injured and one passenger is said to be critical. Police teams rush to spot.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Rani Mukerji ties the knot with Aditya Chopra in Italy

Finally, there's clarity on the relationship status of Aditya Chopra and Rani Mukerji. The Yash Raj Films (YRF) head honcho and actress exchanged vows in a small affair held in Italy on Monday, said an official announcement.

"We are happy to announce that Aditya Chopra and Rani Mukerji got married last night. The wedding was a very small intimate affair with very close family and friends," Rafiq Gangjee, vice-president (marketing and communications), YRF, said in a statement.

"We wish the couple a very happy married life," Gangjee added.

For Aditya, who is the elder son of late filmmaker Yash Chopra, it is his second marriage. He was earlier married to Payal Khanna.

Monday, April 21, 2014

Technial Writers [Reminder] STC India - Chennai One-day Regional Conference on April 26, 2014 @ HCL, Chennai Campus

Hello All,

The India chapter of Society for Technical Communication is pleased to announce a free webinar for Technical Communicators and Technical Editors. Please find the details below.

Webinar: Language Review – a Documentation manager’s Perspective
The session covers the importance of editing for the individual writer, other stakeholders, and the organization. It touches upon peer review and expectations from an editor. The speaker will also dwell on present day editing.

About the speaker
Surag Ramachandran is working as a Documentation Manager at the Financial Services Global Business Unit (FSGBU) of Oracle. In FSGBU, Surag works with the Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications (OFSAA), which focuses on the development of analytical applications for the Financial Services Industry.
Surag heads the international documentation and course curriculum team of 13 writers, who develop the end user documents and elearning materials for around 60 applications in OFSAA. Surag has developed the documentation processes for OFSAA and has built the documentation team from scratch.
Before moving to Oracle, he worked with Honeywell and has an overall industry experience of 15 + years in the field of technical writing.
Surag has presented in several STC conferences and has also contributed to the newsletters and magazines in the field of technical writing. Surag is a published author of short stories and also writes for kids in children’s magazines. He also pursues the hobby of making short videos and web series.

Date: Saturday, 10th May, 2014
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

It is a FREE webinar; however, registration is mandatory to receive the webinar details. For any questions, contact Radhika Hari atstcindiaeditingsig@gmail.com.

The last date of registration is Friday, 9th May, 2014.
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Radhika Hari
STC India Editing SIG Owner 2014
On behalf of STC India