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Toll Free Numbers in India

Airlines
Indian Airlines - 1800 180 1407
Jet Airways - 1800 22 5522
SpiceJet - 1800 180 3333
Air India — 1800 22 7722
KingFisher - 1800 180 0101

Banks
ABN AMRO - 1800 11 2224
Canara Bank - 1800 44 6000
Citibank - 1800 44 2265
Corporatin Bank - 1800 443 555
Development Credit Bank - 1800 22 5769
HDFC Bank - 1800 227 227
ICICI Bank - 1800 333 499
ICICI Bank NRI - 1800 22 4848
IDBI Bank - 1800 11 6999
Indian Bank - 1800 425 1400
ING Vysya - 1800 44 9900
Kotak Mahindra Bank - 1800 22 6022
Lord Krishna Bank - 1800 11 2300
Punjab National Bank - 1800 122 222
State Bank of India - 1800 44 1955
Syndicate Bank - 1800 44 6655  

Automobiles
Mahindra Scorpio - 1800 22 6006
Maruti - 1800 111 515
Tata Motors - 1800 22 5552
Windshield Experts - 1800 11 3636

Computers/IT
Adrenalin - 1800 444 445
AMD - 1800 425 6664
Apple Computers - 1800 444 683
Canon - 1800 333 366
Cisco Systems - 1800 221 777
Compaq - HP - 1800 444 999
Data One Broadband - 1800 424 1800
Dell - 1800 444 026
Epson - 1800 44 0011
eSys - 3970 0011
Genesis Tally Academy - 1800 444 888
HCL - 1800 180 8080
IBM - 1800 443 333
Lexmark - 1800 22 4477
Marshal’s Point - 1800 33 4488
Microsoft - 1800 111 100
Microsoft Virus Update - 1901 333 334
Seagate - 1800 180 1104
Symantec - 1800 44 5533
TVS Electronics - 1800 444 566
WeP Peripherals - 1800 44 6446
Wipro - 1800 333 312
xerox - 1800 180 1225
Zenith - 1800 222 004  

Indian Railway General Enquiry     131
Indian Railway Central Enquiry     131
Indian Railway Reservation         131
Indian Railway Railway Reservation Enquiry     1345,1335,1330
Indian Railway Centralised Railway Enquiry     1330/1/2/3/4/ 5/6/7/8/9
 

• For income upto Rs 1,50,000 tax liability will be nil, Rs 1,50,000-Rs 3,00,000 tax liability 10% , from Rs 3-5 lakh 20%; 5 lakh upwards 30%
• Senior citizens threshold tax limit increased from Rs 1,95,000 to Rs 2,25,000
• Threshold tax exemption limit increased from Rs 1,45,000 to Rs 1,80,000 for women
• Threshold tax limit of exemption increased from Rs 1,10,000 to Rs 1,50,000 for men 15% tax for short term capital gains
  • Hospitals in Tier 2, Tier 3 cities get 5 year tax holiday
  • Pharma goods excise duty cut to 8%
  • Excise on packaged software to go up from 8% to 12%
  • No excise duty on refrigerating equipments
  • Anti-Aids drug gets excise duty exemption
  • Custom duty for phosphoric acid custom duty reduced to 5%
  • Custom duty on some bulk drugs cut form 10% to 5%
  • Custom duty on steel scrapped
  • Defence allocation up by 10% from Rs 96,000 cr to Rs 1,56,000 cr
  • Textile parks get Rs 450 crore provision
  • SIDBI gets Rs 2,000 cr for two funds
  • NABARD gets Rs 5,000 cr fund for refinancing
  • Spending on NREGS seen at Rs 160 bn
  • SIDBI gets Rs 2,000 cr for two funds
  • NABARD gets Rs 5,000 cr fund for refinancing
  • Spending on NREGS seen at Rs 160 bn
  • Health spending to rise 15 per cent
  • Education spending to rise 20 per cent
  • National housing bank gets Rs 1,200 cr for refinancing
  • Power sector to get national fund for transmission, distribution reforms
  • NHDP allocation rises to Rs 12,966 cr from Rs 10,866 cr
  • Govt to cost Rs 50,000 cr on farm loan waiving
  • Agri loans restructured in 2004-06 under special packages to be waived
  • Tea Research association gets Rs 20 cr
  • Micro irrigation scheme gets Rs 500 cr
  • Agriculture share in total investment up 16% from 10.2%
  • Allocation for ministry of minorities doubled to Rs 1,000 cr
  • Schemes for woman to get Rs 11,460 cr this fiscal
  • Child related schemes to get Rs 33,434 cr
  • 288 branches of public sector banks to be opened in 2008
    National Minority Development and Finance Corp to get Rs 75 cr

Economic Survey: Highlights

• Economy slows down to 8.7% in 2007-08
• Inflation projected at 4.4 pc in 2007-08
• 3 manufacturing sector to grow at 9.4 pc in current financial year, lower from 12 pc in 2006-07
• Lower agriculture growth at 2.6 pc in 2007-08 from 3.8 pc in 2006-07
  Government sets target of 9 pc GDP growth during 11th Five Year Plan (2007-2012)
• Maintaining 9% rate challenging
• Double-digit growth tougher still
• Deceleration this year was expected
• Fundamentals “inspire confidence”
• Investment climate “full of optimism”
• But labour force growing faster than employment growth
• Unemployment rate higher by 1pc in five years to 2005

Essential English Slang

• Airhead: stupid person.
• Ace: excellent, great.
• Adam and Eve - Rhyming Slang for ‘believe’.
• aggro - short for aggravation or violence.
• amber fluid : beer.
• anorak - geek, nerd.
• apples and pears - Rhyming Slang for ‘stairs’.
• armpit: dirty, unappealing place.
• arse / ass [slightly offensive] (1): backside.arse / ass (2): an unworthy person.
• arse about/arsing about - to fool around.
• arse-about-face: something that is in a mess or crooked.
• arseholed: very drunk.
• arvo : afternoon.
• Aussie : Australian.
• awesome: great and impressive.
• backhander (1): a payment given, normally in a secretive fashion.
• backhander (2): hit someone.
• ball (1): a fun time.
• ball [slightly offensive] (2): a testicle.
• ballistic - to go mad with rage.
• bang [slightly offensive](1): to make love.
• bang (2): a powerful effect.
• banged up - to be put in prison.
• bangers - another name for sausages.
• barbie : barbecue, grill.
• barf (1): vomit.
• barmy - a foolish person, mad.
• barney - row, violent argument.
• beans: money.
• beast [offensive] - an ugly woman.
• beat: tired.
• beemer: a BMW.
• bent (1): a ‘gay man’
• bent (2): ‘stolen’.
• biggie: something important.
• biker: a motorcycle rider.
• bikkie : biscuit.
• bimbo - a young woman considered sexually attractive but of limited intelligence.
• bird - woman/girl/girlfriend.
• bitch [offensive] (1): a very unpleasant woman. bitch [offensive] (2): complain.
• bitchy [slightly offensive]: moody.
• bitzer : mongrel dog (bits of this and bits of that!).
• bladdered - very drunk.
• blag - a robbery.
• bloke - man.
• blotto - ‘very drunk’.
• blue (1) - XXX; dirty, hot, steamy, pornographic blue (2): domestic fight or row.
• bluey - pornographic film.
• boat race - Rhyming Slang for ‘face’.
• bod: body.
• bonkers; go bonkers: crazy.
• bonzer : great.
• booboo: a mistake.
• bovver - trouble, usually fighting.
• booze: alcohol.
• boozer (1): a pub boozer (2): someone who likes alcohol.
• Brahms and Liszt - Rhyming Slang for ‘pissed’ (drunk).
• brass monkeys - cold weather.
• bread: money.
• brew (1): tea or coffee.
• brew (2): beer.
• brill - short for ‘brilliant’.
• bull: bullshit; lie.
• bullshit [offensive]: lie; dishonesty.
• bugger - a mild form of abuse or an exclamation.
• bunk-off - to be absent without permission.
• bunk-up - to make love.
• bushed: extremely tired.
• butt: the buttocks, bottom.
• cabbage - someone who is a bit slow or stupid.
• cakehole - mouth..
• catch some rays: get some sunshine.
• char / cha - tea.
• cheesy: cheap; lacking in good taste.
• chicken: coward.
• chook : a chicken.
• chuck up: vomit.
• chuck a sickie : take the day off sick from work when you’re perfectly healthy.
• ciggy - slang for cigarette.
• cock and bull story - a rubbish story, nonsense.
• (to) cop it - to die, to get into trouble.
• cool: excellent; superb.
• cooler, the: gaol; jail; prison.
• couch potato: a person who watches too much television.
• cozzie : swimming costume.
• cranky : in a bad mood, angry.
• crap [slightly offensive] (1): something worthless.crap [offensive] (2): excrement.crap [slightly offensive] (3): alsehoods and lies.
• crikey - an expression of astonishment.
• crust - money / wage.
• cushy - easy.
• dead cert - something that is definite.
• deck: to hit someone.
• dicey: unpredictable; risky.
• dickhead [slightly offensive] - an idiot, fool.
• dill : an idiot.
• ding-dong - argument or fight.
• dipstick - idiot, fool.
• dirt: extremely bad person.
• dirty: offensive; pornographic.
• div/divvy - stupid or slow person.
• doodle - something thats easy / no problem.
• dodgy - dubious person or thing.
• dog [offensive] - an ugly girl.
• done over - beaten up.
• dope - a slow or stupid person.
• doobry - a nonsensical word used when you forget the name of something.
• dorky: strange; peculiar.
• dosh - money.
• dosser - down-and-out, tramp.
• down under : Australia and New Zealand.
• Drongo : a dope, stupid person.
• dude: a male.
• dump [slightly offensive] - to defecate.
• dyke [offensive] - lesbian.
• dynamite: powerful; excellent.
• dinosaur: something out of date or old fashioned.
• earbashing : nagging, non-stop chatter.
• evil: great; excellent.
• eyeball: to stare long and hard at someone or something.
• eyepopper: something or someone visibly astounding.
• fab: fabulous.
• face-off: confrontation.
• fag [offensive] (1): homosexualfag (2): cigarette
• family jewels - Rhyming Slang for testicles.
• far out - splendid.
• fart [offensive] (1): an escape of gas from the bowels. fart [slightly offensive] (2): an unpleasant person.
• fat head - an idiot or dull person.
• fender-bender: small accident.
• filth [offensive] - the police.
• fit - sexually attractive.
• five finger discount - shoplifting.
• flaky: unpredictable.
• flashback: sudden memory.
• flick (1): film; movie.flick (2): to give something or somebody the flick is to get rid of it or him/her.
• floating : intoxicated.
• floozie - a mistress or girlfriend.
• flommox - confuse.
• flutter - a bet (on horse racing or football).
• footie - Abbreviated form for football.
• for crying out loud ! - a expression of frustration or anger.
• forty winks - a short sleep or nap.
• fox: attractive, alluring person.
• freebie: something that does not cost money.
• French kiss : kissing with the tongue.
• full monty - ‘the whole lot’, everything.
• full-on - powerful, with maximum effort.
• funny farm - mental hospital or institution.
• funny money - counterfeit money.
• gaff - house or flat.
• gander - to look at.
• geek: an unattractive person who works too hard.
• get it: to understand something.
• glitch: flaw.
• gobshite [offensive] - someone who talks rubbish all the time.
• go bananas: go slightly mad.
• good onya : good for you, well done
• goof (1): make a mistake.goof (2): a silly and foolish person.
• goof off: waste time.
• goof up: make a mistake.
• goofy: silly.
• Gordon Bennet - an exclamation.
• grand: one thousand dollars.
• grass: marijuana.
• greaser - slang name for a 1950’s style man.
• grog : alcohol, beer.
• grub: food.
• grubby: not clean.
• grungy: unclean and stinky.
• gut: a person’s stomach; belly.
• guts: courage.
• gyno - gynaecologist.
• hacked off - fed up, annoyed.
• hairy: difficult; dangerous.
• ham-fisted - clumsy.
• hammered - drunk.
• handcuffs: an engagement ring or wedding ring.
• hang a left: make a left turn.
• hang a right: make a right turn.
• headcase - mad.
• hep: sensible; informed.
• her (‘er) indoors - wife, girlfriend.
• hickey: a love bite on the skin.
• hip: sensible; informed.
• hole in the wall - a cashpoint machine or bankomat.
• hoo-ha - trouble; commotion.
• hooker: prostitute.
• horny: in the mood for sex, sexually stimulated;.
• hot (1): sexy. hot (2):popular.
• hottie : hot water bottle.
• huff - bad mood.
• humungous: really big.
• hump (1) - to have sex. hump (2) - bad mood.
• hyper: overly excited.
• icky: unpleasant.
• I.D.: identification.
• iffy - dubious, doubtful.
• I’m outta here: I’m leaving; I’m departing.
• in: fashionable.
• ivories: teeth.
• jack around: waste time.
• jam (1): trouble. jam (2): improvise (musically).
• jamming, to be : going well.
• jammy - lucky.
• jerk: stupid or annoying person.
• jock: someone good at sports.
• K : a thousand.
• keep your hair on - “keep calm”.
• kick back: relax and enjoy.
• kick the bucket: die.
• kip - sleep.
• knackered - exhausted.
• knees up - party.
• knock: condemn, criticise.
• knockout: beautiful woman; handsome man.
• knock back : refusal (noun), refuse (transitive verb).
• kook: peculiar person.
• kraut [slightly offensive] - German
• laid back: relaxed; calm.
• lairy - loud, brash.
• lame: incompetent.
• legless - very drunk.
• limp wristed - a gay man.
• lip: cheeky talk.
• loaded - someone with a lot of money.
• loo : toilet.
• loser: a bungling and worthless person.
• lost the plot - crazy/mad.
• love handles: excess fat around the waist.
• luvverly jubberly - wonderful, great, all is well.
• make waves: cause problems.
• malarkey - nonsense.
• mate - friend.
• max, to the : maximum.
• mega: big.
• megabucks: a large amount of money.
• mellow: relaxed.
• mickey-mouse: unimportant; time-wasting.
• minger [offensive] - an unattractive person (usually female).
• mongrel : despicable person.
• moonie [offensive!] - to show one’s bottom (arse) to unsuspecting onlookers.
• moose [offensive] - an ugly girl.
• mozzie : mosquito.
• mug : a gullible person.
• naff - something which is cheap and nasty.
• naff off - a milder version off fu*k off.
• nancy (nancy boy) - a homosexual.
• nark - a police informer.
• narked - to be annoyed.
• neat: cool; great.
• nick - to steal.
• nipper - a small child.
• no-hoper - somebody who’ll never do well.
• nosh - food.
• not cricket - not normal or correct.
• not all there - someone who is stupid, not bright intellectually.
• not half! - cetainly, for sure.
• not the full quid - someone who is stupid, not bright intellectually.
• nuke (1): nuclear weapon. nuke (2): destroy; delete. nuke (3): cook something in the microwave oven.
• nut (1): odd or crazy person. nut (2): someone passionate about something.
• nutter - crazy person.
• nuts [slightly offensive]: testicles.
• nutty - eccentric.
• off your face - to be very drunk.
• out of your tree - crazy, drunk or stoned.
• pad: someone’s home.
• pants (1) - an exclamation of frustration.pants (2) - bad or rubbish.
• party: celebrate.
• party animal: someone that loves parties.
• paws: hands.
• peanuts: very little money.
• pee: to urinate.
• pickled: drunk.
• pig out: eat too much.
• pigs ear: to make a mistake with something.
• piss [slightly offensive] - to urinate.
• pissed - drunk.
• pissed (off): angry; upset.
• piss-head - a habitual drinker or alcoholic.
• piss-up - a big drinking session.
• plank - an idiot.
• plastered: drunk.
• plonker - an idiot.
• pad: someone’s home.
• plonk (1) : cheap wine plonk (2): sit down - as in “plonk your arse down there”.
• poop [offensive]: defecation; shit.
• poop out: get tired and quit.
• postie : postman.
• pot: marijuana.
• prezzy : present, gift.
• pro - someone who’s good at something; professional.
• psycho: crazy person.
• puke: vomit.
• pumped (up): excited.
• queer [slightly offensive] - a homosexual.
• rabbit - talk.
• racket (1): noise. racket (2): an occupation. racket (3): something that’s dishonest or deceptive.
• rat: a despicable person.
• rat-arsed - drunk.
• rear (end): buttocks.
• riot - something or someone very funny.
• rip off (1): stealing. rip off (2): fraud.
• ripper : great, fantastic.
• rocking: great; excellent.
• roll up - a hand rolled cigarette.
• rosie lee - tea.
• rubbish: nonsense; not true.
• ruck - a fight.
• rug - wig, toupee.
• rug rat: a child.
• rum - odd, strange.
• runs, the: diarrhoea.
• scoff: to eat.
• screw up: to make a mistake.
• screw-up: a person who makes a mistake.
• scum (offensive] - a despicable individual.
• shades - sunglasses.
• shag [slightly offensive] - to make love.
• shagged-out - to feel tired.
• shed-load - a huge amount.
• shite - milder variation of the word shit.
• shitfaced [slightly offensive] - very drunk.
• shithead [slightly offensive]: a stupid, impolite person.
• skint - to have no money.
• skosh - a little bit.
• slapper [offensive] - a loose or easy woman.
• smeghead - an idiot.
• snog - to kiss.
• snookered: cheated, stuck.
• solid (1): really good; cool.solid (2): consecutive.
• specs: eyeglasses.
• split: to leave.
• spunk [offensive] (1): semen spunk (2): spirit.spunk (3): an attractive man.
• stoned: drunk from drugs or alcohol.
• stunner - a very good looking woman.
• street smart: knowledgeable about city life.
• strewth : exclamation.
• (I’ll be) stuffed : expression of surprise
• suck: to be bad and unacceptable.
• sunnies : sunglasses.
• swagman : tramp.
• sweet - excellent, cool.
• ta - thanks.
• tacky - something of poor taste or style.
• tanked (up) - to get very drunk.
• tea leaf - Rhyming Slang for thief.
• telly - television.
• thick as shit [offensive]- very stupid.
• thick as two short planks [offensive] - very stupid.
• thingo : Wadjamacallit, thingummy, whatsit, something you don’t know the name of!
• thou: thousand.
• threads: clothing.
• ticker (1): the heart. ticker (2): a watch.
• tiddly - slightly drunk.
• toss-pot [slightly offensive] - idiot.
• totally: really; completely.
• to the max: maximum.
• troll - an ugly girl.
• (the) trots - diarrhoea.
• trouble and strife - Rhyming Slang for ‘wife’.
• trout [offensive] - unattractive woman.
• turn-off: something that repulses a person.
• umpteen: many; countless.
• up for it - to be willing to have a good time.
• up the duff - to be pregnant.
• Uncle Tom Cobley and all - a phrase meaning ‘everyone’.
• uptight: nervous; anxious.
• veg out : relax in front of the TV (like a vegetable).
• wad: a lot of money.
• wanker - an idiot or an unpleasant person.
• wasted: killed.
• weed (1): marijuana.
• weed (2): someone who is weak.
• wheels: car; motorcycle.
• whiz: someone who shows a special talent for something.
• wicked - excellent, cool.
• wimp: weak; feeble.
• wimpy: weak.
• wind up - to tease.
• winks: sleep.
• wuss : coward.
• x-rated - pornographic.
• yabber : talk (a lot).
• Yank: an American.
• yob - a horrible or uncouth young man.
• zeds - sleep.
• zero - an unimportant person.
• ilch - nothing.
• zip (1) -nothing. zip (2) - energy; vigor.
• zip it - shut up.
• zit: pimple; acne.