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processed online without visiting the
branch. It saves our time and provides Learn More
24-hour service for 365 days. E-banking is used to perform transactional e-banking and
Follow these steps to perform Internet non-transactional e-banking. Transactional e-banking
includes transactions involving transfer of money and
banking. non-transactional e-banking includes services like
• Visit the website of a bank. checking account balance and ordering cheque book.
• Enter the user id and password.
• Perform the required transactions.
Electronic Ticketing
Electronic ticketing or e-ticketing generates a paperless ticket for
the online bookings done. The principal advantage of e-ticketing
is the fact that it reduces booking expenses by eliminating the
need for printing and mailing paper documents. We can use
Internet to book tickets, check the availability of the seats in bus,
train and aircraft. www.irctc.co.in is the offi cial site of the railways
to avail services like booking tickets, checking availability and
cancelling tickets.
Blog
Blog is an online journal or diary where entries are posted by the Internet users called bloggers
for electronic publishing. A blog may comprise text, images, hypertext and hyperlinks to other
web pages or fi les (document/audio/video). Each entry posted by the blogger is called post
and the activation of updating a blog is called blogging. Blogs are updated on a regular basis
by the bloggers. They may contain information related to a specifi c topic. Some people use
blogs as daily diaries about their personal lives and views on various topics of public interest
while others use them for business purposes to earn money. Blogs can be shaped into a way
the blogger wants them to be as they give him an opportunity to write content that is based
on his views and experiences.
Blogging Sites
There are millions of websites that provide the Internet users with an opportunity to create their
own blogs. They may be categorised under diff erent heads based on the following features.
• Profession of the bloggers such as writers, journalists, poets, celebrities, doctors and
programmers
• Bloggers’ area of interest such as politics, sports, cooking, health, movies, social issues,
religion, travel, photography and medicine
• Commercial interests such as stock market, human resources, fi nance, marketing,
production, government, education and training, and web designing
• Languages such as English, Hindi, Punjabi, German and French
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