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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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