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Why is it called Winstone ? The short version (because the long version is way too politically incorrect) is as follows: Winstone is the name of a rather large Jamaican man a friend of mine met one night, while he was out clubbing in the Roppongi area of Tokyo. He (my friend) was a little liquored up at the time, and when Winstone suggested they head to “this really cool club” he knew, he didn’t think anything was wrong. It wasn’t until Winstone led him down a dark stairwell and dropped his trousers that my friend clued in and ran like hell. It was too good a story to let die, so I named this project Winstone so that said friend will continue to be reminded of it. Heheheh …. http://winstone.sourceforge.net/#whyCalled BTW Winstone is a servlet container that was written out of a desire to provide servlet functionality without the bloat that full J2EE compliance introduces.

NSDL crosses 1 crore demat accounts

I am pleased to inform you that NSDL has crossed 1,00,00,000 (one crore) demat accounts. These accounts have more than 80% of securities held in dematerialised form in India, indicating the preference and trust the investors have in maintaining their assets with NSDL. Over the period of last two years, more than 40 lakh new demat accounts were opened with NSDL. NSDL has also been appointed as Central Recordkeeping Agency for the New Pension System of Govt. of India, which has recently become operational for all citizens of the country, apart from Central and State Government employees. I write this to thank you for your support and good wishes. Warm regards, Gagan Rai Managing Director & CEO National Securities Depository Ltd. (NSDL)