glocal youth vision August 2006

FIVE PRECIOUS STONES

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In the 18^th century, buyer did not have freedom to choose

products according to their desires.  They had to abide by the market availability. (Sellers’ market).  In the 19^th Century, the situation changed a bit in favour of buyers.  In the 20^th century, the option has wide opened to the need of the buyers.  The buyers have a lot of choices to make.  Due to these recent changes, the business man has found it difficult to penetrate into the market.

Similarly the 21st century students have varieties of fields, colleges and courses to select and pursue their career. Moreover the question pattern for the examination has changed into multiple choice questions from conventional types.

Today, many of them are living in this 21^st century with the 18^th century outlook. Shalini, a believer from a staunch Christian family secured high percentage in the pre-university exams. She wanted to pursue her career in engineering field, especially in the IIT.  She applied only to the IIT and not to any other engineering college or other degree courses.  The entrance results were published.  She failed to get through the exams.   Now she can not enter into other engineering or  degree colleges since all of them have closed their admissions.  

  

Like Shalini, many people have damaged their careers due to the wrong teaching of “ask in faith, God will give whatever your request” by some of the believers.  This type of teaching has no room for God to intervene in our life.  If you refer to the Bible, we can see lot of examples where people kept the options open.

1.      David went with an option:

David ventured into the battle field with five precious stones instead of one stone, even though God promised him to handover Goliath. For this, we can’t brand David as a sinner or faithless person.

God has promised the victory but He hasn’t given a blueprint to fight.  David used three important T’s – Trust, Tools and Training to win the battle. As a believer, follow the footsteps of this great king to face this competitive and contemporary world.  Let us keep our options open so that God can fulfill His will in our lives.

2        Five wise virgins went with an option:

 Matt 25:1-13, describes that ten virgin’s had gone to meet the bridegroom. Among them, five were wise and the other five were foolish.  These wise virgins kept a jar of oil as an option to rekindle the fire. The bridegroom came and took the wise virgins for the wedding banquet.  The door was shut for the foolish virgins.     

Let us go with our options open and with a open heart to God our Saviour.  He will do miraculous things in our lives.

J. Peter Daniel, 76,

Living Spring Avenue

, Bagayam, Sanjeevipuram,
Vellore 632 – 002. Phone no. 0416 2260066, 9443800395, email: peterpearline@yahoo.co.in

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Schools to SMS parents on homework and fees

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[ 18 Jul, 2006 0023hrs IST TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

BANGALORE: Beep, beep… This is for parents. The next time there’s an SMS, don’t ignore it. It could be alerting you on how your children have missed the class.

Or, it could tell you on the homework assigned for the day. If you still haven’t got the message, read on. Schools will soon start sending SMS to parents on practically everything – from sending exam alerts, marks updates and fee dues.

The same facility will be available on the website too. Each child will be allotted a unique ID which will enable the parent to log on to the website www.mylyceum. Net  and get the latest on their wards. Students, too, can register.

More than 60 schools in Bangalore, including Bishop Cotton Boys & Girls Schools, Sophia High School, Frank Anthony Public School and  Cathedral School, have tied up with Pac Soft Solutions Ltd to offer this facility.

Schools will post the information on the portal. There’d be options whereby parents could receive an SMS which would be a reminder to go to the website and access complete information.

Or an entire message is sent on SMS itself like declaration of results or about a new circular. This would allow parents to get the whole message on the move, without having to visit the website.Sophia School sent a dossier to parents on Monday, asking them to avail of this facility. Parents are thrilled.“It helps me to know instantly whether my child is attending class or how s/he is doing academically,” a parent said

‘Screen 3′ tech new hit in mobile industry
Bhaskar Roy
[ Tuesday, June 27, 2006 11:41:09 pm TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

SINGAPORE: Cellphones are no longer smart, cute, sleek toys making a lifestyle statement. Within a few months, the little instrument will power-drive the trajectory of the upwardly mobile in
India.

Already off the shelf, the ‘Screen 3′technology is promising to make the old familiar world of the cellphone history by opening up a new range of exciting possibilities.

If experts assembled here from different continents for the CommunicAsia exhibition are to be believed, this new phone recently introduced in US is sure to make the next technological leap of faith.

Screen 3 will fascinate the gizmo-loving rich, but more importantly, it will redefine connectivity, says Motorola V-P Steve Lalla.

A fine specimen of the third generation technology, it connects the phone to the Internet, or to any other source of information.

On his way to work, a financial expert can have on his phone screen information about the trading at stock exchange, says Scott P Martin, another Motorola top honcho.

With 10 mega bytes of memory, the phone can store immense data.Encouraged by the initial response in US, the Screen 3 phone is being positioned for its launch in
India later this year.

Experts believe that the new technology has the promise to bridge the divide between two segments — the high end and the common man.

An executive can access information from a TV network or a news agency on his mobile phone, while a farmer in a small town can get the day’s quotes from the grain market anywhere in
Asia, Lalla points out. Experts see Screen 3 as the most exciting find among the latest technologies showcased here.

 

Soon: Computer that reads your mind
[ Tuesday, June 27, 2006 01:39:24 am REUTERS ]

London: A raised eyebrow, quizzical look or a nod of the head are just a few of the facial expressions computers could soon be using to read people’s minds.

An “emotionally aware” computer being developed by British and American scientists will be able to read an individual’s thoughts by analysing a combination of facial movements that represent underlying feelings.

“The system we have developed allows a wide range of mental states to be identified just by pointing a video camera at someone,” said Professor Peter Robinson, of the
University of Cambridge in England.

He and his collaborators believe the mind-reading computer’s applications could range from improving people’s driving skills to helping companies tailor advertising to people’s moods.

“Imagine a computer that could pick the right emotional moment to try to sell you something, a future where mobile phones, cars and websites could read our mind and react to our moods,” he added.

The technology is already programmed to recognise different facial expressions generated by actors. Robinson hopes to get more data to determine whether someone is bored, interested, confused, or agrees or disagrees when it is unveiled at a science exhibition in
London on Monday

Treat 9-yr-olds as adolescents, CBSE tells schools
Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey
[ Wednesday, June 21, 2006 12:56:26 am TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

KOLKATA: Do not consider your nine-year-old students as “babies” or “kids”. They are actually adolescents and are gradually becoming sexually active, schools affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) have been told.Under the aegis of the Union HRD ministry, CBSE has decided to lower the adolescent age to nine years from conventional 13 years. Accordingly, the Board has started a nationwide awareness programme involving principals and teachers.

A whole range of problems, from why the adolescent age has come down due to hormonal changes and how this even results in the diet going awry and how teachers have to handle adolescents are being discussed by Board officials with city teachers, who have gathered at the Birla High School since Monday.

The manual for this has been prepared by Delhi’s Vidyasagar Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences.

“Kids are losing their childhood fast and adolescence is setting in as early as nine years, when the child is barely in Class V. This is because of the extreme stress, both educational and familial, that children are being subjected to,” said Gitanjali Kumar, who has come from Delhi to train city teachers.

Survey finds most city girls victims of abuse
Friday July 7 2006 11:25 IST

BANGALORE: Seventy-five percent of girls in 14 colleges surveyed in
Bangalore have been victims of sexual harassment, according to the findings of Samvada, a voluntary organisation, which is engaged in a campaign against sexual abuse.

The girls, the organisation’s volunteers spoke to, said they suffered molestation than react for fear of consequences by the men.

Out of this, 55 per cent of them had been attacked by family members including father, grandfather, brother and uncle. The other 20 per cent were people whom the girls were familiar with, which included friends and acquaintances.

When a girl experiences a horrendous sexual attack, the society has taught her to suppress the pain. She hesitates to talk about it to family members. But, when given a platform these girls are ready to attack the opposite sex and question them, say psychologists.

More than 80 per cent girls in the city have experienced sexual attacks between the ages 0-14 years. Counsellor in Samvada, Lucy Kumar said that students in government schools and colleges are ignorant to the word ‘sexual abuse’ as they are scared to share their experiences.

Psychologists say that it is very difficult to break the silence of girls in schools and colleges. Psychologist at NIMHANS Dr Shreekala Bharath said that when given the courage, these girls can revolt.

When this website’s newspaper spoke to students in Gangamma
Hombegowda College (BMP college) they said that they were ready to fight against sexual abuse. More that 78 students studying in II PU in the college said that they would involve in campaigns to educate girls in other government colleges and attempt to change the scenario.

The frequent questions asked by students are ‘why is a woman considered as impure after she indulges in a sexual act, with or without her consent, while a man escapes? How do we know the number of women the man has involved with? Why is marriage a ‘license’ for a woman to involve in sexual acts, while a man does not have anything called ‘virginity’?

Dr Shreekala said that the need is to turn individual experiences into social issues and educate the youth about it. Students do accept that the problem starts from home and it is their parents who have to be counselled first.

Hi-tech newspapers soon
[ Tuesday, June 13, 2006 11:01:29 pm REUTERS ]

NEW YORK: The newspapers of the future – cheap digital screens that can be rolled up and stuffed into a back pocket – have been just around the corner for the last three decades.

But as early as this year, the future may finally arrive. Some of the world’s top newspapers publishers are planning to introduce a form of electronic newspaper that will allow users to download entire editions from the Web on to reflective digital screens said to be easier on the eyes than light-emitting laptop or cellphone displays.

Flexible versions of these readers nay be available as early as 2007. The handheld readers couldn’t come a moment too soon for the newspaper industry, which has struggled to maintain its readership and advertising against competition from online rivals.

Publishers Hearst in the US, Pearson’s Les Echos in
Paris and Belgian financial paper De Tijd are planning a large-scale trials of the readers this year.

Earlier attempts by book publishers to sell digital readers failed due to high prices and a lack of downloadable books.But a new generation of readers from Sony and iRex, a Philips Electronics spin-off, have impressed publishers with their sharp resolution and energy efficiency, galvanising support for the idea again.

This could be a real substitution for printed paper,” Jochen Dieckow, head of the news media and research division of Ifra, a global newspaper association based in
Germany, said

Stem cells regrow nerves in rats, hope for the paralysed
[ Tuesday, June 20, 2006 11:45:30 pm REUTERS ]

WASHINGTON: Stem cells taken from mouse embryos have helped paralysed rats move again, US researchers said on Monday.

The study was the best evidence so far that controversial embryonic stem cells might be used to treat people with spinal cord and other traumatic injuries, the researchers said.

“This study provides a ‘recipe’ for using stem cells to reconnect the nervous system,” Douglas Kerr of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine said in a statement.

“It raises the notion that we can eventually achieve this in humans, although we have a long way to go … We found that we needed a combination of all of the treatments in order to restore function.”

Kerr and colleagues used a soup of compounds called growth factors to cause stem cells from the mouse embryos to develop into a type of nerve cell called a motor neuron.

Writing in the Annals of Neurology, they said the transplanted cells, combined with the right mix of compounds, helped paralysed rats regrow some of their nerve cells and use their hind legs

NRIs send home a whopping $21 billion
[ Tuesday, June 13, 2006 01:09:16 am TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

NEW DELHI: For Indians, the umbilical cord with home is never severed.
India is the largest recipient of remittances by overseas workers, estimated at $21 billion — up from almost 150% since 1995, says a study by investment bankers J P Morgan. The Indian diaspora is estimated at 20 billion. Six of the 100 best paid executives in
Silicon Valley are Indians, according to a survey in the San Jose Mercury News.

Ranked at 61 is Rajiv Dutta of eBay and at 71 is Vyomesh Joshi, HP’s EVP. Others on the list include Abhijit Talwarkar, LSI Logic CEO, at 89 and Kamal Agarwal of National Semiconductors at 99.

Experts point out that softer immigration laws in the
US and the search for better economic opportunities have fuelled a surge in overseas migration of Indians.

Unlike previous phases of migration, better educated Indians went abroad in the last decade, especially to US, UK and
Canada.

The JP Morgan study reaffirms RBI figures released recently that found remittances were double the amount of net foreign institutional investor inflows and one-fourth of the merchandise export earnings of the country.

The study reports that stock of deposits by NRIs amounts to around $32 billion or 23% of foreign exchange reserves. Portfolio and real estate investment has been largely concentrated in the IT space.While the report notes that diaspora can act as a “powerful catalyst”, even helping
India realise and perhaps exceed its aspiration of 10% annual GDP growth, the onus for better capitalisation lies on the Indian government.

It is no wonder that the government is keen to recognise and pander to the interests of the growing diaspora.
Overseas Indian affairs minister Vyalar Ravi has already mooted a plan to set up a ‘welfare fund’ for the overseas workers.

The ministry plans to use this fund for compulsory health insurance of the overseas worker and his family and extend other facilities.
Ravi has already prepared a report and submitted it to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently.

 

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Glocal Youth Vision – Newsletter Sept. 2006

RED CAR(D)PET

The course completion certificate is given to one who has completes the course successfully.  This certificate is a prelude for getting degree certificate.  The children’s promotion depends upon their attendance and performance.  The athlete has to complete his race following all the rules, and then only the result will be decided.  The end result will always be considered after completion of their course or degree. Etc.,     

           It is better to finish rather than starting.  The statement becomes true to Golden ball winner and France Captain Zidane.  He started his carrier in street and ended up as a street fighter before 11 million people watching the FIFA 2006 football Final world cup match.  He used his head to butt the chest of the opponent instead of butting the ball.  His career ended after the red card shown by the umpire.                                

 In Bible, we see a lot of people finish their race abruptly.  Losing the focus is the main reason for this. e.g King Solomon. God gave him wisdom and wealth but he ended his life in worshipping pagan God.  King Ahab disobeyed God by giving freedom to the enemy.  King Saul disobeyed and lost his kingdom.  Samson started and ended his life with pagan girl.          

        Some finished the race successfully. King David started well.  In between,  he missed the path.  Yet, he came back and finished his life successfully.  Paul said “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.  Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day- 2 Tim 4:7-8.  John the Baptist started and finished the race successfully.               Jesus commanded the disciples to work out the cost before following Him.  He gave the examples of a king and the builder as examples to explain the project of unfinished task (Luke 14:28-33).  In New Testament, Jesus and Paul used the word ‘finish’. 

 1. Jesus used the word – ‘Finish’:                 

Jesus came to this world to finish the work which Father has given John 5:36.  In the cross he uttered the word ‘finished’. God expected us to complete the spiritual journey which we have started after accepting Jesus Christ as a Savior.  He has given a command to carry it on to completion till the return of our Lord (Ph. 1:6). Let us carry his promise and move towards completion.  2. Paul used the word ‘finish’: Acts 20:23-24              

Many will participate in Marathon race. In the initial stage few will back out.  After an hour most of them will back out.   At last only a few will complete therace. The spiritual race is to complete not for competition.             

Let us fight the good fight and finish the race (2 Tim 4:7-8) by fixing our eyes on the author and finisher of life (Heb. 12:1) so that Our Lord will welcome us with a red carpet to His kingdom.  

J. PETER DANIEL M.E.,  76 Living Spring Avenue, Sanjeevipuram, Bagayam,
Vellore – 2 Phone 0416 2260066, 9443800395, Email: peterpearline@yahoo.co.in   

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‘Cricket is not a good way of testing a person’s national loyalty’
August 21, 2006Over the last two decades, the idea that Indian civilization is a Hindu civilization has gained some ground; it has also led to considerable political intolerance, playing up Hindu-Muslim conflicts rather than their constructive interactions, says Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. Part I: ‘Like every human being, I have many identities’His latest book, Identity and Violence is far from being a study of violence; it is more a plea, repeated over and over, for people to see the similarities, the plural identities, in each other.Sen questions the clash of civilization theory proposed by political scientist Samuel P Huntington, and other such theories that have gained currency in the post 9/11 world. He questions assumptions about the cultural differences between what is termed a democratic Western tradition and a non-democratic Islamic tradition, and argues that freedom is an integral part of the Asian tradition.‘This book rescues us from that ghastly militarist theory, the War of Civilizations (proposed by
Huntington), no choice but eternal conflict between Them and an Us,’ notes Nadine Gordimer, the 1991 Nobel Laureate in Literature. ‘Sen is one of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.’ The second part of his interview to Arthur J Pais.You have argued in your new book against Samuel Huntington’s definition of Indian civilization as a Hindu civilization. But many Indians think of the country as a Hindu country, in terms of religion and culture. Why do you call such thoughts politically combustive and descriptively flawed?India has had a phenomenally rich and immensely diverse history, and any unifocal interpretation of that history in purely Hindu terms cannot but miss out a lot of
India’s traditions.Aside from religious differences, we have also had a long tradition of scepticism, yielding among other approaches agnosticism and even atheism. Indeed, going back all the way to the Rig Veda (circa 1500 BC), we can find in it the Song of Creation, which questions the omnipotence and omniscience of God, and perhaps even the existence of any entity like God.Buddhism and Jainism too posed quite a few challenges to Hinduism, and while Jainism survives today, Buddhism – it is good to remember this — was the dominant religion in
India for around a thousand years. Among other important features, Buddha maintained an agnostic position, and saw the question of God to be not only hard to resolve but also as being quite unnecessary to resolve for moral thinking. It is often not recognised that Buddhism is the only world religion that does not invoke God for its theory of good behaviour.India has always had room for different religions, and apart from indigenous development of non-Hindu religions (Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism), the country has been tolerant and welcoming to people from different religions immigrating to
India. Jews arrived in India from the first century, Christians from the fourth century, followed by Parsis from
Persia in the seventh century, and Muslim Arab traders in the eighth. Indian culture has benefited greatly from the diversity that the various religions have produced.Over the last two decades, the idea that Indian civilization is a Hindu civilization has gained some ground. It has also led to considerable political intolerance, playing up Hindu-Muslim conflicts rather than their constructive interactions. This has also gone with some targeting of minority groups, for example in Mumbai in the early 1990s and in Gujarat in 2002.  That is why I think that to understand
India as a Hindu country is not only a big descriptive mistake, it is also politically nasty. It is used to ignite the ferocity of an exclusive and allegedly dominant identity of the Hindus, and to undermine the common identity that all Indians can share.You write of how you cheered a Pakistani cricket team that was playing against
India. That same behaviour, when carried out in Mumbai and elsewhere, has led to condemnation by the majority…I have written in the book that if you really enjoy the game of cricket, cheering for one side or the other is determined by a number of varying factors, including one’s national loyalty or residential identity, but also the quality of play and even the interest in the game.During the Pakistani team’s tour of India in 2005, when Pakistan promptly lost the first two one-day matches in the series of six, I hoped
Pakistan would win the third match, to keep the series interesting. There is nothing particularly odd about that.Most of the Indian Muslims I have known indeed do, in fact, cheer for the Indian team, but if they were to cheer for a Pakistani player because of the quality of that person’s play — or for whatever reason — it would be wrong to think that this must be because they are politically disloyal to
India. Cricket is not a good way of testing a person’s national loyalty.I know of course that the Conservative British politician Lord Tebbit has argued that a ‘cricket test’ would show the loyalty of the immigrants. He said that a well-integrated immigrant must cheer for England in Test matches against the country of the person’s origin (such as
Pakistan) when the two sides play each other. This is like saying: ‘Cheer for the British team and you would be fine!’ If this were really accepted, it could of course make the lives of many immigrants much easier by providing them a simple fool-proof way of showing their political loyalty to
Britain (no matter what their politics might be). Tebbit has even said had his cricket Test been used, the British-born militants of Pakistani origin would have been caught before the
London bomb blasts. I argue in my book that a terrorist who is planning to blow up things in
Britain would have to be extremely incompetent indeed if he could not manage to cheer for the ‘right side’ in a game of cricket. It is hard to match the naivety of the much-hyped ‘cricket test’!Your book reveals an eclectic passion for poetry, ranging from
Ogden Nash to Mathew Arnold. You quote Arnold’s lines, ‘And we are here as on darkling plain/Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight/Where ignorant armies clash by night’ to warn us about unreasoning times. Is there, in that poem or elsewhere, something that celebrates the recognition of multiple identities, which you advocate in your book?Poetry is often not the best place to look for a theory, but there are lots of celebrations of multiplicity of identities. In fact, among the lines I quoted in my book is Derek Walcott’s rhetorical question, ‘…how choose/Between
Africa and the English tongue I love?’Walcott’s identity with Africa, from where his ancestors came to the
West Indies, is strong, but so is his affiliation with the English language and the community of English poets. He is not ready to give up either, and this certainly is a celebration of the plurality of his identities.Rabindranath Tagore too indirectly celebrates the possibility of multiple links and loyalties when he pleads for a time and place, ‘Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls.’  

NRIs raise funds to help Punjab students
[ 10 Aug, 2006 1821hrs IST PTI ]  PHAGWARA: A group of Phagwara natives residing in Surrey, Canada, have pooled funds for distributing free books among meritorious and needy students of the local GuruNanak College. Thirty-two students of the BCA, Commerce and Arts faculties of the college were handed over the sets of books by President of Phagwara city council Malkiat Singh Ragbotra on Thursday.

College Principal Inderjit Singh, who had visited
Canada last year, said the NRIs had initially raised Rs 50,000 for the purpose and have promised to generate more funds.

He gave a detailed account of the Phagwara Welfare society formed in
Surrey in British Colombia and said it will help more students with books.
Australia wins fight to woo Indian minds Indrani Bagchi[ 24 Aug, 2006 0146hrs IST TIMES NEWS NETWORK ] NEW DELHI: The US, UK and
Australia are in a race — to secure the highest number of Indian students for their countries. And Indian students are obliging in hordes.

All three countries have reported huge increases in the number of Indian students in their universities. Even though UK and Australia have made remarkable gains, the
US remains the destination of choice for Indians.
The rate of increase is most impressive for the Australians, who have recorded a 54% increase in Indian students travelling Down Under The best part is, the race is not over yet as students for the coming academic year continue to throng visa offices.

In fiscal year 2006, between October 2005 and July 2006, the US gave out 25,189 student visas out of a total of 292,027, an increase of 33%, the US embassy said. Between January-August 2006, the UK let in 17,584 Indian students into over 100 universities, a jump of over 25%. Last year, the British let in 13,176 Indian students in the same period. But
Australia is clearly the hottest destination. In 2005-06,
Australia issued a total of 15,396 visas to Indian students, which is a breathtaking 54% jump over the previous year’s 10,000 visas.
While Australia has had the most creative bunch of visas to attract studying-working Indians, the UK’s consular success this year is mainly due to an initiative started by PM Tony Blair in 2005. The initiative came into effect in 2006, which has made studying in the
UK much more attractive, despite the steep bills. This benefit includes a one-year visa extension to get work experience for students passing out from English and Welsh universities, a clear inspiration from the Aussies. Graduates from   Scotland will receive two-year-work permits. An added incentive, say officials, is that student visa holders are being allowed to work for 20 hours a week, which goes a long way in paying those bills.  In fact, British officials claim that living expenses and tuition fees are about 45% cheaper than US or Australia. Meanwhile, in the
US, students are swelling the numbers of desis . According to the latest census projections, US will have 4.5 million Indian Americans by 2010 — an estimated 1.5% of the total population.
According to previous census counts, Asian Indians (that’s us) increased 110% from 428,224 (1980) to 815,447 (1990), and 106% from 815,447 (1990) to 1,678,765 (2000).

But by 2010, Indians will register their steepest rise in the
US. Recent statistics show that 30% of doctoral degrees in the US is granted to foreign students while that number rises to 38% in the
UK. And many of them are Indians.  After watching ‘KANK’ , man shoots wife [ 21 Aug, 2006 1106hrs IST MUMBAI MIRROR ]Not all extra-marital affairs end the way it does in Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna (KANK). Take the case of a Thane resident who stabbed and shot his wife because she did not allow him to marry another girl he loved. The irony is that the incident took place after the couple had just watched KANK The victim Reshma (27) is fighting for her life inSion
Hospital. Her husband Shadaf Anwar Khan (32), a rickshaw driver, is absconding. THE COUPLE Shadaf got married to Reshma nine years ago. They have two kids Salma (9) and Salim (2). The family lives in Rabodi area.

For the past year, Shadaf had reportedly been seeing a girl working as a waitress in a local bar and wanted to marry her. But Reshma refused to give her consent. Recently, she moved out of Shadaf’s house with the children and was living in Gajanan Chawl on Bunderpada Roadin Kalyan. WHAT HAPPENED In her statement to the police, Reshma said, “On Saturday evening, Shadaf came to my place along with his friends Raju and Sanjay. He convinced me that he had dropped the idea of getting married to that bar girl. He had brought movie tickets for the late night show of KANK at Cinemax mall in Thane. He asked me to leave the children at home.”
India has capacity to produce 243 GW power by 2050
Bangalore, UNI:
India has the capacity to produce 243 Giga Watts of power by 2050 by utilising the Uranium and Thorium resources available in the country, renowned materials scientist and Indian Nuclear Society President Dr Placid Rodriguez said today.

”With the available Uranium and Thorium resources, the country can produce 243 GW of power as against the target of 250 GW by 2050 and there is no need to import Uranium. However, there is an urgent need to explore Uranium and Thorium resources, especially in Andhra Pradesh and Meghalaya,” he said.
Dr Rodriguez was speaking to newspersons after the Prof Brahm Prakash Memorial Lecture on ‘Indian Experience on Fuel and Structural Materials in Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors’ at the Indian Institute of Metals here yesterday, given by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) Director Dr S Banerjee.
To a question, he said a huge investment and political will was needed for the purpose. However, he did not divulge the quantum of resources needed, stating that the amount was yet to be worked out.
Referring to the Indo-US civil nuclear deal and the US Congress passing the Nuclear Policy recently, Dr Rodriguez said the benefits from the policy might be short term as the country might get supply of Uranium, but in the long run the policy would be of no use.

”Unless the US agrees to the conditions laid down in the deal, signed on July 18, 2005, we may not benefit much in the long run and we don’t want to surrender the country’s sovereignty.

” India 6th most dangerous country for kids: Survey
India has been judged as the sixth most dangerous country for children in the world, according to a recent poll. Afghanistan, Palestinian territories, Myanmar and Chechnya were among the countries ranked as safer than India in the poll conducted by Reuters AlertNet, a humanitarian news website run by Reuters Foundation, Rajya Sabha was told on Monday. During the survey, the website asked more than 110 aid experts and journalists to highlight the most dangerous places for children. The first five dangerous countries are Sudan, Northern Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq and
Somalia, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury said while replying to a written question. The facts that have been taken into account for the poll survey include the children involved in armed conflict, the psychological trauma experienced by children caught up in violence, the children living in poverty and forced to work to support themselves and their families and malnutrition among children, the minister said

Largest Hindu temple opens in Britain

Thursday, 24 August , 2006, 08:25 London: Europe’s largest Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Venkateswara opened in
London on Wednesday with a weeklong festival during which priests will perform rituals to sanctify the shrine. The Rs 57.3-crore temple is in the west central English town of Tividale, near
Birmingham. It is based on the famous Tirupati-Tirumala temple in
India. Fifteen Indian priests will perform rituals to sanctify the temple. The festival will end with the installation of the 3.6 metre statue of Lord Krishna. The idea of the temple was conceived in the 1970s, but it was not until 1987 that worshippers acquired the site. Scores of craftsmen from India worked on the temple. “It’s just marvellous and thanks must go to the people who have donated money and all the work the volunteers have done. The devotees have been very generous and it is a beautiful temple,” an office bearer told the BBC.

Why so many kids are out of school Mathang Seshagiri[ 21 Aug, 2006 2255hrs IST TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
BANGALORE: Where have crores of rupees meant for educating children under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) gone? On buying cellphones, crockery, printing calendars and poojas! Eleven states, including
Bihar which has one of the worst drop-out rates in the country, are guilty. The revelation was made in CAGfs latest performance audit report (2005). It said Rs 99.88 crore were diverted to activities/schemes which were beyond SSAfs scope in several states, including Maharashtra, Karnataka, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh. Gujarat, for instance, used SSA funds to meet the expenses of ebhoomi pooja of Gujarat Council of Education Research and Training Centre. Madhya Pradesh spent it on printing calendars, while UP used it to buy utensils and crockery. West Bengal spent a chunk of Rs 18.13 crore to purchase computers, air-conditioners, typewriters, photocopiers, fax machines, mobile phones and to repair bungalows. Karnataka, too, between 2001 and 2004, diverted the funds towards salary of teachers, sports fee, sports funds and library fee. Apart from the diversion of funds (Rs 99.88 crore), the CAG report also points to financial irregularities of Rs 472.51 crore in 14 states and Union territories

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