Thursday 31 December 2015

Daughter Joins The Same Court As A Judge Where Her Father Sells Tea!

Surinder Kumar has worked as a tea seller all his life. As an owner of a tea shop right across the court, Surinder has been serving people tea at the complex of the sub-divisional magistrate in Nakodar (Jalandhar district), for years. But little did he know that one day his daughter would walk through the doors of the same court as a judge!
23-year-old Shruti passed the Punjab Civil Services (Judicial) Examination in the first attempt, and after a year's training at the academy, she is now ready to pronounce judgments and bring some justice to the world.

While speaking to Deccan Herald, Shruti said, "I always wanted to be associated with the legal profession. I wanted to be a judge. I sat for the examination and stood first in the SC category." She made her dreams come and father proud.

After graduating from Guru Nanak Dev University, Shruti went on to study law at Punjab University, Patiala. As a woman achiever, Shruti feels that women are now at the forefront of topping the country's competitive exams. "My friends like Harpreet Kaur Sidhu have also qualified in the judicial examination. Her father is a police inspector. I am not the only one," she added.

Shruti was recently applauded for success, with Rajya Sabha MP and BJP vice-president Avinash Rai Khanna calling her achievement as "an honour for Punjab."
Source - Deccan Herald/Indiatimes

Maternity Leave For Private Sector Employees To Increase From 12 To 26 Weeks

The central government has decided to to increase the maternity leave for private sector employees from the existing 12 weeks to 26 weeks.

"We had written to the Labour Ministry asking that the maternity leave be extended taking into account the six months of breastfeeding that is required post childbirth. The Labour Ministry has agreed to increase it to six-and-a-half months," Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi said on Monday. 

According to reports, the ministry is also planning to approach the Labour Ministry to further extend the maternity leave to 32 weeks or 8 months, where by women employed in private sector are entitled to receive full salary and other benefits during the period of leave.

Even though the move is a welcome step many including labour unions have expressed concerns that it could affect the job prospects of women in the private sector in the long run.

Proud Moment for India again by Indian Navy. Indian navy Tests The Most Formidable Missile In Its Arsenal

The Indian Navy conducted twin tests of its latest most potent missile the LR-SAM (Long Range Surface to Air Missile), also known as the Barak-8, from the stealth destroyer INS Kolkata. A successful test of the missile was conducted on the evening of 29th December and a second was conducted on the morning of 30th December. The missile successfully intercepted an aerial target at extended ranges. Apart from the missile, the system includes a Multi Functional Surveillance and Threat Alert Radar (MF STAR) for detection, tracking and guidance of the missile.


The missile is a joint development between India and Israel and this was the first time it was fired off an Indian warship. It will soon be equipping other Kolkata-class destroyers, the INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier and all major Indian warships in the future.
The missile is intended to have a range of 70km, which will give a ship a long range anti-aircraft and anti-missile cover. While the exact range of the intercept of today’s test hasn't been revealed, the missile’s range is thought to have been extended up to a distance of beyond 90kms! This makes the LR-SAM, a one of its kind system in the world.

This 21-Year-Old Genius From Jamshedpur Just Scored A Perfect 800 In MAT!

A 21-year-old student of Birla Institute of Technology in Lalpur in Ranchi has got cent per cent marks in the management aptitude test (MAT) the results of which were announced recently.
Shalu Munka is from Jamshedpur and has a bachelor's degree in business administration.

She is now getting calls from many B-schools. "I have got calls from Centre for Management Studies in Bengaluru and Christ University. But I plan to join TA Pai Management Institute (Karnataka)," said Munka who is hoping to specialize in human resource management. 
She completed school education in Jamshedpur where her father runs a business. Her mother is a homemaker. MAT is a national level online exam conducted four times a year by All India Management Association (AIMA) for students seeking admission in top MBA colleges of the country. Shalu has scored 800 out of 800.
"I dedicate this result to my parents and teachers who inspired and guided me all the time," she said. 
Gopalji, who is the director of Right Step management coaching institute where Munka took tuition too had scored 800 in MAT-2011. "I also secured 51 in GMAT in the same year," he said. He started coaching in 2013 after working for two years in merchant navy. "Teaching always excited me and I'm happy that my approach has been validated by the performance of my student," he said.

Source- Indiatimes

Monday 28 December 2015

Women Power! Meet The Sisters From Thane Who Patrol The Streets At Night Managing An Auto Stand


The sequins on her turquoise kurta are making Mahananda Jagtap feel increasingly conspicuous. She folds the sparkly border to disappear into the tungsten glow of road number 33.
Her elder sister, Sushma Shirsat, on the other hand, is already wearing her invisibility cloak, a maroon nightie, as she scans the shady lane that is fast lining up with haphazardly-parked auto rickshaws.

Soon, when it all falls silent, the duo will sit on the two plastic chairs outside with a polythene full of chilli powder, a wooden stick, a torch and three alert strays; Dolly, Bandya and Jimmy for company. The arsenal helps the sisters endure the nights here that usually throw up dignified drunks but also deviant stunt bikers who sometimes make cheap conversation. Manning this auto rickshaw parking stand near Thane's Veer Savarkar Nagar is "like pouring oil into your eyes," says Jagtap. But for these two grieving sisters, it is the only available form of revenge.
Had their protective younger brother Raju been alive, he would have driven them inside the home much earlier in the evening. "He was lying right here in this room," says Raju's mother, her cataract eyes welling up at the memory of her son who was found burnt alive a year ago. "Don't," Shirsat scolds her mother out of concern. Since the incident in July last year, fighting for justice became the trio's mission statement. But justice costs money. So Jagtap, a Class IX dropout, quit her menial job as a medical supply worker while her widowed sister gave up her post as a mall security guard to do what she calls "another version of security".

Together, they decided to run Raju's parking stand that, at Rs 10 per auto a day, brings in roughly Rs 30,000 a month now. Almost half of this kitty vanishes during bi-monthly court visits. But "this is our way of telling the enemies that we aren't broken," says 35-year-old Jagtap. Of course, they were broken. The loss had toppled their lives and overturned their body clocks. Work begins around 9pm and goes on till 6am, during which time they can't afford to nod off. A typical night involves jotting down the payment for close to 90 rickshaws, having a fair idea of where each rickshaw is parked and looking out for thieves and even vandals.
"Some scratch the covers with a blade," says Jagtap. Besides, in case of rented rickshaws, the driver who parks and the driver that fetches the rickshaw in the morning may be different. Confusion leads these drivers to rudely wake them up. "'My rickshaw is missing' they shout without even looking," says Jagtap. In the last one year, this has only happened twice. If something goes missing on their time, the sisters have to cough up Rs 1,500. "A battery and a spare," says Shirsat, though she didn't know the name of the latter then.
Initially, they would shiver. Once a biker came up to Jagtap and asked for directions at 2 am. Another time, a tussle between neighbours looked so close to culminating in a riot that the sisters almost took an inventory of kitchen items they would use for self-defence. Shirsat still shudders at the sight of corpses being carried to the cemetery nearby. At such times, "I huddle close to my sister in the rickshaw," says 45-year-old Shirsat.
Then, there are the literal shivers. To get through the excruciating winter last year, they had to invest Rs 2,000 worth in a bonfire and shroud themselves in layers. Rains can be exacting too for the women who patrol the street with a stick.
"We have to sit inside the rickshaw and use an umbrella," says Jagtap. In fact, last year, a couple of blackouts even forced the female vigilantes to make friends with an MSEB employee. "We have even put up a bulb here," says Jagtap, pointing to the palm tree outside her house. Sometimes drivers, who call them 'didi' or 'tai', return the favour by offering free rides to the nearby market. "But I always pay up," says Jagtap. "Why eat into a labourer's income?"

Of course, not all drivers are trusting. Just the other morning, for instance, a rickshaw driver stormed into their ground floor house and held them responsible for the leaky pipe. "When we examined it, it was clear that it was the rickshaw driver's own fault," says Jagtap. Twice, when rickshaws went missing, they had to show up at the police station where even lady cops would taunt them. "Why are rickshaws plying far away parked in your stand?" they would ask. "My mouth runs dry," says Jagtap in Hindi, her excellent command over the language stems partly from her job profile.


Though the good life seems far away, Jagtap says her job has hardened them. Jagtap has learnt how to pull and park rickshaws and Shirsat, who knows every rickshaw driver in the neighbourhood by his number plate, can extract credit with just her tone.
"If you give respect, you get respect," says Shirsat, who has seen neighbours laugh at her job profile. "But that only makes us stronger," adds Shirsat, who is now contemplating hiring a private advocate in place of the court-appointed lawyer. ow, every time Jagtap feels jittery, her brother's face appears before her, a phenomenon she finds strangely calming. "Someday, we want to open a trust for kids in our brother's name," says Jagtap, who also hands out water to thirsty passers-by and rickshaw drivers at night.
Acutely aware of the male gaze, they enlist the help of their mother's presence, though cataract, diabetes and high blood pressure have now confined her to the house. A CCTV would be useful but they hear it costs a lot. "We would need a new TV for that," says Jagtap, looking at the defunct grey TV set in her home that the family would never throw out. "It was bought by my brother."
Appeal- Please help them by crowdfunding if you know them by any means.
Source - Times Of India

Woman Rescued From Railway Staff Harassment After She Tweets To Rail Ministry! Read to know more

After having been "misbehaved" with by the railway staff while on board a three tier AC train, Priya Parashar's agony was brought to rest by a tweet of Ministry of Railways as a team of Railway Police Force (RPF) from Meerut city station reached to Parashar's help.

In a series of tweets, Parashar and her male friend - with whom she was travelling - mentioned that she asked the railway staff the reason behind not providing packaged Neer water bottle on train to which the staff allegedly misbehaved."I am so thankful to the railway authorities to have taken swift action. I was travelling along with my friend in Golden Temple mail train on Saturday night, when a staff person named Yogendra from pantry car misbehaved with me. I asked him as to why was he providing cheap packaged water in place of Rail Neer - packaged water of Railways. In his response, he snatched the cheap water bottle from my hand deliberately and shouted on me. I was shocked," said Priya, who was on board AC three-tier Golden Mail train.The incident took place on Saturday at 8:30pm after which Priya and his male friend tweeted to @RailMinIndia. 




Soon after her tweet, she was told to share her PNR number and contact number after which she got a call from someone in the Railways and assured of quick help. Because her next railway station was Meerut, the Railway Police Force on Meerut city station came to her rescue and took the staff person with them and fined him with a certain amount - which Priya was later told by rail authorities via phone. She later tweeted:



News source- The Times Of India

Odd-Even Rule Dry Run on Wednesday, Says AAP Government. Get ready Delhites.



Those in Delhi wondering how the odd-even rule for cars will work can experience the new system real-time on Wednesday, when the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government is planning a "full rehearsal".

The dry run will take place from 8 am to 8 pm, say officials, and every arrangement will be the same as when the new rule is enforced between January 1 and 15. Only, there will be no prosecution.

Officials have said that 10,000 civil defence volunteers will be present at traffic lights and they will "educate and request car owners to follow the odd-even rule".

For the first 15 days of the New Year, odd-numbered cars will run on odd dates and even-numbered cars will run on even dates, barring exemptions granted to categories like VIPs, women, CNG vehicles, emergency vehicles and two wheelers.

The planned use of volunteers has become controversial with Delhi Police Chief BS Bassi warning against vigilantism.

"No matter how good the cause is, we can't let volunteers stop vehicles in running traffic. The law does not permit this and neither will we," Mr Bassi said today, adding that "no vigilantism will be tolerated."

AAP's Ashutosh assured, however, that the volunteers would "cooperate with the police."

Some 3,000 extra buses commissioned for the 15-day road rationing will also be on the roads on Wednesday for the dry run. All buses will be forced to follow bus lane on 30 December.

Officials say 30 interceptor teams of the transport department will be present at different locations in Delhi to rehearse how to take action against violations.

The Metro has been asked to run whole day on peak time frequency.  Google will share real time bus locations with passengers and Twitter will respond to the queries of users with bus route numbers and times.

The "rehearsal" comes as doubts have been expressed on the workability of the plan.

Among those who have expressed doubts is former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who said: "The plan is not feasible. They don't seem to have worked it out, they don't seemed to have thought it through."

News Source- NDTV

Traffic police constable in Madhya Pradesh's Indore having 4 Cars, 6 Homes, 8 Bank Accounts.

A traffic police constable house was raided in Indore and guess what, he is found to be richer than a middle class man. Assets worth crores of rupees, including four cars and six homes, have been recovered in raids on a traffic police constable in Madhya Pradesh's Indore, police said today.

The anti-corruption Lokayukta police started raiding the homes of head constable Arun Singh to found documents linked to two plots of 6,000 square feet, a farm house and two flats in Indore.



The police also found papers for a 25-acre farm house, two plots of 8,000 square feet and two houses in Rewa, which is a place about 700 kilometres from Indore.

Four cars, including an SUV, and eight bank accounts have also been discovered, the police said.

The final count, suspected to be around s. 5 crores, will be revealed in the evening.

The huge hoard of unaccounted wealth is far beyond the legitimate sources of earning of Arun Singh, who is posted in Jabalpur, police said.

News source- NDTV

Guess What?? Cow Dung Patties is one of the hottest things Selling Online in India

So, here's the latest news.
You can buy cow dung patties online.


While the patties - cow dung mixed with hay, made mainly by women in rural areas and used to fuel fires - have long been available in villages, online retailers including Amazon and eBay are reaching out to the country's increasing urban population.

Retailers say they're offering discounts for large orders. 

Cow dung cakes have been used for centuries to fuel fires for cooking and are specially laid out on the festival of colours, Holi. Across many villages in the country, piles of drying cow dung are ever found.

Thursday 24 December 2015

THE SECRET OF SUCCESS



THE SECRET OF SUCCESS


"What is the secret of your success?" a reporter asked a successful businessman.
"Two words," he replied, "Right decisions."
“And how do you make right decisions?"
"One word," "Experience."
"And how do you get experience?"
"Two words." "Wrong decisions."

Wednesday 23 December 2015

Estimate time with Your Hand




How can you estimate time remaining in case you forgot to take your watch and your mobile phone is out of battery?

Extend your arm fully and count the number of finger widths between the sun and the horizon. Each finger is about 15 minutes, which means each hand width should be about an hour. Remember that this is just an estimate, so if you want to be conservative, make sure to give yourself a bit more time than you measure if you want to get home before dark.


(according to Estimate the Time of Sunset with Your Hand)

How about estimating the current time?

According to Telling Time Using Only Your Hand you need to know the time of sunrise first but I found it works well even when I don't know the time of the sunrise since I am estimating and not finding the exact time. 

Look to the sun on horizon. If there are trees on the horizon, then use the tops of the trees as the horizon.Now hold your arm all the way out, palm side facing you like you're shading your eyes from the sun.

"Pinky" on the start of the horizon. From the bottom of your "Pinky" to the top of your "Pointer" finger,.. that's one hour!

So for example,

Starting at the horizon, lets say that it's three hand withs, stacked on top of each other, to the bottom of the sun...This means it's been light for 3 hours. If sunrise was at 6:00am, that would mean that it's now 9:15 or about 9:30. (Since I've never owned a Cell phone and never wear a watch, this has always been close enough for me.)

The bottom two fingers equals 30 minuets. 

Practise it and depending on whether you are in a jungle or in the city this trick can work as a life saver or an impressive trick.

Have you ever observed that your phone dialler allows you to dial two letters p and w also, along with digits (0 to 9) and +,*,# ? - Read to discover


On some android mobile diallers  p is replaced with , and is replaced with (by long pressing you will get , and long pressing # results in ; ).

​​On old Nokia keypad mobiles press * quickly three times to get and four times to getw.


So what is the purpose of p and w?

Here p stands for pause and stands for wait

Suppose you are dialling some IVRS system (assume the number as 999) and everytime after picking call you have to dial 5 with in 3 seconds to continue. 

What you are going to do is dial 999 and after picking up your call go to keypad dialler and enter 5 to continue.

Here lot of time is wasted. Instead just save the contact as 999,5 or 999p5. By this way you don't need to dial 5 again. 

Here above p pauses for  2 or 3 or 4 seconds and 5 is entered automatically.
 
Remember pause duration depends upon the mobile model. To get long pause duration enter p or , continuosly depending upon the requirement.

Like the sameway w or ; will make the wait (as long as you need) confirmed by a dialog box so that we have to confirm every time. Here also you don't need to type any number. Just confirmation is needed to send your choice.

For instance in India, to speak to Airtel complaint customer care you have to dial 198 and again 1 and again 2 and atlast 9 (changes circle to circle).


​So save this number as 198;1;2;9 . Your job is done in one shot. Remember to press Yes at appropriate time. :)



Hope this hidden phone dialler feature will be useful in your life...


Source:
Naresh Bharat

What to do when you feel everything is wrong in your life????



You must have seen the image by now.  Left is angry and right is calm right???

Now move at least 10 feet from the computer and see how it works.

This image reminds me to:
Always give some time and distance yourself from the problem. Sure, the way you perceived the problem will change. The more closer you stay or lesser the time you give to solve the problem, you'll always perceive it the wrong way!!!!

Give some time and distance yourself.

A Saraswati Devi temple designed as a Facebook wall.


Social media has reached the realm of the Hindu Gods in India. This image of the Facebook-themed Hindu temple has been circulating sites since February 18th. The people behind the idea seem to have taken a cue from all those parody accounts of World History and religious figures and blown up the idea as the wall of Devi Saraswati’s temple. If you look closely, you can see that the goddess Devi is “friends” with notable Hindu Gods such as Krishna, Laxmi, Shiva, Kali and more.
Netizens have marveled at this “modern approach” to religion and most have expressed genuine concern that a change in Facebook layout might be a tad inconvenient for the innovative temple. Some commented it is “taking Facebook wall to a new level.”

Live Root Bridges - In the depths of northeastern India, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren't built—they're grown.

Live Root Bridges.
In the depths of northeastern India, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren't built—they're grown.



The southern Khasi and Jaintia hills are humid and warm, crisscrossed by swift-flowing rivers and mountain streams. On the slopes of these hills, a species of Indian rubber tree with an incredibly strong root system thrives and flourishes.

The Ficus elastica produces a series of secondary roots from higher up its trunk and can comfortably perch atop huge boulders along the riverbanks, or even in the middle of the rivers themselves. The War-Khasis, a tribe in Meghalaya, long ago noticed this tree and saw in its powerful roots an opportunity to easily cross the area's many rivers. Now, whenever and wherever the need arises, they simply grow their bridges.



In order to make a rubber tree's roots grow in the right direction—say, over a river—the Khasis use betel nut trunks, sliced down the middle and hollowed out, to create root-guidance systems. The thin, tender roots of the rubber tree, prevented from fanning out by the betel nut trunks, grow straight out. When they reach the other side of the river, they're allowed to take root in the soil. Given enough time, a sturdy, living bridge is produced.
The root bridges, some of which are over a hundred feet long, take ten to fifteen years to become fully functional, but they're extraordinarily strong—strong enough that some of them can support the weight of fifty or more people at a time. In fact, because they are alive and still growing, the bridges actually gain strength over time—and some of the ancient root bridges used daily by the people of the villages around Cherrapunji may be well over 500 years old.

Source : atlasobscura

Tuesday 22 December 2015

STOP BARGAINING WITH THE HELPLESS



Everytime we step out to buy groceries or take a rickshaw ride or any such facility ,we As Indians feel that something is missing as long as we don't bargain for that 10-15 Rs whereas, we are ready to pay any amount to the bigger players like shopping brands and eatery stores .

Every second rickshaw-puller in the city, especially in and around central Delhi, is a seasonal migrant, who come to the city with just a few clothes and heads straight to one of the thousands of garages across the city owned by rickshaw contractors.
Most rickshaw-pullers live a wretched life. After pedalling for almost 12-15 hours a day, most of them sleep in the garage (makeshift structures where rickshaw are parked and repaired) with only a tarpaulin to save them from the sun and the rain. Many rickshaw-pullers, worried about their vehicle being stolen, simply sleep on their rickshaw. And then, there are thousands who find the city’s footpaths a better place to spend the night.
But sleeping on the footpath is dangerous. In the night, the rickshaw-pullers say local ruffians snatch their hard-earned money. The police don’t help them, saying that those who rob them of their money are of their ilk. The police often use them to put up and remove barricades, which sometimes they hitch to their rickshaws.
Words from a richshaw driver :-
At 5pm, i get ready to leave the garage with my rickshaw. While people get dropped at a mall where they do not mind spending thousands in a restaurant, they haggle over a fare of `15 with me, and there are many who walk away without paying. And if we argue, we get a hard slap,” , his voice laced with anger.
There is no minimum fare, no parking stands for them, banks do not give them loans to buy rickshaws and they are barred from all arterial roads in the city. Instead of being rewarded with carbon credits, they continue to be considered a nuisance.
Most stop plying their rickshaws by the time they turn 50. The daily toil takes its toll on their lungs and heart. They survive on meagre food, work in tough weather conditions. This city needs to be kinder to them.
We may be can't fight their battle but we can surely support them by giving them what they actually deserve .

This happens only in India



During this Chennai Floods, this lady never slept so that she and her team could help the flood victims.

And then, she and her team cooked and sent 2 lakh (2,00,000) food packets in four days from RSS Narada Gana Sabha.

Can this happen anywhere else?
Truly, this happens only in India!

Source- Barnadhya Rwitam Sharma

Monday 7 December 2015

Robin Hood Army - The hunger saviour

Every Sunday night, a band of merry men and women dressed in Lincoln green shirts, collect food from restaurants and distribute it to the homeless and hungry all over Delhi. Borrowing their moniker from the English outlaw, the Robin Hood Army “takes from restaurants which have plenty and give it to the poor, who have only a few,” the fearless co- leader Anand Sinha tells us – only this operation is legal, and woefully devoid of Kevin Costner brandishing a bow and arrow.


Launched recently by Delhi-based entrepreneur Anand and a Zomato operations professional Neel Ghose, Robin Hood Army is modeled after Hunter Halder’s Re-Food program, an initiative to help end both hunger and food waste in Portugal. After spending some time volunteering in Portugal, Neel came back to India with the idea of starting something similar with his friends in Delhi; few weeks later, they launched Robin Hood Army. "We sat down and discussed the idea and spent the first few weeks just scouting,” Anand tells us.  After identifying clusters, they reached out to their contacts in the food and restaurant industry to help out with initial rations of food.


Now, never short of volunteers and food, the army functions like clockwork. “We meet at my place, divide ourselves into groups and distribution starts at 8 pm every Sunday evening,” Anand tells us. The food, once collected, is distributed by volunteers to people who are homeless and hungry or in any other condition that leaves them without the means to secure the food they need.


Besides leftovers, restaurants like Kebab Express in Gurgaon and late- night delivery service, Midnight Munchies, provide additional services, including cooking and packing special wholesome meals like vada pav, dal chawal, khicchdi, aloo parathas and more. Restaurants like Sanjha Chulha and Madly Bangalee in CR park and Punjabi Zaika in Gurgaon have been supplying chicken and biryani. And they’re just beginning.


Feeding 500 people a night in Delhi and around 1600 across the country, Robin Hood Army has approximately 50 volunteers in the city, mostly professionals from companies such as Google, Zomato, McKinsey and law firms. As they grow and expand, they share with bpb that they plan to start their own kitchen, as they “don’t want to depend on collections alone.” With winter a few months away, the Robin Hood Army also plan to start collecting blankets, bedding and warm clothing for distribution, along with the food. Plus, they also hope to get more organized and increase their base of volunteers and partner restaurants, so they can start operating on a daily basis.


Already Robin Hood Army has become so popular that Neel and Anand have replicated the model in four other major cities: Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Kolkata; Chennai will follow soon. Additionally, they will also be launching a website to make volunteering easier.


You can contact them or join at :

https://www.facebook.com/robinhoodarmy/

http://robinhoodarmy.com/