SATIRE: Leading software services providers Comfy Inc. and PCS software solutions have decided to include the cost of coffee machines, air-conditioning, and internet broadband bills in the Cost-To-Company (CTC) of fresh recruits from campus.
Nilesh Nankaani senior recruiter at Comfy provided more details to the media on this matter. He said, “Last year we asked our HR analytics experts to analyze the data-set of all our coffee expenses, air-conditioning bills, and internet usage bills after 7:30 PM. After 1 year of deep dives into data they came back with results.
Salman Khan wants his innocence back with Bajrangi Bhaijaan. And he wants you to pay for it. Will you?
"This movie (Bajrangi Bhaijaan) needed sincerity and innocence which I had lost. Both, Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo will bring back my sincerity and innocence," Salman said, sharing his Eid wish-list.
Salman is, obviously, not talking about the loss of 'innocence' of his screen avatar. On screen, he has stuck to the sterotype of a sweet-talking, doe-eyed do-gooder with a heart of gold, arms of steel and a 56-inch chest. Forget dark, villanous characters, Salman's reel-life avatars haven't even had a hint of grey.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Varanasi was cancelled due to heavy rains on Thursday for the third time in last 9 months. In order to set up the stage and make other arrangements for PM Modi’s visit to the city, at least Rs 33 crore were splurged. It included the expenses for setting up the stage, tents, security and hospitality arrangements.
The whopping Rs 33 crore could have been used to build 660 homes for poor or 33000 toilets in the city. The Parliamentary seat of PM Modi, Varanasi will be waiting for him for the launch of more new projects.
In August last year, the a vernacular newspaper reported from Varanasi, that none of the students of class I, II and III had school text books. The whole of July had gone by without anything being taught in schools and the students spent most of their time playing. Varanasi is just as an example; the situation across the country is equally disappointing.
According to the Right to Education (RTE) Act 2009, every child in a primary school should have text books available on time i.e. at the beginning of the academic year. But the reality is far from what the Act stipulates. In fact, most children do not receive school books and even those who do, don’t necessarily get all the books and rarely at the beginning of the academic year.
Snazzy packaging, ironclad teacher contracts and study-on-the-go apps revive the city’s famed Rs 600 crore coaching industry in Mashya Pradesh.
Carrying a 420-page Mathematic textbook, Satvat Jagwani rushed to catch the Shipra Express, the start of a 15-hour journey from his home in Satna, Madhya Pradesh, to his coaching class (also known as ‘cram schools’) in Kota, Rajasthan. He had just finished school for the week and would now be spending the weekend taking mock exams. It was raining when he arrived at Bansal Classes in Kota, the pioneer of the coaching industry in the city. Having secured seats at different Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) for over 16,000 students so far, Bansal is highly coveted by aspirants.
Just as one of cricket’s great spectacles, a Lord’s test match between England and Australia, gets underway, the sport in India has faced a day of reckoning. The suspension of two of the eight sides in India’s megabucks Indian Premier League (IPL) following an illegal betting and match-fixing scandal shows that cricket has a corruption problem, and is at something of a loss as to how to deal with it.
The IPL was born in 2008 as the new, bright, exciting face of 21st-century cricket. The great empire game, traditionally played over five days and where around 30% of all matches end in no result, was metamorphosing into a showbiz extravaganza.
Its Constitutional, legal crime committed in the name of Democracy by Politicians in this country. How can people elected on some other party which has its own agenda be allowed to be jumped over to another party and be allowed to be come Minsters, Members and what not?
Does that not amount to cheating people who have voted a person from a party ? How can a speaker not find time to decide for more than 6 months ? This process of Speaker, Governor & President should be changed.
WEEKEND KA TADKA: I recently visited a popular south Indian Lord Ganesha temple, Kottarakara Sree Maha Ganapathy Temple. What struck me besides the scorching summer heat, was the horde of devotees thronging the sanctum sanctorum with fervour. Murmured chants and prayers lent an other worldly feel to the atmosphere. Having sought my share of the Lord’s blessings, I ventured outside to explore the premises of the temple.
Outside the main entrance stood an elephant tethered to a tree, flapping its ears serenely, munching palm leaves and bananas. It was a majestic creature, easily the largest I had ever encountered, with its long trunk and gleaming tusks. A small crowd of excited onlookers watched with awe and took pictures from all possible angles.
