Telugu Cultural Museum

A Telugu cultural museum, depicting Telugu culture, history and arts from the period of Satavahanas to the freedom struggle, is coming up atop Kailasagiri in Visakhapatnam.


The Telugu Culture and Heritage Museum, a joint endeavour of Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority( VUDA) and the World Telugu Federation (WTF),will be set up

The World Telugu Federation will showcase the evolution of Telugu language and culture. 32 to 38 episodes would be designed and placed in the museum in the form of artistic displays.

The evolutionary stages of Telugu language and culture starting from the period of Sathavahana to the present century would be brought live which will educate even the illiterate and non-Telugu people.

blind man becomes manager is bank

A man, blind by birth, persistently followed up with his own study to become a law graduate. He was taken in by Bank of Maharashtra, one of the leading nationalised banks in India. Now he has been promoted to the grade of Assistant Manager.

This is a real big feat in a country like India, where people with special physical and mental needs may not be given due consideration.

Sunlight Is The Best Disifectant

http://epw.in/epw/uploads/articles/14391.pdf

This is an article in Economic and Political Weekly on declaration of assets by SC and HC judges. A Delhi HC Signle Judge order allowing for such declaration was challenged by SC secretariat. A full bench of Delhi HC, headed by Justice A P Shah, upheld the earlier order.

60 people battle giants

Sixty people, each from different profession, have come together in Mumbai to battle mobile giants against illegal installations of mobile towers. They came from all walks of life, from across Maharashtra, and met up for the first time in a public meeting at Mumbai's Shivaji Park. They exchanged notes, bonded, and vowed to work together. Each of the 60 people gathered under the Mobile Tower Grievance Forum had their own story to tell. They told stories of their battle against illegal installation of mobile towers, of money power, and of cancer, brain tumour, skin rashes and insomnia caused by the towers erected atop apartment buildings. The narrations cemented the group and the meeting culminated in an action plan that included selecting a 10-doctor team to document the impact of radiation from towers on people’s health.


The law is clear in this:
before installing mobile towers near residential areas, companies have to get a no-objection certificate from the residents’ cooperative society and permission from the municipal corporation and the pollution control board. There should be a gap of 36 metres from human habitation, the law stipulated.

Women's Bills in Pakistan

Protection against Harassment of Women at the Workplace Bill and the Criminal Law Amendment Bill, and Domestic Violence Bill are the three bills which are under process to enactment in Pakistan. They were almost scuttled under influence of religious parties. But intense lobbying by women had pushed the bills a step further towards enactment.

In the wider picture, these bills, when they become law, may appear to be the harbingers of major change. But their significance is at the moment symbolic and only in the legal context. In practical terms, they will spell greater protection for women in their workplace only when the prescribed mechanism is made available to them to complain of sexual harassment and obtain redress if needed.

More importantly, these bills explicitly recognise the right of a woman to go out of her home to earn a living, to acquire an education, to obtain healthcare and to involve herself in the day-to-day business of caring for her family and herself. The statement of objectives of the bill passed in the National Assembly last week states, “This bill builds on the principles of equal opportunity for women and their right to earn a livelihood without fear of discrimination.”

Maharashtra farmers revive local crop varieties

Interesting read on the subject of how efforts can yield results

http://www.downtoearth.org.in/full6.asp?foldername=20100131&filename=news&sec_id=50&sid=30

In US, more wives outearning their husbands

A US study of people aged 35-44 years old show that increasing number of wives are more educated than their husbands and are earning more than their husbands.!

US government data indicates that men constitute 75% of the decline in employment in 2008.