Finally, Bokaro 'China town' set to close down

 

Russians roaming the streets of Bokaro has long been a familiar sight here. Now, it’s the Chinese who are flocking in large numbers, prompting many to dub the steel city “Little China”.

In 1965, work started on the Bokaro Steel Plant with Russian collaboration. Now, thanks to the upcoming plant being put by Electrosteel Castings Limited (ECL) at Chandankyari block of Siyaljora, more than 800 Chinese engineers have been at work since early 2008.
Chinese workers, both men and women, who had come in large numbers for construction of the ESL plant and set up a small township at Siyaljoli are now leaving Bokaro. The story is similar to Russian workers who had arrived in the city for construction of the Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL), who finally left about two decades ago.
While the 2.51 million tone (MT) Electrosteel steel plant is based on Chinese technology the city's major 4.5 MT capacity BSL plant, a unit of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), is running on Russian technology. There are some Russian families still residing in the town.

However, the residents will now miss watching Chinese men and women wandering in markets, restaurants, hotels, parks and other places. Besides, the SP office will no longer witness Chinese nationals forming long queues for visa verification. The local market is also losing out on the Chinese clientele who had become their major buyers in a short span of time.

Is reservation based on religion acceptable?

 

At the time of independence, in India people from certain religion and class were really backward and a immediate measure was required to strike equilibrium in this secular republic recently formed. Reservation was the answer to it. But it was a practice for a while which we are blindly following may be because of Vote Bank politics. this has emerged as one of the major disadvantage of democracy in recent times.
Quota in the name of religion will increase the tension between religious groups in our country. reservation is the worst ill of democratic system in which the majority takes advantage of everything by creating lies against the minority . today India's biggest problem is cast based reservation.
Reservations shouldn't be based on religion / Caste etc.. Everyone is equal in our democratic India.
In fact, there should be some reservations for EBC (Economically Backward Classes)
For all others, it should be as per their credentials.

The teacher who has become an icon

Anand Kumar's Super 30, a coaching institute in Patna which prepares 30 poor kids for the Indian Institute of Technology entrance exam free of cost, has achieved iconic stature because of its success rate.
       Like many Indians, Kumar had had his own youthful dreams of escaping from poverty by doing well in his studies. He had finished a BA Honours in M...aths and was accepted for a post graduate degree by Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.
     The thought behind setting up Super 30 came to Kumar in 2001 when a poor student told him he could not afford the Rs 1,500 annual fee.
Anand Kumar then started the Super 30 institute to coach the poorest students and prepare them for the IIT-JEE. His only criteria was that they had to be bright and talented.
News about Super 30 spread through word of mouth primarily by the 300 students who were already taking coaching from Anand Kumar. For his Super 30 initiative, Kumar received more than 800 applications. The application fee was Rs 10.
      An entrance test was conducted and 100 students were short-listed. The economic background of these students was checked and the poorest among them were selected.
The students of Super 30 receive coaching for a whole year. They get free food cooked in Anand Kumar's home and are housed in rooms spread over the city.
     The students are taught four days a week from 4 pm to 8.30 pm. The rest of the time, they study or hold group discussions amongst themselves. Tests are conducted everyday.

    The other two teachers at the institute are Praveen Kumar and Amit Kumar. Super 30's first batch appeared for the IIT-JEE entrance test in 2003. 18 of the 30 cleared the exam. In 2004, 22 were successful; in 2005, 26; in 2006, 28; in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 -- all 30 and in 2012 27 out of the 30 students made it.

     Just then fate struck and his father Rajendra Prasad, a clerk in the postal department, passed away.
This is the best way to uplift the neglected people of society. Its better to teach how to fish than giving fishes to poor people. There is limit how many time you can give roti to them. But if they learn skills to earn money for roti it will be long lasting help for them. This will only make the healthy society. So dont give direct help but teach them skills which generate roti for them. I think Megha patekar, Mamta, Sonia, Arundhati roy (award winner) need to learn this matter for this teacher.
     Its really briliant work,which cab't be expressed in language.The real joy can be enjoyed by 2 persons.One is Teacher(as his student got through) and second one the student(who done it).God bless u Mr.Anand for making us and our country proud.

Discoveries Indians made before rest of the world

Indians are well known throughout the world for their numerous achievements and innovations. None can deny the fact that India has got some of the best potentials in this planet. We have been the pioneers in bringing some of the most exciting scientific inventions and discoveries well before rest of the world had any idea about those. Let’s review some of the most notable discoveries, Indians are credited with.

Wireless Communication / Radio

Indian Inventor: Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose

Western Inventor: Marconi

While the entire world talks about Marconi and credits him with the invention of wireless telecommunication, the technology emerged from our own backyard only.

Radio or Wireless Technology is the actual brainchild of none other than the Indian scientist and mathematician,

Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose

. This remarkable breakthrough was achieved by Sir Bose on course of his extensive research carried out in the area of Microwaves. He went on to generate extremely short waves and also brought in some considerable modifications on Hertz’s detector of electronic waves. Sir J.C Bose also fashioned a flash of radiation, capable of generating waves of about half an inch. The receiver was pretty sensitive and it did respond to even the slightest of reactions.

Of course, it’s Marconi who provided newer and finer dimension to this entire technology. But the world witnessed the power of telecommunications via Sir J.C Bose, much before Marconi could come up with the re-defined stuff.

In-vitro Fertilization

                                                   

Indian Inventor: Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay

Western Inventor: Dr. Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe

In-vitro Fertilization

( IVF)

, the much talked about birth procedure of modern age, was an artifact of another Indian scientist

Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay

. Indian reproductive biologist, Dr. T.C Anand Kumar while turning over the pages of Dr. Subhash Mukherjee, got familiar with the efforts put in by the latter to script a new chapter in the history of Indian medical science. In fact, Dr. Kumar played a key role in throwing new lights to the whole concept of test tube baby. The efforts put in by Dr. Mukherjee resulted in the birth of India’s first test tube baby, Kanupriya Agarwal. Since she was born on the first day of Durga Puja, she was also named as ‘Durga’.

Kanupriya alias Durga is employed in a Multinational Company based in Delhi as a Marketing Executive. She also spoke out for the first time in public about her real identity dismissing all allegations of her ‘creator’s claim as bogus.

 Atom

Indian Inventor: Maharshi Kanad

Western Inventor: John Dalton

Way long before John Dalton propounded his theories and came in with the concept of Atom, Maharshi Kanad, who is considered as the First Nuclear Scientist of India made his mark.

Maharishi Kanad’s theories date way back to second century. In the book Darshan-Grantha, one can find a well written description of

Kanad’s concept of Atoms

. It was Kanad, who first opined that elements are formed mainly because of electrons arranged in a specific and synchronized manner.The world might recognize John Dalton as the father of atomic theory, but we definitely can’t take anything away from Maharishi Kanad.

Heliocentric Theory

                                                     

Indian Inventor: Aryabhatta

Western Inventor: Copernicus

Widely considered as the father of Indian Astronomy, Aryabhatta came up with the notion that planets move in an axis around the sun. This very

theory

later went on to become famous as Heliocentric Theory, with further details and explanations inked by Copernicus.

Aryabhatta’s

limited access to technology and infrastructure never proved to be a detrimental factor in his research. His numerous measurements and calculations based on earth were perfectly accurate for his time. In fact, he is the first ever astrologer in this world to discover that planets revolve in their own axis around the sun. Further, his studies also led to the discovery of how lunar and solar eclipse take place.

Value of Pi

Indian Inventor: Baudhayana

Western Inventor: Archimedes, William Jones, John Wrench

Most of us have solved numerous mathematical equations based on the famous mathematical value of Pi, better known as Pythagoras Theorem. However, the value of Pi was calculated by none other than the Indian mathematician Baudhayana, who belonged to the Yajurveda School.

In fact,

Baudhayana

is widely credited for being the first ever person to come up with the value of Pi, much before Pythagoras introduced the value.

Plastic Surgery

                                          

Indian Inventor: Sushruta

Western Inventor: Dr. Illouz, French Plastic Surgeon

What’s widely believed to be the offshoot of modern science and technology is actually an Indian invention. We are talking about Plastic Surgery that was actually formulated by an Indian surgeon

Sushruta.

Sushruta’s famous book ‘Sushruta Samhita’ which is considered as one of the oldest discourse, vividly deals with several methods of performing plastic surgery. In fact, Sushruta Samhita is looked upon as one of the most precious treasure in the history of Indian medical literature.

Aerial pictures of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center - Never Seen Before!

Newly released aerial photos of the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attack show the towers coming down from a dramatic new angle. The photos, taken from a police helicopter, were obtained by ABC News under a Freedom of Information Act request with the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

In this photo, the upper floors of a World Trade Center tower burn after terrorists flew a pasenger jet into it.

Smoke billows from a World Trade Center tower after the attack, which killed nearly 3,000 people.

The first World Trade Center tower begins to implode. Both buildings collapsed within two hours of being struck, destroying nearby buildings and damaging others.

                                A world Trade Center Tower Implodes.

                          Smoke and ash engulf lower Manhattan as one of the towers collapses.

Another view of the destruction. New York state was home to about two-thirds of the trade center victims.

                                 Smoke billows from the grounds of World Trade Center.

Smoke and ash rise as a tower burns.

                                Downtown high-rise buildings are engulfed by smoke and ash.

                                   Another shot of smoke and ash engulfing lower Manhattan.

                                        A view of lower Manhattan after the implosion.

                    White ash covers the downtown area near the grounds of World Trade Center.

These Dramatic images were taken from a police helicopter — the only photographers allowed in the air space near the towers on Sept. 11, 2001.

INDIA's 1st Independence Day Celebration (some rare pics)

INDIA's 1st Independence Day Celebration 

India 100 Years Back

The daughter of an Indian maharajah seated on a panther she shot, sometime during 1920s.

A British man gets a pedicure from an Indian servant. 

The Grand Trunk Road , built by Sher Shah Suri, was the main trade route from Calcutta to Kabul. 

A group of Dancing or nautch girls began performing with their elaborate costumes and jewelry. 

A rare view of the President's palace and the Parliament building in New Delhi!

Women gather at a party in Mumbai ( Bombay ) in 1910. (It's the time to Disco)

A group from Vaishnava, a sect founded by a Hindu mystic. His followers are called Gosvami-maharajahs.

An aerial view of Jama Masjid mosque in Delhi , built between 1650 and 1658. 

The Imperial Airways 'Hanno' Hadley Page passenger airplane carries the England to India air mail, stopping in Sharjah to refuel.