Wednesday, 31 August 2011

Bihar News, Latest News from Bihar, News of Bihar, Biharprabha News

Bihar News, Latest News from Bihar, News of Bihar, Biharprabha News

TCS to revolutionize the Rural Governance in Bihar

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:04 AM PDT

PATNA: Three Young Guns under bannership of Tantra Consultancy Services (TCS) are all set to revolutionize the local self governance in the country.They started a pilot project in Narayanpur Village under Hasanpur block of Samastipur District of Bihar,which showed favourable outcome. They target the elected representatives including Mukhiyas and train them about new growing economy and skills required to develop villages at the grassroots level.Each group of Mukhiya is assigned a mentor under the so called Mukhiya Buddy System

Recently, three young friends launched a nationwide innovative and sustainable social venture -’Leadership and Learning Programme for Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) – which started in Bihar. This is in line to enable the elected members to get equipped with the basic administrative, financial management, leadership and behavioral skills.They also tried to explain the importance of Gram Sabha and conducted a mock Gram Sabha to show how to handle the problems of villagers more effectively. Training was executed in a practitioner-oriented manner by showcasing the case studies and involving everyone in group activities etc.
“We dont charge anything for this training and soon we will try to make it sustainable by helping the elected members to work and promote small-scale industries in villages,” they said.

One of the members of TCS , Anis Bari who hails from Bihar will showcase his latest Bihar experiment before a panel of experts of the Harvard Business School next week in Manila. Bari recently quit his job as Software Engineer at Hewlett Packard, Bangalore

“I always wanted to do things a bit differently and not the same monotonous bug fixing,” he said. He dreams to create his own identity and wanted to do something to contribute to the economy of state and country

Patna to host Mother Teresa International Film Festival

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 10:38 AM PDT

PATNA:The City is going to witness the first of its kind film festival in Bihar. Mother Teresa international film festival (MTIFF) 2011 is gojng to be kickstarted from this Friday. In total 12 films will be screened including “The Fifth World” and “In the Footsteps of the Mother”.
The films will be screened at Notre Dame Academy, Don Bosco Academy, St. Xaviers’ high school, Patna Women’s college, Nav Jyoti Niketan, Regent cinema hall, Rose Bud Academy, Holy family hospital nursing school and the College of Arts and Crafts.

The aim is to focus and create awareness about the life of Mother Teresa and other nuns and missionaries.The festival has travelled to 50 destinations in India.” Several schools and educational institutions have joined the celebrations of Mother Teresa’s birth centenary by becoming venues for MTIFF 2011″, says festival director Frank Krishnar.

The inauguration of the film festival will be at Patna Women’s College with the film “Mother Teresa”, a three hour epic from Italy.You can get free passes at YMCA and AASRA Charitable Trust. It has been reported that a special show will be organized for invited guests and children at Regent cinema hall on Sunday morning.

M S Dhoni misbehaved by manager of English Cricket Academy

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:24 AM PDT

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the Captain of Indian Cricket Team was barred from entering the Indoor Academy at Old Trafford on Thursday because he was wearing spike shoes.He was scheduled for a photo shoot requested by England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) after the practice session on Thursday.

But the manager at Lancashire Academy did not allow him to enter at the entrance because of spikes in Dhoni's shoes that could have caused damage to the synthetic turf.

According to a report in Indian Express, Dhoni tried to explain to the manager but the latter did not budge. An angry Indian captain left the academy without attending the photo shoot.

Indian team manger in the England tour, Shivlal Yadav said that ECB chairman Giles Clarke has been informed about the misbehavior and the Indian team management awaits an action by the ECB, said the report.

Rahul Dravid ready for his T20 debut and retirement

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:15 AM PDT

New Delhi:Rahul Dravid is expected to debut in his T20 career and it is probable that it will be his last T20 match.India’s struggling batting dwindled further on the eve of their only Twenty20 game against England, when a concussed Gautam Gambhir was ruled out. And with just seven fit batsmen available, Dravid’s T20I debut is imminent.

Dravid, a Test specialist who ironically has scored India’s second fastest ODI fifty, would have never expected to play T20s and ODIs on the England tour. But ‘The Wall’ will stand tall to answer the call of duty, with the squad falling by the wayside due to injuries.
The T20 swansong will precede Dravid’s decision to retire from ODIs after the series against England. He announced that decision on the same day selectors surprised him with an ODI call-up.
“In the short term, I am committed because now I have been picked for the series, but in the long term, I think it is best for me and Indian cricket that I focus on Test cricket,” Dravid had said then.
Dravid, though never part of India’s T20 setup, has featured in all four editions of the cash-rich Indian Premier League. So to say he is completely alien to the design won’t be appropriate. And he gave a glimpse of that in the warm-up game against Leicestershire, where he scored 29 off 31 balls.
But at the age of 38, even if he plays a swashbuckling innings on Wednesday, it will be wrong to judge that India missed out by sidelining Dravid for so long. By doing that, those who praised the Fab Four’s decision to leave T20 to youngsters will appear foolhardy.
Rather a honest admission will be that ‘Team Man’ Dravid is currently indispensable for India in Test cricket. Debut and retirement on the same day may be unique, but not something any cricketer cherishes. Dravid is doing this for India, like he has done a number of times.

Who will succeed Ratan Tata?

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 02:02 AM PDT

Ratan Tata, Head of India’s largest Business Conglomerate is set to retire by December 2012.The speculation over his successor has gained much momentum these days. Sources say that the successor will be one of the three candidates out of 11 shortlisted by a search panel, a report said Monday.

Business Standard, the leading financial newspaper, quoted unnamed sources as saying Tata's half-brother, Noel Tata, now heading Tata International, the group's global trading arm, was one of the final candidates.

Other contenders in consideration were senior Tata executives, the report said.

A Tata spokesman was quoted as saying the firm would not comment on the five-member search committee's work except to say it was "fully aware of the relevant timeline", referring to Ratan Tata's retirement date.

Last August, the company named the panel to seek a successor to the man credited with transforming the sprawling conglomerate into a focused and profitable organisation.

Tata, who trained as an architect, has also won praise as the driving force behind the creation of the Nano, billed as the world's cheapest "people's" car.

The newspaper said the search panel believed an outsider might be a "misfit" as any successor to Ratan Tata would need time to settle into the culture of the group.

Ratan Tata has said he hoped his successor would have "our value systems in the forefront," a reference to the Tatas' mantra of corporate social responsibility.

The Tata group has been steered by a family member since its founding in 1868.

For years, Noel Tata toiled out of the limelight, heading the group's retail unit Trent, which contributes a small percentage of the multinational's $75 billion annual revenues.

But last year he was put in charge of Tata International, leading Indian media to suggest he was squarely in the running for the top job.

Review of Bodyguard Salman Khan

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 01:42 AM PDT

Bodyguard Salman KhanCast: Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Raj Babbar, Asrani, Mahesh Manjrekar, Aditya Pancholi, Chetan Hansraj

Directed by Siddique

Rating: 0.25

The beauty of a Salman Khan film is that it doesn’t claim to be anything but just that. But when you pack in sappy melodrama, clichéd characterisation, a pathetic love story and action scenes choreographed in outer space, not even a Katrina Kaif item number can save the day.

The film is based on the life of a certain Lovely Singh (Salman Khan) who is, (as his name suggests?), a bodyguard. An unshakeable, unbreakable, fighting machine, who leaps out of a train to land on top of another zipping through in the opposite direction. David Blaine: be ashamed, be very ashamed.

Lovely’s first vulgar display of power is when he swings by a certain port to rescue a group of girls being trafficked to Thailand in a container. After busting several noses and cracking a dozen skulls, one of the baddies unleashes a huge container that lands on Lovely. But our Superman without a cape is indestructible and the container carrying a million thermocol balls is smashed across. Human trafficking: understandable. Smuggling a million thermocol balls: one wild party in Thailand?

Soon Lovely is commissioned to protect the daughter of a very eminent master of the universe (or atleast of a small village in India), Sartaj Rana (Raj Babbar). Following Bollywood’s guideline for clichés, Lovely has a history that has left him forever indebted to the great Rana. Anyway, the daughter in question is Divya (Kareena Kapoor) who’s mostly occupied doing girly things with her live-in friend played by Hazel Keech. After much-half-hearted-opposition, Lovely is employed to guarding Divya, a duty performed mostly by walking around her with shoulders arched like a lobster.

Before we know it, the emotionless Lovely turns down-right spastic as he falls in love with an anonymous girl who stalks him by calling him about 3528 times a day. An obnoxiously fat excuse for a comedian plays an odd sidekick to Lovely as passage of time becomes extremely painful. How the film concludes won’t make it to Kaun Banega Crorepati’s first round of questions but those who brave to sit through this can surely crack ‘Who Dares Wins’.

Things about ‘Bodyguard’ that are incomprehensible or retarded or both: 1. Each time Lovely gets a phone call his body jerks ahead like someone has kicked his behind. 2. There is a quirky scene involving a remote controlled helicopter that is let loose on Divya. As it slashes through fruits, furniture, the special effects are tacky enough for it to seem like a housefly that can be easily swatted down.

Among the performances, Salman translates innocence with idiotic grins and expressions that can’t be briefed here. Kareena’s character is not important enough to be able to decide the fate of this film. Raj Babbar only reinforces the logic behind him being scarce in films, drifting between loud and controlled hamming.

The music covers the landscape, from the chirpy, ‘I love you’ to the full-blast disco-dhol number, ‘Desi Beats’. When director Siddique said that Salman Khan will be seen here in an avatar he has never been seen in, he wasn’t lying. But the pertinent question is, do we want to see Salman in an emotionally challenged, Forest Gump-ish state?

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Abhayanand becomes the new DGP of Bihar

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 01:29 AM PDT

Sri Abhayanand, ADG training will take the charge of Director General Of Police of Bihar from today.Abhayanand,popularly known for his Super 30 initiatives has also done several successful policing initiatives — like speedy trial and formation of Special Auxiliary Police from among retired Army officers
A 1977 batch IPS officer he will take over from Neelmani at a special ceremony here.

Compared to some of his immediate predecessors, Abhayanand is likely to have a longer stint as the state police chief since he will retire in December 2014. His father Jagdanand had also held the post of Bihar DGP and had retired in 1986.

In the past six years, over 60,000 accused have been convicted because of the speedy trial initiative that works on the principle of police stations ensuring presence of all witnesses in courts rather than just filing chargesheets.

Everest Lady Nirupama Pandey felicitated at Patna

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 01:25 AM PDT

Squadron leader Nirupama Pandey, who recently unfurled Tiranga on Mt. Everest was the Center of attraction on the occasion at S.K Memorial Hall for National Sports Day celebration in memory of national hockey wizard Major Dhyanchand.

The lady who hails from Siwan, Nirupama wearing a sky-blue printed sari, climbed the steps of the stage to receive Ati Vishisht Khel Samman memento, citation and cash award of Rs 1 lakh from the CM. The audience in the auditorium roared in applause. Modi, accompanied by minister for food supply and consumer protection Shyam Rajak, sports and culture minister Sukhda Pandey, and officials watched the scene.Cheif Minister Nitish Kumar and Dy. CM Sushil Modi were also present at the occasion

The applause was not without reason, as compere Soma Chakravarty explained and a brief note on the back page of the souvenir released on the occasion stated: “Squadron Leader Nirupama Pandey, resident of village Jamo Jalalpur, Siwan, became the first Bihari person to unfurl the tricolour on the highest point of earth, Mount Everest (8,848 metres), on May 25, 2011.”

Himachal Pradesh moves the Bihar way

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 01:19 AM PDT

Himachal Pradesh has become the second state to follow Bihar in passing strict Anti-Corruption Laws.Previously Madhya Pradesh has also passed such law.This allows government to confiscate the property of the corrupt officials and utilise it in public interest.

The Himachal Pradesh Special Courts (Attachment and Confiscation of property) Bill, 2011, passed by the state Assembly, calls for setting up of special courts to dispose of the trials and eventually pave the way for the government to confiscate the property.

Chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said, "The laws enacted in Madhya Pradesh and Bihar were studied and improvised to make it more practical and judicious for tackling the problem of corruption in Himachal Pradesh".

The property of the public servants, accused of corruption or facing trial, would be attached in the first stage and its confiscation or disposal/auction will be done only after the case is finally disposed off.
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