Thursday, 23 February 2012

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

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

Anna Hazare meets CEC over Right to Reject issue

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 07:38 AM PST

Anna HazareAnna Hazare today met Chief Election Commissioner SY Qureshi along with other IAC members. Anna was accompanied by Arvind Kejriwal, Santosh Hegde, Prashant Bhushan and Kiran Bedi.
The right to reject debate may get rekindled as Team Anna has decided to include the issue on their campaign.

Team Anna wants inclusion of ‘Right to Reject’ button in the EVM machines.

As per the current practice if voters don’t like the candidates, voters can record
their disapproval by entering their names into 17 A register available with the polling official under Rule 49-0. However at most polling booths even election officials largely remain unaware of the procedure when voters ask for this.

Due to this, team Anna wants inclusion of Right to Reject button in the EVM machines.

Bihar maintains top GDP growth rate of 14.8 percent

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 05:22 AM PST

Bihar Financial results for 2010-11 is out. A major achievement of Bihar during this time is GDP growth rate of 14.8 percent. Deputy CM and Finance Minister Sushil Modi said the revenue surplus of state increased from Rs 2,498 crore in 2006-07 to Rs 6,272 crore in 2011-12. The capital outlay increased steadily from Rs 5,211 crore to Rs 11,448 crore during this period while development expenditure on social and economic services increased from Rs 17,000 crore to about Rs 43,000 crore.

There has been tremendous inflow of capital in the state during this period. Modi said between 2004-05 and 2010-11, the sectors reporting a growth rate of more than 15% were manufacturing (23.30%), construction (19.61%), communications (27.23%) and trade, hotels and restaurants (20.22%).

The report also highlighted steady upward trend in per capita development expenditure (PCDE) during 2001-02 to 2010-11. From Rs 930 in 2001-02, the PCDE went up to Rs 3,467 in 2010-11, implying an annual growth rate of 17%. During the period, the country’s PCDE grew at an annual rate of 13.6%. “The share of social sector spending in the total budget of Bihar increased from 18.9% in 2001-02 to 31.9% in 2010-11,” Modi said.

“There are, in all, 36 large-scale units in Bihar besides six such units under the central sector. A total of 1.89 lakh medium, small and micro units were set up in the state till December 2011, an increase of around 60% over the year 2000. The highest increase of about 62% was noticeable in tiny and micro sector followed by 58% in artisan-based units. The State Investment Promotion Board has approved 603 proposals till date involving an investment of over Rs 2.48 lakh crore and employment to 1.85 lakh persons,” the report said.

On the power front, however, the situation remains critical. Bihar has the lowest annual per capita consumption of electricity at 122.11 kWh against the national average of 778.71 kWh. Up to January last, a total of 17,363 villages and 19.67 lakh BPL families were connected to the grid under the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Scheme, the report said.

(With Inputs from Various local Newspapers)

How Internet is slowly killing MBA in India ?

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 04:40 AM PST

mba studentsB-Schools as most MBA colleges are colloquially called are facing the crunch of Recession these days. A latest Economic Times Report shows over 65 Indian B-Schools are on the verge of shutting down. Below we present an interesting analysis of this trend authored by Serial Entrepreneur Rodinhood.

 

I am NOT an MBA, and I am so far – so good.

I do get the honor and pleasure of interacting with lots of MBA’s and doing business with them. I also feel deeply privileged that I was invited to speak at Harvard Business School a year back on Entrepreneurship and Starting Up!

Consider:

CASE STUDIES

Case studies used in teaching MBA’s are now rapidly becoming redundant. Take for instance the case studies on Nokia and Yahoo for example – would they be relevant today even they were painstakingly put together just a few years back?

Similarly, if an MBA school commissioned a case study on Facebook today, how relevant will that be 1 year later?

Isn’t it easier to follow successes and failures as they happen (via online) and quickly learn what made Companies great?

Take Angry Birds for example – It has become a great global case study of content, marketing, persistence and brand extensions. Success to Angry Birds came almost overnight.

BUT, the Brand may not be relevant in the next few months – so, will it be RELEVANT to learn about it in an MBA class 2 years later?

I guess learning, dissecting and understanding HISTORICAL successes of Companies may be still useful – but then who needs an MBA class for it? Wikipedia will do as well!

Distance has no meaning.

A few years back, an American or European MBA was really also about ‘exposure’ and ‘culture’ and just imbibing the way successful markets ‘behave and exist’.

In the age of youtube, do we need to GO to these countries for an MBA to learn that?

Sure, GD’s and Class Discussions etc are good – but don’t most blog sites and discussion forums give you the same kick?

Knowledge has become ‘Open Source’

Just examine the way knowledge is being shared today. If you unfortunately killed 10 people and were sentenced to 99 years in prison without Parole, just an Internet connection in your Jail Cell would be enough to make you as wise as Athena (the Greek God of Wisdom).

I mean there are blogs and sites and universities online that teach you EVERYTHING!

100K USD can be put to better use!!!

Seriously – if you are going to blow 2 years of your life and spend 100k on an MBA – learning ‘entrepreneurship’ and how to do business – why not START UP AN INTERNET venture yourself TODAY??!!!

With a 100k cash, and with a bit of luck, you can easily get VC funded and then TEACH IN MBA’S Classes a few years down the line!!

Networking

The one BIG BIG plus I see that MBA’s have is that they really NETWORK with achievers and the rich and famous and then leverage that as they grow older. I see that amongst VC’s who found their partners in MBA’s schools, etc etc

Linkedin and Facebook allow you to FIND anyone and everyone in the world, but they MAY NOT accept you as a friend. So spending 2 physical years with the same folks in an MBA class ‘may’ help you in that aspect. But that alone is a very weak excuse.

I think that the Internet offers too much dynamism, connectivity and just immediacy to spend time loitering along the haloed corridors of Ivy League schools in the hope of finding business nirvana.

Starting up, succeeding or even better – failing in a couple of Ventures is probably the BEST MBA you could ever earn!!!

 

This  article was written 8 months ago by Alok Kejriwal at The Rodinhoods.  Alok is a Serial Digital Entrepreneur and Founder of Games2Win.com –  One of World’s top 10 Gaming Website as per Comscore data. He also blogs at Rodinhood.com. 

Clarke blames himself for sacking Ponting

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 03:30 AM PST

ricky ponting with wife RiannaAustralian captain Michael has said he was partly responsible for the sacking of former skipper Ricky Ponting from the one-day squad. Clarke wrote about how difficult the decision had been in a newspaper column on Thursday, while adding that the 37-year-old Ponting remained a ‘huge part of our test team.’ ‘Im 100 per cent part of the selection panel – thats part now of the captains job,’ he wrote in a New Ltd column. ‘Weve made this decision as a panel. ‘It is tough not having the great Ricky Ponting out there… playing one-day cricket for us but thats the decision weve made.’ Clarke replaced Ponting as captain after England completed a 3-1 Ashes series win on Australian soil in January last year, becoming part of the national sides selection panel. Pontings axing from the one-day side earlier this week as Australia build for the 2015 World Cup triggered fierce debate in the country. Without peer in the 50-overs game, Ponting has racked up 13,704 runs in 375 matches at an average of 42, also winning three World Cups in his 17-year career, two as skipper. After accepting his one-day international career was over, Ponting said he would continue in test cricket and hoped to play in the 2013 Ashes. His test place had also been under pressure at the end of last year but he responded with 544 runs at an average of 108 as hosts Australia whitewashed India 4-0.

5 planets to be visible in sky from today

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 01:30 AM PST

5 planets in skyFive planets including Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn would be visible with naked eye for two weeks starting from February 23.

Mars and Saturn are already visible without any optical aids. Mars can be seen in the East with the naked eye while Venus could be spotted towards west after sunset till 9 pm.

“Jupiter can be seen above Venus till 11 pm (during two weeks),” Arvind Paranjape, Director of Mumbai-based Nehru Planetarium .
Mars is in Leo constellation and rises about an hour after the sunset in the eastern horizon. It can be identified by its reddish hue and will be seen almost throughout the night and gradually moving closer to star Regulus (Magha). In the coming days Saturn will be seen in the east close to midnight, he said. Uranus which is normally faint in appearance will be close to Venus and hence can easily be spotted without help of any specialised maps, Paranjape added.

Patna Marathon Official Video Launched

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 01:19 AM PST

patna marathon mascotPatna Marathon Team yesterday launched offcial video of the theme song Ganga ke Teere Teere.. The video has been developed by Amrit Raj and Patna MAAC Team. While the song has been composed by Shruti Sharma, Rekha Rao is the playback singer.

The video features few participants running at different places of Patna, on the boat in River Ganga. A good picturization of the streets of Patna

 

You can watch the entire video below

Fresh Bids to be Invited for making Aakash Tabs

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 11:49 PM PST

Akash TabAakash Tab, The world’s cheapest tablet PM is facing severe challenges to its future. The parent company Datawind, which manufactured it under the brand Ubislate has ended the deal with Indian Government. Only 10,000 units have been shipped by Datawind since October last year when it was unveiled.

The government has hailed the Aakash tablet as an achievement of Indian frugal engineering that would end the digital divide in a country where only one in every 10 of its 1.2 billion people use the Internet. Products such as Apple Incs iPad are beyond the reach even of many in the fast-growing middle class. The locally assembled machine has a cost price of around $50 and was to be sold to students by the government for $35.

Reasons for the Split

The relationship between the devices manufacturer, DataWind, and a government research institute soured amid complaints by test users that the processor was too slow, the battery life short and the resistive touch screen hard to use. The governments Human Resource Development Ministry is due to launch a new tender in the next few weeks to seek partners to build the tablet – a process that could see DataWind dropped.

‘It is not automatic that because you have done phase one you will do phase two,’ said a senior official at the ministry with direct knowledge of the project. Datawind won a contract last year to make 100,000 units for the government and it was thought likely it would make the additional 1 million units called for in the second phase of production. But it had lost its first-mover advantage and would face renewed competition for the contract, the official said. ‘The feeling is that sufficient interest has been generated to get better specifications at the same or a lower price,’ added the official, who declined to be named.

What Datawind Says?

It says the Government and IITs had changed the specifications late last year and now wanted a device that could meet U.S. military durability requirement for the same rock-bottom price. ‘Among other things that requires the device to take 4 inches an hour of sustained rain,’ DataWind CEO Suneet Singh said. ‘We objected to it and the project has been on hold since then, we are working with the ministry to get that resolved,’ Singh said after meeting with ministry officials in New Delhi on Tuesday.

The Aakash is aimed at university students for digital learning via a government platform that distributes electronic books and courses. DataWind says it is receiving tens of thousands of orders daily for a commercial version of the tablet with a built-in GPRS modem that is due to be launched this month for 2,999 rupees.
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