August 6th
2.5 million people use the Chhatrpati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai for commuting every day- 60,546 SQ Ft is the size of the larges carpet in the world, made by 1200 weavers from three villages in Iran.
- 7.5 million dollars was the price for which Business. COM the most expensive domain name was sold
I could not really believe that someone from my family would do such a thing-- Mohammed Haneef Indian Doctor on his cousins who are accused of terrorism
We reserve the right to test and the US the right to react-- Manmohan Singh PM on the N deal
We do not accept President Musharff in uniform-- Benazir Bhutto Former Pakistan PM
Politics is equal to addition of political politics and development politics. Political politics is the fight to win seats, whereas development politics is the fight to develop the country
APJ Abdul Kalam Former President
Snippets
Kerla
For many Indians who find health care unaffordable Dr Rairy Gopal of Kannur is a godsend. While many members of his fraternity charge hundreds of rupees for doling out prescriptions, he charges only Rs 2. Gopal has been doing this service for the past 33 years. The local people fondly call him " two rupee Doc "
UP
Deepak 20 of Muzaffarnagar never knew that getting married was so tough. A month ago he eloped with a girl and married her. When their parents opposed the marriage, they appeared before a local court seeking protection. But there it was found that both the boy and the girl were minors. Now Deepak has landed at the court protesting against his separation from his under aged beloved whom he claims to have married
Medical Camp
I was leading a medical camp on Sunday at Seva Samajam which runs a orphanage for around 200 inmates-- The school has around 2000 children-- the camp was aimed at the inmates-- The camp went on well with some follow up work to do--
I was pained and dumbstruck by a girl around seven years old-- She walked up to the counters and as we got to ask her basic registration questions-- she said that she was fine -- no health issues but can we get her parents back ?None of us had a answer for this-- looks like her parents died in the Tsunami and someone had put her in to this orphanage-- the girls face keeps popping up to me but I am not sure how to help her-- There were other bright spots too.. One girl in her tenth standard was amazing-- As I got chatting with her , I asked her how she was doing in her class exams-- She was scoring around 400/500 which was decent-- I asked her what group she wanted to choose-- I was expecting commerce or arts etc.,-- She replied with a group and said that was her starting point to become a Doctor and do a medical camp at the very place she has been brought up-- One more girl wanted to do EEE .. The talent is there but needs to be groomed-- The Samajam is maintained impeccably clean and this is one of the work that the inmates do--
Formula 1
The Hungarian GP was dull but it had other incidents off the field that may change the team drivers for the next season-- During qualifying the Mclaren camp held Alonso in the pits for a longer time to prevent their own team-mate Lewis Hamilton from doing a qualifying lap-- this resulted in Alonso taking the pole position ahead of Lewis Hamilton but the race stewards had a good look at what happened and ducked Alonso five places on the Grid and look who -- Hamilton sat on the pole for the race- Hamilton won the race from their and Alonso finished fourth with Ferrari 's Raikonen coming second-- This lead to Alonso making comments and lot of speculation as to who Mclaren were supporting in the aim of winning the world Championship-- Mclaren have done well so far but in trying to accommodate two drivers who are both ambitious and are aggressive about winning the world title , they seem have put themselves in a quandary.. Probably , they would have never expected Hamilton a rookie to do so well
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