BALIDHAN DIWAS

KNOWLEDGE,HARD WORK OR ATTITUDE

It is a different kind of numerology. If you give the letters A to Z values of 1 to 26, Hard work gets 98 per cent, knowledge gets 96 per cent, love gets 54 per cent, luck gets 47 per cent, money, 72 per cent, leadership, 89 per cent. But your attitude adds up to 100 per cent, "Attitude is everything. You change your attitude and you change your life as well."

TWO NEW FM STATIONS FROM SILIGURI-MISTY & Hi

Two new FM test runs are on the Air from Siliguri .Radio Mishti-(Gungunaate raho)- is to air Hindi,Bengali and Nepali songs and Hi FM -(hai hit hai)-is to come up with Hindi,Bengali , Nepali and English numbers,the test run is going on for the past two weeks.The reception is clear in Central Pendam,East Sikkim.The target audience is from Siliguri,Darjeeling Hills,North Bengal and Sikkim.This region is having a good potential for advertising and marketing.The FM stations also can give exposure to local musicians and singers.For the last two days I am listening to this.Till now AIR Purnia,Guwahati and Kanchanjunga FM were recieved well here.I sometimes(during winter-when the sky is clear) even recieved good quality signals of FM stations from Kolkatta -(like radio Mirchi,Power FM)here at Pendam. read more

Gregorian-Chinese and Indian daily Calendar

These calendars are popular for its remainders of the days importance,quotations,thoughts,Astrological information etc.Tamilians and Gujaratis use it.The idea of daily calendar is from China,the paper is very thin and torn daily.Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu is famous for printing this cheaper (10-15 Rs.) Calendars.The photo of the Chinese one is from a Kalimpong momo restaurant,and the Tamil one is from my home.

HAPPY DASAIN

Happy Dassain!

The Chief Minister, Dr. Pawan Chamling and Mrs. Tika Maya Chamling, have extended their greetings to the people of Sikkim on the auspicious occasion of Dassain festival which begins from October18 .

On the auspicious cccasion of BADA DASSAIN Sikkim Chief Minister Extended their's warmest Vijaya Dasami Greetings and season's felicitations to all the people of Sikkim. In their messages, they have wished the people of Sikkim a happy and joyful celebrations of festival and its true spirit.

GOOGLE NUMERO UNO !

Google is the global most searched engine San Francisco, Oct 12

Google powered more than half of all search requests carried out around the world in August, according to a report. The global study by Internet research firm comScore revealed that more than 61 billion searches were performed by more than 750 million users in the month, with Google accounting for 37 billion searches - more than all the other major search engines combined. However, search engines in China and South Korea are challenging the search company in their own countries.

Yahoo was the second most used engine with 8.5 billion searches, while Beijing-based language search engine Baidu.com was third with more than 3.2 billion searches, comScore said. Microsoft's web sites ranked fourth with 2.1 billion searches, and Korea's Naver.com, owned by NHN, ranked fifth with two billion searches worldwide. Some five billion of Google's searches were conducted via its video site YouTube, the study found.

The most searches were conducted in the Asia-Pacific region, which includes China, Japan and India, where 258 million users performed 20.3 billion searches. In Europe, 210 million users performed 18 billion searches and in North America, 206 million users performed 16 billion searches. In the Middle East and Africa, which ranked at the bottom of the pack, 30 million people conducted two billion searches, comScore said.

"Seeing Asian search engines like China's Baidu.com and Korea's NHN ranked alongside Google and Yahoo underscores the fact that search has become a truly global phenomenon," said Bob Ivins, comScore vice president of international markets.

Rupee at all time high since 1998

Mumbai, Oct 04

Rupee rose to its strongest level against the dollar in 9-½ years on Thursday as dealers bought the local unit aggressively in anticipation of strong overseas investments into the stock market.

At 2:04 p.m., the partially convertible rupee was up 0.4 percent at 39.42 per dollar, its strongest level since March 1998 and above Wednesday`s close of 39.575/585.

Earlier, in volatile trade at the interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market, the local currency resumed slightly lower at 39.58/60 per dollar from yesterday`s close of 39.5750/5850 a dollar and later was quoted 39.57/58 a dollar in late morning deals.

There was little activity in forex market but the rupee activity was largely influenced by sustained and unprecedented portfolio investments in equity markets, dealers said. Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIS) have poured in about USD 4 billion since September 19 after the US Federal Reserve cut the key interest rates.

BAAPU.

What I know about Gandhiji is from teachers,readings and the movies. I learned about his simplicity in my school days. A story of the small pencil gifted by a school girl was inspiring, and it shows his humility and respect to small things in life.Gandhi's' three monkeys is an inspiration. I was a child when I stumbled upon the books written on Gandhi in my house, which was kept in a old trunk box. The books were in Tamil. My father was a keen reader of his writings. Gandhi and Brahamacharya was a title which I didn’t understood in my childhood .His dress, walk, non-violence all influenced me.

I later as a teacher taught Gandhism as a lesson in high school. This is the turning point where I delved into his psyche. Teaching it repeatedly for fifteen years gave me an opportunity to understand him. The essence is ‘He practiced what he preached’.Some of his ideas are not practicable even though we cannot ignore the genius in him. He borrowed from many sources and tried to practice those moral principles which made him the Mahatma.

Later I read a book called Gandhian Principles,a small but was compiled topic wise. When I was in college, in the library I saw a long set of about twenty or more volumes in Gandhian Thoughts in light blue coloured cloth binding..not touched by anyone…the dust..Cobwebs proved it. I didn’t like the large volumes then. I read his Autobiography My Experiments with Truth. I cannot write about it here, read it and find what Gandhi is all about. If you don’t read it now you will never! There are certain things in life which we may miss if we don’t go through it now. I learned more about this man through the eyes of Attenborough .

Screenage generation can have a taste of Gandhi in Lage Raho Munnabhai,but his ideas are not as simple as it was portrayed.Satyagraha is a tool for the strong,not for the weak minded.

Nonagenarians.

One from the state another from the Union Territory.One in the Island and another in the Highland,but they are the two nonagenarians.

International Day of Older Persons

The world is getting older. in the next 50 years, the number of older persons will nearly quadruple, growing from about 600 million to almost 2 billion people. Today, one in every ten is 60 years and older. By 2050, one out of every five will be an older person, and by 2150, one third of the people in the world are expected to be 60 years of age or older.
International Day for the Elderly is dedicated to honor, respect and care for the world's elderly. Remember, someday you hope to be included among this group!

In 1990, the United Nations General Assembly designated October 1st as the International Day for the Elderly, also known as the "International Day for Older Persons". The holiday is the result of the UN World Assembly on Aging which was formed in 1982 to explore and tend to the needs of the elderly in the world.