Tuesday, 19 February 2019
Valentine's Day 2019: This World Radio Day, exploring love in the time of radio that used to be
How would I be cool if slept before midnight and woke up before the crack of dawn? Today on World Radio Day and a day before the day of love, Valentine's Day, I couldn't help but wonder where those days of innocent love have gone? The days we've heard of in stories from family members and probably watched in a few films too? It was probably the most romantic thing to have your fan mail and a song request chosen by a radio presenter and shared with the listeners who had tuned in. Think of a song like, Tu Mera Chand Main Teri Chandni, or Aaja Sanam Madhur Chandni Mein Hum or a English classic like Unchained Melody or a Beatles song sent to you as a dedication. I'm getting a thrill even writing about it. This was in tandem with the age of the love letters and the excitement (and in some cases, the horror) attached to it. In the voice of popular radio presenter, Ameen Sayani, you hear a message and the name of the person who brings a smile on your face and the song you wanted to hear starts playing, leaving you mesmerised. Let's take a walk back down memory lane to the year 1993-94, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan pretty much found each other and 'magic' through Tom's onscreen son Jonah and the radio show. In Bollywood, the 2002 film, Naa Tum Jaano Naa Hum gave us a bit of a sneak peek into the era of love the old fashioned way through a book and a song that makes the always-around-yet-estranged-lovers meet. In the age when songs are available in more apps than your smartphones can support or a device that can host over 5000 songs; or advertisements and radio spots playing louder than any song (usually the same ones across stations) is it possible to bring love back like it was in the age of pure radio playback and a song dedication to announce your love? Dailyhunthttps://www.openlearning.com/u/feetengeener
India's school textbook content needs a rethink
The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), which takes stock of the learning levels of primary school children in India's State-run schools, reveals the depth of India's learning crisis. The 2018 report shows that students, especially those in elementary school (Classes 1-8), are not learning enough. To cite one metric, only half (50.3%) of all students in Class 5 can read texts meant for Class 2 students. 'Learning deficits seen in elementary school in previous years seem to carry forward as young people go from being adolescents to young adults,' the report said. The reasons behind such a disastrous report card, year after year, are not too hard to pinpoint. The lack of quality textbooks (not all states/schools use National Council of Educational Research and Training — NCERT — textbooks), and delays in reaching them to students, especially in the far-flung areas; the politicisation of syllabi; the lack of basic infrastructure in schools; and, untrained and overworked teachers, to name a few. In addition to these problems, there is also an increasing acceptance that our State-run schools, where scores of first-generation learners go, carrying the hope of their parents that education will give them a better life in the future, have become delinked from the local community they serve, and that the textbooks they use don't really reflect the local culture and social environment of the children, making it difficult for these young learners to relate to them. These shortcomings, educationists feel, affect the learning capabilities of students. Speaking at a recent education conference, Difficult Dialogues, NCERT professor, Srinivas Vadivel, said that such shortcomings can be probably tackled by developing curriculum material in local languages. An ideal situation would be for the NCERT to make guideline textbooks, which local teachers can then adapt and supplement to make them more suitable for the children they are teaching. Others at the conference pointed out that to make learning 'joyful', teachers must move beyond textbooks to use innovative teaching resources, educative toys and interesting do-it-yourself projects. If these sweeping changes are to actually happen, then the relationship between schools and students needs to be reviewed as well. Instead of forcing children to adhere to a school's inflexible curriculum and pedagogy, the institutions must strive to be children-ready. This means that teachers must be sensitised to the sociocultural background of the students to ensure better learning. Such steps could make India's State schools inclusive and positive spaces for quality learning. Dailyhunthttp://yarp.com/d83dae321304
Guest house 'assault': The 1995 infamous incident that had turned SP-BSP bitter foes
The two parties would contest 38 seats each out of 80 in the politically crucial state, leaving the two Congress bastions of Rae Bareli and Amethi, and keeping two seats aside for any future allies. While announcing the tie-up, BSP chief Mayawati said she was ready to 'rise above' the 1995 infamous guest house scandal-the incident that marked one of the grimmest chapters of UP politics. setTimeout(function(){(function(id){var embedTag=document.getElementById(id).children[0]; if(embedTag){var width=embedTag.offsetWidth; var height=embedTag.offsetHeight; embedTag.height=document.body.offsetWidth * (height/width); embedTag.width=document.body.offsetWidth;}})("embed-brightcove-iframe-tag-0");},1000); In 1993, then SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and BSP founder Kanshi Ram had joined forces before the UP assembly elections to stave off the BJP, which was riding high on the Ram temple wave. The SP-BSP combine won a total of 176 seats and managed to form the government under Mulayam's leadership with the Congress' support. The BJP had 177 seats. : However, the government had collapsed after two years as Mayawati withdrew from the government and joined hands with the BJP. Irked by the withdrawal, angry SP workers attacked Mayawati when she was holding a meeting with her party workers at a Lucknow guest house on June 2, 1995. Her room was vandalised and she was allegedly abused and beaten up. When the BSP MLAs failed to protect Mayawati, BJP MLA Brahm Dutt Dwivedi stepped into the room and escorted her to safety. Subsequently, the BSP joined hands with the BJP to form the government in the state. Since that episode, two parties had remained bitter foes until 2018 when SP-BSP alliance trounced BJP in the parliamentary bypolls in Gorakhpur (vacated by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath) and Phulpur (Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya). Dailyhunthttps://www.vox.com/users/sikendergunm
Allot 4G spectrum for us: BSNL employees stage strike
Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, convener of AUAB, M Kanniappan said, 'BSNL is the largest Telecom Service Provider in India, having a country-wide presence with over 120 million customers. It is one of the largest and leading public sector firms providing a comprehensive range of telecom services in India. There is no telecom operator in the country to beat its reach with its wide network, providing services in every nook and corner of the country across India, except New Delhi and Mumbai. Whether it is inaccessible areas of Siachen glacier or North-Eastern regions of the country, BSNL serves its customers with a wide bouquet of telecom services.' For the past seven years, this profit-making public sector firm has been facing serious crisis. The 4G spectrum was allotted to a private operator by the end of 2016. But, BSNL was not provided with 4G spectrum. BSNL unions have been demanding allocation of 4G spectrum to BSNL, so that it would be able to compete in the market and keep up the market share. But, the Department of Telecommunication had denied it to BSNL. The AUAB also demands that the department permits BSNL to lease out its lands to raise revenue. 'The government had promised that they would revive BSNL. We do not know how they would revive it when they themselves are stacking up odds, truly heavy odds, against this public sector firm,' said an official, on condition of anonymity. BSNL employees have staged agitations across the state. As many as 1,350 employees staged the protest in Coimbatore. Natarajan, a functionary of the National Telecom Union, said, 'The government is favouring new entrants over other firms. The predatory price of Reliance Jio created a crisis in the telecom industry. This would affect all others, including the BSNL.' ... Dailyhunthttp://realstate.0and1.com/UserProfile/tabid/42/userId/70581/Default.aspx
Country needs bulletproof jackets, not bullet train: Akhilesh Yadav
He said: 'The country has to face elections. At the same time, borders have to be secured. The government should say what all it is doing in this respect. The entire country is with the armed forces.' Yadav also attacked the BJP over its ongoing election campaign. He said: 'If all political parties have halted their campaigns, then why is the ruling BJP carrying out its campaign? The ruling party must stop it and think about how to secure the borders.' Earlier, Yadav had tweeted: 'Till when will the 3-day period of mourning keep getting extended? Every day we get news of the brave martyrdom of our jawans, while smiling BJP politicians accompany their funeral processions. Why is the govt waiting and watching?' Dailyhunthttps://www.openstreetmap.org/user/utejjamsun
Lindsay Lohandenies slamming CBS
Airlines set for growth flight
Notwithstanding near term turbulence, rising air penetration rates, expanding middle class income and induction of fuel and cost efficient aircraft (15 per cent fuel savings) will enable profitable growth in coming years," the brokerage said in a note as it initiated coverage of the sector with a positive view.Lilladher analyst Paarth Gala pointed out India is the fastest growing aviation market with domestic passenger traffic showing a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 20 per cent over the past five years. "On the back of strong GDP growth, domestic air traffic is expected to grow at 17 per cent CAGR over 2018-24 as travelers shall increasingly prefer air travel on the back of increasing affordability and narrowing gap between air fares and rail fares."This coupled with the government's focus on stimulating regional traffic through the UDAN scheme shall encourage air travel to and from smaller towns and cities'', Gala said.Others, too, have views similar to Gala. Ronojoy Dutta, principal consultant at InterGlobe Aviation, which runs low-cost carrier IndiGo, spoke of the possibility of 18-22 per cent growth, much more than the conventional belief of growth at least twice a country's GDP."There is nothing that says the Indian economy won't continue to be one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. The second factor that comes into play is what they call the propensity to travel. developed countries are like 10 times higher than us in terms of the propensity to travel."So you have two factors working - a 7.5 per cent growth rate and a low propensity to travel, which gets higher and higher as people have more income," he said. Dailyhunthttps://www.intensedebate.com/people/veenekeenes
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Delhi man arrested for duping Gurugram job seeker of Rs 45,000
He then got an interview call and was charged more money, the police said, adding that when he was asked to pay another Rs 20,000 as security fee, he smelled a rat and approached the police. 'They wanted me to pay Rs 60,000. I ended up paying Rs 45,000 and now I've spent Rs 10,000 fighting the case,' Raghav said Sunday, adding that he filed a complaint in September with the Delhi police and they then forwarded it to the Gurugram police. The police said they do now know how many people have been conned by the accused. 'He had two women working with him. It was not a big gang, but we are looking into it,' the SI said. Satyender has been booked under Section of 420 of the IPC and the IT Act. Dailyhunthttp://www.sportclubplatz.com/jforum/user/profile/5020.page
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