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  Khattar's Name Change  Fever Griped  Even  Czech Politicians Probably Czech politicians have taken cue from Indian political torch bearers, Czech politicians have also pushed name game.  Czechia will soon be synonymous with the Czech Republic. But they have some finer point to make. Unlike most European countries, the Czech Republic  lacks  a one-word version of its name in foreign languages. Now, the country is set to use the name Czechia in English, Tschechien in German or Tchequie in French,” translations of “Cesko” in Czech. So now Czech, a one-word name,  is more practical and flexible for various uses. Neighboring Slovakia is officially the Slovak Republic. Similarly, Russia is used for the Russian Federation. Top Czech leaders, including President Milos Zeman, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, speakers of both chambers of Parliament and the foreign and defense ministers met Thursday and endorsed the new name. They feel th...

Mumbai Chapter of International Vaish Federation organised a programme to honor outstanding  of Vaish Community on 14th April 2016 at Manik Sabhagrih, Bandra in presence of galaxy of local Vaish community. There were number of dignitaries graced the occasion without any formal invite just on the basis of phone call. Piyush Goyal, Minister of State with Independent Charge for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy in the Government of India was one such person. he also opened his heart and supported the cause of vaish community. Shaina NC was also honored on the occasion, speaking on the occasion, she share her cosmopolitan background, her father a Parsi and mother Vohra Muslim and married to a Jain thus bahu of Vaish family ! Dr Harsh Vardhan,  minister at Ministry of Science and Technology (India) and Ministry of Earth Sciences  was guest of honor. He shared his deep philosophical thoughts, said that one has to dream and to see that he works hard t...

लीजिए कल से दिल्ली से सटा नगर गुड़गांव गुरुगांव कहलाने लगा है ।  यह नाम परिवर्तन  हरयाणा के वर्तमान मुख़्यमंत्री मनोहर लाल खट्टर के दिमाग से उपजा है. उनका कहना है कि यह इलाका महाभारत काल में  महान गुरु द्रोणाचार्य की कर्मस्थली रहा है, इसलिए उनके सम्मान में यह परिवर्तन किया गया है. यह नाम  परिवर्तन कई यक्ष प्रश्न खड़े करता है.  पहला तो यह कि क्या महान  धनुर्धर शिक्षक  गुरु द्रोणाचार्य  को याद करने का यह मात्र एक ही तरीका है, यदि उनकी याद में धनुर्विद्या की कोई अकादमी गुडगाँव में खोली जाती और उसमें  ओलम्पिक स्तर के धनुर्धारी तयार किये जाते तो क्या अच्छा नहीं होता। या फिर गुडगाँव में नगर का प्रस्तावित विस्तार उनके नाम पर किया जा सकता था. अगर सड़कों का यह हाल है तो नाम बदल कर क्या होगा  खट्टर जी नाम बदलने से ज्यादा जरूरी है शहर की यातायात  व्यवस्था में सुधार    आज दुनिया भर के लोग गुड़गांव  का नाम भली प्रकार से  जानते हैं , पिछले कुछ वर...

BananaBandy Has Arrived  BananaBandy is an online market network for Indian creative professionals. It was founded in February 2015. It has already become India’s largest market network  with more than 10000  creative professionals .  The basic aim of BananaBandy is to enable creative professionals such as graphic designers, photographers, animator, product designers, interior designers, fashion designers, etc. to upload and manage their portfolio and at the same time, it provide them them opportunity to work full time or freelance as they wish.  In such a short time span of one year, BananaBandy has facilitated over 700 job listings from 450 companies . The website has over 6000 projects with 30000+ artworks . In the past 6 months, companies such as Walt Disney, Ogilvy&Mather, CouponDunia, Practo, Sunburn, Grofers, Asian Paints, etc. also joined their band wagon. Founded by Kavan Antani, 19, and Shashank Jogani, 21, it star...

In our childhood days, most of the people in India travel predominantly for two purpose : families that travel on vacation, which typically but not always take them back to an ancestral home, a nearby hill station or pilgrims visiting various temples and shrines all year round. Leisure trips to exotic destinations were reserved to uber riches which  could be counted easily on figure tips. And yes, going for holy bath in Ganga at Haridwar, Garh, Allahabad, Varanasi is a very old tradition. Visit to Nashik, Ujjain, Haridwar, Allahabad during Kumbh or Ardh Kumbh is a age old tradition in our country. But the agenda for leisure vacationers was very limited, when they ventured to a new place was one of brutal simplicity: cover as much ground as possible in as little time as possible, stopping only for the mandatory family photo, against a famous landmark. Pilgrims may have started with little other than god on their minds, but over the years, they've wanted their personal time w...

I moved to Bombay in the year 1986, precisely 30 years back, in between I traveled across the country sometime due to official compulsion on the next due to personal reasons. Music scene was predominated by release of Bollywood film music, small time pop singers like Alisha Chinoy, Shweta Shetty or Ghazal albums of Jagjjt Singh, Rajendra Mehta, Chandan Das, Ghanshyam Vaswani, Bhajan Albums of Anup Jalota, Hari Om Sharan on many occasion followed by live performances organized by music companies and the entry by invitation only. Mumbai Rock or Pop scene was not very encouraging either with lone exception of one Michael Jackson concert at Andheri Sports Complex, thanks to Thakerey family’s fascination of his dance and songs. But lot has changed on music front in India, now less conventional releases of music CDs/DVDs of performing artists and growing number of music festivals with different themes and genres. Another big change is jam packed music festivals in tier II tier III cities...

To develop and improve the mind set   of citizens it was of utmost importance that children were exposed to responsible   entertainment and education.   Right kind of education was more important than   Right to Education. Children consists one-third of India’s population, hence it becomes critical for broadcasters and content creators to develop content which adds value and balances education and entertainment. Therefore, India needs an Act that regulates and monitors the content viewed by children as they are the future citizens of the country. The Act should also provide parenting guidelines. This was stated by eminent media and entertainment industry veterans at a session on   ‘India needs a kids content Act’ on the second day of FICCI FRAMES.   The kids programming in India needs customization and original content. An effective Act will ensure the largest kids population that India has gets the right content, education through entertainment...