Except IP sets, Escoms have achieved cent per cent metering As managing director of KPTCL and also chairman of all electricity supply companies (Escoms) in the state, Bharatlal Meena has played a key role in transforming the companies in the last five years of their existence.
Awareness
Dealing with autism The United Nations general assembly has declared April 2 as World Autism Awareness Day starting from 2008.
Interrupted by technology As the birthplace of technology, Silicon Valley might have more gadgets per capita than anywhere else. Yet, even here, always on can be a real turnoff.
Botanical parks are national heritage Large numbers gather in parks, most of them with little regard for the environment. They need to be properly educated.
Dependence is hell... A woman from the Luo tribe, who returned to her ancestral homeland after post-election violence, waits to receive food outside the wildlife centre in Kisumu’s Nyalande slum, near Nairobi, Kenya. “Is it not said ‘A hungry man is an angry man’?” commented Simon Nkwenti, head of a teachers’ union in Cameroon, after riots that killed dozens of people in the central African country. It is a proverb world leaders might do well to bear in mind as their impoverished populations struggle with food costs driven ever higher by record oil prices, weather and speculators trading in local market places and on global futures exchanges. Reuters
The University Grants Commission has decided on introducing a uniform academic calendar for all universities in the country from July-August this year. Is it desirable or feasible?We invite our readers to give their opinion in about 100 words. Responses may be sent to Deccan Herald, No 75, M G Road, Bangalore - 560001 or e-mail: editordh@deccanherald.co.in latest by 2 pm on Saturday.
