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When anyone is under stress and feel frustrated what he/she is supposed to do? When he/she is working hard handling multiple jobs without any support system and not getting proper reimbursement for his/her services. Every time whenever boss seems some problem he assigns that job to that particular person and that men completes it but Boss do not say a word of appreciation and don’t make a comment about his/her salary. Any job which has to complete on urgent basis is given to that person and he/she completes it but appraisal is done for others. He/She think about a change but due to educational limitations he stops down. What step should be taken to make his career better. Should he/she start some business?
Please suggest the some ways.
It is said that you should work hard with enthusiasm for your company but when you are interested and working with full enthusiasm to complete the work of organization by spending extra hard work, extra time and sacrificing your family time and face environmental politics of office that leads to frustration. Even after sanction of resources sometimes your colleagues create blockage for you and that is the worst situation. If any employee needs to complete the task he needs resources / manpower for the same. Generally it happens that resources are not available at time and effort’s goes waste in arrangement of resources/manpower. Many times resources are not according to the environment or according to the level of modern living. When employee is pushed to work under the circumstances / standards of past era the output / result are not very good, as it is something swimming against the flow of water which decreases the output.
Please mention how to save your time and efforts from arrangement of resources and save yourself from office politics.
Various trade unions, employees unions have called for a nationwide strike (
Due to strike many flights had been already cancelled because approx. 22000 employees of Airports Authority of India are on strike.
Bank employees are protesting against the new economic policies of mergers, which have led to job cuts. Lower level government staff had also supported strike because of partial reimbursement in 6th pay commission.
Train services may be also stropped as farmers are also protesting against wrong government policies.
But will this strike solve any issue and what will happen with the private sector employees who are not getting proper reimbursement for their services and suffer because of loopholes in system.
Please provide some solid mechanism to support middle & lower level families of country as they are already facing problem for their regular needs because of sky rocketing inflation. Middle Class Service families are under tremendous pressure and facing problem of survival and you can not imagine the position of poor class.
Our politicians only make comments through media and press but real work is zero.
Express your points to help the society.
From last two months Jammu & Kashmir have seen too much protest over the issue of Allocating land to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB). In starting the protest was against the land allocation and the government taken it back from the Shrine Board but now the supporters for board protesting and doing strikes/chakka jam all over the country.
This one issue had destroyed all the hard work and sacrifice of thousands of soldiers who worked for many years to restore peace in the valley. All the political parties are working on the concept of vote bank but no one is thinking that how it will affect the communal harmony of the country and have a very big impact on morale of security forces.
We all knows that Pakistan is continuously working on Kashmir issue and the matter is still not resolved in International Arena but even knowing this fact Indian politician are now taking initiative to calm the state.
Please express your views on the same.
Some IT companies are now a days looking after these things but what about other sector companies. Many of the rising sectors like real estate, education and telecommunication are still not taking initiatives for betterment of their staff.
Express your views over it.
Whenever we want to search for any information on internet the first view that flashes through our mind is google. The most popular search engine. In the starting of google it was only a site providing search facility to the users but today it is providing free facilities like gmail, google groups, google news, google calendar, google reader, google documents, google earth, google maps, google blogs (blogspot.com), image search, google videos, google knol, etc. The list is endless. many other sites are also providing the many of the above mentioned features or something like that but google is leader because of quality of its services and obviously the speed.
Sometimes you are not able to find appropriate information about neighbourhood market by visiting their but google shows many good results when you search. Here the point is that google still needs to do so much of work about providing local information to anyone. If you want to have the phone number and email of your nearest drycleaner or wants to know the phone number grocery shop you will feel helpless not only google but almost everywhere on net especially in cities of India.
I am living in Faridabad and if I want to search for some printer, book shop, Video shop, internet café etc. No site will be able to provide me right content. Either I have to talk to my neighbors/friends or go to the market and inquire about it.
Although google is giving much information about US cities but here in India google has not reached upto that level means in small cities. It is not able to provide help to students, housewives for their daily routine needs.
I think some research/initiative if taken about it will save lot of time of individual which can be used for more betterment of society.
Please send me your views on same.
On last Friday & Saturday serial bomb blasts taken place in two of our known cities i.e.
At this tough time we should all come together and fight with bravery against these bad powers. It is the duty of every citizen to remain alert and provide support to government agencies. We should not think only Law enforcement agency, government have to play the complete role and it is only their duty to stop all these activities. It is the duty of every individual to report the any suspicious activity/person happening around him/her to police immediately.
I would like to appreciate the alertness of
LET’S COME FORWARD AND STAND TOGETHER TO FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM.
Many times we seen that traffic is stopped on roads as some VIP or VVIP convoy is about to cross the road, first a pilot car comes to check security and after that whole group of cars passes and this whole process takes enough time to create big traffic jam. Today I seen a video at NDTV.com that BUS had been included in the fleet of Indian President Smt. Pratibha Patil and the initiative had been taken by Madam President herself to reduce the expenses and less burden for public. It will not only reduce the expenses of VVIP Convoy but also reduce the consumption of petrol and diesel on roads during traffic jams. If all other VVIP like Prime Minister, Opposition Leader, Cabinet Minister, State Ministers , Chief Ministers etc. On any given day if 150 VVIP moves on roads and approx. 2000 vehicles stopped for say 2 minutes on average for every convoy, then the wastage of petrol will be 225 ml. per vehicle and total wastage is 450 Litre for every VVIP.
For 150 VVIP it will be 67500 litre and cost of 67500 litre petrol (40%) and diesel (60%) is Rs.1336500 + Rs.1350000 = Rs.2686500 Wastage of One Day.
Jam in minutes | Vehicles stopped | Wastage per vehicle | Total wastage | No. of VVIP* | Total fuel wastage per day | Total amount of wastage per day | Wastage in 1 year |
2 | 2000 | 225 ml. | 450 litre | 150 | | 67500 | |
Per day fuel Wastage for one VVIP | Approx. no. of VVIP moving | Total fuel wastage in a day | Total cost of per day wastage (60% diesel + 40% petrol) |
450 litre | 150 | 67500 | 2686500 |
And if this much of oil is saved regularly then it will also helpful in reducing prices of oil according to demand & supply rule which furthers brings down prices of other things.
Whole year wastage will be approx. Rs. 100 Crore which can be saved easily and other facts like burden to public will be also less if some more means and ways looked into.
All figures are approximate and do not indicate anything in particular.
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Both countries should start with trade relations and follows other solutions suggested by experts, as
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As we all knows that recently government increased price of Petrol, Diesel and LPG cooking gas due to increase in international market from last many months and increasing pressure of Oil Companies as the companies are going through very rough phase. The question arise here is how this price hike will affect the common man especially the middle class of our semi-urban and urban cities who is already under tremendous pressure due to high inflation rate. Prices of all basic commodities have increased in last two-three months. Even though the government is planning to implement the sixth pay commission norms but it is not finalized yet and what will happens with peoples working in private sector.
One of the factors behind increase in prices of crude oil at international level is trading/future trading of the same according to views of some experts. But I don’t understand why all the governments are not taking steps to stop/ban/control trading of same.
I think government should have control the prices of LPG because it is a essential basic commodity and must start the research of alternate energy sources on urgent basis to save the nation from future crisis. In alternate sources we should not depend only on nuclear energy but some new initiatives need to be taken care.
Please send your views about the same.
Reservation is a issue which had spreads its roots deeply into the Indian society which is not right. If you want to bring the prosperity than you should educate the weaker not the person whose attitude is not right but have dearth of resources with them.
Recently Gujjars demanded reservation and lots of peoples have been killed during agitations. Much of public as well as private property get damaged during the agitation.
If we want to do something good to society than reservation system must be finished and anyone who is not having finance to study than he must be provided help / quota but not everyone based on caste system. Caste based reservation system divides the society and upbrings inequality. It is just politics.
Post your views to me about it.
What is the reason behind it?
Woman to head missile project for the first time
New Delhi, May 13 (PTI) After rising to the ranks of Lt Generals in the army and Air Marshals in the IAF, a woman is now set to head the country's key missile project.
45-year-old Dr Tessy Thomas, one of the around 200 women scientists and technicians working for the DRDO, has been cleared to be appointed to the post of Project Director of the upgraded version of the 2000 km-long nuclear capable Agni-II missile.
Thomas is presently the Associate Project Director of the 3,000 km range Agni-III missile project.
Asked about the new version of Agni-II being planned, Thomas, who was yesterday honoured along with the entire team of Agni-III by the Prime Minister, told PTI that "It is still a confidential project. It will be called Agni-II A (2)." "I like my job. I feel I am contributing to my nation's security," Thomas, who has named her son after the country's light combat fighter Tejas, said.
A B.Tech from Thrissur Engineering College, Calicut, and M.Tech from Pune, Thomas is an expert on all solid system propellant.
Thomas, who did the post analysis of the failure of the first Agni-III missile, said there were some shortcomings in the test of the missile which were overcome for a smooth flawless test flight on May seven. PTI
Recently we listen and seen many things related to BRT corridors Bus Rapid Transmission System in Delhi. Most of people/newspapers are explaining that Government had made a mistake by constructing BRT Corridors. If Government do take any action we criticise government if anything goes wrong, but we never appreciate government for its success. The failure behidn the BRT Corridors according to me is illteracy among road users. In our country peoples are not much disciplined due to which a kiosk happens. If we all follow rules and regulations and inculculates discipline in ourself that will change the whole scenario. Everyone on the road is in hurry than others so he took wrong lines, overtakes at wrong location without following traffic rules that leads to chaos and accidents on the roads and government is blamed for the same.
At last I can say that to make any system / new development successful everyone need to be fully aware about it. Discipline is another important factor. And we all should understand that establishment of any system takes time.
Let's come together to make BRT Corridor a successful Project, even after our whole hearted efforts it doesn't work that necessary actions can be thinked upon.
Recently in view of Panchayati Election in Area all the political parties are raising and giving air to warm up the environment in Nandigram area of West Bengal. Recently Gang rapes of women against turn the situation tensed and visit of Trinamool Congress Chief Mamta Banerjee and his party leaders to victims had been blocked by CPI(M) Cadres, which clearly presents the tensed scenario of area to the outside world.
I don't understand what the local government, NGO and media is doing towards the betterment of environment.
I think central government should sent a team consisting of members from all parties to analyze the situation of area and team must report in a limited period with remedial actions.
All the points must be considered while giving priority to the common man/peoples of that area.
While doing acquisition of land, we should remember if everywhere we construct industries and don't leave the land for agriculture in future we will face the problem of food shortage. The high rate of inflation in now-a-days is only due to different in supply and demand.
Post me your views regarding same.
Do you think that all over the world death sentence must be stopped even when it is known to us that it is given in very rare cases. Sometimes a person do some wrong act due to immaturity, loose control of his mind or some opposite circumstances and the concept of humanity says that everyone should come forward to treat him and work towards the improvement of his attitude.
The objective of giving punishment is that criminal / mistaker / wrong doers feels guilty but if he death sentence is given the objective of punishment is died / finished and death sentence becomes a kind of revenge.
Please express your views over same.
Sometimes i feel urgency for some information regarding purchase of material (household, commercial/official) or to book some ticket of railway, airline and many times it is very urgent to look for contact details of some agents / person / commission agent to deal with different types of government departments. As I don't have the local contact in that area, I use Internet (a big resource in itself) but most of time results are big zero.
Can anyone suggest me something in this regard.
In last few weeks much is in air about recommendations of sixth pay commission as it is related to increase in salary of Govt. employees. Everyone is saying that it will lead to big increase in salaries however only few are aware that number of leaves have reduced drastically. The less leaves will have following results :
1. More health problems for everyone as the regular life is already too much stressed
2. Less social relation between everyone leads to big impact on communal harmony
3. Private sector will totally finish the leaves as everyone knows that private sector had less leaves in comparison to Government sector.
4. You will be not able to join and celebrate many family functions/religious festivals etc.
Increase in salary is necessary due to high inflation rate and number of national holidays must be not changed keeping in mind the health of
nation.
Please comment.
Since last 2-3 weeks I am just writing news or other articles from various sources of Internet. Basically whatever I found interesting on Net I post the same to my blog also.
I am not aware whether it will affect my page rank as the articles are from the other sources of net.
My sole aim of blogging is earning money.
If you know something please suggest.
April 10, 2008 11:26 IST
Last Updated: April 10, 2008 12:47 ISTIn a major boost to reservation, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Constitution amendment law providing for 27 per cent quota for Other Backward Classes in IITs, IIMs and other Central educational institutions, but excluded the creamy layer from the benefit.
Coverage: The Reservation Issue
A five-judge Constitution bench cleared the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006 providing for the quota, by a unanimous verdict.
The bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan excluded the creamy layer among the OBCs from the quota benefit.
The court held that the Act does not violate the basic structure of the Constitution.
The verdict came on a bunch of petitions by anti-quota activists challenging the Act. They vehemently opposed government's move saying caste cannot be the starting point for identifying backward classes.
The inclusion of creamy layer in the reservation policy was also questioned by the anti-quota petitioners.
With this judgment, the interim order of March 29, 2007 staying the implementation of the Act has been lifted.
In effect, the reservation policy can be put in place for the 2008-09 academic session.The court held that the Constitution (93rd Amendment) Act, under which the government came out with the law providing 27 per cent quota in Centrally-aided institutions, was not violative of the basic structure of the Constitution.
All judges favoured periodic revision on the implementation of the 27 per cent quota.
The court ruled that the delegation of power to the Centre to determine OBCs was valid.
The parameter applied for identifying the creamy layer among the OBCs for jobs as per the office memorandum of September 8, 1993, will be applicable, the court said.
It also held as valid the exclusion of minority institutions from the ambit of quota under the Act.
Besides the Chief Justice, the bench comprised Justices Arijit Pasayat, C K Thakker, R V Raveendran and Dalveer Bhandari.
The head of the International Olympic Committee has said the Beijing Games will rebound from "crisis" after days of protests along the torch route.
Jacques Rogge told a meeting of national committees in the Chinese capital that they should assure their countries the Games would succeed.
The US stage of the torch relay passed off amid confusion and tight security in San Francisco on Wednesday.
The route was totally changed at the last minute amid anti-Chinese protests.
Torch-bearers were immersed in a cocoon of security, surrounded by dozens of police officers and Chinese guards in track-suits.
LONDON: An estimated 30,000 Indians and 19,000 other non-Europeans successfully overturned the British government's hardline new rules for highly-skilled migrant workers on Tuesday with the High Court decisively ruling the immigration changes "unlawful" and a rank "abuse of (administrative) power".
Tuesday's legal triumph for the Highly-Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP), the non-profit campaign organisation that was the lead appellant in the 14-month case, puts Britain's progressively-tighter immigration policies under the microscope.
It comes almost exactly six months after thousands of Indian doctors won their High Court challenge to the British government to force it to treat them on a par with European medics.
The High Court judgement dismissed the government's argument that it was in the "public interest...the national interest" retrospectively to apply changes to HSMP visas.
The ruling, by Judge Sir George Newman, means that Britain will be forced to grant entry, residence and/or settlement to non-European Union nationals who entered the UK under the 2002 HSMP rules.
But a defiant government said it wants to appeal.
Newman said, in his landmark judgement, "In the circumstances, I am satisfied that the terms of the original scheme should be honoured and that there is no good reason why those already on the scheme shall not enjoy the benefits of it as originally offered to them. Good administration and straightforward dealing with the public require it. Not to restrain the impact of the changes would, in my judgment, give rise to conspicuous unfairness and an abuse of power."
Flushed with victory, an ebullient Amit Kapadia, the HSMP Forum's executive director, told TOI, "We are relieved and happy and very glad that British justice is available as a last resort when there is a clear abuse of power by the government. This is a lesson for this government and those in the future".
The judge ruled that it was only fair the UK apply the original HSMP rules to thousands of non-European nationals who migrated to the UK in the "legitimate expectation" they were entitled to a year-long stay, a two-year visa extension, then a further three years before applying for settlement.
He ruled it unlawful to apply the 2006 points-based immigration rules to existing HSMP visa-holders as criteria for remaining in the UK.
But the judge ruled that "the old scheme constituted an integrated and entire programme and that it was not open to the government to alter the terms and conditions upon which the pre-arranged stages were to be implemented."
The High Court ruling means that hundreds of Indian HSMP visa-holders who were forced to go back to India can now legitimately ask to return to the UK. It will also finally mean the freedom from fear – of deportation – for 100,000 Indians here, which is thought to signify the total number of HSMP visa-holders and their families.
Indian HSMP visa-holders said they felt "vindicated" in their claim, first revealed by TOI, that they had been suddenly disenfranchised by Britain's allegedly "racist, Idi Amin-style immigration policies".
The HSMP Forum, which brought its legal challenge against the government with the thousands of pounds it collected from its often-impecunious members, said it was a comeuppance for "the immigration department (which) was obsessed with defending their decision and were not open to any reasoning. We had no other recourse but to approach the judiciary".
Highly-skilled Indian workers win court challenge in UK-UK-World-The Times of India
April 04, 2008 12:17 IST
Last Updated: April 04, 2008 12:49 IST
Inflation galloped to 7 per cent for the week ended March 22, on higher prices of food, vegetables, minerals and manufactured items, even as measures to tame prices are expected to take effect only in 2-3 weeks.
Inflation growth in the previous week was 6.68 per cent and was 6.54 per cent in the corresponding week a year-ago.
On Monday, the government decided to abolish import duty on crude form of edible oils, cut rate on refined edible oils and ban non-basmati rice exports among other measures to ease the pressure off prices.
However, Manila-based Asian Development Bank expects these measures to influence prices only by the month end.
The high rate of inflation could also prompt the Reserve Bank of India to take monetary measures, like hike in interest rate or tighten money supply through hike in CRR.
During the week, prices of fruits and vegetable, pulses, cereals, eggs, meat and fish went up, while condiments and spices were cheaper. The mineral category-index shot up by 38.2 per cent driven by 46 per cent rise in prices of iron ore.
In the manufactured items category, sunflower oil, vanaspati, butter, mustard oil, sugar and groundnut oil became expensive, while prices of ghee, coconut oil mellowed down by 1 per cent each.
At the same time, prices of steel ingots, alloy steel casting were higher. However, car chassis moved down by one per cent.
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Kallis, de Villiers cement South Africa's position
Ahmedabad (PTI): Jacques Kallis and A B de Villiers cemented South Africa's already dominant position with a record fifth wicket 189-run stand to take the visitors to 306 for four at lunch in the second cricket Test against India here on Friday.
The duo, who joined forces on Thursday when the visitors were 117 for four replying to the Indian first innings total of 76, faced 279 balls during the stand, leaving the visitors ahead of the home team by 230 runs.
At lunch, Kallis was unbeaten on 97, three short of his 30th Test century, while the more attacking de Villiers, who completed his fifth ton and first against India in the last over before lunch, was on 102.
The duo's unfinished stand overhauled the previous fifth-wicket best of 164 between Kallis and Lance Klusener against the hosts done at Bangalore during the 1999-2000 visit by the Proteas.
The well-settled pair, which resumed at the overnight 223 for four, was hardly troubled by the Indian bowlers in the opening hour of play, barring once when Kallis was nearly bowled off his gloves.
Kallis was lucky that the ball hit the stumps without disturbing the bails when he batted against off spinner Harbhajan Singh, the hosts' most penetrative bowler on Thursday.
Later, the burly all-rounder survived a close leg before appeal when trying to pull Indian pacer S Sreesanth. TV replays indicated he could have been declared out.
Kallis and de Villiers added 83 runs in 29 overs in the session, with the former scoring 37 and the more enterprising de Villiers adding 43 to slowly take the match away from India's grasp.
In the first over after drinks, de Villiers, who once again showed fleetness of foot to negotiate the spinners, survived a run-out attempt when on 89 in 270 for four.
The batsman tapped R P Singh to the vacant fine leg position and, after a yes-no with partner Kallis, was trying to scamper to the non-striker's end when Mahendra Singh Dhoni collected the ball and threw it wide of the bowler whose aim at the stumps after a dive was way off the mark.
At lunch, the powerfully built Kallis had hit 11 fours and a six, while facing 223 balls and staying for 287 minutes at the crease.
The Indian attack looked mostly clueless. The pacers tried to dig the ball in on the slow pitch offering low bounce and were hammered with pull shots by the 32-year-old Kallis.
The rub of the green also seemed to go against their attempts to come back into the game after having become the first team from the country to be bowled out in the first session of a Test match on Thursday.
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According to media reports, Videocon group chairman said that we have expressed our interest in acquiring Motorola’s handset business. We learnt from a reliable source that they will be selling it and when they do we are sending an expression of interest.
The Videocon group is planning to bid for Motorola's troubled handset unit, if the US-based company decides to sell the loss-making business. According to media reports, Videocon group Chairman Venugopal Dhoot has been quoted as saying that Videocon is in the initial stages of evaluating a bid.
"We have learnt from a reliable source that they (Motorola) will be selling it and when they do we are sending an expression of interest," he added. According to a financial daily, the group has hired a leading investment banker to convey its interest to buy out the mobile handset business of Motorola.
Motorola, on March 26 said it plans to split into two companies next year amid pressure from billionaire investor Carl Icahn to spin off the handset business that it pioneered 25 years ago. The board is looking for a new CEO for the mobile handset business, Motorola said.
Motorola spokespersons declined to comment on the news.
Motorola's handset business may be worth about US $3.8bn, according to Merrill Lynch. That's more than double the market value of Videocon Industries Ltd., the Videocon group's listed company. Some analysts say Motorola won't sell its mobile handset business to Videocon as it does not have a global brand value.
Having said that there are definite synergies to be had as Videocon group's subsidiary Datacom has received license for launching pan-India mobile operations and is awaiting allotment of spectrum.
The group plans to invest Rs60bn on the mobile services business across all the 23 circles in India. It is looking at a subscriber base of 25mn in the next three years. India adds around 7-8mn new mobile users every month.
So, the potential is quite big given the tele-density of just 25% in the country. At the same time, the challenges too are quite a few. One is the stiff competition among global mobile phone makers and low margins of the business.
Second, how will Videocon fund the acquisition, considering the ongoing turmoil in global credit markets. Another issue is how to revive the Motorola brand, which has seen its market share erode considerably over the past 12 months. Motorola has lost its No.2 spot to Samsung due to lack of strong products.
Last year, Motorola sold over 159mn mobil e phones globally. Its market share is down to around 14%, just behind Samsung, and way below Nokia, which is the No.1 brand with a market share of close to 40%.
Indian telecom service provider Airtel has announced the launch of an all-in-one Internet portal called Airtel Live. This service is powered by Airtel broadband and software-cum-Internet giant Google.
Customers at airtellive.com will get free access to a number of Google products including Google Apps messaging and collaboration suite which comprises Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendar. It will also include the Start Page feature which allows users to create a customizable home page.
Besides Google, Airtel has partnered with other Indian companies like shaadi.com, naukri.com and 24×7guru. With this partnership, Airtel Live will also offer exclusive deals and discounts to customers.
Atul Bindal, President, Airtel Telemedia services commented on the launch saying, “Airtellive.com is a milestone in Airtel’s broadband strategy and it builds upon the current broadband ecosystem infrastructure to establish an Internet destination for web applications.”
“It underlines our commitment towards simplifying and adding value to our broadband customers and driving the adoption of broadband in the country,” he added.
Users will definitely enjoy the Airtel Live experience as the collaboration includes two major powerhouses who will offer a good customer experience with their expertise and innovation.
The Olympic torch has been re-lit at a lavish ceremony in Beijing, after arriving aboard a flight from Athens.
Chinese President Hu Jintao took part in the event at Tiananmen Square to welcome the torch to the city, which hosts of the 2008 Olympics in August.
Tight security was put in place at the square, amid concerns of possible anti-government protests.
Last week protesters opposed to China's actions in Tibet clashed with police at the lighting ceremony in Greece.
On Tuesday, the torch goes to Almaty in Kazakhstan, its next stop on a tour of 20 countries before returning for the opening of the Beijing games on 8 August.
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Square closed
Hundreds of schoolchildren turned out at Beijing airport, waving flags as the Air China plane arrived.
Students and workers sang the Olympic slogan "One World, One Dream" and waved pom-poms.
Security was tight in the centre of Beijing, with one underground station near Tiananmen Square closed, and the square closed off to vehicles.
'Timeless symbol'
Sunday's formal handover was held in the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens, where the first modern Olympics took place in 1896.
The Chinese and Greek flags were marched in by Greek athletes to the strains of a band, before a circle of white-clad actresses dressed as ancient priestesses surrounded a podium as the torch was brought in.
Minos Kyriakou, president of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, passed the flame to chief Beijing organizer Liu Qi.
"The Olympic flame is the timeless symbol which stirs admiration, pride and faith [in] the Olympic ideals and values," said Mr Kyriakou.
"I hope the world community welcomes the flame and honours it".
Mr Liu pointed out that the summit of Mount Everest was on the torch's destination list, "testifying to the great strength of the Olympic movement in marking the progress of human civilisation".
The protesters tried to unfurl a banner which said "Stop genocide in Tibet", but failed to enter the stadium or disrupt the solemn ceremony.
At least six people were arrested.
Police had warned they would confiscate all banners, signs or objects that might be thrown.
OLYMPIC TORCH ROUTE
BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Olympic torch re-lit in Beijing
Sunday, March 30, 2008 (New York)
The Indian American Intellectuals Forum has urged the United States to boycott the coming Olympics to send a ''clear and strong'' message to Beijing that Washington would not tolerate suppression of and brutalities against peace-loving Tibetans.
''This will be a minimal symbolic gesture of our solidarity with the Tibetan people,'' said the Forum President Narain Kataria in a letter to President George Bush on Saturday.
Kataria said that in 2002, US Congress had passed the Tibetan Policy Act that calls for the preservation of culture and identity of Tibetans living in exile and in Tibet.
''Under that act, it is the sacred duty of United States to protect the non-violent Tibetans from the brutal wrath of Chinese army,'' he stressed.
Pointing to ''reign of terror and repression'' let loose by the ''world's largest military dictatorship on ''hapless non violent'' Tibetans, Kataria said ever since China forcibly occupied the nation, there have been many reports of ''widespread mistreatment of civilians, torture of detainees and political prisoners.''
''There is a string of serious and severe violations of human rights,'' he said.
Tibet, the letter said, is overwhelmingly of the Buddhist faith. As Buddha was born in India, Buddhism is like a sister religion to the Hinduism.
''Hindu people in India even believe Lord Buddha to be an incarnation of Hindu God Vishnu. There is a symbiotic relationship between Hindus and Buddhists and hence, the Hindu people are very concerned about the miserable plight of Tibetan civilians at the hands of Chinese army,'' he added.
Stating that there is precedent, Kataria recalled the boycott of Moscow Olympics in 1980 after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
Arrested SIMI chief Safdar Nagori had called a meeting in Indore to finalise plans for major terror strikes across the country, police sources have said.
Another SIMI activist Ehtesham has told the police that Nagori held a series of meetings to plan the strikes.
He also organised training camps in Madhya Pradesh to raise a local terror force.
Nagori's plan was to set up a completely indigenous jehadi outfit trained in the use of explosives and sophisticated arms.
He also wanted to create a force of fidayeens or suicide bombers.
Ehtesham, who was caught after the Mumbai train blasts, has also revealed that Nagori played a key role in the Malegaon and Mumbai train blasts.
With the Indore arrests, the police have managed to catch almost all major SIMI chiefs.
An ATS team Mumbai left for Madhya Pradesh on Thursday night to ask for his custody to probe his role in the blasts.
The Karnataka police have said that Nagori, Shibli and Adnan were involved in the foiled Hubli terror attack plot.
Holi, festival of colours celebrated all over
I hope that people will come out of their busy life and interact with each others and celebrate festivals with great passion.
Happy Holi to all of You!
The Yamuna sometimes called Jamuna or Jumna is a major river in northern India having total length of approximately 1,370 kilometers. Its source is at Yamunotri and it flows through the states of Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh and finally merges into River Ganga at Allahabad. Mathura, Agra and Delhi are the major cities lying on the banks of this river. In 1970-80’s Yamuna was the lifeline of
In 1960 the famous Thames
The most important question is that can clean up drive become successful without the contribution of Delhites? In our country,
'Obviously, there is need for greater involvement of citizens' groups and volunteers
All over the world, there was a fresh reawakening about the state of rivers.