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The 4th edition of the World T20 commences from 18th September with inaugural match being played by host Sri lanka and Zimbabwe at the Mahinda Rajapaksa stadium in Hambantota .India enter the tournament as strong favourites as predicted by a number of critics.
Making our mark ! Weekly Journal | Issue 1 | September 2012
54 killed in Syria blast By Swathy Iyer Damascus: Nearly 54 people were killed and dozens wounded when an air strike hit a fuel station in Syria’s northern province of Aal-Raqqa on Thursday. The rebels were accused of shooting down the helicopter gunship that went tumulting into the station. The explosion went off in the town of Ain Issa and many charred bodies lay strewn around the filling station. Footage of the incident shows black smoke billowing over the area and rebels claim that almost 70 people were injured in the same. “The petrol station is the only one that is still open to customers in the area, and it was packed,” a media activist who identified himself as Abu Muawiya told AFP via Skype. “It was hit by a fighter jet.
On the lock down By Swathy Iyer Bangalore: The nationwide strike call given by the Left parties and the BJP over allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail and the diesel price hike saw the city coming to a standstill as it decided to stay indoors for the occasion. There was hardly any traffic on the regularly bustling streets and even the traffic lights were off.
A growing number of civilians in Syria’s bloody civil war are being killed from the air, with government helicopters and fighter jets launching regular strikes at rebel positions that are often located in densely populated areas.
The “Friends of Syria” working group on sanctions called on the world and “particularly members of the UN Security Council” to implement measures to deny Damascus access to resources “for its campaign against its own people.”
Thousands of shops spanning the city stayed shut on account of the strike. Even malls with security were shut, with placards announcing their functioning after 6PM, hung up in the front. Multiplexes and cinemas were forced to cancel their shows for due to lack of visitors. Also, chief markets like the K.R.Market and
Russel market did not function. Schools, colleges and all other academic institutions and offices were closed on Thursday. Also, BMTC busses did not ply the roads although some few of them started running from the afternoon. KSRTC cancelled all its services in the morning. BJP workers including The former Mayor S.K. Nataraj did their rounds in the city urging people to keep their shops and offices shut and make the bandh a total success. In many areas however, pharmacies were allowed to function. The bandh was a peaceful affair in the city despite some road block incidents in North Bangalore.
City of the superior rose By Arundathi Belur.
the 555 million roses the company
555million, you know how small it
They hold just 25 acres, fragment
produces comes from Kenya and
is. All the same we’re happy to be
across
Sarjapura
Ethiopia grown on land leased to
a based in Bangalore,” CEO Manoj
and Kunigal, an hour’s drive
the company by the respective
Agarwal said.
from Bangalore and in different
African governments.
In Africa,the company has access
direction. Yet, Karuturi Global
Karuturi produces 10 million roses
to 750 acres says Agarwal: “the
has emerged the world’s top rose
every year in Bangalore and rest
African climate and land are
exporter.
from the two African countries
conducive to rose production, the
Bangalore can justifiably feel proud
“Ten million is a big number,
reason their government policies
of this achievement however 98 of
but when you see it in relation
on rose cultivation”
Dodballapur,
Also the two countries are geographically close to Europe, the world’s largest consumer of roses. Logistically, then, it makes more sense to grow roses in Africa. While Kenya produces around 5-6 lakh roses a day, Ethiopia touches nearly a lakh a day. Geographical distance and high export costs put Bangalore at its advantage. The state government
Bangalore home to the largest rose-exporting company in the world is upbeat even in a recession year because the domestic market is strong.
isn’t helping either: it is not making land available on lease. “Buying land at exorbitant rates and then exporting roses doesn’t make sense” says Agarwal. Karuturi produces 30,000 roses every day amounting up to 9 lakhs a month and about a crore every year. IT exports 30-40 lakh roses and sells the rest within the country. While the largest rose exporter in the world, isn’t the largest in the country. “There are at least four to five companies producing as much as we do, if not more. While the Bangalore
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market produces around 100 million roses annually, we do just 10 percent of that” says Agarwal. Bangalore has competition from Pune and Nasik regions, are neck and neck with our city. The largest consumes of roses in India is Delhi followed by Mumbai. During peak seasons roses cost 12-13 rupees a piece in the wholesale market and 20-25 at florists and airports. During the off season prices crash as low as 1.50-2 per rose. At Bangalore’s K R market, desperate vendors sell a rose for as low as 50 paisa.
TEN THINGS THAT STUDENTS WANT FROM TEACHERS. Teaching the right way! Chhap do brings to you what students want from their teachers. We like our teachers, in spite of all the complaining, we still do look up to them. While we don’t like something’s, a few qualities are appealing in a teacher. We need to trust them, have high expectations of them and admire them. We know it’s not a easy job. Sometimes, we might
FROM BIG SCREEN to THE MICROPHONE! By Savio Travasso
Priyanka has lived in while growing up,
Have you ever listened carefully to the
and her journey from a small-town girl to
answers a child gives you when questioned
a famous personality. The single, featuring
as in what they want to be in future? Well
rapper Will.I.am, was produced by RedOne.
it keeps changing everyday and ultimately
She has also collaborated with artists such
they want to become almost everything
as Sam Watters, Matthew Koma, Jay Sean
possible. Then you realise reality, the
. The album is currently in the final stages
truth is, one can never predict what they
of mixing and production and is scheduled
will turn out to be. Priyanka Chopra seems
to release in December 2012. Priyanka has
to prove all of this wrong. She has begun
continually made her love for music know
to make one believe that if you want to
in her interviews. gave her voice to the
become something, the skill is already
song “Ullathai Killadhe” in the Tamil film
in you, you just have to make sure you
Thamizhan. This was her singing debut.
sharpen it with hard work.
While in America Priyanka was selected at
Coming from a military background,
state level for the National Opus Honour
Priyanka Chopra, beauty and brains won
Choir. While in Boston, she participated
the Miss World title ,
in several theatre productions, and
made a dazzling career
studied
in
classical,
Bollywood
and
now makes a debut
Western chorus
and choir singing.
in the music industry with her first album
From a girl who gets
“In My City” . So
a culture shock from
what’s her talent?
moving
Is
beauty,
and taking chips from
smartness,
a vending machine and
acting,
eating it in a toilet, just
it
singing
or all of the above?
to
America
because she dint know
Well she is a perfect example of a go-getter.
where
From the big silver screen she has now set
the food laid out, Priyanka Chopra has
foot into the world of music, with her first
evolved into a multi talented woman who
album. In 2011, she signed a worldwide
makes us proud in every field she sets foot
recording
Universal
in. The same girl afraid then of making a
Music Group and DesiHits to record and
fool of herself has released her first album
release her first music album. The first
at the Thursday Night Football kickoff on
single “In My City” debuted 13 September
American soil teaching us that the best
2012 on the NFL Network’s Thursday
way to make our dreams come true is to
Night Football Kick-off match, and the full
wake-up! So what’s next Priyanka? Did
album is expected in December.
u know Priyanka Chopra also wrote a
agreement
with
to pay and how to take
column for the Times of India? So should The song is inspired by the many cities
we expect a book release some time later?
fall short of what an ideal student should be like however there are reasons, as to what we want our teachers to do.
Encourage us We are young, sometimes confused and quite often we have some silly ideas. Due to putting us down relentlessly, we will be never able to think freely. With some encouragement we can do right things. Respect me as an individual We’erWe’re not just roll numbers or the marks on our report cards. Not just someone you can shush on when we are talking. When you see and treat us like individuals our relationships will be better. It will make us feel special and increase our self esteem. Challenge us to think We get lazy most of the times but it’s up to you to keep those gray cells of us working. We get used to procrastinating and doing things at the last minute. Just scraping through with minimum marks is all the art we know. With some motivation we can perform better. Connect with us Okay, we agree we are not on our best behavior with teachers, but it is very important that you connect with us. Some teachers just come teach and leave; we don’t want that, talk to us crack a few joke be one amongst us.
things faster. Stand up for us Teenagers don’t really like authority. Many a times we get into trouble for things we did or sometimes things we did not even do. A teacher is someone who is a part of authority, but you can support us and defend us when we are right. Listen to us We know we talk too much. But notNot all of it is nonsense. Sometimes teachers don’t listen to us even when we try talking to them. If you listen to us you will realize we do have good thoughts on our mind. Be interested in the subject We are not only the ones who get bored in class. We can tell when the teacher does not care about the subject. But only when you are passionate about what you are teaching can we develop love towards that particular subject. Be fair I think what we hate most is when teachers are biased. A teacher needs to be above making judgments, and be fair to all in both curriculums and co-curricular activities.
Be more than just a teacher We need someone not only to teach Use new methods We can read what is on a printed us, also a guide to cultivate our piece of paper. Teach it to us in interests. We need someone who new simple ways by give us real life is almost a second parent to us as examples and use various method- we spend most of our time with you ologies in your teaching it will make teachers. it more effective for us to grasp By Arundathi Belur
Layout: Tajinder Pal Singh Writers: Swathy Iyer , Arundhati Belur , Savio Travasso
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