Saturday, 24 August 2013

Fed up with science, boy makes bombs to end life

Indian epaper
Tonk: Don’t ever force your children to study something they are disinterested in. That’s what Kuldeep’s parents in Tonk, Rajasthan would have realised after their beloved son prepared bombs to end his life. 

Kuldeep, a class XI student, complete abhorred science, but was forced to study the subject on his parents’ reported insistence. However, frustrated of failing to perform well in his studies, Kuldeep attempted suicide by blowing up himself.

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Friday, 23 August 2013

Indian E Paper- Rupee free-fall might ignite power tariff

Indian E Paper
New Delhi: Even the rupee slide continues, the power tariff is set to go sky high. It has been learnt the power sector is mulling hiking the rates, what with a bulk of the coal used in the sector being imported, chiefly from Australia. With the Indian rupee in a free-fall, prices of coal have already gone up. Even as the rupee hovers between 63 and 65, economists see it sliding below 75 against the American dollar, while it might touch Rs 140 against the UK’s pound.

Against this backdrop, it would be only natural that an increase in petrol and diesel prices will make a further dent in people’s pockets. An economist PM, Manmohan Singh has been unable to halt the rupee slide and spiraling prices. One of the most affected sectors has been education, with the students going abroad feeling the pinch -- the number of Indians going to the US for higher studies has come down from 64,000 every year to only 32,000.