Plz contribute :)

Dear Friends,
This is an Appeal to contribute towards the Rehabilitation of the Uttarakhand Survivors vide a Direct Benefit Program.
The hills of Uttarakhand have seen the worst possible. Presently, the Armed Forces are doing a phenomenal job of rescuing people and the Government(s) are doing whatever they can. All of us are pained; wanting to do our bit; and often asking - `what can I do?’
One big effort shall be required to rehabilitate the survivors so that they can continue to have livelihood, jobs, homes, education, health etc etc.
It is important that they get to live after having survived!
Therefore, here is what we are doing and proposing that you join us.
1. Our Company - LEAP Quality Education Practices – has initiated a Program to deliver Direct Benefit to the Survivor, viz.,
i) Livelihood/occupation = build a shop; buy stocks and fill up the shop shelves; give material like gas/stoves/utensils to run a tea/snack shop
ii) Homes = build a home; repair a home; build a community shelter
iii) Education = get children admitted in running in the plains; get concessions and pay the balance; adopt orphans for education and have them admitted to hostel/schools
iv) Health = get our Doctor friends to move to the hills to conduct relief camps; pick up patients needing surgery/continuous treatment; move them to Dehra Dun and admit in our known hospitals; get concessions and pay the balance

2. We shall identify the beneficiaries ourselves and through our network of clients, friends, associates etc in the affected areas

3. These beneficiaries shall all be deserving ie marginalized and needing help; and may not necessarily be the `most deserving’

4. Our emphasis being to ensure Direct Benefit to the Survivors; perhaps not to very many; but deep, direct, focused and sustained to provide a proper life to whoever we can ; the scale to depend upon the resources mobilized

5. We have ourselves set apart an amount of Rs 1,00,000/- to begin the Program and are committed to –
i) Set apart 5% of our Gross Receipts from now to at least March 31, 2014
ii) Absorb any and all administrative costs
iii) Use our network/goodwill to buy things at the most economic rates
iv) Making sure that the help given is genuine and impacting
v) Ensure a more than 100% output from every Rupee raised for the Program

6. Here is how you can contribute for now –

i) Make a Remittance of Rupees/Dollars etc to -

LEAP QUALITY EDUCATION PRACTICES,
HDFC BANK C/A 02252560003527
Branch = 56, Rajpur Road, Dehra Dun 248 001, Uttarakhand, India
RTGS/NEFT/IFSC Code = HDFC0000225

ii) Send us an email at info@leapqualityeducation.com with the subject line `UK Survivors Benefit’ with the Name, Address and Contact Number for issuance of Receipt

iii) Spread the word around to your friends/associates/colleagues/relatives and give them an opportunity to contribute as well

7. Later, you must let us know as to how else you can contribute to the Program whether in person or through resources

8. Our website www.leapqualityeducation.com has a button = Service to Society and it shall –
i) Hold this Appeal
ii) List the Contributions received = updated twice a week
iii) Publish the expenditure made = updated twice a week
iv) Give details of Beneficiaries = people, place, work etc = updated twice a week
Lastly, you have our personal guarantee of the highest standards of integrity and transparency in the conduct of this Program.
Looking forward to having you join us in this endeavor and thanking you in anticipation,
Anuradha and Anurag Sangal

Bright Side Of DIVORCE :)

MUMBAI: Marriages are made in heaven, but adivorce happens on earth and with it comes the inevitable question of alimony and its tax implications. In a recent decision the DelhiIncome-tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has held that a lump sum payment received from a former husband, against relinquishment of monthly maintenance is a capital receipt and is not taxable.

The case relates to a Delhi-based woman, who had received a lump sum of $99,000 from her ex-husband based in the United States, but had not shown the amount in her tax declaration. Based on current exchange rate this sum translates to approximately Rs. 60 lakh.

Under Indian tax laws, any sum of money received by an individual without any consideration (without getting anything in return), in excess of Rs 50,000 in a year, is taxable. But if the same is received from a relative, such as a spouse, or on certain occasions such as marriage, it is exempt.

The tax officer, in this case, had held that as the divorce had taken place several years ago, the Delhi-based resident was not a 'relative' and hence such payment was not exempt but taxable as 'income from other sources' in her hands. This approach adopted by the tax officer, was rejected at the first level of appeal - commissioner of income-tax (appeals).

The commissioner held that the amount was paid by way of alimony only because they were husband and wife. Thus the payment received was from a relative (which includes spouse).

Further it cannot be said that the lump sum amount was received without any consideration. It was received against relinquishment by the wife of her right to receive monthly alimony payments (both past arrears and future payments). Such monthly payments were provided for in the divorce agreement.

Hearing an appeal filed by the tax officer, the Delhi ITAT upheld the order of the CIT (appeals). It observed that: "In this case, the taxpayer was to receive monthly alimony which was to be taxable in each year. As such monthly payments were not received they were not offered for tax as income. The lump sum received by the woman was a consideration for relinquishing all past and future claims." It was a non-taxable capital receipt not liable to tax, concluded the ITAT.

"Tax on alimony payment cannot be avoided by merely taking a lump sum consideration. Various facts such as the period of time the monthly alimony was not received, action taken for receipt of such alimony, and the fact pattern of the final settlement by way of lump sum payment will determine whether it will be treated as non-taxable," cautions a civil advocate, attached to the Mumbai high court.

bihar

Shilpa Singh is an Indian model from Samastipur, Bihar. She is a beauty queen and the 1st runner-up of I Am She – Miss Universe India 2012. She represented India at the Miss Universe 2012 pageant at Las Vegas and was one among Top 16 Awardees.Shilpa Singh hails from a small village called Vishnupur Diha in Singhia, Samastipur, Bihar.




Bihar is India’s most flood-prone State, with 76% of the population in the north Bihar living under the recurring threat of flood devastation. According to some historical data, 16.5% of the total flood affected area in India is located in Bihar while 22.1% of the flood affected population in India lives in Bihar. 
The link between India and Nepal through the Koshi River is one of the main reasons for the flood in Bihar. Rainfall in Nepal overloads dams and lead to flash floods in the Bihar region. Geographically Nepal is a hilly region. When heavy rains occur the water flows to the Koshi River. When the water level rises too high, Nepal opens the shutters of Koshi Barrage Pool to protect the Koshi River dams as well as the bridge. This causes waterlogging in the Gangetic plains of Bihar. The large amount of water discharged from Nepal through Koshi Barrage mainly reaches the Bagmati, Budhi Gandak and Ganges rivers, causing them to break the banks and over flow.

Still GOI has'nt been able to persuade Nepal on this issue even in so many decades !!!

What's your take ???



Rajkeswur Purryag (known as Kailash Purryag) GCSK, GOSK is the incumbent President of Mauritius having taken office since 2012.His ancestral roots are in Bihar .
Here is a snap of Mr Purryag getting emotional when he visited his ancestral village in Bihar .
Thousands of people, including the entire village, as well as hundreds from neighbouring areas gathered for a glimpse of the "Mitti Ke Lal (Son of the soil)" when Mauritius President Rajkeswur Purryag along with his wife Aneetah Purryag reached his ancestral village in Bihar's Patna district.

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Uttarakhand floods, week2:

1) Now that the hard work done by RSS, Baba Ramdev and Narendra Modi has galvanised action, Rahul Baba has rushed back from his week long european vacation. Meanwhile his jokers Shinde and Tiwari kept the nation's attention diverted with their stupidly arrogant statements.

2) Baba Ramdev's relief camp at Haridwar railway station has been demolished by U'Khand government on pretext of it being an 'illegal camp'. (Truth: No baba steals Rahul Baba's thunder).

3) Congress ministers in the state demanded money instead of relief material (Swiss banks...)

4) The relief material was laying there for 3 days but they waited till Rahul Baba's arrival to flag it off.

5) To stop NaMo from entering U'Khand, Shinde said "VIPs should not enter the state it will delay rescue operations"

First MMS and Sonia disrupted rescue ops. Now we have Rahul Gandhi - a SPG protected VIP , touring the affected areas with his large caravan of vehicles. One can imagine the traffic nightmare he is going to be.

Someone rightly said "RG is bad news for Uttarakhand"

...but folks, lets not do politics over this.. right ?

Inmates in a small prison in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais are being offered the chance to reduce their jail terms in return for generating electricity by pedalling on exercise bicycles.

The bikes are hooked up to portable batteries, which light up the humble boardwalk along this small country town's river each night. In its first months, the program has proved so popular that guards have reported a jump in good behavior, which moves candidates to the top of the waiting list.

It all began when a local judge, Jose Henrique Mallman, ran an absent-minded Google search for "renewable energy."

"The system has totally failed us. Jails have become a human depository and nothing else. Men waste away sitting in there, just discussing criminal strategies, and come out exactly the same or worse," he says in his office, decorated with art created by prisoners.

Every night just before sunset, a guard drives the charged battery from the prison, on the outskirts of town, to the downtown promenade. He hooks it up to the converter and a few minutes later the 10 street lamps begin to glow a soft white, like full moons suspended over the rushing waters of the river.

Long abandoned after dark, the newly illuminated promenade now attracts dog walkers, joggers, kids on bikes and couples walking arm-in-arm.

Another guard comes in the morning to pick up the battery and ferry it back to the prison, where 133 inmates are serving sentences ranging from a few months for burglary and drug charges to up to 34 years for murder.

The 36-year-old said that the time on the bike also gives him time to reflect on his situation.

While he's pedaling, "I think about my imprisonment, about my freedom, my wife, my kids," he said.

mystery

The North Pole has shifted east because of ice sheet loss caused by rising temperatures, a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters has found, according to the scientific journal Nature.

The pole drifted southeast toward northern Labrador, Canada, at a rate of about 6 centimeters per year between 1982 and 2005. But since 2005, the direction and speed of the pole's journey changed. It started moving rapidly east towards Greenland at a rate of more than 21 centimeters per year.

There has been huge ice sheet loss in the polar regions due to global warming.

The study was carried out by scientists from the University of Texas, Austin, using data collected by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE).

Earth's two geographic poles do not have a fixed location. As the distribution of snow, rain and humidity changes every year, the poles too wobble around, usually in a circular manner. Besides this seasonal drift, there is a long range movement which scientists believe is driven by continental drift - the movement of land plates relative to each other.

GRACE's twin probes measure changes in the Earth's gravity field, which can be used to track shifts in the distribution of water and ice, Nature said. The researchers led by Jianli Chen, a geophysicist, used GRACE data to model how melting icecaps affect Earth's mass distribution. They found that more than 90% of the post-2005 polar shift was because of increasing ice loss and sea-level rise.

The explanation for this is that when mass is lost in one part of a spinning sphere, its spin axis will tilt directly toward the position of the loss, according to Erik Ivins, a geophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California quoted by Nature. This is exactly what was observed in the case of the North Pole.

These findings have opened the way to estimate long term ice loss by studying polar drift. Scientists can locate the north and south poles to within about 0.9 millimeters by using Global Positioning System measurements to determine the angle of the Earth's spin. Since polar shifts have been recorded for almost a century, Nature says, it is possible to study ice losses for that period. Direct records of ice loss in Polar regions do not go back that much in time

tent gal

On May 17, 1968, Wilbur Riddle discovered the body of a young woman wrapped and tied in a canvas bag thirteen miles north of Georgetown, Kentucky. He immediately ran to his truck and sped to the nearest pay phone, where he called Bobby Vance, the Scott County sheriff.

Minutes later, Riddle was showing his find to not only Sheriff Vance, but also Deputy Jimmy Williams and Deputy Coroner Kenneth Grant. The bag contained the badly decomposed body of a female, naked but for a towel of some sort that was wrapped around her head; she had obviously been dead for weeks. She was doubled up in the bag, and her right hand was clenched like a fist. A search of the immediate area turned up no other physical evidence.

The body was taken to St. Joseph Hospital in Lexington, where Deputy Coroner Kenneth Grant and his assistants determined the girl had been Caucasian, five feet and one inch tall, weighed about 110 to 115 pounds, with an estimated age of between sixteen and nineteen years old, short reddish-brown hair, and no identifying marks, scars, or piercings. She had not been shot, and she had not been pregnant; she had been dead for about two to three weeks. With diligence and luck, a single fingerprint was recovered from her badly decomposed hand.

Dubbed “Tent Girl” by a reporter with the Kentucky Post & Times Star because she’d been found in a ‘tent bag’. Dr. Frank Cleveland to perform a more complete autopsy. Cleveland found a slight discoloration of her skull, and no evidence of poisons or toxic materials. Overall, the evidence suggested that she had been knocked unconscious by a blow to the head, then stuffed into the bag and tied up, only to die by suffocation later.

Sheriff Vance and his men began to search for anyone who might have been in the area of the body in the past few weeks, but the investigation turned up nothing. Two weeks later, the Kentucky Post & Times Star asked Harold Musser, a patrolman and sketch artist with the Covington Police Department, to produce a portrait of the Tent Girl from the photographs of the body taken during the autopsies. After a week of studying the photos, Musser produced a portrait that was then published statewide in a further attempt to identify the girl... and lead after lead began to appear.

The police spent hours digging through letters, and following up leads; none of them helped. The problem was that the Tent Girl was very average in her appearance, with no singular striking feature... she was the generic girl-next-door, and literally hundreds of missing girls fit what little was known of her physical description.

In fact, it turned out the “towel” found with the body wasn’t even a towel... a FBI lab in Washington identified it as part of a baby’s diaper (specifically, a “Birdseye” diaper). The same lab had performed tests on the canvas bag and cord that had held the body; and the tests indicated that everything was of standard materials handled by a large number of manufacturers and distributors. They were unable to narrow down the leads. The case went cold.

On March 17, 2010, new information came to the police thanks to a 2005 TV program about cold case files that profiled the Clothier case. The police were soon contacted by a woman that was able to identify the bag Clothier was found in as one that had belonged to her; and that her husband had asked to borrow it, taken it outside to a waiting car and disappeared for several hours. These details led investigators to what they believe to be an accurate detailing of the events of the night of March 9, 1968.

On this night, Candace Clothier left home around 8:00 PM to walk to a trackless trolley, and instead accepted a ride from two young men (described as “slightly older” than Clothier) in a car; it is believed that she recognized one of the men, and therefore trusted them. She was then driven to a “deserted area off Decatur Road near Northeast Philadelphia Airport, where youths often gathered.” Here, either of her own will or against it, Clothier was injected with a lethal dose of an illegal drug. One of the two young men had a noted history of forcibly injecting both people and animals with illegal drugs; so it is possible that she was drugged with an eye to making her more pliable to the young men’s sexual desires, in which case the overdose was likely accidental. But whether it was a case of manslaughter or murder, the overdose killed Candace Clothier.

The two young men then drove her body to the house of a third man, whose wife provided the black bag Clothier was found in; stuffed in the bag, her body was dropped into the Neshaminy Creek from the Chain Bridge in Northhampton, just upstream from the Bucks County Community College. Weeks later, the bag was found washed up upon the small island in the middle of the creek.

This investigation has identified all the people believed to have been involved, but the names of these people are being withheld from the public because all are dead; they cannot therefore defend themselves or be punished, and revealing their names would be a burden to their families. The family of Candace Clotheir was informed of their names, and knows the full story; and, realistically, that is the most important outcome of the investigation.

So, despite the coincidental timing of the murder of Candace Clothier shortly after that of the Tent Girl, and the similarity in the method of disposal, the two cases are not directly related. This is unfortunate, as many hoped that more answers to the Clothier case would also allow for a more precise set of answers in the Tent Girl case.

Odon Fire Poltergeist, 1941

At his farm near Odon, Indiana, William Hackler finished having breakfast with his family and left the house. On his way to the barn, he smelled smoke. When he hurriedly returned to the house, he discovered a fire in the upstairs bedroom wall (no electricity). The local volunteer fire department was called in and the blaze quickly extinguished. However, that was only the start of the Hackler family’s day long ordeal.

After the truck left, another fire broke out, this time in a mattress in an upstairs guest room. It seemed as though the fire had been set from inside the mattress! Throughout the day, more fires broke out all over the house, some under the gazes of astonished witnesses. By 2:00 p.m., more fire fighters were called in, and by the end of the day, twenty-eight seemingly spontaneous fires were extinguished, including one that started between the covers of a book.

The fires ended as mysteriously as they began. Hackler tore down the house and built a new one from the reclaimed lumber. Neither he nor his family experienced anything like the Odon fire poltergeist again.

uttarakhand

Uttarakhand Calamity:
1) Uttarakhand CM off to switzerland.
2) RG celebrating in Sweden.
3) MMS/Sonia aerial survey costs vital rescue hours as entire air traffic is halted for hours.
4) Khurshid visiting iraq with hundreds thousands of Crores (dollars) in aid, Bharat Nirman ads run in hundreds of crores but this devastating calamity is allocated mere 1000 Crores.
5) Four choppers for sonia's Rajasthan trip, but shortage of choppers to rescue people.
6) People asked to donate to PM fund even while available supplies lay undistributed.
7) Complete government machinery failure.
Only hope being the Army, the RSS, Baba Ramdev and other such local volunteers.
All of this while thousands are dying of hunger - and then this Manish Tiwary has the audacity to come on national tv and say "This is not the time to point fingers" !!!
Well yes, after this is over you will wash away your failures with some match fixing or movie star suicide case. Just the way you did with Coal/Chopper scam. So when will it be really ok for people of India to point fingers at your government sir?
Please let us know when you will be comfortable with it.

A father is niether an anchor to hold us back,nor a sail to take us there,but a guiding light whose love and trust shows us the way...!! 
......Dedicate these lines to all d great fathers ......!!
HaPpy fAtHeR's DaY...!!

its interesting

Ronaldo's free kick speed is
around 130 kilometres an hour,
which means 31.1 metres per
second, more than four times of
Apollo 11 rocket's launching
speed which has been measured
to be 7.3 metres per second.

• Ronaldo is slim, we all know
that. But do you know that his
body has only 10% fat? For your
information, a normal cat walk
model have 13.8% fat.

• Ronaldo lifts around 23,055 kg
of weight during a training
season which is the weight of
total of 16 Toyota Prius cars.

• Cristiano Ronaldo runs average
of 10.5 kilometres in a match.

• While he runs 10.5 kilometres in
a match, he has to have around
936 twists in an average which is
approximately same numbered to
a Formula one car's twist taking
during Monaco Grand Prix.

• According to Castrol's analysis,
when Cristiano Ronaldo jumps, he
generates five times more power
than a panther jumping in a full
flight

Simply, we can call him 'Monster'.

What Indian Advertisements taught me.???

1. Kareena has dandruff problem, Katrina has dry hair problem, Shilpa has hairfall problem and Priyanka has chip-chip.

2. If you've a hot wife, make sure your neighbor doesn't use a deodorant in your absence.

3. Your complexion is more important than your qualifications.

4. If there is no salt in your kitchen you can use Toothpaste.

5. Every second oral care brand is No. 1 and recommended by every dentist in India!!!

6. If your daughter is not Ready to Get married, take her to a jewelry/textile shop.

7. Only reason why men use deodorant is to get girls.

8. Most colas cure all kinds of phobias. You will be close to a superman, if you drink these regularly!!

9. All superstars are so poor that they prefer to risk life for a cool drink than to purchase it for Rs:10

10. The special effects in shampoo ads are greater than special effects in Avatar.

11. Fruit content in shampoo and soap is more than fruit content in 99% of juices.

12. Amul has better satirical cartoonists than people who make better milk products.

13. Most people buy vehicles to travel in bad roads but complain about roads in India.

14. You can't eat Dairy Milk Silk without spreading it all over you face.

15. Nobody uses motorbikes for commuting, its only to pick up girls.

16. All soaps kill 99.9% of germs.

17. People believe that Bacardi makes music CD's and Directors special/Kingfisher make mineral water.

18. The only time mothers and daughters talk to each other, it's usually about hair oil.

19. No matter what kind of expert one is, he'll always wear a white laboratory coat.

And, finally this

20.Mutualfundinvestmentsaresubjecttomarketriskspleasereadtheofferdocumentcarefullybeforeinvesting.