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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 co...

MUMBAI: Marriages are made in heaven, but a divorce  happens on earth and with it comes the inevitable question of  alimony  and its tax implications. In a recent decision the Delhi Income-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...

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, Nepa...

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 governmen t 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...

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 mon ths, 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 tow...

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 s tarted 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 scient...

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, sh...