Re: [Assam] Journalists to study garbage management

2008-05-14 Thread umesh sharma
I don't know about New York city but I'll tell you what a colleague from www.belldc.org told me once . That in the municipal garbage remval business illegals immigrants cannot get in - since the union controls it. Each garbage remval person who works starting 4am and ending by 12 noon - snow o

[Assam] ME Times: a democracy threatens Middle East

2008-05-14 Thread umesh sharma
http://www.metimes.com/Editorial/2008/05/08/another_democracy_threatens_the_mideast/5492/ why is democracy supposed to be anti Middle East . Perhaps some think that monarchy and religious dictatorship is the best way. any comments? Umesh PS: BTW US Prez Bush is in Israel now Umesh Sharma

Re: [Assam] Journalists to study garbage management

2008-05-14 Thread mc mahant
China is always out for a quick buck conversion .They have1.6 billion mouths to feed.They do it the hard way.And you can say HONESTLY. Yes Waste Management is Billions++$ Business annually. Imagine 1st world consumption runs to $Trillion annually. Something has to give way ->> Throw!! Pay the

Re: [Assam] Journalists to study garbage management

2008-05-14 Thread Alpana B. Sarangapani
Oops! I forgot the pictures.. “In order to make spiritual progress you must be patient like a tree and humble like a blade of grass.” > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: assam@assamnet.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: > Wed, 14 May 2008 22:09:12 -0500> Subject: Re: [Assam]

Re: [Assam] Bangladeshi Herket-Ul Jehadi bomb 75 in western India

2008-05-14 Thread umesh sharma
a DC view: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/05/15/stories/2008051560431200.htm Umesh Ram Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You are correct JS. On the one hand the Center is either unwilling or incapable to stem the flow of illegal B'deshis or both, and on the other, India is full of illegal B'

Re: [Assam] Journalists to study garbage management

2008-05-14 Thread Alpana B. Sarangapani
This is great, C'da. Thanks for the instruction. All of us are going to be benefited (and motivated :)) by that. I know you do that already as you advised. Here is one that rotates easilyI am sure this type can be made easily back home with a drum sitting on a stand with a handle on one

Re: [Assam] Journalists to study garbage management

2008-05-14 Thread uttam borthakur
Mahanta Da Can it be done in the low lying (due to raising of road levels and the beds of natural drains) flood prone parts of Guwahati? A good percentage of the city comes under this description. The other relevant point has been indicated by Chandan Da ( i.e. space constraint) and as fre

[Assam] An Article on Burma

2008-05-14 Thread Rajen & Ajanta Barua
Crime against Humanity Vs Humanitarian Intervention (http://burmadigest.info/2008/05/14/crime-against-humanity-vs-humanitarian-intervention/) _ By Prof Kanbawza Win It seems that that the civilized international community will have to choose between the brute (the Burmese Junta) that is committin

Re: [Assam] Journalists to study garbage management

2008-05-14 Thread Rajen & Ajanta Barua
Chandan Thanks so much for your creative valuable professional input. We need to figure out how we can solve the Garbage disposal problem in Guwahati with your projects. The bottomline problem is two fold. 1) The householders donot want to pay for the garbage disposal (period) (unless the govt fo

Re: [Assam] China says troops rush to plug dangerous cracks in dam

2008-05-14 Thread mc mahant
Watch the Chinese MANAGE! MM > Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 09:48:24 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: assam@assamnet.org> Subject: [Assam] China says troops rush to plug dangerous cracks in dam> > Dam Alert!> Danger of dam in earth quake zone.>

Re: [Assam] Journalists to study garbage management

2008-05-14 Thread mc mahant
Journalists will do immense good to mass- publicize this simple do-it-at -home promo from Chandan Mahanta as a preliminary to High-Tech/Big-money Action plan for SWM for Guahati. Nava Thakuria can request Chandan for a simple pictorial "do this>then do that>and finally get compost for double

Re: [Assam] Bangladeshi Herket-Ul Jehadi bomb 75 in western India

2008-05-14 Thread Ram Sarangapani
You are correct JS. On the one hand the Center is either unwilling or incapable to stem the flow of illegal B'deshis or both, and on the other, India is full of illegal B'deshi sympathizers. These people are interested either in short-term personal/political profits or are in cahoots with B'Desh (o

[Assam] China says troops rush to plug dangerous cracks in dam

2008-05-14 Thread Dilip&Dil Deka
Dam Alert! Danger of dam in earth quake zone. === From the NYT China says troops rush to plug dangerous cracks in dam \ By AUDRA ANG, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 41 minutes ago HANWANG, China - Thousands of Chinese soldiers r

Re: [Assam] Anandita steals the show in HS science

2008-05-14 Thread umesh sharma
Congratulations to Anandita. Umesh bg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anandita steals the show in HS science Anandita Bora of Dibrugarh Salt Brook Academy tops the Higher Secondary examination in science while the same position in arts and commerce streams have gone respectively to Mukul Haloi from N

Re: [Assam] Journalists to study garbage management-BUT!!

2008-05-14 Thread DR BIKASH KUMAR DAS
The sorrowful part is the all the journos failed to study the matter of Nov 24/2007 Beltola- that I raised with the saviours of the country.I did wrote to lot many journos- but in vain.Was that worst than garbage??? Some of told me later that they are afraid of...( I dnt think they would have be

Re: [Assam] Bangladeshi Herket-Ul Jehadi bomb 75 in western India

2008-05-14 Thread Chan Mahanta
Any suggestions on how to solve the problem? At 9:01 PM +0800 5/14/08, Jyotirmoy Sharma wrote: >Bombay, Hyderabad, Jaipur, ... the list will go on. >Our spineless govt. has as usual blamed a "foreign" power. Like all other >cases earlier, this will be in the news for a few days and will

Re: [Assam] Journalists to study garbage management

2008-05-14 Thread Chan Mahanta
Allow me to throw in one little suggestion: Rotting vegetable/plant and other organic waste is a major problem in South Asian cities and towns. More so during the rainy season. It can be immensely mitigated and very easily too, IF every household that lives on the ground floor or have access

Re: [Assam] Bangladeshi Herket-Ul Jehadi bomb 75 in western India

2008-05-14 Thread Jyotirmoy Sharma
Bombay, Hyderabad, Jaipur, ... the list will go on. Our spineless govt. has as usual blamed a "foreign" power. Like all other cases earlier, this will be in the news for a few days and will soon be forgotten. We keep buying weapons, spending billions buying jets, aircraft carriers, testing missile

[Assam] Screams, silence as families collect bodies of Jaipur blast victims

2008-05-14 Thread Pradip Kumar Datta
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[Assam] Anandita steals the show in HS science

2008-05-14 Thread bg
Anandita steals the show in HS science Anandita Bora of Dibrugarh Salt Brook Academy tops the Higher Secondary examination in science while the same position in arts and commerce streams have gone respectively to Mukul Haloi from Nalbari and Nikita Jab

Re: [Assam] Journalists to study garbage management

2008-05-14 Thread umesh sharma
Journos should rise above just watching and studying and ACT - get into the dump, lift up some muck - real one - not just the usual on paper. That is the limitation of jurnos - they can just observe -- not act. Studying from afar is like a Brahmin preaching to the so-called shudra/un