The effect of Tsunami in India over the coastal TamilNadu was shattering.As of today the rehabilitation of the displaced people is not finished. An estimated 37000 houses are yet to be constructed for these people. The progress is no doubt very slow.

One cannot just imagine the sufferings of these affected people who with a sweep of hand lost all their years of belongings,homes,businesses and status in just a matter of moments.Scientists also fear that the fault along the Sumatra island may rupture again in coming decades causing unprecedented damages.

On the occasion of the Second Anniversary of Tsunami disaster we pay our homage to tens and thousand of people have been who wiped out from the surface of this earth. We would also like to express our heartfelt condolences to the affected bereaved families and pray to Almighty to give them courage and strength to overcome this calamity.

The education system in India is mostly of academic interest and had never been an industry based one. With the result, the graduates coming out of the institutions or the universities do not have the proper training to directly work in an industry or business houses. The industry has to waste time and energy to train these fresh graduates and to mould them to their requirements. What was more important was not only the question of "employment" but the "employability" of the new graduates.

Realising this problem, some of the business houses have now come forward either to set up their own academy by offering courses to train the fresh graduates as per their requirements before they are absorbed by them in the main stream or to have tie up with various universities by offering the certificate courses of their requirement.

Some of the business houses like TCS, Infosys etc. are planning to launch their academies which will take up the fresh graduates from different disciples and train them as per the courses they will be offering. The freshers will be paid the stipend during the training period and thereafter they will be absorbed in their companies after completion of the course. Other business houses are negotiating tie up with different universities.

In United States and other western countries, the research programmes at Doctorate level are always industry based and the projects are sponsored and funded by the business houses. The research thus carried out is directly linked to the industry. The business houses stand benefited because they do not have to spend time,money and energy on these projects. The student by doing the research for a business house gets directly absorbed in the company after the research is completed.

In India the research programmes are mostly of academic interest and do not have proper backing or the funding from the business houses. This scenario requires some change and the researches should be made more industry based to make them fruitful which will be definitely beneficial to the industries.The step being taken up by some corporate houses is quite laudable and more and more business houses should come forward to make our academic courses more viable and fruitful for the industrial growth.

Definitely, we are now moving in the right direction.

It is a very heartening news to read that India is topping the list of Retailers and Shoppers all over the world.In India there are 11 shops per every 1000 persons which means that there is a shop after every 20-25 families. This density is more in the cities. World over this picture is different esp. in U.S.,U.K and Singapore. U.K has the maximum i.e. 5 shops per 1000 persons.

This chunk of retailers,shopkeepers and those who are self employed account to about 50% of the employment.Out of these most of the persons have their family business of long years. These retailers,Shopkeepers and traders belonging to unorganised sector provide employment to more persons as compared to organised sector.

But with the advent of the "Mall" culture getting spread like mushrooms in mega cities, this picture will change. These BIG Retail outlets offering every item from "a pin to an elephant "and that too at a cheaper price with better quality, as compared to that offered by a Retail shopkeepers or the vendors, will definitely attract more customers. It is quite evident that these retailers, vendors, shopkeepers etc. will have to down their shutters sooner or later.

In order to strike a balance between them, the government will have to work out some scheme to see that the unorganised sector is not deprived of their livelihood.

During our school days we were taught that the Law is supreme and no one can escape from its long arms or the clutches. So it was always advisable to remain on the right side of the law.

This faith of ours got doubled when we recently read in the papers that the court has convicted two M.P's on the charges leveled against them and have been sentenced to imprisonment. Further, there was also a news that the Supreme Court has removed the legal protection given to public servants and so henceforth no prior sanction will be required to prosecute the ministers and the bureaucrats

We were very much delighted to read this news and felt that a real democracy has at last come to India.

But our joy was short lived. We have now read a latest news that the ministers, law makers, legislators and parliamentarians, who had been enjoying the "Political Immunity" from legal prosecution as public servants, were suddenly jolted by this news and felt that their political career is at great risk. They had hurried discussion on this issue in Lok Sabha and strongly protested against the treading of the judiciary over their rights and the stage is being set for collective demand for judiciary to mind their own business.This growing unease about the judiciary amongst the politicians is slowly gathering momentum.

Not only this, but we have also read that the Union Cabinet is now planning to put forth the bill, on Quota for OBC, in the parliament without giving any heed to the observations made by the court on excluding the CREAMY layer from the ambit of the quotas.

Both these things clearly show that there is a tussle between the judiciary and the legistrators The question then comes to our mind is " Now,who is right?" The Judiciary or the Legislators, parliamentarians ,ministers and politicians. What about our faith and belief in the judiciary and the saying that' The Law is supreme and Nobody is above Law"

The outburst of the legislators,ministers ,law makers etc. makes one thing clear that the laws which are applicable to a common man are not applicable to them as they think themselves to belong to the privileged class. Therefore they presume that they are above ALL and also above the Law.

Is it correct !

You are the best Judge !

Definitely, this is long process which needs lot of patience,but it may bear fruits at the end.

A colonial-era footbridge collapsed onto railroad tracks in eastern India on Saturday, burying a train beneath tons of red rock and killing at least 33 passengers.
Rescuers struggled for hours to remove the pile of concrete, slabs of red stone and debris from the mangled sleeper car. By nightfall, they reached the crushed section and discovered that the car -- believed to have been largely empty -- was full of bodies.
Thirty-three bodies had been recovered by Saturday night, including those of five children, said Ajay Verma, deputy inspector general of police for railways. Fourteen people were pulled out alive and four of the wounded were in a serious condition.
The 150-year-old arched footbridge at the Bhagalpur station, in the eastern state of Bihar, had been in the process of being dismantled, said Viplav Kumar, a local government administrator at the scene.
Bhagalpur is about 93 miles east of Patna, the capital of Bihar.
Two of the three arched spans had already been removed, but the third came crashing down in a cloud of dust.
"A loud roar and the heavens seemed to have crumbled over us," passenger Anil Yadav, told the Press Trust of India news agency. "Thick clouds of dust streamed into the compartment, leaving me gasping for breath."
Television footage showed a man pleading for help through a shattered window.
Hundreds of people crowded around as rescue workers used cranes, bulldozers and even their hands to remove the rubble.
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad ordered an inquiry into the incident and suspended two railway engineers responsible for dismantling the bridge.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said safety norms had not been followed.
"This is definitely the fault of the railways," he said.

A survey has found that at least 64 per cent Indians back reservations for OBCs in colleges and the private sector. The poll by NDTV-MODE comes as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh completes his second year in office on Monday. The full survey to be broadcast on NDTV, shows that the call for reservation will increase support for Singh's government and his Congress party.At the same time 57 per cent people said reservation was a political gimmick to win votes and 37 per cent disagreed.Separately, 70 per cent of participants in the poll said Congress party's Rahul Gandhi should join the government and 23 per cent opposed the idea.The survey over the past five days involved 4000 people in 15 states and Union Territories.

Creamy layer in OBC quotas to stay: SC
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a PIL seeking exemption of the operation of the 'creamy layer' rule within the Other Backward Classes for persons engaged in hereditary occupations.

The Supreme Court on Monday decided to hear a public interest litigation seeking exemption of the operation of the 'creamy layer' rule within the Other Backward Classes for persons engaged in hereditary occupations.
The petition filed by Bharatiya Janata Party member of Parliament Haribhau Rathod came up for hearing before a Bench comprising Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal, Justice C K Thakker and Justice R V Raveendran, which decided to hear it on Friday along with another petition in which similar relief has been sought.
The MP from Yavatmal in Maharashtra has sought exemption of operation of the rule of 'creamy layer' for persons working as artisans or engaged in other hereditary occupations.
In this regard, he sought implementation of the 1993 Office Memorandum of Ministry of Social Welfare and Empowerment, which provided that the rule of exclusion of creamy layer in reservation for OBCs under Article 16 (4) of the Constitution would not apply to persons working as artisans or engaged in hereditary occupations.
Advocate Shree Pal Singh, appearing for the MP, said that though the memorandum had envisaged preparing a list of such occupations, government had failed to come out with it even after 13 years.
A large number of persons throughout the country engaged in hereditary occupations like skinning of dead animals etc have been deprived of the benefit as provided by the office memorandum only because the list has not been notified so far, the PIL said.
Before deciding to hear the PIL on Friday, the Bench put several questions to the advocate and observed that balance has to be maintained between the socially and economically backward and those who are economically well off in that class.
The Bench also sought to know what the financial limitations are for those to be included in the category of creamy layer.
The court said the problem occurs when the children may not be doing the work of their father, forefathers and others in the family.