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World Water Week: UN deputy chief urges greater international cooperation on sanitation Now is the time for accelerated, energized and concerted action on water and sanitation, Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson today urged, calling for renewed cooperation on water management and access to adequate sanitation for the more than 2.5 billion people around the world without it. In a keynote address to the World Water Week plenary session in Stockholm, Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson said:“Dealing effectively with the water and sanitation crisis is fundamental to fighting disease and poverty.” “In a world of population growth and pressures on water resources within and among nations, sound and fair water management is a huge task and a clear imperative for all of us,” Mr. Eliasson added. He urged the hundreds of delegates gathered for the session entitled “Building partnerships for Sanitation and Water for All” to work towards sustainable solutions and measures among actors, including national governments, local administrations, development partners, international organizations, the private sector, the research and science community and civil society. Water and sanitation are included in the eight anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which world leaders agreed to meet by the end of 2015.
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Average Doesn't Mean Secure Conventional wisdom is a shortcut from actual thinking. When you rely on the majority to give you career, diet and spiritual advice you avoid thinking about these issues for yourself. Often when you peel off the covering, and start to understand the systems behind it, you can come up with more satisfying and less risky solutions to your problems. When you peel off the outer layer from your career, you see that a job isn't just working for money, it's building skills that provide value in exchange for money. That's why programs designed to give people jobs, but don't provide value are insane. It's also why, if you don't produce value at your job, you are in a far riskier position than any entrepreneur. Peeling off the layers to your diet and you'll see that, while people have been omnivorous throughout their evolution, few societies have consumed the same volume of meat as people do today and none ate as much processed foods. Look closely and it makes more sense for meat to be a side-dish than the main course. Personal development, far from being a risky choice, is probably one of the safest. You can always lose your job, but only rarely can you lose your skills. Businesses can die, but the lessons learned from failed ventures make future businesses stronger. Your health can falter, but your skill in changing your habits can stay strong. If any investment of your time doesn't build internal assets, it isn't worth doing. Even the most lucrative job isn't worth the paycheck if you aren't becoming more skilled or knowledgeable as a result. One of the reasons I believe running a business is safer than working at a job is that I've learned far more from entrepreneurship than I have from any job or class. Even if my external assets fail, I've still built internal assets that can't be taken away. “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men experience it as a whole. Avoiding danger, in the long-run, is no safer than outright exposure.” – Helen Keller Security doesn't come from following the masses. With an economic collapse, terrorist attacks, obesity epidemics, and third-world flood-relief efforts in an industrialized country, I don't think anyone can argue that the world is inherently safe.
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Pranab Mukherjee asks social and non-political Dr. Satish Shukla becomes President organizations to help re-build Uttarakhand of All India Surgeons Association
DEHRADUN: President of India Pranab Mukherjee on Monday asked different social and non-political organizations to help mobilize resources to help rehabilitate the people of Uttarakhand who suffered loss after the natural catastrophe of June 16 and June 17. Addressing the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies' (UPES) 11th convocation, he said at a time when the Himalayan state is faced with adversity, efforts need be made not to let go the indomitable human spirit for survival and rejuvenation. Describing the deluge that struck the state as a result of ceaseless humannature struggle, Mukherjee said people should learn a lesson from the
tragedy and take it as a wake-up call to help prevent further devastation. "The more we try to disturb nature by encouraging excessive construction activities like blasting in hills, we are bound to see its more horrible and uglier face," he said. Mukherjee said organizations like Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will render its services to help rebuild and reconstruct calamity-hit districts. He said in the re-building and reconstruction phase, scientists and experts from the CSIR will not only re-build different drinking water projects for a high quality of drinking water but also provide nutritional food of high degree. "Necessity of good drinking water and nutritional food is the need of the hour for those who are still living in cut off villages or living in temporary homes after being rendered homeless," Mukherjee said. President asked UPES to do advanced research on crude oil scientists to help tide over energy crisis.
CM Shri Chouhan inaugurates and lays foundation stones of works at Jatara No stone left unturned for development Chief Minister Shri Shivraj S i n g h Chouhan has said that State Government has left no stone unturned to ensure development of Madhya Pradesh during last 10 years nor it will cease its untiring efforts for the same in future. Shri Chouhan stated this while inaugurating and laying foundation stones for development works at Jatara tahsil headquarters in Tikamgarh district today. He laid foundation stones for 38 construction works costing Rs. 70 crore 50 thousand and inaugurated 12 works costing Rs. 11 crore 67 lakh 80 thousand. Minister of State for Scheduled Castes Development Shri
Harishankar Khatik, MP Shri Virendra Singh Khatik, other public representatives, officers and large number of people were present on the occasion. The Chief Minister said that the State Government has given top priority to roads, power and drinking water works. In all, 95 thousand kilometer long roads have been constructed in the state. Similarly, large-scale works have also been done in power sector as a result of which 24X7 power supply for domestic consumers and 10 hours for agriculture is being ensured throughout the state now. He informed that 25 lakh hectare has been brought under irrigation in the state now against only 7.50 lakh hectare 10 years ago. He informed that apart form opening polytechnic college, ITI and chilling plant, large number of other development works have been done in Jatara area.
INDORE: Senior Surgeon of Indore Madhya Pradesh Dr. Satish Shukla has been elected as the President of Association of Surgeons of India that held in Chennai recent. Significantly, Over the period of 75 years history Dr. Satish Shukla got this glorious opportunity and elected as President previously, he has been head of the depart of Surgery of MGM Medical College of Indore. At present
Dr. Shukla is holding the post of Chief Editor of Indian Journal of Surgery and Chairman of Laxmi Memorial Hospital. On his being elected, The members of A l m a f a m i l y, N a t i o n a l a n d International committee congratulated him. More importantly Dr. Satish Shukla has been patron and founder member of Alma since its inception. On this occasion, Members of All India IT Association (aiita) and NGO's Association of India (NAI) along with International Brahmin Parliament congratulated.
Sonia Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi
Sheila Dikshit
(President, AICC)
(Vice-President, AICC)
(Chief Minister, Delhi)
NAI family Congratulated on being nominated as
National President All India Women Congress Committee
Smt. Shobha Ojha (National President) All India Women Congress Committee
Santosh Shukla (High Court, Advocate) President, NAI