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A country so vivid and known for some awkward prathas (rituals) be it Sati Pratha (wives used to burn with the husband) or Dahej Pratha (dowry) is coming out of it and now pacing with the global trends. Sati Pratha got abolished from india few decades back, thanks to Raja Ram Mohan Roy. And now dowry free district in Kerala. Nilampur claims to be the first ever district in India with no dowry system during marriages.  Nilampur is also known for 100% matriculated population.

"My vision is a violence free society, disease free body, confusion free mind, inhibition free intellect, trauma free memory and sorrow free soul which is the birth right of every individual." "A wise one is happy even in bad times. And the stupid one is unhappy even in good times." "Spirituality blossoming simply means blossoming in life in all dimensions; being happy, at ease with yourself and with everybody around you." "In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy. In always wanting perfection, you become angry. In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy." "Knowledge is a burden if it robs you of innocence. Knowledge is a burden if it is not integrated into life. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't bring joy. Knowledge is a burden if it gives you an idea that you are wise. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't set you free. Knowledge is a burden if it makes you feel you are special." Gurudev Sri

The number of deaths due to Ebola virus has mounted to 1000+, WHO has declared this as an international emergency. Ebola is widespread in North-Eastern Africa, mainly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria etc. With precautionary measures, govt has asked to check everyone coming from affecting countries and is expected we have one confirmed case in Pune. So, it's better we at least know its symptoms and precautions we can take to protect ourselves from this deadly virus. It is as dangerous as you can think, according to doctors it can be transmitted even through eye contacts, the sweat of person affected, saliva and almost everything you can think of. So the patients suffering from Ebola virus are kept at complete isolation and doctors treating them need to wear a special mask. Here is one picture describing the must to know facts about the Ebola virus.

It's around few days you surely would have noticed your friends putting their whatsapp DP as national flag of India, or tricolour as the cover pic or profile pic on Facebook or Twitter. It's already in trend to set tricolour as DP on our online profiles. But did you know, much recently this kind of display of our tricolour was illegal and it's not long when an Industrialist and Congress MP Naveen Jindal had filed a PIL to allow Indians to display their flags as their entity or icon of groups. Supreme Court gave judgement in favor of Naveen Jindal and made a law named 'Flag code of India 2002' which says " The Flag Code of India 2002 permits unrestricted display of the tricolour, consistent with the honour and dignity of the flag,", ruling out the previous law which says   " using Indian flag (sic) as entity or group symbol, icon or in any form of title representation is illegal under the Prevention of Insults to National Flag Act, 1971."

HRD Minister Smriti Irani's 6 days Yale degree got hand by hand by twitterattis. Thousands of memes and caricatures started rolling out within few hours of her statement she gave to a questioner during India Today woman summit 2014. Smriti Irani said she has a degree from Yale university and if someone needs she has the proof too with her. Here are some of the memes on her 6 day Yale degree program.

The highest civilian award Bharat Ratna conferred in India to people for their exceptional service or performance of highest order. The last year 2013 Chemical Scientist Prof. CNR Rao and Indian cricketer Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar have conferred the award. Sachin had become the youngest to receive this award. In the nominee list for this award were former hockey player Major Dhyanchand, Prof CNR Rao and Sachin Tendulkar. This year the speculation is rife for Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Subhash Chandra Bose to be honoured with the highest civilian award. If AB Vajpayee gets honoured with the award he will be the 44th recipient of the award since it's launch 2nd January 1954. The first people to get honoured with Bharat Ratna on the same year, 1954 were C. Rajagopalachari, Eminent Scientist Prof CV Raman and First Vice President of India Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. We wish both Ab Vajpayee and Subhash Chandra Bose to be conferred with Bharat Rathna this year. Generally, prime M

Go to any restaurant in India, you will get a huge menu but most people end up selecting a few dishes at any restaurant they go. Food items selected generally varies with the state. Each state has their own unique cuisines and hence taste depends on the domicile of the person. What we are listing here today is the food items generally ordered in different parts of the country. If you are in North you will see people ordering the following. Vegetarians North Paneer Tikka, Mushroom tikka or Masala papad in starters Paneer Lababdar, paneer butter Masala, Daal Makhani in main course Garlic naan, pudina naan from bread basket Fresh lime, Pine apple raita Non vegetarians North Chicken tikka, Chicken kabab, roasted chicken Afghani chicken, Kadhai chicken, tawa chicken Laccha paratha, pudina paratha from Bread basket Fresh lime, any fruit raita Next is South Indian foodies tastes and their popular dishes. Next post ->

Being an Indian citizen it becomes our fundamental duty to learn and recite our national anthem the way its lyricist Shri Rabindra Nath Tagore coined it and hoped the whole nation would recite the same way ever after with its core meaning intact. So, here I thought to present our National Anthem word by word with its actual meaning. Please, everyone, try to understand the meaning and pronounce it perfectly, please don't sing like our corrupt politicians. Hindi Phonetics of Indian National Anthem "जन गण मन अधिनायक जय हे भारत भाग्य विधाता पंजाब सिन्ध गुजरात मराठा द्राविड़ उत्कल बंग विन्ध्य हिमाचल यमुना गंगा   उच्छल जलधि तरंग तव शुभ नामे जागे तव शुभ आशिष मांगे गाहे तव जय गाथा जन गण मंगलदायक जय हे भारत भाग्यविधाता जय हे, जय हे, जय हे जय जय जय जय हे"  English Phonetics of Indian National Anthem " Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka Jaya He Bharata Bhagya Vidhaata Punjab Sindh Gujarat Maraatha Dravida Utkala Banga Vindhy

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to celebrate the second week of August as the Sanskrit week. It's really a good step in promoting one of the oldest languages in the world. Sanskrit is not only one of the oldest language in the world but it's also the most suited language for computers as was published on Times Magazine in the year 1988 and was suggested by most of the computer scientists of that time. We from "Namaste India" request all our readers and especially the Indian readers to post in Sanskrit, single line, para or even a statement to mark this week as the Sanskrit week. Sanskrit is our language and we only should feel it a responsibility to give our Vedas language a status it deserves. I hope each reader who reading this would surely post a status on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp or any social network in Sanskrit just to show his/her love for the language of Sanskrit.

Kotakjifi one of it's first kind of social bank. Only real and existing bank which pays you for your social presence and social activity. The account holder of this account can track and operate the account through social sites like Facebook and Twitter. Account holder of this jifi bank earns social points for Facebook activities, transaction points for every transaction they do online for purchasing or paying utilities bill through this account. The account holder can redeem these transaction points to buy anything online from many of the available e-commerce sites.  Currently for opening an account kotak jifi has kept invitation through Facebook and through mail links only, now the prospects are required to self invite themselves through homepage of kotak jifi where they have invitation through either Facebook or through mails. Kotak jifi account holders can check their account through tweets also. This jifi account is available only to the customers of selected cities right now.

How to be smarter with everyday habits.  1. Try to look for a problem around you and try solving it on your own. Take for example poverty. 2. Read and be aware of your surroundings, read newspapers, find someone knowledgeable to you and discuss some issues which interest you both. 3. Play smart games be it chess, Sudoku, 2048 scrabble or anything similar. 4. Watch inspiring and learnable videos, subscribe to khan academy, smarter everyday YouTube channel or any other video sharing sites which have educational forums or knowledge sharing sites, as we learn more by watching and listening than to reading. 5. Read a novel or book in a week, also make a habit of writing a novel or a book. 6. Subscribe to channels or email or newsletters which interests you, like you can subscribe a word a day, I love fucking science on Facebook. 7. Visualise your whole day and try writing the same every day, this will help you in remembering you learned all day and you will not miss any info

Modi Govt vs Inflation. Now they say they don't have enough govt reserve to subsidise even the basic items. They can't give subsidy over diesel, LPG, fertilisers and hence they can't control increasing inflation at least for short term they have nothing in their hand to control. So, here we have collected some advice and suggestions if they could implement. 10 steps to reduce inflation in India. 1. Stop black marketing and hoardings, take strict actions against black marketers. 2. Develop good inventory and release food stock reserves in the market and look for fair distribution among needy. 3. Stop giving subsidy to rich farmers who in no terms need subsidy over fertilisers, give subsidy only to them who needs it. This subsidy amounts to around 68000 crores. 4. Why there is a subsidy to crores of rich people who don't need subsidy of Rs 450/-per cylinder. Which causes loss of 56000 crores each year. 5. Implement strict rules to collect taxes, it

Not sure why so many students getting arrested for their dissent over Narendra Modi. Are we Indian losing our freedom of speech and freedom of expression after Narendra Modi has been elected the PM of India. Almost daily we are listening one or two people getting arrested over making some remarks against Modi. Our constitution allows us to express our views without any restriction, we Indians have the right to regulate the right to speech and expression, we have the freedom of speech and expression.  But Ironically i feel, Modi wouldn't have the slightest knowledge over these arrests. I'm very sure Narendra Modi personally feel bad over these arrests and all these arrests some of which may be genuine but some arrest have been made just to defame Modi. Police would be making these arrest under some political pressures and of course BJP or Modi is not at all involved. I hope Modi will take heed of this issue and will STOP these kind of arrest of innocents and clear out the rumour

Sirish Apte of Bhandara village in Maharashtra, an executive engineer by profession reached the state govt of Maharashtra to take over the charge of maintaining Malguzaari. Malguzaari is a small pond surrounded by mud walls, just like tanks. Since 1950 after the abolishment of Zamindari/Malguzaari system these water tanks or Malguzaars got abandoned as the Malguzaars came under state-owned areas and govt never paid heed to maintain these.  Sirish Apte belonging to a Malguzaar family had to interest in water conservation approached the Supreme Court and asked govt to maintain these Malguzaars as maintaining these Malguzaars can be very helpful to irrigation to nearby areas.  Sirish in the year 2008 first involved into cleaning and maintaining these tanks, he walled the tanks thick and de-silted the pond by removing fine sands which again were used as fertilisers as these are rich in phosphorous and nitrogen. Sirish for the first time made a Malguzaar in Janbhora village 35 km fro

Abhaas a 10-year-old from Durgapura, Rajasthan cleared his 10th class board exam. Rajasthan board of secondary education yesterday declared their exam results for class 10 and Abhaas triumphed to see the results, he scored a whopping 60.87%. Abhaas parents are also in the teaching profession and they have been teaching him from a very early age seeing his grasping and learnability quality.

Poorna Malavnath from Nalgonda, Darjeeling has become the youngest to climb the 8848 mtr high Mount Everest. Poorna is 13 year old and she with just 8 months of training has been able to reach the top of Mount Everest.  Poorna is a student of Andhra Pradesh social welfare residential school where she is studying in standard IX. Poorna wants to be an IPS officer in future and seeing her determination and approach it seems Poorna would touch heights in her life too. Congratulations Poorna Malavnath.

Are we not developing, of course we are!  We are now a recognised future super power, a developed nation soon. What not we have? We are now into almost every sector grown and known to the world. We are the 2nd largest army, we are 4th into aerospace, we are only next to US and china in terms of economy. We are the second fastest growing nation in the world. But again we are the nation of largest slums, we are the nation of largest illiterate and forgotten tribals. We are still somewhere in 13th century mindset where women have no right to live, they are a toy to be played with and thrown away. We are still an accepting mindset of khaps, goons and tyranny. What happened with two sisters in badayun, couples in duwariya, single woman in Amethi and many many more are enough to shame us and made us realise how developing we are.  A lady conductor in full public view is beaten and made unconscious not in any small village, town or city but in the biggest metropolitan city of our country, cla

A research headed by an Indian origin scientist at Alabama University in Birmingham working on a secure login which would end the need of password system in unlocking laptops, desktops or cars. This zero interaction authentication system would work with proximity, users security token and mobile number verification. Users wouldn't need to enter a password instead their proximity to the device will be sensed and the required device will be unlocked. Nitesh Saxena Though it's a secure way login it's vulnerable to hackers who can trick it through relay attacks. According to Nitesh Saxena , the associate professor in the department of computer and information science this system can be made perfectly secured using sensor modalities that are commonly present on devices: wi-fi, Bluetooth, GPS and audio. Secondly by utilising the capabilities of using ambient physical sensors as a proximity detection mechanism and focusing mainly on ambient temperature, precision gas, hu

A team headed by SC Srivastava the deputy director at IIT Kanpur and his team of computer Engineers able to deliver their next supercomputer claiming to be the worlds fastest supercomputer with an whooping peak computing speed of 307.2 Terra Flops and realised computing speed of 249 TFs.  The supercomputer now ranks 5th in terms of its performance in the country and 130th worldwide as amongst the top 500 supercomputers in the world. 

Following someone is good, if you found someone eligible enough for it, but following it blindly, ignoring everything else which may not be good enough, seems sceptical. There certainly is a Modi wave all around, everyone seems to be talking for Modi, why not, he is good, he has presented a well versed Model and has shown the 125+ year old political system, how to govern and what should be termed a perfect role model in politics. He did in 10 years what hadn't been done by the single largest party for 60 years, he is perfectly eligible to be hailed and boasted for his work. But is it reasonable to support for everything he does, is it good to term him God, is it good to add prefix "Har Har" which is considered embroidered only for Lord Shiva. Is it humane that a man left his wife unrecognized for 47 years(3 lifetime) till he was certain to be the PM of India and as soon as he came to know that he gonna be the PM of India, he recalled a past and suddenly he got a wif

Google has placed a Doodle earmarking the finale of Cricket T20 World Cup 2014 on 06th April 2014. Google Doodle on Cricket T20 World Cup 2014 Finale

When do we use these words? more often when a person sneezes. But why do we say "bless you"? Let's explore the reason. In the year 1665-66 in England, there happened a great plague. It was a Bubonic plague which is usually transmitted through the bite of an infected rat. This plague was so barbaric that it took almost 10,000 lives i.e. about 15% of the population of England. The final - fatal symptom of the Black Death was Sneezing and Coughing. So when a person sneezed, people surrounding him, blessed him by saying - "Bless you" (so that you are not suffering from the Great Black Death). This word was used so frequently that it became a fashion and the next generation started following the same without being aware of the actual reason. The description of the Great Black Death is even described in a nursery rhyme which we sang while playing. can u guess the rhyme? I will give you a hint - " it has a line - we all fall down" Yes. It is -"

Agryd the most popular Indian social networking website has launched its android mobile application this New Year. Agryd has embedded special functionality and features to its android application. With this mobile application, besides normal functionality of website, users can enjoy several other exciting features. This application offers features like friend finder, location reminder, speed tracker, free text messaging, voice and video calling. For all the features internet connectivity is a must. Friend Finder : It tells you the current location of your friend. This tool does live tracking with the help of GPS. This tool is helpful for parents as they could take care of their child by having a watch over them with this application. Location Reminder: It is a very useful tool for those people who are forgetful. This application reminds about the work to be done once user come in the circumference of 500 meter of that location. In order to get reminder, user just have to s

Happy New Year 2014. Google Doodle.