Sinlung

08 March 2010

Oscars 2010 Live Streaming Available

Los Angeles, Mar 8 : The great annual event of Oscars Academy Awards will be held tonight and we are very eager to know which awards goes to whom. The event will be aired on ABC Channel as usual on the 7th March, Sunday from 8:00 pm. From 8 pm the special Oscars red carpet event will be held and you can see your favorite star coming with his / her uniquely chosen outfit.

The actual awards ceremony will start from 8:30 PM.

If it happens to be that you don’t have any active cable TV at home or there is no other mode to watch it on TV, you can Google it for any live streaming of the Oscars event.

If you miss the live event you can still view some of the highlights of the show and there will always be some people who will post them on YouTube. Let’s watch the big show to know who will be the best of the bests.

Now to spice the things up, you can also take part in some betting activities. There are common betting such as who will win which award etc. but there are also some other betting such as ‘will the best actor cry during the speech’ etc.

You can deposit money at sportsinteraction.com to have some bet but before doing that you also need to check that they are valid sites and won’t forfeit your money.

There are 10 films in the best picture category in this year. Which do you think will win it? Share with us in the comments section.

Mizoram

Mizo Women Comprise 43.98 Per Cent of The Workforce

Aizawl, Mar 8 : Women folk in Mizoram comprise a healthy 43.98 per cent of the state's total work force, says a new book on economic participation of the fairer sex.

"The population of working women is increasing in the state as they are emancipated a lot here, and they now constitute 43.98 per cent of the total work force," the author Dr Lalhriatpuii has said in her book 'Economic Participation of Women in Mizoram', which was published here last week.

Lalhriatpuii, however, has lamented that in the strict Mizo patriarchal society, the rise of women is often put on brakes especially in the villages.

"Many women in the villages are compelled to perform household chores and have no opportunity to take up any career or jobs outside the confine of the homes and also due to lack of educational qualification amongst the womenfolk," she said.

Mizoram

Finance Panel Recommends Rs 8,805 cr For Mizoram

Aizawl, Mar 8 : The 13th Finance Commission has recommended a package of Rs 8,805.30 crore as grants-in-aid for meeting earmarked and specific requirements during the next five years for Mizoram.

Officials in the State Finance department said here that the Commission’s earmarked allocation included Rs 310.70 crore for local bodies, Rs 47.50 crore for disaster management and Rs 5 crore for elementary education.

Giving importance to environment, the Finance Commission recommended Rs 171.20 crore for forest management, Rs 89 crore for renovation and maintenance of roads and bridges and Rs 13 crore for improvement in justice delivery.

Assam

Gen Next in Assam Rejects Gun Culture

Sivasagar (Assam), Mar 8 : Three college students skipped classes and mingled with a crowd Saturday to have a close look at Pradip Gogoi, vice chairman of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), in jail for over a decade and now out on bail. But they weren't impressed.

The separatist leader was released Thursday from the Guwahati Central Jail, ending 12 years of imprisonment. On Saturday he reached his hometown Sivasagar, 360 km east of Assam's main city Guwahati.

A rousing reception was given to the rebel leader at the ramparts of Rang Ghar, an amphitheatre of the Ahom royalty and the place where the ULFA was formed by Gogoi and six others April 7, 1979.

Anup Gogoi, Arindam Das, Nilim Baruah, all undergraduate students of a college here, joined more than 2,000 people at Rang Ghar. A majority of them wanted to welcome Gogoi.

"We came to see Pradip Gogoi but we don't believe in ULFA's ideology nor do we support their campaign," said Baruah.

His friend Anup was in agreement.

"The younger generation Assamese is not interested in the gun culture of ULFA. It was sheer curiosity that brought us here," Anup told IANS.

The mood was loud and clear. Generation Next in Assam is not supportive of ULFA's violent campaign that has claimed thousands of lives and wants to look ahead for a future of hope and progress.

"What have we got from the long years of insurgency? We saw bloodbath and miseries. We want to see Assam grow and would like to compete with our brothers outside the state," Arindam said, as he jumped onto a bicycle to attend his English major classes.

More and more Assamese youth are looking for better career options, visibly tired of the continuing violence and lack of development, a result of the long drawn insurgency.

"It is nice to see shopping malls and multiplexes coming up in almost all the cities and the yearning of the new generation to achieve something in life," said Aprurba Handique, a college teacher.

Said Bhabesh Baishya, a retired government official: "This is a good and healthy trend to see the new generation. It inculcates a competitive bent of mind and craving to do well in life."

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Northeast

07 March 2010

Sachin Wants to 'Pilot' IT Revolution in Northeast

New Delhi, Mar 7 : The government has begun an ambitious programme to wire up the entire northeast and remote border regions with telecom, Wimax and Broadband connectivity and unleash an IT revolution in the region, says Minister of State for IT and Communications Sachin Pilot.
"I believe that the northeast can become a big centre for attracting investments from the private sector - in business process outsourcing (BPOs), knowledge process outsourcing," Pilot, 32, said during an exclusive interaction.

"Young people there have a lot of talent and are easier to train and impart skills to for this kind of work. If we can have rural BPOs then I am sure we can have BPOs in the northeast," he added.

A bulk of the money under what is called universal service obligation fund, collected by the government from private players to meet the demands of rural connectivity, will be deployed in the northeast, he said.

At the start of this fiscal, more than Rs.18,000 crore ($3.6 billion) was available under this fund.

On a mission to do a "lot more" in the northeast that "has not been done so far", Pilot said Assam, for example, will see optical fibre cables laid across the state -- seen as a must for large data transfers required by such service providers.

"We are launching optical fiber cables at the panchayat level in Assam soon. This will be the first state in India to have it," Pilot said, adding Wimax services had already been unveiled there last month.

"We launched Wimax in Chaygaon, on the outskirts of Guwahati in Assam. It's a wireless, high speed internet broadband connectivity -- such that people living in a radius of 15 kilometers can access the internet easily," he said.

Moving beyond Assam, Pilot said the government is also planning a software parks project at Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh, which will be an export-oriented scheme for developing computer software and extending related professional services.

"I have already met the chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh. We are hoping to start this project soon. The state will then have a lot more money from the government of India, which it can't afford now," he said.

India's northeastern region covers the states of Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim.

Pilot said he is also planning to give the satellite phone facilities to villages in the northeast, which are cut off from others due to their location, along with a much-subsidized tariff.

"There are some places of Arunachal Pradesh, which are 12,000 feet to 14,000 feet high -- no spectrum, no mobile phones. Therefore, besides the paramilitary forces, I am trying to give satellite phones to these villages and reduce the call charges," he said.

In Sikkim, Pilot said, the IT ministry has helped in the setting up of a small business process unit and launched 3G services through the state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.

"The chief minister of Sikkim wanted to set up a 50-seat unit through an entrepreneur. So, we not only gave them connectivity but also gave it to them at one-fourth the cost. We also launched 3G services there," the minister said.

"I want that all the states of the northeast to feel as involved in what's happening in New Delhi and Mumbai in terms of new innovative ideas."

Assam

Assam Tea Workers Complain of Low Hike in Daily Wage

By Arijit Sen

They have the grueling task of picking the tea leaves, with which you and I brew our everyday morning chai. But these tea plantation workers hardly earn in an hour, what we spend on a cup of tea. They have just received a hike on their daily wage of Rs 58.50.

Dhiraj Kakati is with the Assam Branch of the India Tea Association.... He justifies the hike saying it was decided after several meetings with the INTUC-led tea workers trade union...

Celebrity

Meryl Streep's Oscar Nominations

For most people, getting nominated for an Oscar would be a big deal. For Meryl Streep, it's par for the course. With her brilliant turn as America's culinary patron saint Julia Child in "Julie & Julia," Streep has earned her 16th nomination. That's more than any other actor has ever earned. Let's look back at all of her nominated roles.