Popular Stadiums in Tamil Nadu:

                          There are several stadiums in Chennai where sports like cricket, football are generally held. The people from Tamil Nadu State are sports lover and they prefer to spend most of their leisure time in some kind of outdoor or indoor games. One of the most Popular Stadium in Tamil Nadu is MA Chidambaram Stadium, it is a popular stadium in Chennai. The stadium is named after the ex- President of BCCI and the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association, Mr. M. A. Chidambaram. The stadium is popularly recognized as Madras Cricket Club Ground. The stadium hosted its first match on 10 February 1934. Indian cricket team won their first Test match against England in M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in the year 1952.

                      It was established in the year 1916. It is the oldest Cricket Stadium in India. It is Commonly known as Chepauk Stadium, its first match was played on 10th February 1934. It was Built by the East Coast Constructions and Industries.

                     The Indian cricket team won its first ever Test victory in 1952 against England in MA Chidambarak Stadium, Chennai. Famous Cricketer Sunil Gavaskar notched up his record breaking 30th Test hundred on this ground in 1983-84. The India-Australia encounter in 1986-87 ended in a tie - only the second in the Cricket's long history. The next season, leg spinner Narendra Hirwani claimed the best match analysis by a player on Test debut, finishing with 16 for 136. The Chepauk Stadium crowd is known to be amongst the most appreciative in the whole country. This was proved when those presence gave a standing ovation to Saeed Anwar after his record breaking 194 against India in the Independence Cup match in 1997 and again when Pakistan won a Test match in 1999.  A truly overwhelmed Pakistani team even made a lap of honour in appreciation of the spectators' sporting behavior. It is the home ground of the Tamil Nadu cricket team and also for the Chennai Super Kings which participate in and won the Indian Premier League two times.

                     Secondly, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium is famous stadium in Chennai that can easily occupy almost 40,000 people. The stadium got its name from India’s first Prime Minister, Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru. The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium is a home to several sports like Foot ball, Volley ball, Basket ball, Table tennis along with other athletic matches. This stadium has large seating arrangements constituting many people. 

Next to Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, there is an Indoor Stadium situated which is also called as Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium. The indoor stadium has a seating capacity of 8000 seats. Audience can easily occupy places to be seated. It hosts volleyball Match, Basket ball Match, Table tennis and other indoor games in the stadium. Here large feasts of movies takes place, There are also entertainment shows and TV shows (such as super singer junior 3) takes place. New film Audio songs release are also conducted frequently in this stadium.

                       Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium, is a well recognized National Hockey Stadium in India, located near Egmore Railway Station in chennai. It was named after Radhakrishnan Pillai, It hosts the Nation Sports of India, Hockey in its stadium. The 1996 Men's Champions Trophy held in this stadium, and this stadium also hosted the tournament again in December 2005. In 2007 edition of Asian Hockey Championship took place in this stadium, in which India triumphed by a thumping margin of 7-2 over South Korea. Also all division matches of the Chennai Hockey Association conducted here  and it is referred as the home ground of the World Series Hockey team Chennai Cheetah. It is one of the famous stadium in Chennai.

                          Raja Ratnam Stadium (Chennai) is also another famous stadium in Chennai located in Marshall’s road in Egmore. The stadium is generally used by the TamilNadu Police Department. It is also much used for sports festivals of schools colleges and the police academy. Madhavi, sports student said, Raja Ratnam Stadium is one of the best and outstanding stadium in Chennai. It has got a large area where thousands of people can be accommodated. Her school sports day used to take place in this stadium, she also included that it is one of her memorable place in Chennai city.

                         SDAT - Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu Tennis Stadium in Chennai is famous as Nungambakkam Tennis Stadium. The Chennai Open ATP Tennis championships are generally hosted every year during the first week of January in this Stadium.  The third round Davis Cup tie in Asia/Oceania Group I, Match between Australia and India took place at the SDAT Tennis Stadium in May 2009.

                      Indian Open tennis tournament takes place annually since 1997 in this Stadium. Legends like Boris Becker and Patrick Rafter took part in Goldflake Open held in this Stadium and In 1998 Patrick Rafter went to win the tournament. The stadium has also witnessed the birth of the celebrated Indian doubles pair of Leader Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, they both have won the first three editions of the Goldflake Open held in this stadium. The complex has five hard courts including the floodlit centre court which has a seating Capacity of about 5800. Davis Cup tie from 17–19 September 2010 also took place here. The Brazil Davis Cup Team was defeated by the Indian Davis Cup team in 2010, IN THE 2010 davis Cup World Group. It plays off to advance to the 2011Davis Cup World Group.

                  Velachery Aquatic Complex Stadium in Chennai can accommodate about 4,000 people. It hosts several water sports. It is an ideal venue for the 1995 South Asian Games.  Guindy Race Course, Chemplast Cricket Ground, Kari Motor Speedway, Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium, Nehru Stadium(Coimbatore), Giundy Race Course, Sreeperamabtur Race Stadium, Madhurai Race Course, Trichy Stadium are the other popular stadiums in Tamil Nadu State.

                      A new state of the art cricket stadium has been established at Karunkuzhipallam almost about 25 km from Chennai on August 26, 2008. The stadium accommodate about 50,000 to 60,000 spectators at one go. Most of the people who are basically sports lover travel to this city to get immense opportunities as far as sporting are concerned. 

Facebook buys WhatsApp at 19 billion dollars:

On February 19, Facebook (FB) announced its purchase of the WhatsApp, mobile messaging service for $19 billion in cash and stock. The deal is a big bet for Facebook, which has not been able to convince investors of its strategy for mobile. Facebook has bought messaging app WhatsApp in a deal at a total of $19bn (£11.4bn) in cash and shares.

A lot of people wondered why facebook paid so much money for whatsapp. WhatsApp is 100% social. It is the social networking giant's biggest acquisition to date. WhatsApp has more than 450 million monthly users and is popular with people looking to avoid text messaging charges.Facebook offers a login box to drop your phone number at any website or online service. You will be able to simply login with your Facebook account and give the website permission to send you a message on WhatsApp. You can also define, how many messages and within what timeframe and even what type of messages you would like to receive.In a statement announcing the deal, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg described WhatsApp's services as "incredibly valuable". WhatsApp allows users to send messages over internet connections, avoiding text messaging fees. The company claims it is currently registering one million new users a day. It makes money by charging users a subscription fee of $1 per year, although it offers a free model as well.

The deal to buy WhatsApp includes $4billion in cash and approximately $12billionn worth of Facebook shares, plus an additional $3bn in stock to WhatsApp's founders and employees at a later date.On a conference call to discuss the deal, WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum said he planned to operate the firm "independently and autonomously". He will also become a member of Facebook's board of directors."We are excited and honoured to partner with Mark and Facebook as we continue to bring our product to more people around the world," Mr Koum added in a statement. Mr. Zuckerberg said the prospect of a deal was first floated just 11 days ago.

WhatsApp does give Mark Zuckerberg inroads into international markets and, as importantly, to a younger demographic. But what is less clear is whether the finances will add up in the long term.

The Facebook founder said he believed WhatsApp was on track to have a billion users, but insisted he had no plans to place advertising on WhatsApp's interface, saying he did not think advertisements were the best way to make money from messaging systems.“I find this news disappointing that facebook has bought whatsapp. Whatsapp is a handy little app that saves me money in the long term. I was disappointed by the way Facebook, Google and to some extent Apple have integrating stuff. Google plus is not easy to use. I think Whatsapp will also do the same thing. I deactivated Facebook account because I was fed up with Facebook trying to control my life, I am now going to do the same with WhatsApp” said a whatsapp user who was disappointed with this deal.

Migration affects the economic welfare of the people.

Most of the people migrate from one place to another in search of employment, business and education. The other reasons for migration are family movements, marriage, and calamity. Despite of lower birth rate in Chennai there has been an increase in the number of people in the working age group. Temporary migra­tions may be annual, seasonal or even of a shorter duration, like daily. Commutation is used for daily movement of people between city and its surrounding towns or villages.

According to 1991 Census about 30-40 per cent of migration is due to economic reasons, especially for seeking employment. Migra­tion is the net result of the combined effects of push factors of the area from where people migrate and the pull effect of the area to which they migrate.

In India the rural areas suffering from poverty, unem­ployment and excessive population-growth produce push effects from where rural youths, in large number, migrate to mega cities and industrial towns which have pulling effects due to more employment oppor­tunities, greater prosperity and better conditions for sustenance

“People come to India in search of good job, and we offer them job, they are loyal and put up their best efforts in whichever job we give them accordingly” said a social worker.

Most of the international migrants to India are coming from Asian countries, followed by Europe­ans, Africans, etc. The neighbouring countries like Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Russia have contributed large number of migrants to India. Since there is no restriction large number of Nepali people comes to India for seeking employment, education, business etc.

“I was born and brought up in Nepal, because of the condition of my family I didn’t finish my schooling and I have been sent here to Chennai for employment. Now I work here as a driver and I earn pretty well that I send some money to my family in Nepal also” said Mr. Madan Singh, a migrant from Nepal.

In India there is massive rural to urban migra­tion towards metropolitan cities like Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai etc to seek employment and better their economic prospects. Majority of these mi­grants are illiterate or semi-literate and unskilled peasants and labourers who are compelled to leave their village home due to poverty and unemploy­ment. Since some of these migrants have little skill or training. They are mostly absorbed in some activities, indigenous transport, petty trade, or low-grade services. Very few are in administrative, professional or technical services. Condi­tion of women migrants are more precarious, greater proportion of them are illiterate or semi-literate and are compelled to take up lower jobs like as domestic maid servants, hawkers or vendors.

Poor condition of Roads in Chennai:

India is one of the fastest developing countries in the world. There are several poor conditioned roads in India, although India is already developed in the field of education, fashion and industrialization there is still certain areas where the country is lagging behind. India has a gigantic road network but it is a home to several bad roads. There is a constant demand for good quality of road network, transportation, and services. It is extremely essential that the roads are well laid and strong enough as it contributes for the economic growth and development of the country. India is a big country with huge population but the problem of road development has still not been addressed properly.The major challenges faced by the roads in India are poor quality of roads and highways, rural areas has bad condition of roads, urban areas has huge roads but not maintained properly, no proper signals in the roads, people tend to break traffic rules. And one of the major reasons for the damage of roads in India is overloading. It is proven that about 70 percept of funds meant to be spent for the maintenance of roads actually goes behind paying laborers. Although building concrete roads is a little expensive but it is beneficial for the country in the long run.Efforts are being taken by the government to develop the road ways and to improve the conditions of the roads. Since India is doing exceptionally good in every field, condition of the road has to be given importance as it is one of the striking underlying facts in the country. Whether it is metropolitans, the cities or any village in India, the poor condition of roads are no new to the country. “Traffic is one of the most common problems in most of the metropolitans today. Cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata are extremely congested during office hours. This is mainly because of industrialization and the sudden rise in vehicle ownership over the last few years. If India wants to be in tandem with the growing traffic, the government will need to construct around 15,000 km expressways in the next ten years” said a traffic controller in teynampet, Chennai.Some roads were built to link the major highways and some bridges were built for making the travel easy. Government has built huge highways by expanding the width of existing roads which made people convenient to travel from one state to another.Roads near Koyambedu market in Chennai are expected to be re-laid after this monsoon. Already a portion of the road, which provides a shortcut for mofussil buses plying to various destinations from Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminus, has been re-laid and opened to traffic bound for Poonamallee high road.India has 53 national highways which connects all the states with each other, but there are still 25% of the village has poor roads is the underlying fact. India has a total of about 2 million kilometers of roads out of which 1 million kilometers of roads in India have poorly constructed. The other problems faced by the Indian roads are the bad riding quality, poor geometrics, and insufficient pavement thickness.The central and state government of India is responsible for the road building and maintenance of roads. The administration of the national highway system is vested with the Ministry of State for Surface transport in India and other state roads are preserved by the state public works departments. As far as the minor roads in the country are concerned they are up kept by the various districts, municipalities, and villages. Although India is home to over fifty national highways the sad state of affairs is that most national highways are just two lanes or even lesser. Apart from being narrow they are also highly congested since a large part of India's freight is carried on these highways. The design of the highways is a matter of great importance since only properly designed highways can withstand the pressure created by heavy vehicles. And as India is a home to large population as well most of the rural areas in India do not have access to all roads during the changing monsoon season. This problem prevails mostly in the Kashmir and other northern part of the country. The government in its 11th five year plan has allotted Rs 100,000 crore for the construction and maintenance of roads in villages. “I think the roads are damaged and the congestion in the roads prevails due to lack of traffic control in the city.  Roads have to be maintained properly and the traffic has to be controlled properly for the development of roadways in India” said a social worker. Currently India's annual expenditure on the road sector is around Rs 20,000 to 30,000 crore. One of the major reasons behind this huge expenditure on maintaining roads is due to the problems of overloading and poor maintenance. 

Education for girls is a must:

Girls have the equal rights as boys to get education. Education is the major human rights for all. Evidence shows that countries with greater gender equality are more likely to have higher economic growth. India is a developing country and it has a great impact on girl’s education and women’s rights. As country is developing the thoughts of the people in the nation is also developing. Education has made compulsory for all and girls education has also been made compulsory in most of the sates in the country. But the World Bank’s 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development drew attention to the fact that there are still 31 million girls who are out of school and nearly 4 million “missing” women annually. There is also a multiplier effect to educating girls and women. Education for women with handicaps has also improved.
Many countries will not meet the education Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.But we will have to make it possible with proper providing of education to girls. More educated women tend to be healthier, earn more income, have fewer children, and provide better health care and education to their children. It eventually improves the well being of all individuals and can lift households out of poverty. These benefits also transmit across generations, as well as to communities at large. Remarkable progress has been made towards achieving gender equality in education. Enrollment of girls in education should be risen. Over the past three decades the ratio of girls to boys enrolled in school has risen at all levels. There are only 48 districts out of 600 districts in India prevails with a gender gap.
Improving girls educational levels has been demonstrated to have clear impacts on the health and economic future of young women, which in turn improves the prospects of their entire community. In the poorest countries of the world, 50% of girls do not attend secondary school. Yet, research shows that every extra year of school for girls increases their lifetime income by 15%.
“Improving female education, and thus the earning potential of women, improves the standard of living for their own children, as women invest more of their income in their families than men do. Yet, many barriers to education for girls remain” said Ms. Nasima Farook former principal of Darusalaam matriculation school.
Higher attendance rates of high schools and university education among women, particularly in developing countries, have helped them make inroads to professional careers with better-paying salaries and wages.
According to Mr. Mahmud Sherif, retired principal of Law College “education should be must to every single girl in the country, from education comes great knowledge, and from great knowledge comes wisdom. Our government and NGOs has taken great effort to educate girls, and it should be continued throughout unless all girls in the country gets a chance to educate themselves”
Our freedom fighters realized the importance of girls education and had put it as a prime agenda for national development. Education administrators gave high priority on reducing the infrastructure deficiency. Today 98 per cent of India’s rural population has access to primary schools within a kilometer of the habitation. And unrural and developed cities have more easier and comfortable access to primary and high schools.
Greater access to schooling is however not enough. Special measures are called for to help girls join the schools. These include setting up of girl’s toilets and providing separate girls schools at upper primary level to counter community resistance to girls studying in co-educational schools.
“Compulsory education for girls makes everyone to send their daughters to schools and get education at secondary level atleast. Not only girls in cities but also girls from villages and towns should also get the maximum benefits of getting education at school. There are some villages in the country where there is no school, girls have to travel so much to reach school and parents in that village does not finds it safer for their daughters to go so far for education and hence it ends up in not sending their daughters to school. This issue has to be taken seriously by the government.” Said Ms, Buraitha sibnas, a college student.
   The Constitution of India in Article 15(1) on right to equality provides the basic policy framework that enshrines the vision of girl’s education and the spirit in which their education is to be provided. Until 1976, education was a State subject. Since its transfer to the Concurrent List by the 42^nd Constitutional Amendment in 1976, the Central Government has played a more proactive role in the sector through several centrally sponsored schemes that had a distinct. Female education is indeed receiving a great impetus and the advance made by our country in this direction during the last decade is considerable. Even co-education has received considerable support from the public, and although orthodox parents still view the system of co-education with suspicion, a large number of families send their daughters to co- educational institutions. During the last four decades since independence, much is being done to emancipate women. Education of girls is one of the basic features of the plan. Many schools and colleges are founded for girls. 

Tamil Nadu government has introduced 50 new small buses in the city:

The chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms. Jayalalitha has introduced 50 new small buses in Chennai city. To improve the roads connectivity is the main aim of introducing these buses in the city. The small buses will help the people to travel conveniently from interior area to the nearest bus stop and nearest railway stations. The buses will ply on 20 new routes covering the southern and western areas in the city and suburbs. While the first set of small buses which was introduced in October 2013 rolled out focused mainly on southern suburbs. There are few buses in north Chennai also.The new Routes would cover areas like Adyar, Besant Nagar, Guindy, Korarttur, Mandeveli, Pallavaram, Thiruvanmiyur, Tambaram, Villivakkam, Valasarvakkam. The total expenditure in the process of introducing the small buses came around Rs, 7.60 Crores.The other routes in the city are from thiruvanmiyur to Madhya Kailash, Adyar signal to Madeveli, vadapalini to Loyola college and from Ashok Pillar to Valsarvakkam. The number of buses allotted to each of the new route ranges from one to three. MTC (Metropolitian Transport Corporation) officials are happy about the success of the fifty small busses rolled out in 2013. The MTC officials earn approximately Rs, 5000/= on one route.“The small buses introduced by the Tamil Nadu government have helped so many people in the state who travels by buses everyday to office, schools and colleges. The small buses have become an easy mode of transport now a day as it is compact and gets its way in any area” Said a passenger who travels from small buses every day.Apart from these small buses, the chief minister of Tamil Nadu Ms. Jayalalithaa has also flagged 185 new buses. Out of this 51 buses are for Villupuram transport corporation, 51 buses are for Kumbakonam district, 33 buses for Madurai, 17 for Coimbatore district, 16 buses for Salem Transport Corporation, 9 buses are for Tirunelveli and 8 buses are for the MTC (Metropolitan Transport Corporation).  And recently she has also rolled out 109 buses repaired at a cost of Rs, 8.2 Crore.There were 7 new bus depots inaugurated by the chief minister of Tamil Nadu recently. The 7 bus depots are inaugurated in Chennai, Villupuram, Kumbakonam and in Madurai. It includes 1 depot at Besant Nagar and 1 at Adambakkam in Chennai and the other depots are at Neyveli and Orillai in Villipuram District and at Alankudi and Aravukurichi in Kumbakonam and at Sivagangai in Madurai district respectively.  It costs a total of Rs, 5.57 Crore. This will ensure that the buses will be maintained and run in a better process.“The new small buses are very useful, it has made our life easy as we were very disturbed with the increasing traffics, apart from these buses the introduction of new bus depots also made us easy to get our buses on time in a definite place of bus depots. Now we get into bus depots with willable distance” said a college student who travels by bus to college every day.Some places had only terminus before, but now many bus depots have been introduced where people can find more buses operating. The number of bus depots has gone up to 27 depots in the city. The localities will have better and maintained buses with more frequency and connectivity. After the introduction of depots, commuters will not have to wait for buses from nearby depots as there are many depots inaugurated in the city.“These small buses have brought a drastic change in day to day travelling, we go through the same routes everyday but with small buses we reach our destination before 20 minutes approx as these small buses occupy small space. we also earn good amount through small buses” said Mr. Satish, MTC official.
Pallavaram, Chrompet Velachery, Medhavaram, Ambattur, Porur, were the regions in the city which got the facilities of travelling in small buses when they were first introduced in October 2013. But now it has reached many new places in the city. The introduction of small buses has showed a good response by the public. And still it is appreciated by the public as it has helped a lot of people to travel from interior areas to reach the nearest bus stops and other spots. 

Apple TV is ready to get launched:

This year, Apple will launch a refreshing Apple TV, and Time Warner Cable (TWC) will make it onto set-top box. The Time Warner Cable TV app brings live channels and famous videos to devices like the Kindle Fire tablet from Amazon and Roku which are the main competitors of Apple products. This time Apple is in talks with Time Warner Cable and others for a new version of its set-top box. Apple is planning for a new Apple TV Box as early as April and is working with Time Warner Cable and other possible partners.

Now it’s up to the customers if they will prefer to buy Apple TV this season where as Samsung is consecutively launching TVs and other products at affordable rates for its customers. People’s preference and approach to Apple TV will give result in the marketing profits of Apple. Most of the people prefer to go with the brand name, no matter what the costs would be. But the cost matters for the middle class customers. All Apple customers are eagerly waiting for the launch of the Apple TV. It is expected that Apple would launch its New Product “Apple TV” this summer.

“I have been using apple products from many years, I use apple iphone, and ipad tablet and now we are eagerly waiting to get apple tv” said the apple customer.

The long delay between the introduction of the new Apple TV box and its public launch would be unusual for Apple, which prefers to announce and release products in a short time period. The iPhone debuted six months before it's public launch owing to the unique FCC permitting process for new cell phones, and the iPad was presented more than two months before it first went on sale. The new Mac Pro was previewed six months before its final release as well. It's possible that Apple will introduce a new App Store platform for the Apple TV, with the delay giving developers time to build new apps for the device.

A Time Warner Cable spokeswoman didn't have a comment. An Apple spokesman declined to comment. The upgraded Apple TV will have a faster processor, and other online content. Apple is aiming to have the device available for sale by the Christmas holidays, though the release date could change.

Traffic congestion in Chennai: a major problem for Chennai residents in day to day life:

Although Chennai is one of the modern cities in India, it is facing a problem of traffic congestion. Many Chennai residents spend hours stuck in traffic in the city every day. This is a complex problem with many serious effects. There are many reasons why we suffer traffic jams every day. One of these is the rapid growth of the population. As a result of this, the number of cars and other vehicles is increasing annually. 

The increase in the number of trucks and commercial vehicles also causes traffic congestions. These vehicles move very slowly, sometimes stopping in the middle of the road to unload goods, and blocking traffic. Road works are another major problem that can lead to streets being very crowded.Traffic congestion includes many effects in road. One of the most important effects is parking problems. People find it difficult to park their cars especially in the malls and other shopping places in Chennai. Long delays in reaching office to work are another result which leads to less productivity from employees. More accidents takes place as people become frustrated or angry due to the traffic jams. 

Pollution in the city worsens as a result of traffic congestions and the city becomes a less attractive place to live. Some shops are forced to close in the city and asked to relocate in the malls or to the other buildings which provide parking facilities in the city. For example the street shops in Pondy bazaar in Chennai were taken out and they have been relocated in one new building by the government of Tamil Nadu. This has helped the people to avoid traffic in that area. Vehicles moves peacefully in that area after all the shops were taken out. The pavement is empty for the pedestrians to walk easily while they were finding it difficult to walk in pavement earlier.

Although Chennai has good roads and modern infrastructure, it is suffering from traffic problems. There is no simple solution to this problem because it has many causes, but the effects are damaging both the city and the people who live there. The one step that can virtually eliminate the traffic situation is to develop the traffic maintainance. People should obey traffic rules and should maintain if properly to avoid unwanted traffic jams. Every signal must have a traffic controller and a proper traffic signals.Almost 10% of the global road traffic accidents occur in India. Unfortunately in since 60 years since independence the authorities have failed to publish a National Highway code. Licenses are given to anyone who can demonstrate an ability to use the clutch-accelerator, consequently the motor driving schools teach just that and no more. Therefore traffic rulers have to be taught to every single driver in the country to avoid traffic congestions. 

Empowerment of women and women rights:

Women are equal to men. Women are seen in every profession and organizations. Women has been working in every field, starting from television actors to the journalists, income tax officers, police officers, etc women has made her place. Now a days we can find in every single organization and companies there are women employees and women workers. They have been given equal opportunities as men. India is developing by means of empowerment of women. Women who are not allowed to go out for employment has started doing business in homes like making teddy bears, pots, accessories, designing clothes etc. In most of the parts of India women empowerment is playing a major role. But in how many states are women safer. Some parents find it risky for their daughters to work in night shifts as many incidents has taken place recently in Chennai and in other parts of the world. You might be listening to news, reading newspaper or magazine, you would have gone through such incidents and accidents with women in India.While any other article on women’s empowerment in India will take a look at our rich heritage and enlightened societies of the past where women were treated as equal as men, but in such articles they do not reveal that in the modern India, the woman has always been a second grade citizen, no matter what its esteemed leaders have said or done.Female feticide, rapes, eve teasing, street harassment, bride burning are some harassments women have been facing from long time. All these should be stopped completely for the betterment of living. And these harassment should be erased completely and women should be encouraged and should be given rights for education, business, employment etc.
A woman is dynamic in many roles she plays. The art of living empowers women to face the present challenges by providing tools and techniques that help to eliminate individual stress. A sense of community spirit is created that allows for women to face these similar challenges as a team rather than individually. The Art of Living also encourages women to find practical solutions to their challenges so that each one becomes self-dependent in their own right.

Status of power cuts problem in Tamil Nadu.

Power cuts have become the major problem for the life of people in Chennai. Everyday power cut for 2 hours in peak areas and in major cities in Chennai made a huge problem. Offices and organizations in Chennai suffered a lot due to power cuts. There are many other parts of Tamil Nadu where people are pacing the power cuts for 4 to 7 hours.In some of the cities in Tamil Nadu the power cut problem has brought down and the major cities faces less power cuts. People are happy with no power cuts in their area. Some of the people in Royapettah and Nungambakkam showed their gratitude for no power cuts in their area but in other cities the problem of power cuts have increased to nearly nine hours a day. In several parts of the state it has resulted drastically.Most of the Industries face a major loss in production as they suffer at least eight hours of load-shedding every day, apart from peak-hour restriction for four hours. Power cuts have affected the equipment and the quality of products which are produced in the industries and are also increasing the costs of the products. Recently in Chennai the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) expressed dissatisfaction over Tamil Nadu state discom's failure to stop power cuts. It asked the committee to do an in depth study of MSEDCL's model of reducing losses and doing away with power cuts and prepare a model to replicate it in Tamil Nadu. While MSEDCL has been successful in doing away with power cuts, extremely high power tariff is a major problem for the state.From many years both Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu state has faced power cuts but while Maharashtra has become power surplus now, situation in Tamil Nadu has not changed. In Maharashtra except in the very high loss areas, there is no power cut even in taluka places and other main areas in Maharashtra as distribution loss has reduced, the number of high loss feeders has reduced. But on the other hand, many areas of Chennai face power cuts during summer.Load-shedding remains a major problem for Tamil Nadu. High distribution losses and very poor collection efficiency is also a major problem for the state. Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) has told Tamil Nadu's state discom to study the MSEDCL's model of reducing load-shedding. The Commission has decided to set up a committee comprising representatives of “Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporaton” (TANGEDCO), Tamil Nadu state load dispatch centre, TNERC's authorized consumer representatives, Tamil Nadu Electricity Consumers' Joint Council and Coimbatore District Small scale Industries Association.
 

Chennai Metro Rail:

Chennai Metro Rail project aims at providing the people of Chennai with a fast, reliable, convenient, efficient, modern and economical mode of public transport, which is properly integrated with other forms of public and private transport including buses, sub-urban trains etc.
The Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) will be the stretch between Koyambedu and St. Thomas Mount Road. The estimated cost for this project is Rs. 14,600 Crore. The current status of the project is about 50 per cent of track laying has been completed on the stretch. The elevated stretch has eight stations, including Koyambedu and St. Thomas Mount Road. The elevated has to accommodate a complex structure over Kathipara junction.
Simultaneously, pending civil work, including construction of stations and the portion of the corridor over Kathipara junction, will go on and is expected to be completed in six months. Till Now 75 per cent of the civil work is completed, according to CMRL.

CMRL proposes to begin its trial run by July this year. According to CMRL, the deadline for the elevated stretch is the first quarter of 2014. Engineers at different Metro sites said a three to five month delay could be expected in the project. A massive project will have to overcome different hurdles at various points. Right from land acquisition to shortage of river sand for construction, there are a host of issues, said an engineer working at one of the underground stations in Anna Salai. However, CMRL maintained it was doing its best.
Simultaneously, pending civil work, including construction of stations and the portion of the corridor over Kathipara junction, will go on and is expected to be completed in six months. Till Now 75 per cent of the civil work is completed, according to CMRL.
CMRL proposes to begin its trial run by July this year. According to CMRL, the deadline for the elevated stretch is the first quarter of 2014. Engineers at different Metro sites said a three to five month delay could be expected in the project. A massive project will have to overcome different hurdles at various points. Right from land acquisition to shortage of river sand for construction, there are a host of issues, said an engineer working at one of the underground stations in Anna Salai. However, CMRL maintained it was doing its best.
Simultaneously, pending civil work, including construction of stations and the portion of the corridor over Kathipara junction, will go on and is expected to be completed in six months. Till Now 75 per cent of the civil work is completed, according to CMRL. CMRL proposes to begin its trial run by July this year. According to CMRL, the deadline for the elevated stretch is the first quarter of 2014. Engineers at different Metro sites said a three to five month delay could be expected in the project. A massive project will have to overcome different hurdles at various points. Right from land acquisition to shortage of river sand for construction, there are a host of issues, said an engineer working at one of the underground stations in Anna Salai. However, CMRL maintained it was doing its best. Simultaneously, pending civil work, including construction of stations and the portion of the corridor over Kathipara junction, will go on and is expected to be completed in six months. Till Now 75 per cent of the civil work is completed, according to CMRL. CMRL proposes to begin its trial run by July this year. According to CMRL, the deadline for the elevated stretch is the first quarter of 2014. Engineers at different Metro sites said a three to five month delay could be expected in the project. A massive project will have to overcome different hurdles at various points. Right from land acquisition to shortage of river sand for construction, there are a host of issues, said an engineer working at one of the underground stations in Anna Salai. However, CMRL maintained it was doing its best.The bridge-like structure will come up at a height of about 25 metres above the road, and connect with the Metro corridor on two sides of the clover leaf-shaped flyover. Work for the construction of flyover has begun and will be completed in six months. Chennaities are eagerly waiting to travel in their very own Chennai Metro Rails. Constructers, builders, management staffs of Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) are equally excited to bring up this project and finish it with grand success of opening Chennai Metro Rails before the end of this year.  

Garbage system in Chennai:

Solid Waste Management (SWM) is one of the key functions of any municipality. It is prominent as a public health and concern of the city. The Corporation of Chennai devotes a sizable proportion of its resources, time and labour to Solid Waste Management, in spite of the hundreds of tons of waste which go uncollected daily. The slums and low income settlements finds themselves chronically under-served.

The ‘garbage problem’ has become a major issue in Chennai which affects the public health to large extend and spreads diseases. Thousands in the city are dependent on municipal solid waste for livelihood as they pick the wastes and earns by giving the wastes for recycling.

Waste-pickers, itinerant buyers and scrap dealers together forms the longstanding network across the city as the informal sector in the waste industry who is responsible for most of the recycling that happens in the city and they are also responsible for reducing the city’s carbon footprint. But the contributions of waste pickers are unrecognized and the formal systems do not provide accommodations for them and as a result they are highly vulnerable to harassment and displacement.

There are some work centres which does research on garbage system and does promotion of sustainable and solid waste management in Chennai. These work centres aims in filling gaps in knowledge and understanding about waste to the public. It involves the management and some of the actors who acknowledge the public about waste management in the cities with both qualitative and quantitative research. Their primary focus sometimes is the role and contribution of ‘waste-pickers’ or informal waste workers in the city’s waste scenario.

Mahatma Gandhi had spent a lifetime trying to encourage cleanliness, and is known for his remark, “Cleanliness is next to Godliness.” Sixty years after India’s independence, cleanliness has been a major goal again. One of the biggest problems now in Chennai is the lack of toilet infrastructure, leading to defecation in public places. This poses serious health hazards. Laws that require all houses to have toilets have been ineffective and impractical. But this also has tobe seriously taken. Therefore solid waste management and recycling has to be taken into effort and has to be practiced by the people in Chennai to make Chennai a better place to live and make it the best developed city.

Makkal Auto in cities for and by women:

Motto: Safety, security and service to passengers in auto.

The founders of Namma Auto Mr. Mansoor Ali Khan  has started a wing, Makkal Auto, which will have 25 women drivers. And T. Selvaraj is the Managing Director of Makkal Auto. Makkal Auto has initially launched with 25 exclusive autos for women commuters to be driven by women auto drivers and 75 normal autos. The autos driven by women will cater exclusively to women and will form a strong women drivers’ empowerment wing.

As fixed by the government in Chennai, Makkal Auto is operating at the rate of Rs.25 minimum fare for 1.8 Kilometer and Rs.12 for every additional kilometer. It has been proposed to operate 50 Auto Rickshaws to begin with and the strength would go up to 300 Autos depending on the public response.  

Passengers are provided with drinking water, newspaper, cell phone charge point, scribbling pad and tablet. It has come out with digital meter with billing system. The tablet has camera that can capture video when “panic” key is pressed.

The tablet PC is fitted inside the vehicle with a 90 degree rotation accessible by the driver and passenger. The device acts as fare calculator, with the capacity to calculate even complex fares such as packages.  

The drivers would be provided with identity cards, name badges, uniforms and shoes. In addition, there would be an emergency panic button and when the passenger presses the same, a call would come from the control room and the passenger could just pick up the landline receiver in the Auto Rickshaw to convey the message. Whenever the button was pressed, the Global Positioning System (GPS) and General Pocket Radio Services (GPRS) would help in tracking and locating the Auto Rickshaw with a passenger in distress.

Smart phone users can download the exclusive application, “makkal auto” to make calls to these autos.

The tabs in the women-only Auto Rickshaws will also have an emergency button, front and rear cameras and calling facility. “When the button is pressed, video footage of the crime or accident will be sent to a call centre, and a call will be made to the nearest police station.

Customers wanting to avail themselves of the services could call the call centre number 40008000.

Additional information: To join makkal auto. Auto drivers with valid permit can join Makkal Auto any time. They provide the device and pay for the data charges. The only criterion for a driver to join them is his/her willingness to be courteous to the passengers and charge them as per the meter. Those willing to enroll as auto drivers with Makkal Auto would be given an identity card with social security number and details of blood group and address for communication in case of emergencies. Besides uniforms, the auto drivers will have insurance cover worth two lakh.

Most expensive licensed number plates for cars in the world:

Getting the most expensive number plates for the luxury car has become the most trending lifestyle for people. Rich People in oil producing country like Dubai, not only need a luxury car, they need to have the most expensive number plate to match their status. Some people also says that without a quality single digit number plate the luxury car won’t be worth the money spent to buy it. But it doesn’t mean that we need to buy a gold or silver plated number plate. It is just buying a single digit number plate which costs in millions and billions. The number plates that has one or two numbers specifically between one and ten are sold for high costs in most of the countries.A lot of license plates at the top of the list were won by the residents of the United Arab Emirates who wanted to remain anonymous. Businessman Saeed Abdul Ghafour Khouri spent 14.2million dollars to purhchase the number 1 plate for his luxury car and made a world record. His name wil be seen in the upcoming auctions as well. Another resident of the United Arab Emirates. Ali Falasi picked up the expensive plate reading the number 12 for 2.45 million dollar. At the time of purchase it was the second most expensive license plate.The number plates for luxury car in united states are common but it is not as expensive as sold in UAE. Auctions involving car number plates has become the new trend. Recently again in Dubai the plate number 1 has been sold for 100 million dirhams. It made a world record and number 5 plate has been sold for 50 million dirhams. By all these the United Arab Emirates has proved its money power and made a world record.When it comes to showing one’s status symbol, the most expensive  yachts, boats, motorcycle, car and houses aren’t just enough, buying the most expensive rare number plates shows that how much money one can spend for raising their status symbol. The countries around the world have taken these auctions as hobby of spending more money and getting one digit number plates.The United Arab Emirates has become the home for buying the most expensive number plates for cars in the world. It has made world records many times. When it comes down to this, he license plate in Dubai will sell for more money with the least amount of numbers on it. The plates are so expensive but people don’t mind spending millions of dollars because it’s the new way of showing their status symbol within the community and to the world. Anything from number ten to one will be sold for the bigger amount of money while the numbers between 10 and 99 are considered to be the next tier of top plates.
Some people wil be willing to pay more for numbers  that have more meaning to them like their birthdays, anniversaries, mobile number endings etc. Some numbers which are doubles like 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88. 99, or some triples are also very popular for those who hold these auctions. 

Android vs Windows vs iOS:

There is a tough competition between Andriods, wondiws and iOS system. All operating system is in a line of hard competition between each other increasing the features, and making it more user friendly for the customers. They are on a track of introducing the latest technology in the hands of every buyers. It has become very tough job for the buyers to choose one best in them as all operating systems posses their best and upgraded features to the customers. The Google Android system extended its gains over Apple's iphone globally in the last quarter of 2013, and Windows Phone grabbed the number three market position in a survey. Google and Microsoft mobile operating systems encountered a significant growth during 2013 as nearly one billion handsets were shipped throughout last year. Apple got only a modest boost in the fourth quarter from the release of its new iPhones, with sales up 6.7 percent compared with a year earlier.

Microsoft has much to do if it is to continue carving out a growing share of the smart phone market, not least driving the platform down to new entry-level price points, delivering innovation and new features, particularly at the high-end, and proactively working with, supporting and encouraging developers to commit to building compelling apps, and bring its app story closer to parity with its competitors," added Wang. "It cannot afford lengthy delays or distractions, and the combined Windows Phone devices team needs to hit the ground running."

Samsung maintained as the world's top smart phone leader. Samsung's increased its market share by 2 percentage points from 2012 to 2013. Samsung finished 2013 with 32 percent of the market share. Samsung easily defeated Microsoft's shipments with the latter accounting for 3 percent of the market share. Apple placed second despite shipping 154 million units during 2013. Apple's market share grew during the fourth quarter of 2013 from 13 percent to 17 percent.

Google's Android operating system was No. 1 during 2013 and still continues to be No, 1 representing 79 percent of the market share or 785 million devices. Apple's iOS fell by 5 percentage points. Now it is up to the preference of the buyers all over the world whether which product they prefer to buy and which product do they find it user friendly. 

The smartest way of learning in smart class:

The concept of smart class education is indeed a blessing to the students of the 21st Century. Smart classes uses all kind of interactive modules like videos, presentations, Graphics etc. This visually attractive method of teaching becomes appealing to students who are struggling with the traditional method of teaching in a classroom. In fact, smart classes are almost like watching movies as sometimes, animated visuals are used to teach a point. This kind of visual is both eye-catching and young students can easily relate with them. This is because the audio-visual senses of students are targeted and it helps the students store the information fast and more effectively. A classroom has students with varied power of understanding and learning, and studying from notes and other materials becomes difficult for some students. But the use of smart classes and modern technology eases the learning process for all students.

It is a new vision in education. Internet and e learning devices can make class room environment extremely amazing. Teaching through computer, internet and multimedia devices will be a common thing in future. Several institutes are making their classroom smart and modern. They are working on "Smart School Project". In modern e learning and online education based system, the smart class and smart school are not an unknown thing, because in a smart class there will be computer enabled education system. Smart class provides a platform for online e class. It is now referred as “White Board e Evolution" in education.  

As we are living in the age of internet, education is also going to be online. In this environment the effective e-learning and online education is the need of this time. Use of internet in schools and education institutions has become normal now-a-days and it is now not only a dream but has also become a necessity of time. A smart class consists of computers, projectors, internet connectivity and other multimedia devices such as home theatres or speakers, mike etc. The role of teachers inside smart classrooms is modified in such new environment. In beginning the smart class will launch a pilot project then the experience and result of these pilot projects will leads to future planning. 

India offers a big opportunity to growing technology:

Technology continues to become more and more a part of everyday life for humanity. Technology plays an important role in day to day life for all people. Without technology people finds it difficult to manage things. Technology has given man a easy way to live their life. With the use of mobile phones we can communicate easier with any person in the world, with the use of internet we can surf anything we would like to know and acquire more knowledge. Technology has a list of positive contributions towards society including entertainment, communication and making everyday tasks easier.New information and communications technologies in particularly with high-speed internet are changing the lifestyle of the people and the way companies do business, transforming public service delivery and democratizing innovation. With 10 percent increase in high speed Internet connections, economic growth increases by 1.3 percent. The mobile platform is emerging as the single most powerful way to extend economic opportunities and key services to millions of people.
But it is acceptable fact that technology comes with both positives and negative effects. In the classroom, negatives out ways the positive effects. Technology help in classroom by making the fundamental things quicker like using white boards instead of chalkboards and organizing grades instead of marks but technology has a greater negative effect also. Technology has made it so easy that virtually any student can become a good student without any effort. In this generation the Google answers has become the key to success within the classroom. Downloading the right apps in the mobile and tablets helps the students to get quick answers for any kind of questions. Now, with the right apps a C student can easily become an A student without becoming any smarter. From a negative aspect technology has become a disappointing factor for many students.