Pancha is five in Samskritam, Amritam is nectar
ONE
A unique function took place at Rashtrapathi Nilayam in Hyderabad on July 1 when the President, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, gave a party to about 1,400 workers who had laboured hard for 8 months to make the Nilayam suitable for his occupation. The workers and artisans included about 50 Banjara women in their picturesque dress and ornaments. Speaking to them for about ten minutes, the President emphasized that work was more important than the person who did it, and the time had come when they should bridge the gulf between the rich and the poor, the small and the big. When he arrived at Hyderabad some days back, the first decision he made was to meet these simple folk and entertain them.
From THE HINDU of July 3, 1956 reproduced in the `This Day That Age' column
TWO
The India story gets stronger on the global arena. (1) Bharat expanded its presence on the elite list of Fortune Global 500 companies, as the State Bank of India has become the sixth BHARATIYA firm to feature in the league. Besides SBI's grand entry to the list, all five current incumbents -- Reliance Industries Ltd, Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd and Oil and Natural Gas Corp -- have scaled up the ranking on the list of world's biggest 500 companies. Among the six Indian companies on the list, IOC holds the top rank at 153rd position, followed by RIL at 342nd rank, BPCL at 368, HPCL at 378th, ONGC at 402nd and the new entry SBI has been placed at 498th rank. RIL has scaled up 75 ranks on the list from the previous year, while IOC has gained 17 positions, BPCL has jumped 61 ranks, HPCL has moved up 58 positions and ONGC has scaled up 52 positions. RIL figures among the top 25 climbers on the list. Based on a report in rediff NEWS, July 13, 2006. (2) In the face of stiff competition from Chinese and Korean equipment suppliers, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has achieved a major success by bagging a prestigious contract for a 250 MW Thermal Power Station (TPS) in Maharashtra. The contract has been won from Tata Power Company (TPC) under competitive bidding. Notably, this is the first order secured by BHEL where the boiler will be designed to suit firing of imported coal. The equipment for the present contract will be manufactured at BHEL's Haridwar, Trichy, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Bhopal and Jhansi Plants. From a July 10, 2006 Press Release in www.BHEL.com.
THREE
Recently, the wedding of Muktamani, daughter of Dr Ganeshdutt Bhardwaj, took place with Vidhichand Sharma in Hoshiyarpur, Punjab, Bharat. In this marriage, Dr Bhardwaj, who is head of Sanskrit Department in Punjab University, did not receive the money of shagun (wedding gift) from any guest. He kept a pot before the picture of Bharatmata and requested the guests to pour the money they wish to give as shagun in the pot. He made it clear that all the money poured into the pot as shagun, would be donated to Seva Bharati, Hoshiyarpur. After the wedding ceremony, the money poured in pot was counted as Rs 15,200. The Bhardwaj family themselves added another Rs 505 and handed over the amount of Rs 15,705 to Shri B.K. Bhardwaj, chairman, Seva Bharati and Shri Arvind Sharma, general secretary. Everybody who participated in the wedding ceremony praised this initiative of Dr Bhardwaj.
From ORGANISER dated July 16, 2006. Also HINDU VISHWA.
FOUR
As a soldier handed five-year old boy Prince over to his mother Karamjit, she shed tears of joy. In a dramatic operation, Prince was rescued by the Army on Sunday, July 23, 2006, about 50 hours after he fell into a 60-foot pit while playing at Haldheri, a village near Kurukshetra, Haryana, Bharat. People cheered loudly as a crane hoisted the boy, wrapped in a white sheet and cradled by a soldier, from a well. The ordeal united the nation in prayers for his well-being. As Prince spent what were the most harrowing two days of his life in the pit — barely 16 inches wide — soldiers, aided by experts from the Fire Service and the Air Force, worked relentlessly to free the child. Prince looked dazed but did not appear to be in any pain. His mother Karamjit and his father Ram Chander had been sitting at the site for the past two days. The rescuers dug a tunnel from a dried-up well parallel to the narrow and dark pit. A soldier finally reached Prince a little before 7 p.m. on Sunday. Throughout the operation, the rescuers monitored the boy's condition using a CCTV system that allowed him to talk to people on the surface. Food and water were also lowered to the boy.
Based on a report in THE HINDU of July 24, 2006.
FIVE
Yoga classes based on ancient Hindu practices of meditation through controlled breathing, balancing and stretching, are catching on in military circles in the USA. The August edition of FIT YOGA, the US' second largest Yoga magazine with a circulation of 1,00,000, features a photo of two naval aviators doing yoga poses in full combat gear aboard an aircraft carrier. "At first it seemed a little shocking – soldiers practicing such a peaceful art", writes editor Rita Trieger. Upon closer inspection, she said, she noticed "a sense of inner calm" on the aviators' faces.
Based on an AP report in The Hindu BUSINESS LINE of July 18, 2006.
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