Unique Marriage - Bride took her baraat to the groom's house

INDORE: Rajni, a 25-year-old law student, dressed in best bridal finery, mounted a horse and took her baraat (marriage procession) to the groom's house through her village. After an hour-long marriage procession and dancing on the streets, she went to mandap (pandal) and asked the groom to marry her.

Unbelievable though it may sound, but that is exactly what happened at a marriage in Satwara village of Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh.

The unique tradition — 'Kanya Ghatari' — which was practised by the Patidar community, wherein the bride takes her baraat to the groom's place, had long been forgotten, was brought alive. Senior members of the community endorsed Rajni's initiative to revive the age old tradition and lavished praise on her.

Rajni, who got married two days ago, initially felt a little awkward at the idea of riding a horse and taking the baraat to the groom's place. "I realized that the idea was to empower women and this practice would certainly eradicate many evils in the society," she said.

Normally, boys consider it their birth right to take out the baraat. But for Praveen Patidar, 30, a state government employee, seeing his wife coming to marry him on a horse was a matter of pride.

Groom's father Ishwarlal Patel said that even on the wedding card that was printed a month ago, there was a message of women empowerment. He said his family wished that their daughter-in-law would take her baraat to their house.

About the tradition, he said first the bride was offered coconut by her parents. After completing the ritual, the girl mounted the horse and led the baraat from her house, which after passing from the narrow lanes of village, reached the groom's place.

The girl then came up to the mandap (pandal) on the horse and proposed the groom, asking him whether he would marry her. Waiting family members of the groom welcomed the bride. Thereafter, the marriage was solemnized. 

This is the story presented by TIMES OF INDIA

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Jobless & Hopeless

To paraphrase a line from Alice in wonderland, "If you don't know where you 're going, any road will get you there."

The first thing to decide before taking any further action is, what do you want? Is it just a job in which you earn enough money to get by? Or is it continuous growth and a long term career path? Perhaps it's independence and self control?

You might find yourself saying 'YES' to all these options.However, despite what people may tell you, you can't have it all! You need to know what is most important for you right now:
a) a steady salary  
b) a career
c) Self employment? 

If you 've saved enough money to run your household or if you currently don't have any financial responsibilities, then skip option 'a' and move onto option 'b' & 'c'. But if you are like most people in today's challenging economic climate, then securing a steady revenue stream is probably your first priority, so head down this direction first.

Now, money is money.If it comes from clerical work or from a managerial job.I suggest to first list down all the skills you have and link them to your potential jobs.Don't restrict your thinking.Can you teach or tutor? Set-up a stall in the weekly bazaars? Can you deliver fast food?

I read an article in Fortune magazine that highlighted top US executives who, after getting down-sized, delivered pizza to get by until job prospects improved.

I know some live examples where someone started his career as CSR in call center and now they are running there own Call center just after few years.My friend Haris started his career in Pizza Hut during under-graduation as CSR and now he is running Pizza Hut branch as Branch Manager after graduation.I know a person named Syed Munner who started his career as TELLER in a Bank while he has done Masters from University of Karachi but after 3 years he was selected as OPERATION MANAGER in the same branch of the bank where he was appointed as teller.

An interesting thing one executive said was that there is no shame in work, but there's plenty of shame in waiting for charity.

If above all can do it, then why can't you????

BEST OF LUCK for your career

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The Ultimate Currency War

After the 2008 financial crisis, the liquidity trap induced policymakers to venture in unconventional endeavors. On the fiscal front, much has been discussed regarding the effectiveness of fiscal policy to pull developed countries out of the sluggish recovery. On the monetary side, the so-called quantitative easing (QE) guaranteed the liquidity needed to avoid a collapse of the financial system, even though its efficacy to stimulate the economy has been questioned. Within this environment, some concerns were raised in the Emerging Markets. The expansionist attempts would, some have been advocating, inflict in exchange rate appreciation, hurting EM’s companies’ exports competitiveness.

Domestic Issues

The first thing is to elaborate the goals of a QE-type of policy. Roughly, there are three pillars: a) it aims to provide the liquidity needed to break the vicious circle of falling asset prices, credit contraction and banking problems; b) it also aims to induce the private sector to take some risks, since safe assets yields became very low and more resources are available; and c) it has some effects on expectations, which are crucial for understanding business cycles.

Even though there is much interconnectedness between countries, especially through financial markets and capital flow, the goals of QEs are domestic, i.e., the policymakers seek to stimulate the economy to help the recovery process (or at least to avoid the worst). Of course there may be “collateral” effects, such as the depreciation of the exchange rate (appreciation of EM’s exchange rate). Personally, I do not think this effect is on the center of the targets. The US, for instance, is a relatively closed economy, therefore it depends substantially on the domestic aggregates.

Furthermore, for the exchange rate depreciation to increase net exports - the Marshall-Lerner condition - a combination of elasticities in a certain way is need, implying that there’s more to be considered. Moreover, the improvement in developed world’s conditions translates in greater demand for EMs products. Some estimates indicate that this offsets the exchange rate appreciation effect.

Data

Comparing the end of period amount of Long Term Treasury Purchases with the real effective exchange rate index (REER), it’s hard to find an evidence of a great impact on the REER from the liquidity injection:

The appreciation trend actually diminished after the QEs and some of the subsequent depreciation was induced by the change of the exchange rate regime. Moreover, taking the log of the series and calculating their first difference, one can actually find that after the QEs the average variation was higher (though more volatile), i.e., it has induced depreciation, rather than appreciation:

Remarks

The data seems to indicate that the effect of QE on the REER is low, if any. However, since the analysis is absent of any econometric treatment, one should be cautious. Perhaps a better look could reveal other conclusions. Nevertheless, I think that neither there’s a war, nor if there is, it something really important to justify the recent policy attempts. 

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HEC rejects Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan intermediate certificate

ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) on Saturday rejected the A-level certificate of senior PML-N leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, terming it inaccurate, SAMAA reports.

According to sources, Nisar submitted Cambridge University’s certificate on a plain paper.

Manzoor Watto’s name is also listed among those whose educational certificates are allegedly bogus. Former state minister Ghulam Fareed Kathia also adorned the list.

HEC sources further say that degrees of Samina Khalid Ghurki and Hamid Nasir Chatha are also doubtful. In addition, former MQM MPA Syed Sardar Ahmed’s degree is also suspicious.

Tomorrow will be the last day for the verification of educational documents.

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Top 10 famous women on internet

When you are looking for powerful women in the world where is the first place we turn? Often times our attention turns to that of the internet, and here we have gathered information showing the top most researched (and therefore powerful) women from Google. Here you see we have taken 10 of those most popular and picked apart their fame, personal lives and more to see just what it is that makes these women so unique, desirable and overall, interesting

#10 Avril Lavigne

#9 Paris Hilton

#8 Miley Cyrus

#7 Justin Bieber

#6 Britney Spears

#5 Eva Longoria

#4 Beyonce

#3 Madonna

#2 Kesha

#1 Lady GaGa

Of the names above you can see, that overall, they are musical sensations so we will start there with these amazing women. You have Avril Lavigne, Miley Cyrus, and Justin Bieber, wait what? Justin Bieber is on the WOMENS list? Yes we will elaborate later, and then there is Lady Gaga, Madonna and more. With that said there are only two names out of the ten we have mentioned here that are NOT in the music industry. So what is it about the music industry and women that allows them to be on the top 50 list?

Well we put this question to the test, and we believe that you see these women on the top 50 most searched list because today’s music is easily accessed through internet searches, Zune and other downloadable website. Therefore many times you will see teens and adults turn to search engines to search for their favorite artists and songs. Now, we mentioned that Justin Bieber had made this list (for women if we must reiterate that) and the bottom line is there has been (internet sourced) controversy as to his… masculinity adding him to the “top women search” list.

When you take the other remaining names you have the ever beautiful Eva Longoria, whom when we took a closer look has been “googled” by 80 % men and the remaining percentage women who are interested in her background and personal life story. As a beautiful woman there are times when men Google these lovely women’s names in hopes of finding nude or very risqué photos of the women.

Now when you compare these names to the other 40 names on the most searched Google names where do they compare as far as power or meaning of the searches? There are women of political posture, women who have been on the scene of tv and movies for generations and then you have those who have made it their life mission to get a message of good across the world. So how do these names all end up on the same list?
That is simply answered with one word: internet. When we have the tools at our fingertips to type in a name, and find photos, personal stories and hear about these ‘celebrities’ it allows us to feel one step closer to these individuals. When you are looking for someone as a role model, today there are more and more women out there to educate our daughters about. Whether it is those we listened to as a child, and now see with their families, or those who created the stories we read growing up, maybe its Michelle Obama, or Hilary Clinton; regardless of who we look up to its vital that we show our daughters and granddaughter the strong presence of women across the world.

When you stop and take a look at the full list of all 50 women that have been Google’d and searched you see a wide variety of different women from all different corners of the world. With this in mind, it can fluctuate as to who gets searched more one day to the next, and that can depend on the news, whats happening that day or overall, what someone is looking for.

The next time you stop and want to search for someone online stop and think about why it is you are looking for an article, news story or picture. And what would we do without these amazing lists that are put together. These celebrities are like the rest of us, the difference is they knew their dreams, pursued them and now, are living their dream.

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TTP threats to Pervez Musharaf - VIDEO

Zila Ghaziabad- (TTP Commando) Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan in their recent Video warned Ex- President of United States of Pakistan that you 've did huge mistake by coming back home.As a famous proverb " When death of cat is near she goes City" Pervez Musharaf has done big blunder after coming back Pakistan.

According to our sources Musharaf is feeling insecure and is afraid from Taliban.He is using commandos for his security.

His name is already included in ECL (exit control list) due to the order of court.

here is the video of Taliban for Musharaf.

you can also see the video here on facebook by clicking this link https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=444029782338780&set=vb.360419277366498&type=2&theater

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