Steel Secy takes charge as SAIL chairman

Secretary in Steel Ministry Rakesh Singh (IAS) has taken additional charge of the post of chairman, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) on Thursday. He is a 1978 batch officer of Punjab cadre.
He has the experience of public sector management in the State of Punjab of about 13 years as a Chief Executive; also served on the boards of banks, insurance companies and financial institutions. He is currently the Secretary in the Ministry of Steel, Government of India and is involved in policy making at the highest level.

“Singh is a Graduate in Science and a Post Graduate in History from the University of Allahabad. He also holds a Post Graduate Degree in Economic and Social Sciences from the University of Manchester”, SAIL officials informed.

Teachers should impart value-based education: Umarye

BICHOLIM:  Recipient of state teacher award Kalidas Umarye said that it is the responsibility of teachers to impart value-based education to the students and mould them into model citizens.
Umarye was addressing students at government primary school hall, Bicholim after inaugurating the patriotic song workshop. Headmaster Madhukar Sasolkar, and staff were present on the occasion.
Resource personalities taught the students how to present patriotic songs. 300 students participated in the workshop.

Maitreyi Bandekar, Sanjana Patkar,  Santoshi Halarnakar,  Komudi Bandekar,  Shrisha Parab, Aditi Mandrekar,  Yogada Bandekar,  Niraja Gaonkar,  Vedhas Umarye,  Parth Umarye,  Aaditya Umarye, Rishita Kubal,  Tanmay Chari, Arpita Singh, Pratiksha Khedekar, Saloni Chodankar and Avishka Jadhav presented patriotic songs.

School teachers Rajani Deo, Prabodhini Prabhu, Deepali Naik, Smital Shirodkar, Shyamal Sawant, Parinita Kavthankar and Geeta Navelkar were also present for the workshop. Sasolkar welcomed the guests and the students. Later Deepali Naik proposed the vote of thanks.

Women of the World Festival

This festival celebrating all that is great about women and girls (and all the great things they have achieved) is back for a fifth year in 2015 with a week of talks, debates, concerts, film, comedy and workshops. The line-up will feature an impressive selection of international guests, including many famous faces. Merrill Garbus, better known as Tune-Yards, will play a headline show (Mar 5), theatre will include 'No Guts, No Heart, No Glory' which is based on interviews with female Muslim boxers and a verbatim piece telling the stories of four female African refugees' harrowing journey to Australia, 'Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe'.

Feminist Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Bridget Christie leads the comedy line-up, while WOW's annual night of laughs and music, 'Mirth Control', will star Sarah Millican, Sandi Toksvig and Sue Perkins. Speakers will include Caitlin Moran, Eve Ensler, Annie Lennox, Juliet Stevenson, Gemma Cairney and Kirsty Wark and BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour will broadcast live from the festival all week.

The festival's mass speed mentoring event will return this year with up to 150 women at a time being mentored by 150 leading woman from across industries including medicine, journalism, the military, science, architecture and the arts.

Brett Lee retires from all formats

News Network / Brett Lee has decided to bid adeau from all the formats of game, ending a 20-year long career. The 38-year-old, who announced his retirement on Thursday at the Sydney Cricket Ground, called time on his international career in July 2012, but continued playing T20s in both the Indian Premier League and the BBL

PAHAL hits wall in capital, Jodhpur

JAIPUR / The registration for Pratyaksha Hastaantarit Laabh (PAHAL) — the direct benefits transfer scheme for LPG subsidy — has received good response from the people in the state with about 63.77% LPG consumers signing up for the scheme so far. However, the response has been poor in Jaipur and Jodhpur, where only 56.51% and 54.92% consumers have linked their Aadhar numbers with the LPG connections, respectively. According to oil companies, there are two reasons for the lukewarm response. First, there are several consumers who have been using domestic connections without the same being registered. These consumers have not approached the distributors for availing the scheme as they fear that the cylinders won’t be supplied to them in future, says Gurmeet Singh, executive director of Rajasthan office of Indian Oil Corporation Limited. Second, many consumers do not possess the original documents pertaining to the connections. Likewise, some have the documents of the connections that are registered in the names of their deceased family members. Singh says: "Consumers do not approach the distributors also because they do not know the procedure for regularisation of these connections.” Oil marketing companies have issued guidelines to all distributors to regularise the connections so that consumers can avail the benefits of the PAHAL scheme. Consumers can approach their distributors and submit the required consent letter/affidavits formats available with distributors. They are required to carry the documents related to the connection or the death certificates of the original connection holders. The transfer of the connection to the next kin or legal heir is permitted, subject to the completion of the formalities. Change of names is also permitted. The original consumer will have to give his written consent for transferring the connection in favour of a family member to whom she/he wants to transfer the connection.

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New York commuter train hits car in deadly crash

A commuter train north of New York City struck a vehicle on the tracks Tuesday evening, killing six people, mostly on the train, and injuring at least 12, authorities said.

The northbound train struck a Jeep Cherokee at a railroad crossing in Valhalla, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of New York City, Metro-North Railroad spokesman Aaron Donovan said. Killed were the Jeep’s driver and five people aboard the train, he said.

The train shoved the Jeep about 10 train car lengths north, and the Jeep and the front of the train caught fire, he said. The rail passengers were moved to the rear of the train, which had left Grand Central Terminal about 45 minutes earlier.

Passengers got off from the rear of the train. About 400 of them were taken to a local rock climbing gym for shelter. Buses were heading there to pick them up and take them to their destinations.

The railroad track gates came down on top of the vehicle, which was stopped on the tracks, the Metro-North spokesman said. The driver got out to look at the rear of the vehicle, then she got back in and drove forward and was struck, he said.

Smoke was seen pouring out of the scorched rail car, its windows blackened.

Metro-North is the nation’s second-busiest railroad, after the Long Island Rail Road. It was formed in 1983 and serves about 280,000 riders a day in New York and Connecticut.

(AP)