Showing posts with label What's happening?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label What's happening?. Show all posts

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Thursday, December 27, 2007

Bhutto shot dead after bomb attack

Dec. 27 - Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has been killed in a bomb attack at an election rally in Rawalpindi, according to party officials.

Bhutto was holding the election rally in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi when the attack occurred.

Initial reports from local police said fifteen people had been killed and first reports came in that Bhutto has been injured - possibly seriously - before a party offical said she had died.

Bhutto's party has the largest support in the country as it heads into a general election that has been beset by violence.





RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack after a rally in the city of Rawalpindi on Thursday, her party said.

"She has been martyred," said party official Rehman Malik.

Bhutto, 54, died in hospital in Rawalpindi. Ary-One Television said she had been shot in the head.

Police said a suicide bomber fired shots at Bhutto as she was leaving the rally venue in a park before blowing himself up.

"The man first fired at Bhutto's vehicle. She ducked and then he blew himself up," said police officer Mohammad Shahid.

Police said 16 people had been killed in the blast.

Earlier, party officials said Bhutto was safe.

A Reuters witness said he saw bodies on a road as well as a mutilated human head.

A suicide bomber killed nearly 150 people in an attack on Bhutto on October 18 as she paraded through the southern city of Karachi after returning home from eight years in self-imposed exile.

Saturday, December 22, 2007

MDU Date sheet - final changes

As updated on 20th Dec, 07 the changes in the date sheet of B.Tech exams session dec, 2007 can be seen by downloading the following PDF file from MDU's site on Googlepages

CLICK THE BELOW LINK FOR UPDATED DATE-SHEETS

NOTIFICATION

NOTIFICATION 20.12.2007

For those who are still checking on the MDU's old site(mdurohtak.com), it isn't working anymore, probably they have taken it down or are still updating it

Also, that as earlier MDU's date sheet could be downloaded from Haryana Government's site(haryana.gov.in), no changes are displayed there, only the original date sheet is there(http://haryana.gov.in/mdu_rohtak.htm).....that too in PDF files(I really dunno what's it with haryana sites that they show every single info in pdf files)..

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Narayana Murthy on leadership and values

N R Narayana Murthy, chief mentor, Infosys Technologies, speaking at the Governance Series session on 'Ethics and Values as Corporate Strategy', organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry in New Delhi, January 17.

S
trategy is all about differentiating yourself in the marketplace to maximise your margins. Differentiation could come through products and services. But your stakeholders must feel you are more and more valuable to them, compared to competitors.

Stakeholders would mean society, customers, employees, government, investors; each must say this company is adding more value to me than any other.

What are ethics and values? They transcend the legal framework and as a society evolves, what is in the realm of ethics and values moves into legality. In India, before Sebi in 1990, a lot of good practices were part of ethics and values.

Today, it is all part of legality. Similarly, in the US, a lot of practices were part of ethics and values before the Blue Ribbon Committee report. My friend John Hunstman, in his book, says that successful people never cheat. That good people never cheat.

Ethics and values can be defined as anything that stands the test of golden behaviour. That is the rule, that you must do unto others what you would like to be done unto you. I define ethics and values in a more elaborate manner.

Ethics and values form the protocol for conduct and behaviour in a community for each of its members. So that enhances the confidence, the enthusiasm, the energy, the joy of everyone else in the community. If I conduct myself as per that protocol of behaviour, it enhances the confidence, the enthusiasm, the energy and joy of everyone else in the company.

As I said earlier, if you want to become unique in the marketplace, then you want all to work hard. If you want 67,500 people in Infosys to agree voluntarily to commit to hard work, then they have to trust the leader.

A leader has to have followers to be a leader. That is why I stood by my controversial decision on CEO's salaries being linked to company's earnings. If you want to enhance the trust of employees in the leader, then the leadership of the company has to conduct itself in a manner that enhances trust.

Also, the CEO or the leader must definitely reap benefits proportionate to the benefits derived by the company.

Never before in the history of business community in the world did we have a situation where trust of man and woman in the street is lowest in business leaders. According to a US survey, corporate leaders are least trusted, as many of them violated codes of ethics and even laws.

On the Indian side, if you have analysed how salaries of CEOs have increased in 15 years, they have gone up from Rs 7,000 and Rs 10,000 to Rs 70 lakh (Rs 7 million) on an average. I am one of those who fought for this. When on board of a company, I saw to it that the CEO had a variable linked to output.

Indeed, salaries of the lowest paid persons have not correspondingly gone up. I won't get into a debate whether this is right or wrong.

But after getting the government to agree to limit on salaries, it is incumbent on our part to live up to expectations and conduct ourselves in a manner that enhances trust of all stakeholders, particularly the government and the society.

The fact that we opened borders in 1991 and welcomed MNCs to operate, has had a tremendous positive impact on value delivered to consumers. But if we have to continue to satisfy our customers we have to conduct ourselves in a manner that is worthy for the simple reason that customers today have a plethora of choices.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Another misuse of Orkut

Click on the image to read the news....


Chappel slapped by cricket fan

India coach Greg Chappell was slapped by a cricket supporter, named Biranchi Maharana, at the Bhubaneswar airport on Monday.

The man who belongs to the Kalinga Sena, a local political outfit in Bhubaneswar, was unhappy with Chappell because of the non-inclusion of Orissa players in the Indian team.

The Orissa police has arrested the man.