The vote and beyond

Quite understandably, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti is portraying the results of the 12 Assembly by-elections in Andhra Pradesh as a referendum in favour of a separate Telangana State. The party won all the 11 seats it contested; the twelfth went to the Bharatiya Janata Party with which it had an understanding. After all, the by-elections were a direct fall-out of the Telangana issue with the sitting MLAs — 10 belonging to the TRS, one to the BJP and another to the Telugu Desam Party— resigning in protest at what they saw as a delay on the part of the Centre in carving out a new State. Statehood was indeed the dominant issue right through the campaign, and the TRS won all its seats with huge margins, a marked improvement over its performance in the general elections just a year ago. Its chief, K. Chandrashekhar Rao, who spearheaded the Statehood agitation by undertaking an indefinite fast last year, must be feeling vindicated. Both the Congress and the TDP, which have been equivocal on the Statehood issue, received a drubbing. Indeed, in a high stakes contest for the Congress, the party's State president, D. Srinivas, lost to the BJP candidate in the Nizamabad Urban constituency. The TDP, apart from conceding one seat to the TRS, lost its deposit in several constituencies, finishing a poor third. A pro-Statehood sentiment was clearly in evidence in all the constituencies that went to polls.

However, with the Srikrishna Committee now seized of the Statehood issue in all its aspects, Mr. Rao must resist the temptation to capitalise on the popular mood to fall back on his brand of political brinkmanship. The issue concerns the whole of Andhra Pradesh, and any decision on dividing the State will have to be taken on the basis of a broad consensus after due deliberations on its social, economic, and political implications. Although popular support for a separate State seems to have increased considerably within Telangana, too much must not be read into the poll outcome. The 12 constituencies were in any case the core base of the TRS and the Telangana movement. But the by-elections should force a serious rethink within the Congress and the TDP. The two parties, whose political base is spread across the State, have spoken in different voices at different times and at different places. Instead of seeking to tap parochial sentiments, political parties must take a reasoned, long-term view of this complex issue. While the TRS might be emboldened by the results, the proper course for the party will be to await the report of the Srikrishna Committee.

A deepening relationship

Writing on his blog before his 2006 visit to India while he was Leader of the Opposition in the British Parliament, David Cameron said he was going for “a simple reason: India matters so much in the modern world …Our relationship with India goes deep. But I think it can and should go deeper … I think it's time for Britain and India to forge a new special relationship for the twenty-first century.” Visiting India again this week, this time as Prime Minister, Mr. Cameron went all out to prove his determination to make those words come true. It is no secret that the recession-hit United Kingdom is eyeing India primarily through an economic lens. On his two-city tour, Mr. Cameron made a strong pitch for improving bilateral trade and investment, particularly for India to relax rules on foreign direct investment in legal services, banking and insurance, and in defence manufacturing. Although the joint statement was short on specific economic commitments, both countries agreed to “substantially increase trade and significantly increase investment,” and find ways to double it in the next five years. But the British delegation had at least one substantial achievement to celebrate — the clinching of the Rs.5,100 crore deal to supply Hawk trainer jets to the Indian Air Force and Navy. The document notes the “opportunities for wide-ranging cooperation” in the nuclear field after the signing earlier this year of the U.K.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Declaration. The Indian interest in attracting foreign investment in infrastructure development was reflected in the joint statement, with both countries agreeing to explore how best to go about this.

With Mr. Cameron determined to woo India, both sides seemed to have deliberately avoided speaking on difficult bilateral issues publicly. If New Delhi reiterated its reservation on the British cap on immigration, it did so quietly. While there has been no change in substantive positions, the atmospherics this time were far better than during the final years of the Labour government under Gordon Brown when David Miliband's tone and comments, particularly on Kashmir, had not been received well. Prime Minister Cameron was careful not to mention the Kashmir issue at all. Unsurprisingly, his candid statements on terrorism emanating from Pakistan against India, Afghanistan, and the other parts of the world, have endeared him to Indians. That the same statements have caused outrage in Pakistan — casting a shadow over President Asif Ali Zardari's visit to the U.K. next week — and come under criticism in Britain, where Mr. Cameron has been attacked for antagonising Islamabad, only goes to show that in diplomacy, you cannot please all the people all the time.

Obama to address joint session of Parliament

US President Barack Obama, who will undertake his first State visit to India in November, is expected to address a joint session of Parliament, an honour that his predecessor George W Bush could not have.

Obama is expected to address the joint session on November nine, government sources said here on Friday.

In view of this plan, the Winter Session of Parliament, that usually starts in the second week of November, will be advanced, they said.

Obama, who took over as the US President in January last year, will be undertaking his first State visit to India with an aim of pushing the bilateral ties to new heights.

Bush, who visited India in March 2006, could not have the honour of addressing the joint session of Parliament of the world's largest democracy.

Initially, he was tipped to address the joint session but the plan was dropped when the Left parties threatened to boycott it.

Left parties were critical of Bush over the war in Iraq. However, Bill Clinton had addressed the joint session during his visit in 2000.

Among others to have addressed the Indian MPs at a joint session was the then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who visited India in August 2007.

MBA-Entrance Dates announced.

ALmost all the top B school Entrance exam dates have been announced.Here a look at all the Exam dates and their pattern.( According to the Ratings of B-School)

1- CAT 2010 From 27th october to nov 23rd
Computer based test. Official Notification on 30th august 2010.
For all enquiries: http://www.catiim.in/

2-XAT 2011 On 2nd January
Paper based Test.120 marks.Official notification In september 2010
For all enquiries:http://www.xlri.edu/

3-FMS 2010 On 5th December
Paper based Test.800 marks.Official notification in september
For all enquiries:http://fms.edu/

4-JMET 2010 In mid of 2nd week of decemeber.
Paper Based Test.120 marks.IITs.Official in september
For all enquiries:www.gate.iitb.ac.in

5-SNAP 2010 On December 19th
Paper Based Test.180 marks.Official in september
For all enquiries:http://www.snaptest.org/

6-IIFT 2010 On November 28th
Paper Based test.Official announcement already made
For online registration: http://www.iift.edu/iift/Admissions_2011/index.asp

7-MAT Sep 2010 On 5th sep Paper or 12th sep Computer based
For online:http://www.aima-ind.org/matsep10/

Mh-Cet will be held in the month of february.200 marks.
MICAT exam for admission into MICA,Ahmedabad will be in march 2011.

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A very strange law

Children were encouraged to spy on their parents during China's Cultural Revolution. It is ironical, therefore, that the Chongqing local legislature in China has passed a law that forbids parents from monitoring their wards' computers and mobile phones. The law has been justified in terms of protecting the privacy of children. But it goes against a fundamental assumption of the parent-child relationship, that parents should exercise some supervisory capacity over their children till they are adults. That's the reason, for example, that movies have ratings with some categories open to adults only, and others that children of a certain age can watch with parental approval. Little wonder then that even in China's controlled society 42 per cent of the respondents in an online survey conducted by a Chinese portal gave the new legislation a thumbs-down.

Children nowadays are extremely tech savvy, and can virtually lead a parallel life via platforms such as social networking websites. These platforms, though extremely productive when utilised in the proper manner, can lend themselves to exploitation and inappropriate exposure. As a result, children can fall prey to online stalkers and blackmailers, or come across unsuitable content such as pornography. In such a scenario, it makes good sense for parents to keep tabs on their children's online activities.

The Chongqing law creates a bizarre situation in which the state finds it perfectly natural to play Big Brother and censor content on the internet, but the local government will not allow parents to monitor what their children have access to. It's as if when the government wants to play parent to all its citizens, it doesn't want the real parents to get in the way. Such heavy-handed state intervention in the parent-child relationship isn't a good idea.
Keywords: China,Children,Laws.

Shiv Sena workers waste milk to protest import of dairy products

rotesting the government's decision to import milk powder and other dairy products, Shiv Sena activists spilled thousands of litres of milk on the Satara-Pune highway.

The activists stopped a milk tanker on the highway yesterday and spilled the milk all over the road.

The import of dairy products will hurt the interests of the local dairy farmers, they claimed.

In a similar protest last week, Sena activists had stopped five tankers and wasted over 50,000 litres of milk in Satara.

WOWOW..what a way of protesting.Bala saheb thakeray and your party...My middle finger salutes you...

I will call you a terrorist party of mumbai from now on....

Rescue The Show

The Commonwealth Games could turn out to be a disaster for India's global image unless authorities step in with emergency measures. With just about two months to go, a lot of work remains to be completed. On Tuesday, a young swimmer hurt herself after a grill gave way at the newly constructed S P Mukherjee swimming complex. Reports indicate that the complex, which was formally inaugurated this week, is far from ready for use. Unfortunately, the swimming complex is not an exception. Civic work related to roads and pavements is far from complete. It appears that not many Commonwealth athletes and sports stars with top billing intend to come for the Delhi Games. A star-less Games would dampen public interest in the event and drastically bring down advertising and other revenue. And creaking infrastructure is unlikely to help us woo top sportspeople to New Delhi.

The repercussions of a flop show will not be limited to Indian sports. A poorly organised event could also deal us a psychological blow. Countries stage big events also as a step to boost the collective confidence of their people. For instance, China used the Beijing Olympics as an opportunity not just to showcase its organisational might before the world but also to raise the morale of its own citizens. India, like China, is on the path to shed the diffidence of a third world nation and become a country confident of its people and their capabilities. The government must, therefore, move fast to salvage the Delhi Games. It's in danger of becoming an exhibition of ineptitude and incompetence.

Barking up the wrong tree

The loud protests by the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership and Chief Minister Narendra Modi over the charge sheet against former Gujarat Minister of State for Home Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh-Kausar Bi murder case carry little conviction. Allegations that the charge sheet is fabricated and that Mr. Shah is a victim of political conspiracy won't wash. That the Gujarat administration had a hand in the 2005 killings of Sohrabuddin, who allegedly ran an extortion racket and had been convicted in 1994 for transporting assault rifles and grenades, and his innocent wife, Kausar Bi, is not contested. In early 2007, the State government admitted before the Supreme Court that Sohrabuddin was killed by the State police in a fake encounter and Kasur Bi murdered and her body burnt to eliminate evidence of the crime. It was around that time that a slew of policemen, including two senior Gujarat IPS officers, were arrested in the case. There has been suspicion that the murders were masterminded at the political level and Mr. Shah's name has been dragged into the controversy more than once. While his innocence must be presumed unless and until he is found guilty, he has behaved most inappropriately. As Minister of State for Home, Mr. Shah should have been upholding the law rather than dodging summons and delaying the inevitable arrest.

It is common knowledge that the CBI has often been pressured and put to political uses, especially by the Congress or Congress-led regimes at the Centre. But in this case, the agency was directed to take up the investigation by the Supreme Court, which has been closely monitoring the progress. Under these circumstances, the BJP's allegation that Mr. Modi and his government are being politically targeted lacks credibility. More importantly, such allegations deflect attention from the central issue: the need to unravel the full truth about these extra-constitutional killings. To cover up the atrocity, some Gujarat police officers falsely claimed at one point that Sohrabuddin was a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative. What is germane here is not what he was but the fact that he as well as his wife were murdered in cold blood by those entrusted with the duty of enforcing the law. Fake encounters — which have been strongly alleged in the case of the killings of 19-year-old student Ishrat Jahan and three others and more recently of CPI (Maoist) leader Cherukuri Rajkumar (alias Azad) in Andhra Pradesh — controvert the very principles on which the criminal justice system rests. The idea that the security forces can liquidate people so as to sidestep the demanding legal process is abhorrent and has absolutely no place in a civilised society.

Keywords: BJP, Narendra Modi, CBI, Amit Shah, fake encounter case

Word Meanings from this paragraph:

1-Germane: relevant to subject,important

2-Atrocity: cruelness, offensiveness

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XLRI's XAT 2011 to be held on Jan 2

In an exclusive communication with MBAUniverse.com, XLRI has shared that XAT 2011 is going to be held on Sunday, January 2, 2011.XAT is held on the first Sunday of January every year.

XAT will be held in Sunday, January 2, 2011. The official announcement will happen shortly: Prof. Pranabesh Ray, Dean - Academics, XLRI

'The worst thing to be is an Afghan woman'

When Shabnam was barely more than a child; her father gave her away to pay off a debt.

She was about 13 years old, her husband was in his 50s, and from almost the moment she entered his house he beat her mercilessly, she said.

Shabnam thinks she is about 17 now. She has a plump, heart-shaped face and Cupid's-bow lips. Her hair is covered with a black scarf and she wears a maroon coat-dress with diamante patterns on the collar.

"My father was a very cruel man," she said, sitting in the basement of one of Afghanistan's few shelters for abused and distressed women.

"He beat me and my siblings for as long as I could remember.”

"My mother died when I was 11, and when I was 13 my father gave me to a man who was about 50 as repayment of a debt," she said, speaking quietly, her eyes lowered.

The man who owned her - whose first wife had died without having children - beat her, she said, "for any reason he could find".

"He locked me indoors, stopped me visiting my family. He was jealous if he saw me talking to male relatives, like cousins I had grown up with," she said.

"Twice I ran away and went back but he kept beating me," she said, bowing her head and turning now and then to the shelter's manager, who squeezed her hand to encourage her to carry on with her story.

She spent some time at the home of her sister and brother-in-law, she said, until they could no longer afford to keep her.

So she made her way to the Blue Mosque, the turquoise monument at the heart of Mazar-I-Sharif, revered as the tomb of Ali, son-in-law and successor of the prophet Mohammad who established the Shia sect of Islam.

There, she was referred to the shelter and "with the help of the people here, we went to court to get a legal separation, but my husband has disappeared without completing all the documents.

"I am utterly alone. I have been here for eight months and I don't know what will happen to me," Shabnam said.

'The worst thing to be is an Afghan woman'

Despite the despair in her voice and the obvious emotional trauma she is struggling to cope with, Shabnam would be considered lucky by many women in Afghanistan.

She has found a refuge where she is safe from the physical and mental abuse millions of Afghan women endure, simply because they were born female.

The shelter offers counselling and legal advice to ensure her constitutional rights are respected. She can stay as long as she wants.

Few women make it this far.

While the constitution that followed the fall of the Taliban in 2001 guarantees them such rights as education and employment outside the home, the spread of the insurgency has fostered a fear of a return to brutality.

The Taliban's five-year rule was marked by general repression that was particularly brutal to women. Girls were not permitted to go to school - and even now are sometimes attacked and their schools destroyed by extremists.

Women were not allowed out unless accompanied by a male relative and wearing a burqa. They were attacked in the street for such perceived crimes as wearing white shoes and rape victims were publicly executed as adulterers.

Even today, women who become politically active often face death threats and some have been murdered or forced into exile.

After nine years of insurgency, and with Taliban violence spreading to the once peaceful north, President Hamid Karzai has proposed negotiating with the insurgent leadership.

Women say they fear their constitutional rights could be eroded by any so-called peace deal, and in Mazar are retreating behind their burqas so as not to offend any extremists in their midst.

In reality, however, despite their constitutional rights, women continue to be treated as chattels and slaves in the name of religion and tradition.

Anecdotal examples abound of young women betrothed as toddlers, exchanged for fighting dogs or to pay debts, beaten and raped by their husbands, jailed by their families for refusing arranged marriages, murdered for the family's "honour," becoming mothers as soon as their bodies are ready, barred from leaving their homes.

"The worst thing is to be an Afghan woman," said Endy Hagen, a German consultant who works with the Mazar-I-Sharif shelter, which houses about 25 women, most aged between 18 and 24 years old.

'What can a woman do?'

"It is mostly younger women who run away from their homes because they still have the strength to run," Hagan said.

"Older women have children or feel more tied to their situation."

Women's shelters are a post-Taliban phenomenon, and as such are often regarded with suspicion, accused of operating brothels or running trafficking rackets, she said.

To avoid such accusations, the safe house in Mazar takes only women who are referred through the courts or other official routes, she said, adding: "It is still a very sensitive field because the violence against women is very often not seen as violence.

"When the women first come to the safe house, many of them feel very bad because they are living outside the family structure. In Afghan society the connection with family is so strong that they cannot imagine living away from the family," she said.

"Running away is seen as a sign of guilt, of adultery. Many women who run away, when they are picked up by the police, are sent straight to prison," Hagan said.

Gul Andam, a Pashtun woman of 24 with a distinctive nomadic tattoo between her waxed eyebrows, spent a year in prison, accused of 'zina', the crime of having sex outside marriage.

Her brothers sent her to prison, she said, after she had a religious wedding ceremony with the man she loved and refused to marry a man they had chosen for her.

Both she and her husband, an ethnic Hazara, were sentenced to two years in prison after her brothers convinced a court they were not legally married, she said.

When she was released after serving half the sentence, her brothers continued to insist that she marry the man they had chosen for her.

"They told me that if I did not marry that man, they would kill me," she said.

With legal help she found the shelter and after three years is now its longest-serving resident, doyen to the younger women who pass through.

Even after all this time, her brothers still harass her, she said, but her Hazara husband, also now out of prison, has not given up.

He calls sometimes to tell her what progress he is making to prove their marriage is legal, she said.

"I do not let him come to see me in case my brothers find him. He is working hard to get papers to show that we are legitimately married - though my brothers are working just as hard to get papers showing that we are not," she said.

"I don't know what the future holds for me. What can a woman do?"

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Directions for Questions 1-5: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow on the basis of the information provided in the passage.

Much of the information we have today about chimpanzees comes from the groundbreaking, long-term research of the great conservationist, Jane Goodall.

Jane Goodall was born in London, England, on April 3, 1934. On her second birthday, her father gave her a toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. Jubilee was named after a baby chimp in the London Zoo, and seemed to foretell the course Jane’s life would take. To this day, Jubilee sits in a chair in Jane’s London home. From an early age, Jane was fascinated by animals and animal stories. By the age of 10, she was talking about going to Africa to live among the animals there. At the time, in the early 1940s, this was a radical idea because women did not go to Africa by themselves.

As a young woman, Jane finished school in London, attended secretarial school, and then worked for a documentary filmmaker for a while. When a school friend invited her to visit Kenya, she worked as a waitress until she had earned the fare to travel there by boat. She was 23 years old.

Once in Kenya, she met Dr. Louis Leakey, a famous paleontologist and anthropologist. He was impressed with her thorough knowledge of Africa and its wildlife, and hired her to assist him and his wife on a fossil-hunting expedition to Olduvai Gorge. Dr. Leakey soon realized that Jane was the perfect person to complete a study he had been planning for some time. She expressed her interest in the idea of studying animals by living in the wild with them, rather than studying dead animals through paleontology.

Dr. Leakey and Jane began planning a study of a group of chimpanzees who were living on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Kenya. At first, the British authorities would not approve their plan. At the time, they thought it was too dangerous for a woman to live in the wilds of Africa alone. But Jane’s mother, Vanne, agreed to join her so that she would not be alone. Finally, the authorities gave Jane the clearance she needed in order to go to Africa and begin her study

In July of 1960, Jane and her mother arrived at Gombe National Park in what was then called Tanganyika and is now called Tanzania. Jane faced many challenges as she began her work. The chimpanzees did not accept her right away, and it took months for them to get used to her presence in their territory. But she was very patient and remained focused on her goal. Little by little, she was able to enter their world.

At first, she was able to watch the chimpanzees only from a great distance, using binoculars. As time passed, she was able to move her observation point closer to them while still using camouflage. Eventually, she was able to sit among them, touching, patting, and even feeding them. It was an amazing accomplishment for Jane, and a breakthrough in the study of animals in the wild. Jane named all of the chimpanzees that she studied, stating in her journals that she felt they each had a unique personality.

One of the first significant observations that Jane made during the study was that chimpanzees make and use tools, much like humans do, to help them get food. It was previously thought that humans alone used tools. Also thanks to Jane’s research, we now know that chimps eat meat as well as plants and fruits. In many ways, she has helped us to see how chimpanzees and humans are similar. In doing so, she has made us more sympathetic toward these creatures, while helping us to better understand ourselves.

The study started by Jane Goodall in 1960 is now the longest field study of any animal species in their natural habitat. Research continues to this day in Gombe and is conducted by a team of trained Tanzanians.

Jane’s life has included much more than just her study of the chimps in Tanzania. She pursued a graduate degree while still conducting her study, receiving her Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1965. In 1984, she received the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize for "helping millions of people understand the importance of wildlife conservation to life on this planet." She has been married twice: first to a photographer and then to the director of National Parks. She has one son.

Dr. Jane Goodall is now the world’s most renowned authority on chimpanzees, having studied their behavior for nearly 40 years. She has published many scientific articles, has written two books, and has won numerous awards for her groundbreaking work. The Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education, and Conservation was founded in 1977 in California but moved to the Washington, D.C., area in 1998. Its goal is to take the actions necessary to improve the environment for all living things.

Dr. Goodall now travels extensively, giving lectures, visiting zoos and chimp sanctuaries, and talking to young people involved in environmental education. She is truly a great conservationist and an amazing human being.

Read this sentence from the article.

1. 'But she was very patient and remained focused on her goal'. What is an antonym for the word focused?

1. bothered
2. tired
3. disinterested
4. concerned

2. What is the author’s purpose in writing this article?

1. to entertain the reader with stories about chimpanzees
2. to inform the reader of the importance of wildlife conservation
3. to warn the reader about the challenges of working in Africa
4. to describe the work and life of Jane Goodall.

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons Dr. Leakey chose Jane to work with him?

1. She knew a lot about Africa.
2. She knew a lot about African wildlife.
3. She earned the money to travel to Africa on her own.
4. She was interested in studying animals in the wild.

4. Which of the following is NOT true of chimpanzees?

1. Chimpanzees are often comfortable with strangers right away.
2. Chimpanzees eat meat as well as plants and fruit.
3. Chimpanzees use tools to help them get food.
4. Different chimpanzees have different personalities.

5. Jane Goodall is now the world’s most renowned authority on chimpanzees, having studied their behavior for nearly forty years. What does authority mean?

1. an intelligent person
2. one who studies animals
3. a scientist
4. an expert

Read this sentence from the article.

Directions for Questions 6-10: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow on the basis of the information provided in the passage.

There are some men who seem to be always on the lookout for trouble and, to tell the truth, they are seldom disappointed. Listening to such men one would think that this world is one of the stormiest and most disagreeable places. Yet, after all it is not such a bad place and the difficulty is often in the man who is too thin- skinned. On the other hand, the man who goes out expecting people to be like himself, kind and brotherly, will be surprised at the kindness he meets even in the most unlike quarters. A smile is apt to be met met with a respective smile while the sneer is just as apt to provoke a snarl. Men living in the same neighborhood may live vastly different lives. But it is not the neighborhood which is quarrelsome, but the man within us. And we have it in out power to change our neighborhood into a pleasant one by simply changing our own ways.

6. The passage is about

A) our disagreeable and hostile world

B) a kindly and pleasant world

C) our different and unresponsive world

D) the world and what one makes of it.

7. "..............they are seldom disappointed". The statement denotes that such men

A) welcome difficulties as a morale booster

B) do not have face any trouble

C) manage to keep unruffled in the face of discomforts

D) generally do not fail to come across troubles

8. The author's own view of the world is that it is

A) one of the loveliest and quietest places

B) an unpleasant and turbulent place

C) one's own excessive sensitivity that makes it a bad place

D) a sordid place for those who suffer in life

9. Which of the following is opposite in meaning to the expression 'thin-skinned' as sed in the passage?

A) Insensitive

B) Intelligent

C) Awkward

D) Obstinate

10. "On the other hand............. unlikely quarter" The statement shows that people's reaction to our attitude is

A) Generally indifferent

B) surprisingly responsive

C) often adverse

D) mainly favourable

Directions 11-18: Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

11.For a few seconds, Madan was.............blinded by the powerful lights of the oncoming car

A) heavily B) largely C) greatly D) powerfully E) totally

12. His interest in the study of human behavior is indeed very..............

A) strong B) large C) broad D) vast E) deep

13. The police have................a complaint against four persons

A) entered B) lodged C) registered D) noted E) received

14. The improvement made by changes in the system was ....................and did not warrant the large expenses.

A) large B) small C) minute D) marginal E) uncertain

15. The man who is..........................hesitating which of the two things he will do first, will do neither.

A) persistently B) constantly C) insistently D) consistently E) perpetually

16. He is too...................to be deceived easily

A) strong B) modern C) kind D) honest E) intelligent

17. The Manager gave her his ..... that the complaint would be investigated

A. assurance B. suggestion C. avowal D. support

18. I am feeling ...... better today.

A. rather B. too C. fairly D. very

Direction Questions19-26: In each question below is given a passage followed by several inference. You have to examine each inference separately in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity.

mark your answer as :

A. if the inference is ' definitely true' i.e. , it directly follows from the facts given in the passage

B. if the inference is ' probably true' though not definitely true in the light of the facts given

C. if you think the data are in adequate i.e., from the facts given you cannot say whether the inference is likely to be true or false

D. if you think the inference is ' probably false' though not definitely false in the light of the facts given; and

E. if you think inference is ' definitely false' i.e. , it contradicts the given facts.

Passage I

Urban services have not expanded fast enough to cope with urban expansion. Low investment allocation have tended top be under spent. Both public( e. g. water and sewage) and private (e.g. low-income area housing) infrastructure quality has declined. this impact of the environment in which children live and the supporting services available to them when they fall ill, seems clear. The decline in average food availability and the rise in absolute poverty point in the same satisfactory direction

19. There is nothing to boast about urban services

20. The public transport system is in the hands of private sector.

21. Birth rate is higher in Urban areas compared to rural areas.

22. Low-cost urban housing is one of the priorities

23 The environment around plays an important role on the health status.

Passage II

Though the state cultivate only 3.2 lakh tonnes of mangoes, they are of premium quality and with mangoes becoming second most consumed fruit in the world after grapes. the government has been trying exporting it through sea route which is cheaper . An experiment which was done in this regard last year has proved successful.

24. Quality of mangoes is an important factor in exports.

25. The state also exports good quality grapes

26. The state also cultivates a large number of medium quality mangoes.

Direction27-32: In each of the following questions, find out which part of the sentence has an error. if there is no mistake the answer is 'no error'

27. I going there / will not solve / this complicated problem / No error

A B C D

28. You can get /all the information you want / in this book / No error

A B C D

29. The bus could not / ascend the steep hill / because it was in the wrong gears / No error
A B C D

30.No stronger / a figure than his / is prescribed in the history / No error

A B C D

31. most people would have /attended the union meeting / if they had / longer notice of it / No error

A B C D E

32. And though one did not / quite believe his claim / one saw no harm / in granting him permission / No error

A B C D E

Directions33 : In each question, a part of sentence is printed in italics. Below each sentence, some phrases are given which can substitute the italicized part of the sentence. If the sentence is correct as it is, the answer is 'No correction required'

33. The problems of translation are still remain.

A. are remain. B. will remained C. will still remain. D. No Correction required

34. It is ten years since I have begun living here

A. begun B. had begun C. began D. No Correction required

35. Education is a strong instrument for moldings the character of the young.

A. striking B. powerful C. potent D. No Correction required

36. He gave the I.A.S. examination in all seriousness.

A. appeared B. took C. undertook D. No Correction required

37. He has cooked that meal so often he can do it with his eyes closed.

A. mind blank B. eyes covered C. hands full D. No Correction required

38. The young hikers went as far as they finally got lost in the valley.

A. so far that B. too far that C. so far as that D. No Correction required

39. He stopped to work an hour ago

A. to working B. to have worked C. working D. No Correction required

40. The fact finding committee has so far not made any advancement.

A. progress B. improvement C. stride D. No Correction required

SECTIONAL CUT OFF GENERALLY GOES LIKE 60 percent in Aptitude and 50 percent in Verbal section.Attempt Aptitude test to the best of your skills.

ANSWERS WILL BE POSTED TOMORROW!!!

Infosys Placement Paper(2010 hyderabad college)-Aptitude test

Questions = 70 ; time limit = 75 minutes. Sectional cut-off in each section its around 60% in Logical Reasoning part and 50% in Verbal Ability. no negative marking Offline (paper & pen) test.

Analytical & Logical reasoning:(30 question : 40 minutes)
English section: (40 question : 35 minutes)

Analytical reasoning(aptitude test)

1. A family I know has several children. Each boy in this family has as many sisters as brothers but each girl has
twice as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there?

2. In a soap company a soap is manufactured with 11 parts. For making one soap you will get 1 part as scrap.
At the end of the day u have 251 such scraps. From that how many soaps can be manufactured?

3. There is a 5digit no. 3 pairs of sum is eleven each. Last digit is 3 times the first one. 3 rd digit is 3 less than the
second.4 th digit is 4 more than the second one. Find the digit.

4. Every day a cyclist meets a train at a particular crossing. The road is straight before the crossing and both are
traveling in the same direction. The cyclist travels with a speed of 10 Kmph. One day the cyclist comes late by
25 min. and meets the train 5km before the crossing. What is the speed of the train?

5. Two twins have certain peculiar characteristics. One of them always lies on Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday. The other always lies on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. On the other days they tell the truth.
You are given a conversation.

Person A-- today is Sunday my name is Anil
Person B -- today is Tuesday, my name is Bill
What day is today?

Directions 6:10 In each of the questions given below which one of the five answer figures on the right should come after the problem figures on the left, if the sequence were continued ?

Figures not available(sorry)..but easy figures of picking odd one out came..RS aggarwal

Directions 11-15: Each problem consists of a problem followed by two statements. Decide whether the data in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Select your answer according to whether:
(A) statement 1 alone is sufficient, but statement 2 alone is not sufficient to answer the question

(B) statement 2 alone is sufficient, but statement 1 alone is not sufficient to answer the question

(C) both statements taken together are sufficient to answer the question, but neither statement alone is sufficient

(D) each statement alone is sufficient

(E) statements 1 and 2 together are not sufficient, and additional data is needed to answer the question

11. If x and y are both positive integers, how much greater is x than y?

1. x + y = 20
2. x = y²

1. A.
2. B.
3. C.
4. D.
5. E.

12. Fifty percent of the articles in a certain magazine are written by staff members. Sixty percent of the articles are
on current affairs. If 75 percent of the articles on current affairs are written by staff members with more than 5
years experience of journalism, how many of the articles on current affairs are written by journalists with more
than 5 years experience?

1. 20 articles are written by staff members.
2. Of the articles on topics other than current affairs, 50 percent are by staff members with less than 5 years experience.

1. A.
2. B.
3. C.
4. D.
5. E.

13. Is xy > 0 ?

1. x/y < 0
2. x + y <>

1. A.
2. B.
3. C.
4. D.
5. E.

14 .One number, n, is selected at random from a set of 10 integers. What is the probability that ½ n + 13 = 0 ?

1. The largest integer in the set is 13.
2. The arithmetic mean of the set is zero.

1. A.
2. B.
3. C.
4. D.
5. E.

15. Is w a whole number?

1. 3w is an odd number.
2. 2w is an even number.

1. A.
2. B.
3. C.
4. D.
5. E.

Directions (Question 16 to 19 ) : Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given below it.

IV. i) There are six friends A,B,C,D,E and F

ii) Each one is proficient in one of the games, namely Badminton, Vollyball, Cricket, Hockey, Tennis and Polo

iii) Each owns a different coloured car, namely yellow, green, black, white, blue and red.

iv) D plays Polo and owns a yellow coloured car

v) C does not play either Tennis or Hockey and owns neither blue nor yellow coloured car

vi) E owns a white car and plays Badminton

vii) B does not play Tennis, he owns a red coloured car.

viii) A plays Cricket and owns a black car

16. Who plays Volleyball ?

A) B B) C C) F D) Data inadequate E) None of these

17. Which coloured car F owns ?

A) Green B) Blue C) Either Green or Blue D) Data inadequate E) None of these

18. Which of the following combinations of colour of car and game played is not correct ?

A) Yellow - Polo B) Green - Tennis C) Black - Cricket D) Red- Hockey E) None of these

19. In a group of six women, there are four dancers, four vocal musicians, one actress and three violinists. Girija
and Vanaja are among the violinists while Jalaja and Shailaja do not know how to play on the violin. Shailaja
and Tanuja are among the dancers. Jalaja, Vanaja, Shailaja and Tanuja are all vocal musicians and two of them
are also violinists. If Pooja is an actress, who among the following is both a dancer and violinist ?

A) Jalaja B) Shailaja C) Tanuja D) Pooja

20. Salay walked 10 m towards West from his house. Then he walked 5 m turning to his left. After this he walked
10 m turning to his left and in the end he walked 10 m turning to his left. In what direction is he now from his
starting point?

(A) South (B) North (C) East (D) West (E) None of these

21.Manish goes 7 km towards South-East from his house, then he goes 14 km turning to West. After this he goes
7 km towards North West and in the end he goes 9 km towards East. How far is he from his house?

(A) 5 km (B) 7 km (C) 2 km (D) 14 km (E) None of these

22. Laxman went 15 kms from my house, then turned left and walked 20 kms. He then turned east and walked
25 kms and finally turning left covered 20kms. How far was he from his house.

(A) 5 kms (B) 10 kms (C) 40 kms (D) 80 kms (E) None of these

23. The door of Aditya's house faces the east. From the back side of his house, he walks straight 50 metres, then
turns to the right and walks 50 metres, then turns towards left and stops after walking 25 metres . Now Aditya
is in which direction from the starting point?

(A) South-East (B) North-East (C) South- West (D) North-West (E) None of these

24. P, Q, R and S are playing a game of carrom. P, R, and S, Q are partners. S is to the right of R who is facing
west. Then Q is facing ?

(A) North (B) South (C) East (D) West (E) None of these

25. A clock is so placed that at 12 noon its minute hand points towards north-east. In which direction does its hour
hand point at 1.30 p.m?

(A) North (B) South (C) East (D) West (E) None of these

26. A man walks 30 metres towards South. Then , turning to his right, he walks 30 metres . Then turning to his left,
he walks 20 metres. again he turns to his left and walks 30 metres . How far is he from his initial position?

A. 20 metres B. 30 metres C.60 metres D. 80 metres E None of these

Directions 27-30 :The table below shows the number of people who responded to a survey about their favorite style of music. Use this information to answer the following questions to the nearest whole percentage.

Sorry the table is unavailable.but it was pretty easy table and simple questions were given based on that.You can practice more from MBA CAT material.

From edu corp CAT material.

ANSWERS WILL BE POSTED TOMORROW!!!

Infosys Latest Placement Paper Pattern And Selection Process

It consists of two rounds:
1-Written test(Aptitude test and reasoning test)
2-HR interview

Aptitude test : 30 questions 40 mins

• set 1: a cube question, a cube painted with different colors, some sides and colrs given on the basis of data given find colors on other sides and ans some questions(easy one)
• set 2: series completion, where some figures are given. practice them from RS agarwal( verbal and non verbal reasoning)
• set 3: 5-6 data sufficiency qustions, easy but still practice them from MBA preparation stuff
• set 4: a bar graph question. just calculation based.
• set 5 : logical reasoning quaetion, heights and weights of some friends given , some conditions given( this was the toughest question) and i couldn't do it at all.
• set 6: syllogysm like ,all A's are B's , some C's are not A's ( please practice these type of question, otherwise u will get confused there, as these type of question are asked in many companies)
  V.imp
  

Verbal test:40 ques, 30 mins

• V imp section, this is the eliminating section, most guys do not qualify this section's cut off, soo pleez prcatice for verbal scetion, refer MBA stuff, not at higher level but just the most basic level.
  Speed is very important for this section. 2 PASSAGES( very long, dont do them first unless u r very confident on ur verbal section)
  other things: grammer correction ques, conclusion , inference deduce type of question.
  choose the correct sentence question
  VERY IMPORTANT: Refer MBA Material.TIME study material best.
• 
  
• HR Interview:
  
  • Now the final section. The best way to face the interview is to stay calm and polite. Amswer confidently and if you dont know any answer then admit it...you can say "Sorry sir I'm unable to recollect it right now" instead of directle saying "sorry". Main thing is to speak confidently....Make yourself presentable
  • Most important part in cracking infy placement exam is written test.90% or more chances are there that you will qualify after clearing written exam.

ALL THE BEST PPL!!!!!!In the next blog I will share some of the experiences of students of various colleges of HR Interview.It will clear your doubts more.

IT placement company-INFosys

WEll well well!!!!..For all those ppl who think that Infosys is taking hell lot of ppl from every college.SO it might be easy for you to also get selected..Think It again...coz its not easy.You still have to prepare really hard for it.Written exam is the main hurdle in cracking Infosys and Its not only aptitude.But vocabulary as well as reasoning.which is not a cakewalk..Some questions are even tougher than CAT exam ( in previous infosys placement papers ).So guys study hard and remain active.Dont get overconfident at any point of time ( I am infact I was one of them ).

INfosys previous placement papers in various colleges update...Coming soon!!!!!..:)

An exciting prospect

By unveiling a tablet access-cum-computing device priced at just Rs 1,500, the human resources development (HRD) ministry has tickled the imagination of private companies to produce similar computers at even lower prices. The low-cost computer, a product of the government's effort to provide quality e-content to school students, was designed by experts at the IITs in Kanpur, Kharagpur and Madras, and IISc Bangalore. The device is revolutionary in several ways. First, it brings the prospect of providing each and every child with a computer closer to realisation. If this were to happen, it would change the way classrooms operate and enhance the quality of teaching significantly. Not only would it ensure that all students have access to the advantages of the internet, it could even help overcome infrastructure deficiencies by making possible e-classes via Web video conferencing something that could address the problem of poor quality or absent teachers.

Second, low-cost computers can go a long way in bridging the technology divide. It is a fact that people in rural areas of the country have been left untouched by the IT revolution. The primary reason for this is affordability. IT companies have simply not found it profitable to extend their services to these areas. But with the HRD ministry showing the way, a viable business model can be evolved around mass-producing inexpensive computers. This in turn has the potential to galvanise rural economy by providing rural youth with hitherto unheard of opportunities and making them a part of the globalised world.

If computers can be produced with price tags of less than Rs 1,000 something that the HRD ministry is aiming for it could make mitigation of social inequality through education effective. Thus, the benefits are truly worth the investment.

lot more things from tomorrow

Hey guys!!!!!..a lot more additions will be made on blog from tomorrow..so stay tuned and prepare hard..:)

Amit Shah resigns, still untraceable

Gujarat Minister of State for Home Amit Shah — chargesheeted by the CBI as one of the prime accused in the case of Sohrabuddin fake encounter and murder of his wife Kausarbi — resigned from the Narendra Modi Cabinet on Saturday.

Mr. Shah, who has remained untraceable since Friday, sent in his resignation to Mr. Modi's official residence here in the morning. The Chief Minister, who had left for Delhi to attend the National Development Council meeting, said he was informed of the resignation and that he was “accepting it.” The resignation has since been forwarded to the Governor.

Meanwhile, the Central Bureau of Investigation intensified its efforts to arrest Mr. Shah. Besides sending police teams to different parts of the State, the CBI is understood to have issued a general alert to all airports to keep a watch for him.

Mr. Shah is believed to be trying to buy time till Monday, when he is expected to approach the Gujarat High Court as the designated CBI court rejected his plea for anticipatory bail on Friday.

Government sources said Mr. Shah was unlikely to surrender before approaching the High Court as both Mr. Modi and the BJP high command were fully backing him, terming the CBI probe a “political war.”

“Fabricated charges”

Speaking to the media in New Delhi, Mr. Modi said Mr. Shah was “totally innocent” and all charges against him were “fabricated.” The Chief Minister assured Mr. Shah of “full support” by him and the party in the “political battle,” while he would have to face the “legal fight” in courts. Mr. Modi said Mr. Shah had full respect for the judiciary and was confident that he would get justice from court.

Word Meaning from Deadline too far

1-Pious: having or showing dutiful spirit of reverence,
Hypocritical concern with virtue
Synonyms: Devoted,Prayerful,Orthodox,priestly

2-Appalling: causing dismay or horror
Synonyms: Awful,mean,formidable,horrendous,astounding,dire

A deadline too far

Another international conference on Afghanistan — the ninth so far, and for the first time held in Kabul — has ended with the pious refrain that Afghans should take charge of their country. Once again, it is clear there is little sincerity about it. President Hamid Karzai, whose chances of political survival without international help are slim, set a self-servingly generous deadline of 2014 for the foreign troops to withdraw. The conference, representing 70 countries, made no formal commitment to Mr. Karzai's deadline, and chose instead to endorse his call in general terms. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterated the Obama administration's commitment to begin scaling down troops as promised from July 2011 — but set no firm date for complete withdrawal. Despite domestic pressure on European leaders to end the Afghan misadventure, the NATO secretary-general was vague about the timetable, stating that “conditions, not calendars” would determine when foreign troops would hand over to Afghan forces. The only acceptable deadline for foreign powers to leave that country is immediately. The longer they stay, the more appalling will be the bloodshed and the illfare. All the experimentation with ‘surges' and ‘democracy-in-a-box' has led only to increasing civilian casualties at the hands of the U.S.-led NATO forces. And each civilian death has increased support for the Taliban to a point where Mr. Karzai himself now believes there is more political traction in reaching out to the militants. Persisting with this unjust and unwinnable Afghan war is turning out to be President Barack Obama's Great Folly.

The international conference missed a real opportunity to discuss a way forward in Afghanistan — through a paradigm shift. Writing in this newspaper in September 2009, the diplomat Chinmaya Gharekhan, formerly India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, asked the international community to focus on restoring Afghanistan to its long-lost tradition of neutrality — where other countries pledge non-interference in its affairs, and it pledges non-interference in theirs — along the lines of the July 1962 Neutrality of Laos Declaration. This is an eminently sensible suggestion, considering that Afghanistan has been reduced to rubble mainly by the competing strategic objectives of international and regional players. Pakistan and, to a lesser extent, India have been only too willing to participate in these mutually undermining games. A neutrality declaration will help liberate Afghanistan from the military occupation and tutelage of foreign powers. It may also pave the way for an Afghan solution to national rebuilding — one that will hopefully reject the Taliban.