At Alwar, Swami Vivekananda became acquainted with Maharaja Mangal Singh. Initially the Prince had no faith in the Swami. There was a heated debate between the two. "Swamiji, I have no faith in idol worship," said the Maharaja. The Swamiji replied, "An idol is only a symbol. It is not something to sneer at. Every devotee has his own way of realizing God. It depends on the individual's devotion." The Prince was not satisfied with Swamiji's explanation. There was a portrait of the Maharaja on the wall. The Swamiji asked the Diwan (chief minister) by his side, 'Whose picture is that?" "The Maharaja's," replied the Diwan. Vivekananda said, "Spit on it." The Diwan was taken aback. "Why are you unhappy?" asked the Swamiji. The Diwan thought this man was certainly mad. Swamiji explained: "After all, the photograph is just a shadow of your Maharaja. It is devoid of flesh and blood." "But then it reminds us of the Maharaja, does it not?" said the Diwan. Wisdom then dawned on the Maharaja. He apologised to the Swamiji.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Diversity in Unity
SBI is holding an entrance exam on Sunday in the city and the administration has assured the MNS to speak to the authorities in Delhi regarding their demand.
"About 1.5 lakh applications were received by SBI and 70 per cent are outsiders. The posts are local and Marathi people should get priority for that," Parkar said.
MNS had also raised the issue during railway board exams last year, which took violent turn as the party activists attacked 17 railway board examination centres in suburban Mumbai, and chased away candidates from north India.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Funds were re-routed back to India via European countries as "investments" in nearly 300 alleged fictitious companies floated in the name of his relatives, they said.
The CBI, which is probing the Rs10,000-crore accounting fraud at Satyam Computer Services, has found during its investigations that Raju had diverted big amounts to Mauritius -- a tax haven --from where the money was brought back to India via several European countries, sources said.
CBI sources said this would help the agency in filing the second charge sheet against the accused which will include some more bank transactions made from the island nation.
They said the amount of Rs7,800 crore mentioned by the founder chairman of the firm in his "confessional statement" earlier this year was far less then what was emerging out during the investigations.
The second charge sheet may highlight some more financial transaction made by Raju and some of his associates, the sources said. CBI filed the first charge sheet on April 7 this year.
The sources said the money was routed back to India through some banks in the United Kingdom and the remittances to these banks were made from these tax havens.Raju is alleged to have transferred the money in several salary accounts into fixed deposits in four banks and transferred them to banks in Mauritius.
The money was ultimately routed through Lakeside Investments and Lakeview Investment companies to front companies, including Maytas Infra and Maytas Properties, they said.
The CBI, after filing the second charge sheet, will later travel to the US and probe the transactions made in the current account maintained in Bank of Baroda's New York branch, and a non-existent balance of Rs1,733 crore has been found till date.
The CBI has sought help of US authorities to obtain details of accounts of Raju and his kin, believed to be in the Bank of America. The details of the accounts, after being procured, would be submitted before the court in Hyderabad, sources said.
The CBI, which set up a multi-disciplinary investigation team, including officials from the Income Tax Department, Enforcement Directorate and RBI, has claimed the money involved in the scam is nearly Rs 10,000 crore, more than what was stated by Raju in his confessional note in January this year.
Raj the Rebellion
Thackeray said it was time for Maharashtrians to take lessons from Karnataka. "In Karnataka, a Marathi-speaking minister was expelled from the cabinet as he could not speak in Kannada," he said. "Will our legislators show the same attitude about Marathi?"
He criticised chief minister Ashok Chavan for performing a puja of Sathya Sai Baba at his official residence, Varsha. "The CM should have performed the puja at his residence," he said. "If such things continue, Varsha will turn into Aastha channel," he quipped.
He expressed disappointment at the delay in the formation of a new government in the state. "There is no need to apply president's rule," he said. The 13 MNS MLAs have elected Bala Nandgaonkar as their leader and Vasant Gite as deputy leader in the state assembly. Nitin Sardesai will be the party's whip.
Rajbhasha
राजभाषा भारती अर्थात् विद्या की देवी माँ सरस्वती की वाणी की पत्रिका । राजभाषा भारती संघ की राजभाषा हिंदी के प्रचार-प्रसार तथा प्रोत्साहन को समर्पित त्रैमासिक पत्रिका है, जिसे राजभाषा विभाग, गृह मंत्रालय द्वारा प्रकाशित किया जाता है । पत्रिका का प्रथम अंक अप्रैल, 1978 में राजभाषा विभाग, गृह मंत्रालय के प्रथम सचिव श्री रमाप्रसन्न नायक के कार्यकाल तथा श्री राजमणि तिवारी के संपादन में प्रकाशित हुआ था । राजभाषा विभाग के दायित्वों में हिंदी के प्रगामी प्रयोग को प्रोत्साहन देने के लिए पत्र-पत्रिकाओं का प्रकाशन भी एक प्रमुख दायित्व है । यह पत्रिका न केवल उस दायित्व का निर्वाह करती है वरन् संपूर्ण संघ सरकार के विभिन्न मंत्रालयों/कार्यालयों आदि में हिंदी संबंधी गतिविधियों के वृहत प्रचार हेतु एक औपचारिक मंच भी प्रदान करती है । पत्रिका का वितरण केंद्र सरकार के मंत्रालयों/कार्यालयों आदि के बीच निशुल्क किया जाता है ।
मार्च, 2009 अंक के साथ अब तक इस पत्रिका के कुल 124 अंक प्रकाशित हो चुके हैं|
