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On This Day in History
Sunday, September 07, 2008

Events
* 70 Roman army under Titus occupies & plunders Jerusalem
* 1159 Ottaviano de Montecello elected as anti-Pope
* 1497 Sailor Perkin Warbeck becomes English King Richard IV
* 1525 Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius ends in the Hague
* 1543 Duke Willem of Gulik surrenders to emperor Charles V
* 1596 Dutch fleet bombs Banten Java
* 1599 Earl van Essex & Irish rebel Tyrone signs treaty
* 1652 Battle of Monte Christo: Dutch fleet under J van Galen beat English

New Delhi: The MCD did its bit to encourage its teachers on the occasion of Teacher’s Day on Friday. From 2009, the number of municipal teacher award recipients will increase from 100 to 150 and the award money too, will be raised from Rs 5,000 to Rs 7,000.

Delhi mayor Aarti Mehra announced this at MCD’s award distribution ceremony saying it would ‘‘encourage excellence in primary education.’’

Chairman, Standing Committee, Vijender Gupta announced that MCD will not charge Boys Fund, Hobby Fund, Club and Bulbul Fund, PTA Fund or any other fund.

New Delhi: This should cheer former central government employees. With the Centre notifying the new pension rules, they can expect a higher pension packet from next month. The revised pensions are higher than what the sixth Pay Commission recommended.

Although the move benefits the cross-section of retired employees, those in higher brackets have gained more in real terms. New pensions for defence and railway personnel will be notified separately.

There's a scene in Santosh Sivan's Tahaan in which a group of Kashmiri kids play make-believe militants in the same way that most of us played "chor police" as kids.

That scene, more than any other scene in this film, succeeds in demonstrating just how well the director understands the themes he's dealing with in his new film.

Tahaan is a heartwarming story of the friendship between a young Kashmiri boy and his faithful childhood companion, a donkey.

It's the story of a difficult journey the boy is willing to undertake to bring back his donkey, who has been separated from him.

Gone are the days when students used to worship their gurus. Now the time has change, so are the students and gurus. Definitions of all these have changed. Now education and studies are considered as the source of income for teachers who are teaching and for students who are learning (in future they will earn well if they are well educated). Students are not so desperate to learn as they are to have their new look and style, same is the case with the teachers, nor they are too desperate to teach.

One good school master is worth a thousand priests.
-RG Ingersoll

Goddess Saraswati is considered to be the goddess of knowledge and enlightment. Knowledge, music and sharpness of mind is a form of her blessings. She is also known as with the different names as Vani, Sharda, Bharti, Veenapaani, Sarvmangla. She is the founder of music and all its branches which are known to mankind. She is only goddess whose idols are found exceptionally in Hindu temples yet she is worshipped by all the Hindus. Her image is found as an idol, all dressed in pure white, lotus flower in her hands and sitting on a swan which is also white.

Is fame your aspiration?
Its path is steep and high;
In vain he seeks her temple
Who
Contents to gaze and sigh
Shining throne is waiting
But
He alone can take it
Who says with ‘Roman firmness’
“I’ll find a way or make it”