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WASHINGTON, DC — This week, President Obama delivered his final weekly address thanking the American people for making him a better President and a better man. Over the past eight years, we have seen the goodness, resilience, and hope of the American people. A picture from WhiteHouse-FB page (“The urgency of acting to mitigate climate change is real and cannot be ignored. In recent years, we have also seen that the economic case for action—and against inaction—is just as clear.” Read President Obama ’s report on the progress we’ve made advancing a clean energy economy over the last eight years:  scim.ag/2i8W4Kg )  We’ve seen what’s possible when we come together in the hard, but vital work of self-government – but we can’t take our democracy for granted. Our success as a Nation depends on our participation. It’s up to all of us to be guardians of our democracy, and to embrace the task of continually trying to improve our Nation. Despite our differences, we all share the...

If you are in Delhi and have interest in embodied language by people who have done quite a lot in their respective fields and the Italian embassy is facilitating this performance, tomorrow, i:e 16th January- 2017 at  India International Centre. As per the Italian Culture center in Delhi's website- "Embodied Language is a collaborative project developed between Italian artist Andrea Cusumano and Indian artist Mithu Sen that uses the polysemous value of nonverbal communication as a platform to connect different verbal languages. They will also experiment with a spontaneous and imaginary dream language presented through a visual and performative practice as a resistance in search of a new medium of communication." There is EMBODIED LANGUAGE a collaborative performance between Mithu Sen and Andrea Cusumano with musician Vetri Bhupathi and Giuseppe Lomeo curated by Eugenio Viola at IIC ,C D Deshmukh auditorium , New Delhi 16th January 2017 , 6.30 pm

Wishing All of you a very happy new year 2017. Let's hope peace and prosperity for all.  CR Park- Kali Mandir- January- 2017 The year began with a lot of interesting things at work and I believe that with the right amount of team and the people around you, you can create fantastic stories for people. The past year was full of mixed news and a lot of bad things happened around the world. Let's learn from the past year and let's think good.  The other day I saw a Chinese colleague Mr. Wan, wearing a  band and I saw something interesting there, written in hindi    'अच्छा सोचो अच्छा होगा'.  I found the expression very interesting and I asked Mr. Wan- "What is this? He said, In Chaste hindi, 'अच्छा सोचो अच्छा होगा'. So, I wish Mr. Wan and every one I know an advance Chinese New Year -新年快樂 and  过年好 / 過年好, which is less than a month from now, thanks to the website for helping me sort this. It's the year of the Rooster, as per Reuter...

Do you think Dishwashers should be your next best friend of the kitchen. In west, Dishwashers are one of the important household appliance one is used to, but In India, the usage of Dishwashers is nominal and nascent, to begin with. I'd want to know from you, if you think if you need a dishwasher for your daily life or Not. Pic Source- Haier Dishwashers

One can easily spot people Queing up before ATMs these day. Be is urban or rural areas. I took a small video from Alaknanda- Delhi to show what it is like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcAcYyNu0T0

According to a press note on RBI's website  there will be new 50 and 20 notes, the old ones will remain in use and legal tender. The RBI- Reserve Bank Of India today announced that we will be able to see new Rs.50 and Rs.20 Notes . Post Demonetization by PM Narendra Modi, this was one big decision. People have been queing up since November- 8 announcement outside ATMs. The RBI announced via it's Twitter Handle today. RBIs Twitter Handle Grab Official Statement from RBI- Issuance of ₹ 50 banknotes without inset letter, with numerals in ascending size in number panels, and without intaglio printing Issue of ₹ 20 banknotes with 'R' inset letter, with numerals in ascending size in number panels and without intaglio printing. The Reserve Bank of India will shortly issue ₹ 50 denomination banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi Series-2005, without inset letter in both the number panels, bearing signature of Dr. Raghuram G. Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India, and...

Post Demonetization, the ignored, humble ATM has indeed found a new found respect. Nowadays- November-December, people can be found in front of an ATM to withdraw sundry cash for their day to day dealing. So, when was ATM first came into existence in.  In my initial research, Quora says  it was 1987.  In my earlier days spent in Calcutta, my previous office Business Standard, at BBD Bag chottor. Little I knew that it was the HSBC (Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) that introduced the ATM concept in India and the year was 1987. HSBC-BBD Bag, Calcutta As per an article published on HuffPost  there are about 2 lakh ATMs all over India and the average transaction everyday is about ₹4,000 whereas the average number of transactions happening every days is about 125 per ATM so the ATMs handle over ₹10,000 crore in currency everyday.

If you in Kolkata today and enjoy Piano, Jazz, the Dalhousie Institute, Ballygunge in the evening today.  Piano Tales Enrico Zanisi, the 26 year old from Italy is now in India to showcase his Jazz stories by the name of Piano Tales , an information received by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura New Delhi (ITALIAN EMBASSY CULTURAL CENTRE, NEW DELHI) Here are the 11 songs from Mr. Enrico Zanisi which he is going to play across Mumbai, Calcutta, Chennai and Pune.  PIANO TALES (2016 Cam Jazz) Ouverture Uma Historia Mirage Cut It Out Mà Palabras Stairs No Truth Morse Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most O Du Mein Holder Abendstern He was the highest scorer at classical degree in piano.   His interest in jazz music started at the age of 15; he attended many jazz clinics around Italy studying with K. Werner, J. Calderazzo, L. Grenadier, P. Markowitz, M. Stamm and other great American and Italian musicians. He can be reached here.  ...

‘Lives of Data’ Workshop, 06-07 January 2017, The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi.  Call for Abstracts ‘Data’ has been recently termed as the new oil, new soil, new world currency and the raw material for the new industrial revolution. It has been hypothesised that the era of Big Data will finally see the ‘end of theory’. This hyperbole has it that the new technologies being developed today can produce truth based on computations of large amounts of machine readable digital data. Beyond such deterministic claims, the ‘Data Revolution’ indeed poses compelling theoretical and methodological challenges in all fields with stakes in knowledge. The present conjuncture, we would argue, is loaded with possibilities for rethinking ‘data-driven knowledge’ through longer histories of classification, enumeration, quantification, techno-scientific practices, and forms of media storage, retrieval, computational analysis and use. Scholar...

The concept of One Nation and One TAX is certainly one of the biggest tax reform, we have seen in recent decades, perhaps after the independence. Our Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, had announced the demonetization of old Rs. 500 and Rs. 100 bank note denominations on November 8th (last week) and before that, in our previous session, a common consensus on GST was unanimously passed in the Indian parliament.  Now people can enroll their business on the official GST government website-  https://www.gst.gov.in/ starting now to avoid last minute rush.  According to the PMO official website , Modi said that in the last session, a major decision on #GST was taken and the parliament did made a major contribution towards realization of the dream of "One nation, One tax.". He added by saying that when all parties work together in the larger nation interest, positive outcomes and results emerge. The press note adds, "The consultation process has been going on ahead of ...

By now all of us must have visited your nearby ATM and gotten your own money. Thanks, to an unprecedented move by the GOI in the month of November, Rs.500 and Rs.1000 Rupee notes are no longer valid and not to be legal tender anymore, after the midnight of November 9th.   In a Press Release   issued by the RBI- Reserve Bank Of India, combined by a nationwide address by Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi, the Issuance  of ₹ 2000 Banknotes and scrapping of the old notes came as a surprise, shock and people were clueless what they need to do next.  The Reserve Bank of India has issued new ₹2000,  ₹500,  ₹1000   denomination banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series, without the inset letter, bearing signature of Dr. Urjit R. Patel, Governor, Reserve Bank of India, and the year of printing '2016' printed on the reverse of the banknote. The notes also have "Swachh Bharat Campaign logo.The new denomination has Motif of Mangalyaan on the r...