DHAKA, BANGLADESH, September 17, 2017 (Dhaka Tribune): India’s Tripura state will be supplying additional power to Bangladesh on the occasion of Durga Puja. Tripura’s Power Minister Manik Dey confirmed the matter and said: ”Of the total power requirement of 450MW, Tripura would need 300MW for its own consumption while 150MW will go to Bangladesh.” He said Bangladesh generally receives 160MW of power from Tripura but the country would get an additional 150MW during Puja.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, September 28, 2017 (Associated Press): The holiday of Diwali is starting to light up mainstream America. Diwali, a festival of lights celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and others in India and other countries, has long been observed in immigrant communities around the U.S. But now public celebrations of the holiday are starting to pop up in places ranging from Disneyland and Times Square to parks and museums.
The Times Square event is the brainchild of Neeta Bhasin, who says that while many Indian immigrants have found great success in the U.S., ”still people don’t know much about India. I felt it’s about time that we should take India to mainstream America and showcase India’s rich culture, heritage, arts and diversity to the world. And I couldn’t find a better place than the center of the universe: Times Square.” The Diwali celebration at Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, Calif., includes performances of traditional Indian dances and a Bollywood dance party for guests. It’s part of a festival of holidays at the theme park reflecting cultural traditions from around the world. The Disney festival begins Nov. 10 and runs through Jan. 7.
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INDIA, September 29, 2017 (DRPSECT): Indian Society for Indic Studies, Vadodara, will hold its 2nd International conference in Delhi, India from 20th February until 22nd February, 2018. Tentative venue will be in Delhi. The main theme of the conference is ”Applied Ancient Wisdom For Transformational Leadership”. The goal of this International conference is to bring out the applied form of ancient wisdom for cultivating a new class of creative leadership. Developing this new type of Transformational Leadership is the answer to address a range of global challenges faced by the humanity.
The two main types of leadership discussed in management literature are Transactional leadership and Transformational leadership. A Transformational Leader employs different creative strategies and techniques to boost employee performance and to accomplish internal change while maintaining respect and dignity of people involved in the organization. Transformational and Transactional leadership are extreme opposites when it comes to the underlying theories of management and motivation. In today’s corporate human resource management human values are mostly ignored giving more importance to the financial goals of the organization.
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I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors. Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.
— Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian spiritual leader
