It’s party time for Shekhar Suman and Archana Puran Singh as they have been nominated for the ‘best anchor’ category for Movers & Shakers and Uncensored respectively — both on Sony by the Asian Television Awards ‘98.

Movers & Shakers is a late night show where Suman entertains viewers with gags and humorous real life instances. A live music band and audience brings in an element of interactivity between the show and the viewers. It also features interviews with two celebrities from different walks of life.

Uncensored is about stars with their wild and flamboyant lifestyles, their perception of fashion and style and their viewpoint towards life. It captures the glamour, the aura, the glitter, the scandals and the controversies of Bollywood. As an insider Archana gives you an insight into Bollywood with her own brand of wit.

Whether they finally get the award or not is not important. What is important is the fact that Sony is all geared up to gain important mileage even from the nominations.

When it comes to singing, Nafisa Joseph, the MTV VJ is a natural.Back in school her honey-toned baritone easily won her a place in the choir. She also learnt how to play the guitar and the piano. So it was natural that she make a career in music.

But before that Nafisa Joseph picked up the Miss India crown and also became the first runners-up at the 1997 Ms Universe!

The fiery stunner has made her debut on television as a veejay with MTV’s MTV and Smirnoff Megamix showcasing peppy dance music videos from the Indian and international music scene.

But there is more to Nafisa than just her beautiful flashing brown eyes or her dazzling smile that never fails to captivate. The lady has a great passion for music. Not only listening to it but she is a fabulous singer and has awards to prove it. She has learnt how to strum to guitar and play the piano as well.

“I like to take life as it comes,” says Nafisa obviously elated by the fact that life so far has been coming like a ride on a roller coaster to stardom.

Al-Boukhari was almost nothing to Malaysia among the richest men. He port facilities and an airport in southern Malaysia, and the accumulation of interests in real estate, hotels, power plants, rubber plantations, banks, retail and construction.

It is possible that Al-Boukhari spray at the end of part or all of its plants in its foundation. This Malaysia some of the biggest companies and large infrastructure developments is not controlled by the government or a family, but by specialists, on behalf of charity.

Khoo Teck Puat, a Malaysian, has lived in Singapore and in possession of nearly 15 percent of the Standard Chartered Bank, where he died in 2004, with the headquarters of the Khoo Foundation during the year 1981, a contribution on medical care, health and educational causes. After his death, 30 percent of his fortune, or $ US1.5 billion, was sent to the Foundation. Another US3.5 million went to Singapore National Foundation dialysis and several million more in Singapore was another body to buy a large collection of ceramics from the Tang dynasty. This year, the Foundation had a $ US60 million from the National University of Singapore for medical research, $ US13 million to set up an Institute for Research on Cancer and $ US82 million to help a capacity of 550 beds hospital.

Another important element is the foundation of Singapore Yong Loo Lin Trust, by another family business. During 2005, which had the confidence of $ US70 million NIS at the School of Medicine and by the year 2003, $ US20 million to the university for its Conservatory of Music.

The Ayala Foundation of the rich family Ayala, is a leading corporate donor to the Philippines. It supports a large number of good works to improve the welfare of citizens. The Foundation also has an arm of the USA, Filipinos, a contribution to social development programmes in the Philippines.

Similarly, the Philippines, John Gokongwei, the founder of the world’s largest business groups in the country, JG Summit Holdings, last year announced his intention to comply 25 per cent of its interest in JG the top of a non-profit foundation is to enable the country poor and indigent. Gokongwei specifically cited Li Ka-shing as a source of inspiration for his own work and for this gift in particular.

JG Summit Holdings is very diversified, with offices in real estate, banking, financial, food, petrochemicals, textiles, hotels, electricity, cement and telecommunications. A quarter of all people at present to do the work for charitable purposes.

This small but growing trend to transfer assets of companies, charitable foundations to improve corporate governance in Asia. Installation of professional management to maximize shareholder value in the interest of charity is one reason why the Tata Group of India and Ayala group on the Philippines are leaders in their respective countries, good governance. The company key players in Asia might look like a series of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation adds another interesting dimension of the activity in Asia.

Vice-Chancellor Dr Snehalata Deshmukh’s proposal to grant a two-year extension to M S Kambli as professor-cum-director of Institute of Distance Education was not fully accepted by the Mumbai University Management Council on Thursday. Instead, MC members decided to appoint Kambli as an Officer on Special Duty at IDE for one year till a suitable candidate is selected for the post. Thursday’s meeting had mentioned the V-C’s proposal to grant an extension-in-service to Kambli as IDE’s professor-cum-director for a period of two years. However, Kambli has already crossed the age of superannuation ie 60 years, on April 5, 1998. The proposal was amended and MC members were requested to consider the proposal for allowing Kambli as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) for a year from May 1. The V-C said the varsity will advertise and select a proper candidate for the post. Senate member Amarjit Singh Manhas had earlier written to Chancellor Dr P C Alexanderpointing out several instances of flouting rules in connection with Kambli’s proposed extension. Deshmukh did not wish to talk about the matter as the Management Council meetings are confidential. But sources admit that Kambli had been appointed as an OSD. Manhas said: “I am happy with the MC’s decision as it has ensured that deserving academicians have a chance to try for the director’s post whenever advertises for .”

MUMBAI, June 18: A Commission of Experts recommendation bar19 private educational institutions offering vocational training courses in the disciplines of the implementation of home during the next academic year seems to have lost its way into a pit in the interest of its intention to shorter routes sabotaged.

The 18-member committee of the All India Council for Technical Education, the West region (AICTE) had recommended, 19 establishments with 1740 seats and gives the National Master degree and doctorate in engineering, pharmacy, business administration, computer science and applications management hotel blocked the admission of students for the academic year 1998-99, since it is contrary to the criteria for recognition. One of these establishments are located in Mumbai, four Navi Mumbai and Thane two in a circle.

However, the Committee is the report, which was expected, presented at the meeting of the Committee AICTE, Monday, was the discussion at the last minute. Instead, a second committee will probably the AICTEheadquartered in Delhi to check the accuracy of the first committee report.

These sources say, for the protection of institutions, many of whom are influential people in politics and other fields.The further report was well in advance, so that its recommendations could be implemented before the number of visitors that result. It is therefore necessary to the discussion of the agenda has ensured that nearly attendance during 1998-99 a product without a hitch.

The AICTE, the point of recognition of technical and vocational institutes, conducts an annual review in the wake of an inspection to ensure compliance with its guidelines. But this is the first time the inspection was in such a large scale (including 600 odd schools in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa) and lock permission was recommended.

It is also the first time that the AICTE decided not drag on paper, while the decision on settlements “status. Ignore written information on the rule of theinstitutes their operation, the group has made checks on the spot and recommended a ban of entry on prices. That is why the interest of links with the AICTE attempt to stifle the report and said its recommendations should be examined, the sources explained.

Among the criteria for recognition, the Council has a 1:15 teacher-pupil report, a teacher, two assistants and four teachers (1:2:4) by faculty and an area of 10 square metres per student.

Three persons were arrested on charges of bogus voting in elections held in a ward in the Ambarnath Municipal Council today, informed the Thane police. V S Kandekar (30), Prabha K Dedia (38) and G R Patil (32) had resorted to bogus voting in the polls, held in ward number 25. Polling was, though, by and large peaceful, and a turnout of around 52 per cent was reported.

If students cheat, before merit further examination, an Institute of marks, MCES’s College of Education and Research in Mumbra reportedly spent with gusto. Instead, the college, which takes place in a full-time one-year study Bachelor of Education (beds) flunked of course, the test and said that the authorization to suspend for the academic year 1999-2000.

The penalty was proposed to require students to cheat on the criteria set by the University of Mumbai for its BEd, of course. Under the guise of “work” looks forward to all students in the cleanliness of the premises a day before an inspection, so that the university would be cleaner, a chit.

The SSPM Krupa Guru’s College of Education and Research in Kalyan has gone a little further. Here, the authorities tacitly allowed to conduct its students had pocketed ` ‘R 10000 each during the collection of student fees.

Now, with two other colleges BEd member of the university, the college has been said, to keep the cinema several abeyancethanks financial and other irregularities by a committee of three members appointed by the university two years ago.

The decision, nor to education, State Department, was established on the basis of the report of the Committee on submission to a meeting of the Academic Council at the university on January 30. The two other higher education institutions have found, with rules are flouted Oriental Educational Trust’s National College of Education at Ulhasnagar and All-India Khilafat Commission’s College of Education at Byculla.

After the first inspection of all associated BEd 27 universities at the university during the years 1997, the group boards and colleges classified into four categories - A, B, C and D - based on their infrastructure. In January this year, in colleges “D” category were inspected again consider, in respect of previous directives.

The government today informed the Bombay High Court, that booking policy of promotion of government officials has indeed been that encouraging more officers, but they have been dominant because of the ` `Politics of the time and the procedure was before the Supreme Court judgement in the case of the IGC”Sabharwal. The State has therefore requested under oath, that the contempt petition filed by a retired Mumbai Port Trust employees Anil Joshi against the state government, including Interior Minister Gopinath mouth, had no merit and must be released. Joshi’s petition demanding that the State has deliberately violated the guarantees before the High Court on the implementation of the reservation in Maharashtra, as instructed by the Supreme Court. It is the third petition is filed contempt of Joshi in this regard.

The case had at the outset for the hearing before the Bank of Justice AP Shah. But with the state to file a statement under oath today, according to the petitioners, a week’stime respond. The sworn statement filed by Anjali Sakhalkar committed in the division of the house, argued that it was a mistake, in a statement under oath in 1997 and that the total number of staff online caste (SC), category was encouraged, just over 13, compared to 33 already mentioned. The State has made an official apology, the court for error. The testimony of insurance claims that the 219 seats reserved for SC category inspectors of police, a surplus of 13 officers were promoted. In the ST category was over-37 and 25 in the denotified nomadic tribes. The assistant police inspector in transport category reserved for the June 30, 1999, the existence of a surplus of 25 officers from the SC category and 34 in the category ST.

The article remained in meat exports

The Bombay High Court today has remained a modification by the Government of the Union in raw meat (chilled / frozen) Quality Control & Inspection of the rule is trying to stop exporting meat, obtaining productsfrom their localabattoirs. Membership in a prayer of the petitioners, Miki exports International, Noor Al-exporters, MK Overseas Pvt Ltd and Al-Nafiz exporters of frozen foods Ltd, the Bank of Justice division Mo Ghodeswar BN Srikrishna and justice in an ad-interim relief is remained the rule. The petitioner argued against the rule, as amended, on July 9 by the Government of the European Union clearly indicates that meat from local slaughterhouses was unable to exports. The petitioners have their meat from the slaughterhouse Deonar of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. The rule as last amended by the center read: meat from animals in a slaughterhouse or a slaughter house of a local authority can not for export. It was a modification of the rule that early exporters of meat could be the source of their products from slaughterhouses were quality standards, according to IS4393. According to the petitioner, the All India meat and livestock exporters’ Association had tried hard andhad so far helped to improve the level of local slaughterhouses to the standards set by the rule.

CNBC India and LG Electronics, in association with NIIT and Seagate announces the West Zone finalists for “The CNBC Complete Manager 1999′’selected through an all-India contest for the managers of tomorrow. The West Zone finals held on November 11, 1999, at Mumbai Education Trust, saw A N Seshadari (IIM, Ahmedabad) emerge as the winner. Siddharth Suryanarayan (S P Jain, Mumbai) was the 1st runner up and Sudhendra Sharma (MET. Mumbai) was the 2nd runner up. These finalists will represent the West at the national finals to be held on November 25 in New Delhi.

In Maharashtra, a college was found not to run, but 15 course illegal, duping students of lakhs of rupees, with a conclusion have no legal validity.

The glossy brochure collge announces post-graduate diploma course sagen”Join as a student, you as a professional.”

It is Chetana of confidence by two of its institutes - Chetana Institute of Management and Research and Chetana Institute of Development Studies.

The complete list of courses to impress everyone, with 15 races Post-Graduate Program in Retail Management Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management, Business Administration and Management of events.

Courses illegal

Regarding students are not known, is that all these courses are illegal. They have not the sanction of the All India Council for Technical Education, the body under the HRD ministry is expected that the increase in technical training in the country.

This means that the qualifications of the two institutes hands each year hundreds of students and professors are not worth the paper they are printed.

The direction of Chetana Trust, a former Education Minister Madhukar Chaudhari education for at least one of these courses since 1991 and since then has not time to get it approved by the AICTE.

The AICTE said he is aware, in the illicit traffic and, of course, the college has an opinion.

The secretary of the Chetana Trust Prem Anand Roopvate refused to talk to the camera, but said:”We have these courses in the last 12 - 15 years. We are an autonomous institution, we do not need permission AICTE. But we AICTE on the admission of PGDBA and PGDBM course in June 2006.”

Rules unclear

But the question is, provided that the institution of autonomy? If NDTV spoke to AICTE, they said, the rules were clear.

Non-technical training institute in a certain way to begin classes without prior agreement.

Chetana is just another example of the operation, that the increase in technical and training in our country.

Perhaps the only path that can be red word if the body AICTE, governs and regulates education, cracks on these illegal settlements, who has played with the career of many people