Boy quits college to let sister continue in school

Nakashipara, July 28: Nineteen-year-old Naresh always stood first in high school, but he will not go to college any more. He will be a labourer in Mumbai instead, so that his sister can study longer. .... ....
.... their mother Basanti, 40, asked Amita to quit Shibpur High School last month and stay at home. “Amita is a girl and she doesn’t need to study more. It is Naresh who should study,” Basanti said.
“I knew her world would crumble. She shut the door and wept for hours.”
Naresh returned from college and learnt about his mother’s decision.
Amita said: “I was crying when dada came home. He heard everything and told me, ‘Don’t worry. You will study. I will quit college’.”
“Dada’s decision stunned us and I broke down again. He said he would go to Mumbai to work as a labourer. It is a very painful decision for him. He was a better student (in Shibpur High School) and the pride of the village,” said Amita.

House keeper is crorepati

House keeper is crorepati- LS secretary-general guards cash flashed in Parliament

New Delhi, July 28: You may not have noticed him on TV on trust vote day. A serious-looking 63-year-old with a moustache, he had no chance in the eyeball stakes against wads of cash being waved by MPs.
But P.D.T. Achary, who sat a few feet in front of Somnath Chatterjee in Parliament and had a hard time explaining the voting rules in the din, can now permit himself a chuckle. The money — all one crore of it — is now his prisoner, locked away in a cabinet.
“The money is safe and sealed in my room. There is a guard keeping watch over it. There is also 24-hour security for the room,” the Lok Sabha secretariat’s topmost official told The Telegraph.
Achary admits he cannot remember a time in his 35 years in the secretariat when a House official’s chamber was so flush with cash. “There has never been such a situation,” he said.