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Archive for December, 2007
Bhutto assassinated! What next for Pakistan?
01605 days
by Rabin
in Young Ideas
Pakistani former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated in a suicide attack. Ms Bhutto – the first woman PM in an Islamic state – was leaving an election rally in Rawalpindi when a gunman shot her in the neck and set off a bomb. At least 20 other people died in the attack and several more were injured.
Reports said that Pakistan in under chaos now. President Pervez Musharraf has urged people to remain calm but angry protests have gripped some cities, with at least 11 deaths reported.
Benazir was hope of many moderate Pakistanis who wanted to see Pakistan moderate and progressing Pakistan. But all the dreams are shattered now.
But who are responsible for her assassination? Taliban? Or Muslim extremist/terrorist or President Musharraf himself? Ms. Bhutto has been constantly referring that her life is in danger and extremist behind the military are also plotting against her. Her claim was quashed by Musharraf. When her homecoming was blasted with two suicide bomb attack killing at least 130 lives, Musharraf blamed increasing extremist. He suspended constitution, arrested then Chief-Justice, lawyers, human rights activist etc. But released more than 15 Talibani militants in
exchange of his army personnel seized by militans in Baluchistan.
The investigation of Benazir’s home coming terror is not yet over. But critics say instead of preserving forensic evidences which could led to attackers, government destroyed them. So will happen this time. In past also assassination of many Pakistani leaders has occurred. But real culprit has never been brought to justice. So, it is unlikely that this time also justice would prevail. I, myself saw in television reports that many evidences were being washed with water-jets. The crime scene must be cordoned and investigated, but alas!!
Musharraf has been close ally of United States after 9/11 attack. US provided annual 300 million worth military support to Pakistan to fight against terrorism. But recently The New York Times reported that instead of spending money for fighting terrorism, Pakistan is using money to buy ammunitions against arch-rival India. So is Pakistan really fighting against terrorism? Newsweek reported that forget Iraq, Pakistan is most dangerous place for democracy and peace in world. It seems, reality is harsh, but true.
With Butto dead, Sharif loosing his credentials which never recovered, who is to benefit most? Muslim extremist are sure to benefit. The person who could stand against them is now no more. So would Musharraf benefit. He has got another reason to postpone elections, impose emergency and take direct control. He has again got reason to show Pakistani people, “look I am your only hope. I know what is wrong with Pakistan and only I can solve them.”
This assassination would surely impact not only South Asian region but the whole world. Now the world must turn its attention to Pakistani Nuclear facilities. It is clear that Musharraf might be doing his best but not enough. He has lost his charisma among his own military. United States would be number uno target and India would be second. And Nepal and Bangladesh are vulnerable of being used.
But one thing must be loud and clear to Musharraf: May be terror reigns Pakistan, but democratic process must be in track.
Two realities of Kathmandu
11611 days
These are the two realities of Kathmandu. Watch video and find out what they are:
First video is of petrol line which was in front of Sajha yatayat. It was almost 1 Km long. Because of petro-crisis, such scenes are not only common, but now accepted. Such lines also causes huge traffic jam and yeah, you need to pay more to ride taxis.
Second video is of garbage that was piled up at Thamel. Due to Kathmandu Metropolitan’s differences with landfill site, Kathmandu’s garbage wasn’t removed from streets. This made Kathmandu more stinky, vulnerable to diseases and dirty. And one can easily imagine what impact such pile of garbage at Thamel, a popular tourist destination, might have left on our tourist friends.
Excluisve: Orlando Bloom in Nepal
101614 days
by Rabin
in Young Ideas
ok flocks,
here’s some spice news that you guys missed. Orlando Bloom, a famous hollywood star was here in Nepal. We will bring you all details of his visit to nepal who shot to fame with success with movies like Lord Of the Rings and Pirates of the Carrebian. Exclusive details and pictures will be soon on one and only blog, younnovation.bignepal.com. Here are some exclusive pictures.
For more, wait for some time dudes.
Jai Politics!!!
11621 days
जाडोको महिना छ । विहान विहान चिसो भएर कलेज जाने मन पनि हुँदैन । धेरै जस्तो समय अल्छि गरेर सुतेरै बस्छु । सायद यही भएर होला कलेजमा मलाई पर्यटकको रुपमा हेरिन्छ । अब सरकारी कलेज न पर्यो, को आयो को गयो कसलाई मतलब । आज भेटेको साथी भोली चिनिदैन । त्यही भएर १ वर्ष त कुनै पनि साथी नबनाई वित्यो । दोस्रो वर्षमा गएर मात्र केही साथी बने जो अझै पनि छदैछन् ।
कलेजमा के भइरहेछ भन्ने बारेमा म बेखबर नै रहन्छु । तर अस्ति कलेजमा प्रथम वर्षका नयाँ साथी अर्थात Fresher हरुलाई स्वागत कार्यक्रम थियो । हेर्न मन नहुँदा नहुँदै पनि साथीको करले एकछिन हेर्न गएँ । स्ववियुले बजेट भाषण जस्तो के मा कति खर्च गर् यो भनेर खर्चको नालीबेली पढ्दै थियो । सुन्दा नै अचम्म लाग्यो, विरामी सहयोग खर्च भनेर झण्डै १४ हजार खर्च गरेछ तर को विरामी थियो, किन दिइयो जस्ता जरुरी स्पष्टिकरण भने दिएन । मैले सोचे म त परेँ पर्यटक त्यही भएर यस्तो खर्च पनि दिदोरहेछ भनेर थाहा भएन । त्यही भएर सधैँ कलेज आउने साथीलाई सोधेँ के यस्तो खर्च पनि हुन्छ र पारदर्शी कतिको हुन्छ । तर खासमा त ऊ पनि यो लिष्ट सुनेर अचम्म परेको रहेछ । भन्दै थियो अब स्ववियूको चिनेको मान्छे विरामी भए मात्र खर्च पाइन्छ होला । सुन्दै थिएँ बजेट भाषण सकियो । कतिले सुने थाहा भएन । सबै जना स्ववियुले सित्तैमा बाँड्ने चियामा झुम्मिएका थिए तर खर्च चाहि स्ववियूको भागमा रहेछ (पोहोर २७ सय खर्च भएको रहेछ) । बजेट भाषण पछि अर्को साथी मंचमा आउनुभयो । लागेको थियो उहाँले नयाँ साथीलाई स्वागत रुपी भाषण दिनुहुन्छ । तर होइन रहेछ । अब मन्च पाएको बेला अरु पार्टीलाई गाली नगरेर कसले जसको लागि कार्यक्रम आयोजना भएको हो उसको लागि भनेर केही बोलोस् । सुनेर दिक्क लाग्यो र हिँडे ।
बाहिर चिया पसलमा घुँइचो थियो । बल्ल बल्ल सिट पाएँ । फेरी अरुको कुरा सुन्दिन भन्दा भन्दै पनि सुनिहालेँ । जो हेरे पनि विदेश जाने कुरा बाहेक केही गर्दैनन् । धन्न एक पार्टीलाई गाली गर्ने र बहस गर्ने विषय त हैन जस्तो लाग्यो । एकछिनमा उनीहरुको कुरा भिसामा आयो । किन भिसा पाएन र कति भाग्यको भर हुन्छ भनेर कुरा भयो । भर्खरैको रिर्पोट अनुसार नेपाल अमेरिकामा विद्यार्थी पठाउने मुलुकको सुचिमा १४ औँ स्थानमा रहेछ । सबैले भिसा पाए जस्तो लागेको थियो तर हैन रहेछ । मेरो प्राय सबै साथी त गइसके सायद त्यही भएर पनि मेरो त्यो सोच बसेको होला । अमेरिका नभए अष्ट्रेलिया त पक्का भन्थे । तर भिसा नपाएको गुनासो सुन्दा सुन्दा एकै चोटि अमेरिकी साम्राज्यवादलाई पो गाली सुनेँ । अचम्म लाग्यो र फर्केर नै हेरेँ । अर्को मित्र त्यो बहसमा थपिनुभएको रहेछ । अमेरिकाले किन भिसा दिनलाई किचकिच गर्छ भन्दा उहाँको तर्क थियो “राम्रो र दक्ष जनशक्तिलाई अमेरिका ल्याउने र अरु मध्यम तहका मानिसलाई उसकै देशमा छोड्ने अमेरिकाको योजना छ । अब एकचोटि अमेरिका पुगेपछि किन फर्केर नेपाल जस्तो देशमा आउँछन् र मानिसहरु । त्यही आफ्नो दक्षताको उपयोग गरिहाल्छन् । यसले गर्दा अमेरिका पछि सम्म पनि विश्व महाशक्ति बन्न सक्छ ।” अरुले पनि सही थापे र फेरी कुरा घुमेर फर्केर राजनीतिमै आइपुग्यो । अमेरिकाले किन माओवादी नेतालाई भिसा दियो माओवादीको युद्ध मोह काँग्रेसको कुर्ची मोह….. यस्तै यस्तै कुरा ।
लाग्यो नेपाली न पर् यौ । नसा नसामा राजनीति घुसेको छ । जुनसुकै समय स्थान र परिस्थितिमा पनि राजनीतिले छोड्दो रहेनछ । अनि एकचोटि महादेवलाई सम्झे (हुन त म नास्तिक हुँ) र मनमनै भने जय शम्भो जय राजनीति !
YI’s Durpal how to Makes news at CMS Wire
01623 days
After web-publishing the drupal how to at Drupal Nepal, FOSS Nepal and around a dozen Drupal related sites I had no idea that it’ll be reviewed like below by CMSwire.com that provides news, reviews and resources on Content Management System (CMS). It has been downloaded 300 times in two weeks time and if you want to learn Drupal then this may be the best thing to download at under 6 MB but above 90 Pages.
The reviews by : John Conroy at cmswire.com
It goes like this:
Now there’s a headline you never thought you’d see. Young Innovations, a Drupal development firm from the mystical land of Nepal, has released a beginners guide, in English, for the Drupal open source web content management system. Drupal how to For Beginners was developed by Young Innovations in conjunction with SAP, and is freely available under a Creative Commons license.
Running to 94 pages and with screenshots-aplenty, the guide is comprehensive. The scope is similarly broad – beginning with an explanation of what a CMS is (as if anybody knows anymore…), and continues through installation, management, customization, and adding modules.
One small gripe — the sages behind this tome are rather more at home wrestling with LAMP configs and pimping add-on modules than with the deployment of English grammar.
Witness this affront to Wordsworth and Byron:
“The primary target audience of this how-to or manual are people with some knowledge of web programming language and database more specifically people who know PHP and MySQL will be benefited to know and use such a world class product that also for free.”
Tut tut. Let me get my red pen.
But to be fair, we’re not marking these guys on syntax and grammar. You just want to know whether this “how-to” is worth downloading as an aid to getting your Drupal website up and running.
The answer is yes, and in fact it’s quite a bit more. Young Innovations should have called this ‘Goldilocks Teaches Drupal’, because everything is just about right.
Right length, right level of complexity, right amount of ‘dumbing down’ for less technical folk — within their stated audience of semi-HTML proficient persons, right balance between explanation and overt instruction.
Despite the aforementioned length, most of the bulk is taken up with screenshots and you can skim it in half an hour and still learn plenty. The primary function it performs, even more important to my mind than being an installation/beginners guide, is that it gives an excellent overview of exactly what Drupal is all about.
And that, I’m sure you’ll agree, is a worthwhile result.
Download the guide as a PDF here, and if you want to have a look at Young Innovations’ playground, visit them here. While you’re at it, why not go here to have a look at Nepal’s burgeoning Drupal community. Call it a cultural exchange.
In related news, influential Drupal consulting firm, Lullabot, has released a podcast citing “50 Drupal Tips and Tricks”. It’s already garnered 400 Diggs in just a couple of weeks, so tips like “Turn any CCK type with an imagefield into a photocast with ConTemplate” are evidently not the gibberish it appears to this non-Drupalist.
The cult of Lullabot has now racked up 50 such podcasts, and you can of course check them all out at lullabot.com.
In related Drupal news, the latest (beta) version has just hit the street. See Drupal Drops 6.0 Beta 3; Sports OpenID and Fancy Installer for the details.
Read it all it sounds cool.
YIPL Rocks.
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