Thought for the day

“When I Asked God for Strength

He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face


When I Asked God for Brain & Brown

He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve


When I Asked God for Happiness

He Showed Me Some Unhappy People


When I Asked God for Wealth

He Showed Me How to Work Hard


When I Asked God for Favors

He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard


When I Asked God for Peace

He Showed Me How to Help Others


God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted

He Gave Me Everything I Needed.” 

                                                                                       ― Swami Vivekananda

Thought for the Day

"How you think about a problem is more important 

than the problem itself - so always think positively."

                                                            Norman Vincent Peale

Staff Training at KIPS-2013

Bangladesh gets first woman Speaker

Bangladesh got its first woman Speaker with the election of Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury by the Jatiya Sangsad on Tuesday. She was the lone candidate.Dr. Chaudhury, State Minister in the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs , was nominated by the ruling Awami League’s parliamentary party on Monday. Born in 1966, Dr. Chaudhury is also the country’s youngest Speaker. She will succeed Abdul Hamid who assumed presidency last week following the death of President Md. Zillur Rahman. Women now occupy many of the top posts, with the Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition, Deputy Leader of Parliament, Foreign Minister and Agriculture Minister, all being women. A lawyer by profession, Dr. Chaaudhury entered Parliament for the first time as an MP from one of the reserved seats for women. She holds a Ph.D. from Essex University in the United Kingdom. 
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• Capitals of the world by countries

• A
• Afghanistan - Kabul
• Albania - Tirana
• Algeria - Algiers
• Andorra - Andorra la Vella
• Angola - Luanda
• Antigua & Barbuda - Saint John's
• Argentina - Buenos Aires
• Armenia - Yerevan
• Australia - Canberra
• Austria - Vienna
• Azerbaijan - Baku
• B
• Bahamas - Nassau
• Bahrain - Al-Manamah
• Bangladesh - Dhaka
• Barbados - Bridgetown
• Belarus - Minsk
• Belgium - Brussels
• Belize - Belmopan
• Benin - Porto-Novo
• Bhutan - Thimphu
• Bolivia - La Paz (administrative); Sucre (judicial)
• Bosnia & Herzegovina - Sarajevo
• Botswana - Gaborone
• Brazil - Brasilia
• Brunei - Bandar Seri Begawan
• Bulgaria - Sofia
• Burkina Faso - Ouagadougou
• Burundi - Bujumbura
• C
• Cambodia - Phnom Penh
• Cameroon - Yaounde
• Canada - Ottawa
• Cape Verde - Praia
• Central African Republic - Bangui
• Chad - N'Djamena
• Chile - Santiago
• China - Beijing
• Colombia - Bogota
• Comoros - Moroni
• Congo - Brazzaville
• Congo Democratic Republic of the - Kinshasa
• Costa Rica - San Jose
• Cote d'Ivoire - Abidjan
• Croatia - Zagreb
• Cuba - Havana
• Cyprus - Nicosia
• Czech Republic - Prague
• D
• Denmark - Copenhagen
• Djibouti - Djibouti City
• Dominica - Roseau
• Dominican Republic - Santo Domingo
• E
• East Timor - Dili
• Ecuador - Quito
• Egypt - Cairo
• El Salvador - San Salvador
• Equatorial Guinea - Malabo
• Eritrea - Asmara
• Estonia - Tallinn
• Ethiopia - Addis Ababa
• F
• Fiji - Suva
• Finland - Helsinki
• France - Paris
• G
• Gabon - Libreville
• Gambia - Banjul
• Georgia - Tbilisi
• Germany - Berlin
• Ghana - Accra
• Greece - Athens
• Grenada - Saint George's
• Guatemala - Guatemala City
• Guinea - Conakry
• Guinea-Bissau - Bissau
• Guyana - Georgetown
• H
• Haiti - Port-au-Prince
• Honduras - Tegucigalpa
• Hungary - Budapest
• I
• Iceland - Reykjavik
• India - New Delhi
• Indonesia - Jakarta
• Iran - Tehran
• Iraq - Baghdad
• Ireland - Dublin
• Israel - Jerusalem
• Italy - Rome
• J
• Jamaica - Kingston
• Japan - Tokyo
• Jordan - Amman
• K
• Kazakhstan - Astana
• Kenya - Nairobi
• Kiribati - Tarawa Atoll
• Korea North - Pyongyang
• Korea South - Seoul
• Kosovo - Pristina
• Kuwait - Kuwait City
• Kyrgyzstan - Bishkek

• 
  
• 
  
• 
  
• 
  
• L
• Laos - Vientiane
• Latvia - Riga
• Lebanon - Beirut
• Lesotho - Maseru
• Liberia - Monrovia
• Libya - Tripoli
• Liechtenstein - Vaduz
• Lithuania - Vilnius
• Luxembourg - Luxembourg
• M
• Macedonia - Skopje
• Madagascar - Antananarivo
• Malawi - Lilongwe
• Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur
• Maldives - Male
• Mali - Bamako
• Malta - Valletta
• Marshall Islands - Majuro
• Mauritania - Nouakchott
• Mauritius - Port Louis
• Mexico - Mexico City
• Micronesia - Palikir
• Moldova - Chisinau
• Monaco - Monaco
• Mongolia - Ulaanbaatar
• Montenegro - Podgorica
• Morocco - Rabat
• Mozambique - Maputo
• Myanmar (Burma) - Rangoon (Yangon); Nay Pyi Taw (administrative)
• N
• Namibia - Windhoek
• Nauru - no official capital; government offices in Yaren District
• Nepal - Kathmandu
• Netherlands - Amsterdam
• New Zealand - Wellington
• Nicaragua - Managua
• Niger - Niamey
• Nigeria - Abuja
• Norway - Oslo
• O
• Oman - Muscat
• P
• Pakistan - Islamabad
• Palau - Melekeok
• Palestinian State*
• Panama - Panama City
• Papua New Guinea - Port Moresby
• Paraguay - Asuncion
• Peru - Lima
• Philippines - Manila
• Poland - Warsaw
• Portugal - Lisbon
• Q
• Qatar - Doha
• R
• Romania - Bucharest
• Russia - Moscow
• Rwanda - Kigali
• S
• Saint Kitts and Nevis - Basseterre
• Saint Lucia - Castries
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Kingstown
• Samoa - Apia
• San Marino - San Marino
• Sao Tome and Principe - Sao Tome
• Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
• Senegal - Dakar
• Serbia - Belgrade
• Seychelles - Victoria
• Sierra Leone - Freetown
• Singapore - Singapore
• Slovakia - Bratislava
• Slovenia - Ljubljana
• Solomon Islands - Honiara
• Somalia - Mogadishu
• South Africa -
• 
  
• Pretoria (executive); Cape Town(legislative); Bloemfontein (judicial)
• South Sudan - Juba
• Spain - Madrid
• Sri Lanka - Colombo; Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative)
• Sudan - Khartoum
• Suriname - Paramaribo
• Swaziland - Mbabane
• Sweden - Stockholm
• Switzerland - Bernd
• Syria - Damascus
• T
• Taiwan - Taipei
• Tajikistan - Dushanbe
• Tanzania - Dar es Salaam; Dodoma (legislative)
• Thailand - Bangkok
• Togo - Lome
• Tonga - Nuku'alofa
• Trinidad and Tobago - Port-of-Spain
• Tunisia - Tunis
• Turkey - Ankara
• Turkmenistan - Ashgabat
• Tuvalu - Vaiaku village, Funafuti province
• U
• Uganda - Kampala
• Ukraine - Kyiv
• United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
• United Kingdom - London
• United States of America - Washington D.C.
• Uruguay - Montevideo
• Uzbekistan - Tashkent
• V
• Vanuatu - Port-Vila
• Vatican City (Holy See) - Vatican City
• Venezuela - Caracas
• Vietnam - Hanoi
• Y
• Yemen - Sanaa
• Z
• Zambia - Lusaka
• Zimbabwe - Harare

Japan's Mount Fuji becomes World Heritage Site

Japan's near-symetrical snow-topped volcano, Mount Fuji, looks likely to become a Unesco World Heritage site, officials say. A key UN advisory council had recommended it as appropriate for registration, a statement from Japan's cultural agency said. A formal decision is expected when Unesco's World Heritage Committee meets in Cambodia in June. Mt Fuji, at 3,776 (12,460 feet) is Japan's highest mountain. The volcano, which last erupted just over 300 years ago, lies to the south-west of Tokyo and is visible from the Japanese capital on a clear day.

It is featured prominently in historic Japanese art work, including wood blocks prints. It is also one of the traditional "Three Holy Mountains" - along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku, both in central Japan. The Japanese cultural agency statement on Wednesday said that the International Council on Monuments and Sites (Icomos) had approved Mt Fuji as appropriate for registration. Icomos is responsible for evaluating cultural properties nominated to the World Heritage List and submitting a recommendation to the annual meeting, it said on its website. A second application for shrines and temples of Kamakura, to the south of Tokyo, did not receive approval, the Japanese statement said. Japan currently has 16 World Heritage-listed sites - 12 cultural and four natural. The most recent addition to the list, in 2011, were the Buddhism-linked gardens and temples of Hiraizumi.
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URI ANNUAL YOUTH CAMP-2013

URI Award Winners at the Annual Youth camp

New Office Bearers of Interfaith Student's Movement (URI Youth Wing)

New Office Bearers of URI South India Zone

PARTICIPANTS IN GROUP DISCUSSION

URI Youth Camp-Music Meditation Class by Rajan Cosmic