World record: 600-sq.m national flag made with 2.3 lakh origami boats at Bengaluru SFS Academy
Bengaluru: Students and teachers on the SFS Academy set multiple world records with their origami work on Monday, on the occasion of Children’s Day as well as the 75th Independence Day.
A national flag measuring 600 square meters was prepared using 2.3 lakh origami boats, which set a record. The work was completed in seven hours on the campus of the Academy situated by the Bengaluru-Hosur national highway, said sources.
As many as 1,727 students and 140 teachers painted more than 5,000 national flags, which was also reportedly a record.
Dr Rabih Baalbaki, CEO of Elite World Record (LLC-USA); chief adjudicator Dr Satyagupta, Dr M Naura, Bhavana Rajesh, Benni Marangoli of the Academy, in-charge Cyril Ananth, SFS principal Dr P M Lawrence were present.
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Delimitation will turn out to be 'political demonetisation': Tharoor slams govt
New Delhi (PTI): Delimitation will turn out to be "political demonetisation", senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Friday while slamming the government for linking women's reservation with the expansion of Parliament.
Participating in a debate in the Lok Sabha on the three bills introduced for amendments in the women's quota law and setting up a delimitation commission, Tharoor said linking women's reservation with delimitation is to hold the aspirations of Indian women hostage to "one of the most contentious and complex" administrative exercises in the country's history.
"Today we stand at a threshold where there is near unanimous political consensus in favour of women's reservation. Every major party realises that the time for tokenism is over and the era of collective partnership must begin and yet I am finding myself deeply perturbed by the legislative exercise before us," he said.
"The prime minister says he has brought 'nari shakti' the gift of justice but he has wrapped it in barbed wire, tethering the implementation of women's reservation to the expansion of Parliament, to numbers from the 2011 census and an exercise of delimitation... Why must we entangle a moral imperative with a demographic minefield, he asked.
Women's reservation, he said, is ready for harvest and can and should be implemented immediately based on existing parliamentary strength.
"Delimitation is not a mere bureaucratic rearranging of maps, it is a profound shift in political power that is intended....Any delimitation exercise is fraught with complications that could tear at the very fabric of our federalism," he said.
"You have proposed delimitation with such haste, the same haste that you showed on demonetisation. Unfortunately, we all know what damage that did to the country. Delimitation will turn out to be political demonetisation. Don't do it," Tharoor said.
The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill to tweak the women's quota law was introduced in Lok Sabha on Thursday after a division of votes.
Two ordinary bills -- the Delimitation Bill and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill to implement the proposed amended women's quota law in Union territories of Delhi, Puducherry and Jammu and Kashmir -- were also introduced in the House.
