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Newsletter | Monday, September 6, 2010
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Sameer Singh, 24, says he loves to pamper his girlfriend with a bottle of crisp wine - what he calls the "official beverage for romance". At other times, after a long day at work, Singh often pops open a bottle over dinner to sit back and unwind.
Using 'F' words, pulling each other's hair on trivial issues and manipulative moves that we see on youth-centric reality shows like Splitsvilla, Sarkaar Ki Duniya and MTV Roadies do not give the real picture of the country's youth, say psychiatrists and a majority of youngsters too.
All political parties are swearing by youth power in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls. But youth feel politicians are ignoring the basic issue that concerns them in this age of economic meltdown: job losses.
Life would be meaningless and not worth living without the Internet, nearly one in seven Hong Kong youngsters said in a survey released Friday.
Campus
Nitin tops Western Union South Asia Essay Competition
Students raise $3,000 for cleaning water wells
Indian American bags top Honor
Indian American wins Lange fellowship
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Career
Postgraduates, graduates apply for sweepers' jobs
Sons of labourer, shopkeeper crack prestigious IIT exam
Immigrants miss out on Australia's best jobs
Zip, zap...IIT Delhi's F1 car for Silverstone circuit
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Appearance matters. That's what some job-seeking Chinese college graduates say.
South Asia's future can be bright if its youth can come together to share ideas and work together as young people remain largely unaffected by some of the animosities and conflicts between their countries, said students at a South Asian festival here.
Thai police arrested a female teacher for having sex with a 13-year-old boy whom she was tutoring in her room, media reports said Tuesday.
It's Valentine's Day. But barring a few couples walking around with flowers in their hands or cosying up over coffee in cafes, one could see more people marching with banners to protest against self-proclaimed moral policing groups Saturday morning.
"It's our future that's being negotiated out here," says Ruchi Jain. "We can make a difference," says Avipsa Mahapatra. "We need India to move faster on a green development path," says Deepanjali Gupta. These voices, which are getting louder, are of the youth who have joined the fight against climate change.
Such is the high level of unemployment that graduates and even postgraduates are queuing up to apply for jobs as sweepers in a satellite town of New Delhi - and even wielding the broom to clean dirty roads and drains as part of the practical test.
Jai Ram's father earns less than Rs.80 a day for eight hours of back-breaking labour, but today his joy is overflowing at his son having cracked the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) exam - thanks to Super 30, an innovative coaching institute here.
Adelphi University student Nitin Chatriniyom is the winner of the "Western Union South Asia Essay Competition".
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater have raised more than $3,000 to fund wells in India as part of an effort by the Rotary India Water Trust to develop a sustainable water supply for 650 villages.
Sivarama P. Vinjamury has been bestowed with the President's Associates Outstanding Graduate Student Award of the california State University Fullerton.
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