Friday, June 3, 2011

Jack Kevorkian the Dr Death is Dead


Detroit,May,3:Jack Kevorkian, 83 years old American doctor which is famously known as “Dr. Death” because of his lifelong crusade to legalize physician-assisted suicide died on at  Detroit area hospital,  as the Associated Press reported. Kevorkian was born in Pontiac, Michigan to Armenian immigrants. His father Levon was born in the village of Passen, near the ancient Armenian city of Garin.

Dr. Kevorkian spent their most of the time campaigning for the legalization of euthanasia. He served eight years in prison and was arrested several times for helping more than 130 patients commit suicide between 1990 and 2000, carbon monoxide and using injections, his infamous suicide device, made from scraps for $30. Those he aided had terminal conditions such as multiple sclerosis, ALS and malignant brain tumors.
When asked in a 2010 interview by CNN’s Anderson Cooper about how it felt to take a patient’s life, Dr. Kevorkian said, “I didn’t do it to end a life. I did it to end the suffering the patient’s going through. The patient’s obviously suffering — what’s a doctor supposed to do, turn his back?”
Dying, he believed, should be an intimate and dignified process, something that many terminally ill are denied, he said.

He received a fair amount of support from other medical practitioners across the globe, but most believed he was an extremist. In 1995, a group of doctors in Michigan publicly voiced their support for Dr. Kevorkian’s philosophy stating that they supported a “merciful, dignified, medically assisted termination of life.”

Basic tips to Crack the Civil service in india


The Civil services in India is most challenging rewarding examination which encompassed with great career growth and remuneration. To emerge as the successfully face and complete the winning leg of the preliminary and main examinations of the Civil Services Exam, and to encounter the interview process, here are some most rewarding tips for the IAS aspirants.

1. First and foremost, consideration should be the mental orientation and commitment to crack the examination one should be very particular about selecting the book and material and once decisions is taken then abide it with discipline. CSAT is an objective type paper, so keep your concept clear any confusion will give you great harm.

2. General knowledge is the key of success in prelims and after implementation of CSAT it has became even more important and what we say master key. So read newspapers, books like the Competition S magazines, watch TV news and as many knowledgeable quiz shows as much as possible.

3. Selection of subject is also very important at mains stage because the subject has greater say in your selection so one could take select the subject on the basis of their interest available guidance and gaps between papers in mains examination.

4. Mains examination is all about expression of what you know what you think and how you can present it through your writing so writing practice and accruing expressible knowledge will be the boon for the mains examination.

5. Remember that book knowledge is not important at the stage of interview. If you reach this stage, be ready for questions like the number of steps you took to reach the interview place, and the color of the wall behind you.

6. Your personality plays very important role in your selection. So get sure and make yourselves medically fit for the examination moreover interview is the mental game.

7. Improving your communication skills (verbal and non verbal) help you as IFS aspirants have to be well versed in at least one foreign language. So it’s better to learn French or German to get added advantage in the Civil Services Exam.

8. While the interview is held in the month of April or May the following year of the exam, its call is usually sent in the month of March or April.

9. Put on your best dress and attitude for the interview as the interviewers always keep a lookout for candidates with a well-adjusted personality and one who has social traits, integrity and leadership traits as well. All this is because it is only such types of people who are best fitted for a job in the Indian Civil Services and who succeed at these exams.

10. When you get into an interview, remember that the number of candidates called for the interview is usually thrice the number of available vacancies.

11. Remember that the whole selection process for the civil services takes 18 months till joining for training.

12. You have to not only do well at the CSAT you are out at door. Remember main examinations marks and interview’s marks combined to form the merit list as the final placement.

13. If you get a high position in the exam, you have a say in the choice of service. Otherwise, you have to accept whatever is offered to you. The other alternative you have is to make another attempt as you are permitted a maximum of four attempts at the exam. However if you opt for this, you will have to start from the start, and first attempt the prelims.
14. Keep your faith in you try hard with focus strategy success will be yours.

Former JPSC member Shanti Devi held by Police


Ranchi, June 2: She had been hiding for a year since her other peer were arrested, but lady luck finally frowned for former member of Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) Shanti Devi  as she was held by the vigilance bureau from her house in Morabadi area of Ranchi.

Accused of interpolation irregularities, forgery, and fraud while conducting the second civil services examination of 2007-08, Shanti Devi showed little compunction on being held, and instead launched into a tirade, threatening to expose “everything before the media”.

Soon after her arrest, she was brought to the vigilance headquarters at Audrey House for questioning. She has exposed to evidence of interpolation of marks in the answer sheets of various exams conducted by JPSC and asked to comment.

However, the former JPSC member was in no mood to oblige. No sooner had the investigators began questioning her that Shanti Devi turned hostile, cursing the officers and even alleging that she was being persecuted because she belonged to a lower caste.

When she inquired that where she had been hiding for last year, she refused to reply, instead choosing to state that she was a doctorate in “several subjects” and was being falsely implicated. Later she was produced before the vigilance court, which remanded her to 14 days in judicial custody.

Among Shanti Devi’s co-accused are Dilip Prasad former JPSC chairman  and former members Gopal Prasad Singh and Radha Govind Nagesh. A former lecturer of Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav College in Ranchi, Shanti Devi went on the run on June 9 last year after the Jharkhand  Governor M.O.H. Farook ordered the vigilance bureau to lodge an FIR against the 32 accused in this case.

She is also the prime accused in four other FIRs lodged by the vigilance police on April 27 for blatant misuse of her office in appointments of the state civil servents, of junior and assistant engineers, pharmacy lecturers and two deputy registrars at Ranchi University and Sido Kanhu Murmu University.

She is accused of “illegally” appointing her brother Binod Ram and niece Kumari Geetanjali as block development officers. Ram and Geetanjali were sacked by the state government last year along with 17 others found to have been illegally favoured for appointments.

The former JPSC member, who served as head of the interview boards for various exams conducted by the commission, reportedly misused her office to favour friends and relatives.

Commenting over her arrest IG (vigilance) M.V. Rao told the media. “We had been tracking her for some time. Finally we arrested her this morning. We will soon take her on remand for interrogation,”