The Missing Dimension in Educational Methods: The Sentimental Education
The sentimental education pertains to the person’s feelings, which form all sides of the integrated human personality.
Sentiment is a word given to any sense of pleasure or pain, as well as to certain psychological states within the sphere of pleasure and pain, vis-à-vis other states within the sphere of mental perception and knowledge.
Mumbai, April 02: In a match-up with exciting possibilities, subcontinental giants India and Sri Lanka will meet in the final of the ICC World Cup at the Wankhede Stadium here on Saturday.
Both teams appeared relaxed as they went through the practice sessions on Friday afternoon. The high-pressure game that will test the nerves of the two sides is the first title clash between them in the premier ODI competition.
Dhaka, April 02: A prominent Bangladesh daily has said cricket played “a catalytic role” in South Asia as the leaders of India and Pakistan have agreed that they could settle their disputes bilaterally.
“Their realisation that they have to solve their problems all by themselves will be welcomed everywhere,” the Daily Star said Saturday of the meeting between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistan counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani at Mohali amidst the World Cup semi-final match.
Mumbai, April 02:The International Cricket Council (ICC) Saturday banned two Indian television channels, Zee TV and UNI TV, from covering the World Cup final between India and Sri Lanka at the Wankhede Stadium.
ICC media director Colin Gibson said both channels had breached media guidelines.
Mumbai, April 02: The media box at the Wankhede Stadium was choc-a-bloc with journalists from 10 countries covering the Cricket World Cup final between India and Sri Lanka here Saturday.
Apart from a large number of mediapersons from the two nations in the final, a big contingent of scribes has come from Bangladesh, the co-hosts who could not make it to the knock-out stage.
“We have journalists from South Africa, Pakistan, England, New Zealand, Ireland covering the match. There are journalists from the USA also,” said an International Cricket Council official.
Even as India and Pakistan were basking in the Mohali spirit, a driver of the Pakistan High Commission was detained by Indian security agencies at Chandigarh airport, and in an apparent tit-for-tat action, an official at India’s Islamabad High Commission wentmissing the next day. The Indian official was released Friday.
While the Pakistani driver was released on Thursday, the Indian official was handed over to the Indian High Commission Friday evening.
Kathmandu, April 02: While pressing for trade concessions from its largest business partner India, Nepal, however, has been stolidly ignoring New Delhi’s growing health concerns with government and customs officials working in cahoots to flood India with the carcinogenic betel nut.
After the World Health Organisation said chewing the betel nut, also called the areca nut, or consuming it in other forms like pan masala, can cause oral cancer, the Indian government slapped 108 percent customs duty on the nut to discourage its import.
Mumbai, April 02: News is that Katrina Kaif turned down Rakesh Roshan’s Krissh 3 offer to accommodate Yash Chopra’s next venture (untitled, still) in which she stars opposite Shah Rukh Khan.
However, Chopra and Roshan wished to go on floors with their respective films by October 2011.
A source says, “Katrina very much wanted to do Krrish 3. She loved the fact that she would be playing a negative role for the first time in her career.
The mutant’s role has several shades which Katrina wanted to toy with.”
Jordan, April 02: Hundreds of Jordanians have turned out for an anti-government protest in the capital, defying heavy government-ordered security measures.
Some 600 youths amassed outside Amman’s city hall on Friday, calling for the ouster of the regime, constitutional reforms and trial of the officials suspected of corruption,
“The people want an elected government,” the protesters chanted.
Guwahati, April 02: Three paramilitary troopers were killed and four injured in an ambush by tribal militants Saturday in the election-bound Assam, officials said.
A police spokesman said heavily armed militants of the Karbi People’s Liberation Tigers (KPLT) attacked a three-vehicle convoy of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) near village Rongshuli in Karbi Anglong district, about 220 km east of Assam’s main city of Guwahati.
Mexico, April 02: Gunmen have killed 15 people, including a ten-year-old child, in two separate attacks in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, officials say.
In one incident, nine men and one woman died in a shootout in a restaurant near a US border town, Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for Chihuahua state prosecutor, said.
The shooting occurred overnight Thursday when 16 masked men barged into El Castillo restaurant, in El Paso, Texas, opening fire randomly on the crowd having their dinner.
Palestine, April 02: The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas has warned Israel of consequences of its airstrike on south of the Gaza Strip that killed at least three Palestinians.
In a statement, Hamas identified the victims as members of its Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades.
The Brigades described the airstrike as a “serious escalation” and warned that Israel “will bear all the consequences,”
An Israeli airstrike early on Saturday targeted a car travelling on a road internationally known as Route 4 between the towns of Khan Younis and Deir Bala.
Mumbai, April 02: “Saturday April 2, 1983, was the day Kapil Dev brought the first World Cup for India. Insha Allah, Saturday April 2, 2011, is going to be (Mahendra Singh) Dhoni’s day. Pakistan is out of the World Cup, so all my loyalties are now with India.” That’s the new cricket commentator Veena Malik for you.
Mumbai, April 02: Many Bollywood celebrities Saturday poured out wishes for the Men in Blue on micro-blogging website Twitter, while actors Aamir Khan, Kunal Kapoor and Lara Dutta will be on the stadium stands cheering for the host nation in the World Cup final against Sri Lanka.
Most big names like Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra and Abhishek Bachchan will, however, be away from the Wankhede Stadium, the venue of the match.
Here are some of the messages from Bollywood celebrities posted on Twitter:
People who follow a vegetarian or meat-free diet may be at a lower risk of developing diabetes and heart disease, a new study suggests.
The study of lifestyle habits of more than 700 adults showed researchers that 23 out of every 100 vegetarians have at least three metabolic syndrome factors, compared with thirty-nine out of every 100 non-vegetarians and 37 out of every 100 semi-vegetarians.
Hyderabad, April 2: According to a press note issued by Indian Union Muslim League, former pro vice chancellor Indira Gandhi National Open University, Prof Baseer Ahmed Khan has been appointed as national president in a meeting held in New Delhi.
Abdul Sattar Mujahid (Hyderabad) has been appointed as Vice president, Fatima Muzaffar (Chennai) as General Secretary and Syed Shakeel Mian as treasurer.
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Tehran, April 02: Iran’s Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad Hosseini says Iran can serve as a model for the region and the world by drawing on its potentials.
“By utilizing capacities and potentials and creating cultural infrastructures, we can turn the Islamic Republic into a model for the region and the whole world,” Hosseini said during the Friday prayers in Qeshm Island,
Nigeria, April 02: Nigerians are heading to the polls to cast their ballots in the first round of general elections against a background of rampant violence in the run-up to the vote.
Some 73.5 million Nigerians are eligible to vote in the election for the 360-member House of Representatives and 109-member senate as the Africa’s most populous country struggles to hold a free and fair election unlike previous elections, which have been largely associated with flaws and violence,
Hyderabad, April 2: Hajj Committee Andhra Pradesh has invited applications from Muslim government employees, aged between 25 to 50 years, for the appointment Hajj volunteers (khadimul Hujjaj). The applications should be submitted before April 11.
Kabul, April 02: Thousands have joined a demonstration in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar to vent out their anger at the desecration of the holy Qur’an in the US.
Chants of “death to US” echoed throughout the city of Kandahar as angry demonstrators marched towards the provincial administration headquarters,
Hundreds of foreign troops prevented the demonstrators from marching towards the governor’s office, with some reports indicating that two protester has been killed in the melee.
Gaza, April 02: Israeli aircraft killed three Palestinian gunmen in the southern Gaza Strip early on Saturday, medical officials and the Israeli army said.
Residents said the planes fired on a car in which the three men were travelling in the town of Khan Younis.
An Israeli military spokesman said the air strike was aimed at “a terrorist squad planning to kidnap Israelis over the upcoming Jewish holiday of Passover”.
Hamas said the three men killed were members of its group, but officials declined comment on the allegations made against them by the Israeli military.
Mumbai, April 02:Pulling the Cong govt’s chestnuts out of the fire often, Pranab wants to be PM from 2012 to 2014 in return
No more a smiling matter: Faced with bleak assembly-poll prospects in UP and in Andhra Pradesh that are critical to gaining national power, Manmohan Singh is not making it any easier for Sonia Gandhi to enthrone Rahul Gandhi in 2014.
Sonia Gandhi’s leadership of the Congress is facing two major problems, one or both of which may be insurmountable.
Washington, April 02: India, which along with China is one of the world’s “documented growth stories”, offers some of the largest opportunities for American companies and the “challenge” for US companies is to come and see the “potential of India”, says Anil Ambani, chairman of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, one of India’s most successful corporations.
“The opportunities for US companies is vast volume markets of the world,” he said participating in a panel discussion on “The Shifting Global Economy and Implications for Trade” at the US Exim Bank Annual Conference here Friday.
Tokyo, April 02 (IANS) The toll in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan has risen to 11,800, with 15,540 people remaining unaccounted, Xinhua quoted National Police Agency here as saying Saturday.
The magnitude 9 earthquake and ensuing tsunami devastated the northeastern region of Japan and also damaged the country’s Fukushima nuclear plant.
The search for the missing by Japan and US forces will end Sunday. Thereafter, the country will shift its focus to a daunting reconstruction effort.
-Agencies
Lucknow, April 02: Cricket fans here thronged theatres Saturday to watch the India-Sri Lanka final, elated that the authorities had given their nod now after having refused permission to screen the India-Pakistan semifinal on the big screen.
“Cricket fans are flocking to our counters for purchasing tickets. We have only a few tickets left now,” Shahdab Ali, duty manager at Pheonix Mall, told reporters here Saturday.