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Documentary contest GREENS 09 on Manoramaonline
Documentary contest GREENS 09 on Manoramaonline
Kottayam: Manoramaonline is organising Greens-09, a documentary film competition as part of the first anniversary celebrations of its Environment channel which started on June 5, 2008.
Documentaries on the subject of environment, of 10 to 30 minutes duration can be sent.
A cash prize of Rs 25000, Rs 15000 and Rs 10,000 will be awarded to the films that are chosen first, second and third respectively. Only CD’s or DVD’s of the documentaries will be accepted. Entry is open till July 5, 2009.
Ten best documentaries selected by a judges’ panel will be featured on the website for a period of two months. Three of them voted best by viewers will be adjudged as winners. The ten documentaries selected by the judges’ panel to the final round will continue to remain on the website for free.
The producers of the documentaries are required to enclose a letter agreeing to the conditions applied along with their creative works. For documentaries made by schools, colleges or any other institutions, a letter ofrom the present head of the establishment is mandatory.
Documentaries should reach, on or before July 5, 2009:
Greens – 9,
Manorama Online
Malayala Manorama
Kottayam – 1
Kerala, India
Abu Dhabi Bus Shelter in Poor Shape – My Letters – GULF NEWS
Abu Dhabi Bus Shelter in Poor Shape – My Letters – GULF NEWS
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Students gift Dhoni discarded products endorsed by him
Students gift Dhoni discarded products endorsed by him
Gangtok, June 15: Students from a government secondary school in remote Yuksom, West Sikkim have written 5-page letter to the Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni highlighting the effects of his brand endorsement on the fragile ecology of the Himalayan State.
To supplement their arguments for corporate responsibility towards environment, the students have gifted a discarded wrapper of ‘Lays’, a potato chips.
With the volume of such garbage increasing along with the increase in tourist footfalls in the area,the students decided to pay it back to the celebrity who endorses them.
Hence the letter to Dhoni and the attached wrapper as a sample on how the tentacles of plastic in guise of chip packets have reached the relative virgin high altitude areas of West Sikkim.
The students admit in their letter that this is not the best of gifts but expressed hope the gesture communicates the urgency of the matter to the cricket star.
Since the concerned students do not have the mailing address of Mahi, they have marked their letter to him and addressed it to a ‘reputed, eco friendly electronic media’ with copies marked to local newspapers of Sikkim.
They want their words and concerns to reach Mahi while adding the ‘stunt’ is neither to defame the Team India captain or the company manufacturing the product.
The students have even invited MSD to visit Yuksam and a get a guided tour of biodiversity hotspot from where the message has reached him.
The environment ball has been bowled to MSD and let’s see how he tackles this googly.
My Letters – THE NATIONAL – Fix the problem before you fine
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My Letters – THE NATIONAL – New measures for pedestrian safety
For the original article titled Deadliest dash in Abu Dhabi by Matthew Chung, please visit:
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090610/NATIONAL/706099910/1021
Text of my letter:
Deadliest dash in Abu Dhabi (June 9) is a very-well narrated article highlighting both the difficulties for pedestrians as well as drivers. In the case of Musaffah, authorities have to plan interim solutions like speed bumps (it is a long stretch there) or pedestrian-operated signals.
However, within Abu Dhabi city proper, it is the same old story – you fine me today, I will cross the same stretch tomorrow. I feel the only solution is to have high fencing on the road dividers which will make it impossible to jump across. Repeated public campaigns and guidance notifications have to be continued until it becomes a routine habit to use only pedestrian-designated crossings in accordance with the signals. It is nice to read that authorities are proceeding with several progressive measures, but the implementation may not be keeping pace with road usage growth.
Ramesh Menon, Abu Dhabi
Hygiene hazards and best practices – My Letters – GULF NEWS
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