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By Swathy IyerBangalore: The nationwide strike call given by the Left parties and the BJP over allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail and the diesel price hike saw the city coming to a standstill as it decided to stay indoors for the occasion. There was hardly any traffic on the regularly bustling streets and even the traffic lights were off.

Thousands of shops spanning the city stayed shut on account of the strike. Even malls with security were shut, with placards announcing their functioning after 6PM, hung up in the front. Multiplexes and cinemas were forced to cancel their shows for due to lack of visitors. Also, chief markets like the K.R.Market and

Russel market did not function.

Schools, colleges and all other academic institutions and offices were closed on Thursday. Also, BMTC busses did not ply the roads although some few of them started running from the afternoon. KSRTC cancelled all its services in the morning.

BJP workers including The former Mayor S.K. Nataraj did their rounds in the city urging people to keep their shops and offices shut and make the bandh a total success. In many areas however, pharmacies were allowed to function.

The bandh was a peaceful affair in the city despite some road block incidents in North Bangalore.

By Swathy IyerDamascus: Nearly 54 people were killed and dozens wounded when an air strike hit a fuel station in Syria’s northern province of Aal-Raqqa on Thursday. The rebels were accused of shooting down the helicopter gunship that went tumulting into the station. The explosion went off in the town of Ain Issa and many charred bodies lay strewn around the filling station. Footage of the incident shows black smoke billowing over the area and rebels claim that almost 70 people were injured in the same. “The petrol station is the only one that is still open to customers in the area, and it was packed,” a media activist who identified himself as Abu Muawiya told AFP via Skype. “It was hit by a fighter jet.

A growing number of civilians in Syria’s bloody civil war are being killed from the air, with government helicopters and fighter jets launching regular strikes at rebel positions that are often located in densely populated areas.

The “Friends of Syria” working group on sanctions called on the world and “particularly members of the UN Security Council” to implement measures to deny Damascus access to resources “for its campaign against its own people.”

On the lock down54 killed in Syria blast

By Arundathi Belur.They hold just 25 acres, fragment across Dodballapur, Sarjapura and Kunigal, an hour’s drive from Bangalore and in different direction. Yet, Karuturi Global has emerged the world’s top rose exporter.Bangalore can justifiably feel proud of this achievement however 98 of

the 555 million roses the company produces comes from Kenya and Ethiopia grown on land leased to the company by the respective African governments.Karuturi produces 10 million roses every year in Bangalore and rest from the two African countries “Ten million is a big number, but when you see it in relation

555million, you know how small it is. All the same we’re happy to be a based in Bangalore,” CEO Manoj Agarwal said.In Africa,the company has access to 750 acres says Agarwal: “the African climate and land are conducive to rose production, the reason their government policies on rose cultivation”Also the two countries are geo-graphically close to Europe, the world’s largest consumer of roses. Logistically, then, it makes more sense to grow roses in Africa. While Kenya produces around 5-6 lakh roses a day, Ethiopia touches nearly a lakh a day. Geographical distance and high export costs put Bangalore at its advantage. The state government

isn’t helping either: it is not making land available on lease. “Buying land at exorbitant rates and then exporting roses doesn’t make sense” says Agarwal.Karuturi produces 30,000 roses every day amounting up to 9 lakhs a month and about a crore every year. IT exports 30-40 lakh roses and sells the rest within the country. While the largest rose exporter in the world, isn’t the largest in the country. “There are at least four to five companies producing as much as we do, if not more. While the Bangalore

market produces around 100 million roses annually, we do just 10 percent of that” says Agarwal.Bangalore has competition from Pune and Nasik regions, are neck and neck with our city. The largest consumes of roses in India is Delhi followed by Mumbai.During peak seasons roses cost 12-13 rupees a piece in the wholesale market and 20-25 at florists and airports. During the off season prices crash as low as 1.50-2 per rose. At Bangalore’s K R market, desperate vendors sell a rose for as low as 50 paisa.

City of the superior rose

Making our mark !

Bangalore home to the largest rose-exporting company in the world is upbeat even in a recession year because the domestic market is strong.

The 4th edition of the World T20 com-mences from 18th September with inaugural match being played by host Sri lanka and Zimbabwe at the Mahinda Rajapaksa stadium in Hambantota .India enter the tournament as strong favour-ites as predicted by a number of critics.

Encourage usWe are young, sometimes confused and quite often we have some silly ideas. Due to putting us down re-lentlessly, we will be never able to think freely. With some encourage-ment we can do right things.

Respect me as an individualWe’erWe’re not just roll numbers or the marks on our report cards. Not just someone you can shush on when we are talking. When you see and treat us like individuals our rela-tionships will be better. It will make us feel special and increase our self esteem.

Challenge us to thinkWe get lazy most of the times but it’s up to you to keep those gray cells of us working. We get used to pro-crastinating and doing things at the last minute. Just scraping through with minimum marks is all the art we know. With some motivation we can perform better.

Connect with usOkay, we agree we are not on our best behavior with teachers, but it is very important that you connect with us. Some teachers just come teach and leave; we don’t want that, talk to us crack a few joke be one amongst us.

Use new methodsWe can read what is on a printed piece of paper. Teach it to us in new simple ways by give us real life examples and use various method-ologies in your teaching it will make it more effective for us to grasp

things faster.

Stand up for usTeenagers don’t really like authority. Many a times we get into trouble for things we did or sometimes things we did not even do. A teacher is someone who is a part of authority, but you can support us and defend us when we are right.

Listen to usWe know we talk too much. But notNot all of it is nonsense. Sometimes teachers don’t listen to us even when we try talking to them. If you listen to us you will realize we do have good thoughts on our mind.

Be interested in the subjectWe are not only the ones who get bored in class. We can tell when the teacher does not care about the subject. But only when you are passionate about what you are teaching can we develop love towards that particular subject.

Be fairI think what we hate most is when teachers are biased. A teacher needs to be above making judgments, and be fair to all in both curriculums and co-curricular activities.

Be more than just a teacherWe need someone not only to teach us, also a guide to cultivate our interests. We need someone who is almost a second parent to us as we spend most of our time with you teachers.

By Arundathi Belur

Layout: Tajinder Pal Singh Writers: Swathy Iyer , Arundhati Belur , Savio Travasso

TEN THINGS THAT STUDENTS WANT FROM TEACHERS.

By Savio Travasso

Have you ever listened carefully to the

answers a child gives you when questioned

as in what they want to be in future? Well

it keeps changing everyday and ultimately

they want to become almost everything

possible. Then you realise reality, the

truth is, one can never predict what they

will turn out to be. Priyanka Chopra seems

to prove all of this wrong. She has begun

to make one believe that if you want to

become something, the skill is already

in you, you just have to make sure you

sharpen it with hard work.

Coming from a military background,

Priyanka Chopra, beauty and brains won

the Miss World title ,

made a dazzling career

in Bollywood and

now makes a debut

in the music industry

with her first album

“In My City” . So

what’s her talent?

Is it beauty,

s m a r t n e s s ,

acting, singing

or all of the above?

Well she is a perfect example of a go-getter.

From the big silver screen she has now set

foot into the world of music, with her first

album. In 2011, she signed a worldwide

recording agreement with Universal

Music Group and DesiHits to record and

release her first music album. The first

single “In My City” debuted 13 September

2012 on the NFL Network’s Thursday

Night Football Kick-off match, and the full

album is expected in December.

The song is inspired by the many cities

Priyanka has lived in while growing up,

and her journey from a small-town girl to

a famous personality. The single, featuring

rapper Will.I.am, was produced by RedOne.

She has also collaborated with artists such

as Sam Watters, Matthew Koma, Jay Sean

. The album is currently in the final stages

of mixing and production and is scheduled

to release in December 2012. Priyanka has

continually made her love for music know

in her interviews. gave her voice to the

song “Ullathai Killadhe” in the Tamil film

Thamizhan. This was her singing debut.

While in America Priyanka was selected at

state level for the National Opus Honour

Choir. While in Boston, she participated

in several theatre productions, and

studied Western

classical, chorus

and choir singing.

From a girl who gets

a culture shock from

moving to America

and taking chips from

a vending machine and

eating it in a toilet, just

because she dint know

where to pay and how to take

the food laid out, Priyanka Chopra has

evolved into a multi talented woman who

makes us proud in every field she sets foot

in. The same girl afraid then of making a

fool of herself has released her first album

at the Thursday Night Football kickoff on

American soil teaching us that the best

way to make our dreams come true is to

wake-up! So what’s next Priyanka? Did

u know Priyanka Chopra also wrote a

column for the Times of India? So should

we expect a book release some time later?

FROM BIG SCREEN to THE MICROPHONE!

A student initiative by the Department of Journalism and Communication @ MUBC

Teaching the right way!

Chhap do brings to you what students want from their teachers.

We like our teachers, in spite of all the complaining, we still do look up

to them. While we don’t like something’s, a few qualities are appealing

in a teacher. We need to trust them, have high expectations of them

and admire them. We know it’s not a easy job. Sometimes, we might

fall short of what an ideal student should be like however there are

reasons, as to what we want our teachers to do.