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Maya's swah hitay, swah sukhay raj in Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh is the biggest state of India and has been the centre of Indian political stage for a long long time. After BJP got absolute majority state assembly in 1991, this state has seen many turmoils and been the victim of political instability all these times. There have been many uncompatible combinations among political parties to form the government in Lucknow, irrespective of their ideology, just based on oppertunism. And, this has affected the overall development of the state in every sector whether it is power or industry or any other sector. So, after a long time, when Mayavati's Bahujan Samaj Party got majority in 2007 assembly elections with the slogan "Sarvajan Hitay, Sarvajan Sukhay", the common thinking was that Mayavati will use this oppertunity for the development of the state and welfare of the common people. Now almost 3 years have passed of Mayavati's so called people-centric raj, but for the people, nothing has changed. Some glimpses of last 3

FOSS Seminar in CDAC, Mumbai on March 20, 2010

CDAC, Mumbai , at its Kharghar, Navi Mumbai Centre, has been conducting a monthly seminar series called (FOSS) From the Open Source Self for quite some time now on every third Saturday of the month. The purpose of this series in the form of lecture demos is to introduce people to the wide range of high quality software(s) available in open source. Response so far has been good enough. This month's seminar will be held on March 20. The topics of this seminar include: 1. NLTK - NLTK [Natural Language Processing Toolkit] is a complete Open Source suite of Python modules, linguistic data and documentation for research and development in Natural Language Processing. It provides utilities for many NLP tasks like chunking, stemming and parsing to name a few. It is a useful tool for students, professionals and researchers interested in Natural Language Processing and is widely used by NLP community all over the world. 2. GNU Build System - The GNU build system