Members of the first Afghan parliamentary delegation visiting Canada spent a week in Ottawa meeting with Canadian officials, parliamentarians, NGOs, media and community representatives.

After attending as observers a session of the Question Period at the House of Commons of Canada the six-member delegation of Afghan women parliamentarians received a standing ovation by all members of the House after being recognized by the Speaker.

The delegation also attended a reception hosted by the Honourable Helena Guergis, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Trade, at the Lester Pearson Building.

Here is photo gallery of beautiful Punjabi girls in traditional clothes. Checkout Punjabi girls in Traditional Dresses. They are really looking so beautiful in these Traditional Dresses and Duppatta as these made for only these Punjabi Girls. Duppatta is a very important part of Punjabi (Indian) girls. It is not only increases the smartness of a women, It also proud of the women. But the Duppatta and all other traditional fashion of Punjabi girls is decreasing in Punjab due to the western culture.

The rich agricultural state Punjab is also famous for the “phulkari” (flower-work). It’s an embroidery technique from the Punjab in India, literally means flower working. It is an art of decorating Dupattas and Shawls with embroidered floral motifs developed in the 15th century in Punjab. Phulkari, is a skillful manipulation of single stitch that provides interesting pattern on the cloth.

Sasmita is an Indian working in India’s second largest IT Company located in Bangalore. Sasmita got her basic and higher education from Indian Institute of Science, which was established in 1909 in Bangalore, the premier institute for scientific research and study in India. So you know that Sasmita is an intelligent Indian Girl.

As Sasmita is an IT expert from Bangalore (Looking at Bangalore today – with its population of 6.5 million – it’s difficult to believe the city literally rose from the mud almost 500 years ago. Bangalore dates from 1537 when Chieftain Kempe Gowda settled here and constructed a mud fort surrounded by four watchtowers. Hindu temples and dwellings followed as the population expanded over the next three centuries while enduring intervals of war and strife among Hindu and Muslim warlords prior to the establishment of British rule in the early 19th century. When British oversight ended in 1948, Bangalore became an integral part of the newly independent India. Its subsequent economic growth eventually transformed the city into a showcase of technological excellence. ), which is called the Silicon Valley of India because of the large number of information technology companies located in the city which contributed 33% of India’s Rs. 144, 214 crore (US $ 29 billion) It exports.

Yes Sasmita is working and gaining handsome salary from that company but she has a dream to create her own IT startup. We wish you best of luck Sasmita with endeavors.

Indian engineering student Pritika from Jaipur is celebrating 23rd birthday at her home. Pritika shares that when I was growing up, we made birthdays special but they were not overdone. On the day of my birthday, my family would wake me up and wish me a happy birthday by singing to me. As they sang happy birthday to me, they would jump onto my bed to get me up and moving. I got a gift from my mother in the morning and I was able to select whatever I wanted to eat at every meal that day. Also, on my birthday, all my chores, including washing the dishes, were done by someone else. Pritika says birthdays, out of all celebrations, give some of the best memories throughout our lives.

A birthday comes around just once in a year and is an event tied to the core of who we are. To make to it an event to remember, the essential food has to be included — the birthday cake. Birthday cakes add a splash of color and taste to the celebration and are a customary part of this event to people of many different cultures, ages, and walks of life. This gets you thinking who created the idea of the birthday cake, and where can we find the roots of this little tradition accepted around the world? Let us take a look at the fascinating birth of the birthday cake. Read the rest of this entry »

Kamni Kapoor is an Indian computer expert working in multinational company as IT supervisor. Kamni Kapoor is our regular reader and she likes to share some tips to make computer faster. Kamni says a computer is one of the devices that make work easier but this depends entirely on the maintenance and other precautions that are taken when dealing with it. When computers are not properly handled and maintained, they are likely to frustrate the users because they become slow and do not deliver the intended services effectively. However, there are some few things that one can use to make the PC faster.

To make your computer faster, you should ensure that you defragment from time to time. This makes the computer be in a position to execute its programmes easily without the need to look for those programs from the entire hard disk. Disk defragmentation means that all the files and folders are arranged according to their sizes as well as their types which enable the computer to increase its speed. You can easily do that by clicking the start menu button, click to programs, accessories, click on the system tool command and finally to the defragmentation tool. Doing this will surely guarantee the performance of your machine at absolutely no cost. You can also make your computer faster by adding more memory size on it.
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