Saturday, September 05, 2009 BIHAR: A lady teacher despite the odds in her physique has put her best foot forward in educating children at an obscure remote village named Guraru in Gaya district of India's eastern state of Bihar.In fact, her dedicated vocation could be termed as a perfect role model of a teacher. And the entire India observes September 5 as Teachers' Day, dedicated to the teacher on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Dr. S Radhakrishnan, the country's first Vice President who was a teacher.As for this unique teacher, it is Radha Kumari who is just two-and-a-half feet in height.She teaches at the Government Middle School of her village Guraru.Due to her height, Radha Kumari (33) uses a bench as an aid to reach the blackboard while conducting her classes.In a candid chat, she recalled the dream of becoming a teacher and how those wishes have come true."When as a student, I used to see my school teacher I always dreamt of following her footsteps and such an aspiration has come true!," said Radha Kumari, teacher Government Middle School, Guraru.She teaches almost all the subjects and the students do acknowledge that she is a worthy teacher."She teaches us Hindi, English, mathematics and environment," noted Jayanti, a fifth standard student, Government Middle School, Guraru.Radha Kumari has been teaching at this school since 2005.However, in absence of proper roads and commuting facility, reaching the school is an everyday challenge for her.Nonetheless, Radha Kumari toddles along seven kilometres each way to kindle the light of academic learning among her students and also do what she loves the most which is teaching.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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