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Weekly Team Status Report Workbook for IT Projects - Download and Use

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The Weekly Status Reporting Tool is a standard Status Update Report which resources fill at the end of the week to summarize the tasks assigned and worked upon in the week. The resources fill up the Status report sheet and the Billed Hours sheet and the manager is responsible for the control sheet maintenance and use. The Workbook should ideally be placed in a common drive and resources should fill it up one at a time. Various useful analysis reports can be generated by the tool which aid in team performance analysis and making correct forcasting and assignment decision.                                                              Instructions:                     ...

Paika Bidroha(Rebellion) - Untold Stories of Patriotism

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We all know that the first battle of Indian Independence was fought in 1857 but very few of us know that there was a very strong and visible glimpse of a mass uprising 40 years prior to that. I know about it because I had a chapter in Oriya Literature in my secondary classes about it. It’s famously known as “Paika Bidroha”(Uprising of the Paika class). This revolution gave the nation the first direction towards the war for Independence. I got the below article on the coverage of the Paika Bidroha from the Khorda Nic website. So thought of sharing. Coastal Orissa, mainly in Khurda region, the village of Banapur to be more specific. Its here that on a fine day in 1817, the declaration of war against colonialism was made.This was a rebellion of the Paiks,i.e., the landed militiants of Orissa to whom the English conquest had brought little but ruin and oppression. Brave and undaunted as the Paikas were in comparison to the British Sepoys, the nature of the country and their intima...