Philippines Gunmen Kill at Least 24
Posted by: seoforever on: November 24, 2009
Massacre Claims Candidate’s Wife and Aides as They Travel to Register Him for Governor’s Election
Armed men kidnapped and killed at least 24 people in the southern Philippines on Monday, carrying out an unprecedented act of violence six months before presidential and regional elections.
The midday attack on a convoy of several dozen political supporters and journalists was an apparent attempt to block the nomination of a local politician planning to run for provincial governor in the May elections, the Philippine military said.
The fate of the rest of the convoy — and the identity of their attackers — remained unclear. The army’s searches in the area, where the political landscape is dominated by clan disputes, hadn’t turned up any survivors by Monday evening. However, the politician, Ismael Mangudadatu, told a local radio station Tuesday that four people had survived the massacre and were under his care, Reuters reported.
Election-related violence is commonplace in much of the country, especially in the anarchic south, where Islamist separatists, private armies, chieftains and vigilante groups have long competed for power and influence.
Monday’s killings bear the hallmarks of a political act rather than terrorism — and, like much political violence in the country, probably have local origins and little to do with the national contest to find a successor to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, political analysts said.
The attack happened in the province of Maguindanao, on Mindanao, the second-largest island in the Philippines. Mindanao’s overall population is mostly Christian but pockets of the island are majority Muslim.
Maguindanao is part of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, a section of the island’s central hinterland that has had a measure of political autonomy since it was established in 1996.
While many analysts said they thought Monday’s attacks stemmed solely from a local political dispute, Mindanao has a violent past, in part due to the presence of al Qaeda-backed terrorist groups such as Abu Sayyaf.
Army spokesman Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner told local media that about 40 people traveling in a five-van convoy were abducted by about 100 gunmen while en route to file the election nomination papers of Mr. Mangudadatu, a vice mayor in the region.
Mr. Mangudadatu had said he planned to contest the governorship of Maguindanao province against the family of Andal Ampatuan, a previous governor and a powerful regional clan leader.
The long-running feud between the Mangudadatu and Ampatuan families worsened several months ago when Mr. Mangudadatu declared his intention to run for the governor’s job.
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Mr. Ampatuan and his aides couldn’t be reached to comment, and haven’t said anything to the local media.
Soldiers found 21 bodies in the area, including those of Mr. Mangudadatu’s wife, Genalyn Tiamzon-Mangudadatu, and several journalists and lawyers traveling with the group. Thirteen of the 21 dead were women, Lt. Col. Brawner said, noting there were signs that some recovered bodies had been mutilated. Three more bodies were found later, increasing the toll to 24.
Mr. Mangudadatu said in a local television interview Monday that he feared being abducted or worse if he registered his candidacy for the gubernatorial post in person, or sent men to do that job. That was why he sent his wife and other female relatives and aides to do it, Mr. Mangudadatu said, emphasizing that he never imagined anybody would attack them.
In the interview, he said his wife called him on her mobile phone shortly before her abduction to say around 100 armed men had halted the convoy. “Then her line got cut off,” he said.
The Philippines’ National Union of Journalists said at least 10 local reporters were part of the Mangudadatu convoy to cover the election nomination and were presumed dead.
“Never in the history of journalism have the news media suffered such a heavy loss of life in one day,” Paris-based media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders said. “The frenzied violence of thugs working for corrupt politicians has resulted in incomprehensible bloodshed.”
Philippines President Arroyo said she ordered top security officials to oversee the military’s efforts to track down the killers. “No effort will be spared to bring justice to the victims and hold the perpetrators accountable to the full limit of the law,” she said.
Registration began last week for national and local elections in May. More than 17,800 positions will be contested, including half the Philippines’ congressional seats, as well as the presidency.
Putting Indo-U.S. Ties Back on Track
Posted by: seoforever on: November 24, 2009
President Obama first needs to clarify how India fits into his broader vision of the world.
Since taking office, President Obama has made a point of emphasizing the range of challenges he inherited from his predecessor. Yet the president is squandering one positive inheritance: a robust strategic relationship between India and the United States. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s official state visit to the U.S. this week presents an opportunity to get things back on track.
India is a diverse and secular democratic state that, despite its imperfections, is politically stable and offers a model for other developing countries. Like China, India started shedding its socialist economic shackles and is now growing at a rapid clip. Since it shares many key security concerns with the U.S—such as the spread of Islamist fundamentalism, preventing the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan, stabilizing Pakistan and preventing the domination of Asia by a resurgent China—India has the potential to become America’s most important partner in Asia. Yet, after nine years of rapidly improving ties, there are tangible fears in New Delhi about America’s commitment to that partnership.
Washington’s intense focus on Afghanistan and Pakistan has provoked worries in New Delhi that the Obama administration is once again linking its relations with India and Pakistan. This risks undoing one of the more successful policies of the Bush administration, which instead dealt with each nation on its own merits. Of course, Washington would be ill-advised to execute an “Af-Pak” strategy without considering India’s role: It is the fourth-largest donor to Afghan reconstruction efforts and is viewed as a friendly power by many Afghans. India could also play a central role in any effort to stabilize Pakistan by, among other measures, strengthening the civilian government vis-à-vis its recalcitrant military. Accordingly, India’s current dialogue with the separatists in Kashmir, resumed after three years, is a step in the right direction. But making the U.S. relationship with India contingent on progress in Pakistan is problematic because it fails to sufficiently account for America’s different interests in the two countries. Historically this policy has held the India-U.S. relationship hostage to events beyond India’s borders that New Delhi cannot control.
The Obama administration’s approach to Asia has also left New Delhi wondering if Washington still seeks India’s emergence as a world leader. In 2005, a senior member of the Bush administration set a policy goal of “help[ing] India become a major world power in the 21st century.” Although officials in Washington and New Delhi would never admit it, shared concerns about China played a key role in driving the upswing in Indo-U.S. relations under the previous U.S. administration. In contrast, Mr. Obama’s statement in July during Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan’s visit to Washington that “the relationship between the United States and China will shape the 21st century” has fueled Indian suspicions that Washington seeks a “G-2″ arrangement with Beijing as the new arbiter of global affairs. These fears have only been compounded by last week’s U.S.-China joint statement that acknowledged a role for China in India-Pakistan bilateral relations. This strongly suggests that India is now viewed as merely as a player in its immediate neighborhood rather than a future power in Asia.
To ease New Delhi’s concerns and put the relationship back on track, the Obama administration first needs to clarify where India fits into both its Asia policy and its broader vision of the world. A statement supporting India’s bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council would send a reassuring signal to New Delhi.
Second, India’s status as a strategic priority needs to be translated into concrete policy guidance for the Pentagon, State Department and Commerce Department bureaucracies that manage the day-to-day aspects of the relationship. Much of what was achieved during the previous administration was due to the personal attention paid to the issue by Mr. Bush and other senior members of his administration. Absent that guidance, parts of the U.S. government seem adrift. For instance, cooperation in defense research, co-development and production has been anemic—hindered by mechanical application of U.S. export control laws that fails to reflect the priority of strategic partnership. Mr. Obama could re-assert presidential leadership by issuing a national security directive that would lay out a consistent stance toward India that would guide agencies in forging economic, technological, strategic and social ties with India.
Finally, on the first anniversary of the November 26 Mumbai attacks, the Obama administration should send an unequivocal message on terrorism by supporting India’s demand that Pakistan bring the perpetrators of this crime to justice. Islamabad’s delay in prosecuting the alleged plotters of these attacks has not only held up the peace process between the two nations but has also prolonged India’s national trauma. The attempted compartmentalization of terror groups on the part of U.S. and Pakistan—by differentiating between Pakistani and Afghan Taliban, or between sectarian and Kashmir-focused militants—needs to stop. The U.S. and India must present a united front against all these groups and their benefactors.
When it comes to relations with New Delhi, Mr. Obama’s drive to distinguish his approach from that of the Bush administration risks squandering one of the major foreign policy developments of the past decade. Despite some differences, partnership between India and the U.S. has the potential to shape global affairs in many positive ways. It is important to continue the momentum imparted to this relationship by making real gains and helping those in India who advocate for closer bilateral ties. Otherwise the next few years in Indo-U.S. ties will be best defined as a stylistic White House photo-op—lacking in substance and completely irrelevant.
Mr. Ladwig is a doctoral candidate in international relations at Merton College, University of Oxford. Mr. Mukherjee is a doctoral candidate in international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.
Big Bang machine achieves first particle collisions
Posted by: seoforever on: November 24, 2009
ZURICH (Reuters) — Scientists have smashed together proton beams for the first time in a 27-kilometre tunnel under the French-Swiss border in an initial step toward discovering how the universe came into existence, they said on Monday.
Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) hope experiments will already start giving clues about the origins of the universe in the coming months as the world’s biggest particle collider starts moving to full power.
“It’s a great achievement to have come this far in so short a time,” said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer about the collision, achieved by sending two bunches of subatomic particles around the ring in opposite directions.
It is only three days since the “Big Bang Machine,” or Large Hadron Collider (LHC), was switched back on after being halted by an accident 14 months ago, just 10 days after its first start-up.
Earlier, physicist Steve Myers told Reuters it could take until 2011 for beams of protons to hit top velocity in the nearly $10 billion experiment, which involves scientists from dozens of countries.
The key aim of the project at the CERN research center is to try to discover how the universe took shape, after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago spilled out matter at vast speeds and energies that eventually became suns, stars, planets and then life itself.
Experiments in a previous collider at the CERN research center near Geneva at the foot of the French Jura mountains staged particle collisions producing energy very close to that of the Big Bang.
The LHC operating at its full might should recreate conditions like those just one billionth of a second after the primeval explosion.
The scientists now plan to increase the beam intensity and accelerate the beams further so they can gather enough collision data by Christmas to help set up experiments.
MSNBC.com Takes Over The @BreakingNews Twitter Account
Posted by: seoforever on: November 24, 2009
BNO News, “owner” of the 1.4 million follower @BreakingNews Twitter account, has signed an agreement with MSNBC.com that will see the news site take control of management of the account, according to PaidContent.
This is not an investment in BNO nor an acquisition clarifies MSNBC, but it is the first client to join Dutch founder Michael van Poppel’s next phase of the company’s growth – BNO News Wire, a headline news service to be launched in January.
So how will the account work under MSNBC.com? Supposedly very similar to in the past with links to various sources except now with a feed specifically full of MSNBC.com’s links, driving more traffic to its site.
Msnbc.com is the online news outlet for the NBC News family. In addition to NBC News content and material produced by the site’s own staff, msnbc.com also hosts articles and features from several partners, including The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine.
The web site is developed in Redmond, Washington, on the Microsoft campus (Microsoft are 18% owners) and news content is produced out of newsrooms in Redmond, New York, and London. It is the news provider for MSN, the portal site and online service operated by Microsoft, but it is editorially and financially separate.
According to Nielsen Online, msnbc.com has risen above Yahoo! News and CNN for the position of top news site from June 2008 through May 2009, measured by unique visitors in the U.S.
Events & Movies Today – HYDERABAD
Posted by: seoforever on: November 24, 2009
| Evening Snacks Tuesday, November 24th, 2009. 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Promenade, Aditya Park, Ameerpet. An array of South and North Indian snacks and light meals at the Promenade. |
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| Midnight Biryani Tuesday, November 24th, 2009. 11:30 p.m. to 3 a.m. Tulips, Hotel Greenpark, Greenlands, Begumpet. Tulips is serving an array of vegetarian and non-vegetarian biryanis. Other delicacies like Haleem, Sheermal, Paneer Burjee and desserts are also available. |
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| Southern Delicacies Tuesday, November 24th, 2009. noon to 3 p.m. Deccan Pavilion, Hotel ITC The Kakatiya, Begumpet. The coffee shop is offering authentic Hyderabadi biryanis and delicious kebabs along with other Chinese and continental cuisines. Also on the menu are soups, salads, cold cuts, pastas and desserts. |
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| Snacks and Desserts Buffet Tuesday, November 24th, 2009. 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sweet Nirvana, Kavuri Hills, Madhapur. A variety of savoury snacks like chicken barbecue and even desserts are up for grabs. |
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| Lunch Buffet Tuesday, November 24th, 2009. 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Tandoor, White House Building, Begumpet. An authentic North Indian buffet – peas pulao, paneer tikka, biryanis, desserts and more. |
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| Awadh Food Festival Tuesday, November 24th, 2009. 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. The Great Kebab Factory, Next to MLA Colony, Road No.12, Banjara Hills. Some of the famous dishes on menu are smoked Kebabs like Kakori Kebab, Lucknowi Chaamp, Murgh Wajad Ali, Dum ki Nalli with vegetarian delights like Dahi ke Kebab, Dohra Kunbh, Makkai ki Tikki and desserts like Apple jalebi, Rabdi Lachchadar and others. |
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| The Cocktail Festival Tuesday, November 24th, 2009. noon to 11:45 p.m. Novotel Hyderabad, Hitech City, Madhapur. The factory is ready to churn vivid cocktail mixes all through the month. The festival is in contrast to the regular Oktober festival celebrated across the globe. The USP of the drinks will be matching with the days of the week, like Mojito Mondays, Tropical Tuesdays, Whiskey-mixed Wednesdays, Tequila Thursdays, Frozen Special Fridays, Sangria Saturdays and Shooter Sundays and also on the changes and the preferences of the crowd. |
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| Dim-Sum Festival Tuesday, November 24th, 2009. 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Golden Dragon, Taj Krishna, Road No.1, Banjara Hills. The menu consists of a wide-range of Dim Sums in both vegetarian and non-vegetarian options like baby spinach and spring vegetables dim sum, five spiced mushroom dim sum, garlic and cabbage dim sum, burnt garlic fish dim sum, chicken dim sum, crispy shrimps dim sum and delicious desserts from Executive Chef Nitin. |
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| House Music Night Tuesday, November 24th, 2009. 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Dublin, Hotel ITC The Kakatiya, Opp. to Walden, Begumpet Rocking party tracks by in-house DJ Daman. |
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| From Goa With Love Tuesday, November 24th, 2009. 8 p.m. to 11:45 p.m. Seasons Bar, Taj Krishna, Road No.1, Banjara Hills. Singer Wahida belts out hit songs from 70s, 80s to latest chart busters. |
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| Russian Melodies Tuesday, November 24th, 2009. 8 p.m. to 11:45 p.m. Atrium Bar, Taj Deccan, Road No.1, Banjara Hills. Russian singer Polina will perform at the bar. She is versatile and covers a wide variety of world styles, from contemporary popular repertoire to retro and hip-hop. |
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| Games Of Love And Chance Tuesday, November 24th, 2009. 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sri Sarathi Studios, , Ameerpet The second film of Kechiche draws its restless energy from its setting in the Parisian projects, recently the scene of widespread rioting by marginalized young second generation immigrants. Tunisian born Kechiche gets inside the head if a shy teenager (Osman Elkharraz) who overcomes the taunts of his friends to act in a school production of a classic 18th century play, if only to perform opposite the girl of his dreams. |
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| Season Sale Tuesday, November 24th, 2009. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Planet Sports, Shop No.1-2, Afzia Towers, Opp. Lifestyle, Begumpet. There is a 20% discount on apparel, footwear and other sports accessories for women and men. |
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| Festive Collection Tuesday, November 24th, 2009. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. New Meena Bazar, Abids. The store is has an exclusive range of reviting kurtas, pyjamas and sherwanis, featuring Lucknowi, Chikandari, Kashmiri works, Brocades and thread embroidery in exotic range of colors and designs. The fabrics used to create these masterpieces include plain cotton, crushed cotton, cotton silk, linen tissue silk and ploy silk. |
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| Designer Jewellery Tuesday, November 24th, 2009. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Musaddilal Jewellers. Designer jewellery collection for Diwali and the wedding season. The collection specialises in diamonds, ruby, antique jewellery like satlada, chokers and much more. |
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| Designer Collection Tuesday, November 24th, 2009. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Personna, Road No.8, Banjara Hills. The store is displaying formal and party wear apparel from famous designers like Manoviraj Khosla, Troy De Costa, Wendell Rodricks and many more.
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BC student organisations call for bandh today
Posted by: seoforever on: November 24, 2009
HYDERABAD: Several Backward Classes student welfare associations on Monday found fault with Sate Government’s proposal to do away with fee reimbursement scheme for students belonging to backward communities. In a press release here, the students associations said that such proposal would financially impact scores of B.C students who are pursuing various professional courses across the State.
Andhra Pradesh State Backward Class Students Association and Andhra Pradesh Economically Backward Classes Welfare Association have given a bandh call to all the colleges in the State on Tuesday to protest against the proposed government’s move to roll back fee reimbursement. If the Government fails to withdraw the proposal, then the student organisations plan to intensify the stir.
Stray incidents mar GHMC elections
Posted by: seoforever on: November 24, 2009
On guard: Policemen deployed in large numbers following a clash between MIM and BJP cadres in old city during the GHMC elections on Monday.
HYDERABAD: The first elections to the GHMC passed off peacefully on Monday even as stray incidents of clashes, attempts to attack opponents and heated arguments between leaders were reported.
With the government declaring Monday a holiday and commercial establishments remaining closed, the main roads wore a deserted look. No violence was reported from any part of the city but stray incidents kept the police on tenterhooks till evening.
Mild tension prevailed at polling booth no. 15 at Young Model school in Kabootarkhana coming under Puranapool division when MIM nominee’s husband Raj Mohan allegedly attacked the BJP’s election agent.
The BJP workers demonstrated in front of the Hussainialam police station demanding action against Raj Mohan. A case was registered.
Abduction rumour
Around noon, Sardar Ali Khan, father-in-law of Amjedullah Khan of MBT contesting from Azampura, went to polling station no. 21 in Chanchalguda to cast vote.
He allegedly abused Ahsanullah Khan, cousin of MIM nominee Aslam Khan, while the latter slapped him.
Hyderabad MP and MIM president, Asaduddin Owaisi, who went around polling stations riding pillion on a bike, allegedly attacked Jawed, an agent of an independent candidate at Shivarampally of Rajendranagar.
Jawed’s friends initially accused the MP of forcibly taking away Jawed to an undisclosed location in a car but the latter returned after some time and said that he fled the spot after an argument with the MP.
Reacting to the ‘abduction’ reports, Mr. Owaisi said he had objected to Jawed being allowed as election agent since the latter was a history-sheeter. “Is Jawed a kid to keep him in my lap and take away,” he said rubbishing the kidnap charge.
Polling was disrupted for sometime in a polling booth at Rashida function hall of Kurmaguda division when BJP and TDP nominees, Sahadev Yadav and Ravinder, respectively, picked up arguments with the polling staff on some issue. The polling resumed after officials pacified them.
Unidentified persons, believed to be TDP activists, pelted stones on the vehicle of MIM candidate, Mohsin Balala, at Panjeshah in Mirchowk breaking its windscreens. Police rushed to the spot and dispersed members of both the groups readying for a clash.
Cash seized
Asifnagar ACP Venkateshwara Rao seized Rs. 10,000 from BJP candidate of Mehdipatnam division, Bangaru Prakash, while the latter was moving in a vehicle.
The Banjara Hills police registered a case against one Vamshi and six others on charge of travelling unauthorised in a candidate’s vehicle.
Police averted a clash between Praja Rajyam and Congress workers at polling stations 9 and 10 at Mangalhat coming under Asifnagar division.
The two groups were trading charges of influencing the voters. They were sent away after stern warning.
All GHMC poll results by 2 p.m. on November 26
Posted by: seoforever on: November 24, 2009
HYDERABAD: GHMC Election Authority and Commissioner S.P. Singh said on Monday that counting of votes will take place in 18 centres and 54 counting halls on November 26. He expects all the results to be out by 2 p.m. on the same day.
Talking to presspersons on Monday after polling, Mr. Singh said all the men and material will reach the counting centres by Tuesday. Each counting hall can accommodate EVMs of up to three wards. There will be 532 rounds of counting for 5,719 polling stations.
Counting centres
Counting centres for election wards one to 17 are in Jawaharlal Nehru Government Polytechnic College, Ramanathapur; from 18 to 35 at Indoor stadium Amberpet; from 19 to 37 at Nizam College Library Hall; from 26 to 31 at Government Polytechnic College, Masab Tank; from 38 to 42 at Sanketika Vidya Bhavan, Masab Tank.
From 46th ward to 54 at Kamala Nehru Polytechnic for Women College, Nampally; from 43 to 56 at Sarojini Naidu Vanita Mahavidyalaya, Nampally; from 50 to 52 at Shankerjee Memorial High School, Nampally; from 57 to 60 at College of Veterinary Sciences, Rajendranagar; from 61 to 65 at Lal Bahadur Indoor Stadium, Basheerbagh.
From 66th ward to 70 at MAM Government Junior College for Girls, Nampally; from 71 to 76 at L.B. Stadium, Basheerbagh; from 77 to 79 at Government Junior College for Girls Mahaboobia, Gunfoundry; from 80 to 88 at RBVRR Women’s College, Narayanaguda; from 84 to 90 at O.U. Engineering College; from 91 to 95 at A.V. College, Domalguda.
From 96th to 98 & 105 at Sultan-ul-Loom Educational Society, Road No.3, Banjara Hills; from 99 to 103 & 108 at Durgabai Deshmukh Government Women’s Technical Training Institute, Yousufguda; from 102, 104, 106 to 110 at Kotla Vijayabhaskar Reddy stadium, Yousufguda; from 111 to 114 at SSJ Engineering College, Vattinagulapally.
Wards 115 & 116 at Higher Secondary School, BHEL; from 117 to 124 at JNTU, Kukatpally; from 125 to 131 at ICFAI Republic School, Balanagar; from 132 to 138 at Bhavan’s Vivekananda College of Management, Defence Colony; from 140 to 142 at Mahaboob College High School, R.P. Road; from 143 to 150 at CSI Institute of Technology, S.P. Road.
55 per cent polling recorded
Posted by: seoforever on: November 24, 2009
SANGAREDDY: The polling for Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) in two divisions of Medak district – Ramachandrapuram and Patancheru – went off peacefully on Monday without any major incidents. Both the constituencies recorded about 55 per cent of polling. -Staff Reporter
Hyderabadis shun municipal polls
Posted by: seoforever on: November 24, 2009
HYDERABAD: Poor response from voters for the first Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections once again reflected the apathy of citizens of the capital towards local body polls. Save for a few minor incidents, polling was peaceful and low turnout was universal across the 150 divisions on Monday.
Chances of a repoll are likely in only one polling station in Defence Colony (135 – polling station 42) because of a complaint over the voters list while two units of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were changed in Marredpally (149 – 25th P.S.) and Musheerabad (91 – seventh P.S.) divisions before the poll began, due to low battery charge.
A police case was filed in Puranapul division (53) following a fracas between a candidate’s relative and a polling agent of another party, said Election Authority and Commissioner S.P. Singh at a press conference he addressed along with District Election Officer M.T. Krishna Babu.
Poll percentage was about 46 per cent and final figure could take some more time since polling was still on in a few polling stations of Serilingampally and Kukatpally divisions, he said. “Our election observers too have not informed us about any major incident. They toured all divisions extensively, especially the sensitive polling stations. They will be submitting their reports to the State Election Commission (SEC),” he said.
Lukewarm response to KCR protest move
Posted by: seoforever on: November 24, 2009
| Police machinery all geared up to foil attempts by TRS activists to cross Adilabad district |
“Taunting by estranged TRS MLA from Mancherial made KCR go for last-ditch-battle”
Alienation of the MLA may have negative impact on efforts to mobilise support from Mancherial
ADILABAD: Party politics relating to Adilabad district is deemed to be responsible for Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K. Chandrashekhar Rao adopting the ‘struggle’ method to get a separate State carved out. Yet, the contribution of this district in terms of sending supporters to the party president’s November 29 fast-unto-death at Siddipet is expected to be among the lowest considering the present state of the party in the district.
General opinion
The general opinion here is that ‘taunting’ in the recent past by G. Arvind Reddy, the estranged Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) legislator from Mancherial, has made Mr. K. Chandrashekhara Rao get into the last-ditch-battle mode.
The alienation of the MLA is also likely to have a negative impact on the efforts to mobilise support for the party president from Mancherial constituency.
Mobilising the party activists to Siddipet on the D-day will now be left to Sirpur legislator K. Sammaiah and Chennur MLA Nallala Odelu.
Besides, the party also expects its leaders like Srihari Rao at Nirmal and Bhainsa to gather workers and supporters.
“Barring some pockets in the district, the response of party workers also seems to be rather lukewarm. We have yet to get clear orders on the issue,” revealed a party leader from Adilabad town, talking about the November 29 event.
Meanwhile, the police machinery is all geared up to foil attempts by TRS activists to cross the district on November 28 or 29 with a view to reaching the important town in Medak district.
Police surveillance
All exit routes from Mancherial, Khanapur, Nirmal and Basar will be effectively manned by police on these days.
The police have initiated surveillance of important TRS personalities who will be involved in the efforts to activate the party workers.
“The intention is to prevent untoward events and the methodology will be that of basic policing,” observes a police officer while explaining the efforts that the police department is likely to make in the coming few days to prevent unlawful activities.
Canadian woman loses benefits over Facebook photo
Posted by: seoforever on: November 23, 2009
BROMONT, Quebec – A Canadian woman on long-term sick leave for depression says she lost her benefits because her insurance agent found photos of her on Facebook in which she appeared to be having fun.
Nathalie Blanchard has been on leave from her job at IBM in Bromont, Quebec, for the last year.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Saturday she was diagnosed with major depression and was receiving monthly sick-leave benefits from insurance giant Manulife.
But the payments dried up this fall and when Blanchard called Manulife, she says she was told she was available to work because of Facebook.
She said her insurance agent described several pictures Blanchard posted on Facebook, including ones showing her having a good time at a Chippendales bar show, at her birthday party and on a sun holiday.
Blanchard said Manulife told her it’s evidence she is no longer depressed. She’s fighting to get her benefits reinstated and says her lawyer is exploring what the next step should be.
Blanchard told the CBC that on her doctor’s advice, she tried to have fun, including nights out at her local bar with friends and short getaways to sun destinations, as a way to forget her problems.
Manulife wouldn’t comment on Blanchard’s case, but did say they would not deny or terminate a claim solely based on information published on Web sites such as Facebook.
Test flight of Agni-II missile tonight
Posted by: seoforever on: November 23, 2009
Bhubaneshwar, Nov 23 (ANI): The much-awaited test flight of the Agni-II surface-to-surface Intermediate Range Ballastic Missile will take place on Wheeler Island off the Orissa coast tonight.
This is the first time a missile will go for user-trial at night since the beginning of the missile development program by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
The test flight of the 2,000-km plus range Agni-II missile will be conducted by the Indian Army.
The aim of the night trial is to provide onfield experience to the armed forces to gauge its accuracy at night.
The Agni-II has been designed to be launched from a rail or mobile launchers and also for road-mobile configuration.
The missile, which is 20 metres long and weighs 16 tons, can carry a payload of around 1,000 kg. Its range can also be increased to 3,000 km by reducing the payload.
The missile has been developed with the technical assistance of the Defense Research and Development Organization. (ANI)
Babri Commission indicts top Atal, Advani
Posted by: seoforever on: November 23, 2009
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New Delhi, Nov 23 (PTI) Top BJP leaders including Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi have reportedly been indicted by a Commission of Inquiry which was set up 17 years ago to probe the demolition of Babri Masjid. A newspaper report about the findings of the Commission, headed by Justice Manmohan Singh Liberhan, triggered an uproar in Parliament with both the Houses adjourned after BJP members attacked the government over the “leakage”.
The voluminous report, which was submitted to the government about five months ago, is believed to have called the BJP leaders “pseudo-moderates” holding that Advani and Vajpayee cannot be absolved of their responsibility in the demolition of the disputed structure in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. The Commission is understood to have said that Vajpayee, Advani and Joshi could have been used by the Sangh Parivar as publicly acceptable faces of the movement and were still party to all decisions.
It said none of them had the capacity to defy the orders of the RSS without damaging their political future and called them tools in the hands of the RSS. The Commission is not not believed to have criticised the late Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao saying as per Constitution the Union Government can act only after it receives the recommendations of the state Governor. (MORE) PTI.
Heroes of Mumbai Terror Attack – 26/11
Posted by: seoforever on: November 23, 2009
An otherwise tragic time for the nation, the 26/11 terror brought to the fore some heroic moments. These men of honour have saved several lives, some even losing theirs in the process. But these men will now live on forever in our memories. Here’s a tribute
At the time when terrorists were on the loose across Mumbai’s streets, ATS Chief Hemant Karkare was among the first to react to the situation. Karkare wanted to lead from the front in the fight, and hoped to corner the terrorists without any further damage. But he was eventually killed when one of the terrorists managed to spray a volley of bullets on his jeep near Cama Hospital
Senior Police Inspector, Vijay Salaskar who had neutralized severaldreaded criminals over the years, decided to take on these terrorists too. On hearing about the location of the terrorists, he drove his jeep along the vicinity of Cama Hospital. In spite of being able to fire and injure one of the terrorist, he succumbed to bullet wounds.
A daring Super-cop, Assistant Commissioner Ashok Kamte has been known to be a brilliant enforcer of law and order in trying circumstances. He along with others decided to do the same with the 26/11 terrorists but was ambushed from behind. He managed to fire at them but was eventually shot dead by a volley of bullets.
Part of the country’s elite National Security Guards (NSG) Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, 31, was killed while in combat with terrorists. During the Taj operation, when one of his colleagues got injured Major Unnikrishnan’s message to him was ‘Do not come up, I will handle them’. He engaged the terrorists all by himself and eventually succumbed to bullet wounds.
The Nanny of the Israeli household in Nariman Point, Sandra Samuel had saved the live of the 2-year-old baby Moshe. With the terrorists still inside the house, Sandra Samuel rescued the child and found her way out. The Israeli government is considering her the nation’s highest honour ‘Righteous among the Nations’.
General Manager of the Taj Hotel, Karambir Kang personally oversaw the evacuation of several guests, despite losing his entire family to the terrorists. The grief-stricken GM lost his wife and two young children to the fire that engulfed the sixth floor of the hotel.
Another hero was Rajan Kamble, one of Taj Hotel’s maintenance staff. Though being shot in his back, Kamble managed to transfer many guests to safer locations, away from the gunfire. However he eventually died of the injuries, despite attempts by his doctor guests to save him.
Sachin has not made any sacrifice for nation: Sena
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
Days after Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray lashed out at Sachin Tendulkar, an article in its mouthpiece, Saamna, has again targeted the master blaster.
The article said: “Sachin is a great cricketer, but doesn’t match Lokmanya Tilak. He does not measure up to any Marathi revolutionary.”
Underlining that Sachin has not made any sacrifices for the country, the article said: “Sachin’s exploits are restricted to BCCI and record books and has not won Mumbai for Maharashtra.”
Sachin has never supported Marathi cause in sports; he could not even help Vinod Kambli stay in the team, the article added.
‘Headley has no links with the city’
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
HYDERABAD: Hyderabad police commissioner B Prasada Rao on Saturday categorically denied American LeT operative David Coleman Headley had any links with the city.
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Speaking at the `Meet the Press’ programme on police arrangements for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections, the commissioner said: “Different agencies are investigating the Headley case. So far, none of the agencies approached us. We will extend our cooperation in case they need help from us.”
Responding to a query, he said, “The city police are keeping a watch on candidates who have criminal antecedents. As a precautionary measure, we are video-recording activities of candidates.”
“We have deployed 70 shadow teams to keep tabs on activities of these candidates. For this, we have stationed three video teams at each police station. They will record events till the end of polling.”
According to official records, 30 candidates with criminal antecedents are in the fray. Of them, five have history-sheets against them, he said.
The shadow parties would focus on candidates who try to create nuisance by digging-up old issues. “We have set up 30 check-posts at entry/exit points of the city,” the commissioner said.
To a query on whether police have a mechanism to check likely distribution of money by candidates to lure voters a day before polling, Prasada Rao said, “If we receive complaints, either from candidates or people, we will immediately respond.”
The commissioner replied that police had no authority to check electoral photo identity card (EPIC). “The staff, deputed by the State Election Commission (SEC) are only authorised to check EPIC and allow voters into the polling stations. Police will only regulate queues at polling stations,” he clarified.
Meanwhile, the commissioner issued orders prohibiting assembly of five or more persons within the radius of 200 metres of polling stations on November 23 between 6 am and 6 pm.
He appealed to voters that information about electioneering and related matters can be passed on to toll-free number `1090′ apart from `100′. Information could also be sent as text messages (SMS) to: 9010100100.
Shiv Sena to Sachin: Play cricket, not politics
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
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Bal Thackeray “loves Sachin” and he has “given him advice”- that’s how the Shiv Sena explains Bal Thackeray’s attack against cricketer Sachin Tendulkar. At a press conference, Sanjay Raut, spokesperson for the Sena, also said Thackeray “is 100% right” in his remarks against Tendulkar.The cricketer has been attacked by Bal Thackeray for saying he is an Indian first and then a Maharashtrian. In an editorial in his party’s mouthpiece, on Monday morning, Thackeray said Tendulkar should stick to playing cricket. He also declared Sachin’s been “run-out on the Marathi pitch.”
Advising Sachin to stay away politics, Sena supremo Bal Thackeray said in an open letter on the front page of his organisation’s newspaper, Saamna: “You have played like a king and become a multi-millionaire, no one has issues with that. But at a press conference, you said you are proud of being Marathi but are an Indian first. This has hurt Marathi people.” Thackeray recalled that Sachin said all Indians had an equal right on Mumbai and said: “What was the need for this? You have been ‘run-out’ on the Marathi pitch. When the Marathi people wrested Mumbai, you weren’t even born.” Meanwhile, the BCCI has come out strongly in defence of the batting maestro. “Shiv Sena’s comment is completely uncalled for. Whoever said this should be brought to book,” Shukla said. |
Obama says Tibet is part of China, but wants talks
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
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Describing Tibet as part of China, US President Barack Obama on Tuesday supported the early resumption of talks. “The United States supports the early resumption of dialogue between the Dalai Lama’s representatives and Beijing,” Obama said after his meeting with Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao here. China, which has governed Tibet since its troops occupied the territory in the 1950s, has repeatedly accused the Dalai Lama of leading a campaign to split the Himalayan region from the rest of the country. The 74-year-old Dalai Lama, who fled to India amid a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959, has denied the allegations.
The last formal talks between the Dalai Lama’s envoys and Chinese officials, the seventh since 2002, ended in an impasse in July 2008, with China demanding that he prove that he did not support Tibetan independence. Obama, who is here on his maiden state visit to the Communist nation, also said that he and Hu want climate change talks in Copenhagen next month to result in a global deal that has “immediate operational effect”. “Our aim there is not a partial accord or a political declaration, but rather an accord that covers all the issues in the negotiations and one that has immediate operational effect,” he said. On North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme, Obama said the six-party talks process should resume “as soon as possible”. On his part, Hu said that both sides were “committed to dialogue and consultation in resolving the Korean peninsula nuclear issue.” Hu said that the two countries “will continue to have consultations on an equal footing to properly resolve economic and trade frictions.” |
Pankaj Advani knocked out of World Snooker
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
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HYDERABAD: Unheralded 30-year old Greek Cypriot Anthony Brabin dealt Indian hopes a big blow when he knocked out National champion Pankaj Advani
5-3 en route to the pre-quarter-finals of the ONGC-IBSF World Snooker Championship on Sunday.
However, bringing some cheer to the Indian camp were the Mumbai-based Yasin Merchant who overcame compatriot Alok Kumar 5-1 to advance to the round of 16. Local challenger Lucky Vatnani, who took out Girish Rajashekar 5-2, and Kamal Chawla, a 5-4 winner over Alex Borg of Malta, also reached the pre quarters.
Meanwhile, China’s Tian Pengfei, despite notching two century breaks of 118 and 101, was beaten 4-5 by Thailand’s Supoj Saenia 4-5 while title favourite Alfie Burden of England struggled to beat Nader Khan Sultani of Afghanistan 5-3 in a scrappy encounter.
Playing fluently and to his strength, Brabin, an advertising executive from Cyprus, had Advani under pressure from the start when he took the first frame in which he trailed by 59 points. Brabin went on to take a 4-1 advantage before Advani reduced the leeway to 3-4. However, Brabin effectively sealed the match with a 54 break in the eighth to eliminate the India No.1.
“I came into this tournament wanting to do well, but beating Pankaj is huge for me. Even when I led 4-1, I was careful and when he made it 3-4, I realised I had to go for my shots. The last time I met him in Holland (2004 World championship), I was leading 2-0 but he beat me 4-2,” said Brabin.
Brabin’s long distance potting came in for high praise from the discerning. “Yes, I put in a lot of practice on this shot, especially after I changed my cue a month back. I also corrected my alignment, bringing in the elbow that used to stick out. I guess, today, I got most of these shots right,” he said.
Advani better known for his billiards achievements that include six World titles apart from one in snooker, was on tenter-hooks almost right through the match, missing sitters and with the run of the green also not favouring him, the defeat did not come as a huge surprise.
“All credit goes to Brabin. I have no excuses. Yes, it is disappointing, but I failed to finish off frames that I should have won, especially the first and fifth. I missed crucial balls and was not striking well today,” said Advani.
Joining Advani on the sidelines were Manan Chandra, who went down 3-5 to Anthony McGill of Scotland and Aditya Mehta who lost 3-5 to Gavin Pantall of Wales.
The pre-quarter-final matches are scheduled for a 7 pm start today, along with the four Masters quarter-final ties.
‘I’ll quit if TDP wins more seats than Cong in GHMC polls’
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah on Sunday said he would resign if the TDP won even a single seat more than the Congress in the Hyderabad civic polls.
“I will send my resignation letter to the (Congress) high command and Governor if the TDP wins even a single corporator seat more than Congress in tomorrow’s Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections,” he told reporters.
Rosaiah made the comments while refuting the reported allegations of Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu that the Chief Minister is on the pay rolls of Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy, whose firm is facing allegations of illegal mining in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh.
Taking strong exception to Naidu’s allegations, Rosaiah said he is ready for any probe into his own assets as well as his family members.
“If you can prove his (Naidu) allegations, I will go to the people and seek a punishment myself,” he said.
Lashing out at Naidu, Rosaiah said the TDP chief was never willing to face probe over the allegations of corruption faced by him.
“He faced so many allegations. He always ran away from them. Did he ever express willingness to face investigation,” he asked.
“Naidu obtained a stay over a corruption case in the Yeleru scam. If he is sincere, he should get that stay vacated and face trial,” Rosaiah said.
Asserting that he would never try to shield anybody over alleged illegal mining by Janardhana Reddy’s Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC), he reminded that he ordered probe by state government officials first and later sought investigation by CBI over the matter.
“When we realised that the Karnataka is also involved in the OMC issue and that our state officials cannot conduct probe in the neighbouring state, we immediately sought a CBI probe,” he said.
The Chief Minister said that he also pursued the matter with Union Home Minister P Chidambaram though the formal consent from the Centre for the CBI probe is yet to come.
Noting that the Empowered Committee of the Supreme Court has submitted its report on the allegations of illegal mining by OMC, Rosaiah said the state government would wait for the verdict of the apex court.
All set for Hyderabad Municipal elections
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
Hyderabad, Nov 22 (PTI) The stage is all set for election to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) tomorrow.
It would be the first election here after the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) came into being in April 2007 after merging 12 surrounding municipalities and eight gram panchayats spread over four neighboring districts.
Incidentally, the formation of GHMC has made Hyderabad the second largest urban conglomeration in the country next only to Delhi.
The polls to the 150-division GHMC would be held at 5,719 polling stations, GHMC special officer M T Krishna Babu told reporters today.
The polling would be held from 7 am to 5 pm amid tight security arrangments with over 18,000 policmen being deployed.
Besides, three companies of Rapid Action Force (RAF) and special forces of OCTOPUS, the elite anti-terror force of Andhra Pradesh have also been deployed.
LeT terror plot mastermind held in Bangladesh
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
Bangladeshi security forces today arrested a top operative of Pakistan-based LeT who is suspect to be a mastermind in the terror plot
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targeting the Indian High Commission and US embassy here, officials said.
Mohammad Motalem alis Majnu, a suspected Bangladeshi operative of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), was arrested from the capital’s Motijheel area in line with confessional statement of three Pakistani LeT operatives arrested two weeks ago, officials said.
“We arrested Mohammad Motalem, alias Majnu, in line with the confessional statement of the three Pakistani LeT operatives,” said Monirul Islam, the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Detective Branch.
“We suspect him to be a mastermind of a plot to carryout an attack on the Indian High Commission and US embassy in Dhaka,” he said.
He said the 44-year-old suspected militant was remanded to custody for four days under an order from Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court for interrogation.
The Deputy Commissioner said Majnu, during initial interrogation, confessed that he was entrusted with the task to recruit LeT operatives in Bangladesh and arrange their passage to Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
“He confessed that he participated in the Afghan resistance against the Soviet forces in late 1980s,” the police chief said.
Pandiraj wins Best Director award at Children’s International Film Festival
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
CHENNAI: Pandiraj, debutant director, bagged the prestigious Golden Elephant Best Director award for Pasanga’ at the 16th International
Children’s Film Festival in Hyderabad on Friday. The award also carries a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh.
Competing with 70 films from 20 countries, the film received a standing ovation from the audience at the end of its screening. “One of the foreign jury members even sought me out and personally discussed the film at length, and was very appreciative of its nuances,” said Pandiraj, one-time assistant to director Cheran.
A small film with a big heart, Pasanga’, which released on May 1, explores a rather unusual theme for Tamil cinema. It looks at the personal and academic pressures faced by children, by tracking the lives of five children in the age group of 10-plus. Their joys and sorrows, the squabbles between parents and how the children handle all of it positively are showcased in a way that does not marginalise the adult viewer. Made with an all-new star cast, the film was completed on a shoestring budget of Rs 3 lakh.
“I was confident the film would shape out well, but was worried if the children and locals would be able to bring out the expressions I wanted,” said Pandiraj.
Pasanga’ has now been selected for the prestigious Indian Panorama section in the International Film Festival of India to be held in Goa from November 23 to December 3. The film will be screened on November 27.
18-year-old abducted, raped in Delhi – INDIA
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
An 18-year-old girl was abducted and raped allegedly by a ‘bad character’ when she was on her way to school with her brother in West Delhi, police said.
Four men, including the alleged rapist, were arrested in connection with the incident which place at around 7:30 am in full public view in Janakpuri area. The brother tried to resist but was overpowered.
The victim, the daughter of a businessman, is class XII student in a private school and was going on a cycle rickshaw with her brother when the incident took place.
A senior police official said the main accused Sunny (24) was following the girl along with his three friends Shashi (21), Jeev Raj (22) and Kapil (21) in a car.
“Sunny along with his three friends overtook the cycle rickshaw and grabbed the girl. Her brother tried to resist but was overpowered. They then abducted the girl,” the official said.
They then took her to a secluded stretch in Sitapuri in Dabri.
“Three accused got out of the car there and Sunny then raped her. He then threatened her. He told her that he will harm her family if she complained,” the official said adding the brother called his parents and a call was made to police at around 8:00 am.
A wireless message was immediately sent to all police stations to keep a lookout for the car. Later police found the victim and the accused in Sitapuri. Sunny was arrested there while his accomplices were caught later.
Sunny knew the victim and used to allegedly eve-tease her. He is also the resident in the same area and is currently not doing anything and is also a “bad character” in the area, police said.
Six killed, 50 injured in twin blasts in Assam
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
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Suspected ULFA militants triggered two blasts close to a police station in Nalbari on Sunday, killing at least six persons and injuring 50 others. The first bomb, planted in a bicycle, went off at a spot adjacent to the police station at around 9:30 am, Superintendent of Police Jitmol Doley said.
A similar blast occurred minutes after in front of a mobile phone shop, about 20 metres away from the police station, as people were trying to flee from the area, he said. Vehicles parked in the busy and crowded area were damaged due to the impact of the blasts. The areas where the blasts took place have been cordoned off by the police, which was carrying out a combing operation in the area. Prima facie the blasts seemed to be the handiwork of ULFA, according to police sources. The deceased have been identified as Keshab Das, Dipu Das and Ganesh Das, all local residents, and Pavan Thakur from Bihar, Doley said. A high alert has been sounded across the state in view of the blasts and people have been asked to remain indoors by the district administration. (With PTI inputs) |
Be the president of your own personal services corporation
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
In the world of work, you will always be paid in direct proportion to three things, says Brian Tracy in ‘Something for Nothing’ (www.jaicobooks.com ). “First, the work you do; second, how well you do it; and third, the difficulty of replacing you.”
The key to your future, therefore, is to choose the right job for your special talents and skills, become very good at doing that job, and then make yourself indispensable, he explains. To earn in the current, continually changing marketplace, each person is responsible for regularly upgrading the skill-set, the author advises.
We create our own jobs, no one can make another person more productive, he avers. “A company can only create an environment where a productive person can utilise more of his potential to contribute value. But the individual is always personally responsible for his level of production and the amount he earns or fails to earn.”
From the day you take your first job until the day you retire, no matter who signs your paycheque, you are the president of your own entrepreneurial business, selling your services into a competitive market, urges Tracy. “As the president of your own personal services corporation, you are totally responsible for training and development, productivity and quality control, personal promotion, and financial management.”
The book looks at the common craving of ‘something for nothing’ as an obsession with free money, a virus that can destroy the economy. When people strive to get rewards without working, riches without contribution, recognition without achievement, or power without service, they are manifesting the dark side of greed, the author rues.
On the other hand, “when the entrepreneurial and creative energies of people motivated by greed are directed and channelled into productive activities, greed becomes a powerful and positive social good. It drives people to innovate and create newer, better, faster, and cheaper ways to provide products and services for others.”
A blunt point from Tracy is that people at work generally like to take it easy. He bemoans the fact that once a person has a job and feels relatively secure in that job, what happens is a movement up the hierarchy of needs to comfort and leisure, with the employee doing everything possible to enjoy more comfort and leisure at work.
The book cites an alarming finding of Robert Half International, that fully 50 per cent of working time today is wasted, mostly in idle chitchat with co-workers, personal business, and extended coffee and lunch breaks.
“The average workweek in America today is 32 hours, even though most people are paid for 40 hours. Not only is much of that time wasted, but the time when the employee is actually working is often spent on low-priority tasks that contribute limited value to the employer.”
In a chapter titled ‘welfare, entitlements, and society’ the author differentiates between short- and long-term approaches to benevolence. The former is about taking money away from people who have earned it and giving it immediately to people who need it at the moment, whether or not this robs them of their self-esteem and makes them dependent on government in the long-term, explains Tracy.
In contrast, the long-term approach to benevolence believes that the best welfare programme is a good job. “The best citizen is a proud, independent, self-reliant person who is in control of his own life. People who think long-term do everything possible to encourage a vibrant business system that creates jobs, growth, hope, and opportunity for more people.”
Women work thrice as much as men
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
People often talk about how women need to work twice as hard as their male colleagues to get ahead. Well, UK researchers, who claim that they did their best to slice and dice data to disprove what they felt was an old wives’ tale about women needing to work harder, found that the adage is actually true. The study reveals that working women don’t do twice, but thrice the amount of work put in by men — at home and at office.
Palak Doshi, CEO of Vaman, who completely agrees with the findings, is of the opinion that women have a lot more to do since they still conform to the traditional stereotype of doing the household chores and cooking. She explains, “As women we need to work all the time. Even 24 hours in a day fall short for us. At work, a woman at the managerial level would definitely feel more pressure to prove herself, when compared to a man in a similar situation. Blame it on socially-imposed roles and expectations.”
Radhika, a systems analyst with Sonata Technologies, identifies with the study results, which state that women work for more than two hours before heading to office. She quips, “No wonder men breeze into work looking as fresh as daisies, while women crawl in practically on their knees!”
According to the findings, even though women and men are on par when it comes to competence, academic qualifications and job requirements, women feel that they put in more efforts than men. Harsha Singh, the assistant vice-president of Right Management, affirms, “At the entry level it’s all the same. But while going up the hierarchy, women are required to push harder. That’s because men are automatically considered better head honchos. It’s a preconceived notion.”
But it’s not as discouraging as it sounds. She adds, “The corporate mindset is changing. Companies have begun to realise that women employees are more conscientious and reliable.”
Some male executives say they’ve noticed that working women tend to feel guilty as they are unable to balance their work and household responsibilities. Sujoy Ghosh, HR head with SQL International, observes that women often feel overwhelmed while juggling work and home commitments. “They have what we call a double shift — trying to juggle office duties and then doing household chores, with husbands only helping marginally. All this makes them feel like they’re working extra hard, when compared to men, which might not be the case.”
There are head honchos who point out that the present scenario is undergoing a transformation. Says Balaji Sreenivasan the CEO of Aurigo Software Solutions, “There are several couples who mutually agree to divide the common household chores. This way they’re able to strike a better work-life balance.” Which would mean more career women rising rapidly up the corporate ladder.
Internet registry becoming a reality
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
India’s efforts at setting up a National Internet Registry have gathered momentum, with the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the registry for this part of the world, putting up the application moved by the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) for public comments which will be received till month-end.
The registries handle the allocation and registration of the number resources required for routing Internet traffic.
The Internet is dependent on a number-based address system (Internet Protocol or IP) to identify and locate devices and ensure proper data flow among them.
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority allocates resources to the regional registries that carry forward the process at the national and local levels. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and other end-users, including companies, government organisations and educational institutions, use the services.
It may take three-six months for the APNIC to clear the application, says Rajesh Aggarwal, who till recently was additional CEO of the NIXI involved in taking the NIR proposal forward.
Support service in Hindi
Talking to The Hindu, he said an Indian registry would help to reduce cost, benefiting smaller customers. The rates might come down by 30-50 per cent.
Support services could be provided in Hindi too. With the help of the government or industry, many IP blocks could be subsidised to help to proliferate server hosting.
Mr. Aggarwal said customers having their own IP blocks were expected to find it easier to switch bandwidth providers.
The bigger allottees of IP addresses like telecom companies and big ISPs might choose to do business directly with the APNIC, and this would help India retain its vote share in that body.
Twists and turns
The move to set up the national registry has not been without twists and turns. It began in 2007, when the Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) submitted an application to the APNIC. The move had no government endorsement and was dropped. The NIXI submitted its application in August 2008; in January 2009, the ISPAI endorsed the application, and a proposal to operate the national registry as a consortium emerged.
Representatives
Later the Department of Telecommunications informed the APNIC that the Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC) was to establish the registry. Finally, the DoT and the Department of Information Technology agreed that the NIXI itself could go ahead with the application and the registry could have representatives from the telecom sector, including the DoT and the TEC, on its board.
Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster in U.S
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
IS IT ENOUGH: A file picture of the anti-viral drug Tamiflu. A cluster of patients has already developed resistance to the drug in the US
Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to the medication Tamiflu, said health officials on Friday.
The cases reported at the Duke University Medical Center over six weeks make up the biggest cluster seen so far in the U.S.
Tamiflu – made by Switzerland’s Roche Group – is one of two flu medicines that help against swine flu, and health officials have been closely watching for signs that the virus is mutating, making the drugs ineffective.
More than 50 resistant cases have been reported in the world since April, including 21 in the U.S.
Almost all in the United States were isolated, said officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Foreign investors prefers services sector
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
Activists of CPI(M) were protesting against the entry of US retailer Wal-Mart into the Indian market.
India attracted $ 2.48 billion foreign direct investment in the services in the first five months of the current fiscal, the highest among all sectors.
The services sector, including financial and non-financial segment, attracted 22 per cent of the total foreign direct investment inflows in the April-August period, official data shows.
It was followed by housing and real estate, and telecommunications that attracted $ 1.79 billion and $ 1.73 billion investments respectively during April-August 2009-10. Construction activities attracted investments worth $ 899 million.
The highest FDI of $ 6.27 billion came from Mauritius followed by the US and Singapore in the first five months of this fiscal.
However, overall FDI during the period declined to $ 13.8 billion from $ 14.64 during April-August 2008-09.
The government recently approved formation of an investment promotion firm ‘Invest India’, where it will partner the states and industry, to help attract foreign investors and provide them a hassle-free entry.
Gold in crisis times
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
‘Magneto trouble’ is the title of a chapter that tells the story about the period 1930-31 in ‘Lords of Finance: 1929, The Great Depression, and the bankers who broke the world’ by Liaquat Ahamed (www.landmarkonthenet.com). Magneto is a device commonly used for creating electric spark in the ignition of automobiles, explains the author, tracing the phrase to Maynard Keynes who had, in 1930, compared the economy to a stalled car.
“We have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we do not understand,” Keynes had bemoaned. He was, however, sanguine that the ‘magneto trouble’ could easily be cured through ‘resolute action’ by the central banks to ‘start the machine again.’
To jump-start the economy, though, a central bank had to have enough gold, the underlying raw material for credit creation under the then gold standard, narrates Ahamed. “The international monetary system was now operating, however, in a very perverse way. Because of investor fear, capital in search of security was flowing into those countries with already large gold reserves – such as the United States and France – and out of countries with only modest reserves – such as Britain and Germany.”
He describes how with American capital bottled up at home and US demand for European goods shrinking – a result of the weak US economy and of higher import tariffs imposed in June 1930 by the Smoot-Hawley Act – Europe could only pay for its imports and service its debts in gold. “During 1930, a total of $300 million in bullion was shipped across the Atlantic into the vaults of the Federal Reserve system.”
What was even more disruptive to international stability was the flow that year of $500 million of gold into France, the one country in Europe that had somehow remained immune from the world economic storm, says Ahamed. “By the end of 1930, the Banque de France, in addition to the $1 billion it held in sterling and dollar deposits, had accumulated a gold reserve mountain of over $2 billion, three times that of the Bank of England.”
Unknown to most people, much of the gold that had supposedly flown into France was actually sitting in London, the author notes. Since bullion is heavy – ‘a seventeen-inch cube weighs about a ton’ – central banks tend to ‘earmark’ the metal, that is, keep it in the same vault by simply re-registering its ownership, rather than ship crates of gold across hundreds of miles from one country to another and pay high insurance costs.
“Thus the decline in Britain’s gold reserves and their accumulation in France and the US was accomplished by a group of men descending into the vaults of the Bank of England, loading some bars of bullion onto a low wooden truck with small rubber tires, trundling them thirty feet across the room to the other wall, and offloading them, though not before attaching some white name tags indicating that the gold now belonged to the Banque de France or the Federal Reserve Bank.”
As 1930 was closing, gold holdings by the US and France were nudging to 60 per cent of the world’s total, with neither country doing anything to re-circulate it. And economists were not happy, as Ahamed cites in the book. For instance, Paul Einzig wrote that the French gold hoarding policy brought about the slump in commodity prices, which in turn was the main cause of the economic depression, and the unwillingness of France to cooperate with other nations aggravated the depression into a violent crisis. And Gustav Cassell said, “The Banque de France has consistently and unnecessarily acquired enormous amounts of gold without troubling in the least about the consequences that such a procedure is bound to have on the rest of the world, and therefore on the world economic position.”
Keynes lamented the disappearance of gold from circulation. “The little household gods, who dwelt in purses and stockings and tin boxes, have been swallowed by a single golden image in each country, which lives underground and is not seen. Gold is out of sight – gone back into the soil. But when the gods are no longer seen in a yellow panoply walking the earth, we begin to rationalise them; and it is not long before there is nothing left.”
The bullion reserves that backed the credit systems of the world, buried as they were in underground vaults – or in the case of the Banque de France, underwater, because its vaults lay below a subterranean aquifer – were invisible to the public eye, adds Ahamed. “They had acquired an almost metaphysical existence. Keynes thought that perhaps gold, its usefulness now outlived, might become less important… He would eventually be proved right but not before a wrenching upheaval.”
Topical read, at a time when gold is at a high, even as contrarian caution of a steep crash of the yellow metal looms afar in the fringes
How income inequality leads to obesity
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
Modern life is perhaps conspiring to make us fat, suggest Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett in ‘The Spirit Level: Why more equal societies almost always do better’ (www.landmarkonthenet.com). In the past the rich were fat and the poor were thin, but in developed countries these patterns are now reversed, they add.
A study cited in the book is of the World Health Organisation, which found the steeping of social gradient as rates of obesity have increased. “By the early 1990s obesity was more common among poorer women, compared to richer women, in all 26 countries, and among poorer men in all except five.”
The sudden rapid increase in obesity in many societies cannot be explained by genetic factors, the authors aver. “People often point to the changes in cost, ease of preparation and availability of energy-dense foods, to the spread of fast-food restaurants, the development of the microwave, and the decline in cooking skills. Others point to the decline in physical activity, both at work and in leisure time, increasing car use and the reduction in physical education programmes in schools.”
But the real culprit may be income inequality, the book postulates. Scatter diagrams that plot income inequality on the x-axis and per cent obese on the y, show a preponderance of obesity, both among adults and children, in the more unequal US states.
Calorie intake and exercise are only part of the story, note Wilkinson and Pickett. “People with a long history of stress seem to respond to food in different ways from people who are not stressed. Their bodies respond by depositing fat particularly round the middle, in the abdomen, rather than lower down on hips and thighs.” Quite alarmingly, people who accumulate fat around the middle are at particularly high risk of obesity-associated illnesses.
Apart from the addition of weight in the worst places, stress can cause us to increase our food intake and change our food choices, a pattern known as stress-eating or eating for comfort, the authors report. “In experiments with rats, when the animals are stressed they eat more sugar and fat… In a study in Finland, people whose eating was driven by stress ate sausages, hamburgers, pizza and chocolate, and drank more alcohol than other people.”
Scientists are starting to understand how comfort eating may be a way we cope with particular changes in our physiology when we are chronically stressed, changes that go with feelings of anxiety, the authors inform. “Recent research suggests that food stimulates the brains of chronic over-eaters in just the same ways that drugs stimulate the brains of addicts.”
A chapter titled ‘Building the future’ forecasts that the proportion of the population feeling they could trust others might rise by 75 per cent in the US, if only the country’s inequality were reduced to something like the average of the four most equal of the rich countries (Japan, Norway, Sweden and Finland).
The authors foresee, then, matching improvements in the quality of community life; “rates of mental illness and obesity might similarly each be cut by almost two-thirds, teenage birth rates could be more than halved, prison populations might be reduced by 75 per cent, and people could live longer while working the equivalent of two months less per year.”
Super A carrots boost vision
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
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London: Farmers have grown a novel form of carrots that are 40 per cent richer in anti-oxidants and can boost vision compared to normal varieties.
The superfood, which is set to hit the market next week, is 40 per cent rich in beta-carotene, an anti-oxidant the body converts into vitamin A and boosts health.
It has been found to improve vision in dim light, strengthen body’s immunity to infections such as winter colds and flu, and helps maintain healthy skin.
The new Super A carrots that are intensely orange with a sweet taste were developed by growers in Shropshire.
“Eating Super A carrots is the ideal way to boost your intake of beta-carotene which as well as converting to vitamin A is also an antioxidant.” Antioxidants help protect body cells from damage,” the Daily Express quoted M&S nutritionist Claire Hughes.
Dr Elisabeth Weichselbaum, of the British Nutrition Foundation, said a lack of vitamin A could lead to eye problems and even night blindness.
However, researchers have warned that consuming huge quantities would not improve night vision beyond its natural limit.
Particles from car brakes harms lungs
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
London (IANS) Tiny particles released by car brake pads can harm lung cells, according to new research.
Researchers found that heavy braking, as in an emergency stop, caused the most damage, but normal breaking and even nearness to a disengaged brake resulted in potentially dangerous cellular stress.
Mechanics Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser and Peter Gehr from the University of Bern and Michael Riediker from the Institute for Work and Health, Lausanne, worked with a team of researchers to study such effects.
”Brake wear contributes up to 20 per cent of total traffic emissions, but the health effects of brake particles remain largely unstudied. We’ve found that the metals in brake wear particles can damage junctions between cells by a mechanism involving oxidative stress (OS),” the authors said.
OS denotes the steady-state level of oxidative damage in a cell, tissue, or organ, caused by the reactive oxygen.
The teams’ analysis revealed that brake wear particles contain considerable amounts of iron, copper and organic carbon.
Exposure to these pollutants caused increased signs of oxidative stress and inflammation in the cells, and hard braking caused most exposure, said a Bern release.
Interestingly, some exposure still occurred even when the brakes were not being applied, presumably due to residual brake particles coming off the turning axle and the braking system.
These findings were published in the journal Particle and Fibre Toxicology
Atlantis astronauts install gadgets on second spacewalk
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
Shuttle Atlantis astronauts began the second of their mission’s three spacewalks to maintain and install more high-tech gadgets on the International Space Station.
The sortie was on Sunday delayed by over an hour after false depressurisation alarms earlier rang through the orbiting outpost and jolted mission specialists Mike Foreman and Randy Bresnik awake after just two hours of sleep, rattling preparations.
Bresnik, venturing out into space for the first time, was most likely already restless as he awaited the birth of his daughter back on earth. His wife Rebbeca Burgin was due to give birth to the couple’s second child on Friday.
If the baby is born during the Atlantis mission, Bresnik would be only the second person to become a father in space.
But he was forced to set aside family concerns and concentrate on the task at hand, as the second exterior work effort of the shuttle’s 11-day mission got underway more than an hour late, at 2001 IST.
It was shortened by 30 minutes due to the false alarms and set to last six hours.
Despite the shortened spacewalk, they were “well ahead” of schedule and planned to get all of their tasks completed, NASA said.
Smartphone app illuminates power consumption
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
Washington: A new application has been developed which can help check the power being consumed by applications loaded on smartphones.
Students and professors at the University of Michigan have developed application called Power Tutor for the Android smartphone that can help show users and software developers how much power their applications are consuming.
Lide Zhang, a developer of the product and a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, said: “Today, we expect our phones to realize more and more functions, and we also expect their batteries to last. PowerTutor will help make that possible.”
PowerTutor can show in real time how four different phone components use power: the screen, the network interface, the processor, and the global positioning system receiver.
To create the application, researchers disassembled their phones and installed electrical current meters.
Then they determined the relationship between the phone’s internal state (how bright the screen is, for example) and the actual power consumption.
That allowed them to produce a software model capable of estimating the power use of any program the phone is running with less than 5 percent error.
The work, supported by Google and the National Science Foundation, was done in collaboration with the joint University of Michigan and Northwestern University Empathic Systems Project.
Greater Hyderabad polls on Nov 23
Posted by: seoforever on: November 22, 2009
Hyderabad, Oct 28 (IANS) The much-awaited elections to Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will be held Nov 23.
The Andhra Pradesh State Election Commission Wednesday issued notification for the polls, the first after surrounding municipalities were merged with the city [^] to form Greater Hyderabad.
State Election Commissioner A.V.S. Reddy told reporters that nominations for the 150-member civic agency would be accepted from Oct 31 to Nov 6. The nomination papers would be scrutinised Nov 7. The last day for withdrawal of nominations is Nov 10. Elections for corporators of 150 wards will be held at 5,663 polling stations Nov 23.
According to the notification, the poll results would be announced Nov 26. The corporators will elect the mayor and deputy mayor Dec 6 and 7.
Reddy said the election code of conduct has come into effect immediately. He said inaugurations, foundation stones and announcements would not be allowed and any violation of the code would be dealt with sternly.
The poll notification was issued a couple of hours after Chief Minister K. Rosaiah visited some parts of the city and participated in various development programmes. He laid foundation stone for a housing colony, launched drinking water supply schemes in some areas and also inaugurated a few newly constructed roads.
The state government in 2007 had created Greater Hyderabad by merging 12 municipalities and eight gram panchayats from surrounding districts with Hyderabad.
With eight million population and over 7,000 square kilometres of geographical spread, Greater Hyderabad is second only to Bangalore in terms of area.
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