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Physical Exercise Fights Mental Woes
Sleep Disorder may cause Suicidal Tendencies
Why India's Import Pipelines have
remained Pipe Dreams? By Bhamy V. Shenoy
In less than 10 years from
conceptualization to start-up, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline
of 1,760 km and the Shah Deniz Gas Pipeline of about 1,000 km have
been built in the Caucasus. In India, for more than 20 years we have
been talking about gas pipelines from Qatar, Iran, Turkmenistan,
Myanmar and Bangladesh. Not one has been built. Not
even one is on the drawing board. Millions of rupees have been spent
on endless number of feasibility studies. India should be able
to learn from the experience of building these pipelines in the
Caucasus. As the West learnt that there was billions of oil to be
exploited beneath Caspian Sea, a New Great Game started.
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PM's address at Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
Manmohan Singh thanks Indian Americans for Role
in N-deal
Invest in India, not
Just Financially: PM Tells Diaspora
Overseas Indians to get Support for Employment,
Investment
India has Central Strategic Role in East Asia:
Singapore Deputy PM
OCI Cardholders Get Respite in Domestic Airfare
Market Access a Two-way Process: Minister
Lord Bilimoria's Cobra Looks at Buying Indian
Brewery
 Spain's
Bullfighting Tradition Goes into Decline
Most people cannot imagine Spain without bullfights, but there are
growing signs that the country's centuries-old "fiesta nacional"
(national celebration) is on the decline. Not only are young people
losing interest in the glittering and bloody spectacle but even some
of the authorities are beginning to feel embarrassed about an "art"
that foreign animal rights campaigners blast as a form of torture.
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Pelosi-palloza May Check Bush Rewrites
By Arun Kumar in Washington Diary
George W. Bush, 43rd
President of the United States is in the habit of quietly issuing
"signing statements" shortly after signing with great fanfare a bill
into the law of the land as a little reminder of what he makes of
it. He did so in the case of the civil nuclear deal with India too
to effectively free it of any remaining fetters that Congress may
have placed in the law. But the picnic may be over with the onset of
Pelosi-palloza - to steal a phrase from whoever first coined it - at
the Capitol Hill. Read On >>>
Advanced Aircraft Engine School in India
CFM International will shortly set up an Aircraft Engine Training
School in India to impart advanced courses in maintenance of its
CFM56 engine that powers all the short-and-medium haul Boeing 737s
and a majority of Airbus 320 series aircraft. Paul-Andre Chevrin,
director of civil operations in India for the French aviation major
Snecma, told India Strategic magazine that this will be the fourth
school of its kind in the world and it would train some 500
engineers from India and other countries in South Asia.
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Grounded, and not the Foggiest Notion of
How to Take Off by Murali Krishnan
As certain as the turn of
season every year is the thick fog that descends over large parts of
north India come winter. And with equal regularity every year,
airports, especially Delhi's busy Indira Gandhi International
Airport, turn into a battle zone with harried passengers and
powerless airlines officials cursing each other and the weather. The
fog not only upsets the travel plans of thousands but more
importantly spells major losses for airlines with hundreds of
flights cancelled, delayed or diverted.
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Home-Brewed Beer, Wine Popular in New
Zealand
Thousands in New Zealand make their own whisky, beer and wine in one
of the few developed countries where it is perfectly legal to have a
home still and produce liquor for personal use. A century ago,
illicit stills producing moonshine whisky were common in the remote
and rugged Hokonui Hills in the south, where strict church-going
immigrants from Scotland instituted localized prohibition that
lasted for 51 years. Read On >>>
At 83, No
Full Stops for Dev Anand
by Subhash K. Jha
Veteran actor Dev Anand has never known full stops. At 83, he is
planning two films in 2007, apart from his much-awaited
autobiography. "It's more than 60 years of my life as a film person.
My journey from a wannabe in the streets of Mumbai to the actor,
writer, director, producer in the studios - everything... all
condensed in one book." The words tumble out in an effervescent flow
of unstoppable energy. Read On >>>
2006 -
A scandalous Bollywood Year
by Subhash K. Jha
There were scandals and controversies galore in 2006 - whether it
was Raveena Tandon's face-off with her husband's ex-wife, Udit
Narayan's tale of two wives, Katrina Kaif going to a dargah in a
skirt or Salman Khan landing in jail yet again!
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South Asian Sisters
Bring
Mental Illness Out of Closet
Two
South Asian Muslim sisters have chosen to bring the taboo subject of
mental illness out of the closet in their first feature film with a
universal message: "Acceptance, not rejection, helps in difficult
situations."
"Hiding Divya", written and directed by Rehana Mirza,
produced by Rohi Mirza Pandya, and starring Madhur Jaffrey, Pooja
Kumar and Deep Katdare, will debut at international film festivals
this year. Read On >>>
Karan
is Emotionally Present
in 'Salaam': Nikhil Advani
Nikhil Advani's upcoming multi-starrer
"Salaam-e-Ishq" will represent the emotional bonding between the
director and his mentor Karan Johar, who were reportedly at
loggerheads after the release of their film "Kal Ho Naa Ho".
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Social Entrepreneurs Set Out to Change
India By Frederick Noronha
They call themselves social entrepreneurs and their business is
to make the world a better place. Donning various roles and leading
various organizations, these men and women are not only winning
praise for their innovativeness but helping to change the lives of
communities they touch with their altruism. Pioneering Indian
names like Stan Thaekkaekara, Milind Ranade, Vishal Talreja, Sunil
Abraham, Anand Shah, Rahul Barkatky and Shalabh Sahai among others
are building and sharing ideas on how entrepreneurs can help
re-engineer society Read On >>
Ex-bar Girls to Educate Sex Workers
By Probir Pramanik
Former dancers of Mumbai bars
plan to take up cudgels against the nefarious elements of their
profession, including those indulging in human trafficking,
prostitution rings and abuse of minors. Even as it fights the ban on
dance bars in Maharashtra, the Mumbai-based Bharatiya Bar Girls'
Union (BBGU) - formed to protect the bar dancers' rights - will
launch a campaign to protect sex workers in tandem with other
groups. Read On >>>
Experts to Defuse Maoist Landmines in
Bastar Region
Special squads will be deployed to defuse landmines planted by
Maoist rebels over thousands of square kilometres in Chhattisgarh's
southern Bastar region. Maoists, who hold sway in the state's
forested and hilly terrain of Bastar, will face a serious challenge
when the experts begin deactivating the mines planted all around
Abujhmad region, which forms about 10 percent of Bastar. The rebels
planted landmines in thickly forested Abujhmad ...
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