New Caretaker Sworn in Bangladesh Amid
Media Blackout A former central bank governor, Fakhruddin Ahmed, was sworn in
Friday as chief of a caretaker government in Bangladesh amid a state
of emergency and a media blackout imposed on the country. President
Iajuddin Ahmad, who had given up his twin job as chief adviser of
the caretaker government under public pressure, swore Fakhruddin
into office at the presidential palace without the media attending.Read On >>>
Pakistan-India: Nurturing a Paradigm
Shift
by Nasim Zehra As a stand alone event Mukherjee's visit is not significant, but
as part of a paradigm shift in Pakistan-India relations it is.
Coincidently it also comes within a week of Indian Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh's offer to Pakistan for a friendship treaty. Manmohan
Singh's offer defines possibly the ultimate outcome of the present
peace process. But of immediate significance are the inputs required
for such an output - confidence building, normalization and most
importantly conflict resolution.Read On >>>
Peace in South Asia Anchored to Kashmir Problem
by Murali Krishnan
Ahead of Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab
Mukherjee's visit Saturday, political analysts and
former army generals in Pakistan feel that the new-found
pragmatism is the way forward in solving some of the
intransigent issues ...Read On >>>
First Day of Gujarat Expo
Nets MoUs Worth Rs.2.5 Trillion
The Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit got off on a
high note Friday with big industrial houses and
corporates inking 104 memorandums of understanding
envisaging a total investment of Rs.2.5 trillion ($56.4
billion), exceeding the Gujarat government's
expectations. More agreements are to be announced
Saturday. Of the total MoUs, 26 were signed in the
Special Economic Zone (SEZ) segment with investments
worth Rs.1.4 trillion ($31.5 billion) and another 26 in
chemicals and petrochemicals for a total investment of
Rs.144 billion. Read On >>>
Hindujas Formally Joins Race for
Hutch-Essar Takeover The bid to acquire Hutch-Essar, India's second largest mobile
telephony operator, has become fiercer with the London-based
Hindujas formally joining the fray along with Vodafone and Anil
Ambani's Reliance Communications. Read
On >>>
Pakistan is Hub of Al Qaeda Web: US
by Arun Kumar The United States has for the first time identified Pakistan as
the hub of a worldwide web of Al Qaeda connections while asserting
that India, which has been a major target for jehadis due to the
insurgency in Kashmir, would remain a reliable ally against global
terrorism. Read On >> Pakistan Angry Over Being Dubbed Al Qaeda
Hub
India to Seek Creative Ways to Become
Leading Knowledge Hub India must change its mindset
and seek creative ways to build a knowledge-based society that is on
par with the best in the world, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said
here Friday, while receiving the recommendations of the National
Knowledge Commission. Read On >>>
Knowledge Commission Expected to
Recommend Radical Reforms
The National Knowledge Commission (NKC) will present to the nation a
set of radical recommendations for reform which has the potential to
fundamentally transform the country's knowledge sector and make it
truly cutting edge. The overriding theme of the recommendations will
be to create an "inclusive" society where access to knowledge will
be the centerpiece of the reform. According to advance excerpts of
the report ... Read On >>>
Manmohan Goes on East Asian Mission
Saturday by Manish Chand India's 'Look East' policy,
revolving around accelerated economic and strategic engagement with
Southeast and East Asian countries, will get fresh impetus during
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's three-day visit to the Philippines
to attend summits with 16 leaders of the region Saturday.
Manmohan Singh's visit comes at a time when the economically vibrant
East Asia region is looking at India anew as a rising Asian power
... Read On >>>
Sri Lanka Peace Talks Now a Mirage By
M.R. Narayan Swamy Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee is back from
Sri Lanka with one clear understanding: peace talks between the
Tamil Tigers and Colombo are highly unlikely in the near future.
Among other things, the Indian minister conveyed New Delhi's anguish
over continuing civilian casualties in the island's northeast in the
fighting between the military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE). Read On >>>
US House Backs Wider Stem-cell Research,
Defies Bush
Lawmakers in the Democratic-led US lower house approved plans to
expand government funding for human embryonic stem-cell research,
defying a threatened veto by President George W. Bush. The bill,
which requires Senate approval before it could land on Bush's desk,
signaled the first major clash between the Republican president and
the centre-left Democrats who won control of Congress in November
elections. Read On >>>
Africa is Waiting to Emulate India
India, like Brazil, is developing on its own and Africa is closely
watching it so that it can emulate the model, says Kenya-based
Pheroze Nowrojee, winner of the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award 2007.
Nowrojee is a renowned lawyer and a prominent human rights activist
in Kenya. His family shifted there in 1896. Read On >>>
Bangladesh Needs New Secular Leadership:
Taslima Nasrin
Saying that fundamentalism had destroyed the country, exiled
Bangladeshi writer Taslim Nasrin prayed for a new secular leadership
in Bangladesh to bring the country out of its present sorry state.
"We can only hope that people, who are pushed to the brink, would
hit back with a revolt. There is a need for a new secular leadership
to take the country forward," Nasrin told IANS in an exclusive
interview Thursday night soon after a state of emergency was
declared in Bangladesh in the run-up to a general elections on
January 22. Read On >>
García Marquez, Vargas Llosa end
Long-running Feud
One of the 20th century's top literary feuds seems to have come to a
happy end. Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa's introduction to Nobel
laureate Gabriel García Marquez is set to be included in the 40th
anniversary edition of the latter's masterpiece "One Hundred
Years of Solitude". The new edition, coming out in March, is to
include a prologue by Vargas Llosa.
Read On >>>
Daya Nayak helped me Play the
Heroic Guy: Randeep Hooda
For his role of the cleansing cop in "Risk", Randeep Hooda
went on a vigorous physical preparation and also modeled it
on encounter specialist Daya Nayak. "I've always admired
Nayak. In the movie I am the hero but in real life he is the
hero. ... Read On >>>
Hitler Comedy Opens to Bad
Reviews, Condemnation
A slapstick comedy by a Jewish filmmaker about Adolf Hitler
has opened in Germany to a chorus of bad reviews and
condemnation by Jewish leaders. Barring a miracle, Swiss
director Dani Levy's "Mein Fuehrer" looks likely to be the
biggest box office flop of the year in a nation which for
weeks has been embroiled in pre-release debate over whether
Germans should allow themselves a good chuckle at Hitler's
expense. Read On >>>
Shah Rukh was Obvious Alternative in new
KBC: Siddharth Basu
Quizmaster Siddharth Basu, the man behind the super hit game show "Kaun
Banega Crorepati" (KBC), says Shah Rukh Khan was the obvious
alternative to Amitabh Bachchan with his charm and cheek. "Shah Rukh
was always the most obvious alternative. And I've said that for a
long time. I think it's great choice, though only as an alternative
to Amitabh Bachchan," Basu told IANS in an interview. Read On >>>
Director Stephen Frears to Head Cannes
Festival Jury
British director Stephen Frears has been named president of the jury
of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, announced festival president
Gilles Jacobs. Frears, who came to prominence in 1985 with "My
Beautiful Laundrette", has directed a number of other critically
acclaimed movies, including "The Snapper", "High Fidelity" and
"Dirty Pretty Things". Read On >>>
Telefilms - A Platform for Young Artists,
Directors by Shweta Thakur With Indian telefilms winning accolades, a clear independent
cinematic trend is emerging in the country giving young directors
and artists an opportunity to exhibit their creativity. "Telefilms
provide a platform to young actors and directors who do not have a
godfather in the industry," says Jayasree Bhattacharya, director of
"Madur" (The Mat), which was awarded the Best Film at the Dhaka
International Film Festival. Read On
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Severe Cold is Harbinger of Infections
Small children and the elderly tend to succumb more to respiratory
infections in winter as viruses multiply faster in cold
temperatures. Very cold weather, combined with fog, like the capital
has been witnessing for the past week, is "ideal" for certain
viruses to spread that cause influenza type infections, say doctors.
Read On >>>
ULFA Mayhem: The Burma Factor By Sreeram Chaulia Following the inhuman ethnic
cleansing against non-Assamese by the United Liberation
Front of Asom (ULFA), the Indian Army has begun
counter-insurgency operations in Assam and Arunachal
Pradesh. This is a placebo that bypasses the real cancer
breeding outside India's borders. While discrimination,
underdevelopment and unemployment in Assam are serious
internal failures of the Indian government that explain the
origins and early legitimacy of ULFA in the 1980s, the
current savagery of this discredited terrorist group owes to
India's failed foreign policy towards Burma (Myanmar). Read On
Ski Paradise
in Italian Alps The
passage to the top is arduous. Skiers bump and poles tangle as the
line inches forward. "Avanti, Avanti" shouts the cable car
attendant, motioning to get in quickly. A horde of skiers and
snowboarders waits to ascend into one of the world's biggest ski
areas: Dolomiti Superski in the Dolomites of north-eastern Italy
with some 450 ski lifts and 1,220 km of slopes. A small jolt follows
and the cable cars slowly move up the mountains. Read On >>>
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