Beating
Retreat Recreates An Ethereal Dream Under a partially overcast sky with the sun occasionally
shimmering through, bandsmen of the Indian armed forces
Monday essayed an ethereal musical dream at the Beating
Retreat ceremony - the grand finale of the 58th Republic Day
celebrations. It was a ceremony replete with pageantry,
music, and precision marching that stirred the soul and left
an indelible impression on the mind - an event that will
take a long time to fade away.
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Innocent People's Killings Will
Not Be Tolerated: Azad Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told
the state assembly Monday that his government "will not
spare any security personnel involved in killing innocents",
even as a probe was on after a youngster died allegedly in a
police shootout. "Protection of citizens is the
responsibility of government. We have made it clear that
killing of innocent people who have nothing to do with
militancy will not be tolerated and zero tolerance should be
ultimate goal in this respect." Read On >>>
Court says No to Kolkata Book Fair at
Maidan
In a major victory for green activists and a defeat for the
West Bengal's communist government, the Calcutta High Court
Monday refused permission to the Publishers and Booksellers'
Guild to hold the 32nd Kolkata Book Fair at the Maidan
grounds. The court ruling came as a moral blow to CM
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya who had gone out of his way to ensure
that the fair was held on the green acres in the heart of
the city despite a ban on all other fairs at the venue. Read On >
Reliance Retail's Fresh Forays into NCR
Reliance Fresh, the $20 billion Reliance Industries' brand
for its grocery outlets, Monday opened nine new stores in
the national capital region (NCR) with an investment of
about Rs.8 billion ($180 million). The stores have been
opened in Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Noida, Greater Noida and
Gurgaon covering a total area of 19,000 sq ft. Read On >>>
Modi, Joshi Dropped in New BJP
Team
In a major reshuffle in the Bharatiya Janata Party Monday,
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and controversial
organizing general secretary Sanjay Joshi were dropped from
the party's powerful parliamentary board. Rajnath Singh, who
was elected unopposed to the post of party president for a
three-year term recently, announced his new team. Read On >>>
Make Gandhi Relevant by Making
Growth Inclusive: Sonia Gandhi
Inaugurating the conference to
commemorate 100 years of Satyagraha, Congress president
Sonia Gandhi said: "The relevance of Mahatma Gandhi is not
the real issue. Our preparedness for him is." It was on Sep
11, 1906 in Johannesburg that Mahatma Gandhi began his mass
movement when he chaired a meeting against a law
discriminating against Asians.Read On >
Kenneth Kaunda Steals the Show in
Satyagraha Conference In a stirring speech
punctuated with applause, Zambia's iconic leader Kenneth
Kaunda set the tone Monday for Mahatma Gandhi's satyagraha
centenary commemoration by lashing out at the US and Britain
for unleashing a war in Iraq. Kaunda, who mesmerized the
packed Vigyan Bhavan auditorium here with his powerful
speech that ended with a song to purge Africa from the
scourge of AIDS, asked all those funding terrorism to
channel the money to fight tuberculosis and AIDS. Read On >>>
Supreme Court Holds TV Interview
as Evidence Against Accused
The Supreme Court has for the
first time categorically held that a TV interview by an
accused that can prove his guilt could be treated as a fit
piece of evidence during a criminal trial. The ruling came
last Monday on a petition by a person accused of murder who
had challenged the use of his interview to media as evidence
against him. The court held the interview to be an
extra-judicial confession and a fit piece of evidence to
prove the guilt of the accused. Read On
In Mumbai's Name, Thackeray
Dwells on Hindu Theme It was to be a
campaign speech to run Mumbai, India's financial and movie
capital. But Shiv Sena's old and ailing chief Bal Thackeray
largely spewed venom at a Shivaji Park rally here Sunday. As
he sought votes for yet another term to the Shiv Sena and
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance in the coming civic
body elections, instead of highlighting the achievements of
the alliance he could only exhibit a divisive appeal. Read On >>>
Barrackpore Boy Hits Jackpot with
South Asian Casinos When he decided to
quit his job as a finance controller with a five-star hotel
in Kathmandu to manage a casino in violence-wracked Sri
Lanka, Rakesh Wadhwa's conservative family did its best to
dissuade him. But neither his family's resistance nor
the armed war started in Sri Lanka by the LTTE (Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam) could deter the lanky, bespectacled
young man with a passion for the theory of probability. Now,
two decades later, Wadhwa has every reason to regard his
decision with satisfaction.
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Myanmar Crackdown on Northeast
Rebel Bases Kills 15 A dozen Myanmarese soldiers and three militants died in
fresh fighting when Myanmar launched a massive military
crackdown to evict anti- India guerrillas from its soil, a
rebel leader said here Monday. A spokesman of the S.S.
Khaplang faction of the National Socialist Council of
Nagaland (NSCN-K) said Myanmar's military junta had burnt
down the outfit's general headquarters and two other camps
in that country's northern Sagaing Division. Read On >>
Air Marshal Major could be new
IAF Chief Air
Marshal Fali Homi Major, a helicopter pilot, could be the
new Indian Air Force (IAF) chief when the present incumbent
retires March 31, with Defence Minister A.K. Antony
favouring past precedent in the selection process, reliable
sources said. In normal times, the succession is a smooth
affair with the IAF forwarding a list of four senior-most
officers on the date the incumbent retires and the cabinet
committee on appointments (ACC) approving the name on the
top of the list. Read On
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Muharram has got Indianised Over
the Years Quite spiritedly, fervently and emotionally like the
Ramlila, Muharram in India (that is being observed Tuesday)
signifies the victory of virtue over evil. It commemorates
the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain, the younger grandson
of Prophet Mohammed. In India, it is revered by all
communities, especially the Hindus in Varanasi, Lucknow,
Allahabad, Amroha, Indore, Nagpur, Jaipur, Phagwara in
Punjab, Bhopal and Kanpur.
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US Offers Advanced Missile System
to India
The US is offering India one of the world's most formidable
shipboard missile systems that has the potential of being
integrated with the country's indigenous missiles. There was
"some interest" in the Indian defence establishment in the
Aegis system but neither has the US made an offer nor has
India made any formal request for it, says Royce Caplinger,
managing director of Lockheed Martin India, whose US parent
manufactures the system. Read
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250 Militants Killed in Iraq
A major battle between US-backed Iraqi government forces and
militants has left at least 250 insurgents dead, an Iraqi
military source said. Colonel Ali Nomas, a spokesperson for
government forces in the central Iraqi city of Najaf, said
Sunday that over 250 bodies had been counted on the
battlefield, at a village about eight kilometers north of
the city. Read On >>>
Law Panel Initiates Efforts to
Cleanse Indian Polity
In a move to rid the Indian polity of criminal elements, a
parliamentary panel has initiated moves to ban people
charged with certain criminal offences by courts from
contesting elections for at least five years. The panel is
seeking public opinion on whether such offenders should be
banned. The charges would include heinous offences like
murder, rape, terrorism, drugs and smuggling framed by a
competent court. Read On
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Akali Dal Goes 'Modern' Ahead of
Polls In what could be
called the first major political makeover of the 21st
century, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) is shunning its image
of a Jathedars' party and is donning a new outlook - it now
wants to be seen as the modern Akali Dal. Read On >>>
VP Singh's Front UP's Dark Horse:
BJP Survey
A new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) survey predicts a victory
for the party in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls this year
but says a coalition led by former prime minister V.P. Singh
is fast gaining ground. The survey puts the BJP ahead of all
other parties and gives it around 160 of the 403 seats in
Uttar Pradesh. At the same time, it says, the V.P. Singh-Raj
Babbar-led Jan Morcha, in likely alliance with Ajit Singh's
Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and the little known Muslim outfit,
United Democratic Front (UDF), could be major gainers. Read On >>>
Chhattisgarh to Counter
Propaganda Against Peace Campaign
The Chhattisgarh government is launching a plan to counter
the charges made by human rights activists that its
anti-Maoist movement Salwa Judum was responsible for a surge
in the killings of tribal civilians by Maoist insurgents in
the state. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will fund
a series of workshops, functions, road shows and high
profile publicity by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS)
affiliate unit to glorify Salwa Judum ... Read On >>>
Toys Are Now Serious Business,
And Not Just For Kids
In a country with a large young population, which needs both
educational and attractive toys, the art of toy designing is
getting to be a business much in demand and is being offered
as a career to those keen on joining it. The Ahmedabad-based
National Institute of Design (NID) is offering a
two-and-a-half-year postgraduate programme in toy design and
development for those holding a bachelor's degree. Read On >>>
Char, Chaar, Achaar,
Achaarya, Charitra, Character by
Gaurang Bhatt, MD
In Sanskrit the word char means to move or walk. Chaar means
walking about or gait and achaar means behavior. Achaarya is
one who teaches behavior and chaaritra means nature or
conduct. Character has the same derivation and comes from
the Greek kharakter meaning distinctive nature. It also
means an instrument for marking or impressing. Read On
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Golfers to Tee Off in Assam for
Rs.2 mn Purse About
a 100 professional golfers will be teeing off Wednesday at
one of India's oldest and naturally laid-out golf courses in
the northeastern state of Assam. The five-day Indian Oil
Extra Premium Masters Golf begins at the picturesque 18-hole
Digboi Golf Course located in the oil township of Digboi in
eastern Assam, overlooking a lush green forest and the aroma
of tea wafting from plantations nearby. The tournament in
Digboi is the fourth leg of the newly set up Professional
Golf Tour of India in the calendar year 2006-07 and promises
to be one of the richest events with a whopping Rs.2 million
up for grabs.Read On
Race for New IAF chief Wide Open
With
just two days to go before the expected announcement on the
new Indian Air Force (IAF) chief, the four-way race for Air
Chief Marshal S.P. Tyagi's successor is wide open - unlike
as has happened in the past. In previous years, the
successor has been announced two months before the
incumbent's term ends. Tyagi steps down March 31, which
means the successor should be announced Wednesday. Read On >>
Taiwan Revises Textbooks to Show
Independence from China Taiwan has revised
its high-school history textbooks to show that Taiwan is an
independent country and not part of China, media reports
said Monday. The China Times said that on the education
ministry's order, the title of the national history textbook
for high-school - to be used after the winter vacation - has
been changed from "National History" to "China History". In
this textbook, terms like "our country," "this country" and
"the mainland" have been changed to "China" to indicate that
Taiwan is not part of China, the daily said. Read On >>>
China's Intestine Transplant
Survivor Marries
A small-intestine transplant patient in China has married
nearly eight years after an organ transplant from his father
saved his life. Yang Feng, 27, from the central Henan
Province was diagnosed with diverticulosis, a serious
intestinal disease, as a baby and had to rely on large doses
of antibiotics throughout his childhood to ease
inflammations. When he was 18, surgeons had to remove almost
500 cm, or 90 percent, of his small intestine Read On
Anesthetics may cause Brain
Disorder in Elderly
An Indian origin scientist in the US has reiterated that
some general anesthetics used in long operations may cause
brain disorders in elderly patients. A study led by Pravat
Mandal of the Pittsburgh Medical School, US, found that
halothane and isoflurane - two anesthetics that are inhaled
- and the injected drug propofol cause symptoms of brain
disorder. Read On >>>
Let Your Genes Become Your Diet
Expert
You do not need to make sudden changes in your diet any more
because of any hereditary disease. Nutrogenomics, the latest
buzzword in the field of health sciences, can help you have
your own personalized diet in accordance with the genetic
makeup of your body. Read On
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