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Storm V/S Laughter Palash Biswas Contact: Palash C Biswas, C/O Mrs Arati Roy, Gosto Kanan, Sodepur, Kolkata- 700110, India. Phone: 91-033-25659551 Email: palashchandrabiswas@gmail.com Aamar Gram, Tomar Gram, Shobar Gram: Nandigram, My Village; Your Village; Everybody"s village. It is Post Modern Manusmriti, the Hindu Zionist Global Order. Restructurization of demographies continue with Annihilitions! Earth is a planet now full of Bloodstreams! The Great laughter Challange is the general media literary scenerio which is flooded with Enterainment Unbound, Infinit! No socil Commitment! No Dialogue! Post Modern Manusmriti has got the best tool in Information Explosion with High Tech IT. The ruling Classes are so mad after it not only for booming outsourcing but it is the way to launch a misinformation plus Black Out campaign despite the so called much hyped RTI! Storm is on! It is Sunami all over India! Humanity bleeds! Displacement, Dipression, Exploitation, Abortion, Gangrapes, Genocide, Corruption, Evictions, riots all over. Ressistance in Rural India intensifies day by day. Dows has taken over Union Carbide and it is welcome in West Bengal! Hiroshima and nagasaki welcome. Welcome all MNCs. welcome WorldBank, IMF,WTO directeves. We the citizens are overengaged in Sensex, Cricket and Great Indian Laughter Challange! This India has no tears. Bengalis ushered in ‘Poila Boisakh", their traditional new year, with cultural programmes in different parts of West Bengal as well as feasting on sweets and sumptuous food Sunday. And what you get this day as a Gift by the Brahminical State? The Central Information Commission has turned down for the second time a man"s request under the RTI Act seeking disclosure of information by the Research and Analysis Wing over its records available on Subhash Chandra Bose. Indian soap operas are soap operas written, produced, filmed in India, with characters played by Indians (except for a few Western actors like Tom Alter), with episodes broadcast on a daily/weekly/semi-weekly basis on Indian television channels/channel chains (Star Network, Sony Entertainment, Sun Network, Doordarshan) that are not often limited to the Republic of India itself: often many “serials,” as they’re more commonly referred to as, are broadcast overseas in the UK, USA, and some parts of Europe, South Africa, and Australia. (Doordarshan, or DD, is an exception: it is only viewable in India and Nepal) Under fire on its SEZ policy, the UPA government now plans to bring in a Bill in Parliament that will make it binding on companies to rehabilitate the farmers before they are displaced for setting up industries. The proposed law will provide more teeth to the government to enforce rehabilitation policy being prepared by the rural development ministry. “We are coming out with a new Resettlement and Rehabilitation Act and amending Land Acquisition Act to give legislative backing to the policy," a top official of the rural development ministry told PTI. Adding to the drama over the work suspension at Hindustan Motors" Uttarpara plant, Tata Motors said Saturday it has sought the Calcutta High Court"s intervention to enable Tata Motors to regain possession of its valuable dies and components that are lying at the Uttarpara plant. On the other hand, the Marxist capitalist Chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today received an invitation from the USA to visit the country and share his views about the political and development aspects of West Bengal - “one of the fastest growing states in India”. US trade representative ambassador and a member of the US President’s Cabinet, Ms Susan C. Schwab, who led a high-level delegation to Kolkata requested Mr Bhattacharjee to visit the USA. “He has been already invited by many US-based companies and today I add my voice to these invitations. We would like to hear about the political and development aspects of his success”, she added. Why? In the age of growing influence of Western culture, Bengalis here celebrated the day in a completely different mood.See the difference in New year celebrations in Dhaka. See the difference between Bangla and Team India in Blue? They have National Identity and we don`t have any. We are Americanised! Thus, Buddha flies US! Meanwhile,Barely a month after the Nandigram massacre – where the clash between the CPI(M) cadres and the villagers left 14 dead and several injured over acquisition of land for the chemical hub – the CPI(M) is once again going inside the troubled zone on April 19.This time the CPI(M) is going to flex its muscle in the heart of the war zone – the Nandigram Bazar – by holding a public meeting ostensibly to mark the CPI(M)"s statewide demonstration by industrial workers and farmers for their 10-point demand from the Centre. Dhaka - Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi revellers came out onto the streets of the capital Dhaka at dawn on Saturday as part of nationwide celebrations for welcoming the Bengali New Year, officials said. There was an unprecedented gathering of people on the lush landscape of the Ramna Park located at the heart of Dhaka, to observe the first sunrise of the Bengali Year 1414. Women in red and saffron saris and men wearing traditional kurta- pajamas danced on a makeshift stage beneath a sprawling banyan tree under the constant surveillance of security forces. THE United States wants to compete in multi-billion dollar deals to sell fighter jets to India in a bid to further firm up ties , an official said. India has traditionally relied on Russia for its combat jets because of its frosty ties with Washington during the Cold War but the signing of a civilian nuclear deal recently has paved the way for cooperation. “The next opportunity to take the step ahead beyond the nuclear agreement is the competition in India for the multi-role combat aircraft because historically, the United States has not been able to compete for Indian defence procurement," said US Undersecretary of Commerce Franklin Lavin. “Now it"s a new era, it"s a new relationship, the defence relationship is improving," Lavin told a forum of the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. US and Indian officials had “a number of discussions" on the aircraft deals and “our major providers intend to compete for this", he said. American aircraft manufacturers are hoping to penetrate the Indian defence market, especially their requirement for 126 multi-role fighter aircraft valued up to US$10 billion in the next decade. Lavin said Washington might have to review its export control laws to enable Americans to bid for the Indian contracts. “From the Indian perspective, they will have access to very fine products and from a US perceptive … this helps our system think through this licencing and export control system because they have a specific proposal in front of them that they have to respond to, so that is a healthy development as well," he said. Although the United States has removed most of the sanctions imposed on India for its 1998 nuclear tests, it still has export controls on sensitive items and technologies, which may have to be reviewed if US firms want to sell fighter jets to New Delhi. The Commission while rejecting the information request filed by one Anuj Dhar, a resident of the capital, said that RAW is exempted from disclosing information under the Act. “Research and Analysis Wing of the Cabinet Secretariat is mentioned in the Second Schedule (of RTI Act) and hence CIC has no jurisdiction to pass any orders/decisions in respect of disclosure of any information or files etc in possession of this organisation", the Commission said. The Commission, in its order passed last week rejected Dhar"s review plea where he had sought revision of its earlier decision passed in January 2007. Visit Sify News for more news, views and analysis The CIC in its order of January 29, 2007 had disposed of a RTI complaint filed by Dhar seeking information from Cabinet Secretary over disclosure of records held by RAW on Bose. The Commission while denying disclosure of the information had said that RAW was beyond the purview of RTI Act adding that such details could only be divulged if it concerned allegations of corruption or human right violations. In his review plea placed with the CIC, Dhar contended that Cabinet Secretariat, which in its response of January 19 had denied possession of any information on Bose, was not true. P. Sainath If you decide that 75 per cent of the country does not make news, you"re shrinking your potential zone of coverage. And if you decree that only a small section of the other 25 per cent does, you"ve painted yourself into a corner. CROWNING SUNIL Pal of Nagpur the comic king in Star One"s Great Indian Laughter Challenge seems a waste of talent. The man is meant for bigger things. He"d make a perfect news and content manager for much of the media. To the chaos unleashed by ratings-obsessed TV coverage and newspaper circulation battles, he could just bring a more organised approach. Surely, a more balanced one. He might even find it a Greater Indian Challenge. Matching the media"s unconscious humour won"t be easy. Take that television anchor in the studio, looking deeply concerned: “Raghav — how are the rains on your side of town? Raghav, can you hear me?" Of course he can. Since Raghav is standing on the roof of the same building, it shouldn"t be difficult. “It"s terrible Karan, one can only call it a deluge." Raghav has been pressed into this dodge because other reporters are actually stuck in the waters, trying honestly to tell the story. Wet and miserable and unable to link up with their office — since the Great Indian Network has failed the Challenge. Up to a point all this is good, clean fun. Microchip technologies, big stars and bigger serials have become the norm. Over 150 channels, 5,500 hours of original programming daily and a combined viewership estimated at 46 million, and growing, makes Indian television network one of the largest in the world. From a single channel in the 1980s the small screen has metamorphosed into a hydra-headed wonder. With so much at stake, no one is surprised at the fierce ratings war. Which is why in 2006 claims and counter-claims flew thick and fast and there were no clear-cut winners as Star, Sony, Zee and others vied for viewer attention. Indian soap operas are often mass-produced under large production banners, with houses like Balaji Telefilms—run by Ekta and Shobha Kapoor, daughter and wife respectively to Hindi film star Jitendra—running the same serial in different languages on different television networks/channels. (See also: K Phenomenon) The most common languages in which Indian serials are made in are: Hindi, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, and Malayalam, though most often they contain a mix of the predominant language and English. This often creates and unintentional comic effect: a certain High School-themed serial on Star One has created a bizarre language of its own, a heavy mix of colloquial Hindi and corruptions of modern American slang, which, though fairly odd to understand at first, has created its own coterie of loyal fans devoted to using the very same ‘language’ in daily speech. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_soap_opera Indiantelevision.com > News Headlines > Winners list of the Maxell …TV Channel Packaging (Including Channel Ids " generic promos) NDTV Profit. 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Bangladesh then proved that the win was no flash in the pan as they shocked top-ranked South Africa by 67 runs in a Super Eights match in Guyana. “If we think this was a very good World Cup for us and we have finished our work, then it will be stupid," said Nafees. Abhiroop Lahiri Starting this month, we will bring to you incisive reports on the state of real estate in India compiled by Knight Frank (India). Through these reports to be published every fortnight, the global real estate company will delve into the growth dynamics of several locations in India that are experiencing a paradigm shift in their economic and real estate scenarios and will also comment on various interesting aspects of real estate sector. The upswing of the Indian real estate sector has been an outcome of a number of positive micro and macro factors. Consistent and sustaining GDP growth, expanding service sector, rising purchasing power and affluence, proactive and changing government policies have all lent momentum to this rapidly growing sector. http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/apr/10bspec.htm Sical Logistics Limited, India’s leading integrated multi-modal logistics for bulk and container consignments has hived off its holding in Mac Oil Palm Limited and has indicated that it has plans to concentrate on its core business. The next on sale would be its auto components business. BAREILLY, April 14. – The scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family is at it again. A few days after his controversial statement on the demolition of the Babari Masjid ~ which he claimed would not have been torn down if someone from his “family” been in active politics at the time ~ Congress MP from Amethi Mr Rahul Gandhi today invoked his family name to tout various achievements including the Independence of India from colonial rule and the “division” of Pakistan. Antony open to more FDI in defence production Bangalore, April 14 India, which successfully test-fired the nuclear capable long-range ballistic missile Agni-III on Thursday, would continue with the missile tests, the Defence Minister, Mr A K Antony said today. “These kind of tests will continue,” Mr Antony told reporters after a visit to defence PSU HAL here, when asked if India had the political will to step into the next level of missile tests. “India always had the political will and we do not want to exhibit it. It is already there,” he said. He said the success of Agni-III, that has the ability to hit targets 3,500 km away, showed that Indian scientists had matured enough and whenever necessity arises, we can have missiles of whatever capacity needed for the country. Sunday, April 15, 2007 New Delhi: Exactly 20 years ago, Swedish Radio jolted the national conscience here with a report that the Swedish armament company Bofors had paid bribes to key Indian leaders and defence officials through secret Swiss bank accounts to win a $1.3 billion contract for howitzer guns for the Indian Army. That explosive report, which was immediately denied by the government with a standard statement circulated through PTI that it was “false, baseless and mischievous," immediately sent alarm bells ringing in the establishment and led to a flurry of meetings between then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and top officials. What subsequently came to be known as the Bofors corruption scandal has come to dog India"s political landscape for the next two decades, causing the downfall of the Gandhi government in 1989, and plaguing every government in the country since then without showing any signs of resolution or conviction of the alleged wrongdoers. However, this tortuous and meandering federal investigation, which was meant to pin down the beneficiaries of the Rs 640 million pay-offs for the 155-mm howitzers that otherwise have served the army well, has got lost in a tangle of judicial web across several countries with the sole surviving accused, Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrochi, still evading arrest after surfacing in far away Argentina. Despite prolonged court battles, the countless Letters Rogatory (LRs) sent to Panama, Liechenstein and Luxembourg for tracking the movement of monies linked to the scandal, the setting up of a parliamentary commission and a mountain of documentation, there has not been one conviction. Nava Thakuria Chief minister Tarun Gogoi, addressing the crowd of revellers at the Guwahati Bihu Sanmilani at Latasil playground, appealed for lasting peace. On the other hand, All Assam Students Union (AASU) adviser Samujjal Bhattacharyya dwelt on the crisis being faced by the indigenous population because of unabated influx, at the Judges Field Bihu function. Both venues attracted a large number of people. Ramzaan Hussain, or Ramzaan bhai, as he is lovingly called by the people around New Market, lives with his wife and four children outside the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) building in Chaplin Square. He sketches celebs in news, displaying them on the street facing Regent Cinema. He mans the newspaper stall close by. Exhibition timings: 3 pm to 7 pm, all days. In the run-up to the Ash-Abhishek marriage, his sketches feature the bride Rai, Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan. “I have sold about five sketches of Bachchanji (as he refers to Big B) and one each of the would-be couple,” said Hussain. He charges Rs 150 for a small sketch and Rs 300 for a big one. The SEZ was originally meant to cover 14,000 hectares, but will now have to be scaled down to 5,000 hectares in line with the central government’s new SEZ policy. In Pen, as in the 45 villages resisting acquisition for the government brokered-SEZ, swords are being sharpened. The old (like 70-year-old Dahanu Shankar Mhatre, the patriarch of Narvel village in Pen) have joined the fight, as have women and the young. Banubai, a resident of Malegharwadi village, is in a belligerent mood, ready to greet anybody seeking to take her land away with the tall iron rod that she uses for tilling. “This land that the government is stealing from the hands of the farmer in the name of progress is like gold,” says Kiran More, a young man with a landholding of 1.5 acres. Right now, people may not have the kind of hard cash that the SEZ tempts them with, but it’s still a life of plenty in Pen. “I can feed my 20-member family, even though none of us holds steady jobs,” says Amarchand, a Narvel farmer who owns three acres of farmland in a region where the average landholding is 1.5 acres. In fact, Mhatre’s house with paddy stored in wide, cylindrical tins is only a specimen of what most houses are like. The stored grain is enough to last the year, even after selling a portion in the market. A quintal of rice fetches Rs 600, and an acre yields an average of 21 quintals. Statesman News Service SANTINIKETAN, April 14. — Controversy gripped Visva-Bharati after a lecturer lodged a complaint with the university authorities stating he was facing discrimination and untouchability from his superiors in the department. The university authorities, however, ruled out the allegation after a committee formed to look into the allegation did not find enough evidence to establish charges. |
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