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Why FREEsenSEX Shoots Up Amidst National Calamity? Our Superslave Chettiar gang has enough to cheerup the Week End Break as FREEsenSEX shoots up amidst AFIRE INDIA! The REAL Faces of Indira Assasiantion Are Still HIDDEN! Muslim Hatred Campaign Reminds Me of Those SIKH Genocide Days!Indira led Third world resistance against USA But We Opposed her as She became Part and parcel of Soviet Socilist Imperialism! After Assam, It is Chattishgargh! My Country is Burning! But it is COPULATION and Seasonal Mating Time for the Politicians Playing with democracy and constitution in India! |
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Why FREEsenSEX Shoots Up Amidst National Calamity? Our Superslave Chettiar gang has enough to cheerup the Week End Break as FREEsenSEX shoots up amidst AFIRE INDIA! The REAL Faces of Indira Assasiantion Are Still HIDDEN! Muslim Hatred Campaign Reminds Me of Those SIKH Genocide Days!Indira led Third world resistance against USA But We Opposed her as She became Part and parcel of Soviet Socilist Imperialism! After Assam, It is Chattishgargh! My Country is Burning! But it is COPULATION and Seasonal Mating Time for the Politicians Playing with democracy and constitution in India!
Troubled Galaxy Destroyed Dreams: Chapter 98 Palash Biswas On the Net: Obama: http://www.barackobama.com If Sadhvi Pragya Thakur is guilty, punish her, says Advani Win or lose, Palin seen to be a political force BBC News McCain insists he can catch Obama MSN India ‘US strike" kills 15 in Pakistan They said the attack hit a house in the village of Mir Ali, in North Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan. Reports said the target of the attack was an al-Qaeda operative, but it was unclear if he was among the dead. The US military has not commented. More details coming. Cabinet clears bill for free education to kids between 6-14 NEW DELHI: In a major boost to education sector, the Union Cabinet has cleared the long-pending Right to Education Bill, which promises free and “The Bill has been considered at several levels by the Group of Ministers (GoM). The Cabinet has approved the text of the Bill," Finance Minister P Chidambaram told reporters here today about the decision of the Cabinet which met last night. Observing that it was an important promise to the children as education would become a fundamental right, he said that it would be legally enforcible duty of the Centre and the states to provide free and compulsory education. Chidambaram said that the HRD Ministry would release the text of the Bill after consulting the Election Commission in view of the assembly polls in some states. The GoM, entrusted with the task of scrutinising the Bill, had cleared the draft legislation early this month without diluting the content including some of the contentious provisions like 25 per cent reservation in private schools for disadvantaged children from the neighbourhood at the entry level. Other key provisions in the Bill are no donation or capitation or interviewing the child or parents as part of a screening procedure. The Right to Education Bill is the enabling legislation to notify the 86th Constitutional amendment, which gives every child between the age of 6 and 14 years the right to free and compulsory education. It was passed by Parliament in December 2002. MONEY MACHINE is well FED and it Digests everything determining Life and Livelihood of Indian people! Thus, FREEsenSEX registers Turnaround ! Extending gains for the third day in a row, stock markets staged an impressive come back rally on Friday with the benchmark Sensex closing higher by nearly 750 points on brisk buying by funds.On the other hand, Beaten down and watching their wealth shrink, Americans are cutting back sharply on their spending, trimming it in September by the largest amount in four years! US Economy SHRINKS! The weakness in consumer spending, which accounts for two-thirds of total US economic activity, dragged the overall economy down in the third quarter. The gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic health, also fell by 0.3 per cent in the third quarter, the strongest signal yet that the country has fallen into a recession. When the US government announced an emergency plan to buy bad loans and other troubled assets from banks and financial institutions, it was Nearly a month later, the plan remains under wraps and money managers say it could have a fundamental flaw – only a handful of the biggest investors are qualified to run the program. When the plan won congressional approval on October 3, days after it was initially rejected, the Treasury Department said the program could be up and running within a few weeks. It was designed as the core part of a $700 billion rescue package as it would root out toxic assets from the system, eliminating a key area of uncertainty for investors about when US and global credit markets would be cleaned out and resume normal functioning. But so far, no asset managers have been announced, suggesting that the government is running into difficulty in finding the most appropriate money managers for the job. In order to compete for the contracts to buy and sell mortgage-backed securities (MBS) under the plan, companies must oversee at least $100 billion in US dollar-denominated, fixed-income assets for clients. Citing turbulence in the country"s economy, British trade union GMB has opposed world"s leading French fries supplier McCain Foods" proposal to outsource finance and administration-related jobs to India. GMB, reportedly having about six lakh people as members, said in a statement on Thursday said it would ask McCain not to proceed with the proposal to offshore employments which would see “32 backroom jobs in five locations in England being outsourced to India". Canada-headquartered McCain Foods is planning to export backroom jobs to India from five locations spread across England. According to GMB, the company had informed that it is looking at a proposal to outsource jobs of finance and administration workers to India “to take advantage of much cheaper wage rates there". The government"s decision to table a bill in Parliament to hike FDI cap in private insurance firms was today hailed by industry chambers and insurers as a move to bring in much needed capital in the sector. “The insurance sector being a capital intensive sector requires huge investments over a prolonged period of time, and therefore, there is constant need for capital infusion. “A hike in the sectoral FDI cap to 49 per cent would further grow the insurance sector and bring in much needed FDI to the country," MetLife India Insurance"s Managing Director Rajesh Relan said in a statement. Confederation of Indian Industries, termed the bill as a much-awaited one, and said, that this bill “would further help in development of the insurance sector". The industry body, which had played an active role in preparing the draft bill, hoped that it would find a quick and easy passage in Parliament. MetLife"s Relan said allowing more FDI would help achieve “increased coverage to the rural and social sectors, thereby providing protection and peace of mind to the people… also increase employment, develop tertiary sectors such as IT/ITeS and provide long-term investments for developing infrastructure…" Ficci said, “We now hope that the bill would be cleared in Parliament and thereby provide an impetus for further growth of the insurance sector in the country." The Union Cabinet, at a meeting yesterday, approved to table a comprehensive insurance bill, which among others, proposes to increase FDI cap in the sector to 49 per cent from 26 per cent now. Forex kitty shrinks by USD 15-billion! The reserves had fallen by USD 118-million for the week ended October 17 and by USD 9.937-billion in the preceedings week. The fall in reserves comprised a USD 15.467 billion decline in the foreign currency assets (FCA)during the period, which fell to USD 249.394-billion from USD 264.861 billion in the previous week, Reserve Bank said in its weekly report on Friday. FCAs expressed in US dollar terms include the effect of appreciation or depreciation of non-US currencies such as the Euro, Sterling and Yen held in reserves. During the week, the gold reserves stood unchanged at USD 8.565-billion while country"s special drawing rights climbed USD 5 million to USD 9-million, the RBI data said. India"s reserve position in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) further fell by USD 9-million during the week to to USD 447-million from USD 456 million in the previous week, the RBI said. The risk of international conflict will increase in the next two decades as China, India and Russia become major powers and competition for resources grows, the top US intelligence official said on Thursday. The next 20 years of transition to a new international system will be fraught with risks and challenges with the rise of emerging powers and a historic transfer of wealth and economic power from West to East, US Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell told an intelligence conference in Nashville, Tennessee. “Strategic rivalries are most likely to revolve around trade, demographics, access to natural resources, investments and technological innovation," McConnell said in a transcript of a speech provided by his office. If current trends persist, by 2025, China will be en route to becoming the world"s largest economy, a major military power and likely the world"s largest importer of natural resources, McConnell said. India and Russia would be close behind with more wealth and power, he said. Economic and population growth will put increasing pressure on a number of strategic resources, such as energy, food and water. “Just think about it: 1.4 billion people without these basic necessities will create significant tensions on the globe, tensions that world bodies and larger states will have to contend (with)," McConnell said. Save the nation and adrees the long pending Issue of nationalities crushed hitherto with Military arms of the barahminical hegemony! Security has been beefed up in the northern districts of West Bengal as the police apprehend a serious terrorist threat in the region after serials bombings rocked neighbouring Assam, officials said Friday. He said Siliguri - a bustling town about 600 km from Kolkata - is also under serious security scanner in view of the Chhath puja, a major north Indian festival, which will be celebrated Nov 4. “Since the men behind these subversive acts always try to strike at crowded places during religious occasions, we’ve sounded a high alert in Siliguri,” said Srivastava, adding that a huge religious conglomeration takes place in Siliguri during Chhath every year. According to state intelligence sources, Siliguri has for long been a favourite haven for militants like the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA). Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar are the two districts in West Bengal that share a border with Assam. Actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi has announced that his Praja Rajyam Party will support the formation of a separate Telangana state if the Centre came with such a proposal. “It is for the Central government to take a decision on creation of Telangana state. If it comes up with such a proposal, our party will not be an obstacle at any cost," he told a gathering in this Telangana town during his road show. Meanwhile,A group of non-resident Indians (NRIs) has asked the US to put Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) on the “list of terrorist “We requested the US department of state to put Raj Thackeray and his group Maharashtra Navnirman Sena on the list of terrorist organisations which are out to hurt the humanity," said a letter to US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice by the US-based NRI group called Humane Mumbai. NRI Ravi Verma, who hails from Katihar in Bihar, formed the group Humane Mumbai. “There are several Indians of Marathi origin who were among the first to join the group Humane Mumbai," Verma said over phone from California. After the hue and cry in India in the wake of the attacks on non-Maharashtrians, the Indian diaspora is also not taking this lightly, he said. “The Indian diaspora prays that there is never an insane (person) like Raj Thackeray in the US or UK who starts a US or UK Navnirman Sena and instigates attacks on the Indians living there," Verma said. Verma said Humane Mumbai initiated the process of putting Raj Thackeray and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena on the infamous terror watchlist on Thursday. Once Raj Thackeray is on the terror watchlist, they will be under surveillance by the US for their activities, he said. Verma, CEO of Telecommand Software and Services in the Silicon Valley, said there was widespread dismay among Indians throughout the world over the persecution of people of north Indian origin living in or visiting Maharashtra. Indians of Marathi origin are particularly embarrassed at the events back home, he said. But the Colonial Super slave Rulers of this US Perpheri are least concerned! They do everything Antipeople to save the Corporates and the Capitalists! Genocide continues! My Country has become an Infinite KILLING FIELD! The global slowdown will have an indirect effect on the Indian economy, finance minister Palaniappan Chidambaram told reporters on Friday. He said however this would not result in massive job losses. The government on Friday approved the much-awaited comprehensive insurance bill, which seeks to raise foreign direct investment cap in private sector to 49% from 26%, and said it would be tabled in the Parliament in December. “The union cabinet gave its approval for introduction of the Insurance (Amendment) Bill, 2008 for amendment to Insurance Act 1938, General Insurance Business Act, 1972, and Insurance Regulatory and Development Act, 1999, in the Rajya Sabha on the basis of recommendations made by GoM," finance minister P Chidambaram told reporters here in the morning. However, the Bill is unlikely to be passed in this Parliament mainly due to lack of time, Chidambaram said while briefing on decision taken in the Cabinet on Thursday night. The amendments, he said, will remove archaic and redundant provisions in the legislations and would incorporate certain provisions to provide IRDA with flexibility to discharge its functions effectively and efficiently. The Cabinet also decided to introduce the Life Insurance Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2008 in the Lok Sabha, he said. After Assam, it Is Chhattisgargh! My Country is burning! But it is COPULATION and Seasonal Mating Time for the Politicians Playing with democracy and constitution in India! At least 17 policemen sustained minor injuries on Friday when Maoist guerrillas detonated a powerful land mine in front of their vehicle in Chhattisgarh"s southern Bastar region. The incident took place on a state highway in Narayanpur district, some 250 km south of capital Raipur. “It was a huge blast but fortunately it missed the target. The mine exploded 10 metres in front of the mini bus with 25 policemen on board," Inspector General of Police AN Upadhyay said. “The blast created a huge crater on the road, and flying stones smashed window panes of the vehicle, injuring the policemen," the officer said. The injured men were rushed to a hospital in Narayanpur town, 18 km from the attack site. On the other hand, Investigating agencies on Friday questioned over 20 persons as they probed a possible HuJI-ULFA link behind the deadly serial blasts in Assam which claimed 77 lives, while curfew was clamped in worst-hit Ganeshguri here after protesters went on a rampage. The scale and planning behind the blasts have led the police to suspect local militants joining hands with terrorist outfits to carry out the coordinated strikes. One person has been arrested in connection with the Assam serial blasts. Zulfikar Ali from the Nagaon district, whose vehicle was used on the blast, has been held! The ULFA cadres are being trained by the jehadi militants and there is definitely a link between the two which is being investigated, he said. While suspecting the hand of the Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul Jehad-e-Islami (HuJI) outfit, police claimed to have got clues that the blasts were carried out by people having local links. Thus the ULFA angle has come in, the official said. Schools and educational institutions remained closed in Guwahati while a total shut-down was observed in Kokrajhar following a bandh call by VHP and BJP. A team of NSG experts from New Delhi visited the blast sites at Ganeshguri, the deputy commissioner"s office and Fancy Bazaar here to make an on-the-spot assessment of yesterday"s terror strikes that left over 450 wounded. “We are not taking seriously the denial by the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA-of being responsible for the blasts) because on earlier occasions also they have done so", a top Assam police official said. Nation pays homage to Indira Gandhi! Indira Gandhi who had to face Nationwide Protest for his ways of Dictatorship! Yes, we also Opposed Indira Gandhi!But we were neither the socialist Oxides nor the Gandhian carbides. We were not the part of Pro US Movement led jointly by JP, RSS and the Left! Nevertheless, Indira remains the only leader who voiced Third World Resistance against US Imperialism. We oppoesed her because he became a part and parcel of Soviet Socila Imperialism! Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was the Prime Minister of the Republic of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. She was India’s first and to date only female Prime Minister. Indira Gandhi was one of the most charismatic leaders of modern India whose ideas and activities touched different spheres of India’s public life and politics and left an imprint on world affairs, especially, the Non-alignment Movement. She was the Prime Minister for over fifteen-and-half years. She was born born on 19 November 1917 in the politically influential Nehru dynasty, she grew up in an intensely political atmosphere. Her grandfather, Motilal Nehru, was a prominent Indian nationalist leader. Her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, was a pivotal figure in the Indian independence movement and the first Prime Minister of Independent India. Returning to India from Oxford in 1941, she became involved in the Indian Independence movement. In the 1950s, she served her father unofficially as a personal assistant during his tenure as India’s first Prime Minister. After her father’s death in 1964, she was appointed as a member of the Rajya Sabha by the President of India and became a member of Lal Bahadur Shastri’s cabinet as Minister of Information and Broadcasting.
It happens every Year when rest of the Country flooded, FREEsenSEX gets Meat.Despite Free Fall continuing in Newyork Wall Street and US Economy Shrink, Our Superslave Chettiar gang has enough to cheerup the Week End Break as FREEsenSEX shoots up amidst AFIRE INDIA! The REAL Faces of Indira Assasiantion Are Still HIDDEN! Muslim Hatred Campaign Reminds Me of Those SIKH Genocide Days! Why the FREEsenSEX shoots up amidst national Disaster? The question remains yet to be answered. No Relief to the Common Man despite sliding OIL Prices but the MONEY Machine is well FED! For the third time in as many months, state-run oil companies on Friday slashed jet fuel prices by over Rs 9,400 per kilo litre, or 16.8 The ATF prices have been slashed by about Rs 24,000 per kilo litre since September in tune with falling global oil prices. However according to available information, private airlines wanted to assess the total benefits before they think of passing on the same to air travellers. Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum cut jet fuel or aviation turbine fuel (ATF) price in Delhi by Rs 9,429.87 per kl to Rs 47,017.93 per kl, industry officials said. The cut, which follows similar reductions on September 1 and October 1, would be effective from midnight tonight. High prices of ATF had put airlines in a tight spot with leading private carriers, including Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airline, which had defaulted on payment to oil companies, demanding a bailout package from the government earlier this month. During a recent meeting with civil aviation minister Praful Patel, along with airline executives, petroleum minister Murli Deora had come down heavily on private carriers for non-payment of astronomical arrears but agreed for a deferred repayment in monthly installments. When contacted spokespersons of Jet Airways and Kingfisher said they are evaluating the situation before a decision is taken on passing the benefits of reduced ATF prices to air travelers. In Mumbai, the home to India"s busiest airport, ATF prices were cut by 16.8 per cent to Rs 48,656.59 per kilo litre from Rs 58,479.37 per kilo litre. The third cut in a row has brought down jet fuel prices from Rs 71,028.26 per kl (ex-Delhi). They were first cut to Rs 59,650.17 per kl effective September 1 and then to Rs 56,447.80 per kl from October 1. “We follow a very transparent system of fixing prices," IOC Chairman Sarthak Behuria said when suggested by some reporters that the company should have not cut ATF prices and use the excess money to make up for losses on sale of diesel, domestic LPG and kerosene. “How can we do that? Whenever price move down we have to cut (ATF prices) and when they move up, we have increased them," he said. Till now, the three companies fixed jet fuel prices once every month but from November they will fix them every fortnight - once on first and on 16th of every month. Possible Huji-ULFA link behind the Assam killings is the appropriate COCKTAIL for One Eyed Doe Indian policy making quite detached with Nationality question! Taking strong exception to industry chamber Assocham"s forecast that a quarter of people in certain key sectors will lose jobs in the “The deputy chairman of the planning commission and my colleague Jairam Ramesh (minister of state for commerce) have taken serious exceptions to an Assocham report… The pace of job creation may slow down but that doesn"t mean that jobs are being destroyed," finance minister P Chidambaram told reporters here. The minister further said another industry chamber FICCI too had contradicted the Assocham study, which had said that in the next ten days or so about 25% to 30% employees are likely to lose jobs in seven sectors including aviation, information technology, steel, financial services, real estate, cement and construction. Chidambaram further said that 7% growth rate, the lowest projection made by experts, would “create more job than was done in entire NDA regime, when the growth was only 5.8%. Why this question was not raised when the economy was growing at 5.3%?" Replying to questions on the recent report on slowing of the US economy, the minister said, “when the world output slows down, the growth in developed countries slows down… it will have an indirect impact on India." The ruling Hegemony launched an All Out hatred campaign against the Muslims linking the International terror chain and justifying Aggressive US Corporate Imperialsim! Why ULFA has a deep sypathy base amongst the Ahmia people, Universities and Intelligentsia, it does not bother the Demography Politicians of India. Why ULFA chooses Huji as its ally despite its demand to deport illegal migrants, GOI never considers. In fact, recent strategical change in ULFA stance exposed the vulnerability of the NON Assamese Indian citizens including resettled partition victim refugees in Assam. The faces of recent victims say so many things, but political players of mainstream India is not concerned a little bit.ULFA is marginalised. Anti Muslim HATRED targeted to OBAMANIA is the gist of this episode of National Calamity and the HATRED Festival is well reflected in FREEsenSEX mods! It is Pre Election Seasonal Mating Time amongst different organs of the Hindu brahaminical Ruliong Hegemony and Vote Bank Equations happen to be the Top Most Priority! It is reminiscent of SIKH HATRED ignited by Indira`s Killings on this Day incidentally twenty four years ago! The REAL faces of Indira Assasiantion are still HIDDEN! Muslim hatred campaign reminds me those days of SIKH Genocide Hollocaust nationwied. Mind you, at that time also, Fascism and Imperialism killed the SIKH Nationality. Once again it is out and out a Nationality Question, a question of AHAMIA Identity and Existence which have been subverted into intense Muslim hatred and linked with ZIONIST WHITE HINDU post modern Manusmriti Apartheid agenda! I have written about my childhood days while I witnessed how two Brahmins of Kumaoon KC Pant and ND Tiwari encashed the plight of Black Untouchable partition victim bengali refugees. They were deprived of Reservation to maintain caste Hindu demography intact so Nainital remains a general Loksabha seat. Tiwari became UP chief minister three times and Uttarakhand CM once, he did nothing to ensure the constitutional rights of our people. meanwhile, thanks to Adwani and Brahmins of West Bengal, Pranab, Somnath and Buddhadeb, our citizenship is also endangered. Because we have a part of Kumauni Nationality and enjoy the support of local population and alaso, empowered ourselves to launch ressistance at any given moment, we never face an ASSAM like situation in Uttarakhand or UP!My father stood with his people in Riot Torn Assam in 1960 just after he led dhimri Block Peasants` Uprising in Nainital and Communist party led by GS PC joshi evicted him out of the party. Since then, my people befriended with Tiwari and Pant. We remained a Vote Bank intact for the duo which played miracle with the political career of the two. My father late Pulin Babu was the undisputed leader of his people who could put anything on stake for his people`s sake. I inherit the legacy of that struggle. On October, 31st, Pulin Babu was a guest in the house of ND Tiwari, a cabinet minister at 3 Krishna Menon marg in New Delhi. As soon as Indira was shot dead and brought to AIIMS, Pulin Babu rushed to the Hospitol and as he was capable of, went inside where Tiwari located him. They returned together.
My father witnessed the rampant MADNESS against the Sikhs in New Delhi. I was working as the editorial Incharge in Dainik Jagaran, Meerut then. My son TUSSU was not born then. Sabita was ailing. We lived in a rented house in Naglabattu, in Mr KL Dutta`s House. I returned from the Press after releasing late Night Edition and slept sound. It remains the practice even today that I switch on TV very late, almost at NOON just after going through all Local and National News papers. No one wakes me. The Peopn Rushed into KL Dutta`s house crying Indira Gandhi Killed. I rushed to my office, 40 D Saket and we published Special Edition. Though Meerut well known for communal riots remained peaceful, we had been surrounded by a turbulant time when SIKHS were being singled out everywhere and Set ABLAZE live. The Ganges were flooded with Sikh Dead Bodies. We were getting updates of endless genocide every moment. Amidst the unprecedented Communal hatred, Loksabha Poll was declared and RSS supported Rajiv Gandhi, projecting him as the saviour of Hindutva. RSS then evicted SIKHs out of Hindu history and geopolitics! It happened quite ruthlessly. We remained helpless! We had witnessed how RSS projected Indira as Goddess Durga while Bangladesh was liberated and Indira Gandhi crushed Agrarian Revolt in India, the Thundering spring with Military Power. We witnessed in seventies how JP led the greatest Pro US movement in India subverting Naxalite Movement. Even the Marxists supported the Pro US Lobby to oust Indira Gandhi which happened the reality in Mid term Elections of 1977. Once again, the Marxists allied with US agents while the Left supported VP Singh Government along with RSS in 1989. Thus, however different it may seem, the fact remains the ULTIMATE TRUTH, All Indian parliamentary Parties defend the same interests and now it happens once again the US interests worldwide. Thus, the theme is Anti Muslim, Anti Black, Anti Untouchable, Anti Refugee, Anti Peasant, Anti Indigenous, Anti Aboriginal HATRED overlapping every thing in this world! We saw how mayawati was stopped. We know the history of DR Ambedkar who never won an election in Indepedent India as also Jogendra Nath Mandal. We have to see how the HINDUTVA, ZIONIST WHITE Galaxy Oder stops Barrack Obama Hussein! Prime Minister Super Slave Manmohan Singh will visit Assam tomorrow for an on the spot assessment of the situation there following the serial blasts, which claimed more than 70 lives and injured about 450 others. Singh, who represents Assam in the Rajya Sabha, is likely to hold a meeting with Governor Shiv Charan Mathur, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, his cabinet ministers and top civil and police officers in Guwahati to take stock of the situation following yesterday"s serial blasts, official sources said. During his day-long visit, the Prime Minister will also visit Guwahati Medical College hospital to meet some of the injured persons admitted there. The US Slave is ceratin to ADD Salt to the Wounded ASSAM! Strongly condemning the serial blasts, the Prime Minister had said the government would take all possible steps to bring the perpetrators to justice. “We will take all possible steps to maintain peace and bring the perpetrators of such acts to justice," he said in a message. “I am confident that the people of India will rise united against these attempts to disturb peace and harmony and destroy our social fabric," he said. In one of the deadliest terror attacks in Assam, near-simultaneous blasts had ripped through Guwahati, Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon and Barpeta on Thursday. The Leftist Ideological Hypocricy is Unabated even today! The Left parties on Friday accused the UPA government of working to demolish the economy"s strong fundamentals through acts like “Ever since the Left parties withdrew support, the Congress-led UPA is moving more and more rightwards. Despite the global financial crisis and its impact on India, the prime minister and the finance minister are determined to implement right-wing neoliberal economic policies," CPI national secretary D Raja said. He said the prime minister and the finance minister have claimed in Parliament that the impact of the global financial crisis had not impacted the Indian economy due to its strong fundamentals. “The strong fundamentals are due to our public sector banks and insurance companies. But the finance minister is destroying and demolishing the strong fundamentals by opening up the insurance sector to FDI," Raja said. The CPM, the largest among the Left parties, said the increase in FDI cap would lead to the outflow of Indian people"s savings to lubricate speculative profits. It maintained that the Left had not allowed the UPA to take this decision for the past four years. Raja said it was the same Congress party which had “shamelessly collaborated" with the BJP during the NDA rule to get a bill, which raised the FDI cap to 26%, passed. The Union Cabinet on Thursday night approved the much-awaited legislation and said it would be tabled in the Parliament in December. However, the Bill is unlikely to be passed by this Parliament due to lack of time, finance minister P Chidambaram said. Moneycontorl.com reports: The Sensex has touched an intraday high of 9,870.42, before closing at 9,788.06, up 743.55 points or 8.22% over previous close. The Nifty finished lower by 188.55 points or 6.99% at 2885.60. It has hit a high of 2921.35. The November series started on a light note. Double digit gains seen on 25% of F"O stocks on low volumes. Nifty futures added 30 lakh shares in open interest and ended at a premium of 15 points. The series started off a very light note in stock futures as well, therefore hugh percentage open interest build up seen on lower base. IT, Oil " Gas and bank stocks saw fresh long build up. Among the frontliners, Mahindra " Mahindra jumped over 23%. HDFC, Jaiprakash Associates, ICICI Bank, Sterlite Industries, Reliance Industries, Reliance Communication, Hindalco, Tata Steel, Tata Power, Tata Communication, HCL Tech, Cairn India and Idea Cellular gained 10-18%. Market breadh was positive throughout the session; about 1768 shares have advanced while 1185 shares have declined. Nearly 237 shares remained unchanged. The BSE Metal index outperformed other indices; shot up 10.20% or 496.73 points to 5,367.60. JSW Steel jumped 32.70%. Jindal Steel, Sterlite Inds, Hindalco and Tata Steel rose 12-15%. Oil stocks like The BSE Oil " Gas Index was up 517.29 points or 9.11% at 6,195.62. Reliance Industries gained 13.81% and ONGC rose 3.04%. However, oil marketing companies like BPCL, IOC and HPCL lost 7.12%, 3.05% and 0.21%, respectively. Bankex gained 336.90 points or 7.21% at 5,011.24. ICICI Bank was up 15.50% and HDFC Bank gained 8.25%. Telecom stocks like Tata Communication, Reliance Communication, Idea Cellular, MTNL and Bharti Airtel jumped 5.5-18.5%. Auto stocks ended in positive terrain. M"M jumped 23.09%, Tata Motors and Maruti rose 9.11% and 4%, respectively. Index jumped 161.22 points or 6.39% to 2,685.62. IT Index was up by 156.17 points or 5.77% at 2,861.94. HCL Tech rose 14%. Satyam, Tech Mahindra, Wipro and Infosys were up 6-7.6%. Power stocks Power Index moved up by 83.13 points or 5.54% to 1,583.37. CESC, Tata Power, Reliance Infrastructure, Power Grid Corp and NTPC were up 5-14%. Capital Goods stocks like BHEL and L"T were up 8.72% and 5.53%, respectively. Capital Goods Index surged 333.90 points or 5% to 7,017.61. The BSE FMCG Index rose 57.76 points or 3.32%, to close at 1,799.83. United Spirits, Dabur India, United Breweries, HUL and GlaxoSmith Consumer were up 4-19%. Pharma stocks like Divis Labs, Glenmark, Ipca Labs, Opto Circuits and Sterling Biotech gained 6.5-12.7%. Healthcare Index was up 86.92 points or 3.23%, to settle at 2,778.64. Realty stocks also participated in this rally. Anant Raj Ind, DLF, Peninsula Land and Ansal Properties rose 7-10.5%. Realty Index jumped 44.40 points or 2.3% to 1,978.24. The BSE Midcap Index ended higher by 105.54 points or 3.41 percent at 3,200.02 and the BSE Small Cap Index was up 90.50 points or 2.46% at 3,765.11. Among the midcap stocks, Core Projects shot up 38.73%. India Infoline, Mercator Lines, Advanta and Maharashtra Seamless gained 20-25%. In the small cap space, Bannariamman, INEOS ABS, Greenply Inds, Eicher Motors and Kemrock Indus were up 20% each. Volumes were very lower in today"s trade. Total traded turnover stood at 52,895.42 crore. This includes Rs 12,230.39 crore from NSE Cash segment, Rs 36,959.23 crore from NSE F"O and the balance Rs 3,705.80 crore from BSE Cash segment. On the global front, Asian markets ended mixed. Japan"s Nikkei went down 5%, as Bank of Japan disappointed the market by announcing modest rate cut of 0.2% versus expectation of 0.25%. Hang Seng fell 2.52% and Shanghai lost 1.97%. Straits Times fell 0.43%. However, Jakarta, Kospi and Taiwan jumped 2.6-7.06%. Barclays will raise USD 11.8 billion from investors. BT Group tumbled 18% after saying Q2 earnings missed its targets. European markets were trading weak. FTSE and CAC tumbled 1.8% each. DAX was down 0.64%, at 4 pm. Retail sales in Germany, Europe"s largest economy, fell more than economists expected in September. Dow Jones and Nasdaq Futures were down 1.69% and 2.3%, respectively. Markets Snapshot Market gains for second consecutive day led by Metal and Oil " Gas stocks Sensex closes up 743 points to close at 9788; Nifty closes up 188 points to close at 2885 CNX mid cap up 3.5%, Bse Small Cap up 2.4% Bse Metals up 10.2%, JSW Steel up 33.7%, Sterlite Ind up 16%, Jindal Steel up 15%, Hindalco up 13.8, Tata Steel up 12.2% Bse Oil " Gas up 9.1% , Reliance up 14.4%, Cairn up 12.2% Bse Bankex Up 7.2%, Icici Bank up 15.4%, Bank Of India up 8.2%, Hdfc bank up 7.5%, Axis Bank up 6.8% Bse Auto up 6.3%, M"M up 24%, Tata Motors up 6.1% Bse Cap Goods up 5%, Bhel up 9.8%, L"T up 6.2%, Index Gainers: Tata Comm up 18%, HDFC up 17.2%, Hcl Tech up 14%, Rcom up 13.4% Index Gainers: Tata Power up 12.5%, Idea up 10.2%, Zee ent up 10% Mid Cap Gainers: Core Proj up 39.4%, India Infoline up 26.6%, United Phos up 25.6%, Mercator Line up 20.4%, Dabur up 20% Mid Cap Gainers: Suven Life up 20%, Tata Chem up 19.2%, United Spirits up 18.1%, Sterlite Tech up 18.1%, GE Ship up 16%, Balrampur Chini up 15.7%, India Cement up 15.5% NSE Adv: Decline at 5:2, Total market turnover at Rs 52895.42 crore versus Rs 69004.74 crore NSE F"O Turnover at Rs 36959.23 crore versus Rs 54223.24 crore F"O Snapshot Series Starts on a light note, double digit gains on 25% of F"O stocks on low volumes and high impact cost Nifty futures adds 30 lakh shares, ends at a premium of 15 points Started off a very light note in stock futures, therefore hugh % OI build up on lower base IT , Oil " Gas and Bank stocks sees fresh long build up Options Activity Nifty 2700 Put adds 7.9 lakh shares Nifty 2900 call adds 7.1 lakh shares Nifty 2800 put adds 6.3 lakh shares Nifty 2500 put adds 4 lakh shares Fresh Long: Oil " Gas : Reliance Ind , RPL, Essar Oil Banks : HDFC , Axis bank , Misc : Bharti , Indian Bank , Infosys , Tata Motors Short Covering: Hindalco, Core Project Continued on page 2… Brokers said besides a fall in inflation to below 11 per cent, anticipation of rate cut by the central bank revived invesotrs"s interest in buying as they feel that both lower lending and inflation rates bode well economic growth. Inflation has come down to 10.68 per cent for mid-October. Besides, US central bank Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan have massively cut rates, prompting many to believe that RBI will follow suit. Rating agency Standard " Poor"s reaffirming stable outlook for India also intensified buying support, they said. Analysts said the bellwether index still recovering from the 23 per cent massive drop it has seen this month, the most on record, which saw the Sensex pluning below 8,000 level. IMG decision to almost double borrowing limits for emerging markets and waive demands for economic austerity measures also helped turn around the sentiments on bourses. The rally came after a day"s break, when the MSCI Asia Pacific Index added 9 per cent, after the US Federal Reserve cut interest rate by 0.50 basic points and agreed to provide 30 billion dollar each to central banks in Brazil, Mexico and South Korea. Meanwhile, Little-known Islamic Security Force-Indian Mujahideen (ISF-IM) claimed responsibility for the serial blasts that killed 77 people in Assam and warned of more such attacks.In an SMS message sent to local ‘News Live" television channel, the ISF-IM claimed responsibility for Thursday’s blasts and threatened to carry out more bomb explosions in several parts of the country. The message said, “we thank all our holy members and partners" for successfully carrying out the task. The SMS was received on the mobile of the channel"s input desk from the number 0-98646-93690. The mobile phone was subsequently switched off and security forces traced it to Moirabari in Central Assam"s Nagaon district registered in the name of one Nazir Ahmed. Police officials are investigating the matter. The outfit was formed in 2000 in Lower Assam"s Bodo-dominated areas “to counter" the Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT) and NDFB militants, police sources said. The full text of the SMS is: “We, ISF-IM, take the responsibility of yesterday blast. We warn all of Assam and India for situation like this in future. We thank all our holy members and partners.” It was cracker of a Diwali at the Bombay Stock Exchange on Tuesday evening when the bourse registered a sharp 547-point rise bringing brought back some enthusiasm among investors after last Friday"s bloodbath. As investors made token deals during the auspicious ‘muhurat’ trading for Samvat 2065, the 30-share barometer of Bombay Stock Exchange, buoyed by a bounce in global stock market, resumed the one-hour special trading session higher by 505.36 points or 5.94 per cent at 9,014.92 over its previous close, halting a four-day free fall in the market. Extending gains for the third day in a row, stock markets staged an impressive come back rally with the benchmark Sensex closing the day higher by nearly 750 points on brisk buying by funds. Marketmen said slew of favourable factors boosted investor sentiment which was at its lowest ebb after sustained heavy selling in bourses across the world for about a month. The 30-share index settled the day higher by 743.55 points at 9,788.06, after opening strong and even posted a gain of over 825 points during intra-day. The wide-based National Stock Exchange index Nifty also rose by 188.55 points at 2885.60. A day after the deadly serial blasts which killed at least 77 persons in Assam, the police is investigating a possible Huji-ULFA link behind the killings. The ULFA cadres who are being recruited are being trained by the Jehadi militants and there is definitely a link between the two which is being investigated, he said. Although the game plan was of the Bangladesh based Huji outfit, the police have got clues that it was carried out by the help of select individuals having local links and there the ULFA angle came in, he said. The authorities had also pointed out Huji involvement because of the fact that except for one minority dominated pocket in Barpeta, all the other bomb attacks were carried out in general public places. “The minority pocket was selected to mislead the people ….even the intensity of the blast was less", he said. Stating that a handful of persons with criminal background have been picked up from various places of the state following the blasts, the police official said “vital clues have been gathered". Refusing to divulge the details as it may hamper further investigation, he said the Huji along with the ULFA had planned a series of attacks after killing of seven Jehadi militants in Dhubri district. “Of late, frequent movement of ULFA militants to Bhutan have been noticed which could also be a pointer to the plan to unleash violence", he said. While there were unconfirmed reports of ULFA-Huji links since 1998, the nexus was proved in 2003 with the arrest of some Jehadi militants and their subsequent confessions. Currently, at least 240 Jehadi militants are incarcerated in Guwahati Jail against whom cases have been filed. Meanwhile, the Assam Public Works (APW), an organisation of ULFA kin, have demanded a separate jail for the Jehadis to make them isolated. “Setting up a separate jail and launching army operation in riverine areas (which are minority community dominated) could go a long way in severing this unholy nexus", APW secretary general Abhijeet Sarma said.
Death toll touches 77 The toll in the serial blasts in Assam rose to 77 on Friday with 11 more people succumbing to their injuries overnight. Principal Secretary (Home) and official spokesman Subhas Das said eight people died in Guwahati, which now alone accounts for 41 deaths. Three others succumbed to their injuries in Barpeta taking the toll there to 15. The number of deaths in Kokrajhar remained at 21, he said. In the deadliest terror attacks in Assam, near-simultaneous blasts had ripped through Guwahati, Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon and Barpeta on Thursday, killing 66 people and injuring about 470 others. Bangladesh-based HuJi militants along with other jehadi outfits are suspected to be behind the explosions. Although ULFA has denied its involvement in the terror attacks, police do not rule out the hand of ULFA behind the serial blasts with help from HuJI or jehadi elements. Of the six blasts in Guwahati, RDX was used in two of the explosions, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has said, adding a special task force has been set up to unearth the conspiracy behind the blasts. Assam has witnessed massive ethnic violence since early 1980s and ULFA-sponsored insurgency but this is the first time that a terror attack in the form of serial blasts rocked the state in such a magnitude. Curfew clamped down in Guwahati Curfew was clamped today in worst blast-hit area of Ganeshguri, adjacent to the capital complex at Dispur, here as protesters went on a rampage forcing police to fire in the air. The protesters had gathered near a flyover - a few metres from the blast site, shouting slogans against the government"s alleged failure to provide security to the common people. Deputy Commissioner Prateek Hajela said the protesters, turned violent and went on a rampage attacking the security personnel deployed in the area. The police first resorted to lathi-charge to disperse the protesters but later fired in the air, Hajela said. Curfew was then clamped in the area, the site of three blasts on Thursday. Ganeshguri had witnessed protests soon after the serial blasts with the mob torching a police vehicle, a fire tender and two ambulances. They had also tried to storm the secretariat carrying two charred bodies in a push cart. The entry and exit road to the area has been sealed since the blasts and only a few vehicles were plying on the Ganeshguri flyover, which connects the Guwahati-Shillong road. All shops and commercial establishments have remained closed in the area since morning. Nation pays homage to Indira Gandhi President Pratibha Patil and Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari led the nation in paying homage to Indira Gandhi on her 24th anniversary of the Martyrdom here today. PM’s Speech at the Indira Gandhi National Integration Award Function “I am very happy to be here today to participate in this function to give away the 23rd Indira Gandhi Award for National integration. I congratulate the Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust for winning this prestigious award. Shrimati Indira Gandhi ji was one of our tallest leaders. Her contributions to nation building and national integration were immense. Each year on this day we gratefully remember her. It is only befitting that a national award for national integration has been instituted in Indira ji’s name because those who further the cause of national integration are truly following the ideals of our beloved Indira ji. The award is a tribute to the memory of Indira ji. It is also a token of our appreciation and respect for the work of the awardee person or institution. This year this event assumes special significance. The Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration is being awarded to a Trust which was established by Mahatma Gandhi himself in the name of Kasturba Gandhi. The life and work of both Mahatma Gandhi and Shrimati Indira Gandhi reflect the very best in our traditions of tolerance and respect for pluralism. Their contributions are of enduring significance not only for our country but for the humanity and the world as a whole. They laid down their lives for the unity of our country. Mahatma Gandhi’s fight for our independence was also a fight for the reconstruction of Indian society and for achieving true national integration. The unity of all Indians professing diverse faiths and speaking different languages was a fundamental tenet of the mass movement Mahatma Gandhi created. The principle of non-violence which the Mahatma preached and practiced was, in his own words, learnt from his illiterate wife Kasturba ji. Kasturba was an ideal companion. She lacked exposure to education. Yet the strength of her character and conviction was a source of education for no lesser person than Mahatma Gandhi himself. It was Kasturba ji who refashioned many of Mahatma Gandhi assumptions and refined the way in which he understood the wider dimensions of non-violence. Gandhiji sent Kasturba ji to make a study of women in Champaran while spearheading his first Satyagraha movement in India in 1917. It was from that study that Mahatma Gandhi could understand the severe poverty, deprivation and exclusion suffered by Indian women in the area. It is in memory of such an outstanding woman that Mahatma Gandhi founded the Kasturba Gandhi Memorial Trust to serve the women of rural India. Established with the resources of common people in 1945, the trust has rendered valuable services to empower women and promote the welfare of children. It has provided educational and health care facilities to women in rural areas and created employment opportunities for them. The work of the trust now covers the entire country, with more than 500 centres in 22 States of the Union. It also reaches out to people affected by communal violence and natural calamities. It has become truely a movement for national integration and fully deserves the prestigious Indira Gandhi Award. Our national integrity is of paramount concern. Unfortunately there are forces in the country today whose politics, ideology and worldview are narrow and divisive. This goes against our inclusive and pluralistic traditions bequeathed to us by the founding fathers of our republic. There is a great need today for all of us to come together to defeat such forces and help in the process nation building. Organizations like the Kasturba Gandhi Memorial Trust are shining examples of what we can achieve through commitment and hard work. They inspire us to make efforts for the uplift of the weak and the underprivileged and to work for the unity and integrity of our nation. I once again congratulate and compliment the Trust for winning the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration. I wish the Trust all success in its various endeavors in the service of our people. I also hope that in the future we will see more such organizations working tirelessly for communal harmony, social uplift and national integration.” *** AD/SKS Russia insists its nuclear arsenal is secure!S Russia insisted Friday its nuclear arsenal is secure, angrily rejecting US allegations that tens of thousands of aging Soviet weapons may The Foreign Ministry described US Defense Secretary Robert Gates" remarks on uncertainties about the old Soviet arsenal as being groundless “insinuations." The ministry stressed that all nuclear weapons in Russia have been under reliable protection since the 1991 Soviet collapse, despite the nation"s economic turmoil. “Despite all the difficulties our country faced in the beginning of the 1990s, standards of security and physical protection of Russian nuclear arsenals remained high," the ministry said in a statement. “There have been no ‘leaks" of nuclear weapons." The angry statement reflected a growing chill in Russia-U.S. ties badly strained over U.S. missile defense plans, Russia"s war in Georgia in August and other issues. Gates spoke earlier this week at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, expressing worries that some Russian nuclear weapons from the old Soviet arsenal may not be fully accounted for. “I have fairly high confidence that no strategic or modern tactical nuclear weapons have leaked'" beyond Russian borders, Gates said. “What worries me are the tens of thousands of old nuclear mines, nuclear artillery shells and so on, because the reality is the Russians themselves probably don"t have any idea how many of those they have or, potentially, where they are.'" A key strategic plan prepared by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for Russia"s foreign and economic ties in the next decade has identified The government of Prime Minister Putin on Monday adopted a strategy to develop former Communist nation"s foreign economic ties till 2020, in which the world"s most dynamically emerging India and China have been identified as the priority partners. According to an unnamed official, quoted by the state-owned ITAR-TASS news agency, most of the strategic plan adopted by the cabinet is highly confidential; few passages for public consumption mention India and China as the priority partners, albeit Moscow will continue to look at the currant focal partner European Union for hi-tech, energy investments and acquisition of European assets. With European markets falling and the continent slipping into a long recession, Moscow seems to be willing to grant India, as its priority partner, wider access to its energy assets. The acquisition by ONGC Videsh of London-listed Imperial Energy operating in west Siberian region of Tomsk is expected to be speedily cleared by the government. Russia seems to be willing for greater mutual investments in the energy sector and the issue is likely to be on the top of the bilateral agenda of the annual Indo-Russian summit in the first week of December, when President Dmitry Medvedev is to pay his maiden visit to India. Raj softens stand on ‘Chhat" puja Under attack for his campaign against north Indians, MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Friday softened his stand on ‘Chhat" puja, saying that he was not opposed to the festival being celebrated in Maharashtra but warned against it being used as a show of political strength. The MNS chief, whose detention under National Security Act has been demanded by some union ministers in the wake of attacks on north Indians in Maharashtra, warned that he would not tolerate disregard of the Marathi speaking people in the state. The Chhat festival will be celebrated on November 4. Justifying the killing of a youth who had hijacked a bus in Mumbai, he said the police action was “proper" as no one knew from which state the youth came from. “What if he had shot some commuters, then you people would have taken the police to task," he said. Thackeray also downplayed the killing of a youth in a suburban train during a brawl with a group of youngsters. “Even the Railway police are saying that there has been no involvement of any political party," he said. Besides, he recalled that in an incident sometime back, four Marathi youths where thrown out on tracks by a group of people from other states. “But no one said a word about the incident," he said. Thackeray criticised the Maharashtra government and Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh for withdrawing his security and termed the move as “political vendetta". “I had not asked for security in the first place. But, now it has been withdrawn which is clearly political vendetta. The government keeps changing and even I will have a chance," he said. “There is a state level committee which decides on security according to threat perception and not on the number of cases against the person. After the Babri mosque demolition in 1992, security of political leaders against whom cases had been registered was also increased," he said. Thackeray also ridiculed demands to book him under the NSA. “When Lalu (Prasad) was the Chief Minister of Bihar, there were 1200 murders. But, there was no demand to book him under NSA. When Biharis were killed in Assam, there was no uproar," he said. “A Goan minister opposed starting of Goa-Bihar railway by saying that the state did not want more beggars. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit also spoke against people of Bihar and UP. But, only when Raj Thackeray speaks, there is a nationwide uproar and Prime Minister has to intervene." Lashing out at Deshmukh, Thackeray said he had no expectations from him. “What can you expect from people whose political survival is at the mercy of Delhi," he asked. The MNS chief also said that he would not allow anybody to harm “Marathi identity". “Political rivals who do not see eye-to-eye on several issues come together. But, it is also very unfortunate that 48 MPs from Maharashtra are mute spectators," he said referring to the delegation of Bihar politicians meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. We"ll go to any extent to ensure safety of N Indians: Amar The Samajwadi Party on Friday said it could go to any extent to ensure safety of North Indians in Maharashtra but ruled out withdrawing support to the UPA government. On whether the party will withdraw support to the UPA government on the issue, he said there is no question of withdrawing support to the government. He said the party still has confidence in the leadership of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi. Singh said Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and LJP leader and Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan were unable to put pressure on the government to act tough. Singh accused the administration in Maharashtra of extending support the Mumbai Navnirman Sena. Huge Indian Ocean tsunamis occur every 600 years The devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, which claimed more than 200,000 lives, was not the first of its kind to hit the region, according to new research. The research also suggests that such huge tsunamis occur in the Indian Ocean every 600 to 700 years. The findings could be used to put statistical weight behind estimates of the likelihood of a future tsunami. The research team led by Karin Monecke, former post-doctoral geologist at Kent State University in Aceh, Indonesia, found that the 2004 sand sheet preceded deposits of three tsunamis from the past 1,200 years. Another research team working independently concluded that a tsunami of similar size struck the region between 1300 and 1400 AD, according to a Kent State release. Each team analysed more than 100 sediment cores collected during fieldwork in 2006 and 2007, and found traces of several tsunamis that may have occurred during the last 2,500 years. However, only the medieval event, whose age was determined by radiocarbon dating of organic material in the sediment, correlated between the two studies. These results have been published in this week"s edition of Nature. AIADMK, DMK trade charges over attack on Amma The two camps claimed that the incident reflected the growing popularity of the respective parties. While Jayalalithaa claimed that the DMK was “unable to tolerate her growing popularity and clout," the ruling party shot back saying it was their leader, Karunanidhi, who was going up in the popularity charts, “thanks to his deft handling of the Sri Lankan Tamils issue." The DMK charged that it was the AIADMK men who resorted to stone-pelting when their efforts to have a glimpse of their leader Jayalalithaa was foiled by the police. DMK leader and Revenue Minister, I Periyasamy said that Jayalalithaa was “taking to such diversionary tactics" fearing arrest. While Jayalalithaa initially blamed the “attackers of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at Madurai in 1978" behind the incident where she had gone to pay homage to freedom fighter, the late Muthuramalinga Thevar, she, however, did not point the finger of suspicion at anyone in particular. But, she later alleged that Azhagiri was behind the attack. Jayalalithaa has been of late critical of Azhagiri and levelled charges against him claiming he was running a “‘raj" of his own" in the southern parts of the state and vitiating the entire political and public atmosphere there. She alleged that his henchmen were brought in police vehicles and “the police were asked to arrest persons not connected to the episode." Asking her party cadre not to disturb the people by staging road-blockades following the incident, she said “we will face the attack by the DMK politically." However, Periyasamy insisted that the AIAMDK cadre resorted to violence at the Pasumpon village also following “confusion" over Jayalalithaa"s visit. She had reportedly rescheduled her flight schedule. “She is resorting to such diversionary tactics due to the growing popularity of Karunanidhi, especially with his deft handling of the Sri Lankan Tamils issue," Periyasamy said. Five cops suspended in Orissa nun rape case Orissa government suspended five policemen in the nun rape episode in Kandhamal district after a joint report was filed by the District Collector and Superintendent of Police. The action was taken on the basis of a joint report filed by Kandhamal collector Krishna Kumar and Superintendent of Police Prabin Kumar. Patnaik had on Wednesday a sought a report on policemen deployed at K Nuagaon in the district where the nun was allegedly raped during the Orissa bandh on August 25. The policemen suspended with immediate effect were an assistant sub-inspector Rasananda Mallick, havildar major K N Mohapatra and havildars S K Hamim, J S Khan and B K Mohanty, official sources said. With action being taken against these five, now the number of policemen against whom action has been taken in the incident stands at 6. Earlier, Baliguda police station officer in-charge K N Rao was suspended for failing to take steps after the nun lodged an FIR on August 26. The move was aimed at restoring the confidence of the people, particularly in riot-ravaged Kandhamal district, the sources said. Mumbai, October 29: Around 200-250 film and TV artistes are doing voiceovers to animation characters - from Ravana, to an evil ant to playing narrator to Alibaba or even to a rich spoilt dog. Collectively, these artistes are involved in over 25-30 animation film projects slated for release in the next six years worth somewhere around Rs 250-300 crore. However, compared to Hollywood where they spend millions, in India budgets are modest. According to estimates, between 5 to 6 per cent of a film"s total budget is being spent on the art of voicing. Lending one"s voice for animation films involves a lot of money. Says producer N.D. Nagpal, “Aanjjan Srivastava charged Rs. 25,000 per day for my ‘Cheenti Cheenti Bang Bang’ while Mahesh Manjrekar charged as much as Rs. 1 lakh per day and he finished his work in seven days." It is reported that Akshay Kumar, his wife Twinkle and their son, while doing voiceover for an upcoming film ‘Jumbo’, charged as much as Rs 4.5 crores. Rahul Bakshi, co-producer of the recently-released ‘Dashavatar’, in which Shatrughan Sinha was roped in as a narrator, said, “Since Dashavatar was an animation film of a given era, we wanted voices that would recreate the era. For an actor, to do a voiceover, becomes easy, they being in the business of drama. An actor can dramatise the voiceover and make characters sound real and believable". A lot of artistes have either earlier or are currently doing voiceovers. For example in the just released Yash Raj Films" ‘Roadside Romeo’ we have Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor giving their voices to the characters in the film. Similarly in Maya Entertainment Ltd"s (MEL) ‘Ramayana-The Epic’, Manoj Bajpai plays Ram, Juhi Chawla plays Sita, Ashutosh Rana plays Ravan while Mukesh Rishi plays Hanuman. Says, Ashutosh Rana, “When MEL approached me through dubbing director Sharang Deo who also provides the music, I was excited to no extent. Since wanting to do an epic was on top of my wish list, I grabbed the role, though I asked Deo to show the scenes they had shot as well as the script. Once, I went though the script, I agreed to do the film." Talking about his experience as a voiceover artiste, Rana avers, “Being from the NSD where we had done a course of voicing, the serial gave me a chance to explore what I had learnt. It was a lovely experience and I finished my part in four days flat spending two hours a day on the job." The job was not difficult either for according to the character artiste, “Any epic may it be Ramayan or Mahabharata, automatically gets into the thought process of every Indian and always keeps on playing in the subconscious mind of people. The same happened to me and it wasn"t hard to play the character in a given situation." Says Juhi Chawla, aka Sita, “I still can"t figure out what made people at MEL consider of my voice for Sita. But, I felt honoured and lucky on being the chosen one to lend my voice to such a significant person from India"s greatest mythological story. I am glad my voice will be recognised as Sita"s in times to come. Ramayana is a story that every one of us has grown up listening to, but it"s nice that youngsters today will get to see it in an animated form that they would love to watch." Says Manoj Bajpai, “Chetan Desai approached me and talked about their intention to have my voice for the animated character of Ram and when we met and had a few trial recordings, things got finalised. On the answer as to why I was considered for this particular voiceover, the director would be the best person to answer." On his feelings of giving his voice to such an important mythological character, Bajpai says, “It"s an achievement of a lifetime for me. I feel absolutely privileged! I have dubbed for countless ordinary movie characters but the feeling of lending my voice to the greatest Indian mythological superhero is very pleasing. Ramayana-The Epic is a movie for the present generation and am glad that have been able to contribute in a small way to get them acquainted to the rich culture of India. I am convinced and content about the fact that my voice will stay forever in the name of Ram." http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/From-animated-Romeos-to-graphical-Ram/378863/
AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa paying homage at the Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar memorial in Ramanathapuram/P Kumarapandian.Express News ServiceFirst Published : 31 Oct 2008 03:25:00 AM ISTLast Updated : 31 Oct 2008 09:22:56 AM ISTRAMANATHAPURAM: “The same forces, which masterminded the murderous attack on former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1977 in Madurai, were behind the attack on me today”, AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa said, after inaugurating the annadhanam (free meals) at the community hall near the memorial of Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar here. After paying homage to the Muthuramalinga Thevar on the occasion his 101st birth anniversary, Jayalalithaa who was invited to inaugurate the free meals session by Sridhar Vandayar of the Moovendar Munnetra Kazhagam, said that she would return to the memorial as Chief Minister next year. Speaking from her car en route to the helipad to board the helicopter to Madurai, she said: “Evil forces have conspired to attack me today. This is a planned attack orchestrated by the DMK party. The police were mere spectators and it was obvious to all the people present at the spot. The authorities have already been told about the threat to my life from supporters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) but still, there was no security. There is no security for anybody.” In Chennai, the former chief minister appealed to her party cadre to stay calm against any provocation indulged in by the ruling DMK party. In her statement, Jayalalithaa said the Pasumpon incident was masterminded by Chief Minister M Karunanidhi and executed by his son M K Azhagiri who used his thugs to carry out the attack. As news of the attack on the AIADMK general secretary spread, party cadre staged demonstrations in several places across the state and courted arrest. In her appeal, Jayalalithaa asked her cadre to stay calm and fight the opponents politically. Our country is burning “Dharani Khura," I"ll address my most all-knowing (read nosy) uncle. “Sap thikey aseh?" Is everything okay? A few weeks ago, they asked the same of me when Delhi burned–a series of calculated bombings across our city. Today, it was my turn, mostly to curse the phone when all the lines jammed, then try to track down all the land lines for aunts, uncles and cousins who live scattered among all 18 corners of the death trap created by militants in Assam.I tried to remember who works where - is Montu in District Court or High Court (it was latter)? What about Manju? (Sadly, it was former and she got some shrapnel in her foot and was profusely bleeding–but okay.) Is Dr Sharma Uncle still in Bongaigaon refinery or did he retire? Did Bhanu Pehi make it to school before they struck in Ganesh Guri–yet again? (She did and is in lockdown at the school conveniently on the same hill as the Kamakhya Temple so at least she can pray.) Did Nilakshi make it back to Chennai? (Yes, but the blast in Borpeta Road was right in front of her father"s hotel and her cousin got some glass in his face.) I recount this to friends inquiring and one e-mails me saying, “Geez, too close for comfort." But hasn"t it become for all of us? We own a home about 5km from one of the blast sites. Its caretaker is a Bangladeshi rickshaw puller. No sooner was there the breaking news bulletin this morning than an adamant L.K. Advani linking the attacks to a Bangladeshi network. “Let Rahim stay inside tonight," I instruct my uncle. “Same for didi." I call my father, staying with me in Delhi, to make sure he"s heard. He"s glued to another battle–Obama versus McCain–on CNN International. “Turn it on the local news," I said. We enter that state where home becomes fluid once again: he, the Indian citizen, more concerned with his American dream represented by stocks and elections; and me, obsessed with the place he left and the downtrodden relatives who will never venture far enough to see his house, let alone mine in New Delhi. Why does this matter? It represents much of what this fight has been all about, doesn"t it: Whose country is this? Who has the right to enter India? To share in its prosperity? Just who is an Indian? Who is an Assamese? We carried signs, my father and I, when Indira Gandhi came to visit Ronald Reagan, in the summer of 1982. “We"ll give you blood but not our oil" and “Assam"s resources should stay in Assam." The bus ride down from New York to Washington is one of my earliest memories. A few years later, I learned slogans from my cousins and shouted that Indira Gandhi was nothing but a good old crazy goat (pagoli sagoli–it rhymes and kinda makes sense in Assamese, really) when the CRPF marched down and around and around my grandparents" homes. Over the last few years, I have been invited back to Assam to speak many times–on investment, on opportunities, on soft skills, on living overseas, on living in Delhi. I am garlanded, celebrated, asked for solutions. I have none. But every few years, just when it looks like we can put this all behind us and create a great state, one with a blueprint that rivals Kerala in tourism and Gujarat in industry, “they" strike. And in some ways, I feel as helpless as that girl picketing outside the White House. I don"t know who the enemy is. “What do they want?" my father will tell me tonight. “It is politics and greed and money. There is no ideology anymore." Back then, when he was a curly-moustachioed man interviewed by the local news about just why he didn"t like Mrs GAN-dhi, as they called her, he believed in his homeland. Then the same people who said they"d fix the problem ended up becoming the biggest crooks of all. Now, I can see his generation giving up. My uncles say they never will see a prosperous Assam; for my late grandmother, the most prosperity she ever enjoyed came, ironically, under the British. I tell my relatives that if Assam fails, India has failed–to create employment, to hold together a diverse people, to foster development and entrepreneurship, to be the answer, not the victim. Their answer is for everyone to leave. “Go get educated outside, in Bangalore, in Nagpur, in Kolkata," they say to my cousins. “Get jobs at TCS and Infosys and Reliance and Bharti." I don"t disagree. I can"t disagree. After all, I don"t live there. And I suppose I realize, really, that is is much easier to believe in a cause, in a dream … from afar. Assam blasts: SC warning as early as ‘05 NEW DELHI: “Assam is facing external aggression and internal disturbance.” This comment from the Supreme Court came not after the serial blasts that It had issued an unambiguous warning to the UPA government at the Centre and the Tarun Gogoi government in the state: if massive illegal migration of Bangladeshis into Assam was not stopped immediately and foreigners not deported, the situation would soon go out of control. Both the governments paid scant attention to the ominous signals that the Supreme Court read from the November 8, 1998 report of then governor Lt Gen S K Sinha, who had prepared it after a thorough inspection of border areas and districts, discussions with the Indian high commissioner in Bangladesh and talks with political leaders. What Lt Gen Sinha’s report brought out before the apex court in 2005 was the grim ground reality of Assam. His report stated: “The illegal migrants coming into India after 1971 have been almost exclusively Muslims… Muslim population in Assam has shown a rise of 77.42% from what it was in 1971. Hindu population has risen by nearly 41.89%.” Expressing concern over Muslims attaining a majority in district after district, the then governor had warned against complacency. He had said: “There is a tendency to view illegal migration into Assam as a regional matter affecting only the people of Assam. It’s more dangerous dimension of greatly undermining our national security is ignored.” He added: “Pakistan’s ISI has been active in Bangladesh supporting militant movements in Assam. Muslim militant organisations have mushroomed in Assam and there are reports of some 50 Assamese Muslim youths having gone for training to Afghanistan and Kashmir.” He had further warned against mixing religion and the state’s policy towards illegal migrants and said: “The dangerous consequences of large scale illegal migration from Bangladesh, both for the people of Assam and more for the nation as a whole, need to be emphatically stressed. No misconceived and mistaken notion of secularism should be allowed to come in the way of doing so.” To protect the territorial integrity and prevent Assamese from being reduced to a minority, the SC had directed stringent measures to detect the illegal migrants and deport them, a direction which was blatantly disobeyed. Email threat sent to Sonia Gandhi KOCHI: A youth, who has allegedly sent an e-mail threatening the life of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, is being questioned by police here. The mail was sent to Rashtrapati Bhavan office about four days ago from an internet cafe at nearby Palarivattom, police sources said. The mail also stated that bombs would go off in Delhi, Kochi and two other places, they said. Initially the sources had said that the youth has sent a similar e-mail threat to President Pratiba Patil also, but later clarified that the mail only threatened the life of Gandhi and was sent to the Rashtrapathi Bhavan office. DR Congo refugee camps ‘burned" Reports suggest the camps were forcibly emptied and looted before being burned, the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, said. Aid groups say they are struggling to reach an estimated 250,000 people in the region fleeing fierce fighting between government and rebel forces. Intense diplomatic efforts are under way to end the crisis. A tense ceasefire is holding in and around Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, but aid agency chiefs say the situation in and around the city remains highly volatile. Food and water are terribly scarce, and aid agencies have all but stopped work, says the BBC"s Peter Greste in Goma. Rebel leader General Laurent Nkunda"s forces are positioned some 15km (nine miles) from the city. See detailed map of the area The Congolese government has often promised to stop Hutu forces from using its territory, but has not done so. Gen Nkunda has also objected to government plans for foreign involvement in exploiting the country"s vast mineral wealth. The Congolese government has refused to negotiate with Gen Nkunda, calling him a terrorist. ‘Extremely unsafe" The UNHCR said it was very concerned at reports that the camps in Rutshuru, 90km (56 miles) north of Goma, had been destroyed. “There are some 50,000 people who were in those camps. We don"t know where they would be, we"re afraid that they may have just dispersed off into the bush, that they"re on the run out there somewhere," spokesman Ron Redmond said. Meanwhile, the desperate shortage of food and water in Goma is leading thousands of people who sought refuge there to leave, heading to the village of Kibati, about 12km (7 miles) to the north. The BBC"s Peter Greste says the road from the city is choked with human misery.
For mile after mile, it is full of families bent forward with their lives on their backs: stoves, food, clothes, bedding and children. “The whole population in Goma, and around Goma are feeling extremely unsafe," Red Cross spokesman Marcal Izard told the BBC. “They need food, water, shelter and, most of all, protection, [and] some sense of knowing that they will not be attacked." A Congolese aid worker based in Goma, Godefroid Marhenge, told the BBC"s Network Africa programme that some displaced people were without water or shelter, and “in desperate need of humanitarian assistance". Pakistan has become an international migraine: Albright Albright, who served President Bill Clinton in his second term of office, said Pakistan gives you “an international migraine" with its range of problems linked to nuclear weapons, corruption, poverty, extremism and a weak government. The former Secretary of State described nuclear-armed and poverty stricken Pakistan as one of the hot spots when she was asked on CNN to reflect on the challenges for the next President who will assume office in January 2009. “Pakistan. Pakistan has everything that gives you an international migraine," she underlined. “It has nuclear weapons, corruption, poverty, extremism, a terrible financial situation, a government that"s just come in that"s not very strong, and it is in a location that is absolutely essential in terms of dealing with Afghanistan. So the kind of Afghanistan-Pakistan part, and then the Iraq issues and the neighborhood there," Albright stressed as she reflected on the challenges for the next president. The former top US diplomat also highlighted the problems linked to nuclear proliferation in regard to North Korea and Iran. “I think we know what the really serious issues are. They have to do with nuclear proliferation, and Kim Jong-il and North Korea and whether those talks will really be carried out. What happens with Iran," Albright said in the interview. Exodus as terror spreads Gen Nkunda said on Thursday that he was opening a “humanitarian corridor" for people to return to their homes, and so that aid could reach those trapped between his forces and UN soldiers backing up government troops in the city. Our correspondent said that instead of an open corridor, he found people hurrying back to Goma. “Someone has been shooting at us," one breathless woman said. “We can"t go any further." But those who did reach Kibati told the BBC that they had more chance of getting food in the forests and bushes around the village than inside Goma. Aid group Mercy Corps has begun to distribute water to the new arrivals. Overstretched peacekeepers Gen Nkunda has threatened to take Goma unless UN peacekeepers guarantee the ceasefire and security there. Looting, killings and rapes were reported in the city on Thursday, much of it blamed on retreating Congolese troops. Meanwhile, intense diplomatic efforts are going in a bid to maintain the ceasefire: • The parliament in DR Congo has called on government to negotiate with Gen Nkunda, although President Joseph Kabila has previously refused to do so • UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he is “deeply concerned" about the situation • EU diplomats meeting in Brussels failed to agree on whether to send troops to back up UN peacekeepers. French FM Bernard Kouchner and his British counterpart, David Miliband, are preparing to travel to the country • An African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council is to hold crisis talks at AU headquarters in Addis Ababa http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7702099.stm Personal spending fell by 0.3% last month, despite a rise in incomes of 0.2%, official figures showed. The drop in expenditure was the biggest since June 2004, and steeper than economists had predicted. On Thursday, the Commerce Department issued figures s | |
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