Indianism is nothing but (sic) Secular Bharat. Before that we had British Bharat, Islamic Bharat (Hindustan), Buddhist Bharat etc.,Acharya wrote:Indianism”. is a fake word.
Billionaire Kumar Birla Named In India's Coalgate Scandalndustrialist Kumar Birla who controls the $40 billion-in-revenues Aditya Birla Group, a commodities conglomerate, was named Tuesday by India’s Central Bureau of Investigation, along with his company Hindalco and a former bureaucrat, for alleged involvement in the country’s ‘Coalgate’, a case involving the improper allocation of coal mines. According to television news reports, the CBI is conducting a search covering several Birla offices in the country.
The CBI’s report, accuses Birla and others of criminal conspiracy citing a case that goes back to 2005, of a coal mine allocated to Hindalco in eastern India’s Orissa state. As the news broke, shares of key Birla companies fell, including Hindalco, an aluminium maker, which lost 5% before recovering. The group denies any allegation of wrongdoing. Birla is the second big gun to be reeled into this scandal which broke last year when a federal auditor disclosed that valuable coal acreages were allocated without auction resulting in windfall gains to the firms that secured them. Naveen Jindal, member of the billionaire Jindal clan and a Congress Party politician, was charged by the CBI last year for alleged kickbacks paid by him to a former coal minister in exchange for being granted mining rights for coal.Jindal, who was questioned by the CBI last month as part of the ongoing investigation, has seen shares of his Jindal Steel & Power Jindal Steel & Power plunge since the scandal broke. In August, the government had admitted that certain files relating to the coal scandal had gone missing. India’s Supreme Court had also criticized the CBI for the slow pace of the investigation.Birla who belongs to one of the first families in Indian business is a much respected name and considered a flag bearer of corporate governance. His recommendations on corporate governance became the standard adopted by the stock market regulator some years ago. He recently stepped down from the board of the Reserve Bank of India Bank of India after his company applied for a new banking licence to avoid any potential conflict of interest.Several big names in Indian business have got embroiled in the series of corruption scandals that have come to light in the second term of the present Congress Party-led government. Said a Mumbai banker, “ This is more damaging to the image of corporate India than any flip-flop in government rules.
India's untapped potential in oil and gas sector
Since liberalizing its economy in the ‘90s, India has witnessed unprecedented levels of economic expansion. Driven primarily by demographic changes, rapid industrialization and a strong export-oriented services framework, the Indian gross domestic product grew more than 3.3 times from 2002 to 2012, second only to China’s.
As its economy flourished, India’s demand for energy has risen by more than 70 percent. And this trend is expected to continue in the next decade making India the third largest energy consumer globally by 2020. With the growth in automobiles, power and fertilizers, oil and gas as an energy source now represents more than 45 percent of the country’s total energy consumption.
However, this rapid surge in demand for hydrocarbons has not translated proportionately toward the growth of domestic exploration and production (E&P) in the oil and gas industry. A case-in-point is that of the 11th five-year plan period, for which India committed to produce 206.8 million tonnes (MT) of crude oil but the actual production was 176.9 MT, equating to an incremental import burden of over $20 billion for the period at today’s prices.
In the last decade, India has taken important steps toward ensuring energy security. For instance, the New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) was designed to attract new activity in oil and gas exploration, and the country agreed to allow 100 percent foreign direct investment (FDI) in the upstream sector. Despite this, an FDI investment of just over $2.5 billion was recorded in the E&P sector since 2005.
Ensuring long-term energy self-sufficiency appears to be a formidable task for India, given the magnitude of the country's energy needs, the complexity of technologies involved, the large investments required, and the obstacles in the political landscape to overcome.
Despite these challenges, India has large possibilities for growth in the oil and gas sector. Only half of the country’s potential basins have been explored, and large blocks offshore remain untested, especially in deep water. India’s total hydrocarbon reserves are estimated to be around 2 BMTOE (Billion Metric tonne of Oil Equivalent) (approximately 15 BBOE (Billion Barrels of Oil Equivalent)). With the current oil production level of around 815,000 barrels per day, on estimated reserves of 1.2 BMT (Billion Metric Tonne), the reserves-to-production ratio is 25 years. The potential for gas seems brighter; at the current production level of around 40 BCM (billion cubic meters) per year on an estimated reserves base of around 1,500 BCM, translating to a reserves-to-production ratio of more than 30 years. The nine rounds of NELPs have seen 247 blocks being awarded, but only 16 of those have been developed so far.
This presents great opportunities for companies across the oil and gas value chain to be involved in industry growth. New technologies and easier access to capital allows for increased activity, which may cater to requirements spanning upstream operations to downstream refineries.
GE is uniquely positioned as a key contributor toward the sustainable growth of the oil and gas industry in India. We continually partner with local companies to innovate and develop technology solutions to help businesses around the world.
Our company has an advanced technology and research center in Bangalore with approximately 5,000 researchers and engineers working on next-generation technologies. In keeping with GE’s commitment to local development, we are investing approximately $200 million in a multi-technology and multi-business manufacturing facility on a 60-acre plot in Pune.
Meeting India’s energy requirements is cornerstone in ensuring that the nation’s economic growth continues. It is imperative the government works toward energy self-sufficiency. In this regard there have been some positive moves in the form of NELPs, but the immediate need is an actionable operating philosophy and favorable framework of policies that can help accelerate the efforts for exploring and developing oil and gas, thereby ensuring energy self-sufficiency for the nation.
Sources:
Directorate General of Hydrocarbons, Hydrocarbon Exploration and production Activities Report, 2010
2011Basic Statistics on Indian Petroleum & natural Gas, 2010-2011 (Published by the MOPNG)
India Petro Indian Petroleum & natural Gas, 2010-2011 (Published by the MOPNG)
Oil & Gas, November 2011 Report, Published by www. IBEF.org
y Prabhu Chawla
Last Updated: 20th October 2013
The success of diplomacy is not measured in terms of the air miles showing on the odometer of official peregrinations. Nor is it determined by hours spent gabbing during salubrious breakfasts, lunches or dinners. Such ceremonial visits are like climbing trees that have no fruits to pluck. Manmohan Singh is perhaps the most travelled Indian PM since Rajiv Gandhi. According to estimates, he has flown over a million miles covering 50 countries since he was handed the keys to 7 Race Course Road. In the last nine years, he has spent every 10th day in some foreign city. Since wooing superpowers is his only global mission, over half the visits have been to the US, China, Japan, UK and Russia, with US leading the charts with 11 visits. As Manmohan prepares for his 36th sojourn abroad—possibly the last of his second tenure as PM—diplomacy-watchers have started assessing the real impact of his 80 visits over nine years. On the face of it, relations with neighbours have worsened. Both China and US are showing no concern for our security and economic woes. Even India’s most trusted ally, Russia, is suspicious of our growing proximity to the American establishment. Europe, which used to look up to our economist PM for guidance, is ignoring us.
From being the most successful and sought-after PM, Manmohan is no longer one of the movers and shakers of international affairs. Perhaps our only achievement appears to be a change in adjective to define today’s India —from a developing economy, the country is now an emerging economy struggling to acquire a wannabe superpower status. Manmohan’s India is confined to the margins of the playfield of high-powered diplomacy, which defines and determines fortunes of the world.
Even after a decade of extensive lobbying, Manmohan’s dream of India acquiring a permanent seat in the Security Council remains a mirage, despite doling out many economic concessions to those who count in New York. None of the beneficiaries of India’s economic liberalisation and munificence in terms on unrestricted access to Indian markets have gone beyond the written speeches they deliver at formal dinners, expressing sympathy for India’s claim for a permanent place at the UN high table. In spite of making over a dozen visits to the US, the PM has failed to force the American president to move an inch away from his empathy with Pakistan. Daily incursions and killing of jawans along the LoC does not bother any of the superpowers who continue to flirt with the democratically-elected but ISI controlled Pak premier, Nawaz Sharif. Ever since he assumed power, the number of border violations has risen enormously. He shows no regret. When Manmohan visits China and Russia this week, he will have to remind his hosts about the unfulfilled promises on border issues and civil nuclear cooperation. Russia is determined to rake up religious issues like the construction of a Russian orthodox church in Lutyen’s Delhi in exchange for letting a Krishna Temple function in Moscow. According to foreign policy experts, it is mandatory for every head of government to keep visiting friendly countries for the sake of visibility and impact. Since India has gargantuan stakes in the global economy, the PM and colleagues like the finance minister, commerce minister and external affairs minister keep making customary visits to numerous foreign capitals to revive dialogues and engage the hosts in building new relationships. But to succeed, objectives of economic and strategic diplomacy should be well defined. Going by our failed initiatives in the neighbourhood, it is clear that India hasn’t been able to hone the contours of its engagement with countries like Sri Lanka or even bantamweight Maldives, which was once considered India’s most trusted ally in the Indian Ocean. Last week, even a high-level visit to the island by the articulate Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh failed to yield results. She could not bring Maldivian warring factions around so that elections could take place again. In Bangladesh, PM Sheikh Hasina is jittery because South Block couldn’t consolidate her position at home by addressing her issues with India. India may have become a trillion-dollar economy, but is still not in a position to influence political kinetics of a tiny island. So much for the vast carbon footprint of our frequent-flier PM.
The perennial fight for turf between the IFS and IAS almost assumed confrontationist contours recently over the appointment of a chief of mission to ASEAN in Jakarta. The PM, during his visit to Indonesia, had announced that India would soon have a full-fledged mission headed by an ambassador to deal with growing economic relations between ASEAN countries. All other members have already posted diplomats in Jakarta. Before the PM made his decision public, a serious fight erupted between the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and Department of Economic Affairs (DEA). The DEA felt that the post should go to an IAS officer as they are the ones who have acquired expertise in handling international trade and economic issues. But MEA wouldn’t let the post go. Finally, the PM used his veto power and directed MEA to appoint a senior diplomat. Now the fun has begun in South Block as many diplomats are chasing newly created sinecures which perhaps may carry more powers and perks.
It is not for the first time that IAS and IFS have been locked in turf war for important posts abroad. Ever since India decided to open its markets and introduce economic reforms, the IAS lobby has been staking claim on any assignment which is remotely connected with economic and financial issues. Actually the fight began with the appointment of India’s Ambassador to World Trade Organisation. The IFS wanted one of its members to be chosen, but IAS won the battle. But IFS fraternity continued with its fight. An attempt was made by MEA during the NDA regime to snatch the coveted post from the IAS. PM Vajpayee succumbed to the pressure and appointed an IFS officer as India’s ambassador to WTO. But IAS clan struck back through then commerce minister Murasoli Maran who resigned in protest. Vajpayee reversed his decision and the post was restored to IAS by sending K M Chandrasekhar who later became Union Cabinet Secretary.
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SwamyG wrote:Modernity has failed to stop deviance
Many Indians think that modernity means fashionable clothes and western manners, urban habits and the English language. But it means far more. It is the intrusive ideology of the West. It even calls upon the Rest to give up its traditions as a precondition for economic growth.
The UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs told the underdeveloped countries in 1951 that “as the price for rapid economic development” “ancient philosophies have to be scrapped”; “old social institutions have to disintegrate”; “bonds of caste, creed and race have to burst” and “those unwilling for this price” should “remain underdeveloped”.
This theory, better known as ‘Western anthropological modernity’, mandated the Rest to become a carbon copy of the West. But things have drastically changed after 2008 and the West has now conceded that its model may not be as good for the Rest. But the psychological damage done to the Rest over hundred years cannot be easily undone. Modernity, which was marketed as a must for growth, has by now become a habit and fashion.
The modern West is constructed on the principle of methodological (read unbridled) individualism propounded by Max Weber who, along with Karl Marx, exerted the greatest influence on Indian academia. They reject the view that the individual is an integral part of the traditional family and society.Modernity asserts individuals’ rights over their duties to family and society. The superstructure of the modern economic theory – the rational man and efficient market – rests on this foundation. Karl Popper, a celebrated theoretician of this logic, found that there was nothing such as society. And Margaret Thatcher endorsed him. QED:modernity celebrates the individual, trivialises family and delegitimises society.Post Script: The US, at the dead end, now seems to be reviving the study of anthropology of law which traces traditional rules preventing deviance as an alternative to modern law which punishes deviance.
You do not need Bram Stoker, and blood being sucked from a woman’s neck with the pearly fangs of a Dracula, in an India replete with the leech-habits of some rascals who sell themselves as godmen. The devotees of such frauds run into millions. Their usurped land extends across thousands of acres. How stupid can Indians get?As it turns out, very stupid indeed. In the long and complicated story of herd madness, very little beats the frenetic search for a thousand tonnes of gold at a place called Daundia Khera in Uttar Pradesh because a certain Swami Shobhan Sarkar recently dreamt it was buried there more than 150 years ago by a Raja Ram Baksh. No one had heard of this raja until the swami’s dream turned him into a potential hero of a Bollywood film. But apparently this princeling buried this vast treasure before 1857 so that the victorious British would not be able to lay their hands on Indian gold.Don’t blame the masses for frothing at the mouth. Even the august mandarins from the Ministry of Culture and Archaeological Survey of India are licking their lips. And our very modern, computer-savvy Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has apparently sent an emissary to the venerable swami to check whether the man of god will permit the man of the people to use this gold for the state’s development. Of course, this magic gold, if ever found, will probably be used for the welfare of politicians in power rather than a populace in distress, but that is another story.Personally, I hope they find this gold, even though I am unlikely to get permission to even sniff at it, let alone be able to slip an ounce in a back pocket. Akhilesh Yadav might then be able to pay up for the computers he has bought to gift away, which is good news for multinationals. But silly questions keep wandering around in my vacant mind, and will not shift to better breeding space.
The pointy-heads of the government of India have explained that they are digging for this gold because they have “scientific evidence” of its existence. Interesting. This is not a rich seam of gold in the bowels of Mother Earth that we are talking about. This is gold stored in clay or iron pots, depending on the advice that the old Raja Ram Baksh got from his mandarins. How do you get scientific evidence about pots and pans? Did some clever laser beam actually see an underground glitter, and conclude that all that glitters is in fact gold? Gold, to the best of my limited knowledge, does not get musty or rot; so they probably did not smell its existence. Or would it be fair to suggest that a few babus in Delhi have been reading Treasure Island during their festival holidays?An early victim of insanity is common sense. How rich was Raja Ram Baksh? He was not the nawab of Awadh, or the peshwa of the Marathas, or raja of Benares or rani of Jhansi, or we might have heard a bit about him in our school textbooks.
He did exist, certainly. But if he was not in the big league, how did he amass a thousand tonnes of gold? Even the East India Company, the richest merchant of the age, could not claim possession of such a hoard. The Mughals of Delhi might have, but Nadir Shah emptied their vaults in 1739, and that alas was that. How do you bury so much gold at a time when the heaviest equipment for digging is a spade? With lots of labour, one presumes. All those peasants must be the most honest Indians of the last 200 years. India is a land of worst-kept secrets, not best-kept ones. It is a miracle that no one returned to the site in 1867 or 1877 or even 1887. And no one snitched to the British either.In any conflict between superstition and sense, superstition wins hands down in India. The baba had a dream, and no one dare argue with the mysteries of nightfall. Psychoanalysis, and its interpretation of dreams, would never have survived if Sigmund Freud had visited India.Is India a land where dreams come true? Judging by everything from poverty to the manner in which road hogs drive in Delhi, the answer is clearly no. But if the manufacture of dreams were ever added to the Gross Domestic Production, we would have a GDP that surpassed the rest of Asia combined. Make no mistake. Those in charge of this production line make a neat profit. It is only suckers who invest in such dreams who return empty.
This has been raised by me and few others on this very forum for at least 2-3 years.SwamyG wrote:Modernity has failed to stop deviance
Many Indians think that modernity means fashionable clothes and western manners, urban habits and the English language. But it means far more. It is the intrusive ideology of the West. It even calls upon the Rest to give up its traditions as a precondition for economic growth.
The UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs told the underdeveloped countries in 1951 that “as the price for rapid economic development” “ancient philosophies have to be scrapped”; “old social institutions have to disintegrate”; “bonds of caste, creed and race have to burst” and “those unwilling for this price” should “remain underdeveloped”.
This theory, better known as ‘Western anthropological modernity’, mandated the Rest to become a carbon copy of the West. But things have drastically changed after 2008 and the West has now conceded that its model may not be as good for the Rest. But the psychological damage done to the Rest over hundred years cannot be easily undone. Modernity, which was marketed as a must for growth, has by now become a habit and fashion.
The modern West is constructed on the principle of methodological (read unbridled) individualism propounded by Max Weber who, along with Karl Marx, exerted the greatest influence on Indian academia. They reject the view that the individual is an integral part of the traditional family and society.Modernity asserts individuals’ rights over their duties to family and society. The superstructure of the modern economic theory – the rational man and efficient market – rests on this foundation. Karl Popper, a celebrated theoretician of this logic, found that there was nothing such as society. And Margaret Thatcher endorsed him. QED:modernity celebrates the individual, trivialises family and delegitimises society.Post Script: The US, at the dead end, now seems to be reviving the study of anthropology of law which traces traditional rules preventing deviance as an alternative to modern law which punishes deviance.
Bangalore: Most Indians believe in the myth about the presence of racism only in foreign countries and see themselves as a victim of it. On researching about the social attitudes of Indians towards being racist, it was found that the country has the least tolerant population towards people from other nations and their ethnicity. Another racist country like India is Jordan, situated in the Middle East where there is racist manifestation.Even though the global survey says that India is a racist country, it might be slightly hard to believe as western countries are said to have racism issues with people of different skin tones. The study says that the United States, Britain, Canada and South America are among the least racist, reports Rediff.Interestingly, the survey claims that most racially intolerant populations exist in the developing world. According to the Washington Post, the data for the survey came from the World Value Survey, which calculated the social attitudes of people across countries. The survey asked individuals about the type of people that they would refuse to live next to. Racially intolerant respondents answered back saying ‘people of a different race’ which was counted as a major percentage for each country.
BANGALORE, India — IN India today, the rapes of women, from children to grandmothers, are daily news. Frothy television programs on sentimentalized family values are interrupted by advertisements for a new smartphone app: VithU, which allows women in danger, at a double press of a power button, to send an S O S alert with their location to predesignated friends and family members.Universities are debating requiring students to abandon jeans and adopt formal dress codes, as though the trappings of civilization are needed to hold at bay the anarchy of sexual violence. Twelve-year-old schoolgirls are attending rape awareness seminars, in a death of innocence.
Indian cities are awash with feral men, untethered from their distant villages, divorced from family and social structure, fighting poverty, exhausted, denied access to regular female companionship, adrift on powerful tides of alcohol and violent *****, newly exposed to the smart young women of the cities, with their glistening jobs and clothes and casual independence — and not able to respond to any of it in a safe, civilized manner. This is the world of women under siege, the medieval world of the walking undead, the rise of the zombies, targeting females rich and poor. For women, at least, winter is coming.
In this context, it might appear odd to examine any other variant of the Indian male. But it is important to do so and to do so now. To bear witness to an alternate male reality that also pervades India on a daily basis.
This is what I witnessed on a recent flight from Kolkata to Bangalore. The plane was typical of budget air travel: full of businessmen and mothers. The smart flight attendants were young men. The pilot, captain of the flight deck, was a woman. This is not an uncommon combination in India these days. I was struck instead by the behavior of the male passengers.In most countries, a woman clambering aboard a plane with a fretful infant and turning a crowded row of six into a de facto row of seven is usually met with hostility. Here, every other row seemed larded with these women and their babies. But those stuffy Indian businessmen — men of middle management, dodging bottles and diaper bags and carelessly flung toys — they didn’t grumble. Instead, up and down the plane, I saw them helping. Holding babies so that mothers could eat. Burping infants and entertaining toddlers. Not because they knew these women, but because being concerned and engaged was their normal mode of social behavior. So, I will say this — Indian men can also be among the kindest in the world.
Women know this. When I asked my friends and acquaintances — both Indian and expatriate — about their perceptions of Indian men, they mentioned intelligence, wit and a reverence for learning. Others described gregarious partners who knew how to relax and enjoy themselves. All of them talked about commitment and caring. One said, “I love that he is deeply concerned about his parents.” An Englishwoman said of her long-term Indian partner, “He makes me feel cherished and taken care of in a manner I never experienced in the U.K.” Another said of her father, “He supported my mother through their marriage, through her job, with the kids, her health, everything.” A 16-year-old schoolgirl echoed this: “You feel safe with them. No matter what, they will see you home safely.”
Strong familial commitment is not a phenomenon restricted to the urban middle classes. Migrant laborers care for wives and children, and still send money home to their parents. The young woman who was gang-raped on a New Delhi bus on Dec. 16 had a village-raised father who supported her ardently. This part of the story is so unsurprising, it rarely makes the news.Let me introduce the Common Indian Male, a category that deserves taxonomic recognition: committed, concerned, cautious; intellectually curious, linguistically witty; socially gregarious, endearingly awkward; quick to laugh, slow to anger. Frequently spotted in domestic circles, traveling in a family herd. He has been sighted in sari shops and handbag stores, engaged in debating his spouse’s selection with the sons and daughters who trail behind. There is, apparently, no domestic decision that is not worthy of his involvement.
There is a telling phrase that best captures the Indian man in a relationship — whether as lover, parent or friend: not “I love you” but “Main hoon na.” It translates to “I’m here for you” but is better explained as a hug of commitment — “Never fear, I’m here.” These are men for whom commitment is a joy, a duty and a deep moral anchor.At its excessive worst, this sensibility can produce annoyances: a sentimentalized addiction to Mummy; concern that becomes judgmental and stifling; and a proud or oversensitive emotional landscape.But when it is at its best, the results, in women’s lives, speak for themselves. If the image of the Indian female as victim is true, so, too, is its converse: the Indian woman who coexists as a strong survivor, as conqueror, as worshiped goddess made flesh. Indian women have served as prime minister and president. They head banks and large corporations. They are formidable politicians, religious heads, cultural icons, judges, athletes and even godmothers of Crime ( Political) Modern India has a muscular democracy and a growing economy, both of which have significantly transformed the lives of women. But female success, in a place like India with complicated social structures and a tradition of the Old Uncle Network, doesn’t happen in isolation. A successful woman is very likely to have had a supportive male in her life: a father, a spouse, a friend, a mentor.For his part, the Indian male, when nested in family and community, is part of a domestic tapestry that is intricately woven and vital, it seems, to his own sense of well-being. Take that away from him, hurl him away — and a possible result is a man unmoored, lost, adrift and, potentially, a danger to himself and to his world. Disconnection causes social disengagement and despair — and the behavior that is the product of alienation and despair.
Arun Shourie quotes Pankaj Mishra on how Chinese described Indians. "It is the only people in the world who doesn't mind losing territory."Surasena wrote:
Arun Shourie, India's most respected public intellectual, speaks on 'What will it take to face up to China?' at Manthan Samvaad 2013, at Hyderabad, India. Oct 2, 2013.
Dear Friends,
Read my article between lines and do accordingly.
1.There is an International Conspiracy going on to eliminate Narendra Modi,Baba Ramdev and Dr.Subramanian Swamy, physically from the face of the earth.
2.The SONIA-SINGH led CONGRESS+ UPA Government is hatching a heinous plan with Pakistani(Nawaz Shariff) establishment in India for a long time in which Jammu & Kashmir Government and IB chief,Syed Asif Ibrahim are in collusion.
3. Today 25 BSF posts in 4 different areas of Jammu & Kashmir have been under heavy shelling. The UPA knows it very well that they are going to loose the imminent Loksabha election,2014.So they are trying to create a mini war like situation with Pakistan which will postpone the election.The PM had called in all the three chiefs of Indian Defense.What is it for?
4.UPA is now trying to get some sort of credit which will enable it to garner more votes.
5. It is a GAME PLAN just like the Farmer's Loan Wave before the last election in 2009 but this time it has a far greater danger in terms of loss of life, properties and the consequences.
6.The current scenario is, our motherland,India is, now seized by an Italian mafia group,Maino Sonia-Raul Vincci Gandhi who are hell-bent on destroying Hindus from India.A puppet and a slave PM,Dr.Manmohan Singh who is politically and functionally totally impotent ,invertebrate and behaves like a walking dead body is just a paper-stamp of SONIA. On the top of it , a Muslim foreign minister,Salman Khurshid and a Christian Defense Minster, A.K.Antony and their loyal team ,are working in tandem with the Pakistani establishment inside India.
7.The present Army General Vikram Singh,one sikh ,relative of Dr.Manmohan Singh,who secured his post by displacing one patriotic Army General V.K.Singh,a committed Jat from Haryana,before his tenure.The present Army Chief is more engaged in fightng with his boss-predecessor instead of fighting with the Jihadsts in the proxy war across the border of Pakistan.The irony of fate is that the present Army Chief,Vikram Singh’s daughter-in-law happened to be a Pakistani Muslim lady,niece of Nawaz Shariff,PM of Pakistan.
8.To make the matter worse,a third rated Bollywood actor,Raj Babbar from UP,a controversial character in famous actress Smita Patil’s mysterious and untimely death,now has been appointed as the Chief of the Parliamentary Defense Committee.Raj Babbar is known to be a hard-core Hindu hater and Muslim-lover.He has especial relationship with notorius Azam Khan,MP of BSP and close aide of Akhilesh Yadav,CM of UP.
9.In this situation,what will be the morale of our security forces across the border?The Pakistani soldiers are beheading,mutilating and killing our brave Jawans with extreme cruelty and our PM is shaking hands with Nawaz Shariff.Our PM is making $2.1billion dollar defense deal
With Russia.Our PM is begging alms from American President, Obama,who is backing Pakistan to destabilize India.Dr.Manmohan Singh is hurriedly making final deal with Chinese Government,who is encroaching our motherland everyday and engaging Pakistan in a proxy war with India.
10.I see the above scenario and I am getting more and more convinced that the current border escalation is an International conspiracy involving America and Pakistan in collusion with SONIA-SINGH the nefarious duo.
Jai Hind! Vande Mataram!
Circulating on Twitter.JE Menon wrote:Jhujar, where did you get that from? Please provide the link where it says it is a CBSE text.
@MrsGandhi @AUThackeray this is what is written in CBSE books. Plz shareJE Menon wrote:Which twitter account, or some link please or some sort of online point where you saw that they claim it is a CBSE text...
The guruprasad.net link which harbans has posted does not say it is a CBSE text, but it refers to it as a "moral science textbook"...
Has other quotes in it....Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi seems to have got another feather in his cap. He is now rubbing shoulders with the likes of Mahatama Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru in what is said to be a Class 5 guidebook published by Rachna Sagar publishers.
Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/rahu ... 96215.html
KOLKATA/AHMEDABAD: Indian professionals are growing in stature for their global leadership quality, and the latest industry chasing them seems consumer electronics, a segment dominated by the Japanese, Koreans and Americans. From Pranav Mistry, who helped Samsung deliver a smart watch ahead of rival Apple, to Murali Sivaraman, who led Philips’ acquisitions in India and China, many Indians are taking their place in the headquarters of electronics multinationals.Even a conservative Japanese company like Panasonic has started training Indian managers to take up leadership roles in the Middle East and Africa, according to its India president Daizo Ito. Call it the growing importance of India for these companies — for instance, India is the fourth largest market for Sony — or the maturity of Indian talent, the country is emerging as a recruitment hub for the electronics industry, though the pace is not as fast as in the FMCG industry where tens of Indians don global hats.ET profiles four Indians who have risen to key roles in electronics MNCs.
Pranav Mistry Director of Research, Samsung Electronics
Pranav Mistry’s Gujarati-laced English may have gone viral in YouTube, but his Galaxy Gear smart watch launched last month has won rave reviews and is doing good business for the Korean fi rm. “New wearable technologies, be it Samsung Galaxy Gear or Google Glass, would make the world an exciting place,” says Mistry, 32, who hails from the small town of Palanpur in Gujarat.A computer scientist with master in media arts and sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and master of design from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Bombay, Mistry now heads Samsung Think Tank Team. He has also worked with Microsoft, Google and NASA. Today he works on augmented reality, display technologies, futuristic television, mobiles, and robotics for Samsung.Mistry tells ET he is looking for an evolution that exists beyond the digital world. “The idea is not about creating computing device. It is about connecting with the physical world,” he says. “I want to work on impactful projects. My projects could be on food or poverty (eradication through technology).”
Rajeev Chopra (from December) Global business head (consumer luminaries), Philips
Come December, Rajeev Chopra, MD of Philips India, will go to Brussels to take over as the global chief of the Dutch fi rm’s consumer luminaire business. An engineering graduate from IIT with an MBA from Tulane University at US, Chopra has transformed a rather unglamorous lighting products into a fashionable one in India, with Philips setting up more than 85 Light Lounges under a franchisee model for retailing of LED and fashionable light fixtures.Chopra believes India has emerged a ripe ground for global postings in the consumer electronics business. “Working in a market like India gives us the advantage of getting to know, learn, strategise and adapt for all kinds of economies — mature, growth and emerging,” he says. Chopra, however, has a big challenge ahead — the fi rm’s consumer luminaire business reported a low single-digit decline in sales last quarter with demand down in matured markets.
Murali Sivaraman Global CEO, Domestic Appliances Business, Koninklijke Philips NV
One of the first Indians to become global CEO in the consumer electronics business, Murali Sivaraman has been handling the largest consumer lifestyle business by sales of the Dutch major for over two years. He is based in Shanghai. , Sivaraman has led development of Philips’ newer appliances like a biryani maker, soup maker, noodle and pasta maker, and its acquisitions in India and China.
. Dipesh Shah Global VP (R&D), Samsung Electronics
The alumnus of Visvesvaraya Technological University and IIM-Bangalore today shuffl es between US, Korea and Bangalore on his projects. Shah is confi dent Indian engineers would move up in the consumer electronics fi eld due to inherent strengths. “Indians can adapt to the needs of the consumers and deliver more with less computing resources, which are critical assets,” he says. Shah is involved in globalisation of Indian technical talent at Samsung, ensuring Indian engineers work with the global team
Muslims conprise 48% Jail inmates in WBBy Zaidul Haque, TwoCircles.net,
Kolkata: According to a recently released report of 'Prisons Statistics - 2011' by the National Crime Bureau, the Muslim percentage of inmates in West Bengal is disproportionately high.
56.7% of convicts belong to Muslim community were lodged in four States namely Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
Besides Gujarat and Maharashtra, West Bengal is amongst those states with high numbers of Muslim prisoners or under trial.
In Gujarat Muslim population are 10%, but as per 'Prisons Statistics - 2011' Muslim prisoners under trials and convicts in jail are 22%. In Maharashtra Muslim population are 10%, but comprise of 34% prisoners.
In West Bengal Muslim population are 25%, but Muslim prisoners under trials and convicts in jail are 48%.
Total convicts in jail in West Bengal are 5660, as on December 31, 2011. Of this, Hindus are 2919, Muslim 2595, Sikh 6, Christian 126 and others are 15.
Under trials prisoners in West Bengal are 13567, of which 7017 are Hindu, 6174 Muslim, 17 Sikh, 319 Christian and others 40.
The number of Muslim under-trials has increased from 5,722 in 2010 to 6,174 in West Bengal.
A little known Indian company called Virtual World, a unit of Genesys International has launched a mapping service that allows users to virtually browse through Indian cities, a service that competes with Google Inc.
Genesys International chairman Sajid Malik.—Genesys InternationalThe service, WoNoBo.com, was built using the geographical information system and geospatial technology of Genesys International, which has about 2,000 employees working on complex mapping projects.Genesys International’s chairman Sajid Malik spoke to The Wall Street Journal about the new mapping service.
WSJ: What is the rationale behind building WoNoBo.com when global players like Google already provide such a service?
Mr. Malik: We feel that the ability to navigate your physical environment virtually is a very important part of the Internet. Right now if you go on the Internet, you search for textual things largely, and even images are a part of it, but searching for a city in a manner that you navigate the city in a physical form was something we wanted to build. And we wanted to make it intuitive because we as Indians have not grown with maps as a society.
WSJ: What’s different about WoNoBo.com compared with Google’s Street View, which allows users to pin places of interest?
Mr. Malik: Our software will help users search and find places better. We have images of 10 million places that we have added to our service, where individuals and businesses can post information about places and share it with other WoNoBo users as well as through social networks.It also offers guides, created by users as well as experts, showing locals where to eat, what to shop for, where to take your children while visiting and a lot more.
This is the first modern urban chronicle of India.
WSJ: What’s the target audience for WoNoBo.com?
Mr. Malik: Every Indian with an Internet connection is a potential audience for us. There are about 150 million people who access the Internet in India and this number is expected to grow exponentially in three-four years. The mapping service can also be used on mobile phones.WSJ: Tell us about your expansion plans.Mr. Malik: We have launched in 12 Indian cities and plan to launch in 54 cities by December. We do plan to take the service to other emerging markets in the neighboring Asia-Pacific region.
WSJ: Google has faced legal issues while collecting data in India. How do you source your data?Mr. Malik: We have collected images of places using vans that go around cities collecting images through a mounted camera. We also use images from satellites. We use a combination of our own and satellite images.
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's displeasure with Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif's on failing to restore ceasefire on the border followed a blunt message he delivered to Sharif in New York about a month ago when he said, "I have not become prime minister of India to redraw the boundary."
The PM's September 29 meeting with Sharif, which took place amid escalating firing on the Line of Control and the international border, began with Singh making no bones about his resolve to protect India's territorial integrity.
In fact, Singh's "Churchillian moment", reminiscent of the British leader's declaration in 1942 that he had not become the King's first minister to "preside over the liquidation of the British Empire", even surprised his senior aides as the PM brushed aside Sharif's arguments.
{BS. The writer is spouting a line about Churchillian moment fed by PMO bande!!! BTW the senior aides must be from IFS which thinks it represents foreigners in India}
Singh responded to Sharif's attempt to raise India's "role" in Baluchistan, saying the matter had been raised by previous Pakistani PMs as well without an iota of proof being offered. The firmness must have struck Sharif, considering that it was Singh who heeded Islamabad's insistence to put Pakistan's allegation of Indian meddling in Baluchistan on the bilateral agenda.
{Shows the writer's ignorance. MMS put it on the agenda for he knew it was US and Afghanistan that were there. And TSP never showed any proof as there was none. But it faked MBK type of warriors!}
Sources said Singh's unusually sharp words expressing his "big disappointment" with Sharif on Friday indicate his annoyance over the Pakistani PM not heeding an unambiguous signal that firing on the LoC and the border must stop.
On his way back from Beijing, Singh told the media, "Let me say that I am disappointed, because in the New York meeting, there was a general agreement on both the sides that peace and tranquility should be maintained on the border, on the Line of Control as well as on the international border and this has not happened."
In the New York meeting, Singh had also categorically rejected the Pakistani suggestion that restoration of the 2003 ceasefire agreement could be discussed by a politico-military committee, insisting the matter be sorted out at the military level.
The PM made it plain that Indian and Pakistani directors general of military operations must sort out the ceasefire violations and restore peace and tranquillity on the LoC and the international border.
Singh's insistence on the DGMO mechanism stemmed from India's view that Pakistan's civilian government could not be less accountable than the military. "The government in Pakistan is expected to implement the agreement arrived at in New York," said sources.
Singh's tough talk on Friday signals his waning patience as the political calendar in India begins to rapidly move towards the 2014 elections and Congress wards off the opposition charge of being soft on Pakistan's aggression on the borders.
Sources said the PM junked his moderate approach — even when being critical of Pakistan — as he felt nothing short of an unequivocal comment would work, given the rising tensions on the J&K border and LoC.
On Friday, the PM did express the hope that Sharif would "even at this late hour" recognize that the developments on the border do not augur well for both nations, but this time around he made it clear that the onus was on Pakistan to mend fences.
In the past, Singh has laboured hard to convince Pakistani leaders that combating terrorism and preventing hostile behaviour on the border was in Pakistan's interest. For him to give vent to his frustration would mean that he feels the scope for a middle ground with Pakistan is shrinking.
The episode and subsequent lack of action on the part of Pakistan has strengthened the assessment in India that Sharif remains a somewhat tricky customer who might say one thing at a meeting only to go ahead to do just what he wants.
{I called him Badmash long ago}
The Pakistani PM is seen as neither willing nor capable of reining in the army, but the Indian government — at least in the current situation — has decided that it cannot continue to receive political flak at home without holding Sharif to account.
On page 11, there's an arrow missing going from West to Khalistanis!ramana wrote:Kaushal's new improved slides on Indian Elite:
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