Mission Moon with Rural Retail Chain

Palash Biswas
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September 28, 2007 1:17 AM

Now it is unilateral Honey Moon with darling condy as Indian Ministers woo the lady most powerful in this galaxy. She is the mind behind the setup in Oval House run new galaxy Order. Iran may proclaim that they have no Homosexual , Who else can? Honeymoon politics in India with Marxist flavour has become neo liberal Live Together for Free Sex and breaking the old gold institution of Marraige. It is well suited to this scenerio of social disorganisation and national disorganisation! West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today said an estimated Rs 90,000 crore would be invested in the state's industrial sector to meet the unemployment problem.

Once the US finalises the civil nuclear deal with India, it will help one of the world's fastest growing economies to meet the aspirations of its people by launching a second green revolution, American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday.

India is launching its lunar mission 'Chandrayaan-I' next year and is expected to announce Chandrayaan-II soon after.India's rural retail market is expected to grow by 29 percent to 1.8 trillion rupees by 2010 helped by rising incomes and changing consumption patterns, an industry body report said. Determined to continue their efforts for reforms in the United Nations, India, Brazil and South Africa have called for "immediate, element-based and result-oriented" inter-governmental negotiations for the expansion of Security Council.Buoyed by surging bilateral trade, China and India have made progress in joint research on the feasibility of initiating a regional trade arrangement (RTA), China's Ministry of Commerce announced here today.Reliance Industries, India's biggest private company, announced it will sack 1,000 workers and put on hold plans to open supermarkets in the north and east of the country after mounting protests from small traders.The move came after officials in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, shut 10 Reliance Fresh supermarkets in the face of protests. Such moves, say analysts, highlight the difficulty in modernising the country's economy.Many state governments are unwilling to support western-style supermarkets, fearing a backlash from small shopkeepers, who say they will lose their jobs if large companies end up controlling the retail business. Large companies account for only 5% of India's £180bn retail market, which it is estimated will expand more than 55% in the next four years.

Meanwhile,Israel is lobbying nuclear exporting countries to lift restrictions that prevent them from doing business with the Jewish state, according to documents made available Tuesday to The Associated Press, in a move that could concern Arab nations which already considers their neighbour as the region's atomic arms threat. The initiative appeared to be linked to the Indo-US deal that would effectively waive NSG rules by allowing the United States to supply India with nuclear fuel despite its refusal both to sign the nonproliferation treaty and to allow the IAEA to inspect all of its nuclear facilities. Israeli officials began examining how their country could profit from the Indo-US deal as early as in 2006, at one point proposing that the US help them cut a deal with NSG countries, said a diplomat. But the US turned down that request, he said, demanding anonymity for discussing restricted information.

Faster chemical weathering of Himalayan rocks has been contributing to global cooling in the region, with its river basins rapidly absorbing emissions of the noxious green house gas such as carbon dioxide, says a study. On the other hand,India cannot compromise on economic growth but it was equally determined not to let its greenhouse gas emissions increase beyond those of industrialised nations, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in Wasington Thursday.

Iran warned India that it would sign a multi-billion dollar gas pipeline deal with Pakistan alone if New Dehli did not swiftly agree terms on transit pricing with Islamabad. Iranian and Pakistani officials are holding a new round of talks this week over finalising the long-delayed pipeline, which would see Iranian gas sent to Pakistan and to India via Pakistan.

But Indian officials have been absent from the talks over the so-called "peace pipeline" as New Delhi and Islamabad have yet to agree over the payment of transit fees by India to Pakistan.

"We prefer it to be a tripartite deal, but if it does not happen we will sign it with the Pakistanis," caretaker Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari told reporters.

But he repeated that the door is not totally closed for the Indian side.Sunil Bharti Mittal is not shy about ambition.Mr. Mittal, the 49-year-old chairman of Bharti Enterprises, one of India’s most powerful conglomerates. New York Times comments.In August, Mr. Mittal signed a deal to bring Wal-Mart to India as a wholesale operation. Neither party has disclosed the financial details, but if their venture succeeds, it will create India’s first modern wholesale distribution system. Refrigeration will be essential to that, Mr. Mittal said recently in an interview. "The cold chain — the trucking, the storage — will all ensure that the whole nation gains," he said. India "can become a food supplier to the rest of the world." In spite of such sweeping certainty, or perhaps because of it, Mr. Mittal has become a figurehead of Indian capitalism. He leads the welcome wagon when foreign politicians and business executives visit, and he encourages them to invest. And this week, he headed up a business delegation to the United States, ostensibly to celebrate 60 years of Indian independence, but also to sell India as a destination for foreign business and capital.

In Philadelphia, feels Finance Minister P Chidambaram It would be an epic waste if India lets go off the opportunities, including the end to nuclear isolation, thrown open by the civil nuclear deal with the US . Speaking on the nuclear entanglement, he told students at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania here that he believed India should go ahead and complete the rest of the steps for implementing the 123 agreement. It is fundamental that India gets access to fuel, which along with the ability to run the 22 nuclear reactors in full capacity, would give it new technology. Besides, the country has to come out of nuclear isolation, the Finance Minister said. India was placed under international sanctions after the 1974 nuclear test and the isolation became complete after the 1998 tests. But the civil nuclear deal will end this segregation even without India signing the NPT. "This is because of our impeccable record in non-proliferation," Chidambaram noted. The deal aims to give India access to American nuclear fuel and equipment to help meet its soaring energy needs, but the government's key Left allies are fiercely against it, contending that it would compromise the country's sovereignty. Earlier when asked about the pros and cons of the deal, Chidambaram said jokingly: "If you want the pros, I can tell you. But if you want the cons, you should invite Prakash Karat."

Former President A P J Abdul Kalam today mooted creation of a World Space Council to prevent conflicts in outer space. Such a council with the involvement of all countries was required to prevent possible conflicts over space assets, he said. Kalam, a missile scientist, made the proposal in reply to a question during an interaction with school students at the on-going 58th International Astronautical Congress in Hyderabad. Asked why he did not accept Presidency again despite demands from several quarters, he said "You know, you are simply a fantastic girl (the questioner). Before becoming President, I was involved in teaching. I worked in the political system for five years. The job is over. Now I have come back to teaching and research."

As differences between Left parties and the UPA over the Indo-US nuclear deal seems irreconcilable, the outside supporters have planned meetings of their decision-making bodies over the weekend to review the prevailing political situation. While the CPI(M) is holding a day-long meeting of its Politburo tomorrow followed by a three-day session of the Central Committee in Kolkata, the Forward Bloc Central Secretariat is meeting here on Saturday. The CPI has already convened unscheduled meetings of its National Executive and Council meeting in October-end. The Left build-up comes ahead of the October 5 meet of the Left-UPA panel on the Indo-US nuclear agreement, with a top CPI leader warning that the government cannot have the Left parties on board if it wanted to clinch the deal.

Meanwhile,Rahul Gandhi had a brainstorming session with senior party leaders on Thursday on the future challenges before the Congress at a time when the talk of mid-term polls is gaining momentum.

In the backdrop of the Indo-US nuclear deal facing stiff opposition from Left parties, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee met US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to review bilateral issues.Meanwhile, India will develop its own technology to launch an astronaut into space rather than rely on outside support, the head of the country's space agency said on Thursday. India and Russia held discussions here on possibility of cooperation in space exploration, including missions to the moon and Mars. General Anatoly Perminov, Head of the Federal Space Agency, Russia met Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G Madhavan Nair on the sidelines of the 58th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Hyderabad.Under the Indo-Russia joint project CORONAS-PHOTON, the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research will supply a low-energy gamma-ray telescope for a Russian spacecraft that will be launched before mid-2008 to study solar physics. Discussions were also held to explore the possibility of India launching the Russian GLONASS-M satellites from its GSLV platforms and join Russia in developing the next generation GLONASS-K satellites for the Russian global navigation system.

Britain will champion the cause of India being given a permanent seat in an expanded United Nations Security Council, Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, has said.

Meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session, the two discussed ''a gamut of items of cooperation'' and international issues of concern, a release issued by the Indian Permanent Mission here said.

However, the release did not say whether the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal came up for discussion.

The US administration has been saying that the 123 agreement to operationalise the deal must be completed in the life of the present US Congress.

The deal, which aims to give India access to American nuclear fuel and equipment to help meet its soaring energy needs, has to be approved by the US Congress, the IAEA and the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).

The Supreme Court Thursday barred the Karnataka government from changing the firm executing the state's ambitious Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Project (BMICP). The crisis in the Karnataka government deepened Thursday with the ruling Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) stating that the situation was not conducive to transferring power to its partner Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Oct 3. The transfer of power between Janata Dal (Secular) and BJP in Karnataka seems to have run into rough weather with JD(S) president and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda returning to Bangalore without meeting the BJP leadership.

Amid a premature speculation for mid-term poll, the CPI(M) Polit Bureau will sit for a crucial meeting here tomorrow to take a final stand on the Congress-led UPA Government over the contentious issue of Indo-US civil nuclear deal. Even as his comrades warn about the dangers from "US imperialism", West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharaya is wooing American investment for his communist-ruled state. Buddhadev Bhattacharjee today said the government has moral responsibility to build group theatre movement.

After the tough experience in Singur and Nandigram over acquisition of land for industry, the West Bengal government has mooted a policy for giving a comprehensive compensation package to marginal farmers for giving away their agricultural land, Industry Minister Nirupam Sen has said.

senior official of Posco, which has been facing troubles in acquiring land for its mega steel plant in Orissa, today described West Bengal as "suitable" for investors as the ruling Left Front knew how to implement projects and attract investments.

This was stated by Posco Research Institute's Director Chang-ho Kwang here at a seminar on 'Emerging Steel Scenario in India -- Focus Orissa'.

Posco proposed to set up a 12 million tons a year greenfield steel plant near Paradip in Orissa at an investment of Rs 52,000 crore, but has not been unable to acquire land despite signing an MoU with the Orissa Government in 2005.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has reviewed the preparations for the forthcoming `Global Investors Meet`, scheduled to be held at Indore on October 26-27. A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court has sentenced a senior official of the Madhya Pradesh government to two and a half years rigorous imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs.5,000 over taking bribes for selection to government jobs.

Despite the Centre sanctioning a hefty relief for Maharashtra in view of the agricultural crisis resulting in farmers' suicides, the rural labourers in the state have not got the required succour even from National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP), designed to provide them minimum employment of 100 days a year.

To encourage IT majors to set up IT parks in tier II towns in Tamil Nadu, the state Cabinet has decided to make available land to IT majors, even as it is all set to unveil a new Industrial Policy next week.