Would it make any difference to the predestined lot of this divided Indian Geopolitics of graded inequality, inherent injustice and brahminical Hegemony?
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 7:16 AM
Would it make any difference to the predestined lot of this divided Indian Geopolitics of graded inequality, inherent injustice and brahminical Hegemony? Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Prithviraj Chavan has urged the space-faring nations to promote an ethical, legal framework for the use of space and to prevent it from becoming "a future war zone.
Is he serious enough or just expressing another dimention of ongoing Parlimentary Soap Opera exposing too much skin without any sensivity or sense altogether? Does it mean anything while the ruling comradors have opened every door and window to welcome Imperialist to have a kill!New milestones for benchmark stock indices are in sight after domestic stocks soared for the fifth straight session today on strong inflows by foreign investments.He may not have read ‘In Search of Excellence’ by Tom Peters, but MS Dhoni has scripted a success story as the team leader in Twenty20 World Cup that could serve as a lesson for business leaders.Hearts kept pounding and blood pressure kept soaring until Sreesanth took the catch off Joginder to see the back of Misbah and thereby send the thousands of viewers into raptures!

Would this really make any difference to the detorioting general health of Indian Polity ,devoid of freedom and sovereignity?Next time you go to the hospital for a routine check up, you may get examined for HIV too. Private hospitals have started out examining all patients for HIV/AIDS, without seeking their permission or providing them guidance. Who is going to pay the towering Bills? A generation of children is at risk of fatty liver disease because they eat too many starchy foods, new research suggests. Rapidly digested carbohydrates found in foods from white bread and potatoes to instant oatmeal cause fat to accumulate in the ...

The fact that more than 80 Heads of State and Government would come together at Monday’s high-level event on climate change in New York was a sign of the growing consensus on the need for the international community to act on climate change, ... Should we feel some relief that perhaps the Post Modern Manusmrirti Galaxy Order has dropped the idea to colonise this Earth, the planet and at last Man as well as Nature would be spared? See, for whom the Bells toll!Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology A. Raja (right) along with MTNL Chiarman and Managing Director RSP Sinha, launching the ’Nova NetPC’ in New Delhi on Monday. Contrarily to Eviction and Killing Rural India International MNC drive,Indian Commerce and industry minister Kamal Nath barks in New York, the government will ensure there are no job losses in the retail sector even as he sought to place the retail FDI issue in the context of the big retail-versus-small retail controversy! The new Avtar of God ram speaks on and we have to believe! So? European space agency has released the images of displaying the legendary Northwest Passage. Arctic ice has shrunk to the lowest level in last 30 years since the satellite imaging was started.
India went the whole hog seeking investments from Americans as well Indian-Americans, as it launched a four-day programme to promote India as a brand and a credible destination for parking funds. While the country's capacity to consume 475 billion dollars in infrastructure development over the next five years has been well articulated, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath highlighted the investment opportunities at separate events as part of the Incredible India@60 week. "New York was not chosen by accident for organising this event. It was a deliberate choice. It is the heart of the US and melting pot of diverse cultures," Mukherjee said, launching the four-day event, which he dubbed as an outstanding endeavour to highlight opportunities for trade, investment and tourism.

All future Indian nuclear plants under civilian domain could be placed under the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) safeguard mechanism that could be on par with the mechanism for the five declared nuclear powers.

Without creating a separate India specific safeguards, IAEA sources indicated that in all probability, all the future Indian nuclear plants under civilian domain could be placed under the agency's safeguards system of 1965, as provisionally extended in 1966 and 1968.

That means, India can benefit the safeguard mechanisms (campaign safeguards) which are reactor specific and utility specific and would be closer to the five nuclear weapon (P-5) countries and not as a non-weapon state (country), the sources told a news agency.

This could be essentially on the same lines as that of safeguard arrangement made between India and IAEA for two units of Tarapur atomic power plants set up in 1969 (by General Electric, US) and two units Rajasthan (from Canada) in 1971.

Monarchy or no monarchy? Abolition or retention? , one of the contentious issue among the parties in Nepal came to the surface and Maoists just decided to quit the Government pushing the country to another phase of uncertainty. With Nawaz Sharif’s deportation and the announcement of Benazir Bhutto’s return without a power-sharing deal with the government, the political scenario in Pakistan seems to be changed ahead of the general elections to set ....

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended his nation's record on human rights on Monday as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the UN and Columbia University to protest appearances by the hard-line leader.Human rights activists inside and outside Iran have decried a recent wave of arrests of people calling for political and legal reforms of the Iranian theocratic system.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a television interview to the CBS programme made it clear that Iran doesn’t need nuclear weapons and his country is not heading towards a war with United States. Just before leaving for United Nations General ....

''People in Iran are very joyous, happy people,'' he told a National Press Club audience that questioned him about the arrests of students, journalists and women. ''They're very free in expressing what they think.''He said women in Iran were ''the freest women in the world. They're active in every level of society.''

ALKA S PANDE reports for Expressindia.com:
Both Meerut and Lucknow cities have roads named after Major General Sir Henry Havelock, who, in England, is considered a hero of 1857 British-India war. But 150 years after his death, when his great great grandson Sir Mark Allen Havelock plans a visit to offer homage at his ancestor’s grave, both cities will welcome him and his peers with brickbats.
Three days ago, in Meerut, Havelock and his companions were not allowed to offer a plaque at St John’s Church.

The reason? The plaque read: "To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the bravery and distinguished service of the First Battalion, the 60th King’s Royal Rifle Corps..."

The citation confused people. Soon, rumours spread that the British were celebrating "Vijay Diwas" and demonstrations were held. In Agra, where the British group had gone only to get a glimpse of the Taj, demonstrations were held again. The gates of hotel Hilton, where they were staying, had to be locked for their safety.

Amid a flurry of high-level bilateral contacts and positive remarks, the Special Representatives of India and China on Monday kicked off a crucial round of boundary negotiations in Beijing, raising hopes for further progress in resolving the vexed issue.National Security Adviser M K Narayanan, who is India's Special Representative, arrived in Beijing on Monday afternoon and soon after met with his Chinese counterpart, Dai Bingguo, also the Chinese Vice Foreign Minister for informal talks, sources said.The 11th round of boundary negotiations will be held from Tuesday and will last till Wednesday. The latest round of in-camera boundary negotiations are taking place ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's planned visit to China later this year.The last round was held in India in April.
On the other hand,Taiwan and China are gearing up for another season of escalating tensions that many, including Chinese President Hu Jintao, are calling a "high-risk period" for cross-strait relations. Taipei's announcement Friday that the Olympic torch will not pass through Taiwan was one of the first major embarrassments for Beijing as it gears up for next August's Olympics.
Meanwhile, the island-nation's ruling party is pushing to join the United Nations under the name "Taiwan" – a bid the UN General Assembly rejected last Wednesday. But Taiwan plans to force the issue by holding a referendum that appears planned to help the party drum up nationalistic sentiment ahead of a presidential election next March. The US government, keen to avoid a conflict, has taken an unusually strong public stance against the vote, which officials see as a foolish provocation.

Taiwan's UN referendum may be timed for maximum political effect. But it's tapped a powerful current of Taiwanese national pride whose implications extend far beyond the next election. Beijing fears that nationalistic trend, and Washington has little sympathy for it, but in the coming years, both may well have to come to terms with it to avoid confrontation.

China sees the referendum as a step toward formal independence, which it's threatened to prevent by military force if necessary. The US, which has pledged to help defend Taiwan against Chinese aggression, wants to nip any cross-strait spat in the bud. But the island's ruling party looks set to press ahead with the referendum in order to fire up supporters before they go to the polls in March.

From YANGON, Reuters reports:
Tens of thousands of people joined streams of Buddhist monks on marches through Myanmar's capital on Monday in the biggest demonstration against the ruling generals since they crushed student-led protests nearly 20 years ago.In the northwest coastal town of Sittwe, residents said it seemed entire population of more than 100,000 people was marching with the monks.Protests were also held in Mandalay, where 10,000 monks and people took to the streets, and in Bago, just north of Yangon.

"I'm very excited and frankly I'm worried too," a teacher said as she watched the massed opposition to 45 years of army rule that has impoverished the nation of 53 million people.

"I've never seen such a big crowd in my life. The whole town came out," one said.

In Yangon, five columns of maroon-robed monks, one stretching more than a kilometre (nearly a mile), marched from the Shwedagon Pagoda, the devoutly Buddhist country's holiest shrine, to the city centre where thousands of people filled five blocks.

"People locked arms around the monks. They were clapping and cheering," a witness said on the sixth day of marches by monks, some of them carrying placards calling for "Better Living Conditions" and the "Release of Political Prisoners".

Another banner said: "May The Peoples' Desire Be Fulfilled".

After holding prayers at the Sule Pagoda in the main business district, a crowd estimated at up to 100,000 marched to another pagoda and dispersed peacefully.

For the first time, the marchers included members of parliament elected in 1990 from the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) two days after a dramatic appearance of support for the monks by detained NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

''Undeniably there are some outstanding issues between China and India but we have established guiding political principles to seek solutions to these issues,'' Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said recently.

''I believe that as long as the two sides demonstrate sincerity and patience and uphold the principles of mutual respect, mutual benefit and mutual understanding, we are bound to find solutions to this issue. Both China and India value universal love and harmony,'' he added.

However Chinese experts are not very optimistic that an early solution could be found to the protracted boundary issue that has marred the normal development of Sino-Indian relations.

BJP is not alone in opposing the entry of the British to Lucknow but even Muslim organisations and clerics have joined them by warning the government not to allow the British enter the capital. Humming the same tune as that of BJP they also demanded that state government should ban their entry in the state capital, Lucknow.

This is to be known that a group of retired British soldiers and civilians including the descendants of the soldiers who took part in the battle are on a visit to the trail of sites where British Army suppressed the rebellion.

All India Muslim Morcha (AIMM) has warned of repeating the history in the sense that it would lay siege to the residency, a protected historical monument now, where bloody battle was fought between the freedom fighters of 1857 revolt and the British soldiers of the (QRR) Queen’s Rifle Regiment.

Muslim clerics said that holding of any function to celebrate the victory of British soldiers would be a humiliation to those who sacrificed their life for the freedom of the country. Wonderful thing was that they echoed the same sentiments as Hindu nationalist party BJP.

BJP also warned that it will hold demonstrations against the visit of the British at residency. Party has also decided to mark Monday as ‘Shaurya Diwas’ to show their respect for the Indian soldiers.

Lalji Tondon, a senior BJP leader said that their party will not allow the group of the British at any rate as they are the family members of the killers of our freedom-fighters.

Respecting the sentiments of the people even state government has said that no function to celebrate the British victory in 1857 Sepoy Mutiny would be allowed to be held but at the same time state government expressed no objection on their paying homage to their forefathers.

Principal Home secretary, J N Chamber rejecting the demand of ban on the entry of the Britons said, "There is no problem if someone wants to pay homage to his forefathers in a peaceful manner but we shall not allow any celebrations."