Monday 28 January 2013

NSS VS MUSLIM LEAGUE

എങ്ങനെ വാര്‍ത്ത വരണം? ഞാന്‍ എഴുതി തരാം 

ഞങ്ങള്‍ പന്ത്രണ്ട് പേര്‍ ചേര്‍ന്നാലും വാര്‍ത്ത വരും 

ഫോട്ടോയും വീഡിയോയും നന്നായി എടുത്തോണേ 

ഞങ്ങള്‍ ചാനലുകാരല്ലേ വാര്‍ത്ത ഉണ്ടാക്കുന്നത്‌. 12 പേരെ ഞങ്ങള്‍ 1200 ആയി കാണിക്കുംഇത് ഭാരത ദര്‍ശന്‍ അഥവാ ഇന്ത്യാ വിഷന്‍


യൂത്ത് കോണ്ഗ്രസ് പ്രവര്‍ത്തകര്‍ 12 പേര്‍  സുകുമാരന്‍ നായരുടെ (NSS)കോലം കത്തിക്കാന്‍ ആലുവ റയില്‍വേ സ്റ്റേഷന്  മുന്നില്‍ ഒത്തുകൂടിയപ്പോള്‍ 

Sunday 11 November 2012

2012 NOV12


Anna threatens fast again, will keep IAC name

FP

A day after he announced his new team, Anna Hazare today threatened to go on a fast again if the Jan Lokpal Bill is not passed before the 2014 parliamentary elections. After his last fast in August, Hazare had said that he would not embark on another hunger strike again.
Inaugurating his new office in the capital today, Hazare said: “I am ready to break that pledge (of not fasting again) in case the Jan Lokpal Bill is not passed by the government before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections... This time, I may fast at Ramlila Maidan.”
Meanwhile, Arvind Kejriwal said today that his group will not use India Against Corruption (IAC) as its name after the formation of his political party on November 26. “Anna is too dear to us. I have deepest respect for him. After launch of our party on November 26, we will not use IAC name,” Kejriwal tweeted.
Earlier in the day, stating that he considers Hazare his “guru”, Kejriwal said: “If he asks me to stop using the IAC’s name, I won’t use it.”
Hazare, on his part, urged volunteers not to indulge in a fight with Team Kejriwal, even as he announced the decision to open a bank account in the name of IAC with Sunita Godara, Kiran Bedi and Lt Col Brijender Khokhar as signatories.
“Yes, our team has spilt. But I believe both the paths are necessary. We thought that politics is not our way. We will not be enemies. A volunteer can choose his path. They should be clear in their mind. It should not be that they change minds frequently,” he said.

Stranded ship tugged away 

 

The grounded oil tanker MT Pratibha Cauvery being towed away on Sunday after it ran aground off Chennai under the fury of cyclone Nilam on October 31. Photo: R. Shivaji Rao
The Hindu The grounded oil tanker MT Pratibha Cauvery being towed away on Sunday after it ran aground off Chennai under the fury of cyclone Nilam on October 31. Photo: R. Shivaji Rao
Salvage team says de-ballasting 7,000 tonnes of water helped turn the vessel
After being the star attraction for beach crowds at Nochikuppam over the last 11 days, the stranded vessel, MT Pratibha Cauvery, was on Sunday tugged away amid applause and cheers from a large gathering of onlookers.
Though tow vessel Malaviya 21 arrived here on November 5 to salvage the vessel after it ran aground under the fury of Cyclone Nilam two weeks ago, tugging operations could commence only on November 8.
In its maiden attempt, the tow boat from Kakinada was able to turn the stranded vessel by six degrees. But the operations had to be called off when the tow rope snapped. The salvage team was not able to make much headway in the subsequent attempts till Friday evening.
Authorities then decided to de-ballast 7,000 tonnes of water from the ship, using several electrical submersible pumps to make it lighter. The de-ballasting was completed by Saturday evening and it helped tilt the vessel by 10 degrees towards the east. While the posterior of the ship, including the propeller set was under water, the front portion was in the air. To balance the vessel, 1,000 tonnes of water was pumped into the front portion.
It was at 6.30 p.m. the ship was successfully salvaged by the private firm on its seventh attempt and hauled away. Representatives of the salvage team said de-ballasting nearly 7,000 tonnes of water helped turn the vessel. The vessel would be taken to the outer anchorage of the Chennai Port Trust and kept there for the next few days.
Union Shipping Minister G.K. Vasan was among those who monitored the operations during the day.

In this March 2, 2010 photo, BBC's then Director-General Mark Thompson speaks to the media outside Television Centre in west London. The New York Times Co. on Tuesday named Thompson as its president and CEO.
AP In this March 2, 2010 photo, BBC's then Director-General Mark Thompson speaks to the media outside Television Centre in west London. The New York Times Co. on Tuesday named Thompson as its president and CEO

The New York Times Company has roped-in outgoing BBC head Mark Thompson as its next president and chief executive, saying his experience in digital media on a global scale made him the “ideal candidate”.
Mr. Thompson, the outgoing director-general of the BBC, will join the company in November. In addition to his executive roles, he will also sit on the board.
Mr. Thompson’s appointment was announced by Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the chairman of the Times Company and the newspaper’s publisher on Tuesday.
The 55-year-old Mr. Thompson will join the company at a time when it faced challenges posed by changing reader habits and a shifting advertising market. Last month, it reported a net loss of $88 million for the second quarter of 2012.
“Mark is a gifted executive with strong credentials whose leadership at the BBC helped it to extend its trusted brand identity into new digital products and services,” Mr. Sulzberger said in a statement.
“Our board concluded that Mark’s experience and his accomplishments at the BBC made him the ideal candidate to lead the Times Company at this moment in time when we are highly focused on growing our business through digital and global expansion,” he said.
The Times has been without a chief executive since Janet Robinson left in December 2011. Since then, Mr. Sulzberger has said the company was looking for a candidate with experience in the digital world and across multiple platforms, The New York Times reported.
“The New York Times is one of the world’s greatest news providers and a media brand of immense future potential both in the U.S. and around the world. It is a real privilege to be asked to join the Times Company as it embarks on the next chapter in its history,” Mr. Thompson said.
“I’m particularly excited to be coming to The New York Times Company as it extends its influence digitally and globally,” he said.
Mr. Thompson started his career as a production trainee at the BBC in 1979 before leaving in 2002 to become chief executive of Channel 4 television.
At the beginning of July the BBC announced that George Entwistle would replace Mr. Thompson as director general on September 17, 2012.

Thursday 8 November 2012

2012 NOV 9

 

Tamil Nadu to blame for power crisis, Centre tells SC

 
Tamil Nadu is reeling under sever power crisis.
The Hindu Tamil Nadu is reeling under sever power crisis.
The Centre on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that Tamil Nadu has to be blamed for the power crisis it is facing as it had not strengthened the grid for receiving surplus power.
Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati, appearing for the Centre told a three-Judge Bench of Chief Justice Altamas Kabir and Justices S.S. Nijjar and J. Chelameswar that as far as the power surrendered by the NCT Delhi was concerned, in 2011 the Centre had tried to allocate Tamil Nadu additional power. For this year, he said, according to the Union Power Ministry every grid had certain capacity. The southern grid did not have the capacity to receive the available surplus power.
Mr. Vahanvati said, “The Tamil Nadu government had not strengthened enough the grid and the State itself is responsible for the power crisis. Eight States are demanding a share in the surrendered power and we will distribute it in a manner that each grid can withstand.”
Senior counsel Mukul Rohatgi, senior counsel Ranjit Kumar and Additional Advocate General Subramonium Prasad wanted the court to issue a direction to the Centre to keep aside the surrendered power, as otherwise the whole suit filed by Tamil Nadu would become infructuous.
The AG replied that the surplus power could not be stored.
CJI told counsel for Tamil Nadu, “We are not experts in deciding the matter. We need technical details from an expert body.”
In a brief order, the Bench said, “Issue notice. On behalf of the Union of India, there are certain difficulties expressed in providing power straightway. With regard to the capacity of the southern grid to take the load of excess power to be provided to Tamil Nadu, the Attorney General is requested to file an affidavit indicating the reasons for which the prayer of Tamil Nadu cannot be considered to a certain extent.”
In the meantime, the Bench said since it concerned technical position, the Central Electricity Authority should examine and submit a report to the court. The Bench directed the matter to be listed for further hearing on November 29.
In its application filed in the suit, Tamil Nadu sought a direction to restrain the Centre from re-allocating the entire power surrendered by the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, viz 230 MW of round-the-clock power and 1491 MW power (available between midnight and 6 am) to any other State.
The State said, “It is the right of Tamil Nadu to demand for the surrendered power to meet the extreme power shortage faced by the State. Only the Union of India is empowered to reallocate the surrendered power along with the transmission corridor which it has failed to do so.”
It further said, “In the year 2012-13, due to the failure of South-West monsoon the State is facing acute shortage of power. The people of Tamil Nadu are reeling under massive power cuts, going up to 12 hours every day.
It said, “Tamil Nadu apprehends that the Central government will re-allocate the surrendered power to the other States, which are not as stressed as Tamil Nadu is, and thereby deprive the State of Tamil Nadu of its justified demand of re-allocation of the entire power surrendered by the NCT of Delhi.”
 
 
Three Dalit colonies face wrath of mob fury in Dharmapuri
 
 
Remains of a gutted house at Natham Colony, near Naikkankottai village in Dharmapuri district. Photo: N. Bhakaran
Remains of a gutted house at Natham Colony, near Naikkankottai village in Dharmapuri district. Photo: N. Bhakaran
Over 260 houses torched, police arrest 90 persons
Three colonies of Dalits (of the Adi-Dravida community) near Naikkankottai in Dharmapuri district of western Tamil Nadu remained benumbed on Thursday by the fury unleashed on them by a rampaging mob of caste Hindus on Wednesday.
As many as 268 dwellings – huts, tiled-roof and one or two-room concrete houses – were torched by the mob after a caste Hindu man, Nagarajan, committed suicide over his daughter marrying a Dalit boy from one of the colonies. Police said there was no casualty as occupants of the houses escaped and took shelter in another village. Ninety persons were arrested by Thursday evening and cases registered against another 500 “unidentified” persons.
The prime target of the attack was Natham Colony, whose resident, Ilavarasan (23) had married N. Divya (20), a caste Hindu. But, the mob’s fury was also directed at the adjoining Anna Nagar Colony and Kondampatti Old and New Colonies.
It is said that Ilavarasan and Divya got married in a temple a month ago. Fearing attack by caste Hindus, the couple approached the Deputy Inspector of General of Police, Salem Range, Sanjay Kumar, only a week ago for protection. Though the police assured them safety, a kangaroo court directed Ilavarasan’s family to return the girl on Wednesday. The girl refused to go with her father, who later hanged himself at his house in Sellankottai, just half a km from the Dalit colonies. And then, the mobs went on the rampage.
According to police, one group of incensed members of his community protested on the Dharmapuri-Tiruppattur Road, blocking traffic with the trees they felled as well as with boulders and signboards. At the same time, another group entered the Dalit colonies and set ablaze the dwellings. The Dalits alleged that their houses were looted and the valuables taken away. The attack started around 4.45 p.m. and went on till 7 p.m. Police reinforcements and fire tenders could not reach the spot in time because of the hurdles placed on the road leading to the colonies. Some vehicles of the Dalits too were torched. The mob fled when police reinforcements arrived.
Superintendent of Police, Krishnagiri, M. Ashok Kumar, reached the spot and took control of the situation, as Dharmapuri’s SP Asra Garg was away in Madurai. Mr. Garg, however, reached the spot at night.
Police personnel drawn from five districts restored order. Fire tenders put out the blaze in the colonies and recovery vans were deployed to clear the road blocks.
A core police team headed by Mr. Sanjay Kumar worked out strategies to keep the situation under control. Inspector-General of Police (West Zone), visited the colonies on Thursday and supervised the security arrangements and the investigation into the attack. Police said Ilavarasan and Divya were safe and under police protection.
After spending the night in shock, fear and without shelter, close to 1,500 Dalits were on Thursday accommodated in Government schools.
District Collector R. Lilly visited the affected persons and ordered relief for them.
Remains of a gutted house at Natham Colony, near Naikkankottai village in Dharmapuri district. Photo: N. Bhakaran
Over 260 houses torched, police arrest 90 persons
Three colonies of Dalits (of the Adi-Dravida community) near Naikkankottai in Dharmapuri district of western Tamil Nadu remained benumbed on Thursday by the fury unleashed on them by a rampaging mob of caste Hindus on Wednesday.
As many as 268 dwellings – huts, tiled-roof and one or two-room concrete houses – were torched by the mob after a caste Hindu man, Nagarajan, committed suicide over his daughter marrying a Dalit boy from one of the colonies. Police said there was no casualty as occupants of the houses escaped and took shelter in another village. Ninety persons were arrested by Thursday evening and cases registered against another 500 “unidentified” persons.
The prime target of the attack was Natham Colony, whose resident, Ilavarasan (23) had married N. Divya (20), a caste Hindu. But, the mob’s fury was also directed at the adjoining Anna Nagar Colony and Kondampatti Old and New Colonies.
It is said that Ilavarasan and Divya got married in a temple a month ago. Fearing attack by caste Hindus, the couple approached the Deputy Inspector of General of Police, Salem Range, Sanjay Kumar, only a week ago for protection. Though the police assured them safety, a kangaroo court directed Ilavarasan’s family to return the girl on Wednesday. The girl refused to go with her father, who later hanged himself at his house in Sellankottai, just half a km from the Dalit colonies. And then, the mobs went on the rampage.
According to police, one group of incensed members of his community protested on the Dharmapuri-Tiruppattur Road, blocking traffic with the trees they felled as well as with boulders and signboards. At the same time, another group entered the Dalit colonies and set ablaze the dwellings. The Dalits alleged that their houses were looted and the valuables taken away. The attack started around 4.45 p.m. and went on till 7 p.m. Police reinforcements and fire tenders could not reach the spot in time because of the hurdles placed on the road leading to the colonies. Some vehicles of the Dalits too were torched. The mob fled when police reinforcements arrived.
Superintendent of Police, Krishnagiri, M. Ashok Kumar, reached the spot and took control of the situation, as Dharmapuri’s SP Asra Garg was away in Madurai. Mr. Garg, however, reached the spot at night.
Police personnel drawn from five districts restored order. Fire tenders put out the blaze in the colonies and recovery vans were deployed to clear the road blocks.
A core police team headed by Mr. Sanjay Kumar worked out strategies to keep the situation under control. Inspector-General of Police (West Zone), visited the colonies on Thursday and supervised the security arrangements and the investigation into the attack. Police said Ilavarasan and Divya were safe and under police protection.
After spending the night in shock, fear and without shelter, close to 1,500 Dalits were on Thursday accommodated in Government schools.
District Collector R. Lilly visited the affected persons and ordered relief for them.

Wednesday 7 November 2012

2012 NOV 8

America's ethnic makeover routs Mitt Romney
It was a remarkable night for the President, the first American leader since World War II to win a second term in office amid high unemployment and a war-sapped economy.


America's ethnic makeover routs Mitt Romney

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama won a hard-fought second term to the White House after his colorful coalition of ethnic minorities, younger voters, and urban women overrode nationwide economic dissatisfaction and held off the challenge from a Republican vanguard of fading white population.

On the face of it, Democrat Obama's victory in an economically distressed America was impressive. He won 332 of the 538 Electoral Votes, comfortably more than the 270 he needed to retain the presidency. But the imposing Electoral College lead masked a relatively narrow margin of popular votes in battleground states that saw a tense finish: Overall, nationwide, Obama had polled around 59 million votes (just over 50 per cent) to Romney's 56 million (48.4 per cent) with many votes still to be counted. The turnout by the Democratic coalition ensured that would not lose the popular vote as some had feared.

It was a remarkable night for the President, the first American leader since World War II to win a second term in office amid high unemployment and a war-sapped economy. For the triumph, he gave credit where it was due in his victory speech — "to the best campaign team in the history of politics," and in the first phone call he made after Romney conceded defeat, to the wily Bill Clinton.

Together they forged a coalition which will take some beating in years to come, unless the Republican Party dramatically recasts itself. The alliance consists of minority voters (Black, Latino, and Asian) worried about immigration laws and Republican exclusivism; blue-collar workers, particularly in the so-called Rust Belt who are grateful to Obama and his government intervention in saving US manufacturing; women passionate about reproductive rights and pay parity, and a young, urban, collegiate demographic unimpressed by the domestic Republican conservatism and international machismo.

2012 NOV 08

U.S. Elections: Emboldened Obama seeks to overcome stubborn challenges


U.S. Elections: Emboldened Obama seeks to overcome stubborn challenges
Fresh from a decisive re-election win, President Barack Obama returns from the campaign trail on Wednesday with little time to savour victory, facing urgent economic and fiscal challenges and a still-divided Congress capable of blocking his every move.
Obama defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney on Tuesday night after a grueling presidential race and used his acceptance speech in front of a huge cheering crowd in Chicago to strike a conciliatory note toward his political opponents.
But in the cold light of the election's morning-after, it was clear that even though voters have given their stamp of approval for a second Obama term, he could have a hard time translating that into a mandate to push forward with his agenda.
Americans chose to stick with a divided government in Washington by leaving the U.S. Congress as it has been since the midterm elections of 2010.

Monday 5 November 2012


Taj Corridor case: HC dismisses petitions against Mayawati

In a major relief for former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and BSP supremo Mayawati, the Allahabad High Court on Monday dismissed petitions against her in the Taj Corridor case.
The Lucknow bench of the court also dismissed the petitions against her cabinet colleague Naseemuddin Siddiqui.
Passing the order, the bench comprising justices Imtiyaz Murtaza and Ashwani Kumar Singh said all petitions were devoid of merit and were accordingly being dismissed.
BSP leader and Mayawati’s counsel Satish Chandra Mishra termed the petitions filed in the case as “politically motivated” and pursued with “malafide intention“.
“There are no offences against Mayawati in the Taj Corridor case,” he told reporters here after the court delivered a 74-page verdict.
The bench had on September 12 reserved its judgement on the PILs seeking direction for initiation of proceedings of criminal case against Mr. Mayawati and Mr. Siddiqui.
The special CBI court had in June 2007 dropped proceedings against Ms Mayawati and Mr. Siddiqui for lack of prosecution sanction, which was not granted by the then Governor.
After this, three PILs were filed in 2009 challenging the decision of the CBI court. Later three more PILs were filed in this connection. 

  Anna Hazare and V K Singh
 
Anna Hazare is likely to announce a coordination panel by Saturday to take his apolitical anti-corruption movement forward.
Hazare, who arrived here this afternoon, said he will hold a series of discussions with his associates in the next two days and visit a couple of places which have been shortlisted to house the movement's office in Delhi.
The anti-graft crusader said he has decided to set up a coordination panel consisting of around a dozen associates.
"We will add more people to the panel after a screening," he said, adding by November 10, a coordination panel will be in place.
Asked about Gen (retd) V K Singh sharing stage with former Haryana Chief Minister and INLD leader Om Prakash Chautala, Hazare said he was not aware of it and that the former Army chief has assured him earlier that he will not join politics.
Hazare had earlier decided to expand his core team by inviting prominent citizens like the ex-Army Chief besides considering formation of anti-corruption centres
at district level.
Hazare wants to have a more inclusive core group having members with experience in a variety of fields including policy making, activism, corporates, judiciary, police and electoral reforms, his aides said.
Besides Gen Singh, those who are being approached by Hazare to join the movement include activists P V Rajagopal and Rajender Singh, former IPS officer Prakash Singh and media personality Minhas Merchant.
Former Team Anna members like Justice Santosh Hegde and agriculture expert Devender Sharma, who have not taken a political plunge, are also being approached.

 

Post-Kapil Sibal HRD stint, Shashi Tharoor slams students' standards

Shashi Tharoor 
The university system was not producing "well-educated" graduates to meet needs of Indian companies, giving an opportunity to firms to enter the sector in the "guise" of training, Minister of State for Higher Education Shashi Tharoor today said.
Kapil Sibal was Minister of Human Resource Development from 22 May 2009 – 28 October 2012.
He also said that the national education policy in the past has been out of step with the times.
"The major problem remains that our national education policy in the past has remained out of step with the time. Whereas countries in the Middle-East and China are going out of their way to woo foreign universities to set up campuses in their countries, India turned away many academic suiters who have come calling in recent years," he said.
Speaking at a two-day Higher Education Summit, Tharoor said, "Companies are entering the higher education space in the guise of training. Our University system simply is not producing well educated graduates to meet the needs of Indian companies today."
The HRD Minister said there will be no need for many Indian students to go abroad to study if good higher education institutes were set up in the country. "We will also work towards putting our reform agenda back on track," he said.
Tharoor said there is a proposal to establish 50 centres for research in frontier areas of science, design innovation centres, innovation centres in different universities and also research parts of the IITs and other technical institutions.


Sunday 4 November 2012

2012 NOV, 5 MON

In Rakhine, mistrust deepens divide

The one common element between the Rohingya camps and the Rakhine Buddhist camps is the curiosity about the riots in Assam in August. Both sides are quick to draw their own parallels between their conflict and the recent riots in Assam. »


 

Congress throws its weight behind FDI at Delhi rally

Noting that the opposition had not allowed key legislations to be passed or allowed discussion on issues in parliament, she said the Congress would not allow them to succeed in their bid. »