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Girl criticises dad’s cooking, gets burned

May 29, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 29 — In a gruesome incident, 18-year-old Bindu was burned alive by her father Jagannath (50) apparently for having criticised his cooking. Bindu suffered 90 per cent burns in the incident and is fighting for her life at the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital.

The incident took place around 10 pm on Thursday night in Yamuna Vihar in East Delhi. “Jagannath told us that he had cooked mutton for his family on Thursday.

During dinner, Bindu complained that the mutton was too spicy and not cooked properly. This began an argument between the two,” said a senior police officer on the condition of anonymity, as he is not authorized to speak to the media.

In a fit of rage, Jagannath apparently hit Bindu and then, in front of his other five children, poured kerosene on her. “Then he set her on fire and tried to flee.

But some neighbours, who had come out on hearing the commotion, caught him,” added the officer. Jagannath, an MTNL employee, has been arrested.

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I made martinis for my dad at age 6: Gwyneth Paltrow

May 21, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, May 21 (ANI): Iron Man star Gwyneth Paltrow has revealed that she used to mix martinis for her dad at the age of six, and that she enjoys drinking the odd cocktail herself.

Paltrow, 37, who is married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, told of her drink-mixing skills as she took part in a British TV cookery show.

“I love a dirty martini. I used to make my dad his drinks when I was about six!” the Sun quoted her as saying.

She also revealed that she has been cooking “seriously” for 15 years. (ANI)

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Gary Lineker to cook lunch if he loses soccer bet to wife Danielle Bux

May 10, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, May 10 (ANI): Retired English footballer Gary Lineker has made a soccer bet with his wife Danielle Bux that could land him in the kitchen next week cooking lunch if he loses.

Lineker, 49, made the bet with the 30-year-old Welsh lingerie model when his favourite team Leicester City met her Cardiff in a Championship play-off.

The Welsh side beat the Foxes 1-0 in the first leg on May 9.

“Gary and I have had a little bet and it’s first leg to me,” the Sun quoted Bux as saying.

“Whoever loses has to do the roast chicken and veg next weekend – and it looks like it could be Gary,” she added.

But the Match of the Day host still has a chance in the second leg, which will take place on May 12. (ANI)

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Wayne Rooney brushing up his cooking skills

May 3, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, May 3 (ANI): Footballer Wayne Rooney is brushing up his cooking skills by tuning into BBC1 show Saturday Kitchen.

The 24-year-old footie is so obsessed with the cookery program that he Sky Pluses the show and watches it later in the week.

James Martin presents Saturday Kitchen. Teammates Rio Ferdinand and Ryan Giggs own restaurants, but for Rooney it””s all about the cooking, reports The Sun.

“When he watches the show he pauses it so he can cook along with the guest chefs. Wayne””s getting very good in the kitchen,” a source said.

Rooney was recently named the PFA Player of the Year 2010. (ANI)

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PlayFirst Announces the Delicious Diner Dash: Grilling Green App for iPad

April 3, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Designed Exclusively to Take Full Advantage of Revolutionary Form and Function
of iPad
SAN FRANCISCO–(Business Wire)–
PlayFirst® Inc., a leading publisher of emotionally engaging interactive
entertainment, today announced its Diner Dash®: Grilling Green App for iPad is
now available from the App Store. Developed specifically for iPad, Diner Dash:
Grilling Green incorporates Multi-Touch gesture-enabled features that allow
players to cook and serve simultaneously by utilizing the game`s innovative new
“Touch Cooker 3000,” a gesture-based cooktop that enables players to chop, stir,
pinch and flip menu orders.

“The Diner Dash: Grilling Green App for iPad is a whole new world of time
management gameplay made possible by the magical new iPad. The use of
Multi-Touch enabled gestures creates a truly hands-on and immersive experience
for players,” said Mari Baker, president and chief executive officer of
PlayFirst. “We are only just beginning. You`ll continue to see PlayFirst
innovation in updates to Diner Dash: Grilling Green and exciting future apps for
iPad.”

In Diner Dash: Grilling Green, Flo® is on a mission to give DinerTown a healthy,
eco-friendly makeover and she`s whipping up a batch of fresh new kitchen
innovations to get the job done. With the Touch Cooker 3000, Flo`s all-new
touch-screen food preparation surface, players tap to chop carrots, swirl to
stir soup, and more as they prepare healthy, delicious food for their customers
while simultaneously seating, serving, and clearing dishes. In another Diner
Dash first, players can now enlist a friend to jump behind the counter for
two-player shifts and play Diner Dash: Grilling Green in any screen orientation.

“PlayFirst games on iPhone and iPod touch have been downloaded over 4 million
times, and after 600 days in the App Store, Diner Dash is still a Top 10 game,”
said Chris Williams, director, mobile & console at PlayFirst. “With Diner Dash:
Grilling Green we`ve taken all of our learning from the iPhone, combined with a
`dash` of new innovation, and created something truly unique for iPad.”

The Diner Dash: Grilling Green App is available for $4.99 from the App Store on
iPad or at www.itunes.com/appstore/.

Since its debut in 2004, the Diner Dash series has been downloaded more than 550
million times across the globe, making it one of the most popular and
recognizable gaming franchises of all time. Diner Dash has been successful on
multiple platforms including mobile, iPhone®, Xbox® Live Arcade, PlayStation®
Network, WiiWare®, and Nintendo® DS. With the launch of Diner Dash: Grilling
Green, PlayFirst is marking its commitment to growing its presence on emerging
gaming platforms.

About PlayFirst

PlayFirst, a leading publisher of emotionally engaging interactive
entertainment, is committed to providing compelling experiences that always
delight customers. By creating engaging story worlds that capture the
imagination, PlayFirst teams publish quality gaming experiences across popular
platforms worldwide including PC, Mac®, iPhone, Facebook, and consoles. The
company’s game portfolio includes world-renowned titles, such as Diner Dash,
Wedding Dash®, Cooking Dash®, Chocolatier®, and Dream Chronicles®. PlayFirst
games are available in major retailers and on more than 500 sites in 20
languages. For more information, visit www.playfirst.com.

PlayFirst, Diner Dash, Flo, DinerTown, Wedding Dash, Cooking Dash, Chocolatier
and Dream Chronicles are registered trademarks, and TouchCooker 3000 is a
trademark of PlayFirst, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their
respective owners.

For media information, visuals or interviews:
ONE PR Studio for PlayFirst
Anne Marie Stein, 510-893-3271 ext. 109
annemarie@oneprstudio.com
or
Dana Whitney, 510-893-3271 ext. 101
dana@oneprstudio.com

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Vocational training programme for unemployed youth in Himachal

September 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kufri, Sep. 6 (ANI): Unemployed youth in Kufri region of Himachal Pradesh are delighted after a special vocational course has been introduced at a Hotel Management Institute to enable them earn livelihood in tourism sector.

Introduced under the Central Government, the tourism and hospitality requires candidates to have had school education till standard eight as minimum eligibility.

The tourism-based course, which can be completed within six to eight weeks of training, is aimed to enable the local youths to get into jobs.

The enrolled students obtain free training, uniform and stipend of rupees 1,500 to 2000 at the institute.

“They (unemployed youth) after doing this course whose entire expense is being met by government including education, uniform, training equipments can explore job opportunities. We will also provide certificates after the completion of the course. Moreover, industrial training for a brief period so that after they pass out from this they can have employment opportunities,” said Dipankar Mukherjee, Principal, Institute of Hotel Management, Kufri.

The local youth are enthusiastic to pursue this course. The students are being trained in cooking, catering apart from other nuances of the trade.

“This course will be very helpful. Even though in 8 weeks time you can’t learn everything but the course will help to get job opportunities,” said Poonam Sharma, a student.

Even graduates are showing interest in this special course, as they know it will prepare them for many employment opportunities.

“This course assures job for us. There are job opportunities in tourism sector as hundreds of tourists come to visit Himachal…. We are not only learning cooking and catering but also this course is teaching us the real sense of hospitality… this will tell us how to help and guide tourists,” said a graduate trainee.

Tourism is an important employment generating sector in Himachal Pradesh and it is the mainstay in Kufri which attracts large number of tourists to enjoy snow falls. By Hemant Chauhan (ANI)

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Maldives uses coconuts to reduce its CO2 emissions

September 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, September 4 (ANI): The Maldives government has launched a project to reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions using “biochar”, a charcoal made from bio-wastes such as coconut shells.

According to a report by BBC News, the pilot project, launched by the Maldives government together with a UK-based company, Carbon Gold, aims to produce biochar using bio-waste, including coconut shells, which are abundantly available in the archipelago.

Biochar is produced through the “slow cooking” (pyrolysis) of plant wastes. The resulting black char is rich in carbon and can be mixed with soil as a fertiliser.

“While wasting the environment we are wasting a lot of money by buying (fertilizer) from abroad,” said Minister of state for fisheries and agriculture, Aminath Shafia.

“So, we were looking into a project that could develop it using something that is available in the country,” she said.

The Maldives wants to be carbon neutral by 2020

President Mohamed Nasheed, who earlier announced a target of going carbon neutral by 2020, has welcomed the new partnership.

“Biochar has a crucial role in helping us achieve carbon neutral status as well as providing an economic and environmental boost to our people,” he said.

Shafia said that the project would be launched on three islands and rolled out to others if farmers responded positively.

According to officials at Carbon Gold, biochar is an effective way of removing CO2 from the atmosphere.

The company said that the fertiliser also improves soil fertility and locks up its carbon contents for several years after it is ploughed into the ground.

Daniel Morrel, a co-founder of the company, told BBC News that the Maldives was the first government to sponsor its production.

He described biochar as “carbon negative”.

“Waste that would have rotted or been burnt before is now locked up and put very safely in the soil,” he said.

“It is not one of the best solutions, but the great thing about biochar is while everybody is talking about reducing the CO2 emissions, this is actually taking CO2 out of the atmosphere,” he added. (ANI)

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Cairo’s slums get an energy makeover

August 30, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, August 30 (ANI): Reports indicate that the slums of Cairo, Egypt’s largest city, have got an energy makeover, with solar panels sprouting on apartment rooftops, providing residents with clean power and water and a chance to directly improve their lives.

According to a report in National Geographic News, since 2003, the nonprofit Solar CITIES project has installed 34 solar-powered hot water systems and 5 biogas reactors in Cairo’s poor Coptic Christian and Islamic neighborhoods.

“Our program is unique, in that we’re implementing rural-type solutions in an urban environment,” said project leader Thomas Culhane, an urban planner and 2009 National Geographic emerging explorer.
“It’s the kind of stuff you would do in the Peace Corps in an African village, but we’re doing it right smack dab in the slums of a city,” he added.

Solar CITIES’ hot water systems are constructed from recycled materials and are uniquely tailored to the parts of a city where water and electricity availability are often sporadic.
“The problem with professional solar hot water systems is that they’re made for cities with continuous water,” Culhane said.

By contrast, Solar CITIES’s water heaters use a city’s water when it’s available but draw from a backup storage tank when it’s not.
The setup consists of an insulated rectangular box covered in clear glass or plastic on one side. Inside the box are copper tubes wrapped in sheets of aluminum, which are painted black.
Sunlight striking the darkened aluminum is converted to heat, which is then used to warm water flowing through the pipes.
The glass sheet on top of the box prevents the heat from being carried away by wind.
The water, which can reach temperatures of 176 degrees Fahrenheit (80 degrees Celsius), is then pumped into an insulated plastic barrel for storage.

The water, which remains warm long after sunset, can be connected to an apartment’s plumbing system.
Solar CITIES also installs biogas reactors, which are based on designs Culhane saw while working in India.
The reactors use microbes harvested from animal guts to break down food wastes into flammable gas that can be used for cooking and heating.

If necessary, the reactors can draw hot water from the solar water heaters to maintain the warm temperatures the bacteria need to survive.
By attaching a simple plastic tube to the reactors, gas can be piped down several stories for residents to use.
“In 24 hours, you’ve got 2 hours of cooking gas from yesterday’s cooking garbage,” Culhane said. (ANI)

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Oz man claims his pet moggy can swear, speak in English!

August 29, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Melbourne, Aug 29 (ANI): An Aussie man claims that he owns a pet cat that can speak a total of seven different English words, including the F-word.

Mischief the ‘talking’ cat belongs to Robert ‘RJ’ Duncan, 34, an ex-boxer of Palmerston, in the Northern Territory, and his wife Sandra, 32, and he also claims that his budgie Picininny can speak.

According to the Northern Territory News, Mischief had at the first declined to utter a single word, but during a second visit he was much friendlier, and everyone around heard him calling Sandra, “mum”.

Duncan said the two-year-old cat, which he and his wife adopted from his feral mother in Katherine, was most vocal at night.

“He starts mouthing off when he wants his food _ when we start cooking,” the Daily Telegraph quoted him as saying.

“He can say seven words all up: mum, no, now, what, f**k, prick and why.

“He can’t say ‘dad’ yet, which is a bit of a prick. That’s how he got the word ‘prick’ I reckon, because I say it a lot,” he said.

Duncan said that Mischief’s first word was ‘mum’, which he started saying about the age of six months, and that he was not mimicking the words either, as he knew what he was saying.

“He calls out to (Sandra) and everything _ he’ll sit at the back window, while she’s in the garden, calling out ‘mum’,” he explained.

“In the evening time, if you don’t drop whatever you’re doing and pay attention to him, he calls you ‘f**k prick’.

“If he really cracks the s**ts, he’ll piss in his drinking water just to let you know he’s really s**ty,” he added.

Duncan will now be trying to film Mischief to prove the moggy can really talk.

“He’s a character … he’s one of these cats that’s a bit too brainy for his own good,” he added. (ANI)

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Robots may soon be serving the elderly at home just like humans do

August 29, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, August 29 (ANI): Elderly people with limited mobility may soon come to be served by robots in a manner as if they are being served by other persons, thanks to a collaborative study by three University of Illinois at Chicago engineers and a Rush University nursing specialist.

“We want to help elderly people communicate with robots, to tell them what they need, and to perform physical activities,” said Milos Zefran, UIC associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.

The three-year study, supported by a grant of 989,000 dollars from the National Science Foundation, is aimed at developing software to allow the elderly to communicate with robots that can respond to a wide range of verbal language, non-verbal gestures, and touch.

“If we can help the elderly remain independent and continue living in their own homes, that will improve their health outlook while relieving the burden on family members and health care providers,” said Zefran, the lead researcher.

The researchers say that their communication interface software will have at its core a novel adaptive and reliable recognition methodology called Recognition by Indexing and Sequencing (RISq), which will allow the robot to comprehend speech altered by impairments and to learn and adapt to such speech.

To enable a robot to understand and correctly respond to various forms of human touch, the researchers will combine techniques from natural language processing and haptics, a scientific term to describe the computerized sense of touch.

They say that the robot will also know how to respond to the user safely when performing everyday chores, such as cooking or making a bed.

“We’ll start by observing interaction between human helpers and the elderly. We’ll identify what kind of language, physical interactions and non-verbal interactions are used. Then we’ll develop a mathematical framework to model this interaction so it can be treated by the robot as a single way of communicating,” Zefran said.

The researchers say that they will program and test a robot, in order to devise refinements, as the project progresses.

“The human-robot interface is really a long-standing, open problem that won’t be solved in three years. But we’ll have a working prototype by then, and we’ll know what additional research needs to be done,” Zefran said.

He believes that this research project may also find widespread use in delivery of institutionally based health care, where routine tasks now done by nurses could be handled by robots.

“If robots can alleviate some of the burden nurses face, they then could spend more time where they’re really needed — providing the human contact that a robot can’t replace,” he said.

Zefran has revealed that his work will include developing seminars or a new graduate or upper-level undergraduate course that considers the various factors that allow robots to perform more sophisticated tasks. (ANI)

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Positive parental attitude can help stop child obesity epidemic

August 9, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Aug 9 (ANI): An eminent obesity expert has said that parents can help to prevent obesity in children by helping them with their eating habits and building a healthy body image.

According to Edward Abramson, PhD and professor emeritus at California State University, parents can ward off obesity by getting their children to eat better food and exercise.

Dr. Abramson said childhood obesity has increased fourfold in the last 40 years, which may make today’s children to become the first generation to have a shorter lifespan than their parents.

Speaking at the American Psychological Associations’ 117th Annual Convention, the expert said that in the last decade, “we’ve seen a [tenfold] increase in Type-2 diabetes and psychological and social consequences, such as prejudice, rejection, discrimination and low self-esteem in children…More than 60 percent of overweight children have one risk factor for cardiovascular disease and 20 percent have two or more risk factors.”

Abramson said, “emotional eating” or eating when one is not hungry may trigger off obesity.

“This can lead to a weight problem or an eating disorder,” he added. “Parents’ attitudes and behaviours also have an influence on children’s eating, and mothers more than fathers affect children’s eating habits and body image.”

He noted that multiple factors contribute to a mother’s concern for her child’s weight problems.

“For example, there is evidence that minority parents (e.g., African-American, Hispanic) are less concerned about their children’s weight…. Often, when a mother is struggling with her own weight, she becomes more involved in regulating her daughter’s eating. In general, mothers are more concerned than fathers about their child’s weight, especially their daughter’s, and are more likely to restrict foods,” the expert added.

According to Abramson children are genetically coded with a tongue for sweet and salty tastes.

“For these children, it may take several repetitions (10 or more) to have a child try a new food, but parents should retreat gracefully and try again another day rather than get into a battle of wills when the child refuses a food,” he said.

He also spelled out a way to get children to try out new and healthy foods.

“If the child is in the kitchen cooking with Mom or Dad, it’s unlikely that he/she will refuse the food that they’ve helped prepare, ” he added.

Abramson pointed out that physical activity could prevent children to gain extra flab even if there is a familial tendency to gain weight. (ANI)

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Prehistoric dwelling unearthed at Isle of Man 3,000 years older than Stonehenge

July 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, July 14 (ANI): A prehistoric dwelling, which is 3,000 years older than Stonehenge, has been unearthed during construction of the runway extension at Isle of Man Airport.

According to Isle of Man newspapers, dating back an astonishing 8,000 years to the time when the first human settlers returned to the Isle of Man after the end of the Ice Age, it is probably the oldest dwelling ever found in the Island.

Featuring the foundations of a strongly-built shelter, filled and surrounded by thousands of pieces of worked flint, the charred remains of wood, and hundreds of hazelnut shells, the major archaeological find is certain to make headlines around the world.

It has been unearthed as fieldwork at Ronaldsway nears completion, with diggers due to finish excavating in the middle of this month and the project on schedule to be completed by the end of the year.

The site has already attracted interest from a BBC team filming the next series of Coast, and has recently been visited by Professor of Archaeology Peter Woodman, who excavated a similar, but less well-preserved, site eroding out of the cliffs just over 100 metres away in the 1980s.

“Archaeologists hesitate to call a structure of this kind a “house”, because the received wisdom is that 8,000 years ago people constantly moved through the landscape as nomads, gathering their food from the land, rather than staying put and farming and harvesting it,” said Manx National Heritage field archaeologist Andrew Johnson.

“But this building was constructed from substantial pieces of timber, and had a hearth for cooking and warmth,” he said.

“Its occupants lived here often, or long enough to leave behind over 12,000 pieces of worked flint together with the tools needed to flake them, and food debris in the form of hundreds of hazelnut shells,” he added.

The 8,000-year-old dwelling was found at the east end of the airport where a new taxiway extension is being built.

Radiocarbon dates have not yet been obtained but archaeologists confirm that it is ‘probably’ the oldest dwelling yet found on the Isle of Man.

According to Johnson, “This is by far the largest archaeological project to have been undertaken on the Island. The discoveries have been first-class and are sure to revise and improve understanding of prehistoric life in the Isle of Man.” (ANI)

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Indian kids love Indian food: Survey

July 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, July 10 (ANI): When it comes to eating habits, Indian kids love Indian food, according to a new survey.

As per Cartoon Network’s ‘Chowder’ survey, the weirdest food Indian children have ever eaten include spicy curry with powdered laddoo, yogurt with chilli powder and dosa with sugar cubes amongst others.

The survey found that Indian kids love Indian cuisine the most and North Indian and South Indian food are the equal top raters in their choice.

The survey revealed that cooking is no longer a girl’s phenomenon. About 68 percent of kids believe that both boys and girls should learn how to cook and this sentiment becomes even more emphatic as 71 percent of the respondents to the survey were boys.

The channel conducted the survey on cartoonnetworkindia.com to explore kids’ eating and cooking habits.ccording to the channel, almost 900 kids responded to the survey from all over India including Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Bangalore.

Bringing out their experimental spirit, 76 per cent of Indian kids enjoy trying new food while 33 per cent of Indian kids prefer going out. 57 per cent of the respondents are keen to learn more about world cuisine.

“As a kids’ entertainment expert, Cartoon Network is ahead of the curve in identifying interesting trends amongst kids. The ‘Chowder’ survey findings reflect the views of India’s next generation and it is clear that both girls and boys believe in the importance of cooking and food,” Turner International India director Krishna Desai as saying. (ANI)

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Divorced men more prosperous but not happier

July 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Sydney, July 8 (ANI): Divorced men are significantly more prosperous than divorced women, but they are more likely to regard themselves as poor four years after a marriage break-up, suggests a study.

The study, headed by the Australian Institute of Family Studies, found the incomes of divorced fathers with kids under the age of 18 shot 24 per cent, adjusted for family size, while divorced mothers’ income rose on average 1.8 per cent.

The researchers observed that women suffered considerable financial penalty for years after divorce, yet many said that they were no worse off than before the split, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

Nearly 13 per cent even said that they were better off, possibly, because they had better control over the finances.

And while the fathers reported being more better off than when married, 9.7 per cent cried poor or very poor four years after the divorce, compared with 4 per cent of the mothers.

Matthew Gray, the institute’s deputy director, and lead author of the study, said: “They might have more money but many used to have someone doing the cooking and cleaning and organising the social life, and some are alienated and angry because they don’t live with their children. And a lot of men really don’t want to pay child support.”

The paper was due to be presented at the Australian Social Policy conference at the University of NSW. (ANI)

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Deora says will back fuel prices hike if crude prices ease

July 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Chennai, July 5 (ANI): Union Petroleum Minister Murli Deora has said the government would consider a downward revision of fuel prices if international crude prices came down.

“I have already explained you how we have increased the prices and what made us to increase the prices. Where in case the fuel prices goes down substantially, we will pass on to customers, we will not wait,” Deora said on the sidelines of a function here on Saturday.

Petrol and diesel prices rose by as much as 10 percent in India, on Wednesday, the first increase this year and one of the steepest ever.

Petrol prices rose by four rupees a litre, while diesel rates were hiked by two rupees a litre.

Prices were last raised in June last year, when the average price of India’s crude imports were 113 dollar a barrel, but they were cut in December and again in January as oil prices tumbled.

The government has not increased the price of cooking gas and kerosene to protect the poor and middle-class.

Despite price increase, oil firms say they were likely to suffer a revenue loss of 560 billion rupees on sale of petrol, diesel, cooking gas and kerosene this fiscal. (ANI)

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Shiv Sena protests vegetable price rise in Mumbai

July 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Mumbai, July 4 (ANI): Shiv Sena activists staged a protest here against the rise of vegetable on Friday.

They alleged that the rise in fuel prices had had a cascading effect on the prices of vegetables and other essential commodities.

Raising slogans against the price hike, they demanded that the government roll back the fuel price hike.

“Two months back the prices of coriander leaves were Rupees 35 but now it has shot up to Rupees 70. It is an essential material for cooking material making it difficult for us to buy. This price hike is because of the Congress government and in future if the prices don’t come down then along with the locals we will stage further such protests,” said Kishori, Shiv Sena activist.

“The prices of potatoes and onions were around Rupees eight but now it has gone up to Rupees 16. How can we afford buying vegetables at such a high rate?” said Mahananda, a local.

Despite price increase, oil firms are likely to suffer a revenue loss of 560 billion rupees this fiscal. (ANI)

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CPI, SUCI activists protest against fuel price hike

July 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, July 3 (ANI): Activists of Communist party of India and Socialist Unity Centre of India staged demonstrations against the increase in prices of petrol and diesel here on Friday.

Shouting slogans against the ruling Congress party, protesters demanded the government to roll back the hike.

“The prices of essential commodities like vegetable, pulses, sugar, rice will increase due to hike in petrol and diesel prices as transportation will become expensive. This is a slap on the face of public who voted for Congress. We strongly condemn the fuel prices hike and ask the government to roll back the hike,” said Amarjeet Kaur, CPI’s state secretary.

The hike will aid margins for state-owned refiners forced to sell at government-set prices, and may be only a prelude to greater free-market price reforms in next week’s budget.

Activists of SUCI said that the fuel prices hike will increase the inflation rate.

“It is ironical that fuel prices have been hiked at a time when the government is announcing100 day agendas for the country. On one side the government is all set to come-up with packages to help capitalists overcome economic crisis and on the other hand it is increasing the inflation rate for the commoners,” said Pratap Samal, SUCI’s state secretary.

Fuel prices were last raised in June 2008, but they were cut in December and again in January as oil prices tumbled.

The crude oil prices have more than doubled since a February low, with second-quarter gains the highest since 1990.

Despite price increase, oil firms were likely to suffer a revenue loss of 560 billion rupees on sale of petrol, diesel, cooking gas and kerosene this fiscal. (ANI)

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Farmers oppose fuel price hike

July 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Rohtak (Haryana)/Mumbai, July 2 (ANI): Farmers have reacted strongly to the hike in the prices of petrol and diesel.

The delayed monsoon is forcing them to irrigate their fields through tubewells, which consume around 15-20 litres of diesel. They said the price hike would make the running of tubewells very difficult.

“This is the time to sow paddy in the fields. The monsoon has not arrived as yet. We have to use tubewell water to irrigate the fields. The tubewell consumes around 15 to 20 litres of diesel. But now, after the hike in prices of fuel, how will we arrange for so much money to run the tubewell? It will be very difficult for us. We will face heavy losses,” said Rajendra, a farmer.

The farmers said the prices of vegetables and other commodities would also go up, as transportation costs would rise because of the fuel hike.

“With the increase in fuel prices, the prices of vegetable will also go up,” said Bheema Chavan, a vegetable seller in Mumbai.

Petrol and diesel prices rose by as much as 10 percent in India, on Wednesday, the first increase this year and one of the steepest ever.

Petrol prices rose by four rupees a litre, while diesel rates were hiked by two rupees a litre.

Prices were last raised in June last year, when the average price of India’s crude imports were 113 dollar a barrel, but they were cut in December and again in January as oil prices tumbled.

The government has not increased the price of cooking gas and kerosene to protect the poor and middle-class.

Despite price increase, oil firms say they were likely to suffer a revenue loss of 560 billion rupees on sale of petrol, diesel, cooking gas and kerosene this fiscal. (ANI)

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Fuel price hike unpopular all over India

July 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, July 2 (ANI): Petrol and diesel prices rise by as much as 10 percent in India, on Wednesday, the first increase this year and one of the steepest ever.

Petrol prices rose by four rupees a litre, while diesel rates were hiked by two rupees a litre.

The price hike did not go down well with the common people who expressed their helplessness at the situation.

“The sudden increase in the prices is very strange. It will definitely burn holes in the pockets of the common people. This is pre-budget increase god knows what will happen after the budget has been passed.” said Puneet, a customer.

The hike in the fuel prices will burden the people already reeling under the impact of recession. It may trigger talk of further freight hike by the transporters.

“The price of petrol and diesel was hiked by four rupees and two rupees respectively. Let’s see what happens in future. The price hike will cause many problems for the common man, but we can’t say how much further increase there will be in the prices of fuel,” said Ishmeet Singh, another customer.

Prices were last raised in June last year, when the average price of India’s crude imports were 113 dollar a barrel, but they were cut in December and again in January as oil prices tumbled.

The government has not increased the price of cooking gas and kerosene to protect the poor and middle-class.

Despite price increase, oil firms say they were likely to suffer a revenue loss of 560 billion rupees on sale of petrol, diesel, cooking gas and kerosene this fiscal. (ANI)

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Swat refugees selling Pak Government rations to survive

June 29, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Peshawar, June 29 (ANI): Pakistani people diaplaced due to ongoing offensive of the Army against the Taliban in the Swat Valley are selling relief goods to pay for their routine expenses.

Each of the displaced families having, seven members, has been receiving 40kg wheat flour, 5kg sugar, 10kg rice, 5kg pulses, 5kg ghee, four soaps and 1kg dry milk per month from the government since May 13.

According to the UN estimates, 87 per cent of the internally displaced persons live with host communities in schools, hospitals and houses and, so, were being provided food by their hosts. Therefore, they receive relief goods, but sell the same in local markets to pay for other expenses.

“We sell the relief items because my mother is suffering from diabetes and she needs regular medication. We are not getting medicines from anyone,” said Gul Rahim, 38, a labour from Saidu Sharif now living in a school in Par Hoti, Mardan, along with his wife, three children and mother.

The Dawn quoted him as saying that he was selling the relief goods to local shopkeepers at throwaway prices, but said he had to purchase medicines for his ailing mother for which he had no other option.

“I receive the stuff every month and make Rs.3,000 from its sale. This month, I bought a pedestal fan and a gas cylinder for cooking,” said 21-year-old Javed Ali from Ambela in Buner.

Mohammad Idrees Khan, nazim of the Rustam Union Council where an estimated 30,000 IDPs from Buner and Swat have taken refuge, said that the displaced people had been getting a lot of relief goods at the start of the conflict, but now they were entirely dependent on the aid given by the government.

Jamil Rehman of Kabal, Swat, said he purchased books and notebooks for his two children from the money he received from the sale of wheat and ghee last month. “Next month, I will buy clothes and some other things for my wife and children,” he added. (ANI)

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