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India demands stern action against perpetrators of Melbourne attackers

September 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Sept 16 (ANI): The Indian Government on Wednesday called on the Australian Government to take stern action against the perpetrators of alleged racial assaults on Indians in Melbourne, Victoria.

External Affairs Ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash said in a statement that the matter of the recurring attacks on Indians in Australia had been taken up with Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith by Indian High Commissioner Sujatha Singh.

“As we take note of the assurances given, including from the highest levels of the government and provincial authorities of Australia, it is our earnest hope that the concerned authorities would take all necessary steps towards the safety and security of Indians in that country,” said Prakash in a statement.

“The Indian Consul General in Melbourne is in contact with authorities in Victoria including the police authorities,” he added.

“We hope that the latest incident is investigated with care and the culprits are dealt with, according to the laws of the land. It would also help, if various measures being contemplated by the Australian side, in addition to those already announced, are put in place at the earliest, to prevent reoccurrence of such incidents in the future,” Prakash said.

Officials of the Consulate General of India in Melbourne, are also in touch with family members of the victims.

Two Indian nationals and two other persons of Indian origin were assaulted by a group of individuals at Melbourne late in the evening on September 12.

One of the Indian nationals, Sukhdip Singh sustained serious injuries and is presently undergoing treatment.

“We are informed that the police arrested four individuals who have since been released pending further investigations,” Prakash said. (ANI)

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India’s top priority is to mitigate impact of scanty rains, says Pranab Mukherjee

August 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Aug. 25 (ANI): India has withstood global financial storm and mitigating the impact of scanty rains is government’s top priority, said Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee here today.

“Despite the global economic crisis, we grew by 6.7 per cent last year. This year, we are getting mixed signals and indicators are good as far as industrial production data and business demand and investor confidence are concerned. The government, however, was not in a position to lower its guard, given the uncertainties continuing in the global economic scenario.

“At this juncture, delayed monsoon has impacted many parts of the agrarian economy. Mitigating the impact of deficient monsoon is a high priority,” he told a private TV channel.

Mukherjee said the process of economic reforms, which began in early 1990s, would continue in the right earnest so that the economy returns to a growth of over 9 percent at the earliest.

Commenting on the disinvestment programme, the Finance Minister said it was aimed at expanding people’s participation in the public sector units, and gathering resources was not the main objective.

Speaking on government’s borrowing plan, he said it would not crowd out private sector investments.

“In this regard government and the RBI are in continuous touch,” Mukherjee said.

The government has plans to borrow nearly 4,00,000 crore rupees from markets during 2009-10, a rise of about 50 percent over what it borrowed a year ago, to fund the widening fiscal deficit necessitated after stimulus doses for the economy. (ANI)

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Macca breaks silence over friendship with Lennon

August 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Aug 24 (ANI): Sir Paul McCartney has broken the silence over his friendship with his ‘The Beatles’ co-member John Lennon, and denied that they shared a sour relationship.

Macca seems considerate about his dead friend’s drug use, and believes that the complaints his pal made in interviews that he sabotaged songs in the studio could be excused, as he always expressed his love in the end.

“Oh, he was on drugs, wasn’t he? This is the trouble with history, with journalism. Whatever bad things John said about me, he would also slip his glasses down to the end of his nose and say, ‘I love you’,” Sky News quoted him as telling the Radio Times.

He added: “That’s really what I hold on to. That’s what I believe. The rest is showing off. John said so much crap that he later said he hadn’t meant. It’s bulls***. We were there. We all enjoyed it.

I never really criticised John. I’m not that critical. It’s a question of personalities. John’s was more abrasive than mine and that was good for his corner of the square that made up the Beatles. If we’d had two people like that – forget it – I don’t think it would have worked.”

McCartney further revealed that Lennon wasn’t the kind of man people thought he was.

He explained: “The image of John is seriously flawed because he was not the hard, mad man that people think he was. He was a very soft-centred guy and we had a lot more in common than people think. His favourite song when we were kids was Little White Lies, which was very sentimental. It was a smoochy old standard that his mum liked. That’s really what I hold on to. That’s what I believe. The rest is showing off.”

And, finally, he disclosed how the pair came together to form of the best-known and most successful writing partnerships in history.

He said: “The actual reason John and I started writing in earnest was because we’d be at a gig and the bands on before us would play songs we were about to do.”

The Beatles had split up in 1970. (ANI)

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India is in constant touch with Australia: S M Krishna

May 29, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 29 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S M Krishna has said the Indian Government is in constant touch with the authorities in Australia following attacks on Indian students.

Meanwhile, Indian High Commissioner to Australia, Sujata Singh, who met the Premier of the Australian state of Victoria, John Brumby, in a press conference, said that there is a “racist element in some of the attacks” but many of them were “opportunistic”.

She also stressed the need for strong steps by the Australian Government to prevent such incidents.

“It is my earnest hope that these attacks stop now. And that is precisely what we are all trying to work towards,” Singh added.

In a statement issued after the meeting, Brumby said the discussions had centered on the safety and security of Victoria’s Indian student community and further measures that may be required to ensure their experience of living, studying and working in Victoria was a successful and enjoyable experience.

Brumby said attacking any individual is abhorrent to the values and principles that made Victoria among the world’s most successful multicultural communities.

A student suffered burns after a suspected petrol bomb was hurled at him in his home in Sydney on Thursday.

In an another attack, hospitality graduate Rajesh Kumar received burns to 30 per cent of his body when a petrol bomb was thrown through the window of the Harris Park home he shared with other Indians. (ANI)

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Obama’s options in strife torn Pakistan are limited

May 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, May 4 (ANI): President Barack Obama has only limited options for dealing with the crisis in Pakistan, as the anti-American feeling in the country is high, and US combat presence is prohibited, according to a leading US daily.

The United States is fighting Pakistan-based extremists by proxy in order to save the PPP-led Government.

President Obama and his National Security Council were told by US intelligence that neither a Taliban takeover nor a military coup was imminent and that the Pakistani nuclear arsenal was safe, The Washington Post reports.

Security in Pakistan was deteriorating rapidly, particularly in the mountains along the Afghan border that harbour al-Qaeda and the Taliban, intelligence chiefs reported, and there were signs that those groups were working with indigenous extremists in Pakistan’s populous Punjabi heartland.

The tools most readily at hand are money, weapons, and a mentoring relationship with Pakistan’s government and military that alternates between earnest advice and anxious criticism, the paper says.

The relationship between Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and the US has restrained, after reports surfaced that the Obama Administration was wooing former premier Nawaz Sharif, Zardari’s main rival.

“What are the Americans trying to do, micromanage our politics?” a senior Pakistani official said testily. “This is not South Vietnam.”

As Zardari arrives this week for his first official visit with Obama — part of a tripartite summit with Afghan President Hamid Karzai — the Obama Administration has asked Congress to quickly approve hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency military aid for Pakistan.

That money, and billions more over the next several years, is to come with new authority for the Defence Department to decide what to spend it on.

Obama has also backed a five-year 7.5 billion dollars economic assistance package and is resisting congressional efforts to impose strict conditions on any aid to Pakistan. (ANI)

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Dinara Safina set to enjoy life at the top

May 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Stuttgart – The pink birthday cake came at the right time as Dinara Safina likes to award herself with some unhealthy food for good things she has achieved.

Turning 23 on Monday, the Russian said that “I like to give something to myself” and to “celebrate every time when the opportunity is there.”

The birthday was one occasion, but Safina is also playing her first tennis tournament this week at the Porsche Grand Prix since taking the world number one ranking right days ago.

“It feels very good,” she said. “Staying number one is a challenge. But I want to enjoy the challenge.”

Safina was hailed as a big talent but spent a long time in the shadow of her brother Marat Safin who held the men’s top spot in 2000.

Safina failed to show her full potential, falling victim to her temper and poor tactics.

The man who changed all that to the better his Zeljko Krajan, a former Croatian player who became her coach in late 2007.

“I was lucky to find the person who opened my mind. He took me from number 17 to number one,” said Safina. “Before, I had the shots but didn’t use them as weapons.”

The breakthrough came 12 months ago in Berlin when Safina beat then number one Justin Henin and American Serena Williams en route to the title.

“Berlin changed everything,” said Safina, who went on to win three more titles in 2008 and also was a finalist at the French Open and Beijing Olympics.

Safina reached another big final at the Australian Open in January but was crushed there by Williams in a match which was also for the top ranking.

She failed again at several more occasions to earn the number one, but failed again “because I got too tight and suffered in matches. It was only about winning, I wasn’t as relaxed.”

The top spot finally came last week and the top seeded Safina must now prove her class in Stuttgart where she could meet Serbian Jelena Jankovic, another former number one and the defending champion, in the semi-finals.

Safina does also not mind all the obligations which come with the top spot: “It will be new but this is what I wanted. I wanted to be famous.”

The Porsche Grand Prix is the first official WTA clay court tournament held indoors as the buildup in Europe for the French Open starts in earnest.

Safina, who opens on Tuesday or Wednesday against Italy’s Sara Errani, said she feels comfortable as she has already played several Fed Cup ties indoors on the dirt.

But she is already looking beyond Stuttgart, well aware that she will only be fully recognized as a top act with a Grand Slam title.

“My mission is nit finished yet. I want to win a Grand Slam. I have to work hard but I think I can do it. I have been in finals,” Safina said. (dpa)

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Rachel McAdams, Josh Lucas signing up for Yoga classes

May 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New York, Apr 28 (ANI): Canadian actress Rachel McAdams and her boyfriend actor Josh Lucas were spotted having an earnest conversation with a Yoga instructor.

McAdams, 30, and Lucas, 37, went to the Golden Bridge Yoga NYC in NoLIta to take a class and set up private sessions.

“They were in pretty serious talks with the teacher afterward,” the New York Post quoted an onlooker as saying.

The week before, Lucas was spotted helping McAdams look for an apartment in the East Village. (ANI)

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Tokyo confident as IOC evaluation team looks at Olympics bid

April 18, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Tokyo-Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso pledged his government’s full support for Tokyo’s bid to host the 2016 Games as a delegation from the International Olympics Committee began an inspection Thursday.

“It is my earnest desire to invite young Olympians from around the world to Tokyo to experience what I felt and learned as a young athlete,” Aso told the 13-member IOC evaluation team.

Aso, who was a member of the Japanese shooting team at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, added: “Whatever needs to be done, will be done. Whatever needs to be built, will be built. Whatever needs to be financed, will be financed.”

Tokyo officials say they are confident of promoting the city as the most appropriate venue for the 2016 Games.

“I was very nervous all day,” Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara said at a press conference. “But many experts gathered and I was also able to answer IOC’s pinpoint questions.”

Japan’s capital is aiming to stage the world’s first carbon-minus Olympic and what it calls the most ambitious energy conservation policy for the Games. No details were revealed.

But Ishihara expressed concerns whether four days would be sufficient for the IOC to assess Tokyo’s financial ability and environmental conditions.

Although the city has a central government’s guarantee to finance the Games, Tokyo currently sees no need to make use of it, Ishihara has said.

The IOC evaluation team was expected to complete the inspection on Monday.

Besides Tokyo, Chicago, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro are bidding to host the summer games in 2016. (dpa)

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People want peaceful polls in Manipur

April 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Imphal, April 10 (ANI): People in Manipur fear that with political parties gearing up for the 15th Lok Sabha elections, militants are trying to vitiate the atmosphere and create a fear psychosis amongst political leaders and workers.

Suspected militants recently bombed the residence of Congress worker and the President of Imphal West District Jilla Prishad Soibam Subhaschandra at Ningombam village under Singjamei police station.

Though Subhaschandra was not at home at the time of blast, his wife Binodini sustained splinter injuries on her head.

A number of residents have registered protest against the bomb attack.

The incident has created panic among people and family members of victims.

“Such activities that disturb the public are hampering the work we are doing for the welfare of the society. It is my appeal that we shun the path of violence and live together in harmony. This is my earnest appeal,” said Soibam Subhaschandra Singh, Adhayaksha, Imphal West.

“I feel really unhappy and such incidents like throwing of bombs at the residence should not occur.” Sotinkumar Singh, victim’s Son.

Local residents staged a sit-in-protest at the community hall at Ningombam in Imphal, condemning the attack and demanded that such attacks should be stopped immediately.

“As public, we are really deeply unhappy and concerned about such incidents. We fear that we may be targeted and shot. We also fear for the lives of our children. We are really troubled,” said Prabha Leima Devi.

Workers of various political parties have condemned frequent targeting of the political leaders and workers in the state.

“This present situation, attacking, killing and threatening the candidates and political workers is a matter of great concern,” said Dr. H. Borobabu Singh, President, BJP, Manipur Pradesh.

The violence unleashed by militants has been strongly condemned by the people. It has severely disrupted the economic growth of the region. (ANI)

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Mohanty cracks the whip

April 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

HYDERABAD: Placed on the hot seat barely few days before polling by the Election Commission, DGP A K Mohanty has begun cracking the whip. He has
recommended the transfer of East Godavari SP Y Nagi Reddy to the Election Commission for not fulfilling the poll-related responsibilities. Sources said the axe is likely to fall on at least two other SPs and some DSPs.

Given the little time he has at his disposal, Mohanty has conveyed to his personnel that three basic things should be monitored and implemented to ensure a fair and fear-free elections: checking illegal flow of money, unlicensed sale of liquor and executing non-bailable warrants against anti-social elements to ensure that they do not roam around, striking fear among voters. To this end, Mohanty reportedly has stressed on visible policing, which is simply stopping vehicles and individuals randomly and checking them thoroughly.

Nagi Reddy has been serving in East Godavari since April 2008. Sources said some senior field officers are under watch for non-performance and errant behaviour on a case by case basis. The new DGP is conveying one simple message to the district police bosses. Check the flow of cash and liquor, and round up the lumpen elements. Do not deviate from the instructions. If you do not do so, you are out, said the SP of a Telangana district.

But Mohanty appears to have his hands full as money and liquor seem to flow freely. Till Saturday, at least Rs 13 crore in cash ostensibly meant for distribution among the electorate has been seized from several persons including aides, gunmen and workers of candidates and political leaders. The amount seized is a pittance as compared to what the candidates are spending, which is anywhere between Rs 4-6 crore per assembly constituency, said one candidate.

With regard to liquor, the biggest task for the DGP is to ensure the closure of belt shops. Excise officials said despite the Election Commission directive that belt shops should be closed, many continue to exist and in fact, new ones appeared to have sprung up. This is evidenced by the fact that liquor sales in districts did not decrease in March, something that should have happened if the belt shops, which account for 40 per cent of the revenue, had been shut down.

With regard to rounding up criminals, Mohanty appears to have begun in right earnest as many of the NBWs are being executed.

In all, there are said to be about 800 NBWs pending execution. But Mohantys biggest challenge is checking the flow of money and liquor. And as of now, there is a free flow of these two, said one leader.

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Political activities firm up as Election Commission announces polls

March 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Jangipur/Kolkata/Patna/Jammu, Mar 3 (ANI): Political parleys began in earnest as the Election Commission announced dates for April-May general elections.

Congress said that talks were on with Trinamool Congress in West Bengal for a poll pact.

“We have discussed on poll alliance. The discussion was fruitful and productive. The matter will be finalised in full detail by the All India Congress Committee in Delhi,” said Pranab Mukherjee, senior Congress leader and External Affairs Minister in Jangipur.

Trinamool Congress demanded deployment of central paramilitary force in all the poll booths in the state to ensure free and fair election.

“It is our parliamentary demand that each and individual booth of the state should be manned and managed by the Central Government paramilitary force,” said Mukul Roy, a senior leader of Trinamool Congress in Kolkata.

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), an ally of the UPA said the coalition was in a position to project a united front against what he termed a disjointed opposition alliance.

“The NDA and the BJP would be a separate compartment and the UPA and we all the secular forces will try our level best to fight them,” RJD chief Lalu told reporters in Patna.

Meanwhile, welcoming the poll schedule, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah hoped that there would a large turnout similar to the last year’s assembly election in the state.

“I am extremely hopeful that we will have a similar environment, in which people will be free to come out and use their vote for the candidate of their own choice. That is the essence of democracy,” said Abdullah in Jammu. (ANI)

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