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Pakistan to build more N-plants: Gilani

June 28, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s nuclear capability was purely for peaceful purposes, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said while declaring that the country would build more power plants to meet its growing energy needs.

Addressing a seminar, Gilani said Pakistan would continue to comply with the requirements of International Atomic Energy Agency’s nuclear safeguard agreements.

“Building and operating nuclear power plants is vital to country’s interests because of its severe energy deficiency,” Gilani was quoted as saying by Associated Press of Pakistan Tuesday.

Gilani said the Atomic Energy Commission was poised to achieve the 8,800 MW nuclear power production by 2030 and he hoped the commission would look beyond 2030 to build more nuclear power plants.

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Ludhiana hosts seminar on Sufism

September 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Ludhiana, Sep 19(ANI): Ludhiana recently played host to a national seminar on Sufism. This time, the theme was the influence of Sufism on modern times.

The Sahitaya Academy of New Delhi and the Punjab Sahitaya Academy organized the seminar.

The seminar also focused on the ‘pain of separation from God’ and intellectuals, poets and Sufi singers.

“Sufism says that God, whom a man looks for all over, is within him. And once he realizes this fact, he will be free of his ego and will find happiness,” said Vaasthe Mohi, a Sindhi poet from Ahmedabad.

While, Gulshan Majith, a poet from Jammu and Kashmir, said: “When God is everything, so what is the importance of religion and caste discrimination, this is the message of Sufism. Shaivaism, Buddhism and Sufism give same message to the world and consider this world as the manifestation of that supreme power and do not make a distinction with the other. There are no boundaries. Everybody in this world is equal for God.”

The participants also put forth the argument that many Punjabi poets make use of themes from popular Punjabi culture. r. Chandraprakash Deval, a poet from Rajasthan, said Sufism is the paramount method to fight terrorism.

“Sufism is the best way to fight terrorism. If the minds of people can be changed, they will start respecting other religions, humanity and the feeling of brotherhood and secularism will increase, terrorism will be finished then. So to fight terrorism it is important to popularize the way shown by Sufism, adopt and follow that way and spread the feeling of brotherhood,” Deval said.

Sufi singer Balbir Kaur, who also teaches singing at Guru Nanak College in Ludhiana, held the audience spellbound and she also highlighted that school students must be made aware of the great cultural heritage, traditional folk art and literature of the Sufi saints, to promote Punjabi language.

Associating Sufism with any one religion is against its very basic tenets. Underlining this basic fact, renowned Sufi singers Idrim Khan and Skakur Khan from Rajasthan sung the verses of Bulle Shah, Guru Nanak, Kabir and Sajjan Shah. By Karan Kapoor (ANI)

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Sleeping with partner could be bad for health and relationship

September 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sept 9 (ANI): The secret to a long, healthy and happy marriage might lie in having separate beds, claims a sleep expert.

A research has found that sharing a bed often led to poor quality sleep as people were regularly disturbed by their loved ones during the night.

Speaking at a special seminar on sleep at the British Science Festival, Dr Neil Stanley, a sleep expert at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, said: “A normal double bed is 4ft 6inches wide. That means you have up to nine inches less per person in a double bed than a child has in a single bed.

“Add to this another person who kicks, punches, snores and gets up to go to the loo and is it any wonder that we are not getting a good night’s sleep?

“To save your marriage and your health you should have a discussion about your sleep.”

However, despite the detrimental effects of snoring, teeth grinding and tossing and turning, people tolerated it because culturally sleeping together is considered a sign of intimacy, reports The Telegraph.

Stanley, who follows his own advice and sleeps in a different room to his wife, said that double beds are just not conducive to a good night’s sleep.

He said the tradition of the marital bed began with the industrial revolution, when people moved into cities and found themselves short of living space. Before the Victorian era it was not uncommon for married couples to sleep apart.

“Intimacy is good for emotional health but good sleep is good for physical and mental health,” he said.

Stanley, who set up the Sleep Lab at the University of Surrey, said: “Sleep is a selfish thing to do. No one can share your sleep. If you know that your partner is next to you, then you are awake. If you are sleeping together and it is all right then carry on. If not then you should do something about it, not just tolerate it. Getting a good night’s sleep is as important as diet and exercise.”

The expert also suggested various ways through which couples could improve their sleep, if sleeping in separate beds was too much of a leap.

They included buying a bigger bed, having separate duvets and having darker curtains. (ANI)

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Nuke Sub, Aircraft Carrier in Kalam’s vision 2020 for Andamans

September 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Port Blair (Andaman and Nicobar Islands), Sep 4 (ANI): Former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam on Friday unveiled a vision document for the strategic development of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands by the year 2020.

Inaugurating a national seminar on ‘Security and Development of the Andaman and Nicobar islands’ here, Dr Kalam said that a 250 mw nuclear power station on one of the islands would form the core of the development programme.

Dr Kalam said the islands being a vital part of the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), the Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC) of the Integrated Defence Staff (IDS) would have “enhanced significance” in the next decade.

He further said that the ANC should have bases for static aircraft carrier and a nuclear,

Dr Kalam also called upon the Armed Forces to evolve an effective security plan for underneath the sea, at sea level and in air.

“The security plan which you evolve should ensure that there is no unauthorised occupation of the vacant islands,”said Dr Kalam.

Meanwhile, Commander-in-Chief of the ANC, Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar, said that the location of these islands confers a geostrategic advantage.

“Its economic and forest potential dictates a sound security presence,” he added.

Top defence and security experts, including Deputy National Security Advisor Shekhar Dutt, former Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran and Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India R Chidambaram, are attending the two-day seminar. (ANI)

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Pallam Raju calls upon private industry to participate in defence sector

August 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Aug 20(ANI): Minister of State for Defence MM Pallam Raju on Thursday called upon the private industry in IT and Engineering Design for meeting the needs of the Defence Forces.

Inaugurating a two-day seminar on ‘Emerging Technologies for Sub-Conventional Conflict and Homeland Security’, Raju said the Government plans to meet upto 70 per cent of India’s Defence purchases from indigenous sources.

“The terrorists, militants and insurgents are acquiring advanced weapons and communication equipment. Their methods of warfare are becoming more sophisticated, more complex and more systematically planned. Their objectives are becoming more ambitious, with the intention of inflicting maximum damage,” Raju said.

“Therefore, the task ahead is formidable. Our defence forces and paramilitary forces need to be further equipped, adequately trained and properly supported. Armaments and munitions, state-of-the-art equipment, and support systems in telecommunications, surveillance and other areas should be proportionate to the threat perception,” he added.

Raju further said that in order to counter the growing threat, India needs to work on a number of fronts simultaneously.

“Leveraging emerging technologies is one of the critical aspects in this area. The world has made rapid strides in technology development in conducting warfare as well as in communications and transport,” Raju said.

“India has evident capacities in information technology and engineering design in the private sector, through which it has been able to successfully capture the space of outsourcing and software services,” he added.

He also informed that the country would spend around 10 billion dollars in the next seven years on homeland security alone.

“Internal security is a matter that is engaging us very closely and is high on our priority agenda. After the horrific attacks on Mumbai last November which killed 173 people, we have taken up the challenge to modernize and upgrade our security forces in a comprehensive manner,” Raju said. (ANI)

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Malaysia to promote growth of 10,000 Indian entrepreneurs by 2011

July 13, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Malacca (Malaysia), July 13 (ANI): The Prime Minister’s Department in Malaysia has targeted raising 10,000 entrepreneurs from the Indian community in the next two years.

The Star quoted the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Senator T. Murugiah, as saying that the Indian community, especially the youths, were being encouraged to delve in small businesses, agro-farming and taking up franchises.

“To date, we have produced 3,000 entrepreneurs from the Indian community,” he told reporters after opening a seminar on small businesses, agro-farming and franchises here yesterday.

On measures announced by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak in conjunction with his 100 days in office, Murugiah said this showed that the Government had no intention of sidelining Indians. (ANI)

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Illegal constructions making Darjeeling vulnerable to landslides

July 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Darjeeling, July 9 (ANI): The massive construction of buildings, a majority of them illegal, has led to degradation of soil texture in the Darjeeling Hills area of West Bengal and making the place vulnerable to landslides.

A series of landslides hit Darjeeling and its surrounding areas in May, triggered by overnight torrents.

Local builders, however, have ignored the threat of landslides or public concern.

Geologists say that the construction of unauthorised buildings coupled with improper drainage systems has led to recent landslides.

“For the Since last 100 years, Darjeeling is witnessing an rapid increase in population. This migration of population has led to an increase in unauthorised constructions. This coupled with the lack of a proper drainage system in the Darjeeling Hills culminated in the recent catastrophic landslides,” said Subhir Sarkar, a geologist.

When asked about the problem, the State Minister for Urban Development and Municipal Affairs, Ashok Narayan Bhattacharya, said the state Government has asked the local civic body to take active measures against it.

“We would be organising a seminar in Kalimpong to ascertain the crisis, and whatever the meteorologists say is very much justified and the municipality must look into the matter,” said Bhattacharya.

Situated at a height of 2,134 meters, Darjeeling is also famous for its 125-year-old railway, a UNESCO world heritage site where the century old miniature steam engine still chugs.

During the late 50s of the 19th century, Darjeeling was developed as a hill station for Britishers, who wanted to escape the heat of the plains.

As time passed, Darjeeling emerged as a tourists destination. By Taruk Sarkar (ANI)

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Govt. initiative to establish Power Exchanges benefited country: Shinde

July 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, July 8 (ANI): Union Minister for Power Sushilkumar Shinde on Wednesday said that the Government’s initiative to establish Power Exchanges in India has benefitted the country.

The minister said it happened by ensuring payment security, promoting competition among stakeholders, reduction in transaction costs by providing a common platform for trading, empowering demand side response to price signals and bringing about efficiency.

“Power is a high priority sector for the Government and policy initiatives will continue to promote competition, efficiency, restructuring and investment,” said Shinde while delivering the inaugural address at a seminar on “Journey to Competitive Markets” in the national capital.

Shinde said that a number of other initiatives have also been taken for empowerment of the State Load Despatch Centers, thereby, facilitating further growth of the Power Market.

These include setting up of committees by the Ministry of Power to look into various aspects to improve the infrastructure and other facilities in the State Load Despatch Centers and their ring fencing.

Organised by Indian Energy Exchange (IEX), the seminar was meant to mark its first anniversary and attended by several luminaries of power sector.

Shinde, on this occasion, said that during the year the total number of members and clients of IEX has crossed 130 and over 3,600 million units of power worth Rs. 3,000 crore has been traded through the Power Exchange.

The Electricity Act, 2003 has been brought about to facilitate private sector participation and to help cash strapped SEBs to meet electricity demand. It envisages competition in electricity market, protection of consumer’s interests and provision of power for all.

The Act provides for National Electricity Policy, rural electrification, open access in transmission, phased open access in distribution, mandatory SERCs, license free generation and distribution, power trading, mandatory metering, and stringent penalties for theft of electricity.

The minister said considering the present inter-State power trading scenario and the need to promote power trading in a free power market, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) approved the setting up of IEX as the first power exchange in India. (ANI)

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Pakistan has an estimated 5 million drug addicts

June 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad, June 28 (ANI): The Karachi Port Trust (KPT) has estimated that there are about 5 million drug addicts in Pakistan, and that the invasion of drugs is affecting younger people in the country.

KPT Chairperson Nasreen Haque revealed this fact during a seminar at its Staff College on Friday, which was aimed at creating awareness about drug abuse and to prevent it in the society.

She further said that drugs that reach the country under various garbs are threatening to control people’s lives.

She also stressed the need for measures to keep the invasion of such drugs in check.

She said that the country has a colossal problem at hand, and that a committed response was required to address it effectively.

Nasreen insisted that synergistic efforts were required to implement various drug prevention and treatment strategies.

She pointed out that the drug situation was witnessing changing trends, and that people were increasingly turning to Charas, Opium and Heroin.

According to her, synthetic drugs like Ecstasy and Ketamine had also gained popularity and are finding place in parties held in posh localities.

She congratulated the United Nations Association of Pakistan for organising the awareness program, and said that the social disease is to be fought at all levels – individual, parental, community, societal, administrative, legal and educational. (ANI)

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Govt. to act ruthlessly against malpractices in defence contracts: Antony

May 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 27 (ANI): In the toughest ever message yet to be issued by a Defence Minister to stem corruption in armed forces procurements, A K Antony today said the Government “would not hesitate to ruthlessly cancel contracts,” if malpractices are found in any acquisition.

Antony asked organisations such as the CII and the FICCI, etc to help the government to maintain transparency and integrity in defence contracts, and added that the government would not tolerate “wheeling dealing or corruption.”

“We are determined that we need procurements, (but) we cannot compromise on transparency. At times, we have found certain manipulations, malpractices; we cannot ignore that so we ruthlessly cancelled certain major ticket items.”

“In the future also if there are any malpractices we will not be lenient, we will take the harsh lane,” Antony further said.

The government cancelled at least two defence deals during Antony’s previous tenure as Defence Minister, including the Eurocopter light utility helicopter deal owing to some malpractices.

Signifying the government’s assurance in rooting out corruption and to give a strong warning to private contractors, Antony added, ” They should not try to bribe our people. We will not be lenient. We will take strong action.”

The Defence Minister was speaking at Defcom India 2009 seminar themed on “Informatics for Defence Transformation and Technology Development in the Information Age”.

The seminar saw participation of over 400 delegates and 100 plus companies.

Antony said the Government has consciously taken a decision to minimise the country’s dependence on import of defence systems and platforms, and agreed that more products should be sourced on the basis of “buy and make” rather than ‘buy’ category alone.

He lamented that nearly 70 percent of defence weapons and systems are still being imported and only 30 percent are being indigenously produced.

Antony said the turbulence in our immediate neighbourhood puts the political stability in our country in an even better perspective.

He said the need to modernise our defence forces to preserve our territorial integrity in the face of asymmetric and unconventional means of warfare couldn’t be overemphasised.

Antony called for a synergy of efforts of the armed forces, the industry, the academia and research and development establishments to transform our defence forces to a network centric force.

The transformation of defence forces is a continuous process, and the overall aim should be to bring about sustained competitive advantages in warfare, Antony said.

Referring to the new challenges before the Armed Forces, both in terms of the concepts involved and the material needed, Antony said it is neither possible nor feasible to have equipment and systems on stand-by for all conceivable variants of modern military conflicts. By Praful Kumar Singh (ANI)

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Lara Bingle, Lee Furlong no-shows at WAG counselling session

May 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Melbourne, May 27 (ANI): Cricket WAGS Lara Bingle and Lee Furlong were no-shows at yesterday’s special counselling seminar held at the team’s pre-Ashes camp on the Sunshine Coast.

The wives and girlfriends of all 25 contracted Australian cricketers – especially the 16 to tour England – were invited to sessions overseen by Relationships Australia.

They came after scenes of high tension between some WAGS on the 2005 Ashes tour.

According to the Daily Telegraph, partners of just over half the 16 – and their children – attended two sessions designed to help them cope with tensions on the road or being without their partners for long periods.

The WAGS will be with the team for the first two Tests in July, then another long separation from husbands, beaus and fathers begins.

Don’t call me a WAG, says Furlong

Confidential has learnt one of the catalysts for the counselling sessions was following the Lords Test in 2005, when the cricketers, on returning to their hotel after celebrating their win, discovered their women in the middle of a heated argument.

A source said two senior players’ wives had an argument – and other WAGS joined in.

“We walked into the foyer and all the partners were angry and upset with their hands on hips,” a source said.

Pope said Furlong who is partner to Shane Watson and Bingle who is fiancee of Michael Clarke were unable to attend due to work commitments. (ANI)

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Building on Indian Navy’s initiative, Lanka hosts 34 navies of IOR

May 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 21 (ANI): Taking the Indian Navy’s initiative a step further to increase maritime cooperation among navies/maritime agencies in the Indian Ocean Region, the Sri Lanka Navy is hosting IONS Technical Seminar 2009 in which delegates of thirty-four nations are participating.

The IONS (Indian Ocean Naval Symposium) provides a forum for discussion of issues, both regional and global. The Indian Navy wants to generate a flow of information and opinion between naval professionals.

The IONS came into existence as a consequence of the deliberations made by the commanders of the navies around the Indian Ocean who gathered in India in February 2008 at the invitation of Navy Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta.

The seminar conducted by the Lankan Navy under the theme of ‘Practical Cooperative Mechanisms for Technical Support within the Indian Ocean. It is being held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on May 21-22.

Sri Lanka Navy, which extends its unstinting support for IONS, is showing its commitment to maintain the regional momentum generated through the regional maritime security initiative alive by hosting the technical seminar, which is expected to enhance the cooperation among regional navies.

The technical seminar will focus its attention on formulation of standards for interoperability and technical cooperation between IONS countries, understanding procedures, maintenance and repair methodologies being followed in IONS countries.

It is expected that the IONS Technical Seminar will provide a conducive platform for the participants to deliberate upon technical issues, which come under the IONS mandate and in turn enhance the friendship and professional cooperation among the Navies of the Indian Ocean Region.

By conducting the Technical Seminar in Sri Lanka, it is believed that the country as a whole and the Sri Lanka Navy in particular can achieve greater acceptance among regional navies. By Praful umar Singh (ANI)

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‘Malay-Indians should take full advantage of available opportunities’

May 16, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kuala Lumpur, May 16 (ANI): The Deputy Minister in Malaysian Prime Minister’s cabinet, T. Murugiah, has urged the Malay-Indian community to identify and take advantage of programs available with various ministries rather than cribbing about lack of opportunities.

The Star Online quoted him as saying that many Indians, who attended the seminars held throughout the country since January, had benefited tremendously.

Murugiah was speaking to the reporters after opening a seminar on small business and agriculture, organized by his ministry in Seremban on Friday.

He said that the Government can provide the necessary opportunities but that the Indian community must put all its effort and determination to ensuring the success of their business ventures.

He further said he would ensure that the Indian community would get the necessary allocations during his term of office. (ANI)

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‘Malay-Indians should take full advantage of available opportunities’

May 16, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

The Star Online quoted him as saying that many Indians, who attended the seminars held throughout the country since January, had benefited tremendously.

Murugiah was speaking to the reporters after opening a seminar on small business and agriculture, organized by his ministry in Seremban on Friday.

He said that the Government can provide the necessary opportunities but that the Indian community must put all its effort and determination to ensuring the success of their business ventures.

He further said he would ensure that the Indian community would get the necessary allocations during his term of office. (ANI)

Iran’s 4 salt mummies placed in vacuum chamber for preservation

May 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Tehran, May 12 (ANI): Iran’s four saltmen, unique salt mummies, have been placed in one of the most advanced display cases in the world, in an attempt to maintain and preserve them.

According to Payvand Iran News, the vacuum chamber in Zanjan, where the mummies have been kept, can precisely control humidity and airflow and is provided with a nitrogen-rich mixture deadly to known bacteria and mold.

Iranian, British, German and Austrian researchers declared air and humidity the main enemies of salt mummies at the 2nd International Seminar on the Archeology and Pathology of Saltmen in October, 2007.

The experts examined the saltmen’s condition to make the final decision on carrying out further studies on the Chehrabad salt mine, where the saltmen were found.

The Chehrabad Salt Mine is located in the Hamzehlou region of Zanjan province in northwestern Iran.

The saltmen, also known as the Iranian salt mummies, were accidentally discovered by miners in 1993.

Three of the saltmen date to the Parthian (247 BCE – 224 CE) and the Sassanid (224 – 651 CE) eras, while all other human remains discovered at the site go back to the Achaemenid Dynasty (550 – 330 BCE).

Artifacts have been discovered alongside the skeletons, including leather shoes, a leather bag, a terracotta lamp and two cow horns, most of which remain intact.

Salt at the mine worked to preserve the artifacts, as well as the internal organs of the salt men themselves.

Fingernails and hair have also been found undamaged, which will enable scientific testing to be carried out that could reveal further clues about these ancient people. (ANI)

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Uproar after Radio Televisyen Malaysia’s retiming of Mandarin, Tamil news

April 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kuala Lumpur, Apr 21 (ANI): Radio Televisyen Malaysia’s (RTM) Chinese and Indian viewers of Tamil origin are all riled up over the retiming of the Mandarin and Tamil news slots.

The MCA claimed the change of the Mandarin news time slot from 8 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. on TV2 would not benefit Chinese viewers, while a PPP leader Senator T. Murugiah also cited the same over the rescheduling of Tamil @ 2 news from its original 7.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. beginning on Monday.

MCA spokesman Lee Wei Keat yesterday questioned the Information, Communications, Arts and Culture Ministry’s motive in changing the time.

He said the revised time slot would inconvenience viewers and eventually affect the ratings and image of the RTM, The Star reported.

“The ministry should revert the Mandarin news time slot to its previous prime time of 8 p.m.,” he said.

Starting yesterday, the 30-minute Mandarin news is aired at 6.30 p.m. and noon daily on TV2, as opposed to the previous time slot of 8 p.m. on TV1.

“Many viewers will not be able to catch the news from 6.30pm to 7pm as they would either be travelling home from work or busy preparing dinner for families,” said Lee who is also MCA Information and Communications Bureau chairman.

In Ipoh, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Senator T. Murugiah said many Indian workers complained that they could not catch the programme, called Tamil @ 2, because it was being aired too early.

“Those working in Kuala Lumpur, especially, would be caught in traffic jams. They could not make it back in time for the news,” he said after opening a motivational seminar for Indian students at SMK Sungai Pari here yesterday. (ANI)

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ArcelorMittal’s Orissa, Jharkhand steel projects delayed by two years

April 18, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

The LN Mittal-controlled company, ArcelorMittal, is reportedly holding up its $20-25 billion proposed steel projects in Orissa and Jharkhand, largely because of the global economic crisis that has weakened demand for steel. As such, the world’s biggest steelmaker’s pending payment to the state government, for a 1,500-acre land earmarked for the proposed facility, will also be delayed.

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a steel industry seminar organized the FICCI – Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry – the ArcelorMittal’s India operations head, Vijay Bhatnagar, said that that company had no intentions of cancelling either of the projects, and the delay was a result of “changed priorities.”

Bhatnagar cited “economic downturn” as the “top reason” for the delay in the projects. He added that the other reason was “procedural delays and the cycle times have been much more to get land and mining resources” than anticipated.

Prior to the announced delay, the India-born, London-based entrepreneur Mittal had said that the groundbreaking for both Orissa and Jharkand projects – the company’s only greenfield steel plants globally; each with an overall 12 million tonnes per annum steel capacity – will kick off by end-2009 and production would begin by 2014.

However, Bhatnagar specified that, in the present economic scenario, “greenfield steel projects certainly do not top the list.”

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Mumbai Becomes First Indian City To Have Bone Marrow Database

April 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Thus far, foreign countries had marrow donor registries, but now, India has also registered its name in the same list.

Indias Mumbai first became the first to join the league with the Marrow Donor Registry India (MDRI).

MDRI will be a database of bone marrow donors and the donor marrow can be used treating patients fighting life-threatening blood disorders in India or abroad.

Bone marrow transplants are still a rarity in India, mainly because no therere no registries.

According to data, around 40,000 Indians suffering from blood disorders including leukaemia, aplastic anaemia, sickle-cell anaemia and such, lost their lives for want of donors, and just 30% of those have any chance of finding a match within their families, whereas the remaining have to depend upon unrelated donors.

At a seminar on Saturday, Dr. Sunil Parekh, haematologist at Bombay Hospital, stated, The intention of setting up a bone marrow registry with a national reach was to eliminate these problems that patients encounter.

The bone marrow registry is housed in Parel’s Tata Memorial Hospital, and has already recorded 1,349 donors. The All India Institute of Medical Science, Delhi started the first marrow donor registry in India.

The marrow donor registry at Tata has an advisory panel with specialists and will have access to international databases also.

“It is connected to registries in Australia, Japan, France, Germany, Scandinavia, Italy, Denmark, the US and UK,” said Dr. Ashok Kirpalani of the Indian Society of Organ Transplant, the NGO that worked closely with Tata Hospital to set up the registry.

Representatives from the registry will go to colleges and business houses in order to find donors.

According to Kirpalani, in the absence of donor registries in India, patients face two problems, “First it is hard to find a donor-match for a patient in India in western registries due to our genetic differences. Second Indians who are able to find a match, have to go abroad for the transplant costing Rs1 crore to Rs1.5 crore.”

Dr. Mammen Chandy of the CMC Hospital, Vellore, said there was a great requirement for an Indian registry.

During the last nine months, the CMC has carried out only nine transplants, and the bone marrow had to be brought in from Germany and the US.

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Pak questions construction of Kishan Ganga Dam by India

April 13, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Lahore, Apr.13 (ANI): Pakistan has once again questioned the construction of the Kishan Ganga Dam across the Indus River by India.

Addressing a ‘Pak-India Water Disputes’ seminar here, Indus Water Treaty Commissioner Syed Jamaat Ali Shah said Islamabad has conveyed its concerns to New Delhi.

“India could construct only those dams that were included in the Indus Water Treaty,” The Daily Times quoted Shah, as saying.

He informed that an Indo-Pak meeting on water reservoirs in both nations would be held in Pakistan in May. (ANI)

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Amar Singh does U-turn, won’t quit Samajwadi Party

April 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Lucknow, April 8 (IANS) Hours after he publicly threatened to quit the Samajwadi Party owing to his ego clash with senior party leader Azam Khan, Amar Singh took a U-turn, claiming he had been misunderstood.

Differences within the Samajwadi Party flared up Tuesday, when general secretary Amar Singh dared party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to choose between him and party leader Azam Khan and said he was prepared to walk out of the organisation.

‘If people think that the party can survive without me but not without Azam Khan, I would not hesitate to say good-bye to Mulayam Singhji and make an exit from the party,’ he said at a seminar organised by the Student Islamic Federation of India here.

However, later he invited select TV journalists around 11 p.m. Tuesday at his Gomati Nagar residence to tell them: ‘I may leave this world but will never leave the Samajwadi Party’.

Samajwadi Party sources claimed that Amar Singh’s ‘change of heart’ came after Mulayam Singh gave him a piece of his mind.

Mulayam Singh was understood to have reminded Amar Singh that if he had risen from a liaison officer of a corporate house to a political leader of consequence, it was entirely due to the blessings showered on him by the Samajwadi Party chief.

Amar Singh promptly went for damage control and decided to blame the media by coming up with the usual alibi that he had been misquoted.

As if building up a defence for his subdued participation in the poll campaign, he went on to plead that ‘owing to ill-health, I may not be in a position to devote as much time in the campaign as I had planned earlier’.

He said his absence at some places should not be attributed ‘to anything else’.

When a journalist sought to know what he was ailing from, pat came the reply: ‘Both my kidneys are damaged, so I have to undergo various time-consuming procedures.’

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