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Musharraf ‘shedding crocodile tears’, says ex- Pak SCBA chief

September 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad, Sep.19 (ANI): Pakistan Supreme Court Bar Association’s former President Aitzaz Ahsan has said that former President General Pervez Musharraf is ‘shedding crocodile tears’ while admitting that removing Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry from office in 2007 was a mistake.

Referring to Musharraf’s speech at Trinity University in Saint Antonio, Texas, where the former general admitted that he had committed a mistake while sacking the then Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) from office, Ahsan said Musharraf had committed not only one but two mistakes by removing the higher judiciary and imposing an emergency in the country on November 3, 2007.

Talking to a private television channel, Ahsan said the government and the ‘independent’ judiciary should play their role in trying Musharraf under high treason charges.

He said it was not the right time for lawyers to take their struggle to roads, as they did previously while demanding restoration of the judiciary, The News reports.

Meanwhile, the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) has denied that Musharraf had taken the cabinet into his confidence before promulgating the Provisional Constitutional Ordinance (PCO) and imposing the emergency rule in 2007.

Interacting with media persons during an Iftaar party hosted by PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, several party leaders rejected the notion regarding Musharraf consulting the cabinet before taking the illegal and extra-judicial actions. (ANI)

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Alice Munro receives Man Booker International Prize

May 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 27 (ANI): Renowned short story writer Alice Munro has won the third Man Booker International Prize, beating the likes of Mahasweta Devi and VS Naipaul.

The award, worth 60,000 pounds, is given every two years to a living author for a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage.

The first Man Booker prize was awarded to Ismail Kadare, from Albania, in 2005, and the second went to Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe in 2007.

“I am totally amazed and delighted,” the Telegraph quoted Munro, 77, from Canada as saying.

Munro’s stories frequently appear in publications such as the New Yorker and the Paris Review.

She will receive the prize and a trophy at a ceremony on June 25 at Trinity College, Dublin.

Munro’s first collection of stories, Dance Of The Happy Shades was published in 1968 and has also garnered the Governor General’s Award, Canada’s literary prize.

Another collection titled ‘Lives Of Girls And Women in 1971 won the Canadian Booksellers Association International Book Year Award.

In 1980 The Beggar Maid was shortlisted for the annual Booker Prize for Fiction.

“Alice Munro is mostly known as a short story writer and yet she brings as much depth, wisdom and precision to every story as most novelists bring to a lifetime of novels,” the judging panel said in a statement.

“To read Alice Munro is to learn something every time that you never thought of before,” the panel added. (ANI)

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Inexpensive plastic used in CDs could improve aircraft, computer electronics

May 16, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, May 16 (ANI): An inexpensive plastic used to manufacture CDs and DVDs will one day soon be put to use in improving the integrity of electronics in aircraft, computers and iPhones.

Thanks to a pair of grants from the US Air Force, Shay Curran, associate professor of physics at UH, and his research team have demonstrated ultra-high electrical conductive properties in plastics, called polycarbonates, by mixing them with just the right amount and type of carbon nanotubes.

Curran, who initially began this form of research a decade ago at Trinity College Dublin, started to look at high-conductive plastics in a slightly different manner.

Curran’s team has come up with a strategy to achieve higher conductivities using carbon nanotubes in plastic hosts than what has been currently achieved.

By combining nanotubes with polycarbonates, Curran’s group was able to reach a milestone of creating nanocomposites with ultra-high conductive properties.

“While its mechanical and optical properties are very good, polycarbonate is a non-conductive plastic. That means its ability to carry an electrical charge is as good as a tree, which is pretty awful,” Curran said.

“Imagine that this remarkable plastic can now not only have good optical and mechanical properties, but also good electrical characteristics. By being able to tailor the amount of nanotubes we can add to the composite, we also can change it from the conductivity of silicon to a few orders below that achieved by metals,” he added.

Making this very inexpensive plastic highly conductive could benefit electronics in everything from military aircraft to personal computers.

Computer failure, for instance, results from the build up of thermal and electrical charges, so developing these polymer nanotube composites into an antistatic coating or to provide a shield against electromagnetic interference would increase the lifespan of computing devices, ranging from PCs to PDAs.

The next step of this research is to develop ink formulations to paint these polycarbonate nanocomposites onto various electrical components. (ANI)

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Champions League: Chelsea’s Drogba warns Barcelona that it will be blown away

May 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 6 (ANI): Chelsea striker Didier Drogba has warned Barcelona that they will be blown away in the Champions League semi-final.

The Chelsea striker taunted the Catalan giants by insisting the Blues have more match winners in their team.

With so much hype around Barca’s ‘holy trinity’ of Leo Messi, Samuel Eto’o and Thierry Henry, the Ivory Coast striker hit back with a volley of his own.

Drogba, 31, said: “I think, in the last few months, we’ve shown that we can score goals and, OK, they have Messi, Henry, Eto’o, and Andres Iniesta but we can also score.

“We’ve got more players able to score. Our midfielders, our defenders can also score. We can score from every position in our side. We know that. We know that and we have to score goals to win the tie,” The Sun quoted him, as saying.n the knockout stages alone, Chelsea has found goals from four different players in three areas of the team.

Drogba is more determined than ever to make any chance count.

“It would be great for Chelsea if I’d managed to score that goal, but Valdes made two fantastic saves. Yes, I was a bit frustrated. In these kind of games, if you manage to score it makes a big difference. As a striker, you know that. If you miss a chance one game, another might come along in the next.

That is what you hope. I hope to have similar chances on Wednesday to make a difference,” he said. (ANI)

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Barcelona capable of destroying Chelsea: Henry

May 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Apr.28 (ANI): Barcelona is capable of destroying Chelsea, former Arsenal legend Thierry Henry insists.

According to the Daily Star, Henry will be joined by Samuel Eto’o and Lionel Messi in Barca’s Holy Trinity against Chelsea tonight and are huge favourites to beat the Premier League side.

Henry insists Messi is capable of twisting the Chelsea defence round.

The former Gunner said: “For us it is not a problem that some people have made Barcelona favourites. We accept that we will have to fight hard to make sure we make it to the final in Rome. Chelsea boss Guus Hiddink is a great tactician so it will be hard. But if we have enough possession we are capable of destroying any rival we face.”

“For me Lionel Messi is without doubt the number one player in the world,” he added.

“But I have to say that Barcelona is not all about Messi. Players like Xavi and Andres Iniesta are both unique and brilliant players. I dream of winning the Champions League. This is now my big chance and not one that I want to waste,” he said. (ANI)

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Punj Lloyd bags three orders worth Rs 308 crore

April 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Punj Lloyd Group, the diversified engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) Conglomerate, today announced three prestigious contracts worth Rs 308 crore for the construction of eight stations from the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation.

The group is currently constructing Singapores Mass Rail Transit (MRT) Downtown Lines Bayfront station at the Marina Bay, and a section of the MRT Circle Line besides projects for Delhi Metro.

In the first phase of Bangalore Metro Rail Project, the construction work would comprise double line electrified North-South and East-West Corridors, covering a total length of 33 kms.

According to official release, the scope of work for first order includes construction of two elevated Metro Stations at M.G. Road and Trinity Circle.

While, the scope of work for Second Order includes construction of three elevated Metro Stations at Mysore Road Terminal, Deepanjali Nagar and Magadi Road.

The company will construct three elevated Metro Stations in Rajaji Nagar, Kuvempu Road and Malleshwaram, under its third order.

All orders are scheduled to be completed in 22 months.

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9.9 Media co-founder selected for FORTUNE, US State Dept. Global Women’s Mentoring Program

April 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Apr 8 (ANI/Business Wire India): Anuradha Das Mathur, one of the founders of 9.9 Media, has been selected for the prestigious FORTUNE magazine and US State Department Global Women’s Mentoring Program.

This unique program combines the study of U.S. business culture with a working mentorship program that enables talented, emerging women business leaders across the globe to spend a month in the U.S. to enhance their capabilities and propel their careers forward.

Top American female executives – FORTUNE’s Most Powerful Women – mentor these emerging leaders to support them in their professional growth. FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit and the U.S. State Department established the Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership in May 2006.

Mathur will join 35 rising star women from around the world for the 2009 FORTUNE program slated to take place from April 26 to May 21. The program participants are fully funded by their mentor’s company.

The three-phase program opens with an orientation session in Washington, DC, where the participants meet with senior women in government, academia and business to discuss the importance of public-private partnerships, learn of American best practices in business and government and engage in interactive leadership and communications training sessions.

The international participants are then paired with one of FORTUNE’s Most Powerful Women Leaders from companies like Time, Inc., Avon, Xerox, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, and Exxon Mobil in cities across the United States.

For three weeks, American and international participants work together in mentoring relationships to share the skills and experiences necessary for strengthening women’s leadership.

Throughout the mentorship process, participants shadow a powerful woman leader and take away best practices that they can apply to their professional lives at home. The program concludes in New York City, where the participants have meetings with Goldman Sachs, Solera Capital, and Good Morning America, and to discuss lessons learned and plans for future activities.

There are now 84 FORTUNE/State Department alumnae around the world.

Mathur co-founded 9.9 Media with four other colleagues in September 2007. She is a graduate of Lady Sri Ram College, University of Delhi, and has an MA in Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge University.

She will be mentored by Patricia Fili-Krushel, who is Executive Vice President of Administration of Time Warner Inc. and is one of its senior coporate officers. Before joining Time Warner in July 2001, Fili-Krushel was CEO of WebMD Health and President at ABC Television Network. Last year, Suma Krishnaswamy, founder of Bangalore-based Cambium Biotechnologies, was selected for the program from India and mentored with Diane Gulyas, Group Vice President, DuPont Performance Materials. (ANI)

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Rahul Gandhi’s assets Rs.2.25 crore, he doesn’t own a car

April 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Sultanpur (Uttar Pradesh), April 4 (IANS) The total worth of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is around Rs.2.25 crore (Rs.22.5 million/$450,000), and the young scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family does not own a vehicle, according to an affidavit filed by him Saturday.

Rahul Gandhi, 38, who is seeking re-election from Amethi, filed his nomination papers for the Lok Sabha seat Saturday afternoon. The affidavit filed as part of the documents says his assets total around Rs.2.25 crore.

The Congress general secretary wrote nil against the column asking whether he owns a vehicle.

And the cash deposit that he owns, with the State Bank of India, Delhi, is not much either – Rs.70,000.

He has deposits with financial institutions worth Rs.7,000.

His deposits with non banking financial institution, NDFC (National Development Finance Corporation) is Rs.742,966. With the HDFC (Housing Development Finance Corporation) in New Delhi, he has Rs.341,892. Both are long term deposits.

Rahul Gandhi’s deposits with postal savings, the Life Insurance Corporation and the National Savings Scheme total Rs.1,029,128 (over Rs.1 million).

He owns 333 gm of jewellery worth Rs.150,000.

His assets, including values of claims and interests, are Rs.729,621.

He also owns agricultural land in two places. A 4.692 acre land in Mehrauli, Delhi, of which an undemarcated 50 percent is his share. The value is Rs.986,244 as on March 31, 2008.

He owns another plot of six acres in Faridabad, Haryana, worth Rs.2,822,000 (over Rs.28 lakh).

He owns two shops in the Metropolitan Mall in Saket, New Delhi. Shop no.24 in the mall is 514 sq ft and valued at Rs.55 lakh.

Another shop on the ground floor – 996 sq ft – is valued at Rs.1 crore 8 lakhs (Rs.10,800,000).

Against liabilities, he filed that je had taken a Rs.70 lakh loan from HDFC in 2006, of which Rs.23 lakh has to be returned.

He has paid income tax of Rs.1,120,880 and sales tax of Rs.532,000.

He paid property tax of Rs.78,000 this year.

According to the documents filed, Rahul Gandhi is an M.Phil in development economics from Trinity College, University of Cambridge, 1995. He has done his Bachelor in Arts from Rollins College, Florida, in 1994.

He filed his nomination at the Sultanpur District Collectorate at the office of the additional district magistrate Radhey Shyam, who is the returning officer for the Amethi Lok Sabha polls.

There are no criminal cases pending against the Amethi MP.

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Henry VIII ‘was devout Catholic’

April 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Apr 4 (ANI): Known as the scourge of the Catholic Church, Henry VIII has long been regarded as a religious sceptic, however, a “new extraordinary discovery” has revealed that he was a firm believer in the religion he later attempted to destroy.

A prayer roll (bede) once owned by Henry and inscribed with his own handwriting has emerged. The roll, which is around 13 feet long and 5 inches wide, will be kept for public display for the first time at the British Library’s exhibition ‘Henry VIII: Man and Monarch,’ which opens later this month and marks the 500th anniversary of Henry’s accession.

The roll is made of narrow strips of parchment stitched together, and bears Henry’s official badge of arms and the Tudor rose. It is decorated with a series of illuminations including the Trinity, the Crucifixion and scenes from Christ’s Passion.

Under the central image of Christ’s Passion is an inscription written by Henry, which reads: “Willyam Thomas, I pray yow pray for me your lovyng master: Prynce Henry.”

Inscribed with Latin prayers and religious instructions, the roll explains how the devotions are to be performed and what rewards the faithful might expect, such as remission of time in Purgatory and protection against illness.

Experts reckon that the teenage Henry gave the roll to William Thomas, one of his personal servants in his Privy Chamber, some time between 1505 and 1509, when Henry was the Prince of Wales.

Dr David Starkey, the historian, who has curated the British Library’s exhibition, described the roll as “a very exciting discovery”.

“I knew nothing of its existence until I began my research for the exhibition, so it has been a very exciting discovery. Many academic historians have long argued that Henry was sceptical of religion from his youth, and that this scepticism ultimately led to the break with Rome and the Reformation,” The Telegraph quoted him, as saying.

He added: “But what we have here, for the very first time, is absolute concrete evidence to the contrary. The Ushaw roll shows just how conservative and pious he was as a young man and how he was, in fact, two very different men before and after his divorce.

“We tend to remember Henry for all the extraordinarily revolutionary things he did, but this highlights how incredibly old-fashioned the young Henry was.

“It is proof that he actually believed in the religion characteristic of late medieval piety and believed that the sacraments carried out miracles – beliefs which he tried to destroy with the Reformation. It will surprise a lot of people.”

Dr Starkey said that Henry would have used the roll as a talisman that he carried with him, which he would have unrolled when he wished to pray. (ANI)

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Obama’s Wikipedia Page distances him from both Wright and Ayers

March 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Mar.10 (ANI): President Barack Obama’s Wikipedia page has been edited to remove any mention of his links to former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers and Reverend Jeremiah Wright, though pages for Ayers and Wright are heavily peppered with references to the president, including subsections on both pages that detail their past affiliations with him.

The lone mention of Wright on Obama’s page appears in a section on his family and personal life; it says the president left Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ in May 2008 after “controversial statements made by Wright became public.”

The free online encyclopedia has also reportedly deleted attempts to add Ayers’ name to Obama’s main entry.

One such addition, according to WorldNetDaily, included details of Obama’s tenure alongside Ayers on the board of directors at several organizations in Chicago during the 1990s.

“Within two minutes that Wikipedia entry was deleted and the user banned from posting on the website for three days, purportedly for adding ‘Point of View junk edits,’ even though the addition was well-established fact,” WorldNetDaily reports.

Though Obama was baptized at the church in 1988 and remained an “active member” at Trinity United for two decades, Wright is not cited in a paragraph on Obama’s religion.

“Obama is a Christian whose religious views have evolved in his adult life,” the entry reads. “In The Audacity of Hope, Obama writes that he ‘was not raised in a religious household.’”

But according to an archived Wikipedia page for Obama from February 2008, a theme of Obama’s 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address and the title of his 2006 book, “The Audacity of Hope,” was “inspired” by Wright.

The sixth chapter of Obama’s book – titled “Faith” – details how “Obama, in his twenties, while working with local churches as a community organizer, came to understand ‘the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change,’” according to the archived entry.

Neither that archived page nor Obama’s current Wikipedia page contains any mention of Ayers – whose own page, like Wright’s, contains a separate section detailing his link to Obama. (ANI)

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Archbishop of York says Christians regarded as ‘mad’ by society

February 18, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Feb. 18 (ANI): The Archbishop of York Dr. John Sentamu has said the society considers Christians to be ‘mad’ because they are motivated by charity and compassion rather than the reckless pursuit of money. Many Christians are living out their lives as the church dispersed in the world of business and commerce every day. They are involved daily in building the Kingdom and have the daily challenge of living by a set of values that the world thinks are mad,” Sentamu said on Tuesday at the Trinity Brompton church in West London.

Sentamu, the second most senior cleric in the Church of England and its first black Archbishop, said the recession should lead to a rediscovery of what is truly important in life.

“All of life is religious and there is a desperate need to reconnect the sacred and the secular. There is no more urgent time than now to break down the compartmentalized thinking that separates trust in God from the world of work,” the Telegraph quoted him, as saying.

Sentamu has repeatedly criticised the greed and recklessness in the banking sector, which eventually led to the current financial crisis.

In his latest attack, he said: “In our imagination, addiction to growth, fuelled by over-borrowing (debt), stopped being a bad thing. Instead, it became a means to an end, a route to growth. The unfettered pursuit of profit was never going to deliver. It is this idolatrous love of money, pursuing profit without regard for ethic, risk or consequence, which led us to our current situation.”

The Archbishop, however, expressed confidence that London would get through the current recession.

“Just as after the war they had to live through a time of pre-fabs and rationing, I believe we urgently need to rediscover what it is to rebuild the city in our day, and now, in this time of transition, we need to learn how to build it,” he said.

Sentamu also said faith cannot be separated from the world of work, and the staff should not be expected to give up their religious convictions when they walk into the office, he added.

“There needn’t be a separation between what goes on in church and in our prayers – and what goes on in the office or in the boardroom or on the shop floor.” (ANI)

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