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July 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

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Former star NFL quarterback Steve McNair 36 years old and Saleh Kazemi, 20 years old has been identified as the woman found dead near him, was his girlfriend or some other jealous ex lover. It is believed that McNair had been dating Saleh Kazemi for several months. McNair, with Peyton Manning won the league’s the Most Valuable Player award in 2003.

Saleh Kazemi was recently cited for DUI while driving a car registered in the name of McNair.

As reported before Steve McNair was found by friends Wayne Neely and Robert Gaddy, dead of multiple gunshot wounds. A pistol laid near the body of Sahel Kazemi. Played 13 seasons on the NFL, and most of the time for the Tennessee Titans.

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Kournikova, Eglesias engaged?

July 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, July 7 (IANS) Tennis player turned model Anna Kournikova has sparked rumours that she has got engaged to Spanish singer beau Enrique Iglesias after she was spotted wearing a diamond band on her ring finger.
Kournikova, who has been dating Iglesias on and off for eight years, has been wearing a large diamond ring on her wedding finger, sparking rumours the couple are set to wed, reports contactmusic.com.

When a reporter asked her about the ring’s significance, she snapped: “I thought you were the good press”, and quickly put her hand behind her back.

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Filipino inmates in `Thriller’ video stage tribute

July 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

CEBU, Philippines – The Filipino inmates who shot to global fame with a YouTube video of their “Thriller” dance swayed and stomped again Saturday in a behind-bars tribute to their idol, Michael Jackson.

After being told of Jackson’s death Thursday in Los Angeles, the 1,500 inmates at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center hit the exercise yard, practicing for nine hours Friday night — and into the wee hours of Saturday morning — for the show. They took breaks only to eat or when it rained, said professional choreographer Gwendolyn Lador, hired by the prison to teach the inmates the dance.

“I felt sad because we lost our idol,” said inmate Wenjiel Resane, who plays the role of Jackson’s girlfriend in the video.

Crisanto Nieri, 38, was feeling a little extra stress. He danced Jackson’s part in “Thriller.”

“Even as a kid, he was already my idol,” said Nieri, who is serving seven years on drug charges. “I am happy that our video became famous, but I feel some pressure to perform well.”

A crowd of 700 Cebuanos and foreign tourists watched the performance from a second-floor corridor, swaying to the music and applauding as the inmates, dressed in orange prison T-shirts and sweat pants, stomped and clapped in unison in the hilltop prison, behind thick stone walls topped by electrified razor wire.

Other numbers included “Ben,” “I’ll Be There” and “We Are the World.” The inmates then held up a 5-by-10 foot (1.5-by-3 meter) tarpaulin showing Michael Jackson holding a sword with his name written below it.

Others waved the flags of the Philippines and other nations.

Before the show, the performers dedicated a prayer to Jackson’s family.

“I was sad because one of the songs of Michael Jackson, `Thriller,’ made us famous around the world,” said Francis Mercader, 36, who has spent a year in detention while on trial for drug charges.

Byron Garcia, the Cebu provincial security consultant who came up with the idea of adding synchronized dancing to poorly attended exercise sessions, said he was surprised by the popularity of the 2007 video — one of more than a dozen inmate dance numbers he has posted on YouTube.

“Thriller” has attracted 24.3 million hits since it was posted two years ago, with nearly a million of them in the 24 hours since news of Jackson’s death spread.

The inmates “consider Michael Jackson as a god here,” Garcia said. “If not for Michael Jackson, they would not have this international recognition.”

“The fame brought them back their self-esteem,” he told reporters. “So that’s why we have these public performances.”

Inmate Alfredo Gaballo, 52, says Jackson “inspired us, so we are all sad about his death.”

“The performance today has been amazing,” said Karen Benrad, 29, from London. She and about two dozen foreign and local tourists later joined the inmates at the prison quadrangle, dancing to the tune of “Macarena” and “I just can’t get enough.”

Kim Hua-sung, a 23-year-old South Korean student in Cebu who watched the inmates’ performance, said he is also a Jackson fan. “I’m sad that I can’t listen to more songs from him.”

In Taiwan, two top Michael Jackson impersonators donned fedora hats and sequined outfits Saturday, moonwalking to “Billie Jean” in their own tribute to the pop star.

Thirty-year-old Wang Chih-wei told The Associated Press he secured a photo op with his idol during Jackson’s whirlwind tour in 1993 after winning an impersonation contest.

“I didn’t know much English so I could only tell him, ‘I love you,’” Wang said. “He was very friendly. I melted when he put his hand on my shoulder for the photo.”

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Associated Press writer Debby Wu contributed to this report from Taipei, Taiwan.

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Education panel wants UGC, AICTE scrapped

June 23, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

NEW DELHI: In an ambitious blueprint for reform of the education sector, the high-powered Yashpal Committee has recommended scrapping a whole lot of powerful bodies — University Grants Commission, All India Council for Technical Education, National Council for Teacher Education and Distance Education Council.

The committee, whose report is expected to serve as a template for measures to clean up the mess in higher education
, has also recommended that IITs/IIMs be turned into universities and a GRE like test be evolved for university education.

The committee said a plethora of regulatory bodies like UGC should be replaced by a super regulator: a seven-member Commission for Higher Education and Research (CHER) under an Act of Parliament. It has also recommended, obviously with a view to buffer the new regulator against political and other pressures, that the position of chairperson of the proposed commission should be analogous to that of election commissioners.

The high-powered committee was set up under renowned scientist Yashpal, a former UGC chairman, with the mandate to suggest measures for “renovation and rejuvenation” of higher education in the country.

It also said the jurisdiction of other regulators — Medical Council of India, Bar Council of India and others — be confined to administrative matters, with universities taking up their academic responsibilities.

Finalised on Monday and to be given to HRD minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday, the report said that IITs and IIMs should be encouraged to diversify and expand their scope to work as full-fledged universities.

The panel also proposed a national testing scheme for university admissions on the lines of GRE which would be open to all aspirants and would be held more than once a year.

The proposed CHER, the report said, should first identify India’s 1,500 top colleges to upgrade them as universities and then create clusters of potentially good colleges to evolve as universities. Also, all levels of teacher education should be brought under the purview of higher education.

Expressing concern on the mushrooming of engineering and management colleges, that had “largely become business entities dispensing very poor quality education”, Yashpal committee lamented the growth of deemed universities and called for a complete ban on further grant of such status. Existing ones, the committee said, should be given three years to develop as a university and fulfil the prescribed accreditation norms.

Raising doubts about the source of funding of private education providers, the committee said mostly it was either “unaccounted wealth from business and political enterprises or from capitation fees”. It said the system of conferring academic designations as chancellors and vice-chancellors to members of the promoter’s family should be done away with. They should submit to a national accreditation system. However, the committee underlined the need for private investment in higher education.

Recommending curricular reform, the committee said teachers should have the freedom to design courses and students should be able to study subjects outside their courses.

Of the seven members of the proposed CHER, one would be an eminent professional from the world of industry. Chairperson and members will be selected by a committee headed by the PM, Leader of Opposition and the Chief Justice of India. Commission will have five divisions dealing with future directions, accreditation management, funding and development and new institutions. An eminent individual will head each division for five years.

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Thumbnail sketches of India’s new cabinet ministers

May 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) Following are the thumbnail sketches of the 33 ministers in Manmohan Singh’s cabinet:

Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister

Age: 76 years

Academic qualifications: First class honours in economics from Cambridge University, UK, in 1957. D. Phil in economics from Nuffield College, Oxford University in 1962.

Experience: Joined the government in 1971 as economic adviser in the commerce ministry and in 1972 became chief economic adviser in the finance ministry. He was secretary, finance ministry, deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, governor of the Reserve Bank of India, economic adviser to prime minister Chandra Shekhar, and chairman of the University Grants Commission.

As finance minister from 1991 to 1996, he ushered in a comprehensive policy of economic reforms that is now recognised worldwide.

Pranab Mukherjee, Finance:

Age: 74 years

Academic qualifications: M.A (History), M.A (Political Science), LL.B, D. Ltt.(Honoris Causa). Educated at Vidyasagar College, Suri (Birbhum), then affiliated to Calcutta University, West Bengal.

Experience: A troubleshooter for the Congress, he has done several key ministries, including external affairs, defence, finance, and commerce. He took charge of the government when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was hospitalised in February.

P. Chidambaram, Home

Age: 64 years

Academic qualifications: Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School. Earlier, he did a bachelors in science from Presidency College, Chennai and then a bachelor of law degree from the law college of the University of Madras, Chennai.

Experience: He has worked as finance and commerce ministers in various governments. Economists acclaim his “dream-budget” of 1996-97, in which he brought discipline in government spending and launched an ambitious tax reform programme to tackle an unwieldy fiscal deficit. He was home minister in the outgoing government.

S.M. Krishna, External Affairs

Age: 77 years

Academic qualifications: B.A, B.L, M.C.L, (Texas). He has studied at Maharaja’s College, Mysore, Government Law College, Bangalore and Southern Methodist University, Dallas Texas (US). He is a Fulbright Scholar-Graduate student from George Washington University, Washington DC.

Experience: He was a union minister of state for industry and finance in the early eighties, chief minister of Karnataka (1999-2004) and Maharashtra governor since 2004. He was chief minister of Karnataka from 1999 to 2004.

A.K. Antony, Defence

Age: 68 years

Academic qualifications: B.A. B.L.

Experience: Started political and social activities from school days and was Councillor of School Union way back in 1956-57. Became the president of the Kerala unit of the Congress thrice, the first time in 1973. Thrice chief minister with the first stint in 1977 and the last in 2001-04. Became a union cabinet minister for the first time in 1993 when he was made in charge of civil supplies and consumer affairs and then in 2005 he was given the important defence portfolio.

Mamata Banerjee (Trinamool Congress), Railways

Age: 54 years

Academic qualifications: M.A., Ph.D., B.Ed., LL.B.

Experience: A grassroots leader known for her simple life, she split the Congress in West Bengal in 1997 and set up the Trinamool Congress. Her party soon became the primary opposition to the state’s Communist government. She became union railways minister in 1999. A strong advocate of reservation for women in parliament, on Dec 11, 1998 she held a Samajwadi Party MP Daroga Prasad Saroj by the collar and dragged him out of the well of the Lok Sabha because he was protesting against the Women’s Reservation bill.

Sharad Pawar (Nationalist Congress Party), Agriculture, Food and Civil Supplies, and Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution

Age: 69 years

Academic qualifications: Bachelor of Commerce

Experience: A grassroots leader who enjoys cordial relations across the political spectrum, Sharad Pawar was four time chief minister of Maharashtra and was defence minister in the Narasimha Rao government. His name was considered for the prime minister’s post after Rajiv Gandhi’s death. Pawar subsequently quit the Congress and set up NCP.

Sushil Kumar Shinde

Age: 68 years

Academic qualifications: BA Honours from Dayanand College, Solapur and LLB from Shivaji University. He has been a police sub-inspector and a lawyer.

Experience: A former union power minister, Shinde, a Dalit leader from Maharashtra, was the state’s chief minister from 2003 to 2004 and presented as many as nine budgets as its finance minister. He was also governor of Andhra Pradesh.

Murli Deora

Age: 72 years

Academic qualifications: Bachelor of Arts

Experience: Was union minister for petroleum and natural gas in the last government. In 1998-99 was the chairman of Lok Sabha’s standing committee on finance. Highly connected in business and international circles.

Anand Sharma

Age: 56 years

Academic qualifications: A lawyer by profession, he did his LLB from the Faculty of Law, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla.

Experience: A Rajya Sabha member from Himachal Pradesh, Sharma was one of the founder members of National Students Union of India (NSUI) and had served as state president and national general secretary. He became the Indian Youth Congress president in 1985.

He was first elected to parliament in 1984 at the age of 31. Was a minister of state for external affairs and held independent charge of the information and broadcasting ministry in the outgoing government for several months.

Meira Kumar

Age: 64 years

Academic qualifications: M.A., LL.B, Advanced Diploma in Spanish language. Educated at Indraprastha College and Miranda House, University of Delhi

Experience: Daughter of legendary Congress leader Jagjivan Ram. Resigned from foreign service in 1985 to join politics. A cabinet minister for Social Justice and Empowerment in the Manmohan Singh government (2004-1009) this is Kumar’s fifth term in parliament; she was elected for the first time in 1984. She won thrice from Delhi’s Karol Bagh seat, before she shifted to Sasaram in Bihar, her late father’s constituency.

Kapil Sibal

Age: 61

Academic qualifications: Masters in history and an LL.M. He studied at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, and Harvard Law School, USA

Experience: Minister for science and technology and earth sciences in the outgoing government. He has won the second time from the Chandni Chowk constituency in Delhi. He enjoys a clean reputation and took quite a few initiatives in the science and technology ministry.

C.P. Joshi

Age: 58

Academic qualifications: Masters in Physics and PhD in psychology from the MLS University in Udaipur.

Experience: Had four stints in the Rajasthan assembly. Joshi was a cabinet minister in Rajasthan from 1998 to 2003 and held important portfolios like education, panchayati raj, rural development, public health engineering, policy planning and information technology.

Was appointed state Congress chief and is being credited for the Congress victory in the December assembly elections and later in the Lok Sabha elections when the party got 20 of the 25 seats.

Ambika Soni

Age: 65

Educational qualification: B.A. (Hons.), Diplome Superiore en Langue Francaise, Post-Graduate Diploma in Spanish Art and Literature Educated at Indraprastha College, Delhi University, Alliance Francaise, Bangkok and University of Havana, Cuba.

Experience: A Rajya Sabha member, she was the first woman to become Youth Congress president in 1975. She took a break from politics to be with her diplomat husband Uday C. Soni. She returned to politics to head the women’s wing in 1998. Soni was appointed as minister for culture and tourism in 2006.

Vayalar Ravi

Age: 71 years

Academic qualifications: MA, LLB

Experience: Was the founder general secretary of the student’s wing of the Congress party, Kerala Students Union. A two time Lok Sabha member, first in 1971. Elected to the upper house thrice, first in 1994, and is currently a Rajya Sabha member. Was elected twice to the state assembly and in his second stint was the home minister (1982-86) in the cabinet of K. Karunakaran. Became a federal minister for the first time in 2006, holding the overseas Indian affairs portfolio.

Ghulam Nabi Azad

Age: 60 years

Academic qualification: M.Sc. Zoology from Kashmir University.

Experience: Started his political career as a block president of Congress of Bhalesa in mountainous Doda district of Jammu from 1973 to 1975 and rose to become president of All India Youth Congress in 1980. In the same year, he got elected to the 7th Lok sabha from Washim in Maharashtra.

M. Veerappa Moily

Age: 69 years

Academic qualifications: B.A. and B.L.

Experience: He was chief minister of Karnataka from 1992 to 1994. He is the chairman of Congress’ future challenges committee to chalk out long term strategies of the party.

As chairman of the Second Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC), he brought out voluminous reports that were widely appreciated in the government. His task as head of the commission has been a crucial one and his reports, especially the one on terrorism, was hailed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who had suggested that the government would implement it after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack.

S. Jaipal Reddy

Age: 67 years

Academic qualifications: M.A.(English), Bachelor of Journalism from Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Experience: As the union cabinet minister for information and broadcasting in 1997-1998, he introduced the Prasar Bharati Bill for providing autonomy to Doordarshan and All India Radio. He played a key role in introduction of new FM radio channels in India and expansion of the same.

He was cabinet minister for urban development in the last government and is credited for the Delhi Master Plan. After the success of Delhi Metro Rail Project, he sanctioned Metro Rail Works for Kolkata, Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad.

Kamal Nath

Age: 63 years

Academic qualifications: He was educated at the prestigious Doon School in Dehra Dun and subsequently obtained his bachelor’s degree in commerce from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata.

Experience: An eight-time MP from Madhya Pradesh, Kamal Nath’s tenure as union commerce and industry minister witnessed major trade policy initiatives. For the first time, a comprehensive Foreign Trade Policy (2004-09) has been announced laying out a coherent roadmap with a twin focus on exports as well as employment. Major bilateral trade initiatives were taken with countries like China and Pakistan. He has also been a union minister of state for environment with independent charge.

B.K. Handique

Age: 75 years

Academic qualifications: M.A. from Calcutta University.

Experience: Six-term MP from Jorhat in Assam, Handique is a known Nehru-Gandhi family loyalist and a non-controversial leader who served as minister of state for chemicals and fertilisers in the last government.

The only representative from the northeast in the new cabinet, he was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1991 and re-elected in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004 and in the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls.

Virbhadra Singh

Age: 75 years

Academic qualifications: He did his MA in history from Delhi University.

Experience: Five-time former Himachal Pradesh chief minister and five-time MP, he belongs to the former royal family of Bushehr state.

A. Raja (DMK)

Age: 47 years

Academic qualifications: B.Sc, BL and ML

Experience: He is entering the Lok Sabha for the fourth time in a row since 1996. Though he had been minister of state for rural development, health and family welfare and cabinet minister for environment, his stint as the cabinet minister for communication and information technology was mired in the spectrum allocation controversy. He is one of the DMK’s propaganda secretaries.

Dayanidhi Maran (DMK)

Age: 42 years

Academic qualifications: B.A. Economics

Experience: The second son of former union minister and DMK leader Murasoli Maran and the grand nephew of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, he was appointed a cabinet rank minister for communications and information technology during his first Lok Sabha stint.

He was instrumental in bringing in electronics hardware investments to the country. However, DMK patriarch Karunanidhi asked him to quit over a family dispute.

Mallikarjun Kharge

Age: 67 years

Academic qualification: B.A., LLB

Experience: Won Karnataka assembly elections nine times in a row, eight times from Gurumitkal and once from Chitapur, both in Gulbarga Lok Sabha constituency. First win was in 1972 and the ninth in 2008. Elected to Lok Sabha from Gulbarga (SC) constituency for the first time in 2009.

G.K. Vasan

Age: 45 years

Academic qualification: BA

Experience: Son of G.K. Moopanar, a Congress heavyweight during the Indira Gandhi period and the founder of Tamil Maanila Congress, Vasan was a minister of state for statistics with independent charge in the outgoing government. After being elected the leader of Tamil Maanila Congress, he merged the party with Congress.

M.K. Azhagiri (DMK)

Age: 58 years

Academic qualification: BA

Experience: Eldest son of DMK patriarch M. Karunanidhi, he was sent to Madurai to look after the party affairs in the southern districts to pave the way for his brother M.K. Stalin’s progress towards becoming Karunanidhi’s political heir.

He scored a hat-trick for DMK by securing victories in three assembly by-elections in Madurai Central, Madurai West and Thirumangalam constituencies. He was made DMK’s south zone organising secretary.

Farooq Abdullah

Age: 71 years

Academic qualifications: MBBS from SMS Medical College Jaipur.

Experience: He is son of founder National Conference leader Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah and has twice been the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.

Pawan Kumar Bansal

Age: 60 years

Academic qualifications: B.Sc., L.LB. Educated at Yadvindra Public School, Patiala, Government College, Chandigarh, Department of Law, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

Experience: Was one of the key persons in the think-tank of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. Was minister of state for finance in the previous UPA government.

Manohar Singh Gill

Age: 72 years

Academic qualifications: Senior Cambridge, B.A. (Honours), M.A., Ph.D., Diploma in Development Studies, University of Cambridge, Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa). Educated at Punjab Agriculture University, Panjab University, Haryana Agriculture University, Madras University and Guwahati University; Honorary Fellow, Queens’ College, Cambridge, UK.

Experience: Well known bureaucrat/civil servant. Has been secretary in union chemicals and agriculture and chemicals and agriculture, then election commissioner in 1993. Was chief election commissioner from 1996-2001. Elected to Rajya Sabha on Congress ticket in 2004 and was sports minister in the previous UPA government.

Kumari Selja

Age: 46 years

Academic qualifications: M.A., M.Phil. Educated at Convent of Jesus and Mary, New Delhi and Panjab University, Chandigarh.

Experience: Elected to Lok Sabha in 1991 at the age of 29. Became union deputy minister and later minister of state for HRD. She was minister of state (independent charge) for housing and urban poverty alleviation in the previous government.

Kantilal Bhuria

Age: 58

Academic qualifications: Has done M.A. and LL.B. Educated at Chandrashekhar Azad College, district Jhabua (Madhya Pradesh)

Experience: Union minister of state for agriculture, consumer affairs, food and public distribution in the last government.

Subodh Kant Sahay

Age: 57 years

Academic qualifications: B.Sc, L.L.B. Educated at A.N.College, Patna and Ranchi University

Experience: Elected to Lok Sabha for the first time in 1989, Sahay was union minister of state, home affairs, from April 1990 to November 1990 and union minister of state, information and broadcasting from November 1990 to June 1991.

Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha in 2004, and made union minister of state (independent charge), food processing. Then elevated to cabinet rank in 2006.

Vilasrao Deshmukh

Age: 64 years

Academic qualifications: B.Sc. & B.A. through M.E.S. Garware College, Pune and then Ll.B. from ILS College, Pune, both affiliated to Pune University.

Experience: A grassroots politician, he was elected ’sarpanch’ (head) of the village where he was born, Babalgaon (Latur district), in 1974.

He worked his way up to become the chief minister twice, October 1993 to January 2003 and November 2004 to December 2008. Since 1980, Deshmukh handled over a dozen ministries and earned the reputation of being a good administrator with a sense of humour.

Mukul B. Wasnik

Age: 50 years

Academic qualifications: MBA

Experience: He hails from a Congress family loyal to the Nehru-Gandhi clan. His father Madhukar Wasnik was also a member of parliament from Buldana constituency in eastern Maharashtra.

In 1984, he stood from there and was elected, repeating his feat twice later. He was a minister for sports and youth affairs in the P.V. Narasimha Rao ministry (1991-96). This time (May 2009), he was elected from Ramtek constituency. Close to the late prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, Wasnik is a prominent backward class leader of the state.

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Video of Total Recall: 10 Best Live-Action Disney Movies Videos

March 18, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Which of the Mouse House’s family-friendly romps comes out on top?

We tend to think of Walt Disney Pictures as chiefly an animation studio — and with good reason — but the house Uncle Walt built has been churning out quality (and often highly profitable) live-action entertainment since the 1950s, something we were reminded of when we noticed that the latest chapter in the Witch Mountain franchise (and the Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s latest bid for the undisputed heavyweight champion of kid-friendly cinema), Race to Witch Mountain, was landing in theaters this Friday. What better time, then, for your pals here at Rotten Tomatoes to devote a Total Recall list to the 10 best-reviewed live-action entries in the Disney canon?

Of course, not all of Disney’s live-action efforts have been critical winners — we’re guessing Condorman is discussed as infrequently as possible at the Mouse House — but not everything that missed the list was a dud: You’ll find plenty of the classics you remember (yes, Old Yeller is present and accounted for), but you’re bound to take umbrage with a few omissions. Some movies missed the cut on technicalities — we limited our scope to films without animation (so long, Bedknobs and Broomsticks) and crossed any co-productions off the list, too (thus sparing Operation Dumbo Drop the embarrassment of being disqualified on critical grounds). Others, however, simply didn’t have the reviews — something we think says a lot about the strength of the competition. So let’s see what we ended up with, shall we? The live-action world of Disney awaits!

10. Escape to Witch Mountain

Well, well, well. How’s this for perfect? Not only did it provide a starting point for this week’s Total Recall honoree, 1975′s Escape to Witch Mountain wound up making the list itself. While not the best-remembered of Disney’s 1970s properties, this adaptation of the Alexander Key novel helped kickstart a mini-franchise that eventually extended to 1978′s Return from Witch Mountain, a 1982 TV movie and 1995 made-for-TV remake, and, of course, 2009′s Race to Witch Mountain. Placing extraordinary kids in situations of nail-biting, grown-up peril is something Disney has always done well, and Escape is no exception; psychic alien twins Tony and Tia are literally running for their lives from creepy millionaire Aristotle Bolt (Ray Milland). Though not all critics were susceptible to its charm — Vincent Canby of the New York Times called it “a Walt Disney production for children who will watch absolutely anything that moves” — most scribes took its popcorn-flavored blend of action, sci-fi, and family drama at face value, including Roger Ebert, who called it “a sci-fi thriller that’s fun, that’s cheerfully implausible, that’s scary but not too scary, and it works.”

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9. The Absent-Minded Professor

No list of the Disney live-action oeuvre would be complete without a mention of Fred MacMurray’s work for the studio. Although he’d been a major film star for decades before making his Disney debut with 1960′s The Shaggy Dog, it’s MacMurray’s late-period string of pipe-puffing father types that he’s arguably best remembered for, particularly among younger film fans. The most critically successful of these movies, 1961′s The Absent-Minded Professor, casts MacMurray in the title role as Ned Brainard, the accidental inventor of an incredible energy-producing substance known as Flubber. Over the course of the film, Brainerd uses Flubber to make himself look like a talented dancer and helps an entire basketball team cheat during the big game, but thanks to MacMurray’s Everyman charm, you still believe he’s the good guy. It’s goofy, and light as a feather, but Disney has always known how to make the most of those two ingredients; as TV Guide put it, “This is a zanily inventive piece of work, with delightful special effects, which set the style for a long series of live-action Disney films.”

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8. Swiss Family Robinson

Even in the context of the other classic films in the Disney vaults, 1960′s Swiss Family Robinson was a huge success — its $40 million gross is equivalent to $367 million in today’s money, placing it proudly among the ranks of the most successful G-rated films of all time. Johann David Wyss’ 1812 novel has been adapted on numerous occasions, for film and television, but Disney’s Ken Annakin-directed treatment is the most well-known; although it doesn’t skimp on the cheesy dialogue and cornpone wholesomeness that came prepackaged with many of the studio’s live-action efforts, Lowell S. Hawley’s screenplay does a fine job of drawing enough swashbuckling action and tropical derring-do out of the source material to guarantee a good time for viewers of all (okay, most) ages. Channel 4 Film’s Alistair Harkness spoke for many of his peers when he wrote, “It’s no Pirates Of The Caribbean, but the spirit of adventure, and Disney’s high production values, means that there’s still some fun to be had watching this wholesome family adapt to island life.”

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7. Pollyanna

Hayley Mills, like Tommy Kirk before her (and countless fresh-faced Disney teen starlets after her), became a household name thanks to a string of starring roles in Disney live-action films. Mills’ six-movie run got off to a pretty good start with 1960′s Pollyanna; although its box office performance was initially something of a disappointment for the studio, Mills won a special Academy Award for her performance. For many, the film is now considered one of Disney’s earliest live-action classics; though Disney was far from the first to adapt Eleanor Porter’s novel, it’s Mills that people usually think of when they hear the name “Pollyanna” — and for good reason, as even critics who overdosed on the movie’s relentless optimism, like the Time critic who called it “a Niagara of drivel and a masterpiece of smarm,” were often swayed by her performance. Variety, for instance, said her presence “more than compensates for the film’s lack of tautness and, at certain points, what seems to be an uncertain sense of direction.”

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6. The Rookie

By 2002, the “inspirational sports movie” genre was seen as well past its prime — and so was Dennis Quaid: one of the more bankable matinee idols of the 1980s, Quaid was suffering through a dry spell when he signed on for Disney’s John Lee Hancock-directed dramatization of the brief-yet-noteworthy Major League Baseball career of high school teacher-turned-Tampa Bay Devil Ray pitcher Jimmy Morris. Like Morris himself, The Rookie was initially written off by many as an amiable relic of a bygone era — but try as they might, most critics were too charmed by its true-life inspirational story, and Quaid’s refreshingly low-key performance, to be cynical about the film. The Rookie earned a healthy return on Disney’s $22 million investment, kick-started a new chapter in Quaid’s career, and earned a surprising number of endorsements from critics like Looking Closer’s Jeffrey Overstreet, who called it “one of those rare, wonderful ‘formula’ films that … favors understatement over exaggeration, subtlety over sentimentality.”

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5. The Parent Trap

For a relatively lightweight rom-com, The Parent Trap has enjoyed an incredibly long life; not only was the original film re-released to theaters seven years after its theatrical debut, but Hayley Mills ended up reprising her dual roles for a trio of made-for-TV sequels more than 20 years later — and the career-boosting power of the story of matchmaking twins who play Cupid for their divorced parents proved every bit as potent in 1998, when Lindsay Lohan starred in a remake. Part of Trap’s appeal no doubt came from its pioneering use of the trick photography that made it appear as though Mills was actually her own twin — a technique later used to notable effect on The Patty Duke Show two years later — but even without special effects, The Parent Trap is a solid, albeit proudly corny, film that benefits from a strong performance by its winsome star. Mills’ charms were even sufficient to win over more “serious” publications, such as Time, whose reviewer wrote, “Surprisingly, the film is delightful — mostly because of 15-year-old Hayley Mills, the blonde button nose who played the endearing delinquent in Tiger Bay.”

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4. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Whether you attribute it to beginner’s luck or the steady hand of one of Hollywood’s most quality-conscious studios, it’s worth noting that Richard Fleischer’s adaptation of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is both one of Disney’s most highly regarded live-action efforts and its first foray into science fiction. Proving he had an eye for giant squid battles to match his knack for animating adorable fauna, Walt Disney personally produced 20,000 Leagues, helping Fleischer blend an attentive eye to period detail with a rip-roaring action yarn that just happened to have strong Cold War parallels (right down to the mushroom cloud witnessed after the climactic battle). Enlisting the talents of A-list stars like Kirk Douglas, James Mason, and Peter Lorre certainly didn’t hurt Leagues’ box-office prospects — nor did glowingly positive reviews from the likes of the New York Times’ Bosley Crowther, who called it “as fabulous and fantastic as anything [Disney] has ever done in cartoons.”

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3. That Darn Cat!

Younger filmgoers may be more familiar with the 1997 remake, starring Christina Ricci and Doug E. Doug — which, as illustrated by that film’s woeful seven percent Tomatometer rating, is a shame. The 1965 original, starring Hayley Mills as the owner of a robbery-foiling feline (and the immortal Frank Gorshin as the robber), was a perfect example of the sort of goofy, animal-assisted middlebrow flick that Disney’s live-action arm became known for in the 1960s — but if it’s silly stuff, it’s at least eminently well-crafted, thanks to the steady hand of director Robert Stevenson and charming performances from a cast that included Disney vets Mills and Dean Jones. Critics were kind, if not exactly effusive (Rob Thomas of Madison’s Capital Times waved it off as “lightweight, forgettable family fun”) — but it was the titular cat that earned some of the movie’s highest warmest praise, including high marks from the New York Times’ Bosley Crowther, who said, “The feline that plays the informant, as the F.B.I. puts it, is superb. Clark Gable at the peak of his performing never played a tom cat more winningly.”

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2. Old Yeller

A movie so successful that it spawned a sequel, Tommy Kirk’s career, and the heartbreaking on-screen deaths of dozens of beloved critters, Old Yeller is mostly remembered today for its tearjerking final act and cornpone dialogue — and although this Robert Stevenson-directed adaptation of Fred Gipson’s popular novel certainly doesn’t skimp on the familiar plot points and gooey nostalgia so often identified with the Disney films of the era, it also tries to impart some useful lessons about the tough choices that come with growing up. Those lessons were imparted to a huge audience, too — watching Old Yeller was a rite of passage for multiple generations of filmgoers, among them DVDTalk’s Scott Weinberg, who called it “every bit the warm, comfortable, and tragically bittersweet classic that had you sobbing like a infant the first time you saw it.”

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1. Never Cry Wolf

The best-reviewed of Disney’s late 1970s/early 1980s string of family-friendly live-action flicks, Never Cry Wolf offers a surprisingly mature, unflinching adaptation of Farley Mowat’s memoir detailing the years he spent studying the hunting habits of wolves in the Canadian wilderness. One year later, Disney would spin off Touchstone, an imprint which would eventually be responsible for some fairly racy fare, but in 1983, Wolf director Carroll Ballard’s decision to afford audiences a glimpse of Charles Martin Smith’s bare buttocks was a major step for the Mouse House. Though the film wasn’t a giant hit, it did manage an impressive 27-week theatrical run — all the more notable considering its small cast, exceedingly minimal dialogue, and deliberate pace. Critics were suitably impressed, sending Never Cry Wolf all the way to a 100 percent Tomatometer rating on the strength of reviews from scribes like Time’s Richard Schickel, who raved, “Ballard and his masterly crew of film makers have reimagined a corner of the natural world…They leave us awed.”

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Bruising politics taint South Africa ahead of poll

February 25, 2009 By Dinesh Leave a Comment

Mudslinging and corruption scandals are drowning out policy debate before South Africa’s parliamentary election, with a new opposition party seemingly out of its depth and little talk of how to keep Africa’s biggest economy attractive to investors in the global financial crisis.

Less than two months before the election, the new Congress of the People is promising change but is unlikely to make an impact, and there is virtually no discussion of how any party plans to tackle widespread violent crime and poverty.

Nelson Mandela’s appearance at an election rally with ruling ANC leader Jacob Zuma triggered accusations that the elderly anti-apartheid hero’s health was risked for political purposes.

The African National Congress, in power for 15 years, is widely expected to win the April 22 vote and make Zuma president despite a renewed graft case that has dogged him for years.

But a new high profile corruption scandal that ruined ANC spokesman Carl Niehaus has focused attention on the party’s record as a crucial time, especially after it stuck by him.

Niehaus has admitted he forged letters while in a former government job and racked up huge debts to fund a lavish lifestyle.

The Congress of the People (COPE), formed of ANC dissidents, has vowed to break the ANC’s decades-long dominance and improve the country’s image.

COPE, however, lacks resources and political savvy and is already suffering from internal power struggles, analysts say. It was created out of anger with the ANC after the party pushed Zuma’s rival Thabo Mbeki out of the presidency and has made the same vague promises as the ANC over a range of issues.

“COPE doesn’t come with pristine legitimacy,” said Susan Booysen, political analyst at Witwatersrand University.

While that makes it unlikely that the ANC will come under any serious pressure to reform anytime soon, there may be long-term consequences.

Independent political analyst Nic Borain says ANC graft cases are unlikely to rattle investors for now. But one case after another may erode their confidence.

“The template that we have historically used to understand South African politics, I think we have had to throw out,” he said.

“Niehaus is a nobody to the markets. But a thousand Niehauses and a Jacob Zuma, you add them all up, it creates an atmosphere and a kind of environment that ultimately puts a premium on investing in the country”.

RUTHLESS POLITICS

Politics often overshadow problems that South Africans hope the new administration will tackle. For one, millions of poor blacks still live in grim townships, reminders of the apartheid the ANC so bravely fought.

And there are no signs of fresh policies that can help them.

The front page of the daily Star newspaper on Tuesday carried a new round of the scathing personal attacks that have come to characterise South African politics.

It said opposition Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille had called ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema an “uncircumcised boy”, and ANC Treasurer-General Mathews Phosa hit back by saying she should think about the man she is sleeping with before making such remarks.

COPE, meanwhile, has chosen a methodist bishop, Mvume Dandala, as its presidential candidate, portraying itself as the moral saviour of South Africa. But being a man of the faith may not help a political novice survive South Africa’s increasingly ruthless public arena.

Editorials raised serious questions about Dandala’s abilities just days after his candidacy was announced.

Analysts say he is the product of internal party strife, a compromise designed to keep the newly born COPE together, not someone with grass roots support and vision.

“I think it was a foolish thing to do to thrust an unknown man in as your presidential candidate two months before the election. Nobody knows him. And I don’t think they are going to have time to get to know him,” said veteran political commentator Allister Sparks.

“I think it reveals a high degree of political ineptitude on their part.”

COPE could break the ANC’s two-thirds majority in parliament, stopping it from being able to sweep through constitutional changes. That won’t be nearly enough to even touch the ANC’s foundations.

It hasn’t stopped the ANC from focusing on main election battlegrounds like the Eastern Cape. That’s where Mandela appeared alongside Zuma at a party rally.

The televised sight of the frail 90-year-old statesmen being helped out of a car and onto a stage unleashed a barrage of accusations that the ANC had exploited him, more criticism the party could do without as the poll approaches. But the event had its political logic.

“Mandela’s endorsement can be used to show that despite new leadership, the ANC remains a party of heritage, continuation, and what has come before — the spirit of its historical leadership, legacy, and purpose remains alive and well,” said Mark Schroeder, Sub-Saharan Africa analyst at risk analysis company Stratfor.
Michael Georgy

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Demand for quota for Dalit Christians and Muslims raised in LS

February 25, 2009 By Dinesh Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Feb 25 (PTI) A range of issues including reservation in private sector, need for jobs quota to Dalit Christians and Muslims and a fair deal to refugees from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir were raised in the Lok Sabha today. S Ajaya Kumar (CPI-M) made a strong plea that there should be reservation in private sector.

This, he said, was necessary in view of the fact that there has been privatisation of even some public sector undertakings and that the scope of reservation was thus eroding in the government sector. K Francis George (Kerala Congress) wanted the government to accept the recommendations of the Rangnath Mishra Commission which had favoured reservation to the Dalit Christians and Muslims.

He said that economic status does not improve even if any Dalit embraced Christianity or Islam and therefore the reservation facility should be continued to such people. His contention was supported by Iliyas Azmi (BSP) as also Jaya Prada (SP).

Congress member Lal Singh pleaded for a fair deal to the refugees from PoK, saying they have been a “neglected” lot for the past 60 years without having any citizenship rights. PTI.
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Search to be carried out for long-missing Norwegian explorer’s plane

February 23, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Oslo – Norwegian defence forces said Monday they would take part in a search for the plane of famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen who went missing in
1928.

Amundsen (1872-1928) became a national hero in Norway after leading an expedition to the geographic South Pole in 1911, beating Britain’s Robert F Scott in an epic race.

The Norwegian joined in a search for Italian airship Italia piloted and designed by Umberto Nobile that was reported missing in May 1928 after flying over the North Pole.

Nobile, an Italian engineer who also designed the airship Norge, and nine surviving crew members were later rescued from an ice floe off the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago.

Amundsen’s seaplane Latham with several French crew members disappeared without a trace in June 1928 en route from Tromso, northern Norway to Spitsbergen.

A theory is that the seaplane crashed near Bear Island, the southernmost island in the Svalbard archipelago.

The Norwegian navy said it would deploy the KNM Tyr, equipped with modern sonar and other equipment during the two-week operation planned to begin at the end of August.

The coast guard was also to deploy a vessel in the search. Other partners include the Norwegian Aviation Museum, Kongsberg Maritime that has developed an autonomous underwater vehicle to study the sea bottom, and Berlin-based TV production company Context TV.

In recent years several expeditions have been launched to find the wreckage of the missing plane. (dpa)

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Freed Guantanamo detainee says U.S. behind his torture

February 23, 2009 By Dinesh Leave a Comment

Binyam Mohamed, a British resident held at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years, was released and put on a plane to Britain on Monday and accused the U.S. government of orchestrating his torture.

Mohamed, 30, was due to arrive back in Britain shortly following his release from the U.S. prison camp on Cuba. His statement was issued via his lawyers after his release.

“I have been through an experience that I never thought to encounter in my darkest nightmares,” said Mohamed, an Ethiopian citizen who has British residency.

“Before this ordeal, ‘torture’ was an abstract word for me. I could never have imagined that I would be its victim. It is difficult for me to believe that I was abducted, hauled from one country to the next, and tortured in medieval ways — all orchestrated by the United States government.”

The United States agreed to release Mohamed last week after 18 months of pressure from the British government. He is the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be released since President Barack Obama came to power.

Mohamed was detained in Pakistan in April 2002, where his lawyers say he was held for nearly four months, during which he says he was tortured and abused by Pakistani intelligence officers in the presence of a British intelligence agent.

He was taken to Morocco on a CIA flight in July 2002, his lawyers say, and again subjected to torture and abuse. Morocco has denied holding him and the U.S. government has denied that he was subjected to “extraordinary rendition”.

Mohamed has been accused of receiving al Qaeda training in Afghanistan and Pakistan and of plotting to detonate a “dirty bomb” on the U.S. transport network, but all charges brought against him have been dropped and he has never been tried.

In his statement, he accused the British government of colluding with foreign governments during his abuse and torture.

“For myself, the very worst moment came when I realised in Morocco that the people who were torturing me were receiving questions and materials from British intelligence,” he said.

“I had met with British intelligence in Pakistan. I had been open with them. Yet the very people who I had hoped would come to my rescue, I later realised, had allied themselves with my abusers.”

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Mayawati to be next Indian PM: pollster

February 23, 2009 By Dinesh Leave a Comment

London, Feb 23 (IANS) The coming Indian general elections are likely to lead to a Left-leaning government led by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and supported from the outside by either the Congress or the BJP, a leading pollster predicted Monday.

Yashwant Deshmukh, who runs the Team Cvoter polling firm and has covered more than 100 state and national elections in India, will tell leading British politicians this week that neither the Congress nor the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be able to win a majority in elections to the Lok Sabha.

In fact, he believes that both parties will see their number of seats dramatically reduced.

“I am looking at the possibility of Mayawati leading a government of an assortment of political parties, barring the Samajwadi Party,” he told IANS ahead of Wednesday’s House of Commons briefing for British MPs, members of thinktanks and businessmen and investors.

“This government would be formed with either inside- or outside-support from the Left parties. But it will need the support of either the Congress or the BJP from the outside.

“In the current scenario either of them will do it because no one wants to be seen as trying to stop a Dalit woman from becoming prime minister. Coming in her way would be committing political harakiri.”

Deshmukh said the post-election scenario was less clear than in previous years, but predicted: “This time round the Congress party will be the loser and the BJP will be the even bigger loser. Both will all need to give away a lot of power if they’re going to even come close to a majority.”

Vikas Pota, managing director of the public relations firm Saffron Chase, which is organising the briefing, said the elections were expected to lead to a slowdown in the process of liberalisation in India.

‘It seems that the current world recession is leading to protectionist language from all nations. It will be difficult to grow the insurance, retail and banking sectors as a result,’ he told The Guardian newspaper.

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Insurgents target peacekeepers in Somalia

February 23, 2009 By Dinesh Leave a Comment

Islamist insurgents attacked African Union peacekeepers in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Sunday, the second assault on the 3,500-strong force from Burundi and Uganda in three days.

A loud explosion shook a compound housing troops from Burundi and dark smoke was seen rising into the air. The African Union said its site was hit by mortar bombs, while insurgents said two of their suicide bombers carried out the attack.

There were no details of casualties.

Somalia has been plagued by conflict for the past 18 years and Islamist insurgents have been fighting the government for over two years. More than 16,000 civilians have been killed since the start of 2007 and a million uprooted from their homes.

While some insurgents have now pledged to support the new administration led by moderate Islamist President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the hardline line al Shabaab group, which claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attack, has vowed to fight on.

Al Shabaab gained support as one of many groups waging war against Ethiopian troops that had been propping up the government. The Ethiopian withdrawal in January placated some, but al Shabaab now wants the foreign peacekeepers to leave.

NEW GOVERNMENT VOWS QUICK RESPONSE

Somalia’s new internal security minister, Omar Hashi Aden, said the government wanted the peacekeepers to stay and would “respond very quickly to this cruel attack”.

“We are ready to listen to suggestions, but we will not tolerate violence against these troops. We need them to assist us to train our security forces and rebuild the country. No forces from outside the government can determine the withdrawal of the peacekeepers,” he told Reuters.

“When they finish their assignment they will go back to their home country,” he added from neighbouring Djibouti.

Aden was one of 36 new ministers sworn in by parliament in Djibouti late on Saturday. They have been meeting there due to security concerns at home, but the government is expected to return to Mogadishu next week.

Like some of the other key ministers, Aden is a member of the Islamist opposition party, the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia, that joined parliament in January under a U.N.-hosted peace process in Djibouti.

Aden and the new interior minister Abdikadir Ali Omar both have strong influence over a large number of Islamists who fought the Ethiopians, but are now backing President Ahmed.

Some regional diplomats say the inclusion of many moderate Islamists in the new government provides a new political dynamic in Somalia, which could end the spiral of violence and ultimately marginalise the hardliners in al Shabaab.

The group is on Washington’s list of foreign terrorist groups and is known to have foreign fighters within its ranks.

Al Shabaab’s spokesman, Sheikh Muktar Robow Mansoor, said a suicide bomber wearing a jacket with explosives had detonated his charge near the peacekeepers’ compound and another in a car had set off his device at the gate.

But Major Barigye Ba-Hoku, spokesman for the AU’s AMISOM force in Mogadishu, denied the suicide attack claims.

“Our Burundi contingent at the former compound of the Somali National University was attacked this morning with mortar shells and we are yet to find out the impact of the shelling. Al Shabaab apparently enjoys non-existent, fabricated things.”

(Additional reporting by Abdiaziz Hassan)
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Insurgents kill 11 peacekeepers in Somalia

February 23, 2009 By Dinesh Leave a Comment

Islamist insurgents killed 11 African Union peacekeepers, all from Burundi, in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Sunday in the deadliest attack on the 3,500-strong force.

The African Union said a compound housing troops from Burundi had been targeted by mortar bombs. Islamist insurgents said two suicide bombers, one in a car packed with explosives, had carried out the attacks.

“These attacks have reached today an unprecendented level, resulting in the killing of 11 Burundian soldiers, while 15 others have sustained serious injuries,” the African Union said in a statement.

A loud explosion shook the compound on Sunday morning. Witnesees said they had seen a car speeding towards the gate and then heard a blast and saw plumes of smoke rising into the air.

The African Union force also comprises troops from Uganda.

While some insurgents have now pledged to support the new administration led by moderate Islamist President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the hardline al Shabaab group, which claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attack, has vowed to fight on.

Al Shabaab gained support as one of many groups waging war against Ethiopian troops that had been propping up the government. The Ethiopian withdrawal in January placated some but al Shabaab now wants the foreign peacekeepers to leave.

Somalia’s new internal security minister, Omar Hashi Aden, said the government wanted the peacekeepers to stay and would “respond very quickly to this cruel attack”.

(Additional reporting by Abdiaziz Hassan and David Clarke in Nairobie)
Ibrahim Mohamed

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Yasin Malik weds his Pakistani girlfriend

February 22, 2009 By Dinesh Leave a Comment

Rawalpindi, Feb 22 (IANS) Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik Sunday married his Britain-born Pakistani girlfriend Mushaal Mullick in this Pakistani garrison city.

The marriage ceremony was attended by a number well known people, including politicians, Pakistan’s Geo TV reported.

Mullick, a post-graduate from the London School of Economics and an artist, is the daughter of Rehana Hussain, chief of the Muslim League (women’s wing). Her father, the late M.A. Hussain Malik, was an internationally renowned Pakistani economist.

Yasin Malik, 40, chairman of the pro-independence Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, met Mushaal during one of his tours to Pakistan two years ago.

The wedding dates were fixed during Malik’s current visit to Pakistan. The couple got engaged Oct 24 when the JKLF leader was in detention for launching a poll boycott campaign in Kashmir.

It was the third high-profile cross-border wedding in the Kashmiri separatist camp after Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who married a US citizen of Kashmiri origin, and Sajjad Ghani Lone, who wed the daughter of JKLF supremo Amanullah Khan from Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
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India offers to provide training to new Bangladesh MPs

February 22, 2009 By Dinesh Leave a Comment

Anisur Rahman Dhaka, Feb 22 (PTI) India has said it is willing to extend “all necessary cooperation”, including training to lawmakers, to help strengthen further the newly-elected Bangladesh Parliament. This was conveyed by Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, who is on a three-day visit here, during a meeting he had with Premier Sheikh Hasina last night, the Bangladesh Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad told reporters.

Chatterjee exchanged views with the Prime Minister on how Bangladesh’s democracy and Parliament could be strengthened further. The Indian Speaker observed that the massive poll victory of Hasina’s Awami League-led Grand Alliance in the December 29 elections was “positive for regional democracy,” Azad said.

“People of the entire world are happy over the victory of the Grand Alliance that led Bangladesh to restoring democracy” after two years of state of emergency, Azad quoted Chatterjee as saying. Chatterjee, who arrived here yesterday at the invitation of his Bangladeshi counterpart Abdul Hamid, said earlier in the day that he was “very happy” to be in Dhaka.

PTI.

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Young adults’ health is static or even declining

February 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

By Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY
Young adults today aren’t any healthier than 10 to 15 years ago, and in some cases — obesity, for one — they are significantly less so, says a federal report on the nation’s health released Wednesday.

The annual report, from the National Center for Health Statistics, is based on the most recent data available from a variety of health sources. It covers health issues across ages and includes for the first time a section on 50 million young adults ages 18-29, a group that is “understudied,” says lead author Amy Bernstein.

The data show that:

• About one-third are obese, and one-third are overweight.

• About 30% do not have health insurance.

• Among men, almost one-third smoke cigarettes and a quarter binge-drink (five or more drinks on at least 12 days in the past year).

“Saying they’re all basically healthy now doesn’t take into account … the long-term effects of health habits formed during this time,” she says.

Obesity has tripled in three decades, to 24% in 2005-06. Smoking among women declined nearly 20% from 1997 to 2006, but no significant decline was reported among men.

Findings are similar to those in the annual Monitoring the Future survey by the University of Michigan, says co-principal investigator John Schulenberg. “Any gains we’ve been getting over the years with better adolescent health, we’re not realizing in the 18-29 group.”

Schulenberg suggests many behaviors, such as smoking and drinking, may be low in high school but pick up after young people leave home.

Bernstein says bad health behaviors haven’t seemed to slow among that age group.

“They’re still smoking, still drinking, still taking illicit drugs and not exercising,” she says. “Whatever we’re doing, we’re not getting through to this particular age group.”

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Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto secretly married Rohan Antao in December 2007

February 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Several rumors has been circulating industry regarding dumping of Rohan Antao by her fiancé Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto. New turn has taken place in Freida and Rohan’s story. It has been revealed that the couple had a secret wedding in Goa in December 2007.

According to person close to the couple, Rohan and Freida were extremely close and have several common friends. Both are 24 years old and were deeply in love with each other. They had decided that they would get married in Goa, which is Rohan’s hometown. They had booked a hotel for the wedding. Freida had given the designer just five days to make her gown as the wedding had to take place in late December 2007. Once the gown was almost ready, Freida also had a dress trial to which Rohan had accompanied her.

Freida said that she would be having a secret wedding as she didn’t want too many people to know about it.

The source added; “Rohan and Freida had decided to keep their marriage a secret till they felt ready to talk about it openly. They were together even when she completed shooting for Slumdog Millionaire. But once the film started making waves internationally, she decided to dump Rohan.”

But the fact is that nobody is aware of the present state of relationship between Rohan and Freida whereas Freida is still basking in success of the movie. According to friends of the couple, Rohan is still recovering from the shock of being dumped.

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German woman tells of “horror house” stay with creepy internet friend

February 16, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Wellington – A German woman who flew to New Zealand to meet a man who wooed her on the internet with eloquent emails and poetry told a newspaper Tuesday of her time in a “horror house” with a stranger who was nothing like her online friend.

“He was quite intellectual and he knew the way to my heart,” the 36-year-old musician and drama teacher from Leipzig, who identified herself only as Maja, told the Otago Daily Times.

She said she realized her mistake as soon as she landed at Dunedin airport to meet the man she had formed an internet relationship with in October through his MySpace page. He was not the 33-year-old PhD student he had pretended to be, but an unkempt, unemployed man of 54 years.

“He had such a creepy aura,” she said. “I was in shock.”

Not knowing what to do, and having spent all her money on the fare to New Zealand, she went with him to his house.

“His home was really a horror house, I would say,” she told the paper. “Little roosters, cats and chickens lived in the house. There were a lot of cartons and dust and rubbish. You could not walk up the stairs and there was an ugly smell, a dead animal smell, and an ugly smell of old clothes.”

Maja said she stayed at the house because the man would not allow her to take her passport when they went out and she became more afraid as he listened in on her telephone calls and shouted at her.

She was rescued by police on Saturday after she had phoned a man she met on the plane and said she was not well. She said she couldn’t speak too much because her online pal was listening, but the man she called contacted police when she failed to meet him in the city on Thursday as arranged.

“I put much energy in keeping him calm to make him not nervous,” she said of her internet romancer. “He was really afraid that someone would come in and that I’d tell someone I was not okay.

“He was really out of reality. He lived in a complete fantasy world. I was totally afraid because he said there was no electricity there so we only had the candles at night.”

She said at night he took off his clothes and lay down in the same bed with her. “I had all my clothes on and these dirty sheets around me – I realised in that moment it was too much.” (dpa)

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US offers immigrants citizenship to join army

February 16, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New York, Feb 15 (IANS) The US Army is wooing skilled immigrants to join it, including those who know Hindi and Tamil, by offering them a chance to become citizens in as little as six months, a media report said.

For foreigners who live in the US on temporary visas, it often takes more than a decade to get citizenship.

As part of the army’s one-year pilot programme, to begin in New York City, it will recruit about 550 temporary immigrants who speak one or more of 35 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Igbo (a tongue spoken in Nigeria), Kurdish, Nepalese, Pashto, Russian and Tamil, the New York Times reported Saturday.

Spanish speakers are not eligible.

Immigrants, who are permanent residents holding green cards, and have lived in the US for at least two years will be eligible to join, officials said.

‘The American army finds itself in a lot of different countries where cultural awareness is critical,’ said Lt. Gen. Benjamin C. Freakley, the top recruitment officer for the US Army. ‘There will be some very talented folks in this group.’

The programme will begin small – limited to 1,000 enlistees nationwide in its first year.

Immigrants serving in the US Army can apply to become citizens on the first day of active service, and they can take the oath in as little as six months.

If the pilot programme succeeds as Pentagon officials anticipate, it will expand for all branches of the military. For the army, it could eventually provide as many as 14,000 volunteers a year, or about one in six recruits.

Recruiters expect that the immigrants will have more education, foreign language skills and professional expertise than many Americans who enlist, helping the military to fill shortages in medical care, language interpretation and field intelligence analysis.

‘The army will gain in its strength in human capital,’ General Freakley said, ‘And the immigrants will gain their citizenship and get on a ramp to the American dream.’

The army’s programme will also include about 300 medical professionals to be recruited nationwide. Recruiting will start after the Department of Homeland officials updates an immigration rule in coming days.

Language experts will have to serve four years of active duty, and health care professionals will serve three years of active duty or six years in the reserves. If the immigrants do not complete their service honourably, they could lose their citizenship, the report said.

About 8,000 permanent immigrants with green cards join the US armed forces annually, the Pentagon reports, and about 29,000 foreign-born people currently serving are not American citizens.

Indo Asian News Service

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Obama: Congress approval of stimulus bill is major milestone

February 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington – US President Barack Obama on Saturday thanked Congress for passing a 787-billion-dollar economic stimulus bill, which he called “a major milestone on our road to recovery.”

In his weekly address he also warned that “this historic step won’t be the end of what we do to turn our economy around, but the beginning.”

The long-awaited passage of the stimulus bill – the largest single spending proposal in US history – marked Obama’s first major legislative victory since he took office January 20. The president could sign it into law as early as Monday, the White House said.

But the victory did not come with the bipartisan support Obama’s administration had originally hoped for. The president instead relied on the Democratic Party’s majorities in both chambers.

The House of Representatives approved the plan 246-183 Friday afternoon – not a single Republican supported the measure.

The Senate followed suit Friday evening by 60-38, garnering the support of only three Republicans and just barely meeting the 60-vote threshold.

“Some fear we won’t be able to effectively implement a plan of this size and scope, and I understand their skepticism. Washington hasn’t set a very good example in recent years. And with so much on the line, it’s time to begin doing things differently,” Obama said Saturday.

Once the bill is signed into law, a new website – www. recovery. gov – will allow Americans to track how the money is being spent. “I encourage every American to do so. Ultimately, this is your money, and you deserve to know where it’s going,” Obama said, promising accountability and transparency.

The administration insists the package – a mixture of tax cuts and spending programmes – will save or create 3.5 million jobs over the next two years and upgrade the country’s ailing infrastructure, energy, health care and education system. (dpa)

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