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| LTTE leaves Karunanidhi "Na Ghar Ka, Na Ghat Ka!" |
| 01.27.04 (11:18 am) [edit] |
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http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=27903
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| The President of India goes online!!!! |
| 01.25.04 (4:00 pm) [edit] |
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/445224.cms
http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/welcome.jsp" title="http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/welcome.jsp" target="_blank"http://www.presidentofindia.n...
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| Philanthropy for a good cause |
| 01.25.04 (11:05 am) [edit] |
http://headlines.sify.com/2808news1.html?headline=Bill~Gates' ~wife~visits~Sonagachi~
Bill Gates' wife visits Sonagachi
Kolkata: Melinda Gates, wife of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates whose Foundation has pledged 200 million US dollars for HIV/AIDS programme in India, on Sunday visited Sonagachi, one of the largest red light areas of Asia in Kolkata, to oversee the progress of work in the area.
After spending two hours with the people at Sonagachi and another two hours at Cossipore where HIV/AIDS awareness project on the migrant workers and flying sex workers were on, she expressed her satisfaction and termed it a success.
"I had heard a lot about the Sonagachi project. This is a successful model and we must implement it in other states of India," Melinda said.
She also met members of the Durbar Mahila Samity, the largest sex workers' association of Bengal responsible for the Sonagachi success.
High HIV/AIDS prevalent states like Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Nagaland and Manipur would benefit mostly from the 200 million dollar Gates Foundation fund.
"She thinks Sonagachi is an idea model for implementation elsewhere," said Gates Foundation member of India and Care India Assistant Country Director Dr Smarajit Jana, who was the chief architect of the HIV/STD Intervention Programme at Sonagachi in the nineties.
The sex workers and technicians of Sonagachi would help implement the project in other areas, Dr Jana said.
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| Anybody and everybody can recommend President's rule? How simple! |
| 01.23.04 (9:37 pm) [edit] |
Bihar fit case for President's rule: HC
January 24, 2004 04:42 IST
In a severe indictment of the Bihar government, the Patna high court on Friday termed its decision to recruit over 34,000 primary teachers as nothing but an election stunt and observed that the court could certify that Bihar is a fit case for imposition of President's Rule.
Observing that the administration was being run in an abysmal and disappointing manner, a division bench said the court had tried to take the state fast on the path of development but 'we are disappointed'.
"The court is ready to certify that the state is fit for being put under President's Rule," the Division Bench comprising Chief Justice R S Dhavan and Justice S K Singh said in their ruling while hearing a writ challenging the government's recruitment policy for primary teachers.
Nand Kishore Ojha has challenged the recent decision of the state government to recruit over 34,000 primary teachers alleging it violated the norms laid down by the National Council for Teachers Education (NCTE).
"You (the government) did not fill any vacancy of teachers of primary schools since 1991. Now that the Lok Sabha elections are round the corner, you have advertised for recruitment of over 34,000 trained and untrained teachers without announcing any examination schedule and reserving over 70 per cent of seats for women and minorities," the judges, who sat for over three hours beyond schedule, said.
The court posted the matter for hearing on January 27.
http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/jan/24bihar .htm" title="http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/jan/24bihar .htm" target="_blank"http://in.rediff.com/news/200...
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| Fire in the marriage hall! How shameful.. |
| 01.23.04 (9:30 pm) [edit] |
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/01 /23/india.fire/index.html
Time Jaya brought in regulations and fire code into effect. She is the only person who can do it, a thing the barbarian DMK fellows are incapable of even thinking...
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| Truly English, very hoity, very toity.. |
| 01.23.04 (9:17 pm) [edit] |
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/919_544377,00180 002.htm
And to believe these fellows roamed around calling others uncivilized....
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| A disease worse than communism... |
| 01.23.04 (9:06 pm) [edit] |
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http://www.rediff.com/money/2004/jan/24bpo.htm
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| India, justice at its own speed....how miserable! |
| 01.23.04 (9:05 pm) [edit] |
KOLKATA, JANUARY 23: The memory of what happened to his only daughter still makes Nagar Das Parekh sick. But he could have never imagined his nightmare would go on for 14 years, that the rapist and murderer of his 18-year-old child would stall justice for more than a decade because the state that was supposed to execute it plain forgot!
Now that the stage is finally set for the execution of Dhananjay Chatterjee, Parekh doesn’t know if there’s anything to rejoice. Choking back tears, the father who is now in Mumbai says: ‘‘I have come to know about the execution...I fail to understand why it was delayed for so long. However, it was a nightmare that I don’t want to remember. Whenever somebody reminds me, I become sick.’’Last week, the Sessions Judge of Alipore Court, which first tried the case, signed the death warrant of Chatterjee following the rejection by a division bench of the Calcutta High Court of a review petition by the convict. Lodged in Presidency Central Jail since the day of the incident, Chatterjee is in his ’40s, married with a kid.
On March 15, 1990, say police, 18-year-old Hental was raped and killed by Chatterjee, a security guard at their south Kolkata apartment building. Her parents had gone out and left the keys to their apartment with Chatterjee, telling him to hand these over to Hental when she returned from school. However, when the girl came home, Chatterjee followed her inside, raped and killed her.
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Just a few months after that, Hental’s parents, unable to forget their daughter’s ghastly death at the Kolkata home, shifted to Mumbai.
The Alipore Sessions Judge found the case straightforward and first sentenced Chatterjee to death in 1991. In the four years that followed, Chatterjee appealed against the verdict to the high court and the Supreme Court, as well as filed mercy petitions to the governor and the President. All were rejected.
On March 16, 1994, the lawyers of Chatterjee again filed a petition in the Calcutta High Court to review the death sentence. The court stayed the execution.
Justice delayed and delayed: now hangman wants a raise!
• March 1990: Dhananjay Chatterjee rapes, kills 18-year-old Hental Parekh
• August 1991: Alipore Court sentences Chatterjee to death
• August 1992: HC upholds sentence
• November 1994: S C upholds too.
• Feb 1994: Mercy petitions filed to the governor, President. Both rejected
• March 1994: Chatterjee moves HC to review President’s rejection. Gets a stay on execution
• November 2003: Justice Department wakes up, asks HC why stay still not vacated. Court lifts stay
• January 2004: HC rejects Chatterjee’s fresh mercy plea, Alipore Court signs his death warrant. Executioner says he needs a raise
Mysteriously, for the next 10 years, the state forgot all about the case. Until November last year, when the Law and Justice Department of the state government ‘‘chanced upon the case while going through some files’’ and wrote to the Chief Justice of the high court asking why the stay hadn’t been vacated so long.
The high court promptly lifted the stay but Chatterjee then filed another mercy petition. This was rejected by the high court about a fortnight ago, paving the way for the execution.
The 14-year wait for justice shocks even members of the judiciary. Chief Public Prosecutor of Calcutta High Court Qazi Mohammad Saifullah says: ‘‘There is something grossly wrong, otherwise how does one explain this inertia?’’
Kolkata police officials who had investigated the case are equally angry. ‘‘The man should have been punished much earlier. Think of the ghastly crime. The poor girl choked to death while she was being raped,’’ says an officer who had been a member of the police team that investigated the case.
But West Bengal Minister for Law and Justice Nisith Adhikary points at the usual suspect—the huge number of cases pending in the high court. ‘‘Thousands of cases are pending at various courts, including the high court. And the government cannot pick up one single case out of this huge number,’’ he claims. And then adds: ‘‘Why do you want us to be overzealous for snuffing out the life of a man?’’
While Chatterjee’s lawyers claim they have another petition pending in the Supreme Court, Inspector General, Prisons, Joydev Chakrabarthy says this time it won’t delay the execution. ‘‘We have got in touch with our hangman, Nata Mullick, and are now working on the formalities for the execution. The rope is also ready,’’ he says. However, according to reports, there may still be a hitch. West Bengal’s only remaining hangman Mullick last carried out an execution 12 years ago. He reportedly wants a hike to do the job now.
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| Its okay for Christians to be intolerant? |
| 01.23.04 (8:51 pm) [edit] |
Moscow to get massive temple
Moscow, Jan. 23: Ignoring opposition from some Christian quarters and ultra-nationalist lawmakers, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has cleared the construction of a Hindu temple and Vedic centre here by the local followers of Lord Krishna.
He has allotted a 1.05 hectare plot of land on the prestigious Leningrad Prospekt to the Moscow chapter of International Society of Krishna Consciousness.
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| Tips on Bad Website Design!!!! |
| 01.23.04 (7:53 pm) [edit] |
What an idiot would be the webmaster who designs web pages restrict the back button returning you to the same page? Well, a big one?
Want a good example: Visit the Times of India website. Already famous for bad stories that make you think of sex in puky terms, it has now come up with this innovative adaptation of nonsense.....
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| Do you know what a google bomb is? |
| 01.23.04 (7:16 pm) [edit] |
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Go to google.com and search for "miserable failure" as the keywords!!!!
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| http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_543059,0050.htm |
| 01.22.04 (4:27 pm) [edit] |
Want to be healthy? Tuck into hot Indian curry!
Indo-Asian News Service
London, January 22
If you want to stay healthy, tuck into a hot Indian curry.
Experts claim that spicy dishes can help battle a range of illnesses, including Alzheimer's disease.
Tikkas and vindaloos can also soothe asthma and coughs, and researchers say they even help yoga fans, because they help to stretch muscle ligaments.
Scientists have found that curcumin — an extract of curry powder ingredient turmeric — is a "natural antibiotic".
A team from the University of California in Los Angeles believes that curries reduce the number of amyloid plaques, a sticky build-up that knots around brains cells causing Alzheimer's.
The experts claim that yellow spice turmeric can cut the number of these plaques by up to half. The findings may explain why rates of Alzheimer's are much lower among the elderly in India than in the West.
New drugs based on the extract could be used to prevent the disease in the future.
Researcher Sally Frautschy confirmed that the compound had potential, especially when used together with existing anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen.
A spokesman for the Alzheimer's Society said: "Turmeric is found in everything from mild kormas to the hottest vindaloos. The crucial chemical is curcumin.
"It is an excellent natural antibiotic but it could be many years before such drugs are made widely available."
Curry spices have other benefits. Experts say they aid digestion and help fight off infections. Turmeric also helps to lower cholesterol and cut fatty deposits in the arteries.
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| India upgraded economically! |
| 01.22.04 (3:36 pm) [edit] |
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http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer ?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=S toryFT&cid=1073281236676
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| Can AIDS spread from doctor to patient? |
| 01.22.04 (12:36 pm) [edit] |
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http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&sto ryID=4189060§ion=news
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