India power broker Sonia Gandhi wins place in history books
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The Centre will not conduct a "separate inquiry" into the death of Maoist leader Azad in an encounter with security forces in Andhra Pradesh, Union home secretary GK Pillai has said.
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I have already written about the Mind control game with Media Hype of Chinese Threat followed by Washington strategy against China!ndia has signed an agreement with the US government to purchase 24 Harpoon Block II missiles for its Jaguar strike aircraft, in a bid to ramp up its maritime warfare capability.
Boeing country head, defence, space and security, Mr Vivek Lall told ET, "the deal was successfully concluded through the Foreign Military Sales route late last month, with Boeing as the prime contractor. The missiles are for the Indian Air Force's maritime strike squadron."
The deal, expected to be worth about $170 million, has been on the cards for over two years now, with the Bush administration having wheeled out a sales notification during defence minister A K Antony's visit to Washington in 2008. The US had also sold the same missiles to Pakistan.
The Harpoon Block II is the latest version of the subsonic missile and is able to strike land-based targets and ships. It is an all-weather, over the horizon, anti-ship missile which can be launched from surface ships, submarines and aircraft.
However, Lall said no agreement had been reached yet with regard to supplying the missile for P-8I, India's long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft. The P-8I is scheduled for delivery in 2013.
"The final weapons package for the P-8I is yet to be decided, and will again be sold through the FMS route," he said.
According to the latest report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, the attack capability of the Navy's depleted fighter aircraft fleet has been significantly eroded, as they have not been kept in full combat readiness, with the bombs fitted having become obsolescent.
Mr Lall said the Phase II of the Apache and Chinook helicopter programmes for the IAF will be held in the US later in the year. Phase II will involve weapons integration field trials for both choppers.
India and South Korea on Friday inked two landmark Memoranda of Understandings (MoUs) to give a huge boost to strategic defence cooperation between the two nations.
The two MoUs were signed in the presence of Defence Minister A K Antony and his South Korean counterpart Kim Tae-young in Seoul.
The first MoU envisages an exchange of defence-related experience and information, a mutual exchange of visits by military personnel and experts, including civilian staff associated with the defence services, military education and training and the conduct of military exercises.
It also envisages an exchange of visits of ships and aircraft, as jointly decided between the two countries.
The MoU aims to promote cooperation in humanitarian assistance and international peace keeping activities, and will remain valid for five years with a provision for extension for five more years.
The Second MoU signed by the Chief Controller of Research and Development of DRDO, Dr Prahlada and Vice Commissioner, Defence Acquisition and Procurement Agency (DAPA) of South Korea, Kwon Oh Bong will seek to identify futuristic defence technology areas of mutual interest and pursuing of research and development works in both countries.
Co- development and co-production of defence products with Indian industry through DRDO are also envisaged.
There will be joint IPR on all the products developed through this mechanism. Some areas of immediate interest e.g., marine systems, electronics and intelligent systems have been identified as priority tasks.
Speaking on the occasion, Antony said he hoped his visit will start a new chapter in the relationship between the two nations.
"New Delhi will be happy to see the defence industry relationship to be more than a buyer-seller relationship and its further evolution into transfer of technology, joint production and joint research and development," said Antony.
"The two MoUs signed today will provide a win-win scenario for the two countries in a number of areas," said Kim Tae-young.
The talks between the two countries covered a wide range of security issues- both regional and global.
"India and South Korea share common perception of maintaining peace as well as ensuring safety and security of sea lanes of communication in the region. He said regular exchanges towards ensuring maritime security is important to both countries, especially in securing vital energy supplies that pass through the Indian Ocean," said Antony.
"It is of particular importance for like- minded countries working in the Gulf of Aden to coordinate efforts and also exchange information on the happenings in the area. We look forward to continued and enhanced cooperation between the navies of India and South Korea in this regard'," he added.
Commenting on the regional security scenario in the Indian subcontinent, Antony said: "We live in a troubled neighbourhood. ' Some call it a fragile region. We have to maintain balance and restraint even in the face of grave challenges to our security."
". Our intention is to develop friendly and cooperative relations with all our neighbours so that we can focus on our major development needs'," he added.
India power broker Sonia Gandhi wins place in history books
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NEW DELHI — Italian-born Sonia Gandhi was elected Friday for a record fourth term as president of India's ruling Congress party, cementing her role as the power broker of the country's politics.
Gandhi, widow of assassinated former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and regarded as India's most powerful politician, was elected unopposed for the top Congress job to wild cheers from party supporters.
"It's a great responsibility and I thank all Congress workers. Whether we are in power or not we should always work for the oppressed," she said in a speech in New Delhi after the vote, which made her the longest-serving party head.
Gandhi rarely appears in public but holds great sway within the Congress party. She is credited with shaping the party's welfare policies and is seen as a champion of the poor as India undergoes rapid economic development.
She also crafted the strategies which gave Congress back-to-back general election victories, ending years in the political wilderness.
Gandhi, 63, whose dark brown hair only now shows streaks of grey, took over the party's reins when it faced "drift and despondency," said one party leader.
She arrived in India as a shy bride of Rajiv Gandhi in her early 20s and was transformed into a sari-clad Indian who now speaks fluent Hindi.
Her years in the Gandhi household, when her strong-willed autocratic mother-in-law Indira -- slain in 1984 by her Sikh bodyguards -- was premier gave her an intimate insight into India's turbulent politics.
She officially took charge of the Congress party as its president in 1998, becoming the fifth member of the Nehru-Gandhi family to serve as its chief.
Congress's fortunes were on the slide when party workers implored Gandhi to take the helm.
Gandhi -- who has described herself as "a reluctant politician" -- rebuilt the party, leading it to victory in the 2004 general elections.
But she handed the prime minister's job to the current incumbent Manmohan Singh, worried about a political backlash against her because of her foreign origins.
She now is widely thought to be preparing the way for her son Rahul, 40, to become the country's next leader, replacing 77-year-old Singh.
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Obama promises more stimulus as unemployment edges up
President Barack Obama on Friday promised a fresh slew of measures to boost the ailing US economy after fresh data showed unemployment was again on the rise.Obama said he would outline a new package of stimulus measures next week, after a keenly awaited Labor Department report showed the economy lost 54,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate edged up to 9.6 per cent.
Although the job losses were much better than the 120,000 slump expected by Wall Street economists, hiring was not substantial enough to return millions of crisis-hit Americans to work.
Obama acknowledged the report was "not nearly good enough" but focused on news that the private sector created 67,000 jobs in August, many more than expected.
"That's positive news and it reflects the steps we have already taken to break the back of this recession," he told reporters at the White House.
But it was not enough to offset the government releasing around 114,00 temporary census workers, which helped nudge up the unemployment rate.
Still, the figures were also greeted positively on Wall Street.
The figures were "hardly great news but could have been much worse," said Ian Shepherdson of High Frequency Economics.
Stocks surged on news that the report had cleared rock bottom expectations.
But the still-high headline unemployment rate and slow hiring presented a stiff challenge for the White House as it struggles to help the jobs market to its feet.
Tackling one prong of that challenge Obama on Friday redoubled efforts to reassure Americans that the economic outlook, although bleak, would improve.
"I want all Americans to remind themselves there are better days ahead," he said. "Even after this economic crisis, our markets remain the most dynamic in the world. Our workers are still the most productive."
In a bid to make good on that promise Obama pressed Republican foes to stop blocking tax cuts for small businesses and hinted at a new package of measures, which are rumored to include an income tax holiday and a permanent extension of the research and development tax credit.
The president is expected to tout the new policies in a heavy slate of economy-themed events next week, including travel to the hard-hit Midwest and in a major press conference next Friday.
But with many lawmakers fretting ahead of November's mid-term elections and public concern mounting over the forecast 1.4-trillion-dollar budget deficit, Obama faces stiff political opposition to his plans.
On Friday the ranking House Republican called on Obama to fire his top economic advisers and quit his "job-killing" policies.
"President Obama's agenda represented 'change' once, but now it is time for him to change course, abandon his job-killing policies, and find himself a new economic team," said House Minority Leader John Boehner.
India at war with itself
V.T. RAJSHEKAR[Speech delivered in London on India's raging Maoist Movement and its glamorisation in the Indian media at LISA's (London Institute of South Asia) annual function at the Portcullis House, Westminster, on July 14, 2010.]
This is the sixth year of the LISA annual function, but as we could not get a befitting book, the annual book award is postponed.Meanwhile, our LISA chief Brigadier Usman Khalid fell ill, stricken by a deadly disease but I was confident that he would recover and bounce back. And he did.
He is sitting here. Had I not mentioned it most of you would not have noticed that he was actually having a second life.
WORLD'S LARGEST MUSLIM COUNTRY
Brother Khalid is the centre of gravity for LISA. Last year, when I was invited to Pakistan to lead a Dalit Writers delegation, I was surprised to find him at the Lahore airport along with the welcoming team. This year I was again invited to Pakistan but he sent an email saying that he wanted to join the team but could not because of his illness.Glad to hear that he has handed over the LISA responsibilities to Saeed Ismat and we are sure the new chief would beef up the LISA work so that it could become a powerful think-tank and also a watch-dog over India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan- all suffering under the big bully tyranny of a micro-minority of Brahminical imperialists. And, equip LISA intellectually to rein in this big Brahminical bully that is India.
I have been asked to speak on the Maoist movement, so much glamorised in India's Brahminical media.
As the editor of India's largest circulated journal for the oppressed Indians, namely Dalit Voice, 30 years old, with intimate knowledge of every corner of the country with a formidable population of 1,300 millions, we have several friends within the Maoist movement and hence I am in a position to give you the authentic picture of this movement which has become the second biggest problem to India's micro-minority 3% Brahmins who are ruling India since centuries.
The Brahmins consider "Islamic terrorism"as their No. 1 problem and the Maoist movement as the No.2.
You will be better able to appreciate my statement if I read out to you a report from today's (14/07/2010) Guardian (London), page number 20. Headlined "More poverty in India, than all of Sub-Saharan Africa: UN index builds up future picture of poor lives. Madhya Pradesh state comparable to Congo"
India is on a steep decline politically, economically, socially and also intellectually.
India became independent in 1947. It is now 63 years since a micro-minority of 3% Brahmins took over as our new rulers, who are worse than the British, and reduced over 85% of India's Dalits, Tribals, Muslims and Backward Castes into mere skin and bones.
The United Nations has given the rank of 134 to India and next year it will go down to 135 while China, which became independent two years later has become the number 2 power in the world.
Such a serious socio-economic situation has created two problems before the Indian rulers: the no.1 problem is Islamic terrorism. India has the world's largest Muslim population – reduced to permanent poverty and illiteracy. On the top of that the Muslims are pushed to urban slums, and regularly killed, arrested and dubbed terrorists.
MAOIST PARTY HEADED BY BRAHMINS
A war is now raging in Kashmir which is totally Muslim.The second problem is the "Maoist movement" which has spread to almost one-third of India. So far the movement is confined to villages. As the ruling upper caste are urban-dwellers, they are not so much bothered about the Maoists till now. These so called Maoists are not part of any organised Communist Party. China's communist party, which is a product of Maoism, not only has no connection with India's highly glamorised Maoists, but has stated that it is opposed to the Indian Maoist movement.
Why Chinese communists, who are the only authentic Maoists, are against the Indian Maoists? Because, China knows that the leadership of the Indian Maoists is Brahminical who are our enemy oppressors.
As the President of the India-China friendship association, I led two delegations to China and we are in close contact with the revolutionary country and that's how China knows the facts about the Indian Maoists.
Brahminical rulers, who have sucked the blood of the country's poor, are the very people who exploited their poverty and deprivation to build up a movement of Dalits and Tribals who are the foot –soldiers of the Brahmin leaders. And still called it a "Maoist movement."
That means that our very enemy is leading our starving people calling them Maoists. It may be shocking but unfortunately true.
We are in close touch with the rank and file of the Maoist movement. Quite a lot of caste-clashes have taken place inside the Maoists. Many upper caste Brahminical leaders have been shot dead by the angry Dalits who are the back-bone of the movement.
But, India's Brahminical media is hiding this truth and glamorising this Maoist movement.
And it is this Brahmin monopoly media that is giving you a false picture of the Maoists.
For your information, India's Communist Party is also led by the same Brahmins. These Brahminists divide themselves into all parties so that any party that wins will remain under their leadership. This is their strategy. We know the game of our oppressors and we request you to see through their centuries-old divide and rule game. Please don't fall into the enemy trap. The communist party deceived our people for over 60/70 years and there is no reason why the Maoist leadership will not deceive us again. Because, both are led by the same Brahminist enemy no.1 of India.
But unfortunately the poor and illiterate Dalits and Tribals are unaware of this Brahminical game. And that is how they get deceived and die in the cross-fire between the Maoists and the Indian government para-military forces.
We have no mass media of our own, this media is again in the hands of our enemy. Only Dalit Voice comes out with truth and supports justice. But, after struggling for 30 long years and fighting for human rights of Dalits, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians we have announced that Dalit Voice is closing down.
Darkness is descending on India. Yes, India is at war with itself.
Alas, the West is misguided by the Zionist Jews and the East is led by the "Jews of India",the Brahmins.
These twin enemies of humanity – the "Jews and the Jews of India" have to be fought and eliminated.
However, the rise of China, on one side and the spread of revolutionary Islam on the other is the only hope for India and the humankind.
The meeting was held in the historic Pastcullis House which is part of the British Parliament called Westminster on the bank of the River Thames. It was inaugurated by a member of the British House of Commons and presided by a Muslim House of Lord member, Nazir Ahmed, and attended by UK- based Sikhs, Dalits, Muslims, and a UK-based Muslim young woman Saleena Karim, author of the latest book on Jinnah, Awatar Singh Sekhon from Canada, Gurtej Singh from Chandigarh, Punjab. Those present including the outgoing president of the LISA, Brig. Usman Khalid, and the new president Saeed Ismat, a retired Pakistani Brigadier and diplomat.
http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/sep2010/articles.htm
Editorial
Guns can never silence Kashmiri craving for Azadi : Hate-Muslim policy destroys very fabric of India
Guns alone cannot suppress any people fighting for self-determination and liberation. This is the lesson of history and applies to all human rights struggles and particularly Kashmir, where we have been seeing the ugliest and the most barbaric face of Brahminism killing innocent Kashmiri youths. Whether it is the Congress or the Brahmana Jati Party (BJP), any govt. sitting in Delhi has only one answer to the Kashmiri aspirations for Azadi. Bullets. Change of govt. brings no change in policy because the man in the driver's seat is the same hate-mongering Vaidik Brahmin.Editor not allowed to enter Kashmir: Kashmiri Muslims fighting for Azadi were all Brahmins (Pundits) till recently but they revolted against this violent cult and sought liberation under Islam. The Brahminists who usurped the Delhi throne through a deep-rooted conspiracy of the Jews and "Jews of India" with the help of the cunning Gujarati Bania, M.K. Gandhi, have launched a reign of terror on every section of the Indian society whose suppressed voice is heard only through DV, the Voice of the Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights.
The Editor of DV was invited by the Azadi leaders to visit Kashmir but was not allowed by the Brahminist leaders.
Those interested in knowing the roots of the Kashmir problem and facts of the Brahminical reign of terror may order a photocopy of the book, The Challenge in Kashmir (1997) by Dr. Sumantra Bose, himself an upper caste Bengali Baidya but a distinguished Western-educated historian (pp.210, Rs. 150).
Pakistan accepts plebiscite: The then Dogra ruler of Kashmir, Hari Singh, might have "acceded" to India but it was strictly conditional on a "reference to the people" of Kashmir — meaning plebiscite. The Kashmiri Brahmin, the first PM of India, J.L. Nehru, on Nov.2, 1947 declared his govt. "pledge" to "hold a referendum under international auspices (read UN) to determine the wishes of the people. He repeated this "pledge" many times.
Pakistan also accepted the plebiscite solution. Accordingly the UN passed a resolution accepting plebiscite.
But the Brahminist rulers never believed in keeping up any commitment. Their argument is:
(1) Pakistani forces failed to vacate portions under their control (a pre-condition under the UN resolution for plebiscite), (2) Kashmir's lawful ruler acceded to India.
If both the above arguments are acceptable, says Dr. Bose, why did Nehru commit India for plebiscite despite the legality of Kashmiri rulers accession to India?
(3) Brahminist rulers often shout that Kashmir is our integral part of India. Fine. This opinion, they say, is based on the repeated elections held in Kashmir where its "democratically elected representatives have repeatedly and freely ratified the moral and legal validity of accession to India in free election".
Bogus claim: The UN, however, still stands by plebiscite. Even the US Govt. till very recently, maintained that "Kashmir is a disputed territory".
Rigged elections: Indian rulers say pro-India elements have always won in different state elections and the people of Kashmir have voted for staying with India. Accepted. "Then why the Brahminists are opposing plebiscite?", ask the Kashmiri people. Simple. The elections are totally rigged to promote anti-people Brahminical cockroaches. That the Kashmir people through their MLAs have voted to remain in India is a total bogus claim. This is proved in the recent uprising which could not be controlled even by the brute force launched by the Tamil Chettiar killing scores of young Kashmiris.
We had been to Kashmir and met its revolutionary leaders like Jalil Andrabi, a prominent human rights lawyer from Kashmir, who was brutally killed in Srinagar in 1996.
The "unanimous opinion" of the Kashmiris is they are not fighting and dying to join Pakistan. They want only Azadi, self-determination. That is all.
Toilet papers admission: Brahminist rulers may send brute force to crush the Kashmir struggle for Azadi but it can never win the hearts of Kashmiris. Brahminical toilet papers themselves have admitted this. Corrupt and discredited politicians like Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar with no roots in the soil of Kashmir are intensely hated people. The latest revolt is also against these "foreign imposters".
The Kashmiri Brahmin micro-minority well-entrenched in Delhi is manipulating the current "war" against Azadi with the aid of the Brahminists in RAW and IB but they will never succeed.
Constitution itself destroyed: The Brahminical rulers have throughout used brute force with the support of their Jewish cousins not only to suppress Kashmiris but also ride rough-shod on the aspirations of all the nationalities fighting for human rights. These persecuted nationalities include Dalits 20%, Tribals 10%, Muslims 15%, Christian and Sikhs (5%), Backward Castes 35%. All these nationalities are not even able to breath freely. They have been repressed, rebuffed and denied recognition. Brahminists did this by destroying the very constitution of India, bending the judiciary, media, and suppressing all human rights struggles. "National" toilet papers fully aided and abetted the destruction of the constitution. This is the only cause of India's free fall. With over 85% of the Indian population of 1,300 million suppressed, their human rights mutilated how can the Brahminists ever allow the country to rise, socially, culturally and economically?
PM's wrong diagnosis: Our "Khatri Sick" PM thinks Kashmir is an economic problem. Nonsense. Kashmiri youths are fighting and dying not for "jobs". The PM is consciously adding insult to injury by ridiculing the Kashmiri youth who are dying for Azadi.
We are happy that the tumultuous events of July and August 2010 have drowned the two Abdullah cockroaches and brought to the fore the villain-turned overnight hero, Syed Ali Shah Geelani (81) who declared that Kashmir is a disputed territory. Brahminists admitted his "genuine leadership".
Withdraw the Army, lift curfew, hold plebiscite in Kashmir as desired by the people and the UN and accept the verdict. That is the only solution.
Brahminists don't love India: There will never be peace in India as long as Kashmir continues to boil. With Indian army committed to Kashmir, it will be a drag on the Indian economy. Nothing grows in Kashmir except apples. It is more a liability. China has already taken over the development of Azad Kashmir. Impoverished India with its rag-tag army will have no courage to face the nuclear-armed Pakistan supported by both China and also USA. The only reason the rulers are holding on to Kashmir at the cost of the country is to rouse the 'majority Hindus" against "minority" Muslims. But in the process the Brahminists are only destroying India. But "whose father's what goes?" Brahminists have already said they don't belong to India and hence don't love India. As the Bahujans have been mentally crushed and made voiceless, the rulers may temporarily ride the waves with the Kalmadis looting the crores. But how long this can continue?
http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/sep2010/editorial.htm
With China increasing its military power and influence in the strategically crucial Indian Ocean, a noted American expert has urged the Obama administration to partner India to balance and counter Beijing's increasing influence in the region.
As the Indian Ocean is becoming increasingly important to China's economic and security interests, Dean Cheng of the Heritage Foundation said that Beijing appears to be pursuing what has been widely known as a "string of pearls" strategy of cultivating India's neighbours as friendly states, both to protect its economic and security interests and to balance a "rising India".
With Chinese influence in the region growing, it is essential that the US not fall behind in the Indian Ocean, but maintain a steady presence in the region, both to signal its resolve to stay engaged and to avoid the difficulties of reentering a region, Cheng wrote.
He said for the foreseeable future, Chinese strategic planners will need to pay increasing attention to China's Indian Ocean flank.
In the short term, Beijing is concerned about its growing dependence on the sea lanes of communications for sustaining China's economic growth.
In 2010, for the first time, China imported more than 50 per cent of its oil consumption. Chinese President Hu Jintao has already raised the issue of the Malacca Strait.
"There is little question that it is a key choke-point on China's oil supply routes. Part of China's interest in developing alternative ports and pipelines, such as in Pakistan and Burma, would seem to be motivated by a desire to reduce the criticality of the Malacca Strait," he said.
"Even if China's oil lifeline did not have to transit the Strait of Malacca, it would nonetheless traverse significant portions of the Indian Ocean. The growth of the Indian navy means that Chinese economic development is potentially at the mercy of India, as well as the United States. The forging of Indian security links with Japan and the United States is therefore a source of concern," he noted.
Read more: 'India, US need to partner to balance China in Indian Ocean' - India - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-US-need-to-partner-to-balance-China-in-Indian-Ocean/articleshow/6478509.cms#ixzz0yUTtdy51
The Telegraph reports:
| US bags million-dollar defence deals | ||
| SUJAN DUTTA | ||
New Delhi, Sept. 2: The US is winning millions of dollars of orders from the Indian defence forces after demonstrating new weapons in joint exercises with the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force. The Indian Army has now decided to make an outright purchase of several hundred Javelin anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM) that were demonstrated for the first time in the largest war game that the two armies have held. Executives of the company that makes the weapon, Raytheon Corporation, were present at Yudh Abhyas 09 in Babina, a range of the Indian Army's armoured corps in Madhya Pradesh. The US army demonstrated how the shoulder-fired weapon is used. "We have sent a Letter of Request to the US government. We want to procure the Javelin ATGMs with an agreement for transfer of technology," a defence ministry source said. The price of the missiles is still being negotiated. But an armoured corps officer said it the Javelin was easily the most expensive anti-tank missile in the global market. The Indian Army has so far used the Milan anti-tank missiles that are made in India with French collaboration. The Indian Air Force also decided to buy the C-130J Hercules and the C-17 Globemaster III aircraft after putting them through trials but after first witnessing their performance in joint drills and during visits of senior officials. The Indian Navy bought the USS Trenton, now christened the INS Jalashva, after it was given a demonstration in the Mediterranean during the Israel-Hizbollah war of 2006. Defence ministry sources have said the Indian government is buying the Javelin missiles through a mechanism of the Pentagon that bypasses the need for competition. "We have sent a Letter of Request to the US government. We want to procure the Javelin ATGMs along with an agreement for transfer of technology," a defence ministry source said. |
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100903/jsp/nation/story_12890590.jsp
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India inks deal with US for 24 Harpoon Block-II missiles
TNN, Sep 3, 2010, 02.37am IST
NEW DELHI: Even as defence minister A K Antony is slated to visit Washington later this month, India has signed yet another arms contract with the US under a direct government-to-government deal.The latest deal to be inked, worth around $170 million, is the one for 24 Harpoon Block- II anti-ship missiles to arm the maritime strike Jaguar fighters in IAF's combat fleet. Incidentally, Pakistan has also inducted different variants of Harpoon missiles from the US over the years.
While this deal in itself is not all that big, traditional defence suppliers to India -- like Russia, Israel and some European countries -- are increasingly getting worried about the aggressive muscling into the lucrative Indian market by the US, bagging deals as it often does under its Foreign Military Sales programme instead of vying through open global tenders.
As earlier reported by TOI, the largest-ever Indo-American defence deal till now -- worth around $3.5 billion for 10 C-17 Globemaster-III giant strategic airlift aircraft -- is on the verge of being finalised.
It will overtake the $2.1 billion contract for eight Boeing P-8I long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft inked last year, and the $962 million deal for six C-130J `Super Hercules' planes clinched in 2007.
Washington, of course, also continues to push New Delhi to ink three bilateral military pacts connected with technology safeguards and logistics.
India, however, is still not fully convinced about the benefits of the three pacts -- Logistics Support Agreement (LSA), Communication Interoperability and Security Memorandum Agreement (CISMOA) and Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-Spatial Cooperation (BECA). The deadlock over the three pacts will figure prominently during Antony's visit to the US.
Antony is also expected to reiterate India's concerns about the massive US military aid being supplied to Pakistan in the name of the global war on terror.
Antony has already made it clear that the military aid, which ranges from new F-16 fighter jets to a wide array of missiles, is clearly disproportionate to Pakistan's requirement to fight against the Taliban on its Afghan border.
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| $340-million rot mission - Cash for 1m tonnes can feed 2m homes |
| JAYANTA ROY CHOWDHURY AND R. SURYAMURTHY |
| New Delhi, Sept. 2: Amount of rotten wheat India is likely to end up with — 1 million tonnes. And that's just official estimates. Money spent on buying this 1 million tonnes of wheat — $340 million. Enough to feed roughly 2 million families in a year. That, in a nutshell, is the story of India's wheat purchase and wastage. Days after the Supreme Court ordered the government to distribute grain free to the poor instead of letting stocks rot in the open, figures revealed the extent of the wastage. Sources said the government had grain silos with a capacity for storing 39 million tonnes, but had a stock of 57 million tonnes, resulting in a situation where nearly 18 million tonnes were lying in temporary storage or even in the open, under tarpaulin covers. This 18 million tonnes cost the government approximately $6 billion to buy, store and transport. China has the capacity for storing up to 200 million tonnes of wheat and paddy. Officials say the government will end up with some 1 million tonnes of spoilt wheat, though traders put the figure at 8 million tonnes. "Rains have been late and heavy in Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh where the grain is lying in tarpaulin-covered heaps. We expect at least 40 per cent of the stuff lying in the open to rot," said Jagdamba Gupta, a grain trader and exporter. This is despite purchase of wheat from farmers at a price higher than what the grain costs in the global market. India buys wheat from its farmers at Rs 11,000 or $230 a tonne, the price set independently by a government-appointed committee. Taking the cost of storage and transportation, a tonne ends up costing the government $340. In the global market, wheat costs $260-270 a tonne, despite a 60 per cent increase over June this year. The wastage could have been reduced had the government not slept over recommendations made by the country's best-known agricultural scientist, M.S. Swaminathan, about half a decade back. The man, known as the father of the Green Revolution, had suggested that the government set up ultra-modern grain storage facilities at 50 locations in the country, with each capable of handling one million tonnes of wheat or rice. "There is an urgent need to increase the storage capacity in the country as rotting grains add to the food subsidy bill of the government," said Y.K. Alagh, former Union minister and economist with the Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research. The government has budgeted an expense of Rs 68,181 crore as subsidy for the year 2010-11 for buying and storing grain for sale at cheaper rates through the public distribution system. "It would also be good if the courts order the government to create additional storage capacity. We would then not have to face this kind of a situation next year or the year after that, where we are unable to store a bumper crop," said T. Haque, former chairman of the agricultural prices commission and a well-known agricultural economist. |
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| 'Hostage-killers' test Nitish nerves Cop slain, claim Maoists | |
| RAMASHANKAR AND GAUTAM SARKAR | |
Sept. 2: Maoists today claimed to have killed one of the four policemen taken hostage during an encounter in Bihar, driving a chilling bargain to get eight jailed comrades freed and igniting a crisis for development advocate Nitish Kumar. Till late tonight, it was not confirmed beyond doubt that the Maoists had carried out the execution — the body had not been found — and initially officials felt that the claim was a pressure tactic, though hope faded by the evening. If the policeman has been killed, it will be a big blow to the election-bound Bihar chief minister who has consistently differed with the Centre's security-oriented approach to neutralising Naxalite expansion. The policeman has been identified as Abhay Kumar Yadav, officer-in-charge of Manikpur police station at Lakhisarai. Unconfirmed reports said the Maoists were also demanding safe passage for their comrades trapped in a forest after Sunday's encounter during which the four policemen were captured. (See chart) Nitish, who has advocated the development line to deal with the Naxalite problem, said this evening that his government was ready for talks with the rebels and assured them safe passage if they decided to sit across the table. "We are ready for talks with them (the Naxalites) and we assure them that there will be no police action against them if they come to us for dialogue," Nitish said in Patna. But he ordered the police to continue combing operations in the forests of Jamui, Lakhisarai and Munger districts on the Bihar-Jharkhand border to flush out the Maoists. The rebels, who are holding the four policemen hostage, have been ringed by security forces. The Maoists have set several deadlines for the government to release eight colleagues jailed in eastern Bihar, but the administration has so far refused to acknowledge that any demands have been made. This evening, Avinash, a spokesperson for the Bihar-Jharkhand central committee of the CPI (Maoist), informed the media over the phone that Yadav had been killed at 4.16pm. He claimed that the execution had taken place at Pasraha forest near Bhimbandh, 18km from Munger town. Avinash claimed that Yadav, whose family members were camping in front of the chief minister's residence in Patna, was killed following a decision taken by the members of the section committee of the organisation at a "jan adalat" (Maoist kangaroo court). He, however, said that the three other policemen — sub-inspector Rupesh Kumar, Bihar Military Police (BMP) havildar Ehtesham Khan and BMP jamadar Lucas Tete — were safe in their custody. Six BMP personnel and the officer-in-charge of Kawaiya police outpost were killed in the gun battle with the Maoists in the botched operation on Sunday. Avinash said the outfit had decided to extend the deadline for the release of their eight jailed leaders till 10am on Friday. He said Yadav's body would be sent to Munger or Jamui by 8pm today. Till 10pm, officials did not report that any body had been found. Avinash said the district magistrate of Lakhisarai had talked to him over the phone yesterday, but no steps had been taken since. "We are ready to hold talks with the government. But they should take the initiative first," he said. Government sources in Patna said they would not confirm the death of Yadav until the body was delivered. The sources said the Maoists could be using the "execution" ploy to pressure the government into relaxing the security ring around the hills. |
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| SC grain order exceeds jurisdiction limits: Somnath | ||
| SAMANWAYA RAUTRAY | ||
New Delhi, Sept. 2: Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee today said the Supreme Court's order to the Centre to distribute foodgrain to the poor free "has exceeded all limits of jurisdiction". Chatterjee said the directive was another example of a "well-intentioned" order that could not be implemented. "I am surprised," he told The Telegraph over the phone. "I wish the court had given some thought to how the order can be implemented." The Supreme Court had on Tuesday clarified that it had issued an "order", not made a suggestion, to the food ministry to distribute free to the poor grain as stocks are overflowing and rotting. "With all due respect, the intention (of the court) was good, but there are other institutions to take care of it," said Chatterjee, himself a barrister. "This is just the type of activism which creates problems for everybody." Every judicial order, he said, should be capable of being implemented. That is the simplest test of a good judicial order. The Supreme Court order on foodgrain cannot be implemented, he said. "The court's order has exceeded all limits of jurisdiction," Chatterjee said, adding that it interfered with the government's functioning. "Every constitutional authority has to have a proper role perception," he said, alluding to the huge pendency of cases in the judiciary. There are so many pending cases but can any other agency say "we are going to take over and dispose of these cases"? Chatterjee wondered. "If supposedly one wing is not functioning, does it mean another will take over?" he asked. "If the army is not being deployed properly, will the court tell it or the NSG how to function? Will the Supreme Court now tell the government how to control the Maoists?" he asked. If the government fails, the people have to change the government, said Chatterjee. Former law minister Shanti Bhushan agreed with Chatterjee. "The Supreme Court order is well-intentioned but transgresses all limits. It is not for the Supreme Court to say what policy should be followed," he said. The top court, he said, was right in getting disturbed over images of food rotting in the country while the poor starved. But it was not right in passing an order asking the government to provide the grain free to the poor, he said. "It is a complex problem but the government is there to deal with it," Bhushan said. The court can pass specific orders if a poor person, who is entitled to food through the public distribution system but doesn't get it, approaches it for relief. "But in this case, the government has no policy of providing free foodgrain," he pointed out. Other legal experts, who did not wish to be named, said it was high time the government made a concerted attempt to wrest the jurisdiction ceded over the years to the judiciary. They cited a case in which the court has been monitoring forests since 1995. That special bench has over the years dealt with problems of diversion of forest land for non-forest use. It has also imposed a "tax" for such diversion. |
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| THEY HAVE DONE IT AGAIN - America's role in India's visa row with China | |
| Diplomacy | |
| k.P. Nayar | |
There is much, much more to the latest visa row with the Chinese than the simplistic explanation that the Northern Army Commander, Lt. Gen. B.S. Jaswal, was nominated for a military exchange, Beijing viewed his visit as undesirable, and New Delhi retaliated rather strongly by suspending all military contact with the Chinese, except routine border-personnel meetings. Like many aspects of Sino-Indian relations, last week's media frenzy over the Northern Army Commander's non-visit can be traced to the shenanigans in Indo-US relations. The United States of America's military industrial complex and the American lobby in New Delhi needed to whip up fears about Beijing in the run-up to the trip to Washington, in the last week of September, of the defence minister, A.K. Antony. And the rancour over Jaswal, which has been beneath the surface in India's relations with China, came in handy. It was more than a month ago that the Chinese expressed their reservations about receiving Jaswal. Immediately, with a swiftness that took the Chinese by surprise, India suspended all military exchanges with Beijing. One of the more reassuring aspects of this episode was that, for over a month, the entire controversy remained under wraps. The ministry of external affairs normally leaks like a sieve, but the discipline with which this extremely sensitive development in Sino-Indian relations was prevented from getting into the spotlight proved that the MEA's east Asia division and the Indian embassy in Beijing are run as tight ships. This is the absolute need of the times, an imperative to meet the challenges in bilateral relations with Beijing. The news that eventually broke, last week, of an impasse in Sino-Indian military exchanges was a deliberate leak, which, of course, is not unusual in New Delhi. But if the discipline of the MEA's east Asia division was reassuring, it was equally disconcerting that South Block has now traced the leak to those seeking to protect and promote US interests. The American embassy in New Delhi has long boasted that it can do anything it wants with sections of the capital's media. The mission's officials have in the past narrated to this writer, off the record, instances where they have used their moles in the media to bring about policy changes within the Indian government. The manner of the spin of the army visa story is the latest example of the Americans doing it again. It is absolutely important for them that a paranoia should be whipped up in New Delhi over China's 'evil' intentions against India in the days and weeks before the defence minister travels to Washington. When Pranab Mukherjee was shifted out of the ministry of defence in the last big cabinet reshuffle of the first United Progressive Alliance government, the Americans miscalculated that Mukherjee's successor would be someone they could manipulate or push around. They found Mukherjee far too tough to crack, but they also mistook the soft-spoken Antony's demeanour and brevity as shortcomings in a defence minister. After several firm and clear-headed meetings between Antony and the US national security adviser, James Jones, in the last 19 months, the American military industrial complex is wiser. So is the Obama administration, which was clearly struck by the way Antony recently found a way out of an impasse over end-user arrangements for US weapons sold to India, an issue which had dogged Indo-US defence relations for several years. The conventional wisdom on Indo-US defence relations is that the Americans are single-mindedly pursuing a lucrative order for 126 multi-role combat planes for the Indian Air Force, potentially the biggest deal in the entire history of military aviation. But such a view paints a distorted picture of the current nature of military exchanges between New Delhi and Washington. The Pentagon clearly has been unhappy that the overall momentum of Indo-US defence engagement has significantly slowed down from the days of the previous Bush administration, when this segment of the bilateral relationship showed greater promise. The US defence secretary, Robert Gates, would like to see India's signature on three agreements related to bilateral military co-operation when Antony is in Washington in just under four weeks. All three agreements have been controversial: the communication inter-operability and security memorandum agreement, the logistics support agreement, and the basic exchange and co-operation agreement for geo-spatial co-operation. At the time of writing, the defence minister is disinclined to give his approval for any of these agreements although those in his ministry who wish to open India's arms to the American military industrial complex are strongly in favour of putting India's signature on these. In this context, creating a scare about China helps Washington. Despite a change in administration and the bulk of political appointees in top positions, institutional memory at the US department of defence is good enough for those dealing with India now to recall the story of a sweeping turnaround in relations between India and the US on the one hand, and between India and China, on the other, under the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. Then, George Fernandes, the National Democratic Alliance's defence minister, had described China as India's "Enemy Number One". At the same time, the Vajpayee government blamed China for the compulsions behind India's decision to exercise its nuclear option in 1998. Naturally, Beijing was furious. But eventually, China's anger gave way to its pragmatism. When the Chinese realized that the NDA government was moving closer to Washington in every sphere in a way that no previous Indian government had done, they feared that the US may well consider persuading India to be a counter-weight to China in Asia. They also anticipated that with ministers like Fernandes in the cabinet in senior positions, India may succumb to the temptation of being drawn into an alliance led by the US against China's rise. So, China's then ambassador in New Delhi came down from his high horse and promptly called on Fernandes, quickly signalling that bygones should be bygones. The NDA's defence minister was pleasantly surprised that despite the minister's assertion of China being India's Enemy Number One, the ambassador extended an invitation to Fernandes to visit China. The American effort now is similarly to turn the tables on China. The spin-masters dealing with India in Washington are convinced that just as fears of an Indo-US joint front persuaded the Chinese, a decade ago, to reach out to the NDA government in general, and to Fernandes in particular, fear of China — real or imagined — could now be used to convince Antony that he must provide a shot in the arm at the political level to catalyse Indo-US defence engagement. Of course, the Chinese provided a handy tool to the Americans by doing what they did to Jaswal and by insisting that Chinese visas for Kashmiris would only be stapled to, not stamped on, their Indian passports. But the MEA is unlikely to play ball in this scheme. It wanted to keep the Jaswal controversy under wraps because it had taken the effective action of freezing all military exchanges with China in retaliation for the discourtesy shown the Northern Military Commander. While the MEA was convinced that this firm retaliation had rattled the Chinese, it did not want the situation to escalate through any emotive debate in the media over a holy cow that the army continues to be for an influential section of Indian public opinion. The UPA's leadership believes that the issue has to be resolved at the political and diplomatic levels, and is looking at the military retaliation of freezing bilateral defence exchanges as merely a short-term tactic. There is a powerful school of thought in the UPA leadership which believes that the Jaswal episode may not have been a bad thing altogether and that its dramatic nature may help clear the air over where China actually stands on the status of Jammu and Kashmir. Continuing the Washington- inspired spin designed to escalate the visa row, there were weekend reports that China's ambassador to India, Zhang Yan, had been summoned to South Block last Friday to be administered a rebuke over the treatment of Jaswal. Zhang and South Block officials have been discussing the issue for weeks now. Friday's meeting was to finalize the arrangements for travel to China by Gautam Bambawale, the MEA's joint-secretary for east Asia, who will reach Beijing this weekend to work out political solutions to irritants in Sino-Indian relations, including the Jaswal case. Hopefully, if Bambawale's mission, which is on schedule at the time of writing, is successful, Antony may not have to succumb to American tactics in Washington on September 27. | |
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Nuclear deal: Elusive benefits, tangible costs
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PTIIndian Ambassador Meera Shankar and U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns sign an agreement in Washington for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel.
With accident-liability protection constituting another layer of state subsidy to foreign reactor vendors, the spectre of dozens of Enrons in the nuclear-energy sector is real.
The controversial Indo-U.S. nuclear deal was pushed through without building "the broadest possible national consensus" that the prime minister had promised. Certain give-and-take is inevitable in any deal. But this deal has picked up such onerous conditions that it now threatens to cast a perpetual political albatross around India's neck. To implement the deal, the government is now seeking to burden the Indian taxpayer on multiple counts — from state subsidy in the form of liability protection and acquisition of land on behalf of foreign vendors to guaranteeing subsidised price of electricity from the high-cost foreign reactors to be imported. The result is likely to saddle India with dozens of Enrons in the nuclear-energy sector.
The deal's energy benefits, in fact, are years away and will come with heavy economic costs. One reminder of the costs is the proposed nuclear-accident liability legislation. The revised bill that has emerged from the parliamentary standing committee increases, not lessens, the load on the taxpayer. The bill actually seeks to enshrine a new principle in international law: Profits are private, accident-related liabilities are all public.
While U.S. law permits "economic channelling," but not "legal channelling," of liability, thereby allowing criminal proceedings and other lawsuits against any party in courts, the revised Indian bill channels all financial and legal liability to the Indian state operator, effectively indemnifying foreign reactor vendors. Nuclear safety can hardly be enhanced by freeing foreign suppliers upfront from responsibility for accidents caused by design flaws, pinning liability singly on the state operator, and vesting the right of recourse only with the operator by shutting out victims of accident.
Nuclear park
A bigger indicator of the energy-related costs, however, has completely escaped public attention. The government has earmarked a nuclear park exclusively for each of the four favoured foreign vendors. GE-Hitachi is to build six reactors at Kovvada (Andhra Pradesh), Westinghouse another six at Mithi Virdi (Gujarat), Areva a further six at Jaitapur (Maharashtra), and Russia's Atomstroyexport six more at Kudankulam (Tamil Nadu) and an additional four later at Hirapur (West Bengal).
The reservation of a nuclear park for each foreign vendor even before the terms of a reactor contract have been negotiated is anti-competitive and unparalleled. To add to the pampering, India is also acquiring land on behalf of these firms.
Despite an inherently anti-market process, the government contends the contracts will be based on competitive pricing. But by reserving a park solely for each foreign vendor, it has undercut its own bargaining leverage. Just like the arms deals of recent years, the reactor contracts are all set to be signed without open bidding. Indeed, since the deal was unveiled in 2005, India has signed billions of dollars worth of arms contracts with America on a government-to-government basis, although the U.S. has no public sector.
Worse yet, foreign firms are being freed from the task of producing electricity at marketable rates. The reactors will be run by the state operator, with the Indian taxpayer subsidising the high-priced electricity generated. It may take nearly a decade before the first foreign reactor under the nuclear deal comes on line, if one goes by Areva's record in Finland and Atomstroyexport's at Kundankulam, where completion of a twin-reactor station is years behind schedule.
Technology penalties
Yet another jarring aspect is that despite the deal being in force internationally, India continues to battle major technology sanctions. The deal has not lifted all technology controls even in the civilian nuclear field: In late June, the G-8 countries renewed their ban on sale of civilian enrichment and reprocessing (ENR) technology and equipment, even under international safeguards, to a non-NPT state like India. The Indian foreign secretary has described as "anachronistic" the continuing U.S. export controls against India that extend beyond the nuclear realm to cover advanced technologies and target civilian entities like ISRO. The PM, however, had triumphantly announced in 2008 that the deal "marks the end … of the technology-denial regime against India."
The idea to build energy "security" by importing foreign fuel-dependent power reactors is nothing but a money-spending boondoggle likely to leave India insecure and buffeted by outside pressures. That spectre has been underscored by the four big "No"s for India embedded in the final deal: No binding fuel-supply guarantee to avert a Tarapur-style fuel cut-off; no irrevocable reprocessing consent; no right to withdraw from its obligations; and no right to conduct a nuclear test ever again.
The government has shied away from discussing even the economics of producing electricity from foreign reactors. India's heavily-subsidised indigenous nuclear-energy industry is supplying electricity at between 2.70 and 2.90 rupees per kilowatt hour from the reactors built since the 1990s. That price is far higher than the cost of electricity from coal-fired plants. But electricity from foreign-built nuclear reactors will be even dearer. That, in effect, will increase the burden of subsidies on the Indian taxpayer, even as the reactor imports lock India into an external-fuel dependency.
The revised accident-liability bill does well to double the permissible time period for filing accident-related claims against the state operator. Increasing the compensation fund is also welcome, although there is no need realistically for minimum or maximum cap on liability when the Indian state is making itself wholly responsible for damages from an accident. But most other changes that have emerged from the standing committee's deliberations or from the government's disingenuous deal-making with the BJP do not address the fundamental concerns, which centre on relieving foreign vendors of direct liability for any accident and abridging the legal rights of victims.
Indemnifying foreign suppliers helps to significantly lower their costs and risks of doing business in India. But in extending such protection, the bill aims to overturn the doctrine of "absolute liability" laid down by the Supreme Court that prevents "enterprises" (including the operator, supplier, builder and owner) from wriggling out of their liability by claiming exemptions, such as alleged sabotage. The Supreme Court held after the Bhopal gas disaster that, "The enterprise is strictly and absolutely liable to compensate all those who are affected by the accident and such liability is not subject to any of the exceptions which operate vis-à-vis the tortious principle of strict liability." By that standard, foreign reactor vendors would be fully liable for any wilful act or gross negligence that causes a nuclear accident.
The bill, however, casts all liability on the state operator and the federal government. The liability bill thus is a major liability for the Indian taxpayer.
A way out
The sensible course of action in nuclear energy would be for the government to let foreign vendors acquire land on their own at designated sites, build and operate reactors, and sell electricity to distribution companies without the Indian taxpayer in any way being burdened. If foreign firms produce nuclear energy at competitive prices, the benefits for India will be real. Even the cap on accident liability can be arranged by emulating the U.S. example so that the Indian taxpayer is the insurer of last resort, not of first resort. For each major radioactive release, America's Price-Anderson liability system provides more than $10 billion in total potential compensation through a complex formula that includes insurance coverage carried by the reactor that suffered the accident, "retrospective premiums" from each of the covered reactors in operation in the U.S., and a five per cent surcharge. The liability burden thus falls on the private sector.
The Indian government, however, has no intention to create an open, competitive field because that would unmask and obstruct the generous state subsidies it is offering for nuclear-generated power. It thus told Parliament categorically on August 12 that it "does not intend to change the related provision of the Atomic Energy Act, 1962, for private participation" in nuclear energy.
Creating an artificial market with no-strings subsidies and electricity supply at state-supported rates is no prudent way to meet energy needs. The proposed arrangements actually seek to create a win-win situation for foreign vendors by ensuring there is no downside to their business. By rigging commercial terms in favour of select foreign suppliers, the arrangements, in effect, promote unfair business practices and cartelisation.
(Brahma Chellaney is the author, among others, of Nuclear Proliferation: The U.S.-India Conflict.)
Keywords: Indo-U.S. nuclear deal, nuclear liability
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A little romance in Indo-US tango
Aug 24th, 2010 - K.C. Singh
U.S. President Barack Obama visits India in November 2010. While previous US Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, in 2000 and 2006 respectively, came only in their second terms, Mr Obama arrives in his first. Is it a sign of a maturing relationship or an exercise high on form but low on content?
Some scepticism can be traced to Mr Obama, both as candidate and President, sending conflicting signals. While campaigning he linked Kashmir to alienation in the AfPak region. On election he named ambassador Richard Holbrooke as his special envoy for AfPak. India sensed a re-hyphenation in relations with Pakistan that the Bush administration had banished. While he hosted PM Manmohan Singh as the first foreign leader in Washington and the US finalised the nuclear reprocessing agreement with India, Mr Obama tabled a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution, 1887, on non-proliferation, reiterating the need for non-signatories to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as non-nuclear weapon states, equating India with Israel and Pakistan. The US also asked the Nuclear Suppliers Group to approve a ban on the transfer of ENR technologies to NPT non-signatories, clearly against the spirit of the India-US civil nuclear deal. The initial US silence on China announcing the sale of two nuclear power reactors to Pakistan was deafening. Finally, the secretive endgame in Afghanistan and approaches to the Taliban are at variance with a close India-US engagement.
It is generally conceded in both countries that India is unlikely to be a US ally. This was perceived even back in 1956-57, when following PM Jawaharlal Nehru's visit to Washington in December 1956, President Eisenhower, sensing an excellent personal rapport, signed a NSC document (No. 5701) stressing that India was of strategic significance despite being non-aligned as it was a non-Communist citadel in Asia, even though it may at times oppose US policies. As the Sino-Indian relations deteriorated, culminating in the 1962 war, US poured economic and military aid into India. Pakistan, of course, cried betrayal until President Nixon needed them to deliver Sino-US engagement in 1972 and the polarities reversed. India rushed into Soviet arms and Soviets into Afghanistan causing two decades of destruction and radicalisation in South Asia.
Lord Palmerston once said that "Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors". A strategic dialogue with India at the foreign minister level was attributed to PM's successful visit to Washington as it gave India parity with China and Pakistan. Of importance are the contents of the dialogue and not its nomenclature. The US-Pakistan strategic dialogue, with Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani lurking in the shadows, is an entirely different exercise from the inanities exchanged between external affairs minister S.M. Krishna and secretary of state Hillary Clinton. The post-World War II security order, with the Atlantic alliance and US allies in the Pacific, was a club of countries either belonging to the same Judeo-Christian tradition, or non-democratic small powers opportunistically joining the Western alliance, or the vanquished of the war, i.e. Japan and Germany. India is a rising power, ensconced between China, a pretender hegemon, and its surrogate Pakistan. The global hegemon, the US, still has not decided whether to contain China, though some whiff of an emerging strategy is now visible in the South China Sea and on behalf of Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The US is also conflicted over Pakistan, despite the WikiLeaks revelations, on whether to tether it or humour it despite Pakistan's dissimulating actions. It is this clarity that Mr Obama must bring and perhaps partly manifest in his public discourse.
What is it that Mr Obama can do to bring a little romance to his Indian tango? Following are some items that can take the relationship to the next level.
He could announce unequivocal support to India's candidature as permanent member of the UN Security Council. But he must be prepared, as India assumes a non-permanent UNSC seat in January 2011, to live with a country that will only be selectively aligned with its global concerns, caught as the Indian government is between testy allies and questioning opponents. Till now the strategic shift has been by stealth, except the Iran vote at International Atomic Energy Agency. Now the drama shall be public.
The US must dismantle the extant technology denial regimes against India. The US maintains that India needs to act on three draft agreements: the Logistics Support Agreement (LSA); the Communication Interoperability and Security Agreement (CISMOA); and the Basic Change and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-Spatial Cooperation (BECA), besides the the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill. The government's stubborn attempt to slip in protection for the suppliers in the bill only heightens public concern over US arm-twisting and thus counter-productive.
Finally, Mr Obama needs to espouse the Bush vision that an India integrated into the global nuclear regime is a gain for non-proliferation. India will not sign the NPT as a non-nuclear weapon state; US cannot get the treaty amended to take India as a nuclear weapon state. Therefore abandon sterile argumentation and move to have India join the Nuclear Suppliers Group, the Missile Technology Regime, the Australia Group and the Wassenaar Group. These four do not have any written restriction on non-NPT signatory joining them. A Working Group of Indian and US experts (this writer being a member) is urging Washington and New Delhi to look at this proposal.
The Obama visit thus can be either a great opportunity for serious India-US engagement or merely a public display of bonhomie. The foreign minister of Pakistan did not want to come to India as a tourist; nor do we hope does Mr Obama.
The author is a former secretary in the external affairs ministry
http://www.asianage.com/columnists/little-romance-indo-us-tango-511
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True face of Hindu non-violence
OUR CORRESPONDENTBangalore: Brahminist rulers say their Hinduism is the world's only religion that stands for non-violence (ahimsa) but facts of history say India has become one of the most violent countries in the world.
In Blue Star they killed 13,000 Sikhs — men, women and children on their holiest day inside their Golden Temple, Amtritsar. Then they demolished the Babri Masjid and killed thousands of Muslims. In Nelli (Assam), "Hindu violence" was unleashed on innocent Muslims. In the Gujarat Genocide (2002), we saw the goriest face of "Hindu nonviolence". In the anti-Mandal war and violence they non-violently killed thousands. The killing of Christians in Kandhamal (Orissa) became world news. Dalit and Tribals are daily kicked, killed, burnt, raped and the little property are destroyed — daily. DV has carried all the account of the "Hindu non-violence".
The world knows the true face of the Hindu. Read an upper caste Hindu's book, History of Hindu Imperialism. (Swami Dharma Theertha, Blumoon, New Delhi, Rs. 150, copies available with DV office).
China rejects defeated Brahminist offer to surrender : Bahujans must embrace new super power
OUR CORRESPONDENTAs China is fast emerging as a super power, overtaking USA, India's Brahminical rulers continue to generate more hate against China, sheltering the notorious Dalai Lama and adding fuel to fire.
Nehru, India's first Brahmin PM, was a bogus socialist who engineered the war against China (1962) in which India was utterly defeated and ate dust. Thousands of innocent Indian soldiers died.
Good servant but bad master: The common masses of India (85%) have no say in the governance of the country but they have nothing against China. It is the Brahminist rulers (15%) who have fought with every neighbour around India, headed by the super power China which has become the darling of all the have-nots of the world. But in contrast the rulers have made India the most hated country.
During our recent visit to London and Paris (July 2010) and discussions with intellectuals familiar with this subject, particularly Brahminism, the curse of India, a new fear is being expressed.
Many experts on the subject of Brahminism say the Brahmin is a good servant but bad master. If you are strong, the Brahmin will lick your boot. But if you are weak he will crush you and suck your blood. Yes. Indian history proves this.
Annie Besant as Cong. president: Applying this logic to China, which is fast emerging as the sole super power of the 21st century, what will be the stand of Indian Brahminist rulers vis-a-vis China?
The fear expressed during our discussions was the Brahminists — scenting danger to their very existence — might quickly reverse their policy and start courting if not bum-licking the Chinese leaders.
Fears of the Western experts are based on the Brahminical behaviour during the British rule which they bitterly hated because it brought about justice, rule of law and introduced English education system - which threatened their very hegemony. In Madras, the Brahmins started the Hindu English daily to fight the British-owned Madras Mail.
Brahmins supported Hitler: Brahmins invited a notorious rejected British woman, Annie Besant, and made her the president of the National Congress, the party of the Brahmins, to fight the British rulers. They even courted Hitler, invited him to India, promising a red-carpet welcome, travelled to distant Germany, supplied their swastika emblem and made them fight the British.
Darling of the British: Though the Jews and the "Jews of India" are cousins, the two fell into opposite camps: The Jews hating Hitler and Brahmins loving the nazi Germany (Read our book, Brahminism, DSA-2002, photocopy available, Rs. 100).
Hitler's forces even bombed London and the British, the sole super power of the day, was about to be defeated in the World War-II. But the Jews had a better strategy. They blackmailed the US to support British and join the World War in which Germany was finally defeated.Scenting the danger the Brahminists quickly changed sides and started praising the British and hailing Churchill, the war-time British PM. They have no permanent enemy but only permanent interests.
Will Brahminists surrender to China: They never keep all their eggs in one basket. They will be always with the victors. They quickly endeared themselves to the British, as by then they have already mastered the English language.
The Gujarati Bania as their fondest slave, they quickly managed to become the darling of the British. And then managed through the Jewish Viceroy, Mountbatten, the partition of India. The "Jews of India" finally won.
During our discussions abroad with experts on the Jews and "Jews of India" fears were expressed if the history would repeat in the case of China. Will the Brahminists surrender to their today's enemy (China) so that their tomorrow will be sure and secure ?
But will the Chinese, firmly rooted in their centuries-old philosophy, who had the courage to rebuff their own ideological-mate, Soviet Russia, be fooled by the Brahminist rulers? Will the Brahminists shamelessly apologise for their 1962 war and their continued the enemity for decades?
China has already became the best friend of all the Brahminist enemies surrounding India: Pakistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Bangladesh, Burma, Lanka, Maldives. China has completely encircled India.
China hated Jews: No doubt all these enemies of Brahminist rulers will prevail upon China not to give scope to the "Jews of India". China never allowed the Jews, who brought communism to Russia, to infiltrate its country. Chairman Mao and Premier Chou En-lai were fully aware of the menace of the Jews and also the 'Jews of India".
But in war and love — and politics too — there is nothing like a permanent enemy or friend. The Brahminist "Jews of India", know how and when to stoop to conquer. Did they not give their wives, sisters and daughters to Muslim rulers? All this is part of history. Chanakya's Arthasastra asks the Brahmin to stoop to conquer.
So we will not be surprised if the Brahminists try to build bridges and skyways to cross into China and bum-lick China.
But during our discussion, we firmly assured our friends that China will never, ever yield. And our predictions are firmly rooted in Chinese history.
DV worry over Rahul as future PM
OUR CORRESPONDENTBangalore: What is described as "India's future PM" by the upper caste rulers, Rahul Gandhi, is financially backed by the world's richest man and a top Jew, Bill Gates, owning the Microsoft. Gates offered all-out support in UP, meaning annexing UP from Mayawati. Gates earlier visited UP to offer support to "rescue" Dalit children from disease. These two developments are alarming. (DV Edit Nov.1, 2009: "Why King cobras, which tormented Sonia Gandhi & denied her PMship twice, now trying to hoist Rahul?")
To this day Rahul has not addressed a press conference so that we understand his mind. But the way the Brahminical oppressors are deep in love with him proves their aim because they know his mind.
That the Jews and the "Jews of India" are hoisting him on India is now clear but extremely worrying.
In Bangalore, he said on Aug.14, 2010 (TOI report):
"India is the second fastest growing economy in the world. There are very few countries that give freedom like India".
But the fact is India is pushed to the level of the sub-Saharan Africa and as he spoke the military is killing Kashmiris crying for freedom.
Brahmins bound to obey caste system
OUR CORRESPONDENTBangalore: What does the notorious Kautilya (Chanakya), the author of the Brahmin Bible, Arthasastra, stand for? Here is an explanation by a noted historian and himself a Brahmin:
The policy of the Kautilyan state is influenced by religious considerations, involving preferential treatment of the priests, gods, temples and sacred trees (p.149). The Kautilyan state upholds the Brahminical mode of life in so far as it is in consonance with its main objective, i.e. the maintenance of the varnasrama dharma (caste system) (p.155). (Political ideas and Institutions in Ancient India, Ram Sharan Sharma, Publishers: Motilal Banarasidas, Delhi, 1959).
Those interested in photocopy of Kautilya's Arthasastra (1988, pp.500) may write to DV office (Rs. 350). Arthasastra is the "Jews of India" version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (photocopy available with DV. Rs. 75).
Even to this day in this "Democratic" India, the ruling Brahminists are governed by the Arthasastra — but not the constitution of India.
Brahminist mischief in caste census
OUR CORRESPONDENTBangalore: The micro-minority (15%) upper castes (Hindus) are defeated in their battle against the massive majority Bahujans (85%). This is clear from the govt. accepting our demand for caste enumeration in the current census operation. DV has firmly supported this demand because caste is our ethnic identity which the Brahminist rulers want to destroy dubbing us Hindu.
No. We are not Hindu. Not only not Hindu but hate Hindu.
Caste is our identity: The powerful ruling Brahminist interests in the Union Cabinet led by the backbone-less Khatri Sick PM and couple of others like the notorious Tamil Chettiar are opposed to caste enumeration. Other enemies are upper caste Syrian Christian A.K. Antony and the Brahmin Sibal, HRD Minister. But the MPS are all in favour of caste because they are elected on the strength of their caste.
"Caste" is our backbone. The Brahminists want to erase our identity and impose the false Hindu identity on the non-Hindu, if not anti-Hindu, SC/ST/BCs. Caste is there even among Muslim/Christian/Sikhs. India is a subcontinent of hundreds and thousands of "nations". It is not one "nation" as the Hindu terrorist party says. Finally, DV has scored a big victory.
The Brahminists, however, have played a mischief to destroy the long-delayed caste census. The caste data is not to be enumerated as usual by the Census Commission but a Brahminical mischievous body called the Biometric Data Captures. The MPs must assert and kill this mischief.
We want caste war: We want DV members to order our book, Caste — A Nation Within the Nation, (Books for Change, Bangalore, Rs. 140, available with DV office), a thesis which won the famous London Institute of South Asia (LISA) Award (2005). We are not only for caste but even subcaste which is our actual caste.
The Brahmin argument against caste enumeration is it will lead to further division and "caste war". Yes. This is exactly what we want: caste war.
AP Madiga demand: Every caste, even subcaste, must strengthen its identity. It is on this basis that DV supported the AP Madiga demand for subquota. In this case also DV scored a victory.
DV has never suffered any defeat because our arguments, analysis and predictions are based on sociological factors.
Brahmins (2%) want to rule us, dumping all us in the garbage heap called Hinduism.
Cycle chain: A cycle chain is made out of several links. Which link is important? Neglect one link, making a creaking noise, your cycle speed will suffer. That means every link in the chain is important for smooth pedaling. Jati is like a link in the cycle chain.
DV April 1, 2010 p.4: "Caste enumeration in Census rejected".
DV June 16, 1999 p.21: "Bahujans must force Govt. to enumerate caste in census" .
DV Edit July 16, 1998: "Intellectual prostitutes opposing caste enumeration in census" & p. 5: "In defence of caste enumeration in 2001 census".
DV Edit Feb.1, 1984 : Why caste omitted in Census?"
OBCs will get nothing from caste census
OUR CORRESPONDENTBangalore: After decades of dodging the overwhelming demand for caste enumeration in the census, the Brahminist rulers of India finally announced their "yes" decision on Aug.11, 2010 only after their own Brahmana Jati Party (BJP) itself surrendered to the overwhelming demand within its party. Upper castes (15%) of which Brahmins are only 2%, are a micro minority. They can hardly get elected as MPs, MLAs. Yet they rule India by ignoring the Indian constitution and making it subordinate to their sweet will. And these micro minority anti-humans call India a democracy.
Big victory to DV: What is more shocking to the rulers is the census will carry not merely the OBC head count but all the castes and even the subcastes. Shocking. This is a big victory for DV's decades-long campaign for caste-based reservations. OBCs (35) may rejoice over this victory. Hold on. The Brahminists will still succeed by sabotaging democracy itself. How? Because they are the rulers.
Did they not kill the very constitutional reservations of SC/STs (20%).
Hinduised OBCs: OBCs will never, ever get constitutional reservations. They will be assured of some caste-based quota which itself will never be implemented. Did the rulers implement SC/ST quota? No.
What do they care for the more hinduised OBCs? Yet neither the SC/STs nor the OBCs get angry. Even Muslims, whose religion is the very antithesis of Brahminism are totally silent despite the fact Islam and Brahminism, are like mongoose and serpent. Sikhs have been silenced long back.
Why nobody is getting angry in "Hindu India" because everybody has been hinduised (meaning enslaved).Kill Brahminism by launching a caste struggle, India will be liberated from this centuries-long plague.
FROM WHERE KAMLADI GETS HIS STRENGTH ?
Anatomy of corruption
OUR CORRESPONDENTBangalore: Brahminism is the other word for corruption. It begins from the top and the disease gradually spreads to the bottom.
When the rulers talk of "corruption", what they mean is only the "money corruption" — though it is the least harmful of the four varieties of corruption so often repeated in DV.
(1) Intellectual corruption, (2) caste corruption, (3) moral corruption and (4) money corruption.
ALL-INDIA RECORD
Money corruption is the last and the least dangerous form of corruption. We have elaborated this subject in our book, India's Intellectual Desert, (DSA-1999, Rs. 50).Look, the latest target of money corruption, which has crossed all previous records, is the Karnataka Brahmin, Suresh Rao Kalmadi, member of Lok Sabha from Pune.
KALMADI STRENGTH COMES FROM MANU
All the political parties including the ruling Congress, entire media, all the so-called "civil society" (we don't know where it is and who its members are) have unanimously said the culprit Kalmadi's head must be cut in the all-India corruption record established in the forthcoming Delhi Commonwealth Game (CWG) which is not going to start on the scheduled date because of the Kalmadi atrocities.But Kalmadi said no. He said he was totally innocent. From where does he get the courage to defy the unanimous verdict on his corruption? His Jati.
Because he knows whatever may be his corruption, or his crimes, his jati will not let him down. Never in the history of India, a Bhoodevata was punished because the Manu Dharma Sastra says the Brahmin shall commit no crime. Kalmadi's courage stems from Manu. This is the secret.
But see the other side of the picture. This culprit Kalmadi was fully defended by the Govt. itself in the Lok Sabha on Aug.10, 2010 even as all the members including the fellow Congress MPs were baying for his blood.
What is the meaning of this stout defence of the proven crimes of Kalmadi? Why the mighty Govt. of India itself is afraid to touch this king of the corrupt? His jati. This is the secret. Who has the courage to touch a Brahmin?
Did not a Chitpavan Brahmin kill the "Father of the Nation" (not our nation) and his jati distributed sweets all over India?
CORRUPT ARE POPULAR & RESPECTED
Jati is also the strength of Dr. Ketan Desai, chairman of the Medical Council of India who was finally arrested just for namesake and once bigger Brahminical corruptions burst on the scene, Ketan Desai crimes will be forgotten and then quietly released.Corruption is the other word for Brahminism. Corruption of all the four varieties were taught to the rest of India by its principal perpetrators. Corruption today is not confined to politicians though they are the principal targets because there are hardly any Brahmin politicians.
The virus has spread to all sections, including Dalits and Muslims who have embraced it only to save themselves from the clutches of their Brahminical enemies. Because if you are corrupt, you will be liked by all the sections including the ruling Brahminists.
India perhaps gets the first rank in the world for corruption. If the non-Brahmin sections have become corrupt it is because they learnt it from their eldest brother.
BRIBE GIVER IS ALSO CORRUPT
The media, which itself is corrupt, loves to report on corruption — which always takes the front page. Readers also love to read reports on corruption and discuss about corruption. Any speaker criticising a corrupt minister or official becomes a front page news.But the innocent people, who are victims of corruption, do not know the other face of corruption: as long as there is a giver, there will be a taker. The bribe giver is equally corrupt.
India's Brahmin-dominated society is stinking with corruption. Private sector is equally corrupt.
Corruption is the other word for Brahminism. Once this tiny 2% Brahminical rulers cease to be corrupt India will be free from corruption.
To achieve such a clean, healthy society Brahminism has to be destroyed. But there is a big if. Brahminism cannot go as long as there is the Brahmin.
Cities dying one by one
OUR CORRESPONDENTBangalore: Anything the Brahminists touch turns into charcoal. Did we not say it? May be a 100 times.
The upper caste rulers (15% - Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Banias and upper caste shudras) migrated to big cities in search of pleasure, enjoyment, leisurely living. And once they embraced a city it turned into a charcoal.
This is not our verdict but their own organisation (TOI Aug.8, 2010).
For the first time 423 class-I cities were graded on the basis of their sanitation. Result? Bombay, India's biggest city, is pushed to bottom (No.46) — behind Kanpur.
Narayanamurthys kill Bangalore: Delhi ranked 5, Madras, 13, Calcutta, 25. One by one bit cities are dying.
Cities are the pleasure park of the rich, meaning the upper castes. And such parks have started rotting. Bangalore is not mentioned in the TOI report. But since we live here we know what Bhoodevatas think of Bangalore. They say Bangalore is dying. The Narayanamurthy's have killed Bangalore.
Anything the Brahminists touch will have to die. So don't allow yourself to be touched by the enemy. Never allow even your mind to be contaminated by the gutter water.
THUS SPAKE PERIYAR
Brahmins were meat eaters
Now let us further see what are the laws contained in the Manu's code and how far they are just and fair. The courts decide matters strictly conforming to the laws laid down in the Manu's code, forgetting the fact that the Manu's code is mainly intended to make a particular community (Brahmins) prosperous.Origin: Brahma is the creator of the Manu Dharma. Later it was strictly disclosed by him to rishis. (Chap.1.S.59).
Atheists: Vedas and Dharma sastras should not be questioned or debated. He who does so will be considered an atheist (Chap.2.S.11).
Such an atheist who blames the vedas will be considered as accuser of god. (ibid).
Brahmins should not disclose this Manu Dharma Sastra to any other people. (Chap.1.S.103).
A King's duty is to excommunicate the gamblers, actors, musicians, bad elements, those who defy the vedas and rituals, those who change their trades, and those who are found to consume intoxicating drinks. (Chap.9 S.226).
Division by birth: To safeguard the world, Brahma, created the Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Sudras from his face, shoulders, thighs, and feet respectively and evolved different duties and responsibilities for each section separately. (Chap.1.S.87).
Because a Brahmin is born in the face of Brahma, because he is born of the highest caste, he alone has the right to receive and enjoy the wealth and property of all other castes and communities. (Chap.1.S.100).
Pride in begging: Even if a Brahmin begs for alms and receives help he eats his own. He wears his own clothes. He donates his own property. Others enjoy such things only at the mercy of Brahmins. (Chap 1.S.101).
Even if a Sudra were to do the work of a Brahmin, he will not become a Brahmin, because he has no right to do the work of a Brahmin.
Even if a Brahmin were to do the work of a Sudra, a Brahmin will not become a Sudra, because even if he does a low work, he belongs to the highest caste. (Chap.10.S.73).
Brahmins once non-vegetarians: All sorts of dishes as Vadai, Payasam and tasty flesh and sweet smelling waters are for the Brahmins. (Chap.5.S.227).
A Brahmin could eat any living being every day for the sake of his health. There is no sin attached to Brahmins eating the flesh of living beings. (Chap.5.S.30).
Particulars are given in the Manu Sastra, to please the dead forefathers by offering meat. Felsh of different birds and animals were also offered by Brahma to please god for different periods. Here are the details:
(1) Paddy, rice, water, black gram, roots and fruits satisfy the dead for one month. (2) Fishes please the dead of two months. (3) Stag's flesh pleases the dead for 3 months. (4) Goat's flesh pleases the dead for 4 months. (5) Bird's flesh pleases the dead for 5 months. (6) Whitegoat's flesh pleases the dead for 6 months. (7) Reindeer's flesh pleases the dead for 7 months. (8) Black stag's flesh pleases the dead for 8 months. (9) Kalaiman flesh pleases the dead for 9 months. (10) Flesh of porcupine, pig, bison, pleases the dead for 10 months. (11) Flesh of rabbit, tortoise pleases the dead for 11 months. (12) Cow's milk, curd, ghee, pleases the dead for 1 year. (13) A male goat's flesh pleases the dead for 12 years. (14) With vegetables grown in the season, a fish variety valai, flesh of a red coloured lamb, rice grown in forest lands, please the dead eternally.
In the month of Purattasi after the full moon on the 13th day, if honey, and Payasam are offered to the dead, that offering gives them full satisfaction. (Chap3.S.267 to 273).
If the Brahmin refuses to eat the flesh offered at the ceremonies he will be born as a cow 21 times. (Chap5.S.35).
A Sudra should be away from the house on the day of the performance of the ceremonies. (Chap.3.S.242).
THE SIKH WARRIORS & Their Military System
Editor: International Journal of Sikhi Affairs, Canada
Preface says Sikhs have no future in Brahminist-ruled India without sovereignty for the "Sikh nation",, calls Chief Minister Badal of Punjab as the "Mir Jaffar of Sikhs", warns Simranjit Singh Mann to realise his duty, reminds how Kapur Singh spoke in Parliament "rejecting" the Indian constitution for breaking the promise given to Sikhs on their homeland.The book carries a list of Sikh warriors who included decorated soldiers like Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale plus Beant and Satwant Singh, the brave Sikh soldiers who assassinated the Brahmin Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for the mass murder of hundreds of Sikhs in "Blue Star Operation". Interview with Maj. Gen Shabhal Singh.
The author, a great friend and family member of the Dalit Voice, concludes saying "as long as Brahminism rules India, no nationality can live in peace". Expanded version of the Sikh Warriors has gone to press under the new title, The Sikh Sovereignty to Slavery.
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Sachin becomes IAF''s honorary Group Captain
Senior Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar was today conferred with the Indian Air Force''s honorary rank of Group Captain to honour his cricketing achievements and contribution to the nation. Tendulkar is the first sportsperson to be conferred a rank by IAF and the first personality with no aviation background to receive the honour.In 2008, India''s World Cup winning captain Kapil Dev had received the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel of the Territorial Army. The 37-year-old Tendulkar was inducted into the Air Force as its brand ambassador with IAF chief Air Chief Marshal P V Naik doing the honours in a glittering ceremony at the Air Force auditorium here.
"It''s a great pleasure and honour to be honoured by IAF. It was a wishful thinking and it has come true today. I''m extremely proud to be a part of IAF. I want to urge the youth to join air force and serve the nation.
So dream, because dreams do come true," Tendulkar said after receiving the honour. Earlier, President Pratibha Patil had conferred the honorary rank of the IAF on the iconic batsman on June 23 this year.
The rank was conferred on Tendulkar under the provision of granting honorary rank by Armed Forces to eminent personalities acknowledging their contribution towards the nation. The IAF had, in January this year, mooted a proposal to confer the honorary rank of Group Captain on Tendulkar.
IAF feels that besides the recognition, his association with it would motivate the younger generation to join the Air Force to serve the country. Naik said the batting legend''s association with IAF will help in making the youth aware about the Air Force.
"Youth admires him (Tendulkar). I think the youth will get inclined towards the Air Force.
What youth will do in future we can''t say but the indications that we are getting from school students .
we are hopeful.
"To take corrective measures in reforming the IAF is my duty and Sachin''s association will help in spreading awareness (about the Air Force)," Naik said.
Nitish calls all-party meet tomorrow
Under attack from opposition for his alleged failure to handle the crisis arising out of the kidnapping of four policemen by Maoists, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has convened an all-party meeting here tomorrow to discuss the issue. "The Chief Minister has called an all-party meeting at the state secretariat here tomorrow to discuss the situation and evolve consensus on this issue," an official spokesman said.The meeting would begin at 4PM tomorrow, he said. Kumar was also trying to personally contact the leaders of opposition parties to take them into confidence on the issue of kidnapping of the policemen during Sunday''s encounter in Lakhisarai with the Maoists.
The RJD-LJP combine had yesterday accused the Chief Minister of "failing" to handle the crisis and urged Kumar to hold an all-party meeting on the sensitive issue.
26/11 revisited: Krishna praises Taj staff for their courage
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna today praised the employees of the iconic Taj Mahal Palace and Towers Hotel here, which bore the brunt of the 26/11 terror attack on the city, for preventing what could have been a greater tragedy. "I would like to compliment the hotel (Taj Mahal Palace and Towers) staff, who were able to resist the terrorist attack and prevented what could have been a greater tragedy," Krishna told reporters.He was speaking after attending a meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee on External Affairs along with Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, held at the recently reopened heritage wing of the hotel, which was massively damaged in the attack and the subsequent gun battle. The meeting was held at the hotel to convey "our respects to those who lost their lives in the 26/11 tragedy", Krishna said adding, "The indomitable will of the people to remain fearless and contain terror by resolute action is laudable.
" The Tata Group that owns the hotel reopened the 107-year-old heritage wing, which became the symbol of the worst terror strike on the country with its red burning dome, on August 15, nearly 21 months after it suffered extensive damages in the November 26-28, 2008 terror attack which took away the lives of 166 people. The Taj''s modern tower wing reopened within a month of the attacks.
The company spent Rs 175 crore in repairing, restoring and upgrading the heritage wing. Thirty-one people, including 12 Taj staff, lost their lives in the attack.
Describing the iconic hotel as a landmark of not only Mumbai but the entire country, Krishna paid homage and respect to all those who lost their lives during the gruesome attack.
76 die in Pakistan bombings
Islamabad, Sep 3 (IANS) At least 76 people were killed and more than 160 injured in three powerful explosions in Pakistani cities Friday, two days after triple blasts ripped through a Shia religious procession in Lahore killing 35 people.This is the largest number of killings in a day after 117 people died in a blast in a busy Peshawar market in October 2009.
At least 73 people were killed and more than 150 injured Friday in a suicide blast that ripped through a Shia procession near Meezan chowk in Quetta city, the capital of Balochistan province.
Earlier in the day, two people were killed and six injured in a blast at a shrine of the minority Ahmadi community in the Canal Road area in Mardan city of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
In Peshawar city, a huge explosion ripped through a police van leaving a policeman dead and three others injured in Achini Bala area, according to Dawn. The police van was badly damaged in the remote-controlled explosion.
Bomb disposal squad officials in Quetta confirmed the blast was caused by a suicide attacker who blew himself up. As many as 59 bodies were received by combined military hospital (CMH), 10 were brought to civil hospital, while Bolan medical complex received four bodies.
Driver of Aaj TV crew Muhammad Sarwar also died in the blast, while several cameramen covering the procession were injured. City police authorities said the participants of the procession were asked to disperse, as per prior agreement, before Meezan chowk but they did not heed to it.
Meanwhile, the banned radical group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for the attack, Xinhua reports.
The Punjab-based Sunni group also disclosed the identity of the bomber, named Rashid Moaawia, 22 years old. The group was founded in 1996.
Angry participants of the procession and activists of Imamia Students Organisation (ISO) resorted to aerial firing after the incident and torched a government building. A van of a local TV channel was fired at that shattered the windscreen. However, the driver and other staff remained unhurt.
Balochistan Shia Conference has announced 40 days of mourning to condemn the blast. Chief Minister Sardar Aslam Raisani has announced to provide free treatment to all injured people. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has ordered high level probe into the unfortunate incident.
Emergency has been declared in Quetta hospitals to cater to the situation. Because of Shia community processions scheduled across the country after Friday prayers, security was on high alert because of terror threats.
On Wednesday, three serial blasts within half an hour in Lahore killed at least 35 people and wounded over 200.
The first blast occurred near Karbala Gamay Shah in Lahore's Lower Mall area while the second and third blasts were near Bhatti Chowk, just a few paces away.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for the Lahore blasts.
(Awais Saleem can be contacted at ians.pakistan@gmail.com)
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- One killed, 30 hurt in Tajikistan blastIANS - Fri, Sep 3
- Dushanbe, Sep 3 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A police officer was killed and 30 people were injured Friday in a suicide car bomb attack at a police station in Tajikistan, officials said.
- 200-year-old beer bottles found during Baltic Sea salvageIANS - Fri, Sep 3
- Helsinki, Sep 3 (DPA) Divers have salvaged what is believed to be the world's oldest preserved beer from a 200-year-old shipwreck, the government of the semi-autonomous Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden said Friday.
- Hurricane Earl swipes U.S. east, but no big hitReuters - Fri, Sep 3
- Hurricane Earl slapped North Carolina's coast with rain, winds and heavy surf on Friday and swirled up the U.S. eastern seaboard toward New England and Canada as a weakened but still potent storm.
- Blair does not rule out return to UK politicsANI - Fri, Sep 3
- London, Sep.3 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has indicated that he is willing to take up another post, saying that he is a public service guy.
Middle-East
- Hamas among intractable issues in Mideast talksIE - Fri, Sep 3
- To relaunch Middle East peace talks on Thursday, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and their American mediators quietly agreed to push aside the question of Hamas - the Islamic militant group that controls one of the two Palestinian territories and rejects negotiations.
- UAE expatriates among richest in the worldIE - Fri, Sep 3
- About 20 per cent of UAE expatriates earn more than USD 250,000 (918,100 dirhams) making the country home to some of the wealthiest expatriates in the world, a recent survey has said.
- Israel Military: Soldier charged with looting Turk shipIE - Fri, Sep 3
- The Israeli military says a soldier has been charged with looting the lead ship in a Gaza blockade-busting flotilla stopped by Israeli naval commandos in a bloody raid at the end of May.
- Ahmadinejad predicts failure of Mideast talksIANS - Fri, Sep 3
- Tehran, Sep 3 (DPA) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that this week's Mideast peace talks as well as Israel itself were 'doomed to collapse' as millions of Iranians were expected to turn out for state-organised anti-Israel rallies.
- Son of Iranian 'stoning' woman urges global pressureIE - Fri, Sep 3
- The son of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, pleaded on Friday for sustained international pressure to save her life.
International
- Mexican women work, die for gangs in drug war cityReuters - Fri, Sep 3
- More women are working and dying for powerful drug cartels in Mexico's most violent city as high unemployment along the U.S. border sucks desperate families into the lethal trade.
- Malay court tells doctors to get female patients' consent before taking pictures of private partsANI - Fri, Sep 3
- Georgetown (Malaysia), Sep.3 (ANI): The Malaysian High Court has told surgeons in the country to obtain their female patients' consent before taking pictures of their intimate parts.
- Australian ex-cop jailed for pushing wife off cliffIANS - Fri, Sep 3
- Sydney, Sep 3 (IANS) A former police officer in Australia who murdered his wife by pushing her off a cliff was Friday jailed for 33 years.
- Life in Italy is beautiful, says George ClooneyANI - Fri, Sep 3
- Sydney, Sept 3 (ANI): George Clooney's Italian investment is paying off incredible returns.The actor, who's currently dating Italian television presenter Elisabetta Canalis, admits he feels relaxed since buying ght a villa in the European town of Laglio, which helped him escape the pressures of Hollywood.
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- Sydney, Sep 3 (IANS) Independent MP from Queensland Bob Katter Friday said he has sent a list of 20 conditions to Australian prime ministerial hopefuls Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, saying 'I'm still in a very powerful position here'.
Asia
- Strong 7.4 quake hits New Zealand near ChristchurchReuters - Fri, Sep 3
- A strong earthquake of 7.4 magnitude hit New Zealand, just 4 miles (7 km) southeast of Christchurch, in the middle of the night local time, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Friday.
- Chinese man probed for building underground houseIANS - Fri, Sep 3
- Beijing, Sep 3 (IANS) A 64-year-old man who was building an underground house for his family has become a subject of a probe by authorities in China's Henan province.
- Plane crashes on Dubai highway, causes fires -TVReuters - Fri, Sep 3
- A cargo plane crashed on a busy highway in Dubai on Friday, setting some cars on fire, Al Arabiya television reported.
- 60 killed in suicide attack on Shia rally in QuettaANI - Fri, Sep 3
- Quetta, Sep 3 (ANI): At least 60 people have been killed and more than 160 got injured on Friday as a suicide bomber hit a rally being taken out in respect of Al-Quds Day in Quetta, according to media report.
- China marks 65th anniversary of victory against Japanese invasionIANS - Fri, Sep 3
- Beijing, Sep 3 (IANS) China Friday marked the 65th anniversary of Japan's surrender and paid homage to soldiers who died fighting during the Second World War, Xinhua reported.
National News
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- Rathore's parole plea rejected IANS - Fri, Sep 3
- 26/11 revisited: Krishna praises Taj staff for their courage PTI - Fri, Sep 3
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General
- India conveys concern to China on Gilgit, KashmirIANS - Fri, Sep 3
- Beijing/New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) India Friday conveyed its 'serious concerns' to China over the reported presence of Chinese troops in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and rejected Beijing's description of Jammu and Kashmir as 'India-controlled Kashmir'.
- Chopper carrying AP minister suffers technical problemPTI - Fri, Sep 3
- Hyderabad, Sept 3 (PTI) A technical problem in a helicopter today forced Andhra Pradesh Major Irrigation Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah to abruptly abandon his air travel and continue his journey by road, police said.
- Heavy rainfall forecast for AndhraPTI - Fri, Sep 3
- Hyderabad, Sep 3 (PTI) Heavy rains may occur in some parts of Rayalaseema region and four districts of coastal region of Andhra Pradesh over the next two days, the weather office said today.
- SAD to oppose any move to ''capture'' Gurudwaras in HaryanaPTI - Fri, Sep 3
- Chandigarh, Sept 3 (PTI) The Shromani Akali Dal today said it has taken serious note of an ultimatum issued by some Sikhs of the Haryana to "capture" the Gurudawaras there and described it as "most unfortunate".
- Gehlot, Raje hit out at each other over Sarpanch stir issuePTI - Fri, Sep 3
- Jaipur, Sep 3 (PTI) Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his predecessor Vasundhara Raje today hit out at each other over the issue of agitation by the village heads in the state who have been demanding more powers.
Politics
- PM skips Tharoor's reception, Gursharan blesses the coupleIANS - Fri, Sep 3
- New Delhi, Sept 3 (IANS) Shahsi Tharoor may have lost his ministerial job, but he has not fallen out of favor with the prime minister. Gursharan Kaur, Manmohan Singh's spouse, was among those who came to wish Tharoor and his wife Sunanda Pushkar good luck on their marriage, the third for both, at a power-packed reception Friday night.
- PM's wife attends Tharoor's wedding receptionIANS - Fri, Sep 3
- New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could not make it but his wife Gursharan Kaur was among those who attended Shashi Tharoor and his wife Sunanda Pushkar's reception here Friday evening after their marriage last month and wished the couple all the best.
- Foodgrain worth Rs.58,000 crore rots in India: GadkariIANS - Fri, Sep 3
- Raipur, Sep 3 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari said Friday that foodgrain worth Rs.58,000 crore was rotting in India every year because of the Congress party's bad governance.
- Set precedent by refusing party chief's post: Gadkari to SoniaIANS - Fri, Sep 3
- Raipur, Sep 3 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Friday taunted Sonia Gandhi over her re-election as Congress president for a fourth successive term and said the post seems to be reserved for the Gandhi family.
- Haryana assembly adjourned after opposition uproarIANS - Fri, Sep 3
- Chandigarh, Sep 3 (IANS) The Haryana assembly was adjourned for the day Friday - the first day of its monsoon session - following an uproar in the house by opposition parties who were seeking a discussion on the recent floods in the state.
Features
- New Bollywood film-makers shift focus to rural IndiaReuters - Fri, Sep 3
- The grit and grime of rural India, its people and problems are all finding their way into the glamorous world of mainstream Bollywood films.
- Vuvuzelas set for blast off at Commonwealth GamesReuters - Fri, Sep 3
- Loved and loathed in equal measure, the drone of the vuvuzela will resonate in India for the first time at the Commonwealth Games in October.
- Apple takes wraps off new lineup of iPodsReuters - Wed, Sep 1
- Apple Inc unveiled a snazzier line of its iPod on Wednesday, unveiling new designs for every model of the popular media device.
- Management Tip of the Day: Getting Started in Social MediaReuters - Fri, Aug 27
- The Management Tip of the Day offers quick, practical management tips and ideas from Harvard Business Review and HBR.org (http:\\www.hbr.org).
- Mexico's Jimena Navarrete wins Miss Universe contestReuters - Tue, Aug 24
- Jimena Navarrete, a 22-year-old brunette from Mexico, was named Miss Universe in Las Vegas on Monday, extending Latin America's domination of the pageant to three consecutive years.
Crime
- Sohrabuddin case: Shah wants Supreme Court to recall CBI probeANI - Fri, Sep 3
- New Delhi, Sep 3 (ANI): Former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah, who has been arrested in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, on Friday asked the Supreme Court to recall its verdict for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe on the grounds of 'prejudice', and levelled allegations of corruption against its judge and the Central Government.
- CBI court issues warrant against former Medical Council President DesaiANI - Thu, Sep 2
- New Delhi, Sep 2 (ANI): A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in New Delhi issued a fresh production warrant against former President of the Medical Council of India (MCI), Ketan Desai, on Thursday after Kolkata jail authorities failed to produce him for his alleged role in a bribery case involving over Rs 20 million.
- Clamour grows for legalised betting in IndiaReuters - Thu, Sep 2
- The Pakistan spot-fixing scandal has once again shone the spotlight on illegal betting in the sub-continent and reopened the debate on the legalisation of gambling in India.
- Sweden reopens WikiLeaks founder rape investigationReuters - Thu, Sep 2
- Sweden reopened a probe on Wednesday into rape allegations against Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, who has infuriated the U.S. military by publishing secret documents on Afghanistan.
- Bombay High Court defers hearing of Kasab's case till Sep 20ANI - Mon, Aug 30
- Mumbai, Aug 30 (ANI): The Bombay High Court on Monday deferred the hearing on the confirmation of death penalty to Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, till September 20 after his lawyer sought more time to file an appeal against the judgement.
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