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Indian Holocaust My Father`s Life and Time- One Hundred Eighty TWO

Palash Biswas

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Poll defeat shows BJP losing national stature: Cong

Times of India - ‎3 hours ago‎
NEW DELHI: A jubilant Congress on Thursday said the assembly poll results showed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was "losing its national stature" and that people are increasingly aligning with the Congress across the country. ...

NCP retains its hold over sugar-rich Western Maha

Daily News & Analysis - ‎35 minutes ago‎
PTI Pune: Despite the set- back received in the defeat of its heavyweight minister Vijay Sinha Mohite Patil who lost in Pandharpur, NCP with the alliance partner Congress managed to retainits strong grip over the sugar bowl of Western Maharashtra. ...

Cong-NCP alliance too good for SS-BJP combine in Maha

Zee News - ‎2 hours ago‎
Mumbai: Despite the tag of being an "uneasy" alliance, the Congress-NCP coalition in Maharashtra proved too good for the Shiv Sena-BJP combine, pulling off a hat-trick in the key western state in the first major test of popularity after the Lok Sabha ...

Congress retains power, Apang bites dust

Hindustan Times - ‎3 hours ago‎
There's no such thing as anti-incumbency in Arunachal Pradesh - whichever party or alliance rules New Delhi has always held sway over this frontier state. Mandate 2009 was no different with the Congress retaining power with two-thirds majority. ...

Cong-NCP beat anti-incumbency, score hat-trick in Maharashtra

Daily News & Analysis - ‎18 minutes ago‎
PTI Mumbai: Overcoming anti-incumbency caused by agrarian distress, price rise and acute power shortage, ruling Congress-NCP alliance in Maharashtra today stormed back to power for the third time in a row. The ruling combine bagged 144 seats while its ...

MNS defeats Sena in battle for supremacy in Mumbai

Press Trust of India - ‎56 minutes ago‎
Mumbai, Oct 22 (PTI) Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) prevailed over Shiv Sena in the battle between the Thackerays over the country's financial capital posting impressive wins in six constituencies here. The Sena suffered a shock ...

Pawar rules out merger of NCP with Congress

Press Trust of India - ‎41 minutes ago‎
New Delhi, October 22 (PTI) NCP chief Sharad Pawar today ruled out any merger of his party with Congress but said he will extend all support to its ally. "(Merger is) Out of question... (but) we are ready to assist them (Congress). ...

Cong wins Maha and Arunachal, Haryana throws up hung House

Press Trust of India - ‎43 minutes ago‎
New Delhi, Oct 22 (PTI) The Congress romped home victorious for a third straight term in Maharashtra, swept Arunachal Pradesh with a two-third majority but its snap poll gamble failed in Haryana falling short of six seats in a hung house. ...

Nine NCP rebels win Maharashtra polls

Press Trust of India - ‎1 hour ago‎
Mumbai, Oct 22 (PTI) Nine out of the 24 Independents who have won the Maharashtra Assembly elections are NCP rebels. Prominent among the rebels are former minister Dilip Sopal who has been elected from Barshi, Vilas Lande from Bosari, Laxman Jagtap ...

Congress-NCP five, Shiv Sena-BJP four and jansurajya one

Daily News & Analysis - ‎3 hours ago‎
PTI Kolhapur: In Kolhapur district, out of 10 assembly seats Congress-NCP alliance won five seats, Shiv Sena-BJP four and Jan Surajya Shakti party bagged one seat in the assembly election which was held on 13 October. Shiv Sena-bjpwon four seats in the ...

Peace not on govt terms: Kishanji

Times of India - ‎Oct 20, 2009‎
KOLKATA: Sensing that the Sankrail killings could trigger adverse public reaction, Maoist leader Kishanji claimed that the action squad did not intend to ...
Sankrail a model: Rebel Calcutta Telegraph

Talks on lips, govt tiptoes

Calcutta Telegraph - ‎18 hours ago‎
But the sole solace so far has been Maoist leader Kishanji's offer to let one member of the family visit the 35-year-old officer. ...

Tears and trauma for families

Times of India - ‎Oct 20, 2009‎
She and her mother-in-law got in touch with Maoist leader Kishanji with the help of a TV channel and pleaded for Dutta's release. ...
Horror on TV after lunch Calcutta Telegraph

Naxals to review Induwar beheading

Hindustan Times - ‎Oct 20, 2009‎
Kishanji, the 51-year old politburo member of the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist), said its leaders would review the recent beheading of ...

Naxals kill two cops, abduct one

Hindustan Times - ‎Oct 20, 2009‎
Shortly afterwards, Koteshwar Rao alias Kishanji, 51, politburo member of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), telephoned various media ...

Mamata muted

Calcutta Telegraph - ‎Oct 20, 2009‎
CPM state secretariat member Mohammad Salim said Mamata and her Trinamul had made a "common cause" with Maoist leader Kishanji by sharing the demand for ...

Kishanji vows to intensify struggle

Times of India - Caesar Mandal - ‎Oct 3, 2009‎
KOLKATA: Maoist military strategist Koteswar Rao alias Kishanji has vowed to carry on the war against the state administration until a "liberated zone" is ...

Naxalites look to CPM allies for help

Hindustan Times - ‎Oct 15, 2009‎
Koteshwar Rao alias Kishanji (51), Politburo member of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), said he had spoken to Front partners Communist Party of ...

Kishanji visited city twice

Times of India - ‎Oct 9, 2009‎
KOLKATA: Soon after the attack on the chief minister's convoy near Midnapore, Maoist leader Koteswar Rao alias Kishanji visited Kolkata twice between ...

Indian rebels issue demands over police hostage

AFP - ‎Oct 21, 2009‎
He will remain hostage until the release of tribal women who have been falsely charged with sedition," a Maoist leader known only as Kishanji told Bengali ...

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  • Wall Street will kill the recovery

    By Ed Wallace
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    Wall Street is up to its old tricks again.

    One year later, one of the key excesses that led our consumer-based economy into an historic downturn is being abused in the exact same way that got us $147-a-barrel oil last summer. Worse, many in the media are again getting the facts wrong on oil prices and demand—as if the oil and gasoline price explosion of 2005-2008 never happened—as one look at last week's oil report will verify.

    Forget what Cambridge Energy Research Associates reported on Oct. 13. By its calculations oil demand actually peaked in 2005 among the industrialized members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation, while in the U.S. alone oil usage has dropped by 2 million barrels a day compared with 2005. But remember these facts: As of this writing, U.S. supplies of refined distillates, including diesel, heating oil, and aviation fuel, are at a 25-year high. We have 29.56 million more barrels of oil in our inventories than we had the same week a year ago, and refined gasoline on hand is up 16.37 million barrels for the same period. And this does not include the 125 million barrels of oil that the Secretary General of OPEC says are being held offshore in tankers.

    Skewing in Public In fact, the market is skewed by the high inventories of refined products. Last week, the Energy Information Administration showed that refinery utilization rates fell by over 4%, to 80.9%, yet oil jumped $2 a barrel on the news that our gasoline inventories fell by 5.2 million barrels.

    That was the dark side of the futures market making its move: Oil should have fallen just because, according to the American Petroleum Institute, refinery crude runs fell by 511,000 barrels per day (validating that 4% drop in utilization). In short, refineries determine oil demand, and in that week demand for more oil was off substantially—yet the market bid crude up.


    It is true that this time of year usually sees some refinery maintenance. But, as Truman Arnold trader Tom Knight wrote, "Though [refiners] say this is planned maintenance, we hear it is primarily motivated by very poor refining margins [and] the collapse of the sweet/sour crude spreads." Referring to "ongoing problems at the Delaware City [Del.] refinery," Knight gets the sense that this may be "the precursor to a permanent closure of that refinery." Basically, of course, overall demand for finished oil products is so weak and inventories so high that the "crack spread," or refinery profit, is virtually nil.

    IEA Gave Us the Facts—Late This inconvenient truth is merely another strong indication that the retail market demand for refined goods doesn't come anywhere near justifying the market price for crude. Therefore, oil is back to being severely overpriced.

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    22 Oct 2009, 1930 hrs IST, BusinessWeek

     

    Anti-Maoist offensive will not be toned down: WB DGP

    STAFF WRITER 20:34 HRS IST

    Kolkata, Oct 22 (PTI) The West Bengal police today said they will not tone down their offensive against Maoists in the state despite the release of abducted police officer Atindranath Dutta and will continue search for their leader Kishenji till he is arrested.

    "The operation (against Maoists) will continue. There is no question of toning it down," Director General of Police Bhupinder Singh told newspersons here.

    Asked whether the police will arrest Kishenji, who released Dutta unharmed, Singh said, "Kishenji has always been our target. We will find him. But the task will be difficult."

    Singh evaded a direct reply when asked whether Dutta's release was related to a court in Jhargrma granting bail to women arrested during anti-Maoist operations in West Midnapore district.

    "Granting of bail is not the end of the judicial process.

    22/10/2009

    Nehru, Edwina movie plans scrapped

    Controversial film 'Indian Summer', about Lady Edwina Mountbatten's alleged affair with India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, has been scrapped.

    Based on the book of the same name by Alex von Tunzelmann about the last days of Britain's colonial rule in India, the film got in trouble after the Indian government voiced concerns over the plot.

    Officials demanded copy approval of the script and eventually gave the film the green light, but the project continued to be plagued by money problems, with bosses at Universal Studios reportedly fretting over the estimated $30-40 million cost.

    Imdb reports that the studio executives have confirmed the project has been scrapped.

    Director Joe Wright says the wrangling with the Indian government effectively sealed the film's fate.

    "We were in between a rock and a hard place. The Indian government wanted us to make less of the love story while the studio wanted us to make more of the love story," he told Variety magazine.

    Cate Blanchett was roped in to play Edwina in the movie.

    Source: IANS

     

    22/10/2009
    Melting effects: Great depression Vs recent recession
    This year, October 22 will mark the 80th anniversary of the 1929 great depression. It was perhaps the most horrible thing to happen to the United States. And eighty years later, the nation is in agony with repercussion of another meltdown.

    The great depression affected the world economy in many ways. Most countries suffered some sort of political turmoil, pushing them to the left or right. Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands; all were affected by the economic holocaust.

    But there is certainly a marked difference between both the crises. The current recession didn't did not have much of an effect on industrial production while the 1929 depression affected industrial production severely.

    The average decline in Dow Jones during past depression was 89.2 per cent. In 2009, Dow Jones has recorded an average was 53.8 per cent. Stock markets around the world have recovered a great deal since the beginning of 2009.

    The employment curve of this recession does not look comparable to that of the early Depression. The unemployment rate during the great depression touched 25 per cent, while this time; the unemployment rate is 8.5 per cent.

    During the 30's, 9,096 banks failed, while the current recession witnesses the failure of merely 57 banks.

    The cause of the Great Depression is still a matter of lively discussion among economists. Fiscal events during the Great Depression have been studied meticulously. Deflation in commodity prices, drop in demand and credit, and disruption of trade, ultimately resulted in pervasive poverty and joblessness.

    The major causes of present economic meltdown are credit crunch, falling realty prices, inflation squeezing incomes and crumpling confidence of finance sector.

    Countries began to recover by the mid-1930s and the depression ended by late 1930s or early 1940s. Franklin D. Roosevelt won his first of four presidential elections in 1932, while the US was in the pits of the depression.

    Roosevelt came up with a complex package (The New Deal) of economic programs (1933-36), aimed at helping unemployed and badly hurt farmers, and also restructuring business and financial practices.

    But like how every cloud gas a sliver lining, great depression also had one. During that hard-time, U.S. life expectancy increased by 6.2 years. Population health by and large improved during the years.

    Source: Ashish Saraf, India Syndicate

    22/10/2009

    Cong wins M'shtra; retains Arunachal; is short of majority in Haryana

    The Congress will form governments in Maharashtra and Arunachal, but appears to be heading for a fractured verdict in Haryana. Congress sweeped in all the three states in just concluded state assembly elections.

    Cong-NCP victory run in Maharashtra

    The Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) sweep continued throughout Maharashtra with results and trends indicating a clear victory for the combine and a drubbing for the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance.

    Stunned by the defeat writ large, leaders of the Shiv Sena-BJP went into a huddle as the Election Commission announced the results till 3 p.m. Of the 288 seats, results were declared in 141 seats by that time and counting was in progress in the remaining 147 seats, the outcome of which is expected by late evening.

    As per the latest tally, the Congress was leading in 49 seats and had won 34 seats while the NCP was leading in 30 and had won 33 seats -- totalling 146, just above the power-giving majority figure of 145 in the 288-member assembly.

    In the opposition alliance, the Shiv Sena was leading in 20 seats and had bagged 23, while the BJP was leading in 25 and had won 21, adding to 89 seats.

    Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) had bagged 12 seats and was leading in two.

    The Samajwadi Party (SP) was leading in one seat and had won three.

    The Third Front had won 14 seats - among these just one for the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI(M) - and was leading in 10.

    Cong six short of majority in Haryana

    The ruling Congress in Haryana emerged as the single largest party in the assembly election but failed to tote up a clear majority.

    Of the 90 assembly seats, for which the results were declared Thursday, the Congress got 40 seats.

    This is six seats short of a simple majority (46 seats). The half-way mark in the 90-member assembly is 45 seats.

    The Congress is likely to seek support of Independent candidates, seven of whom won, to form the next government in the state.

    The main opposition, Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), made a remarkable recovery from its nine seats in the February 2005 assembly poll by capturing 31 seats on its own.

    With one assembly seat won by alliance partner Shiromani Akali Dal, which claimed to create history by winning its first assembly seat in any state outside Punjab, the INLD tally went to 32 seats.

    Independents won seven seats while the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC), led by former chief minister Bhajan Lal and his son Kuldeep Bishnoi, won six seats.

    The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won four assembly seats while the Bahujan Samaj Party won only one seat.The Congress had won 67 seats in the February 2005 assembly poll.

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    After the Moon, India eyeing human space

    Maoists free abducted West Bengal !

    RSS and HINDUTVA Merged in Zionist Congress!

    It is Reminiscent of Pre Independence Scenerio. Remeber the national Indian Congress party led by no one else but Mahatma Gandhi which represented Hindutva despite the presence of RSS and Hindu Mahasabha! Despite National Indigenous Aboriginal Uprising led by Dr. BR Ambedkar. Gandhi obliged Dr BR Ambedkar to sign POONA Pact ensuring Tilak`s dream of SWARAJ means Brahman bania raj come true and Transfer of Power on 15th august was the Exact Acomplishment of Gandhi Propagated Ram Raj with an Anti Thesis of Muslim League led by Secular Non Believer Md. ali Jinnah getting the Pakistan. Brahmin Jawahar Lal Nehru was made Primeminister on gandhi`s WILL as OBC Sardar Patel was coopted as the Home Minister of Hindutva Overwhelming. Nehru got the Brahaman Parliament in the first Election 1952. Congress Brand hindutva was NEVER challenged seriously until RSS suceeded in DEMOLISHING the Babri Mosque. Nehru, despite his hypocritic posture of Progress, communism and secularism represented the BRAHAMINICAL System which was INHERITED by Indira Gandhi, the Reincarnation of War Goddess DURGA! Only a Pro US JP movement compelled Indira commit the Mistake of EMERGENCY which ousted her out of Power and even then, RSS could not hold State Power! Returning to Power, Indira entraped herself in Blue Star Operation and HINDUTVA got the most needed Break Through in Indian Brahaminical Power Politics with UNPRECEDENTED SIKH Genocide only resembling the Partition Holocaust! RSS supported Rajiv Gandhi  to win 1984 Elections with land slide Victory and got hold of the HORSE POWER named Ram mandir Andolan to break through the Monopoly of Nehru gandhi Dynasty in Hindutva SAGA of India.

    Lalakrishna Adwani, as the HOME Minister of India made the STRUCTURE of RSS Building deploying his cadres in every Important Junction. Communist Monopoly in Media finished at that point while Adwani worked as Information Minister in Morarjee janata Government which grew so TALL that Indian Media, Electronic as well as PRINT represent the HINDUTVA only!

    Adwani, the Home Minister in Morarjee Government ensured nationwide Deportation Drive against Dalit East bengal partition victims to enhance Builder realty Raj as LPG Mafia had already in Power since 1991, with DR Manmohan Singh being planted as the Finance Minister of India by Washington followed by Chettiyar Chidambaram. Latest update being Montek singh Ahluwalia, Nandan Nilekani, Sam Pitroda , Rangrajan and a shdow Government of Extraconstitutional personalities doing all the GOVERNANCE to PUSH for Economic Reforms in the best intersest of India Incs and United states of America. Hindutva being Global and RSS  mindset PRO US did all the ground work for Disinvestment and FDI as FIIs hold the key of Indian Sensex economy. NDA Government followed DITTO Narsimha and had no VISION of Future Imminent. It was ADwani who opened Indian strategic doors ajar for Israel which proved to be the Base of Post Modern Manusmriti and Apartheid Globalisation under CIA and Mossad survillience.War Against Terror and RSS banking on Muslim Hatred compelled Hindutva forces to POLARISE swining in favour of OLD Cong Gandhian Hindutva which was Enhanced by Indo Us Nuclear Deal, Gujarat Genocide, Mumbai Blast and terror attacks Resultant in Strategic Realliance in US ISRAEL lead. Now it is completely out of Control for RSS and it has no Leader , No Survival strategy as India Incs and Hindutva Forces, baba Ramdev, Adwani Created Saffron Media, shankaracharya and Brahmin Samaj Manipulated MANDATE in last Election to oust Mayawati as Projected face of Next Prime Minister of India by the LEFT. Finally Hindutva SURRENERED.

    Aboriginal Tribes are not HINDU. They happen to be nature associated people , subjected to ETHNIC Cleansing for so called Hindutva. Democracy is IRRELEVANT in Aboriginal Landscape as well as Humanscape. Thus, despite Kandhmal type of Activism and SALWA Judum neither the Ruling Hegemony nor RSS as well as NGOs could stop MAOISTS to have bases in larger areas of Aboriginal geopolitics. Thsi is so Phenomenonal the Brahaminical marxists have to surrender to the Maoists as amusingly, a Central Minister of the Hindu government Mamata Matua Banerjee represents the Maoists in the Central cabinet and Never clears her Maoist stance with which she succeeded in leading Singur, Nandigram and Lalgargh Insurrection with a single point Agenda of CAPTURE the Writers.

    RSS and RSS brand Hindutva as well as SHIVSENA may not claim Hindtva Advantage as Zionist link fails to oblise RSS Command as the RULING dynasty itself converted ZIONIST as Mamata converted in Matua!

    Maoists released police officer Atindra Nath Dutta Thursday evening, almost three days after they had kidnapped him from a police station in West Bengal, an official said.

    The Maoists had threatened to kill Dutta, who was abducted by the Leftwing ultras early Tuesday during an attack on Sankrail police station in West Midnapore district.

    Earlier Thursday, a West Bengal court released 14 tribal women, which was one of the conditions laid down by the Maoists for the release of Dutta.

    The West Midnapore district court released the 14 tribal women, who were earlier arrested by the police for allegedly having links with the Maoist ultras in Lalgarh region.

    On the other hand,after an impressive victory in the Lok Sabha elections early this year, Congress, the lead partner in the UPA combine has managed to maintain its winning streak in the Assembly polls in three states -Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh and Haryana. While the Congress achieved a landslide victory in Arunachal Pradesh and increased its numbers in Maharashtra, the BJP-Shiv Sena combine failed to impress the voters in their home turf and conceded defeat in Maharashtra. Though it suffered minor setbacks in Haryana, Congress is all set to form government in that state also.

    Meanwhile,  With the Maharashtra poll verdict indicating a lead for Congress-NCP combine, BJP-Shiv Sena today conceded defeat and blamed the Raj Thackeray-led MNS for cutting their votes resulting in their poor-showing.

    "We accept defeat...We lost in Mumbai, we lost miserably in western Maharashtra and we could not achieve our aim," BJP Vice President BJP Gopinath Munde said.

    "MNS appears set to win about 13 seats after garnering around 5-6 per cent votes. After all, these were our votes," he said.

    Expressing disappointment over the poll verdict, Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi said, "we never expected these results...if it is a defeat, it has to be accepted by everybody."
    Refuting suggestions of fighting between him and BJP Maharashtra chief Nitin Gadkari, Munde said, "we campaigned unitedly. There is no question of fighting between us. The MNS is the only one reason."

    There have been reports of differences between Munde and Gadkari on various issues concerning the functioning of the state party unit.

    Munde rubbished suggestions that infighting in the BJP''s state unit or at the centre had cost it dearly in Maharashtra.

    "This talk about differences are wrong. It is only in public perception," Munde''s whose relations with state BJP chief Nitin Gadkari has been under severe strain, said.

    After the success of its first Chandrayaan moon mission, India is now looking at exploration of outer space using planetary missions including a human space flight programme, a UN panel was told.

    "Having achieved self-reliance in end-to-end space programme, the Indian space programme is entering into space exploration phase mainly to explore inner solar system and build such capabilities for exploring outer solar system," a member of the Indian parliament said on Wednesday.

    "Exploration of outer space using planetary missions will be furthered with Chandrayaan-2 and its follow on missions," said Ali Anwar Ansari participating in a debate of the special political and decolonisation committee on "International Cooperation In The Peaceful Uses of Outer Space."

    "India has also been discussing at various levels the need for embarking on a human space flight programme," he said noting that during the last one year, India made a significant stride in space exploration through the Chandrayaan mission.

    India's first Chandrayaan-1 mission intended to study the Moon using eleven scientific instruments built in India and five other countries, Ansari said noting that "within a short time, Chandrayaan-1 has achieved its mission objective to the satisfaction of global scientific community."

    With this, preparation of a 3-dimensional atlas of the lunar surface and chemical and mineralogical mapping of entire lunar surface has been undertaken by scientists from India and abroad, he said.

    Expressing India's support for the United Nations' efforts to increase the awareness of space-based benefits, Ansari invited developing countries to take advantage of India's expertise in the space field.

    "India takes special interest in capacity building and services for enabling the developing countries in the application of Space technology," he said pointing at the UN affiliated Centre for Space Science and Technology Education for Asia and Pacific Region operating from India.

    So far 824 scholars from 31 countries from the Asia-Pacific region and 27 scholars from 17 countries outside the Asia-pacific region have benefited from the educational activities of this Centre, Ansari said adding, "India would like to request more participation from the member countries."

    Maoists release kidnapped police officer

    Two days after being taken hostage, police officer Atindranath Dutta was released on Thursday unharmed by Maoists in Lalgarh after the women arrested by the security forces in anti-Maoist operations in West Midnapore district were released on bail by a court.

    "As per our commitment to the Dutta family and the government, we have released Atindranth Dutta unharmed after 15 women were released on bail by a Jhargram court," top Maoist leader Kishenji, who had demanded their release, said over phone from an undisclosed location.

    Asked if there was any mediation, Kishenji, who had declared that Dutta was a 'prisoner of war' and was being well treated, claimed "there was no mediator. We appealed to the government through the media and the family of the kidnapped officer."

    West Bengal Chief Secretary Asok Mohan Chakraborty, however, said in Kolkata "He has not been fully released yet, but has been handed over to a team of media representatives and lawyers."

    "We are relieved. We went through a lot of tension for the last two days. A colleague of ours was abducted. We were worried about his state of health," Chakraborty told reporters at state Secretariat.

    Pak situation will have bearing on India: Pranab

    As security situation in Pakistan continues to deteriorate, India has said developments in the neighbouring country would have a "bearing" here.

    Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee also appeared to draw Pakistan's attention to the danger of terrorism recoiling on it as he said that "no state should accept the policy of sponsoring terrorism or encouraging terrorism or indulging in terrorism."

    "Pakistan is a close neighbour of India. Therefore, what happens in Pakistan has a bearing (on India)," he said when asked how India sees the situation in Pakistan which is rocked by terror strikes almost every day.

    "If terrorism is bad to India, it is equally bad to Pakistan. If terrorism inflict injuries to India, it inflicts injuries to Pakistan also," Mukherjee, who held the External Affairs Ministry portfolio in the first tenure of UPA, said. India is watching with concern the situation in Pakistan which has been shaken by a spate of terror attacks, including one at the headquarters of powerful Army in Islamabad.

    "When we talk of zero tolerance against terrorism, we mean zero tolerance of terrorism in every part of the world. We do not subscribe that one country will be victim of terrorism and another country will not be victim of terrorism," Mukherjee said.

    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, while addressing top commanders of three Defence services on Tuesday, appeared to reflect upon the situation in Pakistan as he said that the "situation in our neighbourhood has worsened".

    Relief and smiles at released Bengal cop's house



     



    (Source: IANS)
    Published: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 at 22:02 IST

    Kolkata: Tension and anxiety gave way to relief and smiles as the Dutta family of Ahiritola in the city received news of police officer Atindranath Dutta's release from Maoist captivity on Thursday evening.

    After being tossed between hope and despair throughout the day, which saw the Maoists at one point of time threatening to kill Dutta in protest against police firing on them Thursday morning, it was joy at last for the cop's father when Chief Secretary Ashok Mohan Chakraborty broke the happy news to him.

    "He said my son has been freed and is on way home and I can speak to him after some time," the senior Dutta exclaimed, surrounded by close relatives. Soon sweets were distributed to the mediapersons and others present in the house.

    However, mediapersons gathered at the residence of the Duttas had been claiming his release for quite some time. The chief secretary's phone call only put the official seal on the development.

    But the morning had not started off well for the family, as news came that the police were engaged in an exchange of fire with the rebels at Lakhanpur in West Midnapore district, where Maoist leader Kishanjee had promised to release the kidnapped Dutta.

    "The way the situation developed in the morning, we all fell sick with worry. Kishanjee threatened to kill Atindranath if the police forces were not withdrawn within ten minutes. Then we spoke to Kishanjee, who said the government is responsible for the happenings. After we spoke to a government representative, the operation was stopped," Dutta's father said.

    "Around noon, when we heard that the 14 women Maoists had been released, we became certain that things were moving in the right direction," said the police officer's father-in-law.

    Asked whether they still wanted him to continue in the police department, Ashoke Dutta replied: "He had got five or six other jobs in the central and state government. Even after joining the police, he got an offer from the Food Corporation of India, but the police department did not release him."

    "He was a meritorious student. He holds a Master's in economics. We have told him so many times to join some other service. He can even make a living out of teaching students."

    "But he is a grown up man. He liked this job. He says this profession has more glamour. We will go by his decision," said Ashok Dutta, a retired bank employee.

    However, he complained that Atindranath was being given only tough postings. "In all other jobs, like in bank, easy postings are given after a tough one. But not in his case. He is being shifted from one dreaded zone to another."

    "The pay packet is nothing compared to the risk involved," he said.

    Atindranath's mother Chhanda said: "I don't want him to continue in police. But he is a grown-up and responsible man. He will decide."

    Atindranath's wife Indrani said; "I feel as if I have got a fresh lease of life. I am waiting for the time when I will be able to see him again."

    The police officer's two-year-old child Oindrakshi has virtually been without food since the time her father was kidnapped. "We could not make her eat anything. She was constantly crying. She was restless. When I told her now that dad is coming back, she immediately ran towards the door. She said she will kiss her father and then eat," said Indrani.

    Sankrail police station officer-in-charge Dutta was abducted from his quarters near the police station under West Midnapore district Tuesday.

    http://www.samaylive.com/news/relief-and-smiles-at-released-bengal-cops-house/663740.html

    Maoists free abducted police officer in Bengal

    22 Oct 2009, 2112 hrs IST, Tamal, ET Bureau
    KOLKATA: The Maoists on Thursday released the officer-in-charge of Sankrail police station in West Midnapore district whom they had kidnapped on
    Tuesday after killing two of his colleagues and looting the entire armoury of the police station.

    "We have freed Atindranath Dutta, the Sankrail OC, after 15 tribal women were released on bail by a Jhargram court as per our demand," Maoist leader Kishenji told ET. He said, "We have kept our promises made to the family of the OC. If we commit something to someone, we try to honour that and the delay in releasing the OC was caused by the joint forces which had tried to attack and kill our men even though we had promised to release the OC," the Maoist leader said.

    Kishenji, however, denied involvement of any mediator in the release of the abducted OC. "The family of the OC had appealed to me for the release. I have urged the state government through the media to release some Lalgarh women who had been picked up by the police and implicated falsely.

    I also told the media that I will release the OC once the government discharged the women from jails. On Thursday morning, a Jhargram court released on bail 15 tribal women as per our demand and we also released the OC. There was no mediator," Kishenji clarified.

    The OC was released in the evening at a place called Domohani near Dharampur in presence of a group of mediapersons and a local lawyer. The OC was freed in a dense forest from where he along with the journalists, walked down to a metal road near Domohani.

    Meanwhile, West Bengal chief secretary Ashok Mohan Chakraborty told reporters at Writers' Buildings that the Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was very worried after the abduction of the Sankrail OC. "Now, we are feeling good that the OC was released by the Maoists at about 5.30 pm," Chakraborty said.

    The director general of the state police Bhupinder Singh, however, told the media that operations against the Lalgarh Maoists will continue even after the release of the OC by the banned CPI (Maoist). The family of the abducted police officer also thanked the Maoist leader Kishenji, the state administration and the media for the release of their son unhurt.
     
     
     

     

    22/10/2009

    Tussle in Haryana as Cong falls short of majority

    New Delhi: With the Congress falling short of a majority in Haryana by five seats after results for all seats were declared on Thursday, the BJP stepped in by trying to prevent the other parties and the independents from giving support to the Congress.

    But the Congress has claimed that six of the nine rebel candidates have agreed to support. If that happens, the Congress numbers would swell to 46 - the magic number for a simple majority.

    However, the BJP is desperately trying to keep the Congress from assuming power. The party has opened backroom dialogues to prevent the Congress from assuming power for the second term. It would be interesting to see if the BJP extends its hand of friendship to the INLD and try to rope in the Janhit Haryana Congress too. That will make a bloc of 41 MLAs. It is here that the independents would become the deciding factor.

    The Congress emerged the single largest party in the Haryana assembly elections but was not able to get a clear victory. The party won 40 of the 90-member assembly seats, the INLD won 31, the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) won 6, the BJP 4 and Independents 7. The BSP won one seat in the state and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) won one. The SAD is an alliance partner of the INLD.

    For a simple majority in the assembly, the Congress needs 46 seats and so it is six short of a majority. It had won 67 seats in the February 2005 elections.

    Had the BJP tied up with the INLD, the picture would have been totally different, say analysts. Party insiders blame Rajnath Singh for the `misadventure'.

    The results were a dampener for the Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led Congress government that opted for early assembly polls -- seven months ahead of schedule -- to cash in on its victory in the May Lok Sabha polls when it won nine of the 10 seats.

    Four ministers in the Hooda government -- Finance Minister Birender Singh, Transport Minister Mange Ram Gupta, Education Minister A.C. Chaudhary, and Cooperation Minister Meena Mandal -- as well as state Congress president Phool Chand Mullana lost in the election.

    However, the main opposition Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) fared better than expected, winning 31 seats on its own. Its alliance partner, the Akali Dal, made its debut in the Haryana assembly by winning the Kalanwali (reserved) seat.

    The total count of the INLD-Akali Dal combine was 31 seats won, way above its 2005 toll of nine seats. In the Lok Sabha elections as well, it had led in only seven assembly segments.

    A visibly happy INLD president Om Prakash Chautala asked Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia to call the opposition parties to form the next government in the state.

    "People of Haryana have exposed the wrong-doings of the Hooda government. On moral grounds, the Hooda government should resign. We will form the next government," Chautala told reporters.

    Earlier chief minister Hooda admitted the results were not to his liking.

    "Yes, the results are not as per our expectation. But the Congress is going to create history by forming a government in Haryana for the second term. We will examine why we ended up with fewer seats. The Congress will form the next government in Haryana."

    UN suggests 2020 climate goals for poor

    Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:17pm EDT

    * U.N. official suggests slower CO2 growth for poor by 2020

    * Assumes that rich cut by 25-40 pct - de Boer

    * China, U.S. seek cooperate on climate



    By Krittivas Mukherjee

    NEW DELHI, Oct 22 (Reuters) - A top U.N. official suggested a 2020 greenhouse gas goal for developing nations on Thursday as part of a new U.N. climate pact as China and the United States sought common ground to fight global warming.

    Many nations expressed worries about a lack of urgency in the negotiations, less than two months before 190 nations are meant to agree a new U.N. pact in Copenhagen to succeed the existing Kyoto Protocol.

    In New Delhi, Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, suggested that poor nations could slow the projected growth of their emissions by 15 percent by 2020 to help ensure an agreement.

    A dispute about sharing out the burden of curbs on greenhouse gases between rich and poor nations is one of the main stumbling blocks. De Boer said a "balanced agreement" was needed to overcome "mistrust and suspicion".

    The U.N. climate panel in 2007 said rich nations would have to cut their emissions by 25-40 percent by 2020 below 1990 levels to limit temperature rises to 2 Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) and avoid the worst of heatwaves, floods, and rising seas.

    It said developing nations should show a "substantial deviation" below the projected growth of emissions -- but did not set a figure.

    "If industrialised countries are reducing by 25-40 percent by 2020 then I think you would also by 2020 perhaps need to see something in the order of a 15 percent deviation below business as usual in developing countries," de Boer said.



    EU DEMANDS

    The European Union wants developing nations to curb growth by 15-30 percent by 2020. Developing nations have long objected that offers of cuts by the rich so far fall well short of 25 percent.

    In Beijing, China and the United States, the top greenhouse gas emitters, spoke of willingness to cooperate.

    "We should be aware of the severity and urgency of coping with climate change, and we should also seize this precious development opportunity," Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang told a summit of academics, businessmen and officials.

    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a video address: "As always, we are more likely to succeed when we work together."

    "As the world's two largest emitters of carbon, the United States and China have a responsibility to lead the world in developing and adopting clean technologies, and as two of the world's largest economies our nations have the power to build a thriving global marketplace for these technologies," she said.

    Developing nations want billions of dollars in aid and technology to help them shift to renewable energies and forego the cheap fossil fuels that helped the developed world get rich since the Industrial Revolution.

    In London, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband also said the talks needed more urgency to prevent a "human emergency" affecting hundreds of millions of people.

    "For too many people, not just in our own country but around the world, the penny hasn't yet dropped ... that this climate change challenge is real and is happening now," he said.

    "There isn't yet that sense of urgency and drive and animation about the Copenhagen conference."

    Climate change will deepen Middle East tensions, trigger wars over water and food and lead to unprecedented migration unless action is taken now to curb global warming, he said.

    On the business front, General Electric Co (GE.N) said a deal freeing up trade in environmental goods and services was urgently needed.

    GE's senior counsel for intellectual property and trade, Thaddeus Burns, said the deal should be negotiated separately from the Doha round of talks to open up world trade. The Doha talks are in their eighth year with no sign of a breakthrough.

    The WWF environmental group cautioned that a lack of political nerve could mean climate deadlock in Copenhagen to echo Doha. "The world doesn't want Copenhagen to come to mean another Doha," said Kim Carstensen, head of the WWF's Global Climate Initiative.

    Bengal govt heaves a sigh of relief with cop's release

    India Blooms News Service  | 2009-10-22 19:12:40

    The West Bengal government on Thursday said it was greatly relieved that the policeman abducted by the Maoists after raiding a West Midnapore police station has been released by the rebels.

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    "We are greatly relieved. We were greatly worried about his state of health. We were trying to secure his release," West Bengal Chief Secretary Ashok Mohan Chaktraborty told reporters in state Secretariat Writers' Buildings.

    Maoists release abducted cop in West Bengal

    The officer-in-charge of Sankrail police station was declared a Prisoner of War (PoW)  by the rebels and released after  51 hours of captivity.

    Atindranath Dutta, the OC of Sankrail police station in West Midnapore district, was released in Domohani forest in the district before mediapersons.

    The Maoists addressed reporters after his release.

    The announcement of his release came from the rebels after a Midnapore district court on Wednesday released on bail 23 people, including 13 women, arrested as suspected Maoists. 

    Kishanji, one of the top Maoists leaders, over phone told TV channels in the afternoon that the policeman would be released.

    No talks with Maoists until they leave violence: Orissa 

    The Maoists were demanding the release of their women cadres lodged in various state jails.

    Indrani Dutta, wife of abducted cop Atindranath Dutta, and other members of his family thanked the Maoists for his release.

    In an audacious attack, about 40 Maoist rebels on Tuesday stormed into the Sankrail police station and a nearby bank killing two policemen and looting arms and cash.  

    The rebels shot dead second officer Dibakar Bhattacharya and kidnapped officer-in-charge Atindranath Dutta. The body of assistant sub-inspector Swapan Roy, who it was feared was kidnapped initially, was later recovered inside the police station.

    Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishanji, who is a top rung Maoist leader, later said the abducted policeman would be released before media as a Prisoner of War (PoW) in lieu of their arrested members, especially women.

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    UPDATE 2-Dalai Lama to visit disputed Indian state on Nov.8

    Thu Oct 22, 2009 8:45pm IST
     

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      (Updates with protest from Dharamsala in paragraphs 7-10)
     By Abhishek Madhukar
     DHARAMSALA, India, Oct 22 (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled leader, will make a week-long visit to an Indian state bordering China, his aide said on Thursday, a trip that is bound to upset Beijing, which claims part of the territory as its own.
     The Dalai Lama is expected to give spiritual lessons beginning on Nov. 8 to his followers in Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh state, which is at the centre of a border dispute between two countries who have been trying to reduce tensions recently.
     "His Holiness will be flying directly from Guwahati to Tawang on the 8th (Nov)," Tenzin Taklha told Reuters. Guwahati is a major city in India's northeast.
     The intended visit has already sparked consternation in China, which claims about 90,000 sq km (35,000 square miles) of Arunachal Pradesh along the border as part of its territory.
     With India and China engaged in a race for regional supremacy, Beijing could see the Dalai Lama's trip as encouraging the Tibetan struggle by undermining Chinese territorial integrity.
     (Click on [ID:nDEL465372] for a factbox on India-China border disputes)
     About 500 Tibetans, mostly monks and nuns, marched with candles through Dharamsala, where the Tibetan government-in-exile is based, to denounce what they said were executions of four Tibetans in Lhasa for anti-Chinese protests last year.
     "There was an inconspicuous deployment of Public Security Bureau and armed personnel around Lhasa on the day of the execution (October 20)," the government in-exile said in a statement.
     "The Chinese authorities had also stepped up patrols... and heads of some families were also taken into custody."
     Repeated calls to get a confirmation of the executions from government offices in the Tibetan capital Lhasa went unanswered.
     The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule. He has since lived in Dharamsala, a hill town in northern Indian.
     The Dalai Lama's trip was announced days before the prime ministers of India and China are to meet in Thailand to defuse mounting rhetoric over their border dispute.
     India and China fought a short border war in 1962 and, despite burgeoning trade in recent years, mistrust remains.  (Writing by Krittivas Mukherjee; Editing by Bappa Majumdar and Ron Popeski)    

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