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EC for use of tech to deal with issues in SAARC region As heads of poll management bodies of SAARC countries got together to evolve ways to tackle common problems, the Election Commission of India has said innovative methods and strategies are needed to deal with new challenges in the electoral field in the region. In his inaugural address at the 3rd Conference of Heads of Election Management bodies of SAARC countries in New Delhi on Monday, Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi stressed on the use of modern technology to deal with problems in the conduct of free and fair elections. Pointing out the common challenges before election managers in South Asia, who deal with over a billion electorate which is 60 to 70 percen

E-waste Rules not going to change ground situation Electronic-waste (E-waste) is a critical issue India is facing today, with rapid technological advancement and growing obsolescence rate of electronics and electrical goods. The country is saddled with huge generation of this toxic waste, estimated to be more than 8 million tonnes.   E-waste Management and Handling Rules, notified in May 2011 and which comes into force on May 1 st , 2012 is a huge step in this direction.   The rules were notified in advance and provided a lead time of one year to all stakeholders to put systems in place for an effective compliance to the Rules. The E- waste Management and Handling Rules put the onus of e-waste management on Manufacturers or the brands through the principle of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).   Companies like Samsung, LG, Nokia, HCL, HP, Videocon and many more have to ensure that they have a proper take back system and provide the opportunity to

Subject:  Invit­e for the inaug­urati­on of A TRIBU­TE TO MOTHE­RHOOD­, Paint­ings and Sculp­tures­ by Sheil­a Thada­ni on Thurs­day, 3rd May 2012 at 6:30 pm at the Hunga­rian Centr­e From:  Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre New Delhi <hicc.delhi@gmail.com>   Mon, 30 Apr '12 5:29p To:  Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre New Delhi <hicc.delhi@gmail.com> Show full Headers 1 attachment A_TRIBUTE_TO_MOTHERHOOD.pdf 174.32 KB Download Dear All, We wish to invite you for the opening of a beautiful exhibition of paintings and sculptures by veteran artist Sheila Thadani on Thursday, 3rd May 2012 a

K G Suresh appointed new IMC National Secretary New Delhi April 30, 2012: Senior journalist and Editor of Critique-The Indian Review of Journalism, K G Suresh, has been appointed National Secretary of the Indian Media Centre (IMC). Mr. Suresh’s appointment was announced by Mr. Chandan Mitra, IMC Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of The Pioneer, at the Governing Board meeting of the Indian Media Centre at Chandigarh on April 28-29, 2012. Mr. Suresh shall work towards expanding and strengthening the organization’s activities, particularly in southern India, Mr. Mitra said.   IMC is  an independent, non-profit institution dedicated to promoting the highest standards in media.   Mr. Suresh and Mr. Sri Krishna, Editorial Consultant with The Statesman, New Delhi were also appointed editors of the IMC organ ‘Media Critique’. Mr. Dharam Vir (Treasurer) IMC Delhi Chapter

Third Conference of Heads of Election Management Bodies of SAARC Countries ECI Calls for Innovative Methods and Strategies to Deal With New Problems in Electoral Field The Third Conference of Heads of Election Management Bodies of SAARC Countries started off today in New Delhi. It was inaugurated by Dr S Y Quraishi, Chief Election Commissioner of India. The 3-day Conference brings together the Chief Election Commissioners and senior election officials of the region on a common platform to share best practices in election administration and management. Some of the important topics to be discussed are: Empowerment of Election Management Bodies; Inclusive elections, Voters Education, Controlling Money Power in Elections, Technology for cost-effective elections etc. The discussions will also focus on the final shape of the Forum of SAARC Election Management Bodies, which was agreed at the last Conference held in Islamabad. Mr Fazel Ah

Nano Mission – Towards Global Knowledge Hub By sagarmedia on April 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment | Edit Nano Technology is acknowledge-intensive and ‘enabling technology’ which will influence a wide range of products and processes. It will have far-reaching implications for national economy and development. The Department of Science and Technology (DST) launched many initiatives over the period of time and Nano was one of them. DST launched a modest programme called Nano Science and Technology Initiative (NIST) in 2001 in Nano Sciences. The Nano Mission is successor of this programme. The Government approved this as Nano Mission in 2007 with an allocation of Rs 1000/- crore for 5 years. The Nano Mission has been structured in a manner to achieve synergy between the national research efforts of various agencies in this field and launch new programmes in a concerted fashion. Today India has emerged 6 th worldwide in terms of

Russia Prepares For A US-Israeli Military Strike Against Iran By sagarmedia on April 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment | Edit   Russia Prepares For A US-Israeli Military Strike Against Iran By Clara Weiss 28 April, 2012 WSWS.org Russia has undertaken intensive preparations during the past few months for a possible military strike by Israel and the United States on Iran. According to recent reports, the Russian General Staff expects a war against Iran this summer, with enormous repercussions for not only the Middle East but also the Caucasus. Russian troops in the Caucasus have been technically upgraded, and a missile division situated on the Caspian Sea has been placed in readiness. The missile cruisers of the Caspian flotilla are now anchored off the coast of Dagestan. The only Russian military base in the South Caucasus, located in Armenia, is also on alert for military intervention. Last autumn, Russia sent its ai

Gram Panchayats to become Nirmal in 10 years: Ramesh By sagarmedia on April 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment | Edit   Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Saturday said the Centre had fixed a target to make every Gram Panchayat as “Nirmal Gram Panchayat” in next ten years. Addressing a gathering at a Panchayati Raj Sammelan in Karnal, he hoped Haryana would become the third Nirmal state in next three years. The Union government would provide all necessary support to the state in this regard, Ramesh said. At present, Sikkim and Himachal Pradesh were totally Nirmal while Maharashtra and Kerala were performing well in this direction, he said. Lauding Haryana government’s approach with regard to the total sanitation campaign, the Minister said he had asked other states to follow the Haryana slogan of “Shauchalya Nahin to Dulhan Nahin”. The Nirmal Bharat Campaign would formally be launched after finalis

Saudi closes embassy in Cairo following protests By sagarmedia on April 29, 2012 |  Saudi Arabia closed its Cairo embassy and recalled its ambassador following protests over a detained Egyptian human rights lawyer. The unexpected escalation followed days of protests by hundreds of Egyptians outside the Saudi Embassy in Cairo and consulates in other cities to demand the release of Ahmed el-Gezawi. Relatives and human rights groups say he was detained for allegedly insulting the kingdom’s monarch. Saudi authorities denied that and said he was arrested for trying to smuggle anti-anxiety drugs into the oil-rich kingdom. It was worst diplomatic tiff between the two regional powerhouses since Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries broke off diplomatic ties with Egypt after it signed a peace deal with Israel in 1979. Diplomatic relations were restored in 1987. El-Gezawi’s c

By sagarmedia Islamists march to Egypt Defence Ministry Hundreds of Islamist protesters marched on to Egypt’s Defence Ministry, denouncing the ruling military council and demanding that officials of the Hosni Mubarak regime be disallowed from the presidential race. The protesters included supporters of the disqualified Salafist candidate Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, whose candidature was ruled out on grounds that his mother had been given an American citizenship. Abu Ismail warned last night of “unknown reactions” of his backers to what they see as “injustice” over his exclusion from the presidential race.>His comments came shortly after thousands of protesters, mostly his supporters, marched at midnight to Egypt’s Defence Ministry, chanting slogans against Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi. <”Down with the military council,” shouted demonstrators, calling on the generals who took over from Mubarak step down.>There has been an increasing perception

The Syrian unrest suicide bombing in Damascus By sagarmedia on April 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment | Edit   Iran on Saturday condemned a deadly suicide bombing in Damascus, charging that such “terrorist actions” were the work of foreign governments that wanted to arm the Syrian opposition.Iran “condemns terrorist act that resulted in killing and injuring Syrian people and also condemns foreign intervention,” the deputy foreign minister in charge of Arab and African affairs, Hossein Amirabdolahian, said in a statement posted on his ministry’s website.”The parties who back sending weapons to Syria are responsible for killing innocent people. Some parties, by sending weapons and (committing) terrorist actions in this country, are pursuing their own specific goals,” he said. State media said at least 11 people died and 28 were wounded in yesterday’s suicide bombing which hit worshippers leaving a mosque after the main week

China launches two navigation satellites By sagarmedia on April 29, 2012 |       BEIJING: China on Monday successfully launched two more satellites for its proposed Beidou global navigation and positioning network being built to counter the US Global Position System (GPS). With the two, China has so far launched 13 satellites to form part of the Beidou system. The Beidou-2 satellites, launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in the south-western province of Sichuan, was boosted by a Long March-3B carrier rocket and has entered the scheduled orbit, the centre said in a statement. It is the first time China has launched two navigation satellites with one rocket, and the two satellites will help to improve the accuracy of the Beidou, or Compass system, it said. China will launch three more satellites for the Beidou network this year and a global satellite positioning and navigation system will be

Joint Statement on the Fifth India-Japan Energy Dialogue April 30, 2012 H.E. Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India and H.E. Mr. Yukio Edano, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan held the 5th meeting of the India-Japan Energy Dialogue on April 30, 2012 in New Delhi. Senior officials of the relevant ministries and departments of both countries participated in the discussions. The two sides welcomed the progress achieved so far in the four previous rounds of the Energy Dialogue and in the deliberations of the various Working Groups. They appreciated the sector-specific discussions by experts of both India and Japan and the progress made in various areas of cooperation. 2. The two sides reached a common recognition that it is important for the two countries to cooperate with each other in the energy efficiency and conservation sector, and welcomed that the meeting of “Energy Efficiency and Conservation Working Group”

A WORD OF CAUTION FOR INDIA Monday, 30 April 2012 A WORD OF CAUTION FOR INDIA A recent addition to my personal library is a glossy, picture book titled – “100 CITIES OF THE WORLD : A journey through the most fascinating cities around the globe.” As I glanced through the Contents listing the hundred, Continent-wise, I was struck by the fact that India’s capital, Delhi, was not included in this list. The two Indian cities mentioned in the Asian tally of twenty two were Kolkata and Mumbai. For Indian readers, a more interesting addition to my library this week is a thought provoking book by Ruchir Sharma, head of Emerging Market Equities and Global Macro at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. In this book titled Breakout Nations, the author, who is based in New York, affirms that “the astonishingly rapid growth over the last decade of the world’s celebrated emerging mar

LONDON: British report  told residents of an upscale apartment development near the Olympic Park in east London it is installing a missile battery on top of a tower within their housing complex to defend the 2012 Games this summer. Site is one of a number around the capital the army is considering as bases for surface-to-air missiles to protect the London games from an aerial attack, the Ministry of Defence said.It is the first time such missiles have been deployed in London since the end of World War Two, shocking some residents at the Bow Quarter housing development, sited in a converted red-brick Victorian match factory."There was no consultation, no one knocked on the door," Brian Whelan, a 28-year-old journalist, told Reuters. "You just wake up one morning, there's a leaflet telling you they are going to put missiles on the roof." Defence Secretary Philip Hammond announced the plans in November, "Britain would follow the precedent se

India's long-term growth potential is 8-9 pc: Montek Notwithstanding global credit rating agency S&P's lowering India's outlook to 'negative', the country remains bullish and its long-term economic growth potential is 8-9 per cent, Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia has said. "My view of India is that it is bullish. India 's long-term growth potential is 8 to 9 per cent. In order to achieve this, we have to get our Macro-economic right," said Ahluwalia, briefing media at the third Clean Energy Ministerial Meeting which concluded in London Thursday evening. He added, " India achieved a growth rate of 6.9 per cent last year. The question is whether India 's growth in 2012-13 will

Lower and Declining Growth in Core Sectors in India The rate of growth of eight core sectors improved from 2.8% in 2008-09 to 6.6% in 2009-10. It moderated to 5.8% in 2010-11. In 2011-12(Apr-Feb), eight core sectors recorded a growth of 4.4% compared to a growth of 5.8% in the corresponding period of 2010-11. Lower growth rate during 2011-12 has mainly been due to a lower growth in crude petroleum, natural gas and steel sectors. Government has initiated several steps to augment the production of core sectors by promoting state of the art technologies and by augmenting resources for exploration and mining through private sector participation. To facilitate development of necessary infrastructure, Viability Gap Finding, under the Scheme for support to PPP, has been extended to capital investment in fertilizers sector, oil and gas storage and pipelines facilities. To remove the fuel supply constraints affecting the power generation , the g

A journey into ‘The Inner Path’ shown by Gautam Buddha By sagarmedia on April 28, 2012   New Delhi, 28 April: Over twenty feature and short films, panel discussions, art exhibitions, and discourses on Buddhist philosophy and thought will mark ‘Inner Path’, a five-day festival of understanding Buddhism. Union Minister for Culture Kumari Selja will inaugurate the meet on 27 April at Azad Bhavan of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations whose President Dr Karan Singh and Director-General Dr Suresh K Goel will be present. This will be followed by ‘Buddhist Sacred Dances and Rituals’ by a six-member dance troupe from Sri Lanka. Prior to the inauguration of the main event, the exhibition ‘The Greatest Journey of Ideas: Spread of Buddhism’ – a select range of photographs of Buddhist Art in 19 countries by art historian-filmmaker- photographer Benoy K Behl will be inaugurated the same day. This is the preview of an exhibition opening in London on 15 May, Was

Maruti Suzuki financial results 2011-12 New Delhi, 28th April, 2012; The Board of Directors of Maruti Suzuki India Limited approved the financial results for the quarter ending March 31, 2012 and for the full year 2011-12 here today. Quarter 4 2011-12 Q4 2011-12 Q4 2010-11 % change Net Sales Rs. 114,864 Mn Rs 97,967 Mn Up by 17.2% Net Profit Rs. 6,398 Mn Rs. 6,599 Mn Up by 17.2%         Total Volume 360,334 nos 343,340 nos Up by 4.9% During the Quarter, the Company sold a total of 360,334 units as compared to 343,340 units in the same period previous year reflecting a growth of 4.9 per cent. While adverse currency movements made a significant impact during the Quarter, the Company was able to largely offset it through localization and internal cost control. Financial Year 2011-12 2011-12 201

“It was presumed that Independent India will emerge as a strong nation fully integrated,wedded to secularism and democratic values.It was believed that India with a rich heritage will make its valuable contribution for establishing respect for human values: equality and peace being the essence of democracy and secularism,but such pious hopes were belied by recent trends in our social life is crux,” said  Sardar Daya Singh  during his media briefing today at Gandhi peace Foundation New Delhi who has just completed his peace journey at Varanasi bank of Ganga river,journey  initiated on 15 April 2012 from bank of Vaini Nadi River at Sultanpur Lodhi in Punajb.. Haq-e-Aman Yatra, cosmopolitan peace march to promote the religious tolerance,create an environment to resolve the communal conflicts through dialogue, reached New Delhi Sunday. Peace journey includes representatives of various Sikh, Hindu, Muslim, Christian and Gandhian organisations, commenced their yatra from

  Bill Gates calls people who oppose vaccines as child killers! But statistics prove otherwise. The number of deaths, diseases and disabilities attributed to vaccines as reported in the US based Vaccines Adverse Effect Reporting System (VAERS) is mind boggling and continues to grow by the day. And, as per the CDC, hardly 10% of vaccine adverse effects ever get recorded!   Bill Gates and his foundation have declared 2010-20 to be a "decade of vaccines". Very recently Gates has persuaded a few world leaders to donate $ 2 billion to his charity towards vaccination of Asian and African children. More countries are expected to follow suit. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has earmarked $ 10 billion for this activity. This brouhaha over vaccines does not bore well for the underweight and malnourished children of Asia and Africa who will be harmed in large numbers unable to bear this antigen overload.    These funds come out of taxpayers’ money a