Evento Speciale – Film

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Special Event – Film

In collaborazione con Ambasciata Svizzera in India

In collaboration with Embassy of Switzerland in India

Oltre il Confine/  Beyond the Borders

Mercoledi 12 Novembre ore 19.00

Wednesday, 12th November, 7.00 pm

Italian Embassy Cultural Centre
50-E, Chandragupta Marg, (Entry from Nyaya Marg)

Oltre il Confine/  Beyond the Borders

Director:  Rolando Colla

2003/ 104′

Genere: drammatico/Drama

Italia/Svizzera (Italy/Switzerland)

Cast: Anna Galiena, Senad Basic, Giuliano Persico, Gianluca Gobbi, Ajla Frljuckic

“Oltre il confine” è un film drammatico ambientato nei primi anni ’90. E’ la storia di un profugo bosniaco che aiuta amorevolmente un reduce della seconda guerra mondiale a trascorrere i suoi ultimi giorni. Sua figlia rimane profondamente coinvolta e stupita da questo comportamento e le viene naturale iniziare ad investigare su quest’uomo, i suoi valori, la sua vita ed il suo passato. Spinta ad andare più a fondo, decide di partire per la Bosnia, un paese dilaniato dalla guerra; strada facendo la donna inizia a confrontarsi con il proprio passato.

The story takes place in 1993. Agnese, an architect from Turin , receives an alert by a doctor at a veterans’ home. The commander of the residence has arrested Reuf, a refugee without official documents. Reuf works the night shift and looks after Agnese’s father, who lives in the veterans’ home and is seriously ill. The woman, who would rather not have anything to do with refugees, gets to know Reuf and becomes involved in a story which ultimately takes her to Bosnia . While travelling through the war-torn country, she begins to remember her childhood during the post-war years of World War II. And thus, two wars meet up with one another; the wheel of history turns in circles, leaving its absurd traces behind.

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BJP’s Best Are Dullards – Middlemen & Moneylender Free India

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BJP’s Best Are Dullards – Middlemen & Moneylender Free India
November10, 2014 (C) Ravinder Singh ravinderinvent@gmail.com

Challenges before Modi Government are two Fold – First undoubtedly is
Economic Policy to have Middlemen and Moneylender Free India this in
itself shall drive Economic Resurgence and Second is Inventors &
Engineers led Indian Industry.

But it is a REAL TRAGEDY inducted dullards in the Cabinet. Two Lame
Duck Engineers in Parikkar & Sinha have Metallurgical Chemical
qualifications that too four decades ago. Smartest of them as CM or
MLA-Minister couldn’t PREVENT Illegal Iron Ore Mining in Goa all 4
decades. Wherever I went as 20 years old Corruption Simply Vanished.

Jayant Sinha in cross holdings with brother Sumant Sinha are Operating
117 Lame Duck Companies MANIPULATING PUBLIC MONEY. Source LiveMint

ReNew Power Ventures Pvt. Ltd. alone is Developing 1000 MW Wind Power
worth Rs.6000 crores which is most Unreliable & Unpredictable – SINHA
does nothing – Installation Operation & Maintenance is all Undertaken
by SUZLON and other generator manufacturers.

https://www.sldcguj.com/RealTimeData/RealTimeDemand.asp
Renewable In Gujarat at 12:10 November10, 2014
Renewable In
Gujarat    Generation
At 12:10      Installed Capacity
Wind Power     296     3388.60
Solar Power    463    890.53

IIT and Harvard Universities are SHAMED by Jayant Sinha.

Their Only Expertise is To ESCALATE Costs & Profits Manifold Without
Contributing a Thing.

But my dearest Friend Suresh Prabhu is ULTRA DULLARD. Actually he
invited me twice for tea at his Office cum Residence to Consider My
Concerns.

In 2003 at Vigyan Bhawan after President Kalam left after Promoting
River Linking – I asked ‘This Stupid Idea of River Linking is on for
Three Decades, Instead of Transferring 50 Billion Tones of Ganga Water
to 3000 KM South Why Don’t India Transfer 30 million tones of
Food-grains to South. Grow foods in most fertile Ganga Basin’

Everyone Understood it then But in 11 years I could not make Suresh
Prabhu get wiser on this.

Ravinder Singh, Inventor & Consultant,
INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND PROJECTS
Y-77, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016, India. Ph; 091- 9718280435, 9650421857
Ravinder Singh* is a WIPO awarded inventor specializing in Power,
Transportation,
Water, Energy Saving, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Technologies and Projects.

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India’s National Competitiveness Forum 2014

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Today at 1:58 PM

Enhancing India’s Competitiveness Can’t see images? Click here… Note from the President and CEO Dear Colleagues,Boosting the competitiveness remains a pertinent challenge for governments and business across the developed and developing markets. India is also a victim of this threat. However with the new government in power, future seems promising. It is being anticipated that with the ongoing actions, India’s growth story will slowly revive and attain economic resilience over a period of time. Going back in history shows that India’s economy has been rather subdued in the past 4-5 years time frame largely because of its weak fundamentals during that period. India’s performance on global indices remains poor. According to the Global Competitiveness Report 2014-15 by the World Economic Forum (WEF) India’s ranking has slipped to 71st position largely because of a slow growth rate that acts as a major impediment for boosting competitiveness. Similarly, the recently released World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Report also shows India’s rank dipping to dismal 142nd. The growth rate has taken a plunge and at present is hovering in the vicinity of 5% with the future not particularly looking exceptionally bright. This coupled with a high rate of unemployability; widespread poverty; rising inflation, and growing environmental concerns leading to deteriorated livability conditions, make life disconcerting for an average Indian. India as a country needs to improve in several areas including Manufacturing, Education, Healthcare, Agriculture, and Infrastructure including Power, Roads, etc. India’s Information Technology remains its strength, and there is a need to move up in the value chain by focusing on activities, which are at the high end of the innovation ecosystem in this particular domain. By removing critical bottlenecks hampering these sectors and formulating and more importantly implementing policies, growth seems near certain. Greater focus has to be laid on bettering India’s growth story. This in turn will get on the path leading to innovation and greater shared economic prosperity. With the coming in of the new government, there is renewed hope and a rise in aspirations of the youth who form a significant part of India’s burgeoning workforce. With the new government’s pro-business approach, trust among investors, businessmen and the common man seems to have come back. It is thus an opportune time to synergize with the pro-growth agenda of the Government and make India achieve a stronger economic standing in the world. The need of the hour is to work together for the overarching goal and staying strong by being competitive. With this, The India Council on Competitiveness aims to list down positive set of actions and amplify the voice of leaders (policy makers, business leaders and the council’s member organizations). The goal to make India a prosperous nation. Along with this letter, we are releasing our clarion call, which captures the challenges that face India in detail. Let us raise our collective voice to bring about a positive change in our economy and ultimately our society. You can look the clarion call at http://compete.org.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/IndiaCouncilonCompetitiveness-ClarionCall.pdf. We would like to welcome our two new members, Mr. Ajay Vir Jhakar (Chairman, Bharat Krishak Samaj) and Mr. Anil Khaitan (Chairman & Managing Director, Sunil Healthcare). In case, you want to explore the India Council memberships kindly look at the details available on http://compete.org.in/membership/. You can also interact with me pertaining to the membership opportunities available at The India Council on Competitiveness. Regards, Amit KapoorPresident and CEO India Council on Competitiveness Videos from India’s National Competitiveness Forum 2014 Dr. Alok Bharadwaj Executive VP, Canon Anita Arjundas CEO, Real Estate Sector and MD, Mahindra Lifespaces Developers CVL Srinivas CEO, GroupM. South Asia David Wittenberg CEO, The Innovation Workgroup Gerd Hoefner MD, Siemens Technology Himanshu Jain MD & VP – Indian Subcontinent, Sealed Air From the Members Desk Anita Arjundas Mahindra Lifespaces Developers launches affordable housing project in Mumbai Mahindra Lifespaces Developers, the real estate arm of Mahindra Group, today launched its second affordable housing project under its ‘Happinest’ vertical at Boisar near here..….more. Rishikesha T. Krishnan ‘Make Doctoral Studies More Attractive’ Rishikesha T Krishnan, Director IIM Indore, says we need more investments in research and thought leadership to take the IIMs to the next level….more. Amit Kapoor When a huge discount is not anti-competitive The jury is out on whether massive discounts by e-retail (e-tail) companies are anti-competitive and predatory. But what seems to be lost in the din of the marketing battle is such provisions of competition law apply to the dominant player in the market concerned…….more. CVL Srinivas Seven doubts: Kishore Biyani, Bhaskar Das, Raghav Bahl, Mahesh Murthy, others on changing media landscape  As BrandWagon celebrates its seventh anniversary, we raise seven big questions for the media world. Seven luminaries from the media, marketing and advertising world answer these existential questions.….more. Alok Bhar An interview with IIFL Speaking with Yash Ved of IIFL, Alok Bharadwaj says, “We are expecting the UID project (Aadhar) to create Rs2bn business for our high-end digital SLR cameras.”.….more. Competitiveness in News India’s Persistent Trade DefiictThe chart represents India’s persistent trade deficit. A trade deficit arises when the imports of a country exceed its exports. The worrying aspect with relation to this graph is that India’s trade deficit has been rising consistently as depicted by the inverted trend line.….more.

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AirAsia X Berhad operating statistics for the 3rd Quarter 2014 (“3Q14”).

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Preliminary Operating Statistics For the 3rd Quarter of the Financial Year Ended 2014 AirAsia X Berhad (“AAX” or “the Company”), the long-haul, low cost airline affiliate of the AirAsia Group is pleased to announce its operating statistics for the 3rd Quarter 2014 (“3Q14”). AAX continues to stimulate demand to fill up new capacity injected during 3Q14, by achieving a passenger load factor of above 80%, on the back of 24% year-on-year (“y-o-y”) growth in Available-Seat-KM (“ASK”) to 6,366 million in 3Q14, despite significantly softer market conditions. The capacity added was lower than earlier planned, as more aircraft capacity was withdrawn from scheduled services during lean periods and re-deployed to charters and wet leases in other regions that generated positive margins. In terms of quarter-on-quarter (“q-o-q”) growth, ASK grew by a mere 2% from 6,265 million recorded in 2Q14, primarily contributed from the launch of new a service to Xian, China, on 2 July 2014. The intended slower injection of capacity growth from 3Q14 onwards is to allow the previously added capacity in 2013 to mature and progress towards profitability. In maintaining its clear market leader position in term of passengers carried on direct flights between Malaysia to each of its core markets in Australia and North Asia, the Company persistently achieved strong passenger traffic in Revenue-Passenger-KM (“RPK”), from 4,227 million to 5,129 million (+21% y-o-y), where 1.04 million passengers were carried during the quarter as compared to 0.84 million passengers carried same period last year. Cargo segment on the other hand, saw an improvement of 21% y-o-y in total cargo carried to 9,771 tonnes from 8,079 tonnes same quarter last year, with 41% load factor for the quarter. The Company had during the quarter took delivery of 1 A330-300 on operating lease, bringing its total number of A330-300s to 21, 2 A340-300s, and 1 A330-200 (to be returned by end 2014). Its fleet size has now expanded to 24 aircraft from 17, in the same period last year. 3rd Quarter 2014 Operating Statistics (1)                Number of earned seats flown. Earned seats comprise seats sold to passengers (including no-shows) and seats provided for promotional purposes (2)                Number of seats flown (3)                Revenue Passenger Kilometres (RPK) / Available Seat Kilometres (ASK) (4)                Available Seat Kilometres (ASK) measures an airline’s passenger capacity. Total seats flown multiplied by the number of kilometres flown (5)                Revenue Passenger Kilometres (RPK) is a measure of the volume of passengers carried by the airline. Number of passengers multiplied by the number of kilometres these passengers have flown (6)                Number of flights flown (7)                Number of aircraft including spares