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612 million Indians 'multi-dimentionally poor'

 

New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) At 612 million, or more than half its population, India has the world's largest number of 'multi-dimentionally poor', the UN Global Human Development report released Wednesday said.

 

To assess acute poverty levels, the index examined factors such as health services, access to clean water and cooking fuels, basic household goods and home construction standards, which together offer a fuller portrait of poverty than income measurements alone.

 

http://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/612-million-Indians-multi-ians-1713365579.html

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India wanted LTTE 'put in its place': Norway report

Even as it publicly advocated peace when the Sri Lankan conflict was raging, India quietly informed Norway that the LTTE must be "put in its place", reveals a Norwegian government sponsored study on why the peace process failed in the island nation. The exhaustive document, released here

 

 

Friday, shows that New Delhi's sympathy lay with Colombo vis-a-vis the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam as the peace process began to slowly unravel from 2003-04.

After the Congress returned to power in 2004, New Delhi kept calling for the accommodation of "Tamil aspirations" but did not apply any pressure on the Mahinda Rajapaksa government over its military option, it said.

 

"India criticizes Norway in private meetings for being too 'LTTE friendly' and underlines the need to 'put the LTTE in its place'," said the 202-page report, based on archival material in the Norwegian foreign ministry as well as interviews with key players and personalities.

 

"India provides radar and intelligence information to the Sri Lankan forces. Delhi maintains it will not provide offensive military assets but it does not object to Sri Lanka purchasing weaponry elsewhere...

 

"Most importantly, Indian opposition to the LTTE starts to translate into firmer backing for the Sri Lankan government."

 

India outlawed the LTTE in 1992, a year after a Tiger suicide bomber assassinated former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. In a dramatic turn of events, his widow Sonia became India's most powerful figure when the Congress returned to power in 2004.

 

Although the document, titled "Pawns of Peace", is an evaluation of the Norwegian peace efforts in Sri Lanka from 1997 to 2009, when the LTTE was vanquished, there are repeated references to India, which many viewed as the most important foreign player in Sri Lanka.

 

Norway helped the LTTE - which was fighting for a Tamil homeland - and the Sri Lankan government to sign a ceasefire agreement (CFA) in February 2002 with a view to ending the country's protracted ethnic conflict.

 

But after a limited period of peace, the situation slowly returned to square one, particularly after the LTTE split in April 2004 and President Rajapaksa took power in November 2005 promising to tame the Tigers.

 

In May 2009, Colombo militarily crushed the LTTE, the last stages of the war leaving thousands of combatants and civilians dead. By then, Sri Lanka had terminated Norway's role as facilitator in the peace process.

 

The reports says that even as New Delhi made "some pleas for limiting civilian casualties (towards the end of 2008), the Indian government makes it very clear that it supports a continuation of the (military) offensive and the defeat of the LTTE".

 

Referring to the LTTE's last days, the report said: "As the net around the insurgents closes, LTTE surrender becomes a less and less attractive option for Colombo. It is also doubtful (if) India has any interest in the LTTE surviving the end of the war."

 

May 2009, when the entire LTTE leadership including its founder chief Velupillai Prabhakaran was wiped out, also coincided with the last round of Indian elections that saw the Congress retain power.

 

The report says that Sri Lanka was worried that if the Congress was voted out, "someone will come to the insurgents' aid".

 

The report says that Indian cabinet minister P. Chidambaram contacted Prabhakaran towards the end of the conflict -- it does not say how -- and suggested that "the LTTE agree to a pre-drafted statement that they will lay down their weapons".

 

But this move, it says, leaked to pro-LTTE Tamil Nadu politician Vaiko "who rejects it as a Congress trick and assures the LTTE that the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) will win the elections and come to the Tigers' rescue".

 

That never happened, and Prabhakaran was killed just when the Lok Sabha election results were announced in India.

 

http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/Europe/India-wanted-LTTE-put-in-its-place-Norway-report/Article1-767800.aspx

 

Whoa! indian politicians... :thumbdown:

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'Kingfishers Were Never Meant to Fly' is my new article for my blog. Discussing whether Kingfisher airlines should get the bail-out package and what is the real scenario and scandals happening in the aviation industry. Im sure it will serve as an insightful read for anyone who isnt aware of what is happening and has happened.

 

http://thecamonologues.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/kingfishers-were-never-meant-to-fly/

 

Share your thoughts on the same, please.

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'Kingfishers Were Never Meant to Fly' is my new article for my blog. Discussing whether Kingfisher airlines should get the bail-out package and what is the real scenario and scandals happening in the aviation industry. Im sure it will serve as an insightful read for anyone who isnt aware of what is happening and has happened.

 

http://thecamonologues.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/kingfishers-were-never-meant-to-fly/

 

Share your thoughts on the same, please.

 

Some amazing points put forward and I like the way you think but there's hardly any mention of how you got your data or reports.

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Some amazing points put forward and I like the way you think but there's hardly any mention of how you got your data or reports.

 

Thank you, Achilles. It didnt strike me that I should mention from where I got my data or reports. Ive actually compiled it over time from a few sources like The Hindu, Economic Times and Outlook; apart from discussions with fellow professionals. Ill make it a point to note down the sources for my next article and will link them. Thank you for pointing that out.

 

Please do check out the other articles when you have the time and offer your opinions on the same. Any comments on how to improve the blog is also welcome.

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I did enjoy you're FB post :D

 

 

Fixed. :)

 

:lol: The effects of a grammar thread going up. He got you before I could.

 

Like I copy-pasted on FB :

"Deepika went to Yuvraj- his form dropped

went to Ranbir- his movies flopped...

went to Mallyas- & their Airlines stopped!!! :D"

 

I guess if he stops paying DP to hang out with his retard son he'd have enough money to bail out his KF Airlines. Instead now he's planning to sell the land on which the Mumbai HQ rests.

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shek,

 

nice article, though it could be more longer!

 

Yep and you need to mention sources.

 

On the same topic, Govt. should not bail out KF! They have enough money, the bailout money will be the taxpayer's money!

 

Thanks Choy. Ill try to write them up longer from the next one onwards. Since I have to head to work in the morning, I dont normally find too much time to go into detail. But Im sure Ill find a way to change that. And will definitely mention sources from the next one.

 

Completely agree with you. Its ridiculous how someone can escape so easily after something like this. KF was never intended to be a business FOR the customer. Like most others, it was meant to be an entity to satisfy the money needs of the promoter. There is no reason it should be given a bail-out for its mismanagement. I dont consider Mr.Mallya a great entrepreneur. For me, hes a decent or good one who is hyped thanks to his position in the media. His father was a far superior man in terms of thinking and entrepreneurship. I can never accept Mr.Mallya being put in the same class as Mukesh or Ratan or Kumar Mangalam.

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Iran Buries Missile Commander Killed In Blast, Amid Speculation About Israel's Role

 

The Iranian regime has buried one of its most faithful sons and a key figure in its national defense, Major General Hassan Moghadam -- the man who founded and is known as the architect of Iran's missile program.

 

Moghadam, who is said to have been held in special favor by Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is credited with launching and developing the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' (IRGC) artillery and missile units.

 

​​The commander of the IRGC air defense, Brigadier General Abbas Khani, told the Iranian state news agency IRNA that the Islamic republic owes its missile capability and deterrence to Moghadam.

 

"As the results of the efforts of martyr Moghadam, our missile capability reached such a level that we were able to hit the heart of Baghdad [during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war]," Khani said, adding that Iran's "enemy" always wanted to identify and eliminate Moghadam.

 

The fact that Khamenei himself attended the funeral for Moghadam -- who was laid to rest along with 16 other IRGC members killed in a blast over the weekend -- underscores his prominent stature in the country.

 

Iran has said that the November 12 explosion at a depot at a Revolutionary Guards base in Bid Ganeh, some 40 kilometers from Tehran, was an accident. Officials have said the blast happened as ammunition was being transported.

 

Speculation Rampant

 

But "Time" magazine reported on November 14 that the Israeli spy agency Mossad was behind the explosion. The weekly U.S. news magazine quoted an unnamed "Western intelligence source."

 

"Don't believe the Iranians that it was an accident," the source is quoted as saying, and adds that other acts of sabotage are being planned to prevent Tehran from developing and delivering a nuclear weapon. "There are more bullets in the magazine."

 

Israeli media also hinted at the possibility that their country was involved in the explosion at the Revolutionary Guards base.

 

Moghadam's profile and his unexplained presence at the depot at the time of the explosion make speculations that he might have become the latest target of Israeli covert operations against Iran inevitable.

 

In recent months, a number of Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated and the country's nuclear program has been hit with cyberattacks. Iranian officials have accused Israel of being behind the incidents, which are said to be aimed at slowing Iran's secretive nuclear program.

 

Yet Anthony Cordesman, who holds the Burke Chair at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, told RFE/RL there is so far no indication that the explosion was an act of sabotage or a carefully targeted effort to kill Moghadam.

 

"It is one thing to attack Iran's nuclear weapons effort. It is one thing to try to do damage to its missile development effort," Cordesman says. "But simply having a large explosion of high explosives at the scale that has been reported to date is much more the indicator of an accident than some kind of an attack."

 

 

Mourners help carry the coffin of one member of the Revolutionary Guards during a state funeral.

Inscrutable Israeli Reaction

 

While Iranian officials were mourning their dead, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak was hailing the explosion and saying publicly that he hopes more such incidents occur.

 

"I don't know the extent of the explosion," the minister told Israel's military radio when asked about the incident, "but it would be desirable if they multiply."

 

Trita Parsi, who heads the Washington-based National Iranian American Council (NIAC) and is the author of "Treacherous Triangle: The Secret Dealings Of Iran, Israel and United States," says Israel seem to be "eager" for the world to think that it is behind the explosion.

 

"You do have a struggle within Israel in which some voices are arguing against military strikes in favor of covert military actions," Parsi says. "Taking credit for something like this may be a valuable point for the internal debate, essentially arguing that these types of covert military action are more successful, less politically costly, and don't have the repercussions a real military assault would have. But there may be also another factor. There may be an interest in actually having the Iranians retaliate and by that launch a larger war."

 

The explosion comes amid concern over Iran's nuclear activities, which were the focus of a recent report by the International Atomic Energy Agency. For the first time, the UN agency said it had hard evidence that Iran has taken steps to acquire a nuclear weapons capability.

 

The incident also comes against the backdrop of a debate in U.S. and Israeli media over whether military strikes should be used to halt or slow Iran's nuclear advances.

 

The reports have been met with concern inside Iran, and officials have threatened to respond with force to any attack against the country.

 

Death Unlikely To Deter

 

Cordesman, who has conducted extensive research on Iran's military and nuclear capabilities, says Moghadam's death is unlikely to significantly inhibit Iran's missile program, which he says cannot be separated from the country's nuclear activities.

 

"That effort has reached the point where they have probably already handled the basic warhead design and the booster design," Cordesman says. "Whatever refinements go on are going to be much more a matter of technological development than the kind of military leadership."

 

At the November 14 funerals for those killed in the explosion, Karaj's Friday Prayer leader Mohsen Kazerouni said foreign media had tried to "exploit" the incident for their own aims.

 

He added that the vast presence of Iranians at the funeral had neutralized their "ill-fated" plans.

 

http://www.rferl.org/content/iran_munitions_blast_moghadam_funerals_israel_speculation/24391205.html

 

 

this Iran and nuclear weapon thing is heating up a lot...sounds of war on Iran is getting louder from Israel and Iran too...feels sad that again many innocent will die...hope they solve their issues maturely .....:(

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Thank you, Achilles. It didnt strike me that I should mention from where I got my data or reports. Ive actually compiled it over time from a few sources like The Hindu, Economic Times and Outlook; apart from discussions with fellow professionals. Ill make it a point to note down the sources for my next article and will link them. Thank you for pointing that out.

 

Please do check out the other articles when you have the time and offer your opinions on the same. Any comments on how to improve the blog is also welcome.

 

Yeah. Your points come across as valid and well observed but for someone like me who won't know much about the topic sources would really help. Reading the sources would actually help make your point even more convincing since a conclusion flow will be present.

 

I'll try and read more. Thanks.

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