- Myanmar's property boom:Is this Asian country opening up politically and economically?If real estate is an indicator then the answer maybe a cautious yes.Investors have begun flocking to Myanmar's real estate sector.This is ahead of promised reforms after the elections in April.125 dollars per sq ft going in Yangon,Myanmar and pushing residents out, even as investment firms warn of risks and speculative bubbles.The 1st ever verdict of the ICC at the Hague : The International Criminal Court at the Hague gives its first ever verdict.It finds a Congolese warlord guilty of recruiting and deploying child soldiers during a five-year conflict until 2003.Angelina Jolie was present at the court as well.
Syria's email expose : As Syria marks one year of protest, a British newspaper says it has obtained thousands of Assad families emails which shed light on the personal lives of Syria's ruling family and more.
China readying for a top brass shift:China readies for its biggest leadership change,
Read More » - The controversial photo of Prabhakaran's son is visible in this videoThe latest in the British Channel 4's expose Sri Lanka's Killing Fields coincides with the 19th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. While Sri Lanka's civil war ended in 2009 when government troops crushed Tamil Tiger rebels. Both sides have been accused of committing war crimes during the final stages of the conflict.The United States is planning to bring a resolution before the U.N. rights council, currently meeting in Geneva, urging Sri Lanka's government to investigate those allegations and seek reconciliation.
First , cutting across party lines, Indian lawmakers demanded that the government clarify its stand on the United Nations Human Rights Commission resolution against Sri Lanka on the war crimes and human rights violations against Tamil rebels that ended in 2009.
Jayalalitha says AIADMK is not satisfied with the PM's response and will insist that India support the US led UN resolution against Sri
Read More » - Rail Budget Wednesday widely declared 1st fare hike in a decade across all classes.
This might be called journalism at its most lazy as just a quick read of a document that
Mamata Banerjee signed on in 2009 as Railway Minister (The White Paper detailing the
railways performance between 2004-2009) highlights fare hike again and again.'The CAGR of 1.27% increase in passenger fares (Table 14) was despite no directSo there has been an increase in passenger fare between 2004-2009.It was not announced
increase in fares in most classes. This growth, in fact, came from reclassification of
trains as superfast, as well as from the Tatkal charges, among others…'
in the Minister's speech like an outright 2 paise per km raise across classes as it happened
now. But here's one of the shapes a hike took then. It morphed into a surcharge.
'Re-classification of a number of trains as Superfast resulting in levy of superfast surcharge…In 2005-06, 13 trains were declared Superfast, 170 trains in
Read More » - With inputs from Dhruba Ghosh.The female pub employee who was raped and then abandoned at a Metro station, went on to lodge a complaint at the nearby police station in the capital.After which the cops took her to Gurgaon.
A day later Gurgaon administration's response to such rapes: We may not be able to keep you safe, so please don't work late.Or that's what it seems like.
The DC has invoked the the Punjab Shops and Commercial Establishments Act 1958 which focusses on regulation of conditions of work and employment. Now permission from the labour department is mandatory for a woman employee to work beyond 8 pm and a virtual ban to commercial establishments in employing them in late-night jobs?Make it difficult for women to work, instead of ensuring their safety.Is this the message to women joining the work force? While this was still being discussed, another rape comes to light.NDTV
While social media is up in arms with campaigns such as SPEAK UP,the gnawing feeling among women and Read More » Why a separate rail budget is an outdated idea?
By Tisha Srivastav | AV – Wed 14 Mar, 2012 9:45 AM ISTHow it all started
Less than a century ago the railways were carrying 90 % of the country's inland freight.In the 1920s the railway earnings were quite large in proportion to the Government's overall revenue and any violent fluctuations in its surplus or loss could dynamically affect the Finance ministry's calculations.The then Legislative Assembly members were unhappy that people's aspirations were not being fulfilled by the railways(much like today's MPs !).A radical financial reform package was recommended for improved performance and autonomy.As a part of this, in 1920-21 the Acworth committee recommended the separation of the rail from the General budget. Along with the Budget it created a separate Railway Board, with empowered members and a Financial Commissioner who could rid them of the bureaucrats in the Finance Ministry. This was the practice back then in other networked nations like the USSR and Japan.
But in 2012 ?
Now nearly a century later the railways carry roughly 30 %
Read More »- A shocking but to-be-verified video has emerged of bullet marks on who is allegedly slain LTTE leader Prabhakaran's 12 year old son.
Channel 4 will be airing a documentary this Wednesday which includes this full clip.This also coincides with the on going 19th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.According to a report in Hindustan Times,NDTV
'The Sri Lankan Army, accused of human rights violations will produce a video film covering the last phase of the battle with the LTTE to counter 'false propaganda' against it by a British media outlet, Army chief Jagath Jayasuriya said on Monday.
"Our documentary will show how Prabakaran was killed in the final battle", Lieutenant General Jayasuriya said.
The documentary is to be a counter to 'false propaganda' carried out against the Sri Lankan military by the British TV, Channel 4, he said.
Jayasuriya said the Channel 4 documentary has accused the government troops of murder and rape and the Army video documentary will deal with all
Read More » - The female gaze - on election 2012.High voting by womenAlong with high voter turnout all around, one highlight is that women voted at higher rates than men in all five states . Infact when Prannoy Roy, in his election analysis on NDTV pointed out the role of women in helping Samajwadi Party win. Akhilesh admitted he was unaware of this, but the repartee was fiery. He said " I thank them for voting out a woman CM." The vitriol was less soft with the disappearing lady surfacing from the backdoor to resign.ANI
SP brings in max women MLAs in UPYadav Jr. might not have been entirely unaware that the maximum number of female MLAs elected this time are from his party in UP. According to poll officials, the number stands at 22 for SP .With next best only 7 of the BJP. In fact, the winning candidate from the Duddhi constituency ,Rubi Prasad, seems to have inaugurated the independent woman candidate account as well. Compare this to 2007, 23 women candidates won then, with only 4 from SP.SoRead More » - So who hit the sixers in these Assembly elections and who bowled that crucial political googly, the very stuff of democratic surprises.Six pointers that lead to both.1. Haathi or Mayawati is not UP's saathi but women and young voters are.Until the 6th phase, they voted in numbers higher than ever before and beat their male counterparts at it.A first for UP in independent India.All previous voting records have been smashed and poll related crimes have been low in the state. UP is changing or desperate to?2.The singular star of UP is Akhilesh Yadav, even as the hem—haw of the CMship begins. Either way will CM please keep the goondas out?NDTV3. Exit polls and terms like anti-incumbency are better utilized in the latest Jurassic film than in national political discourse. Punjab will stand out as the reminder '12 for just that.NDTV
4 . Mood of the Indian voter. The gentle bite of this song by Gulzar captures it. Although experts continue to call it a 'not angry verdict.'Read More »Song from movie - The logo of IIM Ahmedabad reminds you of a 600 year old city that Ahmedabad is.Taken from the spectacular lattice work found on the Siddi Sayyed mosque in the old city.The vine and palm carved by some say, Hindu artisans, who built the Somnath temple as well.Jaali or lattice work is there on mosques, temples, churches and architectural gems across the city, cutting out the sun's glare.An emblem then for syncretic craftwork and masonry which speaks of a different Hindu-Muslim amalgam.Pick any century, time, historical period in most parts of India, clash will sit alongside periods of syncretic mish-mash. Something flowering, something stubbed. Human history have moved to this cadence in intermittent ways.
In a decade after Godhra, this weekend a beautiful special report from Gujarat takes you inside moments of Ahmedabad from another time.And that reminds us that much like the very intertwined vine and palm - Hindu and Muslims, who or what can cut the blinding glare of a divided city.?
Read More » - Huqapani singer meets devadasi actress. That would be an unlikely introduction to the pair starring in London-Paris-New York.Where bubblegum ishq meets the coming-of-age rom-com. In what is already being mini-called LPNY.Just short of a decade of fame, his first moment of fame came with the desi-pop album 'Huqapani' in 2003. Ali Zafar became a superstar in Pakistan overnight as composer-singer. Aditi Rao played a devadasi on debut and has acted opposite Mammooty & Arunoday and recently in Rockstar. Equally memorable if short, was her bit part in the 3G Airtel ad (of the fauji at the outpost talking to his wife). It was that ad which led her to her first lead role in LPNY.
The real triad of a debut here is the director Anu Menon , Ali Zafar as Bollywood composer & Fox Star studios/Rose-movies partnership in Bollywood.Please Check All Source LinkThank You Yahoo :Check More :http://in.video.yahoo.com/blogs/
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