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The shoot the most infamous scene in “Bridesmaids”
21 02 2015
What it was like to shoot the most infamous scene in “Bridesmaids” http://huff.to/1810EWK
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Tamil issue unresolved:
21 02 2015
Tamil issue unresolved: India, Sri Lanka cozy on security, nuke power
ASHOK B SHARMA
New Delhi has moved an inch
forward to secure the Indian Ocean from the growing Chinese influence.
It has seized the right opportunity with the change of leadership in Sri
Lanka to strike a civil nuclear pact with the nearest island and agreed
to expand defence and strategic cooperation, including “the trilateral
format” with the Maldives. The civil nuke pact is the first of its kind
that Colombo has signed with any country. This can be seen as India’s
attempt to pre-empt any such move by the Chinese to ink a similar deal
with the island country.
China has been extending its “String of Pearls” in the Indian
Ocean. Beijing has recently developed the island nation’s Hambantota
port and has offered an investment of $1.4 billion for the Colombo port
city project. The new Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe during the election campaign had
criticized their opponent and former president Mahinda Rajapaksa for
incurring huge loans from China for building roads, ports and other
infrastructure. They also opposed the proposed Colombo port city project
with Chinese assistance as this would entail huge ecological damage.
But after assuming power President Sirisena made a U-turn and preferred
not to displease the Chinese and gave a go ahead signal to Beijing for
the Colombo port city project.
Just to recall, former president Rajapaksa during his tenure opted
to move closer to China, much to the annoyance of India. He allowed
Chinese submarines to dock at Colombo port twice and threatened to turn
Sri Lanka into a strategic asset for China at New Delhi’s expense. It is
now hoped that President Sirisena would be wiser to maintain a balance
in the interests of his country and not embitter relations with a
valuable and strategic neighbour like India. Apart from trade and
investment relations and other ongoing areas of cooperation, both
countries recently inked pacts to extend cooperation in the spheres of
culture and agriculture.
The civil nuke pact inked
with India during the recent visit of President Sirisena intends to
facilitate cooperation in transfer and exchange of knowledge and
expertise, sharing of resources, capacity building and training of
personnel in peaceful uses of nuclear energy including use of
radioisotopes, nuclear safety, radiation safety, nuclear security,
radioactive waste management and nuclear and radiological disaster
mitigation and environment protection. Such an agreement was necessary.
Colombo had earlier expressed apprehensions over India’s Kudankulam
atomic power project in its vicinity at the coast of Tamil Nadu as it
thought that in case of any Fukushima-like disaster, the island country
will have to bear the consequences. Therefore, this civil nuke pact will
not only clear Sri Lanka’s apprehensions but also help in its energy
security programme.
India’s concern is for
securing sea lanes of communications (SLOCs) in both Indian and Pacific
oceans that handle two-third of the world’s energy trade, half of global
containerized cargo and a third of bulk cargo. A considerable amount of
India’s trade passes through this region, including its energy
requirements. The strengthening of India-Sri Lanka-Maldives trilateral
is, therefore, necessary for ensuring security architecture in the
vicinity.
India is also a party to other trilaterals in the region like
India-US-Japan, India-Japan-Australia, India-Indonesia-Australia, to
mention a few. India is already a member of the ASEAN Regional Forum
(ARF), East Asia Summit, Asia Europe Summit Meeting (ASEM), ASEAN
Defence Ministers’ Meeting plus Eight (ADMM+8), Indian Ocean Naval
Symposium (IONS) and Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA).
During the recent Sirisena-Modi delegation level talks in New Delhi
much of the contentious issues relating to Sri Lankan Tamils like the
devolution of powers under the 13th Amendment to the Constitution,
rehabilitation, repatriation of Tamil refugees now in relief camps in
India and the problems of Indian fishermen were not resolved. These
issues are likely to be taken up when the Indian Prime Minister Narendra
Modi visits Sri Lanka in March.
At the time of elections,
President Sirisena had assured the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to
devolve political and financial powers to the Tamils, but would retain
military presence in the north and northeastern provinces. There are
about 130,000 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in various relief camps in
India, out of which 90,000 are in Tamil Nadu. The Tamil refugees are
waiting for return of normalcy and adequate environment for
rehabilitation for their return to their home country. The
rehabilitation process has been slow and tardy. Added to this Sri Lanka
had refused to hold an independent inquiry into the state-sponsored
deadly massacre of thousands of Tamils in 2009 despite being pulled up
by UN Human Rights Council and other human rights organization
worldwide.
However, there is a relief
for President Sirisena. The UNHRC has decided to postpone the release of
the report on alleged war crimes committed in 2009 civil war till
September this year. Initially it was planned to release the report in
March 25 during the 28th session of UNHRC, but on request of President
Sirisena it has been deferred on the pretext of the island nation
conducting an internal inquiry. India had so far soft-pedalled whenever
the issue came up before the UNHRC. But with the recent change in the
political dispensation in India, it remains to be seen how the Modi
government deals with the issue.
Another contentious issue
concerns the issue of fishermen of both countries being apprehended and
jailed for crossing territorial waters. The problem has been accentuated
by India handing over the uninhabited Katchatheevu island to Sri Lanka,
which has caused a loss of territorial waters to India and placed
Indian fishermen at a disadvantage.
Sri Lanka has become a
partner in the Nalanda University project. The Buddhist majority island
country is very much interested in developing Buddhist sites in India
and President Sirisena has said that Buddhism and Hinduism have close
relations. It depends upon him how effectively he resolves the Tamil
issue in his own country, keeping in view the close relationship between
the two religions. Prime Minister Modi intends to give some time to
President Sirisena to settle down and resolve the issue and make Sri
Lanka an effective security partner in the Indian Ocean region.
(Ashok
B Sharma is a senior Columnist writing on strategic and policy issues
in several Indian and international newspapers and magazines. He
frequently writes in Bangladesh’s The Daily Observer and The Diplomatist
magazine. He can be reached at ashokbsharma@gmail.com His mobile phone no +91-9810902204)
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PM बोले- ये तो अजूबा हो गया
21 02 2015
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Anti-toll activist Govind Pansare succumbs to bullet injuries
21 02 2015
Anti-toll activist Govind Pansare succumbs to bullet injuries at Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital
Anti-toll activist and senior Communist leader Govind Pansare succumbed to the bullet injuries at the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai late last night. He was 82. Dean of Mumbai’s JJ Jospital Dr. Tatayarao Lahane said that Pansare’s condition worsened after bleeding in lungs, and he could not be revived from there-on. Our correspondent reports that Pansare’s body would be flown back to Kolhapur this morning for the last rites.
Communist Party of India leader Ajit Abhyankar and Social Activist Baba Adhav have reacted sharply to the death of the veteran leader and said that the Government should spend no efforts to nab the culprits.
An intensive search drive has already been launched by the police and twenty teams have been deployed to nab the culprits. The dastardly attack led to commotion resulting in demonstrations in different parts of the state.
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Anna Hazare flags off protest march to Delhi
21 02 2015
Social activist Anna Hazare flagged off a march of 5000 farmers at Palwal in Haryana yesterday. Anna Hazare sets his pad-yatra against Land Acquisition Ordinance from Palwal, Haryana.
The march has been organised to protest against NDA government at the Centre promulgating an ordinance to amend the land acquisition act of 2013.
The march, organised under the banner of PV Rajgopal’s Ekta Parishad, will reach Jantar Mantar in Delhi on Monday.
Prominent among those who joined the march include social activist Medha Patkar and former BJP ideologue KN Govindacharya.
Aam Aadmi Party Haryana incharge Yogendra Yadav toobe part of this start the “Jai Kisan Abhiyan” from Gurgaon today.
Yogenda tweets Beginning of a long struggle from Gurgaon, from politics beyond elections, the “Jai KIsan Abhiyan”
Volunteers, farmers and affected families will assemble at Kamla Nehru Park, near Sabzi Mandi, Gurudwara Road, Gurgaon at 12 noon.
I’ll begin my day from Rojka Meo (Sohna – Nuh road) where a group of land acquisition affected farmers have been protesting for months.
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The Energy Corporate spy, stealing case
21 02 2015
Delhi Police arrested 7 more people including senior executives of India’s top private energy companies yesterday. The arrested officials are Shailesh Saxena, Manager, Corporate Affairs of Reliance Industries, Vinay Kumar, Deputy General Manager of Essar, Subhash Chandra, Senior Executive of Jubilant Energy, KK Naik, General Manager of Cairns India, and Rishi Anand, Deputy General Manager of Reliance ADAG. Police sources said, these officials have been categorised as receivers of stolen property. They either bought or demanded papers from the men who were arrested earlier in the case. Two other persons arrested yesterday are Santanu Saikia, who runs energy portals, and Prayas Jain, an energy consultant. With this, the number of people arrested in this corporate espionage case has reached 12.
Santanu Saikia and Pryas Jain have been sent to police custody until February 23 along with two others Rakesh Kumar and Lalta Prasad. Kumar and Prasad were arrested earlier. Three others – government employees Asharam and Ishwar Singh, and driver Raj Kumar Chaubey are already in judicial custody for 14
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