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[1] From: "Arif N. Khan" <ank2000pk@yahoo.com> Date: Sat Nov 12, 2005 Subject: Beverages and Cold Cream Ads TV commercials and Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused. During breaks people swith over to other channels to find what is going on. Therefore some advertisers think that it is necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquences sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic and characters are made to perform stunts or some superhuman act.Use of glamour in scanty dress may arouse the interest in the model but not necessarily in the product. Many Indian viewrs could not recall the name of the cream in whose commercial Katrinal bared her legs. But they do remember Katrina as one of the top models. Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being due to the advertiser's license of self-assertiveness. Nevertheless, the fact remains that superlative generalities are weak arguments and far less convincing than a statement of facts. Much advertising copy would be improved immensely by doing away with brag and substituting actual facts about the merits of the article. Arif N. Khan --------------------- [2] From: "I. K. Shukla" Date: Sat Nov 12, 2005 Subject: FW: [foil] Fallujah Fallujah Fallujah - The White Death - To cover its monstrous pile of war crimes US has now a Volcker as a side show. Any govt worth its name should seek to fulfill its obligations to its people by busting and circumventing the illegal and immoral sanctions. US clandestinely busted the UN sanctions years ago in Haiti, not to feed the people, but to supply deadly weapons to the military thugs there to kill people massively. This report deserves widest dissemination. For such crimes perpetrated on Iraq, it was necessary to kill journalists. There is total blackout of the atrocities of US war crimes from the western media, print and elecronic. The media is happiy ignoring this dastardly war crime - please pass on the story and keep the issue alive - the US used WMDs against civilians in Fallujah - no Zarkawi phantom can mask this. The White Death November 11, 2005 http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m17686&date=11-nov-2005_04:13_ECT ----------------------------- [3] From: Venkat A <venkat_hpu@yahoo.com> Date: Sat Nov 12, 2005 Subject: Tsunami Vs Earthquake - outlook Tsunami Vs Earthquake Is there any substance to the charge of double standards that Musharraf makes on the international community that has actually been quite generous? What are the latter's concern - and what should they do? B. RAMAN http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20051107&fname=raman&sid=1 In an interview on November 4, 2005, President General Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan criticised what he described as the double standards of the international community in its humanitarian response to the recent earth-quake in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) and some areas of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province (NWFP). ------------------------ [4] From: "Bhujanga" <rajabhujanga@yahoo.com> Date: Sat Nov 12, 2005 Subject: Threat to Indian plant& animal genetics: INDIA AND US KNOWLEDGE BOARD ON AGRICULTURE INDIA AND US TO SET UP KNOWLEDGE INITIATIVE BOARD ON AGRICULTURE JOINT DECLARATION SIGNED The Centre has signed a Joint Declaration with United States Department of Agriculture to energize agricultural research between the two countries. Dr. Mangala Rai, Director General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Mr. J B Penn, Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, USDA signed the Declaration in the presence of Union Agriculture Minister Shri Sharad Pawar, here today. It is to recall that newly signed declaration was to formalize India-US knowledge Initiative on Agriculture, which was announced by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and US President George W. Bush, in July. The declaration will facilitate to set up a Knowledge Initiative Board with two Co-Chairs, seven individuals selected by each USDA and by the Ministry of Agriculture. The members for the Board mainly consists of government, academia and the private sector for specific projects and funding sources. The Board will develop its observations and findings in a report that will be delivered to both the Agriculture Ministry and USDA in 2006, after meeting first in US and later in India. The Joint Declaration also will help to initiate a public-private partnership where private sector can help identify research areas that have the potential for rapid commercialization, with a view to develop new and commercially viable technologies for agricultural advancement in both countries. The initiative may consider areas for joint research using biotechnology for harnessing genetic potential of agriculturally important plant and animal species. The Joint Working Group on Agricultural biotechnology, a USAID supported effort, may coordinate with this Initiative to promote these objectives. Collaborative Research, Information, education, communication technologies, commercialization, aligning Indian agriculture and research to International Standards and certification in global markets, sanitary and Phytosanitary standards and related areas are among few subjects in the Joint Declaration. A high level delegation from USA, consisting Mr. Robert Portman, US Trade Representative, Dr. J B Penn, Mr. David C Mulford, Ambassador, called on Agriculture Minister Shri Sharad Pawar before signing the Joint Declaration. Agriculture Secretary Smt. Radha Singh, Secretary, Animal Husbandry, Shri PMA Hakeem and senior officials of the Ministry were also present in the meeting. --------------------- |
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