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[1] From: "C.K. Vishwanath" <ck_vishwanath2000@yahoo.com> Date: Mon Feb 13, 2006 Subject: Re: [indiathinkersnet] Ambani's Private University in West Bengal A classic private university is forming. This type of university is going to be a model for india.In w.begal,primary education has been completely neglected. --- indiathinkersnet@yahoogroups.com wrote: > Friday February 10, 08:31 PM > Anil Ambani group to set up IT institute in West > Bengal ------------------------------- [2] From: yogi sikand <ysikand@yahoo.com> Date: Mon Feb 13, 2006 Subject: February 2006 issue of Qalandar (www.islaminterfaith.org) Now Online Dear Friend The February 2006 issue of our webmagazine Qalandar is now out and can be accessed on www.islaminterfaith.org Contents: 1. "Combining the ???Secular??™ and the ???Religious??™: Madrasas With A Difference" 2. "Educating Muslim Girls: The Role of Girls??™ Madrasas in India" 3. "A Deobandi Mullah??™s Diatribe Against ???Modern??™ Education For Girls" 4. Book Reviews: Hindutva and Dalits??”Perspectives for Understanding Communal Praxis : Dalits in Pakistan :???Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers: Conversations With Jewish Critics of Israel??™ : "Temple Destruction and Muslim States in Medieval India" 5. Interview: Mohammad Athar Afzal on Riots in Mau : Rajesh Solanki on Dalit-Muslim Relations and Hindutva Fascism in Gujarat Today :Biju Mathew on the Campaign to Stop Funding Hate Regards Yoginder Sikand --------------- [3] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Mon Feb 13, 2006 Subject: SC Shows Red Flag to Clemenceau suklasen http://www.ibnlive.com/article.php?id=5283?§ion_id=3 SC shows red flag to Clemenceau CNN-IBN New Delhi: Finally, the verdict is out on the controversial toxic French warship ship. The Supreme Court has said that the decommissioned warship Clemenceau cannot enter Indian waters though the bar on the entry is only till February 17. SC has also banned any demonstration or articles for or against the ship and said that such demonstartions amounted to trail by the media and will be viewed as a contempt of the Court. In announcing its verdict the Apex Court has rejected the report of its own monitering committee, which said that the ship can be allowed into the Indian waters. The Court said that the monitering committee was not a group of experts who could decide on the toxic wastes that were on the ship. Centre has been directed to form a new committee comprising of navy experts who are well versed in the construction and destruction of warships. It said that the committee should have about four to five members preferably people who have worked with the dockyards. "We want to know what were the specifications of the ship then (in 1961 when it was made)," Judge SH Kapadia told a hearing on whether the warship should be allowed to be scrapped at a shipyard in western Gujarat state. The court asked for the appointment of a body comprising retired naval officers to examine the contents of the ship and how it was constructed. "We would like to have views of the ministry of defence," said another judge, Justice Arijit Pasayat. The court said it would need the information by its next meeting, on Friday. On Sunday CNN-IBN had reported that seven out of 11 members of the monitering committee were in favour of allowing the ship to be dismantled in India. Members of the commission last week admitted the group was split over whether to allow the ship to be broken up at Alang, in Gujarat, and had submitted two reports to the Supreme Court in New Delhi. France says the vessel is carrying 45 tonnes of cancer-causing asbestos insulation. But a firm which partially decontaminated it says the amount could be as high as 1,000 tonnes. Activists argue most sea-going ships end their service at ship-breaking yards in India, Bangladesh, China and Pakistan, where they are cut up by unprotected workers, taking a grim toll on human health and the environment. Some members of the commission said they had no objection to the ship being dismantled in India "provided certain conditions are in place," said group member and scientist Claude Alvares. "Seven said 'Yes,' three said 'No' and one was absent, and hence two reports reflecting both views went to the Supreme Court," Alvares said. "There's no conclusive opinion and hence the two separate reports," said another SCMC member, Sukumar Devotta, head of the state-run National Environmental Research Institute. But many environmentalists feel that asbestos-carrying French carrier is a huge environmental hazard. (With inputs from AFP) --------------------- [4] From: "C.K. Vishwanath" <ck_vishwanath2000@yahoo.com> Date: Mon Feb 13, 2006 Subject: Re: [indiathinkersnet] Ambani's Private University in West Bengal The attempt to woo multinational and indian capital should not be at the cost of subaltern section of the society's survival. --- indiathinkersnet@yahoogroups.com wrote: > Friday February 10, 08:31 PM > Anil Ambani group to set up IT institute in West > Bengal > ------------------------- [5] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Mon Feb 13, 2006 Subject: Iran: Consequences of Air Strikes [The talks of (limited) 'air strikes' against Iran by the US and/or Israel are in the air. I'm personally not too sure though that it's going to happen that way, at least immediately. All these speculations could very well be weapons of psychological warfare, deliberate or even inadvertent - but with the very real attendant risk of actualising the worst-case scenario. Read the full messge at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mahajanapada ------------- [6] From: rkurian@bgl.vsnl.net.in Date: Mon Feb 13, 2006 Subject: When Globalisation leaves people behind.. IHT http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/12/opinion/edwatkins.php When globalization leaves people behind Kevin Watkins International Herald Tribune SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006 NEW YORK Going by economic measures, India is a globalization success story. Average incomes, rising at 3 percent to 4 percent a year, have doubled since the mid-1980s. Dynamic new industries have emerged, most visibly in the high-technology hubs of Bangalore and Hyderabad. Foreign investment, while still dwarfed by flows to China, has grown from $1 billion a year in the mid-1990s to $5 billion this year. When we try to measure whether people's lives have improved, however, the figures tell a different story. Poverty has fallen far more slowly than one would expect, given India's economic success. One in three Indians live on less than $1 a day and India is still home to the world's largest conglomeration of malnourished people. Almost half of the country's children are underweight for their age - which helps to explain the two million child deaths each year. |
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