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Complete Rediff.Com article here United States President Barack Obama has ended years of 'veto power' wielded by Pakistan in Afghanistan over India's active involvement in the country post-Taliban, a US expert on South Asia has said. Because of Pakistan's stiff resistance and opposition to involve India in any way in Afghanistan that the Bush administration was literally prevented to take any move to include New Delhi as part of its regional strategy on Afghanistan, Deepa Ollapally, Associate Director of George Washington University's Sigur Center for Asian Studies, said in a Congressional testimony on Afghanistan. "So far, the US government has refrained from including India in regional political efforts in Afghanistan, basically bending to Pakistan's sentiments. India has obviously not been happy with this state of affairs, but it has pushed ahead with development assistance instead," she said in her testimony before the National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. "The new plan that was announced (by Obama) on Friday, which will include an international contact group which will involve India I think is a step in the right direction," she said. Reviews(1) - Add Review
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Read Complete Rediff.com Article here 'There's no need for jihad in Kashmir' April 25, 2009
There's no need for jihad (holy war) in Kashmir, said a Pakistani terrorist arrested by the Army on Saturday. Contrary to what he had been told in Pakistan, Kashmiris were not facing any oppression, he said. Syed Moinullah Shah, cadre of the Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen -- part of the group of 31 terrorists who crossed over the LOC recently -- said that after seeing the conditions of Kashmiri Muslims he wanted to go back rather than carry on with jihad. 
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Read the Complete Rediff Article Here Several US lawmakers, who attended the annual Sikh American Heritage Dinner on Capitol Hill, organized by the Sikh Council on Religion and Education, pledged to support the Sikh community's efforts to serve in the US armed forces without compromising their religious principles, and promised to bring this issue on the House floor to press the Pentagon [Images] be more flexible in its rules and admit Sikhs in the US military. Speaking to nearly 250 Sikhs from across the country who attended the dinner, Congressman Ed Royce, the senior Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans, said, "I will work to make sure that Sikhs are admitted to serve in the US armed forces without any restrictions." Congressman Jim McDermott, the Democratic co-chair of the India Caucus, also said he would work toward bringing this issue on the House floor to press the Pentagon to change this rule and said, "Medical professionals in the military were told they had to shave their head and take off their turban, and I thought to myself, who in the world is in charge over in the Pentagon that made that decision? I know there have been discussions going on about the carrying of the symbolic dagger (kirpan) and all of the things that are part of Sikhism, but to say these people can't operate in the US military is just plain silly," he argued. McDermott acknowledged that "I know there have been some difficult times and I am aware of the history of the Sikh community, but the fact is that it's important that we be allowed to be who we are, worship the way we want to, but not to have to choose, or be picked on or excluded on any basis. This country needs to be the place where everyone has the right to participate to the fullest extent possible in their life." Last month,two Sikh American military recruits, both medical professionals already in the US Army, who had been denied the right to report for active duty in July unless they remove their turbans and cut their unshorn hair and beards, called on the Pentagon to allow them to serve their country without having to compromise their religious principles and remove their turbans and shave their beards. Read the Complete Rediff Article Here Reviews(1) - Add Review
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LITTLE Slumdog Millionaire actress RUBINA ALI burst into tears yesterday as her shanty town home was bulldozed.
The nine-year-old was the second Slumdog star to have their home destroyed in a week.
As a demolition team moved in, she rushed inside her family’s shack to grab the cherished blue dress she wore for the Oscars ceremony in Hollywood earlier this year.
Rubina’s dad Rafiq Qureshi was beaten by police with bamboo sticks.
Sun Newspaper also reports that she fell sick and spent night on the floor of a hospital . Read the complete report here TheSun
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London will see Open Air Screening of DDLJ at Hoxton Square, N1, at 3:00PM on 25th May 2009 as launch of Rubicon's Mango Week. So it makes us think what is so special about DDLJ - Dilwale Dulhnaiya Le Jayenge.
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Well as a report explains it , the movie stars Shahrukh Khan, commonly known as King Khan of Bollywood , is one of the Bollywood's biggest Icon just like BIG B - Amitabh Bachan
Shahrukh Khan is a busy man. The star of more than 50 films and with a fan base that’s numbered in the billions (Bollywood has a global audience of 3.6 billion; Hollywood has 2.5 billion) it is the consistent success of his films that was directly responsible for putting Bollywood as we know it on the global cinematic map.
Born in 1965 in New Delhi, Khan entered Bollywood via theatre and television in the 1980s. Initially, his success was based on his antihero turns in Baazigar and Darr, both released in 1993. In 1995 he resurrected the good romantic hero in the blockbuster Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) – or DDLJ, as it is known – which widened his fan base and took Indian cinema to an international audience.
This was the first film to include a positive “untainted by the evils of the West” nonresident Indian (NRI) character. It spoke to the NRIs of the world, who returned to the cinema in droves and took along with them the natives of their resident country and converted them into a Bollywood Fan. His subsequent NRI hits such as Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) and Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham (2001) entrenched Khan’s hold on the domestic and overseas box office."
The reporter asks : Bollywood stars are treated like gods. Why is this so?
Khan Replies: - “In this country entertainment is the last achievement for the common man,” he says. “People regard me as taking away their everyday sadness for three hours, when they can sit in a dark, air-conditioned hall and see me fulfil their dreams. Shah Rukh Khan gives hope to people.”
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This is the first war heroes commemoration rally being held in the country that has obtained complete freedom after 30 years. I address you today in a country that is completely free, in a unitary state, under a single national standard. Many years ago many of you too did not think it would be possible to defeat the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam militarily. Not only you even the international community did not believe we would be ever able to carry out that task. Some national leaders from abroad told me that the LTTE leader was one who had achieved the best skills in warfare; that he had won in battles against many of our military commanders. The LTTE had both strength and experience. Therefore, we should not go to war with it. They wanted what was already divided to be given to the LTTE. However, I had great belief in the people of this country and our security forces; not only in the commanders and higher ranks but in all our brave troops. There were some who said our army commanders were not even suitable to lead the Salvation Army. Where are they now? I know better about our people than the international community. We placed our trust in our people. We had great trust in our sons and daughters. The people of our country have great love and devotion towards the land of their birth. This love and devotion is mostly hidden. I knew that when this love and devotion begins to emerge, it will not be second to any power in the world. We can then stand up to any power in the world. What we enjoy today are the benefits of that love for the country. We have today destroyed the world's most ruthless terrorists without leaving any of their leaders. Today, the terrorists have no large camps to which they can forcibly take away the children of Tamil mothers for military training. Artillery, heavy weapons and tanks do not speak for the terrorists anymore. Aircraft and runways have been blown to smithereens. Oil storage complexes, weapons factories, administrative centres of terror have been uprooted from the motherland. Naval Forces and ships can rest on the sea bed. The days when they were able to build marine fortresses and harbours are over. The courts of the tigers have been swept out of our motherland forever. In short the entire 15,000 km of territory once given through a deed of gift to terrorists is entirely free. Friends, In the past when a mother and father came to Colombo from Galle, one came by train and the other by bus, to make sure their children would have even one parent. The school van service was a solution the people found for the terrorist problem. Travelling in public transport was considered an invitation to death. Mothers in the north did not send their children to school for fear they will be dragged to war. Mothers in the south kept guard at schools for fear of bomb attacks. When our children went to school, in the North and East the children carried T-56 in their hands and cyanide capsules round their necks. Now our people are free of these fears. The National Flag flutters calling for unity today. There was a time when permission was needed from the LTTE to raise the National Flag in Trincomalee. The LTTE wanted their flag to be raised too. Wherever there is no right to hoist the National Flag, there is no freedom. Today, both in the south and north, and every where the LTTE had fortresses, it is the same flag that flies. Today, the National Flag on the three-wheeler in Dondra flutters in Jaffna, too. The flag that is raised at the Dalada Maligawa in Kandy flutters in Puthumathalan, too. We must be proud of this freedom we have obtained after 30 years. We should rejoice in it. If not you cannot be a child of Mother Lanka. Excerpts from the address by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the ceremony to pay tribute to the War Heroes in Colombo, May 23, 2009Reviews(0) - Add Review
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Read complete article here - Instablogs The murders of two courageous Sicilian judges in 1992 shocked Italy to the core, scandalised Europe, and forced the Italian state to take the Mafia threat seriously for the first time. But this week Giovanni Brusca, the man who killed the first of those judges, Giovanni Falcone, by detonating a huge bomb under the Palermo airport motorway, told a heavily-guarded "bunker court" inside Rome's Rebbibia jail that the Italian authorities were secretly trying to cut a deal with Salvatore "Toto" Riina, the capo di capi of Cosa Nostra at the time and the architect of the atrocities. Their efforts went on to the last minute. Until he turned pentito, or super-grass, Giovanni Brusca was one of Sicily's most ruthless mobsters, held responsible for between 100 and 200 murders. Nicknamed Il Maiale – the Pig – it was Brusca who kidnapped an 11-year-old boy called Giuseppe di Matteo, the son of another gangster, held him for 26 months, then had him strangled before dissolving his body in acid. Brusca told the hearing that shortly before Falcone's assassination, Toto Riina met a politician who was accompanied by a police escort, and handed the politician, whom he refused to name, a list of demands that had to be met before the Mafia would stop its increasingly brutal war against the state. Read complete article here - Instablogs Reviews(0) - Add Review
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Young job-seekers face a tough time ahead looking for work as the recession deepens, with almost half of 500 firms in a survey saying they will not be taking on school-leavers or graduates this year.
In the words of The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), which carried out the survey, young people "face a long hot summer" looking for work.
The poll found that only one in five companies planned to hire 16-year-old school-leavers.
The picture was slightly better for university graduates, although a third of companies said they had cut their intake of graduate employees for 2009.
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Read the complete article here: Rediff
About a week ago, I read a piece of very good news amid the welter of speculation about whether M Karunanidhi's family ties with the United Progressive Alliance would be retained or not. It was a despatch from Rajpura and Patiala by the Indian Express correspondent Aman Sood about the Punjab farmers.
No, it was not about another green revolution there. Sood conveyed the travails of the Punjab's farmers about not finding enough workers to work on their farms. The issue, of course, is large, for 2.8 million hectares have to be sown this season and those who raise paddy crops are beside themselves in agony. If it is going to change the pattern of farming, by forcing the landowners to use labour-saving devises like machines which sow paddy, then so be it.
There are reasons why I categorise it as 'good news'? The labour that the Punjabi farmers were looking for, as they have been for years on end, are the Bihari migrants who for the season, do their jobs and return. It is just that this year, there are not enough of them arriving by the trains and many have chosen to remain in Bihar this year as things have changed. If things have changed in Bihar, then it is very good news indeed.
Written by : Mahesh Vijapurkar. Read the complete article here: Rediff
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