04.15.09
Posted in Media Council at 8:03 am by YUDHISTRA
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Donazioni on line: È anche possibile effettuare dei versamenti online attraverso il sito web della CRI all’indirizzo http://www.cri.it/donazioni.html
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4) Il quotidiano d’Abruzzo il Centro lancia una sottoscrizione popolare per aiutare le famiglie aquilane sconvolte dal tremendo sisma del 6 aprile. Chiunque volesse contribuire con una somma in denaro può farlo utilizzando i numeri di conto corrente sotto elencati:
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Gli operatori di telefonia mobile Tim, Vodafone, Wind e 3 Italia, d’intesa con il Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, hanno attivato la numerazione solidale 48580 per raccogliere fondi a favore della popolazione dell’Abruzzo gravemente colpita dal terremoto. Ogni Sms inviato contribuirà con un euro, che sarà interamente devoluto al Dipartimento della Protezione civile per il soccorso e l’assistenza.
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02.04.09
Posted in Human Rights Council, Media Council at 4:19 pm by admin
PTI | London
An unemployed Indian youth from Punjab is battling for his life in a hospital in Rome after three youngsters beat him up with a bottle and set him on fire in an apparent “racist attack”.
35-year-old Navtej Singh Sidhu, a construction worker from Moga who has been in Italy for the last five years, but jobless for the last 4 months was sleeping in the Nettuno railway station, 65-km south of Rome when he was brutally attacked on Sunday morning.
Sushmit Biswas, First Secretary in the Indian Embassy in Rome who was the first to visit Sidhu, told PTI over phone the victim had sustained 40 per cent third degree burns, besides a skull fracture.
According to Dr Verardi, the therapist attending him at Saint Eugenio Hospital, Rome, Sidhu’s condition is still critical.
“He will be under observation for the next 72 hours,” the doctor said.
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01.28.09
Posted in Media Council at 9:56 am by YUDHISTRA
http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20090128/832/tbs-eighteen-u-s-nris-honored-in-new-del.html
New Delhi, Jan 28 (ANI/Business Wire India): Dr. Shan Nair, Co-founder of Nair and Co., a leading global integrated solution provider helping companies expand internationally, has won the 2008 ‘Hind Rattan’ also known as the ‘Jewel of India’ award, which is presented by the Non Resident Indian (NRI) Welfare Society of India, a prestigious global non-profit organization.
The award recognizes the economic and philanthropic achievements of the Indian Diaspora. In its 28th year now, the “Hind Rattan” is presented each year to leading expatriates. The five-day awards program began in the Indian capital New Delhi on January 24 with a dinner reception and cultural extravaganza.
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, Labor Minister Oscar Fernandes, and Sports And Youth Affairs Minister M.S. Gill joined other government dignitaries, diplomats and industrialists at the award gala on January 25 at New Delhi’s Lalit Intercontinental Hotel.
“We are proud of NRIs like Dr. Shan Nair for making substantial contributions in strengthening India’s economy,” said Deepak Singh, convener of the NRI Welfare Society of India.
The ‘Hind Rattan’ award adds to a growing list of accolades for Dr. Nair who received the ‘Bharat Samman’ award in early January, and the ‘Gullands Excellence Award’ for contribution in science and business, and ‘Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business’ award in 2008.
“It is a great honor to be part of this prestigious group. I congratulate my peers who are all helping bring wealth and prosperity to India,” Dr. Shan Nair said.
With the ‘Hind Rattan’ award, Dr. Nair joins an illustrious list of past awardees that include Hotelier Sant Singh Chatwal (U.S.), former diplomat and UNESCO’s goodwill ambassador Madanjeet Singh (U.S.), Hotelier Nawab Gaur (U.K.), Justice Mota Singh (U.K.), and British Member Of Parliament P.S. Khabra (U.K.).
This year’s “Hind Rattan” awardees from the United States are: Dr. Ahmed D. Faheem, Dr. Anil K. Mandal, Dr. Anup Hazra, Dr. Anuj Bhargava, Dr. Ashok Kumar Sahai, Acharya Sri Khadi Madama, Ajay Khetani, Hasu Patel, Dr. Masood A. Rizvi, Malathi Iyengar, Dr. Madhavi Kasam, Dr. Madhu Singh, Oliver M. Das, Dr. Prasad Srinivasan, Dr. Ramamohan Rao V. Ballem, Satish Maripuri, Dr. Shelia Bhattacharya and Dr. Shan Nair. (ANI)
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Posted in Media Council at 9:52 am by YUDHISTRA
http://in.news.yahoo.com/241/20090128/1274/ttc-monster-data-fraud-hits-job-seekers.html
Monster Worldwide Inc, the popular global website for job hunters, has said that hackers have broken into its databases and stolen personal data.
Monster spokeswoman Nikki Richardson confirmed on Tuesday that sites around the world had been targeted, but said some regions, notably Asia Pacific and eastern Europe, were spared.
She said Monster was working with the “appropriate law enforcement agencies” but declined to say in which countries.
In the United States, where the company is based, “an investigation is in progress.”
Monster operates in 36 countries with millions of users, including 4.5 million in Britain.
A statement on www.monster.com said: “We recently learned our database was illegally accessed and certain contact and account data were taken, including Monster user IDs and passwords, email addresses, names, phone numbers, and some basic demographic data.”
The breach did not access resumes, social security numbers or financial data, Monster said.
The company advised clients to change their password and said it had taken its own “corrective steps.”
Hackers could use email addresses to “phish” for further information, the company warned.
This is the second serious data breach at the company in 18 months, according to Computer Weekly magazine.
Earlier this month, payments processor Heartland Payment Systems, based in New Jersey, said that it had suffered a security breach in 2008.
“We found evidence of an intrusion last week and immediately notified federal law enforcement officials as well as the card brands,” said Robert Baldwin, Heartland’s president in a statement on January 20.
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Posted in Media Council at 9:37 am by admin
http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20090127/1246/twl-don-t-listen-to-indians-pak-american.html
Pakistani Americans, in a move to counter Indo-American groups active in lobbying in Washington, have floated a body, which has asked the Obama administration and US lawmakers not to listen to the demands of India.
Accusing Indian American groups of lobbying with Washington for putting pressure on Islamabad in the aftermath of the Mumbai attack, the Pakistani-American groups are telling the US that Islamabad has been a reliable ally in its war against terror.
Leaders of the newly formed Pakistan American National Alliance (PANA), at a press conference said Indian Americans were lobbying before the Congress and the Obama Administration asking them to exhort pressure on Pakistan for taking action against the terrorists involved in the Mumbai attack, and penalize Islamabad in case it fails to do so.
PANA, which includes six eminent Pakistani American organisations, announced its formation on the eve of some 150 Indian American leaders from various parts of the country converging in Washington to lobby before the Obama team and Congressmen to tell Pakistan to take action against the perpetrators of the Mumbai attack.
“As previous experience shows some of the terrorist acts by non-state actors are in fact complex, well planned and sophisticated as witnessed during the tragic events of 9/11 and embassy bombings in Africa. The perpetrators of 9/11 were Saudi and Egyptian citizens, but the US Government never suspected nor blamed the Saudi of Egyptian governments,” the group said in a statement.
“Therefore the presumption that since a citizen of a certain country performs a certain act, therefore its government should be held responsible is erroneous,” it said and urged the Obama administration to influence India for a joint Indo-Pak investigation of the Mumbai terrorist attack.
The Pakistani-Americans also announced they would hold day-long lobbying activities at the Capitol on February 18, after the US Congress resumes.
Asking the White House and the US Congress to cooperate with the government in Islamabad and provide massive economic aid to the country, Pakistani Americans demanded that Indian parties like Bharatiya Janata Party, Rashtriya Swyamsevak Sangha, Shiv Sena and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad be declared terrorist outfits.
It also demanded appointment of a special mediator to resolve the Kashmir issue and urged the new administration not to give US visa to the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi.
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01.06.09
Posted in Media Council, NEWS FROM INDIA at 7:42 am by YUDHISTRA
http://in.news.yahoo.com/20/20090106/1416/tnl-pak-hackers-plan-attack-on-indian-cy.html
After the Mumbai terror strikes, anti-India elements in Pakistan are now planning an attack on Indian computer networks, intelligence agencies have warned. Already Pakistani hackers are trying out a dry run against Indian networks through popular websites registered there after the Mumbai terror strikes, Home Ministry sources told PTI here today.
“Every time the relations between the two countries dampen, Pakistanis start attacking Indian computer networks and this has increased after the Mumbai terror attacks,” a Home Ministry source said. Pakistani hackers have created websites such as the www.
Songs.Pk, which are infested with software to hack data from the targeted computers, it said.
“The website www.Songs.
Pk has over 12 lakh Indian users who are downloading stuff from these websites daily,” said a cyber expert in the Ministry. With these websites being highly popular, it will take only a few minutes for the hackers to take command of over 12 lakh computers in few minutes and the number of such computers can multiply in every minute, sources said.
“Instead of the existing less harmful virus, new ones such as Botnet and Zoombie can be easily released into the Indian computers, which later on replicate and make the entire server vulnerable,” the expert said. “Now a days new virus and worms are detected while downloading songs from these websites, which could be just a dry run to manage a bigger attack,”
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12.16.08
Posted in Media Council at 12:04 pm by YUDHISTRA
http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/cricket/blood-ties-miandad-and-a-marriage-of-inconvenience/2008/12/15/1229189533581.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
A SMALL item in a recent edition of India Today, the most influential political magazine in the country, has the potential to drive an even deeper wedge between the cricket communities of Pakistan and India and to add to the sufferings of a game facing the worst crisis in its history.
Following the Mumbai terrorist attacks last month that killed 172 people, an outrage that sent the entire country into a state of shock and put these nuclear countries at each other’s throats, the magazine reported remarks by a senior Russian detective, comments that will reverberate around the cricket world.
Viktor Ivanov, director of the Russian federal drug control service (FSKN), said a don with strong cricketing connections had provided much of the support for the terrorists. Ivanov told Rossiiskaya Gazeta, the official government newspaper, that “infamous regional drug baron Dawood Ibrahim provided logistical networks for preparing and carrying out the Mumbai terror attacks”. He added that the “profits of the narco-mafia made through Afghan heroin trafficking have been a powerful source of financing organised crime and terrorism, and destabilising political systems in the area”.
Beyond argument, Dawood is a malign figure and a serious bone of contention between these powerful and periodically antagonistic nations. Indeed, he has been top of India’s most wanted list since the blasts that ripped Mumbai asunder in 1993, pitting Hindu against Muslim, local-born against settler.
Dawood fled to Pakistan, where he continued his arms and drug trading while, at best, the local security forces looked the other way. India is convinced old hands from the inter-services intelligence agency helped to train the militants, one of whom survived to spill the beans. Furthermore, it believes its neighbour is not sincere in its attempts to control the various terrorist networks operating within its borders.
To make matters worse, Pakistan has ruled out handing anyone over to India. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the new army chief, has taken control of his country and especially its response to Indian accusation. Under his populist stewardship, outright denial has replaced accommodation. Tensions remain high. Thus ancient feuds are renewed. Inevitably, cricket has been caught in the backwash. Already, India’s sports minister has spoken out against sending the national team to Pakistan, and Sunil Gavaskar has backed him up. Barring an unexpected outbreak of enlightenment, the forthcoming tour will not take place, increasing Pakistan’s cricketing isolation.
Dawood’s reputed involvement in the latest evil might seem a solely political matter. Obviously, his alleged activities and continued liberty anger the Indians beyond measure, but that does not reach across the boundary. He has also been linked to the latest match-fixing scandals surfacing in the Twenty20 leagues, which is nothing new.
But Dawood has connections, albeit tenuous, with Pakistan cricket on more than one level, and in this climate of political intrigue and distrust, even a tenuous and innocent connection can be a problem. Specifically, he has close connections with Javed Miandad, once his country’s greatest batsman and now among its most senior cricket officers. Recently, Miandad was appointed as the PCB’s director general and ambassador to China. His connection with Dawood goes back a long way, and was cemented by the marriage between his son and one of the don’s daughters.
At the time, he told Outlook magazine that, “Muslims believe marriages are made in heaven,” and explained that their wives were friends and also related.
While Miandad is no stranger to the dramas thrown up by match-fixing scandals, the Dawood link will no doubt now come in for much greater scrutiny. And the Dawood name has come up before.
Asked by Justice Malik Qayyum why he had quit as coach after his team lost a one-day match to England in Sharjah in 1999, Miandad said that during Pakistan’s second match, he had received a call informing him that five of his players had taken money to throw the England game. Miandad refused to divulge the caller’s identity. Instead, he had instructed a player to talk to Dawood, who confirmed that the match was fixed. There were also suspicions that Pakistan threw matches at the 1999 World Cup, and Miandad himself claimed a one-day series loss to New Zealand in 2001 had been fixed.
Dawood is described by the US State Department as a “global terrorist with links to al-Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Toiba”, the latter group responsible for the Mumbai massacre. No one is suggesting that Miandad had any involvement in the attacks. To do so would be ridiculous. But in this volatile environment, his links with Dawood and his seniority in Pakistan cricket have caused consternation among eminent Indian cricket officials, some of whom lost friends or family members in the attacks.
It does not bode well for relations between these cricketing strongholds.
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11.06.08
Posted in Media Council at 10:43 am by YUDHISTRA
He had overseen the surrender of over 90,000 Pakistani soldiers, stripped the epaulettes off a Pakistani general’s shoulder, something no one before or after him had ever done, and made him sign an Instrument of Surrender at the very spot where Shiekh Mujibur Rahman had declared freedom of Bangladesh about nine months earlier.
Thirteen years later, the same man ran for his life on the streets of Delhi. On October 31, 1984, “I alongwith Air Chief Marshall (retd) Arjan Singh (and two others) left the house of Patwant Singh but immediately saw on our way mobs attacking the Sikhs … Within 15-20 minutes we returned,” the retired general Jagjit Singh Aurora told the Nanawati Commission.
“It was shocking. I K Gujral was furious and said it is shameful that the man who led the country to its biggest victory needed protection,” prominent Supreme Court lawyer H.S.Phoolka told me. Aurora and his wife had to spend the night of November 1, 1984 at the residence of Gujral. “It was apparent that the government of the day was not interested at all in protecting the lives and properties of citizens,” Aurora stated on oath before the Commission.
It could not have got any more shameful.
But dignity came naturally to Aurora. He looks composed in the picture as Lt Gen AAK Niazi signed the surrender. “He looked composed when he barged into the house of India’s Home Minister PV Narasimha Rao on November 1, 1984 to demand action to stop rioting,” Phoolka said. And he looked composed and happy when General Niazi’s daughter-in- law came to meet the Auroras years after the surrender.
Just before his death, a depositor of a Delhi-based company, Hindustan Financial Management Ltd, filed a case naming Aurora as accused, Aurora’s counsel argued that he was no longer associated with the company, but the Patna judge refused the anticipatory bail application. No one from the Indian government spoke up to say that a giant cannot be insulted by any pygmy.
It could not have got more embarrassing.
But Aurora remained composed. It was his nature.
“My father was a soldier, but he could tell the most wonderful of fairy tales. For him, my mother was the most beautiful woman till her very end when she was very old. We learnt from this man of war what love is all about,” Aurora’s daughter Anita Kalra said, as she stood by the side of a frame which has a picture of Aurora watching Niazi signing, a picture which is a full stop in the nation’s memory.
“My father was fond of telling us a story of a dead Pakistani soldier from whose pocket he found a letter from his wife. So poignantly had the wife beseeched the soldier husband to return home safe and sound that papa’s eyes would well up with tears w hile telling us the story. He could never complete it. Now, he never will,” Kalra said. Nor will he ever tell us anymore how it feels like to run on the Delhi roads for one’s own life, particularly after one has saved the life of a nation.
What India does to its heroes?
25 October 2006
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10.18.08
Posted in Media Council at 10:54 am by YUDHISTRA
18 Oct 2008, 1304 hrs IST, Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN
WASHINGTON: Washington’s response to Pakistan’s complaint about the visit to Siachen Glacier in India by the US Army Chief General George Casey? Cold.
Hours after Islamabad loudly remonstrated about General Casey’s reported programme to the highest battlefield in the world, which Pakistan considers a disputed territory, a senior US official in Washington confirmed the outing, while pointedly ignoring the Pakistani protest.
“As you all know, Gen Casey is in India and he was up in Siachen today,” Evan Feigenbaum, deputy assistant secretary for South and Central Asian affairs, told an Indian media round table on Friday on US-India relations. “Exciting things are happening in defense.”
The remarks followed an unexpected protest from Islamabad over Casey’s journey to the region to study Indian expertise and tactics in high-altitude battlefield conditions which could come in handy for US troops in Afghanistan’s front with Pakistan.
A Pakistani foreign office spokesman said on Thursday that “any such visit to an area which is disputed and which is under discussion between Pakistan and India will certainly cast a shadow on the ongoing composite dialogue between the two neighbours.”
The Pakistan objection seems to be more pro-forma than a meaningful one considering India has taken several foreign diplomats and generals to Kashmir, and even conducted military exercises in the region. It is now widely accepted in Washington that the boundaries between India and Pakistan, including the Line of Control, will not be redrawn, and any solution to the Kashmir issue will be within the ambit of the current boundaries.
While the Kashmir issue as a “dispute” has gradually receded into the background, saner voices are suggesting that the time is ripe for India and Pakistan to settle the matter broadly along existing lines.
“The Government of India has stated that maps cannot be redrawn. The Government of Pakistan has stated that the status quo is unacceptable. One way to proceed toward a settlement would be to accept both positions and devise new regional bodies that would overlay the current map of a divided Kashmir. These regional bodies could deal with trade, tourism, power generation, pilgrimages, and other matters,” the Washington think-tank Stimson Center said in a recent paper on confidence building measures between the two sides.
For a section of the Pakistani establishment though, not redrawing the maps would amount to a status quo. But under pressure from Washington and the international community, Islamabad is being persuaded to move towards a solution on the existing lines, particularly in view of Pakistan’s parlous situation that makes continued confrontation with India untenable.
The Stimson paper approvingly noted that a delegation of business leaders from Muzaffarabad recently has crossed the Line of Control dividing Kashmir to discuss the modalities of expanded trade. Pakistan’s top peacenik rock band, Junoon, which arguably has a larger fan following in India than in its own home, was allowed by the Indian government to perform at Srinagar in the biggest musical event in the disputed valley in decades.
The objection to Gen Casey’s Siachen visit is seen here as part of a series of confused responses from the out-of-kilter Pakistani establishment that seems to be working at cross purposes. While Pakistan’s newly elected president Asif Ali Zardari has been pushing for peace with New Delhi, going to the extent of saying India has never been a threat to Pakistan, the military establishment, whose budgets depend on a confrontational posture with India, had been chafing at the bit.
http://timesofindia .indiatimes. com/World/ USA/Ignoring_ Pak_protest_ US_general_ visits_Siachen/ articleshow/ 3611948.cms
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