As was being expected Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is adamant to open the
Indian retain market to the foreign direct investment despite of the
oppositions of whole of the country. Under his leadership the UPA government
has taken the decision of FDI in retail market even without consulting its
allies in the government as well as the opposition parties. They have decided
to allow the foreigners investors for 51 per cent FDI in multi-brand retail.
With it, the government has opened a back door for the foreigners to conquer
the entire Indian retail sector by allowing 100 percent FDI in single brand
retail. It will be a golden chance for the foreigner Trade corporations to
enter into the Indian retail market. These corporation are very powerful and
have huge annul turnovers. The power of these retail trade corporations can be
felt only in those markets where they do business. These corporations have
their branches almost in the entire world . Some of them are Nietherland’s
Ahold, Carrefour of France, Metro of Germany, Tesco of UK and Walmart of USA.
These corporations have a common tendency of establishing their own control
over the entire chain of buying, transport, storage and the selling to the
customers. Local tradesmen cannot stay in market as their competitors because
of their huge wealth and approach. They slowly disappear from the market. This
does not happen only in large cities but also affects the villages. When these
corporations wipe out the small traders from the market then they don’t have
much competition. At one hand they have every kind of manufacturers, small and
large, and at the other hand these corporations the only buyers. In these
circumstances these firms establish a strong relationship with the
manufacturers which directly affects the economy. At one hand there are a large
numbers of manufacturers and on the other hand a few or only a single buyer.
The manufactures don’t have any direct link with the customers and thus have no
other option rather than to sell their produce to these trade corporations and
they sell the material to the customers in the retail market. Thus at one hand
a large number of manufacturers and a single buyer and on the other hand a
single seller and uncountable number of customers. These circumstances create a
new opportunity to the trade corporations to increase their profit. They can
buy the [...]
Tensions between Pakistan and America have increased to such an extent that was
never witnessed in the past. It was such a tense time that PM Yusuf Raza Gilani
had to come out of the marriage procession of his son to attend a crisis
management meeting. On the other had USA bureaucratic establishment was trying
to pacify the Pakistanis without any success? When US forces attacked
Afghanistan it used Pakistan as a base for the war on terror. Pakistani
establishment ignored the public rage and provided every kind of help to the
invading military. Though the war was being fought in the neighboring country
but it affected the Pakistani society very adversely. But America kept the
Pakistani rulers blinded with huge financial grants and they kept on ignoring
the public unrest. Thus US forces kept on fighting against Al-Qaeda even after
conquering Afghanistan. During this war there were many instances when innocent
people were brutally murdered by the invading forces but Pakistani ruler did
not raise any voice because their mouths were choked with the US dollars. Kill
Osama Operation initiated the process of diminishing the warmth in Pak-USA
relations. Pakistani establishment did not wanted to believe that world’s most
wanted terrorist was sitting in the lap of its own secret agency and military.
Instead of accepting this fact it tried to divert the world attention by saying
that with kill Osama operation, Americans have violated its sovereignty. Though
American operation inside Pakistan cannot be termed as a good one but they have
their own observations about the success of the operation. It was for the first
time that tensions among years old friends came to the surface as both of them
got indulged in blame-game. According to some political thinkers it was the
result of too much belief in each other and America’s indifference towards
notorious secret agency ISI’s terrorist harboring activities. Attack of US
embassy in Kabul was another nail in the coffin of US-Pak relations. After this
attack America openly blamed ISI for helping Haqqani network which was
responsible for most of the attacks on Nato security forces and US embassy in
the area. But Pakistani establishment remained stick to its blackmailing
statistics. After these accusations Pak government said that US will lose Pak
as its ally and as a major factor in the ongoing war against terror in the
region. Pakistan had warned that Afghanistan will [...]
A youth slapped Cabinet Minister Mr. Sharad Pawar while he was attending a
public function in Delhi on Friday. This unfortunate incident has been
criticized by almost all the politicians and social activists throughout the
country. But more than 70 per cent people of the country are admiring Harvinder
Singh with their hidden smiles for his ‘daring act’. This incident has become
the hot issue among political and social circles. As this incidents has been
connected to ‘rising prices’ so this debate automatically has become based on
the hot issue of rising prices. There is no doubt that price of ‘daily useable
goods’ have increasing manifolds during the rule of Singh&Company And their
‘lack luster’ efforts to check the rising prices have produced no fruit. Prices
of household goods have a certain tendency to increase and have increased
during the rule of various governments. But they used to increase with a
certain limit. But the price rise during the rule of UPA government has broken
all type of limits and barricades. This is a very serious issue but no
political party except the leftists is serious about the difficulties of the
common people but is busy with their own ‘core issues’. When most of the
political parties were ready for debate on this issue in the current Lok Sabha
session on the notice of Left parties, BJP remained sticking to the issue of
‘black money’ and disrupted the proceedings of the house. Both the main stream
parties, Congress and BJP have started blame game as for as the incident of
attack on Union Minister Sharad Pawar is concerned. Congress has blamed
BJP that former cabinet minister Mr. Yashwant Singh’s statement instigated
Harvinder Singh to do this ‘daring’ act. But on the other hand, BJP is saying
that his statement has nothing to do with this incident. Harvinder Singh, the
same boy who slapped Sharad Pawar’ , had attacked former telecom minster Mr.
Sukh Ram when he was coming out of the court after being sentenced to the
five year jail term for his involvement in a telecom scam committed during the
rule of Narsimha Rao led congress government. Now it is being said that the
attacker of Sharad Pawar is mentally unstable. But Harvinder Singh’s attacks on
two veteran politicians indicate that he isn’t mentally ill man as for as he
has expressed his reasons for attacking Pawar. But at [...]
Recently, Pune Police Force has brought a high profile sex racket to the
lime-light. A few days ago, Pune police raided a five star hotle in the city
and arrested some people along with a Bollywood actress and a spot-boy. This
actress has worked in some films and some famous daily TV soaps. She belongs to
the State of Jammu and Kashmir but presently she is living in Versova area of
Mumbai. The spot boy, Nirka Wadani used to work as a middle man for her. Pune
police had raided the hotel on basis of a tip-off and arrested the actress
along with the middle man. The police spokesman told that she used to take 1.5
lakhs for the time of one hour from each of her clients which included the
commission of her agent. Police is trying to find out how many people are
involved in this racket. Whether it is the group of only two people or is the
tip of an iceberg. Police had got the tip-off almost a week ago and had started
to spread its net in the area. That is why both of them were caught red-handed.
An undercover police agent contacted them as a client and thus they were caught
at the spot. This TV actress has worked in famous TV serial ‘Kasauti Zindagi
Ki’ but her name has not yet been revealed by the police.
Problems have started to increase for India’s two top telecom companies Airtel
and Vodafone as for as the investigation of 2G spectrum scandal is concerned. A
few days ago Central Bureau of Investigation raided at Vodafone’s Mumbai and
Airtel’s Gurgon offices. CBI has started to investigate the spectrum rights
issued during Pramod Mahajan’s tenure as the telecom minister. At the same time
CBI raided at the residences of two top telecom officers of the Indian telecom
department. They are former telecom secretary Mr. Shiyam Ghosh and former D.G.
Mr. J R Gupta. CBI is investigating that Vodafone and Airtel had used
malpractices to get the additional telecom rights when telecom rights were
issued to private players by the Indian telecom department. It is noteworthy
that Atal Bihari Vajpayee led NDA was ruling in the centre and late Mr. Pramod
Mahajan was telecom minister at that time. Immediately after registering the
FRI, CBI searched Airtel and Vodafone offices including the residences of Ghosh
and J R Gupta. During Pramod Mahajan’s time, J R Gupta was Deputy Director of
the telecom department. In this new case, CBI has said that government had to
face a loss of 508 crores because of the telecom rights issuance scandal that
happened during the years of 2001-2007. CBI has said that cases have been
registered against Ghosh and Gupta, Bharti Cellular (now Bharti Airtel),
Hutchinson Max and Sterling Cellular (now Vodafone air) under various acts of
Indian Penal Code. CBI has kept Parmod Mahajan out of investigations as the
later is not alive now. But CBI has accused him of being involved in the
scandal. Reacting to these raids, Airtel and Vodafone have said that they have
used highest standards of the corporate world while providing their world class
services to the Indian users.
Men’s sixth Challengers Hockey Cup will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa
from 26th November to 4th December. Eight teams are participating in these
tournaments which have been divided into two pools. India, Belgium, South
Africa and Poland have been kept in pool ‘a’ while the pool ‘b’ contains
Argentina, Canada, Japan and Malaysia. 24 hockey matches will be played during
this tournament which will be telecasted live on Ten Sports channel. The
opening match will be played between the pool ‘b’ teams of Canada and Malaysia
from 11am according the South African standard time. Indian team is being led
by 27 year old Bharat Chetri who has the experience of playing 116
international hockey matches. P R Shrijesh, Manjeet Kulu, Rupinder Singh,
B R Raghunath, Sandeep Singh, Gurbaz Singh, Sardara Singh, Arjun Halappa,
Manpreet Singh, Sawaranjeet Singh, Yuvraj Valmiki, S V Suneel, Darnish Murtaba
and Tushar Khandekar are the main members of the team. Except it, Shawinder,
Birend er Lakda and C Kagjum have also been included into the Indian Hockey
team squad while Rajpal Singh, Ignis Tirki, Bharat Chikara, Ravi Pal and
Gurwinder Chandi have been rested. This championship’s first opening match was
played in2001 in Kualalampur and Indian team had won the championship by
defeating South Africa by 2-1. 2003’s Hockey Challengers cup was held in
Johannesburg and the trophy was won by Spain which defeated Korea by 7-3.
Argentina won this trophy twice in 2005 and 2007. In 2005, it defeated the
Korean team by 5-2 in Alexandria and in 2007 It won the final from New Zealand
by 3-2 in Boom. But in 2009, New Zealand won the final by defeating Pakistan by
4-2. India remained at 3rd position in this tournament in the years of 2007 and
2009. New Zealand won the 2nd place in 2007 and 4th place in 2003. Pakistan
could won the 2nd place only once in the year of 2009. South Africa won the 2nd
place in 2001 and 3rd place in 2003. Belgium had won the 4th place in 2005’s
championship. England had won the 4th position twice in the years of 2005 and
2007. In 2001 Malaysia had won the 4th position. Only seven nations have played
the final matches of this tournament which is held after two years. The
upcoming match time table has been mentioned in the table below. Date Pool-A
Matches Time Pool-B Matches Time [...]
A few days ago a Delhi court sent former telecom minister Sukh Ram to five year
jail term for his involvement in telecom scandal committed during Narsimha
Rao’s tenure. This verdict is definitely a ray of hope for those who want to
put a check on corruption prevailing at higher levels of Indian government and
bureaucracy. Prior to this verdict Sukh Ram had been held guilty in two other
corruption cases by the honorable judiciary but he escaped the jail by getting
bail because according to Indian law bail is permitted to the guilty in case of
three or less than three years of imprisonment. But this time he has been sent
to imprisonment for five years so he will have to go behind bars as he cannot
escape the jail by getting bail. This time he had no option of escaping the
jail so has been put into Tihar jail where another telecom minister A Raja
along with several of his accomplices is waiting for the justice. This verdict
is also a lesson to the political parties who do every kind of compromises to
attain the power. When Sukh Ram was ousted from the Narsimha Rao Cabinet for
his alleged involvement in telecom scandal the then opposition party BJP did
not allow the Parliament session to go on for many days. Later on when CBI
raided at his residence and other places owned by him millions of Indian
currency was recovered . The opposition party BJP had accused the Narsimha Rao
government for being involved in this scandal from foot to head. Another
cabinet minister Kamalnath Rai,too, had to resign from the cabinet for being
involved in the sugar scam. But the future brought many surprises to the
public. At one hand the BJP had sabotaged entire session of parliament and on
the other hand it formed an alliance with Sukh Ram led Himachal Vikas Party to
form a government in Himachal Pradesh under the leadership of Shanta Kumar. It
did not end here but Sukh Ram was honored with a ministry in the HP cabinet and
his son was elected Rajya Sabha member as a return of this political trading.
Indian telecom ministry is one of the richest ministries in India so every
political party craves for it. So many business houses and electronic media
‘icons’ used every kind of means to get A Raja elected as the [...]
Shammi Kapoor is known for his unique kind of dance in Bollywood. During his
era, there were a very few choreographers in the Indian entertainment industry.
The film actors and actresses used to learn the classical Indian dance formats.
But Classical dance could not be used in every film. Except it, all the actors
and actresses were not acquainted with the classical dances of India. So Shammi
Kapoor invented his own dance style. He used to dance in front of the camera
changing his ‘body positions’ very quickly. At that time Bollywood was ruled by
three super stars. Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand. Shammi knew it well
that it is only his dance style that differentiates him from the other
Bollywood actors. He gave many musical hits with new heroines. Most of his
films had simple plots with light story changes, sweet songs, romance, comedy
and punishment of the villain in the end. Even today’s superstar Amir Khan was
the fan of Shammi Kapoor. Acting was in his blood as Prithvi Raj Kapoor was his
father and Raj Kapoor was his elder brother. Raj Kapoor was a well established
actor in the entertainment industry when he was to start his career. Shammi had
worked in Prithvi Raj Theaters form his childhood and it was natural that he
had learnt acting skills and was ready to start his career. But father Prithvi
Raj and brother Raj Kapoor asked him ‘to go on his own way’. It was the era of
Dilip, Raj and Dev trio so most of the film directors and producers preferred
to make films with them. So it were the directors-producers of B-Grade films
who first signed some films with him. Some of his earlier films were- Rail Ka
Dibba(1953), Chor Bazar(1954), Tange Wali(1955), Daku(1955) and Miss Coca
Cola(1955). But all these films could not perform well on the box office. With
these initial failures Shammi Kapoor learned that he can not succeed in the
film industry while following his elder brother Raj. So he decided to invent
his own kind of style. With this change in his approach he gave his first hit
Tumsa Nehi Dekha in 1957. In this film he adopted a new acting style and with
it he was taken seriously in the entertainment industry. Nasir Hussain directed
Tumsa Nahi Dekha became the most successful film of that year. After that
Shammi [...]
Anna Hazare is one of those leaders who wears white Khadi clothes and wears
Gandhi Topi(cap). He was born on June 15, 1938 in a small village Maharashtra
known as Bhingari. His mother Laxmi Bai Hazare and father Babu Rao Hazare was a
farmer by profession. Anna has six brothers. His family was very poor and he
had to face the harsh living conditions because of poverty. Because of poverty
he migrated to Mumbai in search of better living conditions. There he studied
up to 7th standard and after that decided to abandon his studies to share the
burden of his family. He worked at a fruit selling shop for the monthly salary
of 40 rupees. In 1962 when he was a young man of 22 years old he joined the
military on the appeal of Indian government in wake of the India-China war. He
was appointed as a driver in the Maratha Regiment. During the 1965
India-Pakistan war he was stationed at Khemkaran border sector. During this war
many of his fellow soldiers had died in the Pakistani air strikes on the
bordering posts which totally changed his life. After 13 years of military
service he retired from his service. During his military career he won five-six
medals for his bravery and untainted service. He decided to live in Ralegaon
Sidhi instead of going to Bhingari, his birth place after his retirement form
the military. By 1990 Anna Hazare had become a well known social activist in
Ralegaon Sidhi and the adjoining villages. He, with the help of the youth and
the women folk led a social campaign again the menace of liquor and was very
successful. This group used various tactics to ban the consumption of liquor.
His village was one the most backward village of the state as it did not have a
high school, had no helth centre. Less than 100 acres of land could be
irrigated because of lack of water in the village. His village did not have
electricity or water supply facilities. So he motivated his social activists to
build canals and check dams to store the rail water. Because of relentless hard
work the water scarcity has become the matter of past and most the land in the
area is irrigation possible. On his motivation thousands of plants were planted
in the hills and the adjoining areas. Solar system and bio-gas plants [...]
Rumors of Vidya Balan’s marriage have surprised her fans as well as the Indian
Entertainment Industry. Rumors of her marriage with UTV Motion Picture head
Sidharth Rai is the most talked-about issues these days. This news was drawn
the attention of all of the Indian media and has been debated almost by all of
the Indian newspapers and TV channels and the internet. It was being said that
they got married secretly and are celebrating their honeymoon at some
undisclosed place. Sensing it that the rumor have started to ‘brim-out’,
Sidharth himself had to clear the air. He has said that all this issue is
baseless and nothing has happened. According to a close friend of Vidya Balan
all this issue is a rumor that Vidya has secretly got married. She is in Mumbai
these days and soon will complete the shooting of Milan Lathuria’s ‘Dirty
Picture’ within two weeks. Her manager Sunjay, too, has termed this news only a
rumor. But we know that we have stepped on the ‘tail’ of the ‘animal’ soon the
‘animal’ will come out. Whether this is a true or false but she has broken the
hearts of her ‘lovers’.
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