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The shoot the most infamous scene in “Bridesmaids”
21022015What it was like to shoot the most infamous scene in “Bridesmaids” http://huff.to/1810EWK
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Tamil issue unresolved:
21022015Tamil issue unresolved: India, Sri Lanka cozy on security, nuke power
ASHOK B SHARMA
New Delhi has moved an inch forward to secure the Indian Ocean from the growing Chinese influence. It has seized the right opportunity with the change of leadership in Sri Lanka to strike a civil nuclear pact with the nearest island and agreed to expand defence and strategic cooperation, including “the trilateral format” with the Maldives. The civil nuke pact is the first of its kind that Colombo has signed with any country. This can be seen as India’s attempt to pre-empt any such move by the Chinese to ink a similar deal with the island country.
China has been extending its “String of Pearls” in the Indian Ocean. Beijing has recently developed the island nation’s Hambantota port and has offered an investment of $1.4 billion for the Colombo port city project. The new Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe during the election campaign had criticized their opponent and former president Mahinda Rajapaksa for incurring huge loans from China for building roads, ports and other infrastructure. They also opposed the proposed Colombo port city project with Chinese assistance as this would entail huge ecological damage. But after assuming power President Sirisena made a U-turn and preferred not to displease the Chinese and gave a go ahead signal to Beijing for the Colombo port city project.
Just to recall, former president Rajapaksa during his tenure opted to move closer to China, much to the annoyance of India. He allowed Chinese submarines to dock at Colombo port twice and threatened to turn Sri Lanka into a strategic asset for China at New Delhi’s expense. It is now hoped that President Sirisena would be wiser to maintain a balance in the interests of his country and not embitter relations with a valuable and strategic neighbour like India. Apart from trade and investment relations and other ongoing areas of cooperation, both countries recently inked pacts to extend cooperation in the spheres of culture and agriculture.
The civil nuke pact inked with India during the recent visit of President Sirisena intends to facilitate cooperation in transfer and exchange of knowledge and expertise, sharing of resources, capacity building and training of personnel in peaceful uses of nuclear energy including use of radioisotopes, nuclear safety, radiation safety, nuclear security, radioactive waste management and nuclear and radiological disaster mitigation and environment protection. Such an agreement was necessary. Colombo had earlier expressed apprehensions over India’s Kudankulam atomic power project in its vicinity at the coast of Tamil Nadu as it thought that in case of any Fukushima-like disaster, the island country will have to bear the consequences. Therefore, this civil nuke pact will not only clear Sri Lanka’s apprehensions but also help in its energy security programme.
India’s concern is for securing sea lanes of communications (SLOCs) in both Indian and Pacific oceans that handle two-third of the world’s energy trade, half of global containerized cargo and a third of bulk cargo. A considerable amount of India’s trade passes through this region, including its energy requirements. The strengthening of India-Sri Lanka-Maldives trilateral is, therefore, necessary for ensuring security architecture in the vicinity.
India is also a party to other trilaterals in the region like India-US-Japan, India-Japan-Australia, India-Indonesia-Australia, to mention a few. India is already a member of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), East Asia Summit, Asia Europe Summit Meeting (ASEM), ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting plus Eight (ADMM+8), Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) and Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA).
During the recent Sirisena-Modi delegation level talks in New Delhi much of the contentious issues relating to Sri Lankan Tamils like the devolution of powers under the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, rehabilitation, repatriation of Tamil refugees now in relief camps in India and the problems of Indian fishermen were not resolved. These issues are likely to be taken up when the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Sri Lanka in March.
At the time of elections, President Sirisena had assured the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to devolve political and financial powers to the Tamils, but would retain military presence in the north and northeastern provinces. There are about 130,000 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in various relief camps in India, out of which 90,000 are in Tamil Nadu. The Tamil refugees are waiting for return of normalcy and adequate environment for rehabilitation for their return to their home country. The rehabilitation process has been slow and tardy. Added to this Sri Lanka had refused to hold an independent inquiry into the state-sponsored deadly massacre of thousands of Tamils in 2009 despite being pulled up by UN Human Rights Council and other human rights organization worldwide.
However, there is a relief for President Sirisena. The UNHRC has decided to postpone the release of the report on alleged war crimes committed in 2009 civil war till September this year. Initially it was planned to release the report in March 25 during the 28th session of UNHRC, but on request of President Sirisena it has been deferred on the pretext of the island nation conducting an internal inquiry. India had so far soft-pedalled whenever the issue came up before the UNHRC. But with the recent change in the political dispensation in India, it remains to be seen how the Modi government deals with the issue.
Another contentious issue concerns the issue of fishermen of both countries being apprehended and jailed for crossing territorial waters. The problem has been accentuated by India handing over the uninhabited Katchatheevu island to Sri Lanka, which has caused a loss of territorial waters to India and placed Indian fishermen at a disadvantage.
Sri Lanka has become a partner in the Nalanda University project. The Buddhist majority island country is very much interested in developing Buddhist sites in India and President Sirisena has said that Buddhism and Hinduism have close relations. It depends upon him how effectively he resolves the Tamil issue in his own country, keeping in view the close relationship between the two religions. Prime Minister Modi intends to give some time to President Sirisena to settle down and resolve the issue and make Sri Lanka an effective security partner in the Indian Ocean region.
(Ashok B Sharma is a senior Columnist writing on strategic and policy issues in several Indian and international newspapers and magazines. He frequently writes in Bangladesh’s The Daily Observer and The Diplomatist magazine. He can be reached at ashokbsharma@gmail.com His mobile phone no +91-9810902204)
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PM बोले- ये तो अजूबा हो गया
21022015PHOTOS : Narendra Modiको देखने के लिए स्टेशन पर उमड़ी भीड़, PM बोले- ये तो अजूबा हो गया
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Anti-toll activist Govind Pansare succumbs to bullet injuries
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Anti-toll activist Govind Pansare succumbs to bullet injuries at Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital
Anti-toll activist and senior Communist leader Govind Pansare succumbed to the bullet injuries at the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai late last night. He was 82. Dean of Mumbai’s JJ Jospital Dr. Tatayarao Lahane said that Pansare’s condition worsened after bleeding in lungs, and he could not be revived from there-on. Our correspondent reports that Pansare’s body would be flown back to Kolhapur this morning for the last rites.
Communist Party of India leader Ajit Abhyankar and Social Activist Baba Adhav have reacted sharply to the death of the veteran leader and said that the Government should spend no efforts to nab the culprits.
An intensive search drive has already been launched by the police and twenty teams have been deployed to nab the culprits. The dastardly attack led to commotion resulting in demonstrations in different parts of the state.
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Anna Hazare flags off protest march to Delhi
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Social activist Anna Hazare flagged off a march of 5000 farmers at Palwal in Haryana yesterday. Anna Hazare sets his pad-yatra against Land Acquisition Ordinance from Palwal, Haryana.
The march has been organised to protest against NDA government at the Centre promulgating an ordinance to amend the land acquisition act of 2013.
The march, organised under the banner of PV Rajgopal’s Ekta Parishad, will reach Jantar Mantar in Delhi on Monday.
Prominent among those who joined the march include social activist Medha Patkar and former BJP ideologue KN Govindacharya.
Aam Aadmi Party Haryana incharge Yogendra Yadav toobe part of this start the “Jai Kisan Abhiyan” from Gurgaon today.
Yogenda tweets Beginning of a long struggle from Gurgaon, from politics beyond elections, the “Jai KIsan Abhiyan”
Volunteers, farmers and affected families will assemble at Kamla Nehru Park, near Sabzi Mandi, Gurudwara Road, Gurgaon at 12 noon.
I’ll begin my day from Rojka Meo (Sohna – Nuh road) where a group of land acquisition affected farmers have been protesting for months.
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The Energy Corporate spy, stealing case
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Delhi Police arrested 7 more people including senior executives of India’s top private energy companies yesterday. The arrested officials are Shailesh Saxena, Manager, Corporate Affairs of Reliance Industries, Vinay Kumar, Deputy General Manager of Essar, Subhash Chandra, Senior Executive of Jubilant Energy, KK Naik, General Manager of Cairns India, and Rishi Anand, Deputy General Manager of Reliance ADAG. Police sources said, these officials have been categorised as receivers of stolen property. They either bought or demanded papers from the men who were arrested earlier in the case. Two other persons arrested yesterday are Santanu Saikia, who runs energy portals, and Prayas Jain, an energy consultant. With this, the number of people arrested in this corporate espionage case has reached 12.
Santanu Saikia and Pryas Jain have been sent to police custody until February 23 along with two others Rakesh Kumar and Lalta Prasad. Kumar and Prasad were arrested earlier. Three others – government employees Asharam and Ishwar Singh, and driver Raj Kumar Chaubey are already in judicial custody for 14 days.
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Amartya Senwithdraws his candidature as Nalanda University Chancellor for a 2nd term
21022015Times now: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen alleging political interference by the Narendra Modi government withdraws his candidature as Nalanda University Chancellor for a 2nd term; MEA rejects the contention.
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GERARD PIQUÉ NAMED NEWEST LAUREUS AMBASSADOR
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GERARD PIQUÉ NAMED
NEWEST LAUREUS AMBASSADOR
· Winner of two Champions Leagues for FC Barcelona and 2010 World Cup
for Spain joins Laureus Family
· ‘I am delighted to be a Laureus Ambassador and I will do everything I can to support them in their cause.’ – says Gerard Piqué
- Laureus supports more than 150 projects around the world which have helped to improve the lives of millions of young people
· Picture of Gerard Pique on www.laureusarchive.com
BARCELONA, February 19, 2015 - Gerard Piqué, one of Spain’s greatest and most popular footballers, is today named as the newest Laureus Ambassador.
One of the most admired defenders in football, Piqué has played for FC Barcelona since 2008, winning La Liga four times, the Champions League twice and the Spanish Cup on two occasions. He has established himself as one of the best centre-backs in the world and was a key member of the highly successful Spanish national team which won the 2010 World Cup and the European Championship two years later.
Piqué said: “I believe in the importance of helping the most disadvantaged people through sport, especially youth and children. This is one of the characteristics that we, as sportspeople, have been instilled with at FC Barcelona since we were kids. I am very familiar with the great work that the Laureus Foundation does worldwide, improving the lives of millions of young people. I am delighted to be a Laureus Ambassador and I will do everything I can to support them in their cause.”
He now joins the Laureus Family to support the work of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, which uses sport to achieve social change and improve the lives of young people around the world.
Gabriel Masfurroll, President of the Laureus Foundation in Spain, said: “We are delighted to have the co-operation and involvement of a great athlete like Gerard Piqué. It is a privilege that he takes part in this great project which is the Laureus Foundation and that we can together reach more young people and children in need.”
Piqué made his debut for the Spanish national team in February 2009 and he was the first-choice centre-back, playing alongside Puyol at the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa. He started all seven matches as Spain won the tournament, beating the Netherlands 1–0 in the final. With Piqué and Puyol in defence, Spain conceded only two goals.
Piqué played every minute of Spain’s European Championship victory in 2012, partnering Real Madrid’s Sergio Ramos in the centre of defence. He was one of three Spanish defenders included in UEFA’s Team of the Tournament.
Piqué joins an impressive list of former and current sportsmen and women as Laureus Ambassadors, who, along with the members of the Laureus World Sports Academy, support the work of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation.
The mission of the Foundation is to utilise the power of sport to address social problems through a global programme of sports related community development initiatives. Laureus currently supports more than 150 projects around the world which have helped to improve the lives of millions of young people.
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Cyclones wreak havoc in OZ
21022015Powerful Cyclone Marcia roared ashore Friday in a heavily-populated area of northeastern Australia as officials warned of a “calamity”.
“Severe tropical cyclone Marcia, category 5, is currently crossing the coast near Shoalwater Bay north of Yeppoon,” the Queensland Bureau of Meteorology tweeted
Cyclones wreak havoc but “catastrophe” avoided in Queensland #TCMarciahttp://bit.ly/1CPtjbs
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