Capitalist Marxist Ways of Full Circle Anarchy and Annihilation
Palash Biswas
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These are the Marxist Capitalist Ways of Full circle Anarchy and Aniihilation under Hindu Zionist Brahminical White Post modern Galaxy Order ruled and managed by variety of hypocrite Comradors across Geo Politics all over the six continents implementing Apartehid and Fascist, Anti Muslim, Anti Indigenous, Anti Dalit, Anti nationality caste and community agenda with Power as well as Resistance domince Galaxywide with complete dominance in the space.
Indian subcontinent generally and specially Marxist ruled State of Brahminical West Bengal happens to be a real objective case study to understang the Regemented gaestapo of Global ruling Class and the well oiled machinery of Galaxy Ruling Hegemony!
Let us understand the pschey of Fear, Terror and State sponsered violence! In Nandigram genocide, Marxist Gestapo , the regemented Cadres fired indiscriminately in Police Uniform wearing Chappals. Later, CRPF discovered graves. We know all the reports of Human Right bodies. Mamata Bannerjee alleged that Icchapur Gun factory Weapons and bullets were used in the cold blodded massacre. Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committe used to say that the log books in Police stations for weapon Use had been manupulated. And what happen in shantiniketan! A private vehicle driver working with Kolkata Police in Tollygaunj PS got a Service Revolver and went on vacation. He landeded in the Vishwa bharati Girls` Hostel and shot down a young lady student with the Police arms! Is it not an evidence how the Police has become a descent tool of Mass Destruction in West Bengal! See another case! A nandigram massacre was averted right into the heart of the Civil society in kolkata while Left Front Vetern Minister Subhash Chakrabarti allegedly stood for a Promoter and adviced the Locals to cooperate to get Land from a Local Pond in Maniktolla. Women were protesting the hand over of the only water resource and Oxygen tank in the Pollution area.The did not oblige. What happened next? The security guards of the Promoter fired at the Crowd with Rifles, though no one was injured in firing. It was a scaring exercise. They used the Hounds against the resistant Civil Society who has been supported by the local CPIM MLA MS Rupa Bagchi and she knows nothing about either public interest or Government Project as the minister claimed just before firing!
Student killed in Shantiniketan
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Violence has struck the Visva Bharati University in Shantiniketan after a woman student was shot dead in the campus on Sunday. Sawawati Pal, a final year music student, was killed in the college hostel.
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A year after seven people were killed in clashes between pro and anti-land acquisition agitators in Nandigram, locals are apprehensive that the relative peace that prevails will vanish once the CRPF is withdrawn. The CRPF is scheduled to be posted here till February 12, but CPI-M supporters are demanding their withdrawal before that date accusing it of committing excesses.
The government, however, has ruled out advancing the date of CRPF's withdrawal. But locals in Nandigram have expressed fear that after its scheduled date of withdrawal there is a fair chance of anarchy and violence returning to the area.
Leaders of the Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee want the CRPF to stay till the panchayat elections in May to prevent any poll-violence and rigging.
Despite Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee's repeated assurance that no land would be taken over for setting up a chemical SEZ at Nandigram, people still fear that the government will still try to push through the chemical hub.
The unrest in Nandigram started ever since the Haldia Development Authority through a notification on December three, 2004 had included under its jurisdiction 401 mouzas of land.
But it was only in August 2006 that the fear of the people of losing their land emerged into an organised protest-movement with the birth of 'Krishi Jami Raksha Committee'. The members of that organisation organised deputations before various administrative departments demanding withdrawal of the notification.
On the other hand, BJP national meet to discuss polls, terrorism! You know well how the theory of War against Terror gets momentum with the Middle East War Zone shiftin right into south asia and coinciding with realliance of Hindu Zionist White forces as well as the strategic regrouping in US laed in the so far peace zone , Indian Ocean! A resurgent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will discuss its strategy for the 2009 General Elections as well as the spurt in terror activities across the country at its National Council meeting in New Delhi on January 27 and 28. It is going to be an important meeting. I cannot say more on the issue at the moment," party spokesperson Prakash Javadekar told IANS. However, a party source said: "The rising number of terror attacks in the recent past, especially in Uttar Pradesh, will be discussed prominently. Both the central government and the non-BJP ruled states have been too soft in tackling terrorism."
The meet will also prepare a blueprint of the BJP's plans for the Lok Sabha elections, due in May 2009.
The Global Ruling Class and the Shining Sensex Ruling Class in India have all the Ideologies and politics of Demography at their disposal to defend the Hegemony interests with different Brands ie Buddhadeb, Naveen Patnaik, Vasundhara, Deshmukh, Narendra Modi, Mayawati, karunanidhi.. etc.Our peopleare deprived of the basic information as they had been deprived of Knowledge for thousands years. Participation in Power politics, reservation and quota, Higher Education, jobs and accomdation plus adjustment in Ruling hegemony, mobilisationa and Iconising of Subaltern politics without empowerment, self realisation, identity, internal governance and autonomy have altogether enhanced the Bondage and the Enslavement in absense of a national International Indigenous Mass Movement and Resistance! All the insurrections like Nandigram, kaling Nagar, Singur, Navi Mumabi, NBA,POlavaram and all kinds of SC, ST, minority and nationality uprisings are isolated Islands helpful in mobilsing and readjusting favourable demographies in this divided bleeding Geoplolitics accross the Political borders!
‘Pond’ fight after Subhas mission
Bullets were fired, dogs unleashed and lathis wielded in Maniktala today after the failure of an unexplained mission by transport minister Subhas Chakraborty to persuade residents of a housing complex to allow the filling of a watery tract by a developer. ... | Read..
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what is On? On line? That happens to be the bloody Post modern Opium: Cricket carnival! Indian skipper Anil Kumble on Sunday lambasted the Australians for their unsportsmanlike behaviour in the second cricket Test, saying only his side played the match in the true spirit of the game.The entire divided, bleeding subcontinent engaged in the debate to defend the colonial Identity intact. Non of these fellows belonging either to the Ruling Hegemony Psyche or the Enslaved Eighty Five Percent masses are least concerned with their own Identity plus existence, life and livelihood,polity or society or economy or culture, freedom or sovereignity or human rights or civilrights! It`s a game as it happens to be War against Terrorism.War Zone shifted right into our heart. Our brothern and sisters crushed, broken,discrminated,deducted, excluded,displaced and deported. We happen to be Mute Witness to Global Genocide Carnival! Global Gangrape carnival. It is hot. It is Vogue! It is style. It is fashion. It is gadget Guru. It is electronics. It is Live coverage! It is sponsered mutiliated description. It is complete blackout! Print as well as electronic Media, Mafia and money rules the World. For it Cricket happens to be the best metaphor. Metaphor for Post Modernism. Capitalism. strategic regrouping. Ambush.Terror. Corporate raj. MNC Raj. Promoters. Chemical and biological warfare! Global warming.Monopoly on Natural Resources and Nature. Ruling Hegemony and its gestapo. Money Making Cricket has nothing to do with the future of majority enslaved Humanity victimised and discriminated with apartheid and Caste system and religion and, very well, the ideologies with political parties with multidimentional identies and equations. All this carnival is a managed global event to subvert Local, national and global Resistance against annihilation, mass destruction, enslavement and displacement.
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The fascist, the Brahmins, the zionists and the so called marxists are the best masters in the game of Sub vertion! They run blindly on the Highway of capitalism with a feudal social set up with colonial Mindset. The Gestapo is a regemented fasist Tool. Despite all this they are being allowed to lead anti Imperialism, anti Globalisation, anti Neo Liberalism and, paradoxically anti fascist Movement countrywide and World wide. thsi is the cause of failure. The masses invest all faith in so called elite Civil society defending Ruling Class Interests! They die for ideologies caliming Revolution and change! They believe Opposition with same agenda of pwer dominance. Bite eating Icons dare to lead mass movements and media Icons dictate polity with all sponsorship Ad FDI avenues wide open. We invest our time and energy in all these bogus campaign of Change and Resistance and We miss the tarin to reach the statition of Realliance. They divide us and rule Us. Iconised Subaltern Movement and SC, ST, OBC, Dalit Identities destined to be submerged into the politics of demography and equations for Power Sharing plus bargaining in united majoritirian electrola system denying representation, empowerment, internal governance and autonomy to the masses. Clubbing of caste and communities rule West Bengal, India, This subcontinent, Asia, third World, the Globe and the Galaxy. It is the Summit of Zionism, Brahminism and White Dominance.
Marxist may not live without capital and capitalists. They may not run the government without active support from MOney, MAfia,and Media. They defend the MNCs. Corporates. Promoters. Musclemen. Anti Socials. But they may not be termed as Capitalist. What alogic? Since Capitalism rules India and the Galaxy, Marxists may not disassociate from it. But , at the same time they are empowered to mobilise the masses against Capitalism and Imperialism.What a joke!
They are the best advocates of SEZ, Chemical hub, Industrialisation, Urbanisation, Privatisation, Disinvestment, computorisation, Retrenchment and VRS. THey depend on Private Sector for Infrastructure, progress and Service Sector! Education, Healthcare, PDS, Manufacturing and retail Chain - everything handed over to Corporates. They launch intensive , indiscriminate Land Acqisition drive and feed themselves with the achievments of mass mobilisation of History, the tebhaga, Food Movement, Peasant Insurrections , Panchayati Raj. They feed regemented gestapo the Party Cdres with all Welfare programmes sponsered by the Centre with dominance over local bodies and institutions! Ration Riots diluted.
So diluted is Singur Insurrection. Thus, they succeed to subvert Nandigram Revolt with Taslima Nasri and Rizwanur Rehman!
They work for a Full Circle Anarchy of annihilation, mass destruction, rape, molestation displacement, deportation and uprroting the Non Brahmin Indigenous Peole enslaved.
This Ruling Hegemony in West Bengal is run by hundred or Two hundred elite Brahmins. In this system, even the brahmins generally and caste Hindus are deprived as deprived are the Muslims. Ruling Brahmin and Muslim Vote bank is the status of west Bengal Politics. And it is not going to change anyway. Enslaved majority comprising of SC, ST, OBC, Minorities and all indigenous peole are deprived of any space to sustain, survive and exists. They are uprooted from life and livelihood. this is the capsule case study of the global galaxy Hegemony Ovarall!
Shantiniketan student shot dead in hostel
Shantiniketan: A girl student of Visva Bharati university was shot dead by an unidentified youth who also tried kill himself at the girls' hostel on Sunday.
Police said the youth entered Sri Sadan Hostel and went to the room of the girl student and fired at her from point blank range. He then turned the gun on himself.
Students rushed the victim and the youth to Bolpur Sub-divisional Hospital. The girl was declared dead by doctors while her killer was admitted with serious injury, police said.
This is the third incident of campus slaying within a month. Earlier this month, a student of a school of Satna in Madhya Pradesh was shot dead by a senior schoolmate. In December 2007, a 14-year-old student was killed by two of his classmates in Gurgaon.
Molestation case: Sena blames outsiders for tarnishing Mumbai's image
Mumbai : The Shiv Sena has accused `outsiders' of tarnishing the reputation of the city by their molestaion of two women on the New Year night here, and said it has taken upon itself the duty of protecting the women in the metropolis. In a front page write-up in party mouthpiece "Saamna" on Saturday, Sena Executive president, Uddhav Thackeray, said "the Sena has taken upon itself the duty of protecting the women of the city as people coming from outside have tarnished its image". He also urged the police to ensure that "real culprits" are caught and those who outrage the modesty of women will not be tolerated.
The Sena leader said though the police cannot be blamed for this incident such things were happening in Mumbai "because there is no such a thing as a government in Maharashtra. As a result, "outsiders" have no fear, he added.
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Kolkata:The CPI(M) on Sunday said it has changed itself according to the requirements of time for which it has often been misunderstood by the people and political parties.
"We have tried to work with the farmers and the labourers and always tried to uphold their interest. If we analyse, we will find that in last 30 years the party has changed according to the requirement of the day," West Bengal Industry minister Nirupam Sen said.
"For this change we have often been misunderstood. I have tried to explain this change and analyse it in my essays," Sen said at the release of his book.
A collection of essays -- 'Bikalper Sandhane' -- written by the minister was released by CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose at the party office here.
"In this age of liberal economy it is impossible to stand apart and make a way and so CPI(M) has gone for an alternative economy and politics which is evident from Sen's observation" Bose said.
"We have our limitations and for that we have often been misunderstood by political parties, including our partners and by the people. These essays will help the people understand how we have worked for the people despite our limitations" Bose said supporting Sen's statement.
The book is a collection of 16 essays written by the minister in party papers in the past few years. Apart from that, his lectures at different seminars have also found a place in the collection.
Published by National Book Agency, the introduction of the book is written by former chief minister Jyoti Basu. Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was also present on the occasion.
In Bhubaneswar : Demanding an immediate all-party meeting on the Kandhamal violence to help restore quick normalcy in the riot-torn areas, the Congress on Sunday asked the Orissa government to allow political parties and other fact finding bodies to visit the district.
"Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik should immediately convene an all party meeting on the issue to involve different leaders in the process for restoration of normalcy and harmony in Kandhamal," senior Congress leader and former chief minister Hemananda Biswal told reporters here. Biswal, who heads a Congress fact-finding team that wanted to visit Kandhamal but was stopped, said the government should also allow responsible political parties to tour the violence affected areas to facilitate peace.
The chief minister has failed to take opposition parties into confidence on the riots in Kandhamal, Biswal and former union minister Shrikant Jena said.
Accusing the BJD-BJP government of failing to prevent the riots due to "callousness", they said though trouble had been brewing for the last six months in the tribal dominated district where Kui Samaj Coordination Committee had given a two-day bandh call on December 25, the administration did not take any precautionary measure to deal with it.
The problem was essentially related to ethnic issues with Kui Samaj opposing the demand for tribal status by Kui speaking "Pana" caste people, they said, adding it suddenly took a communal colour after a clash in Brahmanigaon and alleged attack on VHP leader Laxamanananda Saraswati on December 24.
Socialism is not achievable now: Jyoti Basu
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January 05, 2008 - PTI
Supporting West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb
Bhattacharjee's stand on capitalism, Communist Party
of India-Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu on Friday said
there is a need to industrialise the state.
"Socialism is not achievable at this point of time. We
have been working within the capitalist system and as
such private capital has to be used while social
welfare programmes by the state government would
continue," Basu told reporters in response to a
question after attending a meeting of the party's
state secretariat.
"Socialism is a far cry. Socialism is our political
agenda and it was mentioned in our party document but
capitalism will continue to be the compulsion for the
future," the CPI-M politburo member said. On January
3, Bhattacherjee had strongly advocated capitalism and
not socialism as the only way to industrialise the
state.
The allies of the CPI-M in the Left Front like Forward
Bloc and RSP have accused the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
government of deviating from the Left ideology after
more than 30 years of power in the state.
They accused him of toeing the capitalist path to
industrialise the state and alleged that CPI-M was
pursuing a policy of double standard by following the
capitalist course here while criticising the Centre's
economic policies.
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Modi takes a swipe at media and opponents
Mumbai (PTI): The Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday took a swipe at the media and his opponents for portraying him in bad light in the recently concluded Assembly elections.
Modi said after his victory in Gujarat, the media and his opponents were criticising the people of Gujarat for electing him and this was not good.
The Chief Minister said: "after the election, people stopped targetting me but started making the people of Gujarat the target of their attack."
"Now that I have won the elections, the media and the opponents are saying that the people of Gujarat are bad. Had I lost the elections, the same people would have called the people of Gujarat intelligent," the BJP leader, who retained the power in the state, said.
Modi said he has been the target of criticism of the media and his opponents since the year 2002 and added that it has been a battlefield for him.
"If I have done something wrong, I am ready to face the consequences, but I know if I am right then ultimately the victory will be mine," he said.
Modi was addressing the concluding function of Jain International Trade Organisation (JITO) at NSC ground in Goregaon.
Socialism: RSP lashes out at Basu
Kollam : In a sharp reaction to veteran CPI-M leader Jyoti Basu's statement that capitalism was essential for economic development, RSP General Secretary K Pankajakshan on Sunday said he was surprised to hear such remarks from senior Communist leaders as it was nowhere stated in any of the Marxist texts that capitalism was inevitable.
"I haven't found it in any of the Marxist texts I have learnt that capitalism is essential for industrial development. It comes as a surprise to me that this sort of thinking has seeped into the Left parties," he said in his opening address to the RSP state conference here.
It was difficult to take these as mere passing remarks. They actually reflected the direction to which the CPI(M) was steering its policies. Basu had only underlined what West Bengal Chief Minister Buddadeb Bhattacharjee had stated earlier, he said.
"Is the CPI(M) willingly plunging into the depths of the old capitalism. This is an issue to be seriously debated. The RSP (as a Left ally) would make clear its views in such a debate," he said.
A veteran trade union leader, Panakajakshan said it was without the support of private capital that the Communist Party built up the industrial base of the erstwhile Soviet Union.
Taslima should apologise to Muslims: Dasmunsi
Sunday, 06 January , 2008, 17:40
Kolkata: Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi on Sunday said controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen should apologise with "folded hands" for hurting the sentiments of Muslims of the country, and hinted that her book Dwikhandito could be banned. Talking to reporters in Malda in West Bengal, he said: "We are a pluralistic nation and we respect all religions. I love literature and I have nothing against her writing. But that does not mean she can use her pen to insult and hurt the religious belief of the Muslims or for that matter any religion."
"The comments made by her in the book in question were uncalled for. She should bow down before the people whose sentiments she has hurt and apologise with folded hands, and expunge those pages from her book," Dasmunsi said.
"We did not allow Salman Rushdie's book (The Satanic Verses) when it caused a flutter and raised controversy. She will not be an exception," said Dasmunsi.
Confined to a 'safe house' somewhere in New Delhi and shut out from the world except for phone calls and emails, Taslima Nasreen longs to come back to Kolkata from where she was shunted out in November after unprecedented street riots over her writings.
The Indian government earlier virtually told Taslima to leave the country or stay confined in a house away from Kolkata, where she had set up home for the past few years returning from exile in Europe after she was hounded out of Bangladesh for her writings.
Asked if she should be allowed to return to West Bengal, Dasmuni said, "I will not make any comment on this. When the state government had welcomed her and asked her to settle down in Kolkata complying with her wishes, they were under the impression that they were about to bring a progressive revolution in the State."
"So it is their headache now," he said taking a dig at the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM)-led Left Front government in the State.
But if Taslima has to stay in India or any other country, she has to honour and respect the philosophy and identity of that nation, he added.
At the beginning of 2008, the writer had described her condition as in a no man's land of fading hope, despair and crushing loneliness.
"I am only breathing. I don't think I am alive like you are. Can anybody live like this? It was beyond my imagination that in a secular democracy this can happen to a writer," Nasreen told IANS from her room in an undisclosed New Delhi house recently.
BSP wages war on UPA on terror strikes
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LTTE warns of escalation, to 'demonstrate' military strength
Colombo: Unfazed by the recent reverses, the Tamil Tigers today hinted an escalation in their military offensive against the Sri Lankan government even as they accused India and other countries of being "indecisive" in taking a stand on the ethnic strife in the island country.
"Only the demonstration of military strength by the Tigers can bring clarity to the situation and get them (the international community) to correctly relate their interests and assertively engage in the crisis," senior LTTE member considered the outfit's ideologue K. Balakumaran told the 'National Television of Tamileelam (NTT)'.
The warning by LTTE, which has been dealt crucial blows with the killing of its political wing chief S P Thamilselvan and intelligence leader 'Colonel' Charles, came days after the government's decision to withdraw from the Ceasefire Agreement it had entered with the LTTE in February 2002.
Balakumaran said the international community including India have been indecisive in dealing with the Sri Lankan situation. "The international community has been vacillating in taking decisive actions on Sri Lanka because they are unable to relate their own interests to the chaotically unfolding political and military situation in Sri Lanka."
"We expect 2008 will be the year where we can overcome the diplomatic hurdles that confront us," he was quoted as saying by the pro-LTTE website TamilNet.
He claimed that the international community cannot call LTTE "obstinate, or terrorists" as in 2003 it had proposed the Interim Self Governing Authority. "(It is ) our minimal requirement for power-sharing which will satisfy us, he said.
"We expect in 2008, the Tigers will bring clarity to Sri Lanka's conflict," Balakumaran said.
If a Bhutto must run PPP, why not Fatima?'
Islamabad (PTI): Jemima Khan, the glamorous former wife of cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan, has fired another salvo at the Bhutto clan, saying slain former premier Benazir Bhutto's niece Fatima is better qualified to run her party than her teenaged son Bilawal.
The "justification" for the selection of Benazir's son as chairman (of the Pakistan People's Party) was that only a Bhutto could provide unity within the party, the British socialite wrote in the Sunday Telegraph.
"If so, then why not 25-year-old Fatima Bhutto, who is arguably more qualified for the job than her teenage Facebooking cousin?" Jemima asked.
"If everything's in a name, Fatima need not have changed hers in order to inherit. Brought up in Pakistan, unlike Bilawal, and a native speaker, she is an established writer and political commentator.
"At least she has some work experience. Aunt Benazir's first-ever job was prime minister of a 160-million-strong nation," wrote Jemima, whose had often criticised Benazir Bhutto's politics.
"It helps, in a lookist society, that (Fatima is) also as beautiful as her aunt - a young Salma Hayek lookalike - and has similar tragic appeal: orphaned, like most Bhuttos, as a result of a political assassination. Fatima is also politicised and outspoken. Too much so," she said.
"She repeatedly accused her aunt of being complicit in the murder of her father and savagely opposed Zardari. That ruled her out," wrote Jemima, whose last article on the former premier was titled "As prime minister, Bhutto did little".
Pachauri supports India's nuclear power quest
Mumbai : Supporting India's quest for nuclear power, United Nations climate panel's chief scientist R K Pachauri has said that country should pursue it to contain emission and meet energy needs.
"Nuclear power in my mind will have a place in overall scheme of things. Firstly, it is a clean energy as it does not emit any green house gases. Secondly, to certain extent, it would offset the pressure on fossil fuel," Pachauri, chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said.
In next one decade, you will not get a major chunk of energy from Nuclear power. Only six to seven per cent of energy need will be met. But you are laying the foundation of a much larger share of nuclear energy.
"I am not saying that nuclear is without any problems. Ensuring the safeguards of handling nuclear energy, the government must pursue with it as we have very serious shortage of national resources in this country like coal and hydrocarbons," he said.
"Therefore, nuclear power provides an opportunity to enhance energy sources and cut pollution levels. The government also understands this," Pachauri said.
On the issue of reducing emission to control climate change, Pachauri said that though India should not shy away from its responsibility of cutting emission, the onus lay on the developed countries to start the process.
"This is an issue, based on common but differentiated responsibility. India cannot be expected to commit to reduce emissions. It has to be first done by the developed nations," the Nobel laureate said.
IPCC led by Pachauri last year won the Nobel Peace Prize for sounding the alarm over global warming and spreading awareness on how to counteract it.
Pachauri said that the last two years' award selection clearly reflected the fact that poverty and climate change can lead towards disruption of peace. It is a very clear signal that world must understand these are a serious impediments for world peace, he said.
In 2006, Nobel Peace Prize went to Muhammad Yunus for poverty alleviation in Bangladesh.
"Continuation of poverty is very serious threat to peace. The countries with largest amount of threat to security are in the poorest regions of the world like Afghanistan, Darfur and others. It is essentially the persistence of poverty which threatens peace," Pachauri said.
This is where Muhammad Yunus has done a remarkable job by setting up Grameen Banks for poverty alleviation in one of the poorest countries in the world, he said.
"Yunus has created the conditions for removing poverty among women, and those who are generally outside the system which would help in their uplifment. He has extended that system to include those who were earlier excluded," he said.
Similarly, climate change would have worst possible impact on the poor, Pachauri said, adding it would also provide basis for conflict in situations like water scarcity.
"It would also affect agriculture, particularly farmers depending on rain fed agriculture. If their livelihood is affected, they would be forced to migrate. This would put strain on limited resources, leading to conflicts," he added.
'Indian craftsmen, artisans used nanotech 2000 yrs ago'
Visakhapatnam : Indian craftsmen and artisans used nanotechnology extensively about 2000 years ago to make weapons and long lasting cave paintings, a Nobel laureate of Chemistry said here. However, the craftsmen were completely unaware that they were practising carbon nano-techniques that are the most sought after in the current age. Citing examples of the famous Damascus blades used in the famous sword of Tipu Sultan and Ajanta Paintings, Nobel laureate Robert Curl Jr. said studies have found existence of carbon nano particles in both.
On the sword scientists found carbon nanotubes, cylindrical arrangements of carbon atoms first discovered in 1991 and now made in laboratories all over the world.
"Our ancestors have been unwittingly using the technology for over 2,000 years and carbon nano for about 500 years. Carbon nanotechnology is much older than carbon nanoscience," Curl said at the ongoing 95th Indian Science Congress here.
The 74-year-old scientist from the US shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto for the discovery of the carbon cage compounds, known as fullerenes.
Indian craftsmen used unique smelting techniques to manufacture the Damascus blades which led to nanotisation giving them a unique long-lasting edge.
They had the technology to make wootz steel, a 'high-grade' steel that was highly prized and much sought after across several regions of the world over nearly two millennia.
Wootz also had a high percentage of carbon, which was introduced by incorporating wood and other organic matter during fabrication.
India, for ages, was a leading exporter of this steel which was used to make Persian daggers which were quite popular in Europe centuries ago.
The technique to manufacture wootz declined steadily and has not been in use since the 17th century, Curl said.
Zardari alleges Govt. hand in Bhutto murder, demands UN probe
Washington, (PTI): Elements within the Pakistan government were involved in the killing of opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto, her husband alleged on Saturday and sought the West's support for a UN investigation into the assassination, saying the on-going official probe is like putting a "fox in charge of the hen-house."
"Her murder does not end her vision and must not be allowed to empower her assassins. Those responsible -- within and outside of government -- must be held accountable," Asif Ali Zardari wrote in a commentary in The Washington Post.
"I call on the United Nations to commence a thorough investigation of the circumstances, facts and coverup of my wife's murder, modelled on the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri," he said.
Zardari also called on the "friends of democracy in the West", particularly the US and Britain, to support such an investigation.
"An investigation conducted by the government of Pakistan will have no credibility, in my country or anywhere else," he wrote.
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KMC notice to stop filling-up of waterbody
Kolkata, Jan. 5: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) today issued notices to stop the illegal filling up of a 64-cottah waterbody in Ghulam Muhammed Sheikh Road in South Kolkata. The move was prompted after residents of the area, as well as a non-governmental organisation (NGO) had complained about the incident.
When asked member mayor-in-council (lighting And environment), Mr Sushil Kumar Sharma said: “We had been for the past few days receiving complaints about the waterbody being filled up. Even an NGO called Friends of Wetlands complained about the same yesterday. Based on these complaints, we are taking action.”
The MMiC also alerted the executive engineer of Borough 10. Later, based on the report of the executive engineer, the MMiC paid a personal visit after which a notice was issued by the city civic body under the Town and Country Planning Act.
The notice asks the owner of the pond to restore the waterbody to its original condition failing which the KMC will take appropriate penal action. SNS
Realtors connive with cops & babus to grab land
Statesman News Service
KOLKATA, Jan. 5: Today’s incident at Manicktala where some henchmen of a builder had allegedly let loose dogs and fired in the air to scare away local residents protesting against the filling up of a waterbody has once again proved beyond doubt that the chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee,’s threat against those who would dare to capture the reclaimed land was nothing but a hoax.
The lack of co-ordination between the state fisheries department and police has been exploited by a section of builders to fill up the waterbodies and start construction on the reclaimed land.
The realtors pay handsomely to a section of the employees of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s assessment department and forge documents to show the water body as “land”. While water is slowly drained out, police and fisheries department staff look the other way.
The victim of the nexus between the staff of the fisheries department, police and civic employees are the residents who are compelled to run from pillar to post to register their complaints against the filling-up of the waterbodies.
Mr Madan Pramanick, who us-ed to do pisciculture in the pond till the water was dried up, alleged that his complaints to the state fisheries department had failed to yield results.
“We have been doing pisciculture in the waterbody for the past three generations. I lodged a complaint with the state fisheries department but it fell on deaf ears. No one came to make an on-the-spot survey.”
Mr B Karmakar who has been staying in the area for the past three decades said plenty of trees and a walkers’ ally once surrounded the pond but over the past one-and-a half years, some men have turned it into a garbage dump.
Moreover, for the past six months, attempts have been made to dry up the waterbody. Though complaints were lodged with the police, nothing was done.
Senior officials of the state fisheries department and city police leveled charges against each other in an attempt to pass the buck. While the former said that they had asked the police to take action, the latter excused themselves by saying that they did not have adequate manpower to stop a waterbody from being filled up. This has in turn compelled the local people to launch agitation against those who would make attempt to fill up waterbodies.
Biodiversity action plan will be sent to Cabinet soon
Statesman News Service
NEW DELHI, Jan. 5: The environment ministry will soon be placing before the Cabinet the draft National Biodiversity Action Plan (NBAP), which essentially identifies threats and constraints in India’s bio-diversity conservation. The draft has been circulated to various Union ministries and departments, the minister of state for environment and forests, Mr Namo Narayan Meena, told the 13th Consultative Committee meeting of the ministry yesterday.
“Bio-diversity is fundamental to the fulfillment of human need and vital for the survival of this planet,” Mr Meena explained. “The environment reach in biological diversities offers a broad array of options for sustainable economic activity, for sustaining human welfare and for adopting to change.” This made sustainable development possible, protecting life from the potential consequences of change, including sudden changes of eco system, he added.
A long pending exercise, an NGO was earlier delegated the task of preparing the report. The National Biodiversity Strategic Action Plan (NBSAP) brought out by the NGO was subsequently rejected after scrutiny by a team of scientists in October 2005.
The current NBAP, Mr Meena informed the Consultative Committee, was prepared after an extensive consultative process. The draft NBAP is in consonance with the National Environment Policy (NEP), whose central concern is sustainable development of human beings.
The NBAP’s main focus was to identify human activities that place severe pressure on biological resources and increasingly lead to fragmentation and degradation of habitats. This results in loss of bio-diversity, the minister pointed out.
Another significant threat to bio-diversity, he said, was greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Biodiversity and global warming were closely linked and each has an impact on the other, he explained.
Seventeen countries, which are rich in bio-diversity and are associated with traditional knowledge, have formed a group of Like Minded Megadiverse Countries (LMMCs), the meeting was informed.
Members of the Consultative Committee expressed concern about degradation of bio-diversity. They suggested creation of awareness through media and to start a campaign involving masses. Members also suggested working at the global level, as saving of India’s environment alone could not solve this problem
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Government is scanning Taslima's visitors
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Exiled Bangladesh writer Taslima Nasreen has complained that she is not being allowed to move out of her house at an undisclosed place in Delhi and there were curbs on those who wanted to meet her. In an e-mailed communication to those who stood by her and backed calls for her return to Kolkata, she said her visitors have to take permission from "higher-ups" in the govt and their time and duration of meeting her is fixed by them.
Nasreen, bundled out of Kolkata in November following widespread violent protests by a Muslim group for her alleged anti-Islam writings, said those who had indulged in arson and violence had not read his book Dwikhondito.
She insisted the violence was not due to certain controversial portions of the book as no writer in the world nor she could ever be the cause of violence. In any case, the book was first published three years ago but there had been no violence all this time, particularly even after the West Bengal withdrew a ban on it. The author said since she had withdrawn the allegedly offending portions of Dwikhondito and there had been no protests after her action, there was no reason why she should not be allowed to return to Kolkata.
Nasreen said if important people could freely move around with security without causing law and order problem, she saw no reason why she cannot do the same. When contacted, she told reporters that she had sent the communication to a meeting of intellectuals, who had come out in her support, held in Kolkata two days ago.
Nasreen has written an open letter to her friends in Kolkata describing how she is living virtually under house arrest in a safe house in Delhi. In the letter, distributed at a literary fair in the city, Taslima says she doesn't even know the address of her current residence. "This existence cannot be called living," this is what Taslima has written in the open letter to her friends in Kolkata, penning for the first time her thoughts since her forced ouster from the city.
"I am virtually under house arrest. I don't even know the address of where I am being kept. Every visitor has to be cleared by the Home Ministry," Taslima writes. Written from confinement in Delhi and undated, Taslima's two-page letter has evoked sharp reactions from those protesting her ouster from the city. "West Bengal government has done this to please the fundamentalist in the state. They think they will get Muslim votes by doing this. This is a very dirty thought," said Mahashweta Devi, writer. "She alone is not in a predicament. It is as much a predicament for the people in Bangladesh for people in West Bengal, a predicament that faces humanity at large. The freedom of expression is an inherent human right," said Ashok Mitra, former Finance Minister of West Bengal.
The controversial writer clearly believes her rights are being violated. "I do not believe my writings are the cause of protests. I believe the attack on me is politically motivated and that the events of November 21 have no connection with my writings," Taslima writes. However, the letter, ends with an appeal. "India has in the past been a refuge for so many people. I am one of them," she writes. "I long to be back in Kolkata."
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Buddhadeb's Capitalism route irks partners
The junior partners in the Left Front today dissociated themselves from Buddhadeb Bhattacharya's "unabashed" advocacy of Capitalism yesterday as the "only way to industrialise the state." Manju Majumder, CPI state secretary, expressed surprise over the way the Chief Minister had discarded Socialism and embraced Capitalism "which alone can fund the state's industrialisation." India not given up on U.S. nuclear deal
India has not yet dumped the controversial nuclear deal with the United States, opposed by the government's communist allies, but feared that time was running out to clinch it. Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said New Delhi was still trying to find ways out of the face-off with the left parties, who have threatened to end support if the deal is pursued, but did not indicate how a solution could be found.
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Lanka for negotiated political settlement
Sri Lanka today said it was still open to a "negotiated political settlement" with the Tamil Tigers to the over two-decade-old ethnic conflict despite scrapping a ceasefire agreement, which it claimed, had been violated "thousands of times" by the rebels. "I wish to underline that the termination of the CFA (Ceasefire Agreement) does not in anyway hamper the process of moving towards a negotiated political settlement," India defers Gold jewellery hallmarking
India has deferred implementation of a new law on hallmarking of gold jewellery to certify their purity after trade concerns that it would disrupt the world's largest gold market. "It has been deferred. We are not implementing it from Jan. 1," Consumer Affairs Secretary told reporters. "The gold jewellery association wanted to have some discussion. We will hold a meeting with them in the next week or so," he added.
Ground work for JSW Steel's Bengal project to start in Feb
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Teen smoking impacts concentration
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