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Nithyananda Swamiji getting Oil massage from Ranjitha
Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Nithyananda Swamiji getting Oil massage from Ranjitha
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India gives $5 mn for Chile quake relief
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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India has announced a cash contribution of $5 million for relief and rehabilitation in Chile in a show of solidarity with the people of the earthquake-hit country.
"As a country familiar with the consequences of natural disasters, we fully understand the trauma and suffering that our Chilean brethren are living through," India's Permanent Representative to the UN Hardeep Singh Puri said here on Wednesday.
Speaking at an informal meeting of the plenary of the United Nations General Assembly for a briefing by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, he said immediately on hearing the news of the Feb 27earthquake, the Indian government initiated measures to show solidarity with the people of Chile.
Last week, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh conveyed to the Chilean president, Dr. Michelle Bachelet, that India would be making a modest cash contribution of US$ 5 million for relief and rehabilitation work following the earthquake, Puri said.
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Kings XI Punjab have good mix of players: Sangakkara
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Newly appointed captain of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) Kumar Sangakkara feels that despite injuries to Yuvraj Singh and Brett Lee, he has a good mix of players to choose from in the forthcoming third season of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
"We have a very strong team this season with some of the best cricketers of the world. The team is here to win and we have a wonderful choice as there is a good mix of both international and domestic players," Sangakkara, told reporters.
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After Indians, now Canadian assaulted in Australia
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After a recent spate of attacks on Indian students in Australia, it was the turn of a wheelchair-bound Canadian man who was beaten by Australian teenagers in Sydney on Tuesday, reports in Toronto said.
Heath Proden, 35, from Winnipeg suffered skull fracture in the assault and is waiting for surgery in a Sydney hospital, reports said Wednesday.
Proden, incapacitated since the age of 10, was in Sydney to attend a concert by his friends' band called Doc Walker Tuesday night.
His anxious mother Shellan Proden told the Canadian media on Wednesday that she was shocked to receive a call about the assault on her disabled son.
"I was devastated. He was having such a good time there," she said from Winnipeg Beach where her son lived with her.
Canada's Canwest News Service said Proden was waiting for a train in Sydney following the concert when he was approached and verbally harassed by two teenage boys.
Proden tried to leave but he was punched in the face and knocked from his wheelchair.
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Funeral procession of Andhra student taken to Assembly
Amid tight security, the body of Sai Kumar, a second year B. Tech student of Osmania University, was brought to Gun Park near the Andhra Pradesh state assembly on Tuesday night to enable supporters of the Telangana movement to pay their last respects.
Sai Kumar’s body was later taken to his native village Kodad in Nalgonda district where the last rites will be performed Wednesday.
The student hanged himself in his hostel room Tuesday to protest the delay in carving out a Telangana state. In his suicide note, he expressed the wish that his body be taken in a procession to the assembly.
The suicide triggered fresh tension in Osmania University, the nerve centre of the ongoing Telangana movement, as students clashed with police at Gandhi Hospital when the latter did not allow them to take the body to assembly. Some students were injured when police used batons.
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Pakistan ban Yousuf and Khan
The Pakistan Cricket Board has barred former captains Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan from the national team indefinitely and imposed a one-year ban on a third former skipper, Shoaib Malik.
They are being punished for behaviour the board says contributed to Pakistan's poor performance on its recent tour of Australia. Rana Naved has also been banned for a year, and fines have also been imposed on three other players.
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Sonia Gandhi, Nooyi, Chanda Kochhar in Asia's 8 top power women
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Zhang Yin, China
In the 1990s Zhang Yin decided to form a company to ship American scrap paper back to China to turn into cardboard boxes for export.
It was a stroke of genius and Zhang “Paper Queen” Yin never looked back. Her company Nine Dragons Paper Holdings is currently China’s biggest paper maker and places her at second on Hurun Report’s latest China rich list, with a net worth of USD$4.9 million. She’s also the world’s richest self-made woman, ahead of Oprah Winfrey and eBay CEO Meg Whitman.
As a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a powerful government advisory body, Zhang is also currently lobbying for the relaxation of China’s birth control policy and emissions reduction.
Indra Nooyi, India
As the chief executive of soft drink and snack company PepsiCo, the Indian-born Indra Nooyi lords over some 185,000 corporate minions in close to 200 countries. Since joining the giant snack provider in 1994, the 54-year old Nooyi has consistently tried to steer the company in a more waistline-friendly direction, which includes dropping fast food chains KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell in 1997, and acquiring Tropicana and Quaker Oats in later years.
She's currently revamping Pepsi's falling profit share in the drinks business with the healthy Pepsi Natural and Propel Fitness Water, as well as shouldering corporate responsibility with the "Pepsi Refresh Project." Nooyi's hard-as-nails leadership and her sense of fun (the one-time lead guitarist in an all-girls rock band still performs regularly at corporate functions) has earned her spots on many 'best leader' lists in the United States.
Sonia Gandhi, India
As president of the major political party the Indian National Congress, converted Indian Sonia Gandhi's story reads like a soap opera.
Born Edvige Antonia Albina Maino in Italy, she met future husband and Indian political aristocrat Rajiv Gandhi at Cambridge and tied the knot four years later. Rajiv became India's prime minister but was assassinated in 1991. Years later Gandhi entered politics as a primary member of the Indian National Congress before rising through the ranks to become party leader in 1998.
Under her leadership, the Indian National Congress become the Lok Sabha's single largest political party. Gandhi's also big on austerity, travelling economy class on a 2009 flight and urging MPs to contribute their salary to drought victims in India.
Ho Ching, Singapore
Ho Ching may be the wife of Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong but she’s no demure accessory. As CEO of Singapore’s government-owned investment company Temasek, Ho stands out as a leading lady in the machismo world of global finance.
In her tenure as Temasek’s chief executive, Ho has been lauded for her bold corporate decisions, which includes investing in Indian and Chinese telecom and banking firms. Under her leadership, Temasek has evolved from a standard Singaporean investment company to one of Asia’s leading investors with a US$100 billion net worth. Ching suffered a minor setback in 2009 when her role as CEO was replaced by Charles "Chip" Goodyear, but five month later she regained her seat at the top when Goodyear resigned.
Chanda Kochhar, India
Chandra Kochhar is no stranger to 'key women' lists. The head of ICICI Bank -- India's second largest bank -- has frequently been named in Fortune's "Most Powerful Women in Business" list, and last year she figured among Forbes' "World's 100 Most Powerful Women".
Little wonder, considering how the mother of two is responsible for some 15 million customers in India, which makes up a third of India's retail lending. Since joining ICICI in 1984 as a management trainee, Kochhar has been credited to turning the company from a wholesale lender to the retail banking dynamo that it is today. Under her leadership, ICICI Bank is currently worth around US$120 billion in assets.
Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh
When it comes to political staying power, Bangladesh's prime minister Sheikh Hasina's record is hard to beat. During her three decades in public office, she's been slammed with numerous extortion allegations and a murder charge. She dodged assassination attempts in 2004 and was thrown in jail in 2007. Despite the furor, Hasina has managed to win a second term as Bangladesh's prime minister by winning a landslide victory in the 2008 Bangladeshi general elections.
Hasina is also a member of the Council of Women World Leaders and is an outspoken advocate for women's rights.
Hasina is currently pushing for improved bilateral relations between Bangladesh and India over border disputes, as well as addressing unemployment issues at home.
Hyun Jeong-eun, South Korea
Hyun Jeong-eun, chairwoman of massive South Korean conglomerate Hyundai, is still referred to as "a housewife" in some circles. Not that it fazes her.
Hyun took over the Hyundai leadership after her husband and fomer Hyundai CEO Chung Mong-Hun committed suicide in 2003. As head of all of Hyundai's businesses (from motor production to ship building) Hyun has more than doubled revenue from 5.42 trillion won to the current 12.78 trillion won (US$11 billion), the company said.
The Hyundai group is currently caught in the political wrangle over inter-Korea travel tours, while pundits expect the group to push for aggressive growth with the relocation of Hyundai offices throughout the country.
Sri Indrawati, Indonesia
Although Indonesia's finance minister Sri Indrawati is now being pelted with corruption charges over a bank bailout in 2008, there's no denying that Indrawati is one of Asia's most powerful women.
Since stepping in as finance minister in 2005, the 48-year-old reformist Indrawati has been credited for wiping out corruption in the finance ministry (her bureau is now the government's least corrupt department, according to Forbes). Her tough and effective handling of Indonesia's finances after the 2009 global finance crisis hit, such as slashing debt and reforming customs and taxes, has pundits applauding.
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