235 boys and girls have been arrested after the anti narcotics cell of the Mumbai Police busted a rave party in pub Bombay 72 degrees East in upmarket Juhu area. There were around 35 girls and foreign nationals in the party. Eight drug dealers were also arrested with a substantial amount of cocaine and other such drugs. Among those arrested were actor Shakti Kapoor’s son Sidhant, who is supposedly a DJ at the pub, and actors Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab’s daughter Sana.
Such parties are gaining popularity in India. It all began since such a party was disrupted by the police in Pushkar, Rajasthan. Since then rave parties are regularly organized and the invitees told of the venue clandestinely. The most recent in news was the rave party that was disrupted by fundamentalists in Bangalore a few months back. The police are informed of such gatherings by locals or just their network of spies.
I guess people should realize that we can have fun even without drugs and hallucinating agents. The police say that such parties are dangerous because many youngsters after consumption of such stuff turn suicidal and get difficult to control.
Ratan Tata has announced that Tata Motors will move the Nano plant out of Singur. This decision has been taken in the wake of strong protests from the opposition led by Trinomool Congress (TMC) leader Ms. Mamata Banerjee. Mr. Tata very categorically has named the opposition and Mamata Banerjee in particular for the decision. In Singur the farmers have expressed deep regret at this decision and called a protest blockade of the Durgapur Highway to make themselves heard. This is the situation in ground zero as of now.
Like many bloggers I have too taken a stand favoring the factory at Singur and I still believe that a Tata factory in rural Bengal will transform its topography for the good as it has been for Jamshedpur. But then I cannot refrain from criticizing the CPM government’s policies and methods of land acquisition here. See living in Bengal I know more than any outsider the kind of dirty politics the Left has played in West Bengal for the last few decades. Today we are taking a favorable stand towards them only because we are seeing the problem from one dimension.
One one hand there would have been jobs for many youths after the factory would have been set up but then wouldn’t it be better if the government would be more systematic in procuring the land? An example has been set up by the Ambani’s who sought a majority vote from farmers and land owners of an area in Maharashtra before going about acquiring land. The CPM in Bengal have undoubtedly used ruffians, as is their trademark, to take land by force. IN so many decades of rule the party had not the sense to draw up a land map of the state of Bengal. You cannot take land at your whim. The Left now is playing at popular emotions and public support for not the government but the Tata business house. Ratan Tata is highly respected by everyone and that’s why people are sympathizing with him.
The CPM cannot say that it has supported industrialization in Bengal. For that matter we cannot say any political party has thought for the betterment of Bengal. The politics of bandhs and dharnas and unionization has closed most jute mills and factories of Bengal. In more recent times I can quote the opposition of departmental and convenient stores by the Left parties in Bengal. The Forward Bloc, the biggest supporter of the CPM government in Bengal, had recently tried to prevent issuing an agricultural license to the German company Metro Cash and Carry. The company in question is another store that will stock agricultural products which they’ll buy from the farmers. Forward Bloc say they always protested issuing license to such departmental stores as it will be detrimental to the corner grocer store and the road side illegal vendor. Only after the intervention of Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, after the German Ambassador threatened dire consequences and Lufthansa said they would exit, did the Forward Bloc controlled Agriculture Board relent. So my point is that this sudden holier than thou attitude of the CPM is really a farce.
The CPM and TMC are all actually two sides of the same coin. They are fighting a political battle here before the elections and the Tata’s have been caught in the crossfire. When Bengal today thinks about the Singur problem let her remember to look at both sides of the dispute and then voice an opinion. Lets not condemn what happened but analyze and see how the government could have avoided this fiasceo from occuring. In doing so lets keep in mind the destructive politics the Left has played in West Bengal and that it upholds the same bandh centered tactics even today.
In the wee hours of Tuesday Soumya Viswanathan, an employee of TV Today Network’s English news channel Headlines Today, was found dead in her car in Nelson Mandela Road in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi. Her car was rammed into the road divider. She was taken to AIIMS where she was declared brought dead. Doctors found a bullet in her temple. The police had found a bullet in the front tyre and say that a personal enmity could be a cause and have filed a case of murder. The visuals of the crime scene being aired on television do not show any damage to the car. It is believed that the car must have been stopped first or at least slowed down before shooting Soumya.
When things like this happen it seems that today we are so overtaken by our primeval animal instincts that taking someone’s life has become a mere game to us. None of us are safe any more. And situations like these cannot be even prevented by the law. How are we to trust people is actually the big question here. It is so difficult to decipher the contorted mind of men.
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) president and veteran leader Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi passed away on Monday night.
Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi had been ailing for some time and was admitted to the Care Hospital in Banjara Hills and was kept on ventilator. His condition worsened during the last few days and his sons decided to take him home with doctors terming his condition as clinically not treatable.
There are all sorts of rumors flying around saying that ICICI bank is going to close down. Some have even heard rumors to the extent saying the bank is going to file for bankruptcy.
Well, I can only laugh at these rumors.
Nothing is going to happen to the Bank. Indian banking laws are so strict that every bank has enough fiscal regulations to protect them in case of such downturn.
Sure world over there is an economic crisis and in New York many financial giants are tumbling down. But there is a difference in the way American banks conduct vs the way Indian banks do business.
So don’t worry. If you are an ICICI bank customer, your money is not going anywhere.
Autumn is here and once again millions of Bengalis across the globe are preparing frantically for Durga Puja. For those in India it is a crazy time. With all the gifts and new clothes for all the four days of the occasion. It all begins with Mahalaya which signifies the goddess Durga’s journey from her mountain home of Kailash to earth to visit her parents for just four days.
She is accompanied by her four children-Lakshmi, Ganesha, Saraswati and Kartika. Exactly after a week from Mahalaya the festivities of Durga Puja begin. This day is significant because it is the time to remember our ancestors by doing the ‘tarpan’. It is performed by offering food and water in the names of our near and dear ones who are no longer alive. This also marks the beginning of preparations for Navratri.
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This time it was the Mehrauli flower market. Two men in a black Bajaj Pulsar had kept a bomb packed in a tiffin box and sped away. A little boy of 13 had picked it up and was calling after the men when a low intensity blast occured. The boy, named Santosh, died on the spot and 24 others were injured.
The list of casualties among those injured is believed to be close to 10. It seems that emails regarding the blast was sent to the news channel Headlines Today and the Delhi Police. Eye witnesses corroborated the story as recounted by the police. The blast occured at 2:05 in the afternoon, 27th September, and was strong enough to shatter the windows of the adjoining shops. It was a busy day as buyers were out shopping for Ramadan. A couple have come forward claiming they could identify the two men on the bike but security forces believe it would be difficult as they were wearing helmets.
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The Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board (BCECEB) has declared its result of ITICAT 2008. The result can be accessed from the below mentioned site.
Karnataka ITI results have also been declared and will be made available here shortly.
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www.TN.GOV.in/TNUSRB is where you can find the exam results but I strongly suspect that some users may not be able to access the site.
TN Recruitment Notifications from www.tn.gov.in/tnusrb is going to come in handy to a lot of readers who took the exam and are now eagerly looking forward to the results.
This is primarily a recruitment drive examination - Recruitment Notifications from Tamilnadu Government - www.tn.gov.in/tnusrb Recruitment
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KAR NIC Results have been declared and can be found at www.kar.nic.in/resultsats
I think right now the site is down due to massive use as the KAR.NIC.IN results have just been declared. So until we get to the site to find out what the outcome has been like, lets start a discussion here about any questions we might have. Also if you would like to know your score or if you are having any difficulties, post it here.
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