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Posted by ks on 03/02/10 at 05:57 PM
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Haldiram owner, 4 others get life imprisonment in murder case

Feb 2, 2010
Haldiram Bhujiawala proprietor Prabhu Shankar Agarwal was today sentenced to life imprisonment, along with four others, by a fast track court for conspiring to kill a tea stall owner whose shop came in the way of a food plaza he was building.

Judge Tapan Sen of the Bankshall court sentenced Agarwal and the others, Gopal Tiwari, Arun Khandelwal, Manoj Sharma and Raju Sonkar (all of whom had a criminal record), for attempt to murder, criminal conspiracy and, in one case, for breaches of the Arms Act.
Agarwal, owner of the multi-crore food and confectionery chain, Haldiram — which has outlets in many cities and also in London — had failed to persuade tea stall owner Satyanarayan Sharma in the Burrabazar area here to move out. The latter’s the shop would have spoilt the facade of the food plaza he was constructing. His hired goons had then raided the shop, looking for Satyanarayan, but not finding him, shot his nephew, Pramod Sharma, injuring him seriously on March 30, 2005.
Agarwal, who was in London to open his first overseas food plaza at the time of the attack, was arrested when he returned home two months later. He was arrested at IGI Airport in New Delhi on landing and given to the Kolkata Police.

Posted by ks on 02/02/10 at 09:10 PM
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India celebrates 61st Republic Day

January 26, 2010

Posted by ks on 01/26/10 at 09:51 PM
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Padma Bhushan award for Fareed Zakaria

January 25, 2010
Fareed Zakaria, the Bombay-born editor of Newsweek International and the host of CNN’s GPS, has been decorated with India’s third highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan.

“I am deeply honored and humbled. I am absolutely delighted to be in the company of people with extraordinary achievements,” Zakaria told Press Trust of India.

“I believe India and the US are moving on a path of inevitable partnership. (There are) so many broad forces pushing these two countries together — from strategic forces to cultural forces to intellectual force. I believe that we would see the 21st century in which the US and India ideas, interest, values and increasingly cooperate on the global stage.”

Posted by ks on 01/25/10 at 11:55 PM
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Padma Shri award for Dr. Sudhir M. Parikh

January 25, 2010
Indian American physician, philanthropist and publisher, Dr. Sudhir M. Parikh, has been named a recipient of the 2010 Padma Shri award. The New Jersey-based doctor made the President of India’s honorees’ list released on Jan. 25th, the eve of the country’s 60th Republic Day.

With this honor, Dr. Parikh now joins the ranks of most honored Indian Americans and the only one to receive all three much coveted awards: the Ellis Island Award, the highest honor conferred on U.S. immigrants for their lifetime of community service; the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, a special award given by the Government of India to select non-resident Indians for their individual accomplishments and contributions to India, and; the Padma Shri, which is awarded to distinguished Indians and people of Indian origin for their contribution in various spheres of activity including the arts, education, industry, literature, science, sports, social service and public life. The award will be presented by President Pratibha Patil at a ceremony in New Delhi in March.

Posted by ks on 01/25/10 at 06:54 PM
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List of 2010 Padma Awards

January 25, 2010
This year the President has approved 130 awards including 13 in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs. These comprise 6 Padma Vibhushan, 43 Padma Bhushan and 81 Padma Shri awards.
Click here to see the list: List_of_Padma_Awards_2010.pdf

Britain based Ramakrishnan, who got the Nobel Prize for Chemistry last year, got the Padma Vibhushan - for science and engineering.

From USA, those that have got the Padma Bhushan are Newsweek International editor Zakaria for journalism, Prof Tan Chung for literature and education, Chatwal, hotelier and lobbyist, for public affairs and Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj, for science and engineering.

From USA, getting the Padma Shri are Sheldon Pollock for literature and education, Ponisseril Somasundaram for science and engineering and Sudhir M. Parikh, doctor and newspaper publisher, for social work.

Padma Awards, the country’s highest civilian awards, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.

The awards are given in all disciplines/ fields of activities, viz. art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year.

The awards are conferred by the President of India at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan sometime around March/ April. This year the President has approved 130 awards including 13 in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs. These comprise 6 Padma Vibhushan, 43 Padma Bhushan and 81 Padma Shri awards. There are 17 ladies among the awardees.

Posted by ks on 01/25/10 at 12:37 PM
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25,000 Indian-origin British doctors to return to India

Nearly 25,000 British doctors of Indian origin are set to return to India within two to four years and some of them are “most likely to join the seven AIIMS-like institutions” proposed to be set up by the central government.

Posted by ks on 01/04/10 at 04:28 AM
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PM winds up survey of flood-hit Karnataka, Andhra; announces Rs.2,000 crore (Rs. 20 billion) relief

Hyderabad, Oct 10, 2009. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday wound up his two-day aerial survey of flood devastation in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka and granted interim relief of Rs.1,000 crore (Rs.10 billion) to each state.

‘I announce an interim relief of Rs.1,000 crore for Karnataka. For the 226 precious lives lost in the flash floods and rain havoc, I have already announced compensation of Rs.100,000 to the next of kin of the victims,‘ he said ata press conference in Raichur, about 400 km from Karnataka capital Bangalore.

Posted by ks on 10/14/09 at 11:55 PM
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Clinton Urges Stronger U.S.-India Ties

NEW DELHI — With both poetry and prose, the United States pledged Monday to embark on a new era of deeper relations with India — a partnership of what Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton likes to call the world’s largest democracy and its oldest continuously functioning one.

As Mrs. Clinton conjured up a soaring vision of friendship between the two countries in a speech to a university audience here, the Obama administration signed off on a nuts-and-bolts technical agreement that will open the door to lucrative military sales by the United States to India. In addition, India said it had designated two sites where American companies would build nuclear power plants.

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Posted by ks on 07/22/09 at 09:49 PM
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Clinton’s Challenge in India

Author: Evan A. Feigenbaum, Senior Fellow for East, Central, and South Asia

For fifty years until the late 1990s, the United States mostly ignored India, treating it as a South Asian regional power with little weight on the global stage. India’s anemic rate of growth gave it little stake in the global economy. Its nonaligned foreign policy made diplomatic coordination difficult. To the extent Washington focused on India at all, too often its spotlight shined solely on the India-Pakistan relationship: their rivalry, military competition, dueling nuclear weapons programs, and their several wars.

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Posted by ks on 07/21/09 at 05:49 PM
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