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1. Weekly Worker no775 (25/06/09) now available at cpgb.org.uk
From: Steve Cooke
2a. SIBAL DE TRAUMA OFFENSIVE and Indiscriminate REFORM Drive! Privatisa
From: palashc biswas
2b. SIBAL DE TRAUMA OFFENSIVE and Indiscriminate REFORM Drive! Privatisa
From: palashc biswas
3. Khans of Russia
From: S Turkman
4. WereWolf Boy - Boy Like Wolf (Wierd Pic)
From: Mobeen-ur-Rahman
5. Extreemism...
From: k_pk2000@yahoo.com
6. weldone Mr.N.sarkozy for banning the dirty burqa in France .
From: Andreanos
7. Preparing the Battlefield by Seymour M. Hersh.
From: Mansoor Hallaj
8a. Pakistani Christian Murdered for Drinking Tea from a 'Muslim Cup'
From: turkman@sbcglobal.net
9a. Moderator please ...!
From: turkman@sbcglobal.net
10. why are the iranians dreaming again?*
From: S Turkman
11. Taliban gains money, al-Qaida finances recovering
From: S Turkman
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1. Weekly Worker no775 (25/06/09) now available at cpgb.org.uk
Posted by: "Steve Cooke" smcooke@gmail.com comradecooke
Date: Thu Jun 25, 2009 8:56 am ((PDT))
Weekly Worker 775 - Thursday June 25 2009
The latest edition of the Weekly Worker is now available on the CPGB
website at www.cpgb.org.uk
In this week's issue:
BEGINNING OF THE END
The Islamic republic is internally divided and in terminal crisis,
writes Yassamine Mather
STATEMENT FROM FTUIW
Two days ago the Free Trade Union of Iranian Workers issued this text
A DIFFERENT REGIME
Through his election coup Ahmadinejad has initiated a military-style
government, argues Mehdi Kia
LITMUS TEST FOR THE SOUL
James Turley welcomes the declarations supporting the masses in Iran
but warns against fake anti-imperialism
CALL FOR GENERAL STRIKE
Rahe Kargar says the protest movement must not be limited to street
demonstrations, but that it has to take other forms
ORGANISE UNITED ACTION
Ben Lewis reports on Hopi's assessments and calls for the SWP to
coordinate principled solidarity
SHAMEFUL SILENCE ON IMPERIALISM
Peter Manson calls for critical support for the action day for
workers' rights in Iran on June 26
MARG BAR AHMADINEJAD!
Hopi recently organised a picket outside the Iranian regime's Dublin
embassy. Anne Mc Shane reports
LENIN AND THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE
Jack Conrad takes issue with Robert Griffiths and the attempt to
recruit Lenin to the No2EU camp
BLUEPRINT FOR TYRANNY OR FREEDOM CHARTER?
Lars T Lih takes a closer look at Hugo Chávez's proposed gift to the
US president
WORKING CLASS HEROES
David Douglass reviews David Bell's The dirty thirty: heroes of the
miners' strike Five Leaves Publications, 2009, pp108, £7.99
LINDSEY WORKERS SHOW THE WAY
This is a dispute that goes directly to the heart of what trade unions
must be made into, writes Jim Moody
LETTERS
Simple terms; Kill them; Decent burial; Gulag calling?; National joke;
Gunned down; Grown-up politics; Twisted sporran; No offence
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Posted by: "palashc biswas" palashcbiswas@yahoo.co.uk palashcbiswas
Date: Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:03 am ((PDT))
SIBAL
DE TRAUMA OFFENSIVE and Indiscriminate REFORM Drive! Privatisation,
Centralisation and FREE Open Education Market to RELAUNCH Manusmriti
Rule to DEPRIVE Enslaved Masses!
Troubled Galaxy Destroyed Dreams, Chapter 267
Palash Biswas
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US' SunGard to expand ops in India
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Empire creeps up on study charts
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Education Scenario in India - Part III
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Centre sends 600 more security personnel to Lalgarh
25 Jun 2009, 1910 hrs IST, PTI
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday sent
an additional 600 security personnel to Lalgarh area of West Bengal as part of
its operations against
Maoists who had laid siege to nearly 50 villages there,
home ministry sources said.
They said six companies of CRPF, which
were put on stand by, have now been asked to proceed to Lalgarh, where the
forces are almost in the final stages of their operations.
With
Thursday’s decision, the total number of central security personnel in
Lalgarh region would be about 2,200 personnel.
School vouchers, please Govt monopoly is crime against children
25 Jun 2009, 0219 hrs IST, ET Bureau
The
right to education cannot mean the right to attend a government school where
little teaching is done and students finish school functionally
illiterate. Yet
this is the interpretation of the educational establishment.
This
crime against children must be rectified by the new minister for human resource
development, Kapil Sibal. He will not be able to make government teachers
accountable for non-performance because they are protected by powerful trade
unions and an educational establishment that is so ideological that it would
rather keep students functionally illiterate than let them be educated in
private schools.
Just as the right to vote has no meaning if voters
can only vote for one candidate, so too is the right to education meaningless if
it means access only to the neighbourhood government school. One supposed expert
says education is an area of market failure, so the state must make provision.
This simply shows how illiterate supposed experts are. Education for
all is not a market product at all â€" it is a non-market service to be
provided by the government. Unfortunately this is an area of massive government
failure.
The answer lies in a private-public partnership through
school vouchers usable in private or government schools. This is not
privatisation, it is private provision of a public service through a
public-private partnership.
The education establishment says many
private schools are of poor quality. True, but government schools can often be
worse. So the choice should be made by parents. A recent evaluation of a Delhi
voucher scheme, run by the Centre for Civil Society, showed voucher school kids
performed better and were happier with facilities than similar children in
government schools.
Vouchers provide real choice only if private
schools exist within walking distance of localities. So vouchers are most
relevant in urban areas, and irrelevant in remote tribal or hill areas. Mr Sibal
should launch pilot voucher schemes in half a dozen cities, offering funding to
the state governments.
Inevitably there will be glitches, which
should be fixed before scaling up. Vouchers cannot solve all educational
problems. But they must be part of the solution in urban areas, including the
poorest slums.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Opinion/School-vouchers/articleshow/4699293.cms
Reform challenge of Mr Mukherjee
25 Jun 2009, 0252 hrs IST, Arvind Panagariya,
The President's address to Parliament
has dashed any residual hopes that the United Progressive Alliance II (UPA II)
might use its clear-cut
electoral victory to introduce systematic radical
reforms. Yet reform advocates must persevere.
There remain enough
reforms 'in transition' that a series of incremental actions could still make a
dramatic difference. Simultaneously, there is considerable scope for the
introduction of radical reforms in the social sector to which the UPA accords
high priority.
Perhaps the single most important reform that the
finance minister can safely push is the comprehensive Goods and Services Tax
(GST). As Dr Vijay Kelkar, chairman, Thirteenth Finance Commission, noted in his
brilliant address at the convocation at the Indira Gandhi Institute of
Development Research, this reform promises vast benefits via improved
productivity.
It will also stabilise the indirect-tax revenues in
the years to come. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee should announce a realistic
but definite revised timetable in the budget to bring this important reform to
its logical conclusion. To make the announcement credible, he should appoint Dr
Govinda Rao, arguably India's foremost public finance expert, as the 'GST Czar'
for a two-year term with the sole mandate to ensure that at the end of his term
India has a well-functioning GST in place.
Two reforms that had
broadly continued under the UPA I relate to small-scale industries reservation
and trade liberalisation. As of October 10, 2008, the government had trimmed the
list of items reserved for exclusive manufacture by micro and small enterprises
to 21.
Mr Mukherjee must now take the final step of eliminating this
list altogether. With imports from foreign firms permitted regardless of their
size, there is little rationale for insisting that our own producers of
stainless steel and aluminium utensils, laundry soap, steel furniture and
groundnut oil operate on the small scale.
Why punish our own
successful and productive entrepreneurs by insisting that they cannot expand
beyond the specified size?
While taking a tough stand in the Doha
negotiations, UPA I had continued the process of opening up the Indian economy
to foreign trade initiated in earnest by Dr Manmohan Singh in 1991. The peak
duty on industrial goods had been reduced to 20% in 2004-05.
It was
then brought down to 15% in 2005-06, 12.5% in 2006-07 and 10% in 2007-08. In
2008-09, then finance minister Chidambaram pushed the pause button on the
process perhaps because this was the last full-year budget prior to the
election. Mr Mukherjee should resume the reform and cut the peak industrial
tariff to 7.5% thereby bringing Indian tariffs within a hair's breadth of the
ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) levels as per the promise made by
Mr Chidambaram in his 2004-05-budget speech.
Turning to social
programmes, a common lament among the top leaders of the Congress since at least
late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has been that only a tiny fraction â€" a
bare 10 paise out of a rupee, according to a recent public statement by Mr Rahul
Gandhi â€" of government expenditures on anti-poverty programmes reaches the
targeted beneficiaries.
After six decades of failure of the
conventional schemes in achieving better results, is it not the time to give an
alternative approach a chance? Most economists now agree that cash transfers
through biometric accounts to the senior-most female member of the household can
eliminate this leakage entirely.
I have extensively discussed how
this can be done in my recent book, India the Emerging Giant. In addition to
plugging the leaks, this approach has at least three additional
advantages.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Editorial/Reform-challenge-of-Mr-Mukherjee/articleshow/4699330.cms
Do you think the class 10 board exam should be scrapped?
Times of India - ‎51 minutes ago‎
Doing away with class 10 exam
Union Human Resources Development minister Kapil Sibal has hinted at
scrapping class 10 board examinations.
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Iran reform leader says he won't end his challenge
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian
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Maoists greet Chidambaram by blowing up a railway station in Koraput
Economic Times - Nageshwar Patnaik - ‎1 hour ago‎
BHUBANESWAR: Suspected Maoists
on Thursday greeted union home minister P.Chidambaram by blowing up a
railway station and three mobile towers Koraput district.
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Kasab suffering from stomach ulcers
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Mumbai (IANS): Pakistani
terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab has been diagnosed with stomach ulcers and
is under treatment inside the jail here, the special court hearing the
Mumbai terror attacks trial was informed on Thursday.
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We'll not hand over 'any individual to India': Pak
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resume the stalled Indo-Pak dialogue, a top US official said in
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FTN: Pakistan using Sarabjit to bargain with India
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TAKING A STAND: Majid Memon and
KC Singh take part in the Face the Nation debate on Sarabjit Singh.
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ISRO to help security forces track down Maoists
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ON THE LOOKOUT: Central forces
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Maoist Insurgency
and Lalgarh stand OFF proved to be favourable SUBVERSION as we, being
most IMPULSIVE and Passionate, often do overlook the developments in
the wings. We never know how the Citizenship amendment act was passed
with parliamentary CONSENSUS. We have no idea how Marxist Chief
Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya succeeded to rope in Chidamabaram to
declare BAN on the Maoists while officially the LEFT insists on
POLITICAL Process and discards Military and zero Tolerance Options
adopted so far. We easily overlook the ABSENCE of STANCE on the part of
the Left parties as far as Nationalities, Identities, North East and
AFPSA are concerned.
We may SWAY or Swing in reaction as
Criminal Procedure began against the group of Bengal Intelligentsia
which visited Lalgarh and ignore the GENOCIDE and ETHNIC Cleansing
DRIVE launched countrywide with ane EMERGING Tri IBLIS Satanic Zionist
New Power AXIS of Adwani, PRANAB, MAMATA, BUDDHA, SIBAL and Chidambaram
led by Dr Manmohan Singh. In fact, opposing the REGIMENTED Gestapo in
Bengal gas Chamber we VOTED for the AMERICAN Colonial Government led by
Dr Manmohan singh to TRANSFORM Indian nation into an INFINITE DEATH
CHAMBER ruled by Manusmriti Rule and supported by the Left as well as
RSS. They all stand TOGETHER under the worldwide Umbrella of ZIONIST
ILLUMINATI and continue to launch Monopolistic Aggression. Toilet Media
exposes the modifies SKIN only, while the MEAT remains within. We
remain DIVIDED into Caste system as well as parliamentary Politics
without any Empowerment, Representation, Participation and Sharing!
Without any POLITICAL Process we assume to breathe in DEMOCRACY NON
EXISTANT.
Thus, we failed to note that the Marxists in India
supported the Manusmriti Hegemony since the FIRST day. They remained
COUPLED with Nehru, INDIRA, Bajpayee, RAO, GUjral, Gauda and Dr
Manmohan Singh without any virtual break!
We never knew that
the DISINVESTMENT and SELL OFF strategies were actually finalised
during Gauda and Gujral governments under LEFTIST Common Minimum
Programme! Disinvestment Ministry without any liability was the
BRAINCHILD of our Comrades who JUNKED all TRADE UNION Activities and
SOCIAL movements to help MNCs and Corporate Imperialism. We believed
them while they were SCREAMING against Fascism, Imperialism,
Globalisation until the Marxist Capitalism was SRIPPED NAKED in
Nandigram and SINGUR.
We lost the VISION as we happen to be
BLACKED out how Realty, Construction, Health and Chemical, Retail and
Commodity, Aviation, Education, Oil, Steel and Mines, Bank and
Insurance, Post and Railway, Agriculture and food processing,
Infrastructure, Science and Technology, IT and High technology, Energy
and Nuclear Energy, Forest, Ocean and environment have been SECTORWISE
SOLD OUT!
We NEVER know the Ind depth story of AIR INDIA Crisis.
Neither we care for LIC, SBI, SAIL or ONGC. We never knew that
CHIDAMBARAM Deregulated the BANKING Sector right in 2005 amending the
Banking Regulation act.
Just see the SAMPLE and make out the MOTTO DISINVESTMENT:
The government is ready to help Air India, but the aviation
minister said on Wednesday the struggling state carrier must become
"leaner and trimmer" to secure backing it needs to get through a
liquidity crunch.
The carrier, which has said it wants to cut employee
costs by 5 billion rupees ($103 million) annually and has asked senior
employees to forego salaries and incentives in July, has sought extra
cash through equity and soft loans from the government.
"The government's support is there but the
government's support also comes with a condition that Air India must
shape up, must become leaner and trimmer and also must put its best
foot forward," Aviation Minister Praful Patel said in New Delhi.
Patel did not say how much cash would be made available, but said the airline would not be given "an open-ended chequebook".
Patel said Air India will have to implement
measures such as manpower restructuring, including of top management,
and cost-cutting. Air India must submit its restructuring plan within a
month, Patel added.
KAPIL SIBAL is playing the MASTER STROKE
of DE TRAUMA to DEREGULATE EDUCATION on the line of IT and Vocational
Education. SARBA SHIKSHA Education was the FLAGSHIP Programme which was
HYPED enough to make us believe the EDUCATION Welfare and which made
our teachers GOOD Cooks only and our CHILDREN BEGGARS! On the other
hand, a high-level committee on renovation and rejuvenation of universities
headed by noted educationist Yashpal has recommended that IITs
and IIMs be
converted into full-fledged universities so that they aict as pace-setters and
models for all such institutions of higher education.
Meanwhile,in what could send the
government back to the drawing board to rework the route to economic recovery,
rainfall prediction was lowered
by the earth sciences ministry putting the
foodgrain belt of India â€" Punjab and Haryana â€" on notice for a
failing monsoon.
UPA pundits hoping to post an economic recovery on
the basis of strong results in the agricultural sector have been set back by the
new estimates.
A fall in agricultural production could come as a
double whammy for economists. It would dry up demand from rural markets which
have been the stabilising factor in the economy. It would also increase demand
for social sector interventions such as NREGS, sucking a higher level of subsidy
and putting fiscal deficit limits to test.
Yashpal said
the report would be given to the government soon.
The committee has
suggested that regulatory bodies like All India Council for Technical Education
(AICTE), National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), Medical Council of India
(MCI) and the Bar Council of India (BCI) be divested of their academic
functions, which should be restored to the universities. It has also said that
all universities have full range of knowledge areas and that no single
discipline or specialised university be created.
The committee has
also said the practice of according status of deemed university be stopped
forthwith. It would be mandatory for all existing deemed universities to submit
to the new accreditation norms within a period of three years failing which the
status of university should be withdrawn. A single accreditation window for all
institutes of higher education has also been suggested.
Yashpal said
the idea to change the name of the committee â€" originally meant to review
UGC/AICTE â€"was his and there was no pressure to do so from the HRD
ministry.
Though HRD ministry's attempt to set up a commission for
higher education failed, the committee has suggested creation of an
all-encompassing Higher Education Commission, a central statutory body to
replace the existing regulatory bodies like UGC, AICTE and NCTE. This
commission, it has said, should be free of all ministries and have complete
autonomy.
The proposed HEC will create a curricular framework based
on the principles of mobility within a full range of curricular areas and
integration of skills with academic depth. This will imply that a student of any
stream can do a short course in an unrelated subject and get
credits.
HEC, committee said, will initially consist of five
divisions dealing with future directions, accreditation management, funding and
development, new institutions and incubation, and information and governance. An
eminent individual with a tenure of five years will head each division. The
chairperson of the HEC will be appointed by a search committee comprising the
Prime Minister, the leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha and the Chief Justice
of India.
We have already been DEPRIVED of Higher
Education, research and development. NOW SIBAL is going to ABOLISH UGC
and making all deemed UNIVERSITIES , IITs and IIMs Private UNIVERSITIES!
But
the EDUCATED as well as INTELLIGENT People of INDIA remain HABITUAL to
make DECISIONS on the FEED BACKS, MIND CONTROL, Brain washing, Mis
Information sustained campaign of the TOILET Media!
In
Americanised India, No One mourned the the DEPARTURE of Rajpoot Strong
Man King ARJUN Singh from the Ministry of Human Resource Ministry. Anti
Reservation Passion amongst the Caste Hindu Media and Intelligentsia
sighed in relief rather to be liberated from Reservation and Quota Raj
in Faculties and Brahaminical Monopoly ENSURED in Elite Education
centres like IIT and IIM.
The Entry of Kapil Sibal on the wave
of Manipulated MANDATE for the CONTINUITY of so Called ECONOMIC Reforms
has been CELEBRATED in every campus thanks to YOUTH For Equality!
But
the BIG Debate EXPOSURE on CNBC TV Channel heralded the REFORMS and
Strategic Marketing Policies in EDUCATION Sector dictated by India INCS
and ILLUMINATI.
I have been engaged in intense interactions with
friends countrywide and all of us agreed to relaunch Students` Movement
in the Campus once again to RESIST the CONSPIRACY to DEPRIVE the
Majority masses of Higher and quality education. I am sorry to say that
we could not INITIATE any mobilisation at any stage. Interestingly,
while the SFI and DYF have been SILENT .
the RSS outfit AKHIL BHARATIYA Vidyarthi Parishad only VOICED Protest against SIBAL ENTERPRISES!
Since
SIBAL DETRAUMA episode is GLAMORISED on TV channels and media with
manipulated landslide support in the Campus, only West Bengal
Government and the RSS backed GUJARAT Government dared to OPPOSE the so
called REFORMS!
Sibal told The Indian Express: “The Indian education system
which is marks-centered and examination-based is a source of trauma for
both parents and children... knowledge, like everything else, should be
user-friendly, and the acquisition of knowledge should not be a
stressful exercise.�
Children, Sibal said, should not be judged by
percentages with an emphasis on learning by rote, and the whole system
of examinations should be looked at afresh.
“I am thinking of relooking at the necessity of
having a Board examination for Class 10,� he said. “A child moves up
from Class 9 to Class 10 in the same school and there is no reason for
either the student or the parents to get traumatised by the 10th Board
exam,� he said. As a first step, the HRD Ministry will consult state
governments and state education boards, Sibal said. “I hope to move
forward very soon and set up an alternative system of evaluation of
students that is based on percentiles rather than percentages.�
The minister believes that it is for the students
to decide which stream to follow in Class 11 rather than for the
schools to force it on them. “Ultimately, it is the student’s aptitude
that should decide whether he or she wants to study arts or science...
not the school,� he said.
In a pathbreaking step towards reforming India’s school
education system, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal is
considering doing away with the Class 10 Board examination, and setting
up an alternative evaluation system based on percentiles, not
percentages!
In far-reaching reforms, Government proposed making 10th board
examination optional and setting up of a single school board at the
national level for a uniform examination for class 12.
A new scheme of interest subsidy on educational loans
for professional courses by economically weaker students will be
launched in the first 100 days of the UPA government, HRD Minister
Kapil Sibal told reporters in New Delhi.
"We must detraumatise education. It cannot be
traumatic for parents and children. This is unacceptable," the Minister
said unveiling the education agenda.
Government will also introduce a system to replace
the present assessment procedure of giving marks with grades which will
reduce stress, he said.
The single board would replace 33 boards in the
country including CBSE and CISCE and hold a uniform examination for all
students on the pattern of combined law admission test being organised
for admission to law institutions.
"By appearing in a single board, a student can
decide which university he wants to go. It is happening in the law
(courses). The aim is to reduce the trauma," he said adding that states
would be consulted on the issue.
Taking note of students and their parents
complaining of sleepless nights at the time of board examinations,
Sibal said the government wants to make 10th examinations optional for
students wishing to continue in the same school.
"If a student wants to go for pre-university
course, he may appear for 10th board exam. But in case of a student
pursuing the course in the same school, he need not appear in the
class-10 exam for promotion to class-11," Sibal said, adding that an
internal assessment would suffice.
Government will review the functioning of existing
deemed universities which have come under spotlight following
allegations of heavy capitation fee charged by some of these
institutions.
An autonomous overarching authority for higher
education and research based on the recommendations of Yashpal
committee and the National Knowledge Commission would be established.
Sibal said a law will be enacted to prevent,
prohibit and punish educational malpractices. For the disadvantaged
sections of the society, Equal Opportunity Offices would be created in
all universities, he said adding a new policy on distance learning
would be formulated.
The ambitious bill to provide free and compulsory
education to children in the age group of 6 to 14 will be taken up
during the budget session.
The government also wants to set up an All India
Madrassa Board which will award degrees equivalent to CBSE and other
boards. The board will frame policy to impart secular and technical
education to Muslims without interfering with the religious teachings.
"We will strive to evolve a consensus on this issue," he said.
FDI in education top priority: Kapil Sibal
New human resource
development minister Kapil Sibal is strongly in favour of allowing foreign
direct investment (FDI) in India's
education sector and also plans to
"synchronise" madrassa education with the mainstream.
"FDI must come
into India. Entry into the education sector must neither be limited nor
over-regulated. I want the system to be accessible from outside too," Sibal, 61,
who is a practising lawyer, told IANS in an interview.
He says
allowing private investment, including from abroad, in education "does not mean
you have fly by night operators." But, Sibal says, the country should not
prevent quality learning from coming.
"After all, 160,000 children go
abroad from India at an overall cost of seven billion dollars. Before going they
face all kinds of visa problems while after going abroad, there are issues like
the attacks in Australia," Sibal, who studied at the Harvard Law School, pointed
out.
"When the demand exists, why should we send our children out?
Foreign universities can come at our doorstep; India has the potential to become
a global provider of quality graduates."
The minister said he would
take forward the Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and
Operations, Maintenance of Quality and Prevention of Commercialisation) Bill,
which was cleared by the cabinet in February 2007 but has been hanging
fire.
It seeks to regulate the entry, operation and maintenance of
foreign education providers and protect students from receiving sub-standard
education offered by institutions that view it as a lucrative
business.
When told that the opposition, especially the Left parties,
was against FDI, Sibal says: "The Left is not against foreign universities per
se; they are concerned about fly by night operators. Everything has to be
regulated and it will be."
He said this did not mean "you deny access
to quality education to our children." The minister added: "Education is a
socio-economic activity. Why should it have impediments in the form of
bureaucratic red tape?"
"There will be a whole lot of structural
reforms basically to free up the system; to end licence raj." He says it's been
two weeks since the new government started work, so things will unfold
now.
The minister who was re-elected as an MP from the Chandni Chowk
constituency of Delhi is also looking at bringing madrassa education into the
mainstream.
"There will be attempts to make education in madrassas
relevant and equivalent to modern education. We will not touch the religious
part; the point is their degrees should have equivalence with the others," says
Sibal.
He said his directives to the University Grants Commission
(UGC) to review the working of private institutions which have been given the
status of deemed universities and to put a freeze on new applications for it
were intended to ensure better quality education.
"My mantra is
expansion, inclusion and excellence. Expansion means access to education to all;
inclusion translates into equity for the Scheduled Castes, tribes, girl child,
Muslims. And excellence means quality. When I say this I mean the entire
spectrum from primary to higher education."
But he says the
government cannot handle everything. "There will be multi-farious set of
players, there will be corporate investment in school education, joint ventures,
public-private partnerships, more Kendriya Vidyalayas," Sibal says.
Manage new IIMs like corporates: Panel
29 Oct 2008, 0210 hrs IST, D Suresh Kumar, TNN
CHENNAI: A high level committee has
said that the six new Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), proposed in Tamil
Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir,
Jharkhand, Haryana, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand,
"should function on the pattern of the most modern corporates, in terms of
administration and financial process."
Besides, they must be
established keeping in mind the future demands. Recommending a corporate
structure, the IIM review committee headed by R C Bhargava, chairman, Maruti
Suzuki India Limited, has said "where possible, outsourcing possibilities should
be seriously considered. Common systems and processes should be developed for
the six new IIMs. Since some degree of modernisation is also required in these
areas in the old IIMs, they too could benefit from the development work."
One of the biggest challenges while establishing new B-Schools would
be recruiting faculty, especially in the functional disciplines.
"The system of making contract appointments should be tried out.
Also, the use of technology, in conjunction with an existing IIM, should be used
to compensate for faculty shortage. In fact use of technology, once well
established, could be used to reduce costs," the committee has recommended in
its report submitted to the union human resources development ministry last
week.
The building plans for the new IIMs should take into account
future requirements of expansion and ensure that optimum use of land is made.
This recommendation comes in the wake of the increase in intake of students over
the last few years in the existing six IIMs at Ahmadabad, Kolkata, Kozhikode,
Bangalore, Indore and Lucknow.
The panel has also suggested the
buildings at the new IIMs must be designed in an environment-friendly manner.
"While designing the buildings and infrastructure, the need to be
environmentally as friendly as possible and to minimise use of energy and water
should be kept in mind. The use of solar energy should be considered as also
water harvesting and recycling. Expert agencies could be associated in this
work," the report added.
It would be ideal for the government to
constitute a committee of three present or past directors of IIMs to study the
detailed project reports for the new IIMs. Also, the new institutions must be
mentored by existing IIMs.
Despite all this, it is not unlikely the
new IIMs may have difficulties shortening the time taken to function at the same
level as the older IIMs. The committee has cautioned that, "If these IIMs are
not able to maintain the standards of the other IIMs, not only would this dilute
the brand image of all IIMs, but would result in a huge waste of public money.
For this reason, it would be definitely desirable that each new IIM is managed
by one of the existing IIMs."
Monsoon rains to be below normal: Govt
New Delhi India's monsoon rains, a lifeline to
its trillion dollar economy, have weakened and are expected to be below
normal, the government said on Wednesday.
"Rainfall is likely to be below normal," Earth Sciences Minister Prithviraj Chavan said.
The minister said the 2009 monsoon rainfall would
be 93 per cent of the long-term average, lower than an earlier forecast
of 96 per cent.
The annual monsoon hit the southwestern state of
Kerala on May 23, a week ahead of schedule, but its progress has
gradually weakened, threatening to hit the country's farm output and
impact the economy.
The four-month rainy season normally kicks off around June 1 and covers the entire country by mid-July.
With only 40 per cent of farmland irrigated, most
of India's small farmers rely on the monsoon to water their crops. A
good season of rains also boosts rural demand for a range of products
and is a key factor in determining expansion in the larger economy.
Orissa: Maoists go on rampage ahead of Chidambaram visit
Bhubaneswar Hours before the visit of Home
Minister P Chidambaram, Maoists struck in a big way attacking a railway
station, damaging communication towers and looting a block office in
Orissa's Koraput district on Thursday.
The armed Maoists descended on the Kakiriguma railway
station and ransacked it besides damaging the control panel which
affected train movement on Rayagada-Koraput section.
Following the incident, the Bhubaneswar-Koraput
Hirakhand Express was held up at Rayagada while a couple of other
passenger and goods trains were also affected.
The ultras then blew up three mobile phone towers inlcuding one belonging to the BSNL at Kakiriguma using landmines.
Another large group of ultras swooped down on the
block office, 530 km away at Narayanpatna, which has been witnessing
heightened Maoist activity in recent weeks. They caused extensive
damage to the building besides destroying furniture and setting ablaze
official files.
The Maoists also damaged two computers and took away 42 bicycles from the office.
They raised slogans against the Centre's decision to proscribe the CPI (Maoist).
Security personnel were rushed to the area and
combing operation launched as the union home minister is slated to
commence his two-day visit to the state from the Maoist-affected
Koraput district this afternoon.
The Maoists had cut off all communication to
Narayanpatna since June 15 by felling trees on the roads connecting the
town. They also triggered a landmine explosion on June 18 killing nine
securitymen when they were trying to clear the blockades.
About 400 security personnel, including CRPF
jawans, had remained cut off at Narayanpatna and helicopters were used
to airlift food and additional forces there on Tuesday.
During his one-day visit to Koraput, Chidambaram
would talk to SPs of Malkangiri, Rayagada, Nawrangpur and Koraput
districts and visit the location of a upcoming CoBRA Battalion Centre.
Chidambaram was also scheduled to visit relief
camps in Kandhamal district tomorrow where riots and attacks against
Christians had taken place earlier.
Terrorist threat still high in J&K says Antony
New Delhi India on Thursday said infiltration
from Pakistan has declined in the recent past, but the threat from
terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir is "real" and there is no question of
lowering the guard. "Of late, there has been a decline in infiltration
in the borders but we cannot say it is an improvement," Defence
Minister A K Antony told reporters after addressing the Unified
Commanders' Conference here.
He made it clear that "there is no question of
lowering our guard, especially in Jammu and Kashmir, as even now these
terrorist outfits are working there. It is a real threat." Antony said
the relations between India and Pakistan can "move forward" only if
strong action is taken by Islamabad against anti-India outfits
operating from across the border. "We are emphasising and trying to
convince Pakistan that they have to take strong actions against the
anti-India groups operating from there. Only then the two countries can
move forward and we can help in improving relations," he said.
He termed the security situation in Pakistan as a
"matter of great concern" for India. On India's plans to raise two
mountain divisions in Arunachal Pradesh, he said, "India is not against
any country. We want to maintain friendly and cordial relations with
all our neighbours but at the same time it is our duty to increase our
capabilities."
About his proposed meeting with US National
Security Advisor (NSA) James Jones tomorrow, Antony said the security
situation in the region, especially Afghanistan, is likely to figure
among other issues in the discussions. "We are going to discuss the
security scenario around us. While discussing this, we cannot avoid
Afghanistan. Taliban is a threat to world peace and threat to our
region and a threat to India also," he said. On the progress made on
the issue of a Unified Command for the armed forces, the Defence
Minister said that after initial resistance, the three services have
realised the need to work together.
"There has been considerable progress in the last
eight years. Initially there was resistance from three services but now
they have realised the necessity of jointness because in the modern
times just one service cannot protect the security of the nation and
meet challenges," he said. "That realization is there. So, things are
moving very fast and this conference is a turning point," he said.
When asked if the controversy on the issue of
price of Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov could have any
negative impact on Indo-Russian defence relations, the Minister said,
"Discussions are going on for Admiral Gorshkov. As far as our defence
relations with Russia are concerned, they are very cordial. There is no
doubt about that."
SSC, HSC results to be out on net
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Express news servicePosted: Dec 07, 2007 at 0000 hrs IST
Pune, December 6 The Maharashtra State Board of
Secondary and Higher Secondary Education on Thursday announced the
websites where the results for the Secondary School Certificate (SSC)
and the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations will be put up
at 11 am on Friday. The results will be released on the internet
simultaneously as they are given out to the schools and junior
colleges.
Students who appeared for the HSC examination can
avail of their results at www.mh-hsc.ac.in, while the results for the
SSC examination will be put up on www.mh-ssc.ac.in.
Meanwhile, the results as per individual centres
and the eight divisions Pune, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Mumbai, Amravati,
Kolhapur, Nashik and Latur will be available at www.msbshse.ac.in.
All the information on the results can be
downloaded from these websites. For further details on the results,
students can contact their respective secondary schools or junior
college.
Air India gets PM’s promise of help but told to tone up
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ENS Economic BureauPosted: Jun 24, 2009 at 0913 hrs IST
New Delhi The Prime Minister on Wednesday
committed himself to throwing the “entire weight� of the government
behind crisis-hit Air India, but set tough conditions for its help:
asking the national carrier to undertake massive organisational,
financial and manpower restructuring in return.
AI was categorically told that it would be difficult
for the government to give the airline unconditional support every time
it ran itself into trouble.
“Air India will have to go for massive cost
reduction and increase revenues in both the short term and long term,�
Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said after a two-hour meeting with
Manmohan Singh, at which top ministry officials and AI’s
newly-appointed CMD Arvind Jadhav were also present.
“There is excess flab on the entire body of Air
India, not only of manpower but due to salaries and the internal
functioning style,� Patel said. “The airline will have to improve its
on-time performance, aircraft engineering, commercial operations,
especially in the face of competition and choice (available to
customers).�
Independent directors will be inducted on AI’s
board, and the top management of its business units will be recast, the
minister said. “The management restructuring will be completed within a
month,� he said, adding, “The complete turnaround of the airline may
take around two years.�
AI has been given a month to submit a
restructuring plan to a new four-member bailout committee comprising
Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar, Principal Secretary to the PM TKA
Nair, Finance Secretary Ashok Chawla and Civil Aviation Secretary M
Nambiar. The committee will review AI’s performance every month.
The carrier â€" sunk under accumulated losses of Rs
7,200 crore and a financial outstanding of Rs 30,000 crore till May
2009, and staring at a loss of around Rs 5,000 crore for 2008-’09 â€" had
submitted a highly ambitious bailout wishlist to the government,
seeking an equity infusion of Rs 5,000 crore, a grant of Rs 2,000
crore, and a soft loan of Rs 7,000 crore. It had also asked for a
review of sixth freedom rights and capacity freezes on foreign
carriers, and curbs on domestic airlines.
Patel dismissed suggestions that AI’s Rs-44,000
crore aircraft acquisition plan could be wrecking its finances. “These
are two different issues,� he said. “Debt (for aircraft acquisition) is
a long term issue. Deferring or rescheduling aircraft deliveries would
not help (the airline) at all.�
On fixing responsibility for the crisis, Patel
said: “Nobody is accountable. It is a combination of factors. Air India
people have not risen to the occasion.� He also cited increases in fuel
prices, fall in traffic, lower yields at low fares and the
price-sensitive nature of the Indian market as reasons.
Patel was impatient with threats of a strike by AI
employee unions. “Let them go on strike. They will hasten their own
demise,� he warned.
The unions have threatened to strike work from June 30. CMD Jadhav will meet them in Mumbai on tomorrow.
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Nilekani quits Infosys, to join Govt
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ReutersPosted: Jun 25, 2009 at 1528 hrs IST
New Delhi Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman of
Infosys Technologies Ltd, India's No 2 outsourcer, has resigned from
the company's board to join the government, the company said on
Thursday.
Nilekani, one of the founders of Infosys, has been
invited by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to head government agency
Unique Identification Authority of India in the rank of a cabinet
minister, Infosys said in a statement.
Nilekani, a former chief executive of the company, was not involved in active management since becoming co-chairman in 2007.
Shares in Infosys, which has a market value of
about $21 billion, were up 0.7 percent at 1,771.25 rupees at 0849 GMT
in a Mumbai market down 0.5 per cen
BSE loses 77 pts on monsoon delay fears
Mumbai Prospects of weak
monsoon, the poor showing by ONGC in the fourth quarter and weak
European cues dragged down the BSE Sensex by 77 points as investors
squared off positions on the concluding day of the derivatives series.
The market surrendered its initial gains due to fairly
heavy selling from foreign institutional investors (FIIs) amid the
forecast of below-normal monsoon.
The Bombay Stock Exchange 30-share index ended the
day at 14,345.62, a net loss of 77.11 points or 0.53 per cent from its
previous close. It touched the intra-day high of 14,578.46.
Bonanza Portfolio Assistant Vice-President Avinash
Gupta said, "The market opened strong but the selling pressure pulled
it down. The selling intensified in the later part of the session on
cues from European markets. The market activity was stock-specific
today rather than sector-specific."
Similarly, the National Stock Exchange's 50-share
Nifty dropped by 51.10 points or 1.19 per cent to close at 4,241.85
from its last close.
The market continued to witness a high level of
volatility as investors rolled over positions as also squared off their
long-outstanding holdings at the end of the June contract of the
futures and options segment.
UPA's first challenge: 'Below normal' monsoon predicted
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AgenciesPosted: Jun 24, 2009 at 2007 hrs IST
South-west monsoon is likely to be below normal this season,
government announced on Wednesday raising concerns about its impact on
agriculture and economy.
"South-west monsoon from June to September is likely
to be below normal," Earth Sciences Minister Prithviraj Chavan told
reporters in New Delhi.
He said quantitatively, monsoon rainfall for the
country as a whole is likely to be 93 per cent of the long-period
average. This is three per cent less than what the India Meteorological
Department (IMD) had forecast in April.
Chavan was subjected to a volley of questions,
including whether he visualised the monsoon scenario as worrisome,
whether the country is in for a drought and whether he foresaw a
situation of water-rationing.
"I will not call it worrisome as of now," he said downplaying questions about water scarcity and drought.
"Plans are in place in every department of
Government of India as to what needs to be done when there is excess or
deficient rains," was his refrain.
According to the forecast, the north-western
region of the country is likely to get deficient rains while monsoon is
expected to be below normal in north-east and peninsular India. Central
India, which is yet to receive rains, is expected to have a normal
monsoon.
Death toll from US drone attack on rise
Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:40:56 GMT
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the death toll from a US air raid on Pakistan climbs to 80, Islamabad
has once again slammed Washington for attacks on its soil.
Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesman said such attacks undermine the
country's sovereignty, adding that Islamabad made regular contacts with
the US over the issue.
On Tuesday, some 80 people have been killed in what has been the deadliest US missile attack on Pakistani soil yet.
Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit urged the US to
stop such attacks as military operations to eliminate militants in
tribal areas were well proceeding, a Press TV correspondent reported.
The missiles, that left nearly 100 people injured, hit the funeral
of people who were killed earlier in the day during a similar strike in
the volatile region.
The US has carried out at least 35 drone attacks on Pakistan's
tribal areas, killing and wounding over 500 people over the past year.
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Cream of the crop: 69 of top 100 JEE rankers pick IIT-Bombay
25 Jun 2009, 0535 hrs IST, Hemali Chhapia, TNN
MUMBAI: The composition of the elite
technological club has changed. A decade ago admission to the IIT-Kanpur ensured
demi-god treatment. Only
the brightest and the best could get past the gates
there.
No longer. Mumbai is the new Kanpur, with Delhi and Chennai
snapping at its heels. A look at the students’ choice of institute by the
top 100 JEE rankers down the last half-a-decade reveals that preferences have
changed dramatically. A number of factors have been responsible for the
reordering, from geography to gastronomy and placement records to what coaching
classes preach to students.
Of the top 100 JEE-2009 rankers,
considered the elite group among engineering aspirants around the country, 69
students preferred to join IIT-Bombay over any other IIT. This was followed by
Delhi â€" where 19 of the top-100 â€" have been admitted. While Bombay
has been bettering its performance over the years, number of toppers going to
Delhi has slipped.
"IIT-B's decision to introduce minors in all
programmes has seen more students wanting to come to the Powai campus," reasoned
the institute's JEE-2009 chairman A Pani. In 2008, the institute ushered in
academic reforms and permitted students to pick a minor course along with the
core area of specialisation. This, explained Pani, has resulted most streams
opening and closing admissions at higher ranks than previous
years.
On each IIT campus, the top 100 students are considered as the
rich creamy icing. Twenty years ago IIT-Kharagpur was the engineering mecca. The
oldest IIT of the country, IIT-Kharagpur did not receive a single student from
the top hundred this year; and before that, in 2004, only three of the top 100
went there.
A former JEE chairman explained, "While Bombay and Delhi
were still building themselves, Kharagpur's students had already occupied top
positions in big companies. Students looked at Kharagpur's illustrious alumni
and rushed there. Now this has changed."
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1,100 quota seats in IITs not filled this year
25 Jun 2009, 0520 hrs IST, Hemali Chhapia, TNN
UMBAI: Every year, lakhs of students
burn the midnight oil for months to get into the hallowed Indian Institutes of
Technology. But as
admissions closed on Wednesday, one startling fact emerged
â€" there weren't enough qualified candidates to fill up the reserved seats
on offer for the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, or the physically
challenged.
IIT heads told TOI that over 1,100 seats will now be
transferred to the preparatory course. This course, which is like a feeder
class, trains quota students for a year to equip them to qualify for the IITs.
Students for the preparatory course are selected by reducing cut-offs even
further.
On the OBC (other backward classes) reservation front too,
53 seats were transferred to general category candidates, though the IITs are
still only in the second year of the quotas (they are implementing 18% quota
before moving to the total 27% reservation).
The IITs, in fact, had
made various concessions to ensure they could fill the SC/ST seats. They lowered
entry levels for these categories and even went as low as 50% below the last
general category student's marks to do justice to the quota. Even this did not
help them get the required number of backward category students.
Centre asks IITs to give SCs/STs more shots at JEE13 Apr 2009, 0336 hrs IST, Hemali Chhapia,TNN
MUMBAI:
Buoyed by the success of implementing the OBC quota, the government now wants
the Indian Institutes of Technology to employ reservation
even before the
admission process begins. This time around, the Centre has written to the IITs
asking them to allow Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students more shots at
the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE).
Currently, the premier tech colleges
adopts a caste-blind policy towards all aspirants at the preliminary stage of
conducting the exam. Each one, no matter what group he or she belongs to, is
allowed a maximum of two attempts at the competitive entrance
exam.
Gautam Barua, director of IIT-Guwahati, the institute which is
in-charge of JEE-2009, confirmed the receipt of such a letter from the
government. However, he said that the note came in late for such a rule to be
implemented this year. "The Joint Admission Board will take a look at the letter
and examine what a provision like this will translate into. Even if we decide to
implement the request, it will only be done for 2010,'' Barua
added.
Most selection and admission rules for JEE are drawn from the
recruitment norms designed for appointing Union government officers. In fact,
till recently the JEE, like the civil services exam, was a two-tier test â€"
lakhs of students sat for the preliminary screening, following which a few
thousands took the mains. Aspirants could then attempt the exam any number of
times.
But in September 2005, a committee headed by C N R Rao,
chairman of the Prime Minister's Scientific Advisory Committee, reviewed the
system and decided to limit the attempts to two. Rao observed that several
aspirants languished for years in coaching classes trying to crack the exam,
"little realising or believing that they were cut out for something else'', a
director had then said, while giving a reason for the committee's
decision.
In 2006, the JEE turned a new chapter and became a
single-tier, objective, race-against-time exam testing students on the
fundamentals (and their applications) of physics, chemistry and maths. But time
and again, the JEE has come under the attack of political interference. "There
is a lot of pressure from the government to allow SC/ST students to take the JEE
more number of times,'' said a JEE-2009 chairman.
The IITs already
set aside 15% seats for SCs and 7.5% slots for STs in each stream of engineering
offered. A separate merit list with relaxed cut-offs is drawn up each year for
selecting reserved category students. In fact late last year, the IIT directors
decided to allow a 50% relaxation of scores for them from 2009, up from
40%.
With regard to the JEE-2008 scores, if the last general category
student was admitted with an overall score of 172 out of 489, the aggregate
cut-off for an SC/ST student was 104 (after a 40% relaxation). If the general
category cut-off in 2009 remains the same, the bar for SC/ST candidates would be
lowered to 86 (50% of 172). Similarly, subject-wise cut-offs would also be
affected 2009 onwards.
The JAB will soon take a call on the
government's note. But several old-time professors in off-the-record
conversations have rued the unfolding political interference. "As academicians
we tend to steer clear of the bureaucracy. But of late, vote-bank agendas are
being thrust on our institutions. Either we will have to change, or the IITs
will change, forever,'' an IIT-Kharagpur faculty member said. QnA:
Would the IITs be compromising on the quality of their students if they have
reservation for SCs and STs?
IIM-A students have plan B ready to tide over crisis
11 Mar 2009, 0353 hrs IST, Vasundhara Vyas Mehta, TNN
AHMEDABAD: IIM-Ahmedabad students, who
are facing the heat of global meltdown at this year's placements, have an
alternate plan just in case
things get choppy careerwise.
The new
trend among IIM-A students is to accept job offers but also have an enterprise
running by the side. Take Sameer Gandhi, who has been offered to head the
marketing division for Sangini Diamonds in the US. But Gandhi prefers to
continue with his stock trading website he had launched with two of his
classmates.
"This website was an outcome of our curiosity about the
stock market. It gives a virtual stock trading opportunity for the beginners
like students, housewives or retired individuals. For the last two years, while
I was in IIM-A, my other friends were taking care of it and now with the course
over, I plan to get involved in whichever way possible," said
Gandhi.
Wanting to be known as an entrepreneur eventually, Gandhi
said, "While I was considering the job offers, I was looking for something where
I would get opportunity to work and learn as an entrepreneur. This is possible
only with small or medium-scale enterprises."
Another student, Srijan
Pal Singh, who plans a career in politics, has accepted a pre-placement offer
(PPO) made by a top consulting firm. But he first wants to work with a political
party during the three-month period before joining the BPO. Singh told TOI, "I
have approached a leading political party with a project on how youth can be
involved in politics and elections. The youth is absolutely indifferent to
politics and if we want to change the condition, politics seems to be the most
potent force. The proposal that I have submitted to the political party is about
bringing new ideas and delivery mechanism in Indian politics. The party is
considering the proposal."
Singh honed his communication skills
during his two years at IIM-A. He was in the team that organised a social
entrepreneurship fair, initiated a constituency management course and
participated in former president APJ Abdul Kalam discourse.
Plan panel favours IIT, IIM offshore campuses
22 Jun 2009, 1342 hrs IST, Mahendra Kumar Singh, TNN
NEW DELHI: Doors may soon be open for
Indian universities and government-run institutions like IIMs and IITs to set up
campuses abroad to
cross-subsidise higher education for vulnerable sections of
society.
The Planning Commission is in favour of formulating
guidelines to allow Indian universities and government-run institutions to run
business abroad to fund higher education for the poor back home and to expand
the educational infrastructure in the country.
The move has come at the
time when India is wooing foreign universities to set up campuses in the
country.
Interestingly, as of now, there are no rules and
regulations to permit government-run institutions to set up offshore campuses.
So far, only private educational institutions were free to explore education
opportunities abroad. Private institutions like Symbiosis and BITS, Pilani, have
already opened campuses abroad.
Only in May this year, Pune
University became the first government-run institution to open its campus
abroad, in UAE, after considerable legal and bureaucratic
hurdles.
The human resources development ministry had objected to the
proposal of Pune University on the ground that there were no guidelines on
opening campuses on foreign soil by government-run institutions. Pune University
had to knock the doors of the PMO to get its proposal cleared.
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21 Jun 2009, 0441 hrs IST, Hemali Chhapia, TNN
Every 2nd student in India enrols in pvt college
21 Jun 2009, 0441 hrs IST, Hemali Chhapia, TNN
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MUMBAI: Despite higher education being
vital to a rapidly developing country like India, the government's share in
higher education â€" in terms of
number of institutes and student enrollment
â€" has dwindled over time. Simultaneously, academics note, the stake of
profit-seeking politicians in the higher education business has risen.
In 2001, when private unaided institutes made up 42.6% of all higher
education institutes, 32.89% of Indian students studied in them. By 2006, the
share of private institutes went up to 63.21% and their student share went up to
51.53%. In other words, every second student in India signed up with a private
institute.
Globally too, the private sector has seen opportunities in
higher education, but there have been few takers in comparison to India. For
instance, although there are 39.1% private higher education institutes in China,
merely 8.9% students study in them. In the US, private universities constitute
59.4% of higher education institutes, but only 23.2% of American students pursue
their education in them.
"It does signify that higher education in
these countries is predominantly a public service," noted Ved Prakash, vice
chancellor of the National University of Education Planning and Administration
(NUEPA). Academics in India have researched on how public spending by the Union
and provincial governments has fallen. In his work, Prakash notes that between
2002 and 2006, deemed universities â€" or 'doomed universities' as one
academic waggishly described them â€" grew by a whopping 96%. In the same
time span, central and state universities grew by a modest 11% and 22%
respectively.
This unabated growth without any quality check has
forced academics from Harvard University to scrutinize this sector and note,
"The rapid expansion of capitation fees colleges came about as a result not of
great middle-class pressure or demand, but rather the entrepreneurial activities
of politicians."
Even the Supreme Court recently expressed its
concern about the quality of education in private institutes and the corruption
that is rampant there. Within private higher education, the professional streams
have seen the maximum growth.
Private engineering colleges, which
accounted for just 15% of seats in 1960, now account for over 85% according to
data from the All-India Council for Technical Education, the regulatory body for
professional technical education. From a tiny base in 1970, medical colleges in
the private sector have grown by an eye-popping 900%. The private sector now
accounts for over 45% of medical colleges in the country.
In 2006,
Sanat Kaul in his paper ‘Higher education in India: Seizing the
opportunity’ highlighted instances of a single politician running more
than 100 educational institutes. "There are rampant cases of malpractice in the
form of illegal charges for allocating seats from the management quota. Income
tax raids have revealed that seats are sold for cash, and a medical seat can
fetch as much as Rs 25 lakh. The black money involved runs into thousands of
millions of rupees," Kaul observes in his study funded by the Indian Council for
Research on International Economic Relations.
But none of this has
elicited any action from the government. And naturally so. In their 2004 paper,
‘Indian higher education reform: From half-baked socialism to half-baked
capitalism’, Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta, both fellows of Harvard
College, argued that politicians who had been sugar and liquor barons had turned
to higher education as an industry because of its high returns.
"Even
as political parties rail against de jure privatization, de facto privatization
continues unabated," they noted. Kapur and Mehta acknowledged that while there
was no statistical data, "there is little doubt that a majority of private
institutions have been supported or made possible by the direct involvement of
politicians."
Arun Nigavekar, former chairman of the University
Grants Commission, said private institutes have been granted recognition without
a sense of responsibility. "Time and again, the HRD ministry has failed. There
is a need for a surgical process to undo certain decisions taken by it," he
said.
Echoing Nigavekar, academics say that minister for science and
technology Kapil Sibal will not only have to untangle some policies set by his
predecessor, but also work to ensure high quality in public higher
education.
QnA: Are the private colleges giving placements worth the fees
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Centre sends 600 more security personnel to Lalgarh
25 Jun 2009, 1910 hrs IST, PTI
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday sent
an additional 600 security personnel to Lalgarh area of West Bengal as part of
its operations against
Maoists who had laid siege to nearly 50 villages there,
home ministry sources said.
They said six companies of CRPF, which
were put on stand by, have now been asked to proceed to Lalgarh, where the
forces are almost in the final stages of their operations.
With
Thursday’s decision, the total number of central security personnel in
Lalgarh region would be about 2,200 personnel.
School vouchers, please Govt monopoly is crime against children
25 Jun 2009, 0219 hrs IST, ET Bureau
The
right to education cannot mean the right to attend a government school where
little teaching is done and students finish school functionally
illiterate. Yet
this is the interpretation of the educational establishment.
This
crime against children must be rectified by the new minister for human resource
development, Kapil Sibal. He will not be able to make government teachers
accountable for non-performance because they are protected by powerful trade
unions and an educational establishment that is so ideological that it would
rather keep students functionally illiterate than let them be educated in
private schools.
Just as the right to vote has no meaning if voters
can only vote for one candidate, so too is the right to education meaningless if
it means access only to the neighbourhood government school. One supposed expert
says education is an area of market failure, so the state must make provision.
This simply shows how illiterate supposed experts are. Education for
all is not a market product at all â€" it is a non-market service to be
provided by the government. Unfortunately this is an area of massive government
failure.
The answer lies in a private-public partnership through
school vouchers usable in private or government schools. This is not
privatisation, it is private provision of a public service through a
public-private partnership.
The education establishment says many
private schools are of poor quality. True, but government schools can often be
worse. So the choice should be made by parents. A recent evaluation of a Delhi
voucher scheme, run by the Centre for Civil Society, showed voucher school kids
performed better and were happier with facilities than similar children in
government schools.
Vouchers provide real choice only if private
schools exist within walking distance of localities. So vouchers are most
relevant in urban areas, and irrelevant in remote tribal or hill areas. Mr Sibal
should launch pilot voucher schemes in half a dozen cities, offering funding to
the state governments.
Inevitably there will be glitches, which
should be fixed before scaling up. Vouchers cannot solve all educational
problems. But they must be part of the solution in urban areas, including the
poorest slums.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Opinion/School-vouchers/articleshow/4699293.cms
Reform challenge of Mr Mukherjee
25 Jun 2009, 0252 hrs IST, Arvind Panagariya,
The President's address to Parliament
has dashed any residual hopes that the United Progressive Alliance II (UPA II)
might use its clear-cut
electoral victory to introduce systematic radical
reforms. Yet reform advocates must persevere.
There remain enough
reforms 'in transition' that a series of incremental actions could still make a
dramatic difference. Simultaneously, there is considerable scope for the
introduction of radical reforms in the social sector to which the UPA accords
high priority.
Perhaps the single most important reform that the
finance minister can safely push is the comprehensive Goods and Services Tax
(GST). As Dr Vijay Kelkar, chairman, Thirteenth Finance Commission, noted in his
brilliant address at the convocation at the Indira Gandhi Institute of
Development Research, this reform promises vast benefits via improved
productivity.
It will also stabilise the indirect-tax revenues in
the years to come. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee should announce a realistic
but definite revised timetable in the budget to bring this important reform to
its logical conclusion. To make the announcement credible, he should appoint Dr
Govinda Rao, arguably India's foremost public finance expert, as the 'GST Czar'
for a two-year term with the sole mandate to ensure that at the end of his term
India has a well-functioning GST in place.
Two reforms that had
broadly continued under the UPA I relate to small-scale industries reservation
and trade liberalisation. As of October 10, 2008, the government had trimmed the
list of items reserved for exclusive manufacture by micro and small enterprises
to 21.
Mr Mukherjee must now take the final step of eliminating this
list altogether. With imports from foreign firms permitted regardless of their
size, there is little rationale for insisting that our own producers of
stainless steel and aluminium utensils, laundry soap, steel furniture and
groundnut oil operate on the small scale.
Why punish our own
successful and productive entrepreneurs by insisting that they cannot expand
beyond the specified size?
While taking a tough stand in the Doha
negotiations, UPA I had continued the process of opening up the Indian economy
to foreign trade initiated in earnest by Dr Manmohan Singh in 1991. The peak
duty on industrial goods had been reduced to 20% in 2004-05.
It was
then brought down to 15% in 2005-06, 12.5% in 2006-07 and 10% in 2007-08. In
2008-09, then finance minister Chidambaram pushed the pause button on the
process perhaps because this was the last full-year budget prior to the
election. Mr Mukherjee should resume the reform and cut the peak industrial
tariff to 7.5% thereby bringing Indian tariffs within a hair's breadth of the
ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) levels as per the promise made by
Mr Chidambaram in his 2004-05-budget speech.
Turning to social
programmes, a common lament among the top leaders of the Congress since at least
late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has been that only a tiny fraction â€" a
bare 10 paise out of a rupee, according to a recent public statement by Mr Rahul
Gandhi â€" of government expenditures on anti-poverty programmes reaches the
targeted beneficiaries.
After six decades of failure of the
conventional schemes in achieving better results, is it not the time to give an
alternative approach a chance? Most economists now agree that cash transfers
through biometric accounts to the senior-most female member of the household can
eliminate this leakage entirely.
I have extensively discussed how
this can be done in my recent book, India the Emerging Giant. In addition to
plugging the leaks, this approach has at least three additional
advantages.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Editorial/Reform-challenge-of-Mr-Mukherjee/articleshow/4699330.cms
Do you think the class 10 board exam should be scrapped?
Times of India - ‎51 minutes ago‎
Doing away with class 10 exam
Union Human Resources Development minister Kapil Sibal has hinted at
scrapping class 10 board examinations.
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Maoists greet Chidambaram by blowing up a railway station in Koraput
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BHUBANESWAR: Suspected Maoists
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railway station and three mobile towers Koraput district.
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Kasab suffering from stomach ulcers
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Mumbai (IANS): Pakistani
terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab has been diagnosed with stomach ulcers and
is under treatment inside the jail here, the special court hearing the
Mumbai terror attacks trial was informed on Thursday.
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handing over to India any of its nationals linked to Mumbai terror
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'US to help in 'every possible way' to settle Kashmir'
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Maoist Insurgency
and Lalgarh stand OFF proved to be favourable SUBVERSION as we, being
most IMPULSIVE and Passionate, often do overlook the developments in
the wings. We never know how the Citizenship amendment act was passed
with parliamentary CONSENSUS. We have no idea how Marxist Chief
Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya succeeded to rope in Chidamabaram to
declare BAN on the Maoists while officially the LEFT insists on
POLITICAL Process and discards Military and zero Tolerance Options
adopted so far. We easily overlook the ABSENCE of STANCE on the part of
the Left parties as far as Nationalities, Identities, North East and
AFPSA are concerned.
We may SWAY or Swing in reaction as
Criminal Procedure began against the group of Bengal Intelligentsia
which visited Lalgarh and ignore the GENOCIDE and ETHNIC Cleansing
DRIVE launched countrywide with ane EMERGING Tri IBLIS Satanic Zionist
New Power AXIS of Adwani, PRANAB, MAMATA, BUDDHA, SIBAL and Chidambaram
led by Dr Manmohan Singh. In fact, opposing the REGIMENTED Gestapo in
Bengal gas Chamber we VOTED for the AMERICAN Colonial Government led by
Dr Manmohan singh to TRANSFORM Indian nation into an INFINITE DEATH
CHAMBER ruled by Manusmriti Rule and supported by the Left as well as
RSS. They all stand TOGETHER under the worldwide Umbrella of ZIONIST
ILLUMINATI and continue to launch Monopolistic Aggression. Toilet Media
exposes the modifies SKIN only, while the MEAT remains within. We
remain DIVIDED into Caste system as well as parliamentary Politics
without any Empowerment, Representation, Participation and Sharing!
Without any POLITICAL Process we assume to breathe in DEMOCRACY NON
EXISTANT.
Thus, we failed to note that the Marxists in India
supported the Manusmriti Hegemony since the FIRST day. They remained
COUPLED with Nehru, INDIRA, Bajpayee, RAO, GUjral, Gauda and Dr
Manmohan Singh without any virtual break!
We never knew that
the DISINVESTMENT and SELL OFF strategies were actually finalised
during Gauda and Gujral governments under LEFTIST Common Minimum
Programme! Disinvestment Ministry without any liability was the
BRAINCHILD of our Comrades who JUNKED all TRADE UNION Activities and
SOCIAL movements to help MNCs and Corporate Imperialism. We believed
them while they were SCREAMING against Fascism, Imperialism,
Globalisation until the Marxist Capitalism was SRIPPED NAKED in
Nandigram and SINGUR.
We lost the VISION as we happen to be
BLACKED out how Realty, Construction, Health and Chemical, Retail and
Commodity, Aviation, Education, Oil, Steel and Mines, Bank and
Insurance, Post and Railway, Agriculture and food processing,
Infrastructure, Science and Technology, IT and High technology, Energy
and Nuclear Energy, Forest, Ocean and environment have been SECTORWISE
SOLD OUT!
We NEVER know the Ind depth story of AIR INDIA Crisis.
Neither we care for LIC, SBI, SAIL or ONGC. We never knew that
CHIDAMBARAM Deregulated the BANKING Sector right in 2005 amending the
Banking Regulation act.
Just see the SAMPLE and make out the MOTTO DISINVESTMENT:
The government is ready to help Air India, but the aviation
minister said on Wednesday the struggling state carrier must become
"leaner and trimmer" to secure backing it needs to get through a
liquidity crunch.
The carrier, which has said it wants to cut employee
costs by 5 billion rupees ($103 million) annually and has asked senior
employees to forego salaries and incentives in July, has sought extra
cash through equity and soft loans from the government.
"The government's support is there but the
government's support also comes with a condition that Air India must
shape up, must become leaner and trimmer and also must put its best
foot forward," Aviation Minister Praful Patel said in New Delhi.
Patel did not say how much cash would be made available, but said the airline would not be given "an open-ended chequebook".
Patel said Air India will have to implement
measures such as manpower restructuring, including of top management,
and cost-cutting. Air India must submit its restructuring plan within a
month, Patel added.
KAPIL SIBAL is playing the MASTER STROKE
of DE TRAUMA to DEREGULATE EDUCATION on the line of IT and Vocational
Education. SARBA SHIKSHA Education was the FLAGSHIP Programme which was
HYPED enough to make us believe the EDUCATION Welfare and which made
our teachers GOOD Cooks only and our CHILDREN BEGGARS! On the other
hand, a high-level committee on renovation and rejuvenation of universities
headed by noted educationist Yashpal has recommended that IITs
and IIMs be
converted into full-fledged universities so that they aict as pace-setters and
models for all such institutions of higher education.
Meanwhile,in what could send the
government back to the drawing board to rework the route to economic recovery,
rainfall prediction was lowered
by the earth sciences ministry putting the
foodgrain belt of India â€" Punjab and Haryana â€" on notice for a
failing monsoon.
UPA pundits hoping to post an economic recovery on
the basis of strong results in the agricultural sector have been set back by the
new estimates.
A fall in agricultural production could come as a
double whammy for economists. It would dry up demand from rural markets which
have been the stabilising factor in the economy. It would also increase demand
for social sector interventions such as NREGS, sucking a higher level of subsidy
and putting fiscal deficit limits to test.
Yashpal said
the report would be given to the government soon.
The committee has
suggested that regulatory bodies like All India Council for Technical Education
(AICTE), National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), Medical Council of India
(MCI) and the Bar Council of India (BCI) be divested of their academic
functions, which should be restored to the universities. It has also said that
all universities have full range of knowledge areas and that no single
discipline or specialised university be created.
The committee has
also said the practice of according status of deemed university be stopped
forthwith. It would be mandatory for all existing deemed universities to submit
to the new accreditation norms within a period of three years failing which the
status of university should be withdrawn. A single accreditation window for all
institutes of higher education has also been suggested.
Yashpal said
the idea to change the name of the committee â€" originally meant to review
UGC/AICTE â€"was his and there was no pressure to do so from the HRD
ministry.
Though HRD ministry's attempt to set up a commission for
higher education failed, the committee has suggested creation of an
all-encompassing Higher Education Commission, a central statutory body to
replace the existing regulatory bodies like UGC, AICTE and NCTE. This
commission, it has said, should be free of all ministries and have complete
autonomy.
The proposed HEC will create a curricular framework based
on the principles of mobility within a full range of curricular areas and
integration of skills with academic depth. This will imply that a student of any
stream can do a short course in an unrelated subject and get
credits.
HEC, committee said, will initially consist of five
divisions dealing with future directions, accreditation management, funding and
development, new institutions and incubation, and information and governance. An
eminent individual with a tenure of five years will head each division. The
chairperson of the HEC will be appointed by a search committee comprising the
Prime Minister, the leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha and the Chief Justice
of India.
We have already been DEPRIVED of Higher
Education, research and development. NOW SIBAL is going to ABOLISH UGC
and making all deemed UNIVERSITIES , IITs and IIMs Private UNIVERSITIES!
But
the EDUCATED as well as INTELLIGENT People of INDIA remain HABITUAL to
make DECISIONS on the FEED BACKS, MIND CONTROL, Brain washing, Mis
Information sustained campaign of the TOILET Media!
In
Americanised India, No One mourned the the DEPARTURE of Rajpoot Strong
Man King ARJUN Singh from the Ministry of Human Resource Ministry. Anti
Reservation Passion amongst the Caste Hindu Media and Intelligentsia
sighed in relief rather to be liberated from Reservation and Quota Raj
in Faculties and Brahaminical Monopoly ENSURED in Elite Education
centres like IIT and IIM.
The Entry of Kapil Sibal on the wave
of Manipulated MANDATE for the CONTINUITY of so Called ECONOMIC Reforms
has been CELEBRATED in every campus thanks to YOUTH For Equality!
But
the BIG Debate EXPOSURE on CNBC TV Channel heralded the REFORMS and
Strategic Marketing Policies in EDUCATION Sector dictated by India INCS
and ILLUMINATI.
I have been engaged in intense interactions with
friends countrywide and all of us agreed to relaunch Students` Movement
in the Campus once again to RESIST the CONSPIRACY to DEPRIVE the
Majority masses of Higher and quality education. I am sorry to say that
we could not INITIATE any mobilisation at any stage. Interestingly,
while the SFI and DYF have been SILENT .
the RSS outfit AKHIL BHARATIYA Vidyarthi Parishad only VOICED Protest against SIBAL ENTERPRISES!
Since
SIBAL DETRAUMA episode is GLAMORISED on TV channels and media with
manipulated landslide support in the Campus, only West Bengal
Government and the RSS backed GUJARAT Government dared to OPPOSE the so
called REFORMS!
Sibal told The Indian Express: “The Indian education system
which is marks-centered and examination-based is a source of trauma for
both parents and children... knowledge, like everything else, should be
user-friendly, and the acquisition of knowledge should not be a
stressful exercise.�
Children, Sibal said, should not be judged by
percentages with an emphasis on learning by rote, and the whole system
of examinations should be looked at afresh.
“I am thinking of relooking at the necessity of
having a Board examination for Class 10,� he said. “A child moves up
from Class 9 to Class 10 in the same school and there is no reason for
either the student or the parents to get traumatised by the 10th Board
exam,� he said. As a first step, the HRD Ministry will consult state
governments and state education boards, Sibal said. “I hope to move
forward very soon and set up an alternative system of evaluation of
students that is based on percentiles rather than percentages.�
The minister believes that it is for the students
to decide which stream to follow in Class 11 rather than for the
schools to force it on them. “Ultimately, it is the student’s aptitude
that should decide whether he or she wants to study arts or science...
not the school,� he said.
In a pathbreaking step towards reforming India’s school
education system, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal is
considering doing away with the Class 10 Board examination, and setting
up an alternative evaluation system based on percentiles, not
percentages!
In far-reaching reforms, Government proposed making 10th board
examination optional and setting up of a single school board at the
national level for a uniform examination for class 12.
A new scheme of interest subsidy on educational loans
for professional courses by economically weaker students will be
launched in the first 100 days of the UPA government, HRD Minister
Kapil Sibal told reporters in New Delhi.
"We must detraumatise education. It cannot be
traumatic for parents and children. This is unacceptable," the Minister
said unveiling the education agenda.
Government will also introduce a system to replace
the present assessment procedure of giving marks with grades which will
reduce stress, he said.
The single board would replace 33 boards in the
country including CBSE and CISCE and hold a uniform examination for all
students on the pattern of combined law admission test being organised
for admission to law institutions.
"By appearing in a single board, a student can
decide which university he wants to go. It is happening in the law
(courses). The aim is to reduce the trauma," he said adding that states
would be consulted on the issue.
Taking note of students and their parents
complaining of sleepless nights at the time of board examinations,
Sibal said the government wants to make 10th examinations optional for
students wishing to continue in the same school.
"If a student wants to go for pre-university
course, he may appear for 10th board exam. But in case of a student
pursuing the course in the same school, he need not appear in the
class-10 exam for promotion to class-11," Sibal said, adding that an
internal assessment would suffice.
Government will review the functioning of existing
deemed universities which have come under spotlight following
allegations of heavy capitation fee charged by some of these
institutions.
An autonomous overarching authority for higher
education and research based on the recommendations of Yashpal
committee and the National Knowledge Commission would be established.
Sibal said a law will be enacted to prevent,
prohibit and punish educational malpractices. For the disadvantaged
sections of the society, Equal Opportunity Offices would be created in
all universities, he said adding a new policy on distance learning
would be formulated.
The ambitious bill to provide free and compulsory
education to children in the age group of 6 to 14 will be taken up
during the budget session.
The government also wants to set up an All India
Madrassa Board which will award degrees equivalent to CBSE and other
boards. The board will frame policy to impart secular and technical
education to Muslims without interfering with the religious teachings.
"We will strive to evolve a consensus on this issue," he said.
FDI in education top priority: Kapil Sibal
New human resource
development minister Kapil Sibal is strongly in favour of allowing foreign
direct investment (FDI) in India's
education sector and also plans to
"synchronise" madrassa education with the mainstream.
"FDI must come
into India. Entry into the education sector must neither be limited nor
over-regulated. I want the system to be accessible from outside too," Sibal, 61,
who is a practising lawyer, told IANS in an interview.
He says
allowing private investment, including from abroad, in education "does not mean
you have fly by night operators." But, Sibal says, the country should not
prevent quality learning from coming.
"After all, 160,000 children go
abroad from India at an overall cost of seven billion dollars. Before going they
face all kinds of visa problems while after going abroad, there are issues like
the attacks in Australia," Sibal, who studied at the Harvard Law School, pointed
out.
"When the demand exists, why should we send our children out?
Foreign universities can come at our doorstep; India has the potential to become
a global provider of quality graduates."
The minister said he would
take forward the Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and
Operations, Maintenance of Quality and Prevention of Commercialisation) Bill,
which was cleared by the cabinet in February 2007 but has been hanging
fire.
It seeks to regulate the entry, operation and maintenance of
foreign education providers and protect students from receiving sub-standard
education offered by institutions that view it as a lucrative
business.
When told that the opposition, especially the Left parties,
was against FDI, Sibal says: "The Left is not against foreign universities per
se; they are concerned about fly by night operators. Everything has to be
regulated and it will be."
He said this did not mean "you deny access
to quality education to our children." The minister added: "Education is a
socio-economic activity. Why should it have impediments in the form of
bureaucratic red tape?"
"There will be a whole lot of structural
reforms basically to free up the system; to end licence raj." He says it's been
two weeks since the new government started work, so things will unfold
now.
The minister who was re-elected as an MP from the Chandni Chowk
constituency of Delhi is also looking at bringing madrassa education into the
mainstream.
"There will be attempts to make education in madrassas
relevant and equivalent to modern education. We will not touch the religious
part; the point is their degrees should have equivalence with the others," says
Sibal.
He said his directives to the University Grants Commission
(UGC) to review the working of private institutions which have been given the
status of deemed universities and to put a freeze on new applications for it
were intended to ensure better quality education.
"My mantra is
expansion, inclusion and excellence. Expansion means access to education to all;
inclusion translates into equity for the Scheduled Castes, tribes, girl child,
Muslims. And excellence means quality. When I say this I mean the entire
spectrum from primary to higher education."
But he says the
government cannot handle everything. "There will be multi-farious set of
players, there will be corporate investment in school education, joint ventures,
public-private partnerships, more Kendriya Vidyalayas," Sibal says.
Manage new IIMs like corporates: Panel
29 Oct 2008, 0210 hrs IST, D Suresh Kumar, TNN
CHENNAI: A high level committee has
said that the six new Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), proposed in Tamil
Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir,
Jharkhand, Haryana, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand,
"should function on the pattern of the most modern corporates, in terms of
administration and financial process."
Besides, they must be
established keeping in mind the future demands. Recommending a corporate
structure, the IIM review committee headed by R C Bhargava, chairman, Maruti
Suzuki India Limited, has said "where possible, outsourcing possibilities should
be seriously considered. Common systems and processes should be developed for
the six new IIMs. Since some degree of modernisation is also required in these
areas in the old IIMs, they too could benefit from the development work."
One of the biggest challenges while establishing new B-Schools would
be recruiting faculty, especially in the functional disciplines.
"The system of making contract appointments should be tried out.
Also, the use of technology, in conjunction with an existing IIM, should be used
to compensate for faculty shortage. In fact use of technology, once well
established, could be used to reduce costs," the committee has recommended in
its report submitted to the union human resources development ministry last
week.
The building plans for the new IIMs should take into account
future requirements of expansion and ensure that optimum use of land is made.
This recommendation comes in the wake of the increase in intake of students over
the last few years in the existing six IIMs at Ahmadabad, Kolkata, Kozhikode,
Bangalore, Indore and Lucknow.
The panel has also suggested the
buildings at the new IIMs must be designed in an environment-friendly manner.
"While designing the buildings and infrastructure, the need to be
environmentally as friendly as possible and to minimise use of energy and water
should be kept in mind. The use of solar energy should be considered as also
water harvesting and recycling. Expert agencies could be associated in this
work," the report added.
It would be ideal for the government to
constitute a committee of three present or past directors of IIMs to study the
detailed project reports for the new IIMs. Also, the new institutions must be
mentored by existing IIMs.
Despite all this, it is not unlikely the
new IIMs may have difficulties shortening the time taken to function at the same
level as the older IIMs. The committee has cautioned that, "If these IIMs are
not able to maintain the standards of the other IIMs, not only would this dilute
the brand image of all IIMs, but would result in a huge waste of public money.
For this reason, it would be definitely desirable that each new IIM is managed
by one of the existing IIMs."
Monsoon rains to be below normal: Govt
New Delhi India's monsoon rains, a lifeline to
its trillion dollar economy, have weakened and are expected to be below
normal, the government said on Wednesday.
"Rainfall is likely to be below normal," Earth Sciences Minister Prithviraj Chavan said.
The minister said the 2009 monsoon rainfall would
be 93 per cent of the long-term average, lower than an earlier forecast
of 96 per cent.
The annual monsoon hit the southwestern state of
Kerala on May 23, a week ahead of schedule, but its progress has
gradually weakened, threatening to hit the country's farm output and
impact the economy.
The four-month rainy season normally kicks off around June 1 and covers the entire country by mid-July.
With only 40 per cent of farmland irrigated, most
of India's small farmers rely on the monsoon to water their crops. A
good season of rains also boosts rural demand for a range of products
and is a key factor in determining expansion in the larger economy.
Orissa: Maoists go on rampage ahead of Chidambaram visit
Bhubaneswar Hours before the visit of Home
Minister P Chidambaram, Maoists struck in a big way attacking a railway
station, damaging communication towers and looting a block office in
Orissa's Koraput district on Thursday.
The armed Maoists descended on the Kakiriguma railway
station and ransacked it besides damaging the control panel which
affected train movement on Rayagada-Koraput section.
Following the incident, the Bhubaneswar-Koraput
Hirakhand Express was held up at Rayagada while a couple of other
passenger and goods trains were also affected.
The ultras then blew up three mobile phone towers inlcuding one belonging to the BSNL at Kakiriguma using landmines.
Another large group of ultras swooped down on the
block office, 530 km away at Narayanpatna, which has been witnessing
heightened Maoist activity in recent weeks. They caused extensive
damage to the building besides destroying furniture and setting ablaze
official files.
The Maoists also damaged two computers and took away 42 bicycles from the office.
They raised slogans against the Centre's decision to proscribe the CPI (Maoist).
Security personnel were rushed to the area and
combing operation launched as the union home minister is slated to
commence his two-day visit to the state from the Maoist-affected
Koraput district this afternoon.
The Maoists had cut off all communication to
Narayanpatna since June 15 by felling trees on the roads connecting the
town. They also triggered a landmine explosion on June 18 killing nine
securitymen when they were trying to clear the blockades.
About 400 security personnel, including CRPF
jawans, had remained cut off at Narayanpatna and helicopters were used
to airlift food and additional forces there on Tuesday.
During his one-day visit to Koraput, Chidambaram
would talk to SPs of Malkangiri, Rayagada, Nawrangpur and Koraput
districts and visit the location of a upcoming CoBRA Battalion Centre.
Chidambaram was also scheduled to visit relief
camps in Kandhamal district tomorrow where riots and attacks against
Christians had taken place earlier.
Terrorist threat still high in J&K says Antony
New Delhi India on Thursday said infiltration
from Pakistan has declined in the recent past, but the threat from
terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir is "real" and there is no question of
lowering the guard. "Of late, there has been a decline in infiltration
in the borders but we cannot say it is an improvement," Defence
Minister A K Antony told reporters after addressing the Unified
Commanders' Conference here.
He made it clear that "there is no question of
lowering our guard, especially in Jammu and Kashmir, as even now these
terrorist outfits are working there. It is a real threat." Antony said
the relations between India and Pakistan can "move forward" only if
strong action is taken by Islamabad against anti-India outfits
operating from across the border. "We are emphasising and trying to
convince Pakistan that they have to take strong actions against the
anti-India groups operating from there. Only then the two countries can
move forward and we can help in improving relations," he said.
He termed the security situation in Pakistan as a
"matter of great concern" for India. On India's plans to raise two
mountain divisions in Arunachal Pradesh, he said, "India is not against
any country. We want to maintain friendly and cordial relations with
all our neighbours but at the same time it is our duty to increase our
capabilities."
About his proposed meeting with US National
Security Advisor (NSA) James Jones tomorrow, Antony said the security
situation in the region, especially Afghanistan, is likely to figure
among other issues in the discussions. "We are going to discuss the
security scenario around us. While discussing this, we cannot avoid
Afghanistan. Taliban is a threat to world peace and threat to our
region and a threat to India also," he said. On the progress made on
the issue of a Unified Command for the armed forces, the Defence
Minister said that after initial resistance, the three services have
realised the need to work together.
"There has been considerable progress in the last
eight years. Initially there was resistance from three services but now
they have realised the necessity of jointness because in the modern
times just one service cannot protect the security of the nation and
meet challenges," he said. "That realization is there. So, things are
moving very fast and this conference is a turning point," he said.
When asked if the controversy on the issue of
price of Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov could have any
negative impact on Indo-Russian defence relations, the Minister said,
"Discussions are going on for Admiral Gorshkov. As far as our defence
relations with Russia are concerned, they are very cordial. There is no
doubt about that."
SSC, HSC results to be out on net
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Express news servicePosted: Dec 07, 2007 at 0000 hrs IST
Pune, December 6 The Maharashtra State Board of
Secondary and Higher Secondary Education on Thursday announced the
websites where the results for the Secondary School Certificate (SSC)
and the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations will be put up
at 11 am on Friday. The results will be released on the internet
simultaneously as they are given out to the schools and junior
colleges.
Students who appeared for the HSC examination can
avail of their results at www.mh-hsc.ac.in, while the results for the
SSC examination will be put up on www.mh-ssc.ac.in.
Meanwhile, the results as per individual centres
and the eight divisions Pune, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Mumbai, Amravati,
Kolhapur, Nashik and Latur will be available at www.msbshse.ac.in.
All the information on the results can be
downloaded from these websites. For further details on the results,
students can contact their respective secondary schools or junior
college.
Air India gets PM’s promise of help but told to tone up
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ENS Economic BureauPosted: Jun 24, 2009 at 0913 hrs IST
New Delhi The Prime Minister on Wednesday
committed himself to throwing the “entire weight� of the government
behind crisis-hit Air India, but set tough conditions for its help:
asking the national carrier to undertake massive organisational,
financial and manpower restructuring in return.
AI was categorically told that it would be difficult
for the government to give the airline unconditional support every time
it ran itself into trouble.
“Air India will have to go for massive cost
reduction and increase revenues in both the short term and long term,�
Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said after a two-hour meeting with
Manmohan Singh, at which top ministry officials and AI’s
newly-appointed CMD Arvind Jadhav were also present.
“There is excess flab on the entire body of Air
India, not only of manpower but due to salaries and the internal
functioning style,� Patel said. “The airline will have to improve its
on-time performance, aircraft engineering, commercial operations,
especially in the face of competition and choice (available to
customers).�
Independent directors will be inducted on AI’s
board, and the top management of its business units will be recast, the
minister said. “The management restructuring will be completed within a
month,� he said, adding, “The complete turnaround of the airline may
take around two years.�
AI has been given a month to submit a
restructuring plan to a new four-member bailout committee comprising
Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar, Principal Secretary to the PM TKA
Nair, Finance Secretary Ashok Chawla and Civil Aviation Secretary M
Nambiar. The committee will review AI’s performance every month.
The carrier â€" sunk under accumulated losses of Rs
7,200 crore and a financial outstanding of Rs 30,000 crore till May
2009, and staring at a loss of around Rs 5,000 crore for 2008-’09 â€" had
submitted a highly ambitious bailout wishlist to the government,
seeking an equity infusion of Rs 5,000 crore, a grant of Rs 2,000
crore, and a soft loan of Rs 7,000 crore. It had also asked for a
review of sixth freedom rights and capacity freezes on foreign
carriers, and curbs on domestic airlines.
Patel dismissed suggestions that AI’s Rs-44,000
crore aircraft acquisition plan could be wrecking its finances. “These
are two different issues,� he said. “Debt (for aircraft acquisition) is
a long term issue. Deferring or rescheduling aircraft deliveries would
not help (the airline) at all.�
On fixing responsibility for the crisis, Patel
said: “Nobody is accountable. It is a combination of factors. Air India
people have not risen to the occasion.� He also cited increases in fuel
prices, fall in traffic, lower yields at low fares and the
price-sensitive nature of the Indian market as reasons.
Patel was impatient with threats of a strike by AI
employee unions. “Let them go on strike. They will hasten their own
demise,� he warned.
The unions have threatened to strike work from June 30. CMD Jadhav will meet them in Mumbai on tomorrow.
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Nilekani quits Infosys, to join Govt
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ReutersPosted: Jun 25, 2009 at 1528 hrs IST
New Delhi Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman of
Infosys Technologies Ltd, India's No 2 outsourcer, has resigned from
the company's board to join the government, the company said on
Thursday.
Nilekani, one of the founders of Infosys, has been
invited by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to head government agency
Unique Identification Authority of India in the rank of a cabinet
minister, Infosys said in a statement.
Nilekani, a former chief executive of the company, was not involved in active management since becoming co-chairman in 2007.
Shares in Infosys, which has a market value of
about $21 billion, were up 0.7 percent at 1,771.25 rupees at 0849 GMT
in a Mumbai market down 0.5 per cen
BSE loses 77 pts on monsoon delay fears
Mumbai Prospects of weak
monsoon, the poor showing by ONGC in the fourth quarter and weak
European cues dragged down the BSE Sensex by 77 points as investors
squared off positions on the concluding day of the derivatives series.
The market surrendered its initial gains due to fairly
heavy selling from foreign institutional investors (FIIs) amid the
forecast of below-normal monsoon.
The Bombay Stock Exchange 30-share index ended the
day at 14,345.62, a net loss of 77.11 points or 0.53 per cent from its
previous close. It touched the intra-day high of 14,578.46.
Bonanza Portfolio Assistant Vice-President Avinash
Gupta said, "The market opened strong but the selling pressure pulled
it down. The selling intensified in the later part of the session on
cues from European markets. The market activity was stock-specific
today rather than sector-specific."
Similarly, the National Stock Exchange's 50-share
Nifty dropped by 51.10 points or 1.19 per cent to close at 4,241.85
from its last close.
The market continued to witness a high level of
volatility as investors rolled over positions as also squared off their
long-outstanding holdings at the end of the June contract of the
futures and options segment.
UPA's first challenge: 'Below normal' monsoon predicted
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AgenciesPosted: Jun 24, 2009 at 2007 hrs IST
South-west monsoon is likely to be below normal this season,
government announced on Wednesday raising concerns about its impact on
agriculture and economy.
"South-west monsoon from June to September is likely
to be below normal," Earth Sciences Minister Prithviraj Chavan told
reporters in New Delhi.
He said quantitatively, monsoon rainfall for the
country as a whole is likely to be 93 per cent of the long-period
average. This is three per cent less than what the India Meteorological
Department (IMD) had forecast in April.
Chavan was subjected to a volley of questions,
including whether he visualised the monsoon scenario as worrisome,
whether the country is in for a drought and whether he foresaw a
situation of water-rationing.
"I will not call it worrisome as of now," he said downplaying questions about water scarcity and drought.
"Plans are in place in every department of
Government of India as to what needs to be done when there is excess or
deficient rains," was his refrain.
According to the forecast, the north-western
region of the country is likely to get deficient rains while monsoon is
expected to be below normal in north-east and peninsular India. Central
India, which is yet to receive rains, is expected to have a normal
monsoon.
Death toll from US drone attack on rise
Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:40:56 GMT
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the death toll from a US air raid on Pakistan climbs to 80, Islamabad
has once again slammed Washington for attacks on its soil.
Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesman said such attacks undermine the
country's sovereignty, adding that Islamabad made regular contacts with
the US over the issue.
On Tuesday, some 80 people have been killed in what has been the deadliest US missile attack on Pakistani soil yet.
Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit urged the US to
stop such attacks as military operations to eliminate militants in
tribal areas were well proceeding, a Press TV correspondent reported.
The missiles, that left nearly 100 people injured, hit the funeral
of people who were killed earlier in the day during a similar strike in
the volatile region.
The US has carried out at least 35 drone attacks on Pakistan's
tribal areas, killing and wounding over 500 people over the past year.
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North Korea threatens nuclear 'fire shower' if attacked
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warned it would expand its nuclear arsenal, a month after it carried
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Cream of the crop: 69 of top 100 JEE rankers pick IIT-Bombay
25 Jun 2009, 0535 hrs IST, Hemali Chhapia, TNN
MUMBAI: The composition of the elite
technological club has changed. A decade ago admission to the IIT-Kanpur ensured
demi-god treatment. Only
the brightest and the best could get past the gates
there.
No longer. Mumbai is the new Kanpur, with Delhi and Chennai
snapping at its heels. A look at the students’ choice of institute by the
top 100 JEE rankers down the last half-a-decade reveals that preferences have
changed dramatically. A number of factors have been responsible for the
reordering, from geography to gastronomy and placement records to what coaching
classes preach to students.
Of the top 100 JEE-2009 rankers,
considered the elite group among engineering aspirants around the country, 69
students preferred to join IIT-Bombay over any other IIT. This was followed by
Delhi â€" where 19 of the top-100 â€" have been admitted. While Bombay
has been bettering its performance over the years, number of toppers going to
Delhi has slipped.
"IIT-B's decision to introduce minors in all
programmes has seen more students wanting to come to the Powai campus," reasoned
the institute's JEE-2009 chairman A Pani. In 2008, the institute ushered in
academic reforms and permitted students to pick a minor course along with the
core area of specialisation. This, explained Pani, has resulted most streams
opening and closing admissions at higher ranks than previous
years.
On each IIT campus, the top 100 students are considered as the
rich creamy icing. Twenty years ago IIT-Kharagpur was the engineering mecca. The
oldest IIT of the country, IIT-Kharagpur did not receive a single student from
the top hundred this year; and before that, in 2004, only three of the top 100
went there.
A former JEE chairman explained, "While Bombay and Delhi
were still building themselves, Kharagpur's students had already occupied top
positions in big companies. Students looked at Kharagpur's illustrious alumni
and rushed there. Now this has changed."
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1,100 quota seats in IITs not filled this year
25 Jun 2009, 0520 hrs IST, Hemali Chhapia, TNN
UMBAI: Every year, lakhs of students
burn the midnight oil for months to get into the hallowed Indian Institutes of
Technology. But as
admissions closed on Wednesday, one startling fact emerged
â€" there weren't enough qualified candidates to fill up the reserved seats
on offer for the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, or the physically
challenged.
IIT heads told TOI that over 1,100 seats will now be
transferred to the preparatory course. This course, which is like a feeder
class, trains quota students for a year to equip them to qualify for the IITs.
Students for the preparatory course are selected by reducing cut-offs even
further.
On the OBC (other backward classes) reservation front too,
53 seats were transferred to general category candidates, though the IITs are
still only in the second year of the quotas (they are implementing 18% quota
before moving to the total 27% reservation).
The IITs, in fact, had
made various concessions to ensure they could fill the SC/ST seats. They lowered
entry levels for these categories and even went as low as 50% below the last
general category student's marks to do justice to the quota. Even this did not
help them get the required number of backward category students.
Centre asks IITs to give SCs/STs more shots at JEE13 Apr 2009, 0336 hrs IST, Hemali Chhapia,TNN
MUMBAI:
Buoyed by the success of implementing the OBC quota, the government now wants
the Indian Institutes of Technology to employ reservation
even before the
admission process begins. This time around, the Centre has written to the IITs
asking them to allow Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students more shots at
the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE).
Currently, the premier tech colleges
adopts a caste-blind policy towards all aspirants at the preliminary stage of
conducting the exam. Each one, no matter what group he or she belongs to, is
allowed a maximum of two attempts at the competitive entrance
exam.
Gautam Barua, director of IIT-Guwahati, the institute which is
in-charge of JEE-2009, confirmed the receipt of such a letter from the
government. However, he said that the note came in late for such a rule to be
implemented this year. "The Joint Admission Board will take a look at the letter
and examine what a provision like this will translate into. Even if we decide to
implement the request, it will only be done for 2010,'' Barua
added.
Most selection and admission rules for JEE are drawn from the
recruitment norms designed for appointing Union government officers. In fact,
till recently the JEE, like the civil services exam, was a two-tier test â€"
lakhs of students sat for the preliminary screening, following which a few
thousands took the mains. Aspirants could then attempt the exam any number of
times.
But in September 2005, a committee headed by C N R Rao,
chairman of the Prime Minister's Scientific Advisory Committee, reviewed the
system and decided to limit the attempts to two. Rao observed that several
aspirants languished for years in coaching classes trying to crack the exam,
"little realising or believing that they were cut out for something else'', a
director had then said, while giving a reason for the committee's
decision.
In 2006, the JEE turned a new chapter and became a
single-tier, objective, race-against-time exam testing students on the
fundamentals (and their applications) of physics, chemistry and maths. But time
and again, the JEE has come under the attack of political interference. "There
is a lot of pressure from the government to allow SC/ST students to take the JEE
more number of times,'' said a JEE-2009 chairman.
The IITs already
set aside 15% seats for SCs and 7.5% slots for STs in each stream of engineering
offered. A separate merit list with relaxed cut-offs is drawn up each year for
selecting reserved category students. In fact late last year, the IIT directors
decided to allow a 50% relaxation of scores for them from 2009, up from
40%.
With regard to the JEE-2008 scores, if the last general category
student was admitted with an overall score of 172 out of 489, the aggregate
cut-off for an SC/ST student was 104 (after a 40% relaxation). If the general
category cut-off in 2009 remains the same, the bar for SC/ST candidates would be
lowered to 86 (50% of 172). Similarly, subject-wise cut-offs would also be
affected 2009 onwards.
The JAB will soon take a call on the
government's note. But several old-time professors in off-the-record
conversations have rued the unfolding political interference. "As academicians
we tend to steer clear of the bureaucracy. But of late, vote-bank agendas are
being thrust on our institutions. Either we will have to change, or the IITs
will change, forever,'' an IIT-Kharagpur faculty member said. QnA:
Would the IITs be compromising on the quality of their students if they have
reservation for SCs and STs?
IIM-A students have plan B ready to tide over crisis
11 Mar 2009, 0353 hrs IST, Vasundhara Vyas Mehta, TNN
AHMEDABAD: IIM-Ahmedabad students, who
are facing the heat of global meltdown at this year's placements, have an
alternate plan just in case
things get choppy careerwise.
The new
trend among IIM-A students is to accept job offers but also have an enterprise
running by the side. Take Sameer Gandhi, who has been offered to head the
marketing division for Sangini Diamonds in the US. But Gandhi prefers to
continue with his stock trading website he had launched with two of his
classmates.
"This website was an outcome of our curiosity about the
stock market. It gives a virtual stock trading opportunity for the beginners
like students, housewives or retired individuals. For the last two years, while
I was in IIM-A, my other friends were taking care of it and now with the course
over, I plan to get involved in whichever way possible," said
Gandhi.
Wanting to be known as an entrepreneur eventually, Gandhi
said, "While I was considering the job offers, I was looking for something where
I would get opportunity to work and learn as an entrepreneur. This is possible
only with small or medium-scale enterprises."
Another student, Srijan
Pal Singh, who plans a career in politics, has accepted a pre-placement offer
(PPO) made by a top consulting firm. But he first wants to work with a political
party during the three-month period before joining the BPO. Singh told TOI, "I
have approached a leading political party with a project on how youth can be
involved in politics and elections. The youth is absolutely indifferent to
politics and if we want to change the condition, politics seems to be the most
potent force. The proposal that I have submitted to the political party is about
bringing new ideas and delivery mechanism in Indian politics. The party is
considering the proposal."
Singh honed his communication skills
during his two years at IIM-A. He was in the team that organised a social
entrepreneurship fair, initiated a constituency management course and
participated in former president APJ Abdul Kalam discourse.
Plan panel favours IIT, IIM offshore campuses
22 Jun 2009, 1342 hrs IST, Mahendra Kumar Singh, TNN
NEW DELHI: Doors may soon be open for
Indian universities and government-run institutions like IIMs and IITs to set up
campuses abroad to
cross-subsidise higher education for vulnerable sections of
society.
The Planning Commission is in favour of formulating
guidelines to allow Indian universities and government-run institutions to run
business abroad to fund higher education for the poor back home and to expand
the educational infrastructure in the country.
The move has come at the
time when India is wooing foreign universities to set up campuses in the
country.
Interestingly, as of now, there are no rules and
regulations to permit government-run institutions to set up offshore campuses.
So far, only private educational institutions were free to explore education
opportunities abroad. Private institutions like Symbiosis and BITS, Pilani, have
already opened campuses abroad.
Only in May this year, Pune
University became the first government-run institution to open its campus
abroad, in UAE, after considerable legal and bureaucratic
hurdles.
The human resources development ministry had objected to the
proposal of Pune University on the ground that there were no guidelines on
opening campuses on foreign soil by government-run institutions. Pune University
had to knock the doors of the PMO to get its proposal cleared.
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21 Jun 2009, 0441 hrs IST, Hemali Chhapia, TNN
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MUMBAI: Despite higher education being
vital to a rapidly developing country like India, the government's share in
higher education â€" in terms of
number of institutes and student enrollment
â€" has dwindled over time. Simultaneously, academics note, the stake of
profit-seeking politicians in the higher education business has risen.
In 2001, when private unaided institutes made up 42.6% of all higher
education institutes, 32.89% of Indian students studied in them. By 2006, the
share of private institutes went up to 63.21% and their student share went up to
51.53%. In other words, every second student in India signed up with a private
institute.
Globally too, the private sector has seen opportunities in
higher education, but there have been few takers in comparison to India. For
instance, although there are 39.1% private higher education institutes in China,
merely 8.9% students study in them. In the US, private universities constitute
59.4% of higher education institutes, but only 23.2% of American students pursue
their education in them.
"It does signify that higher education in
these countries is predominantly a public service," noted Ved Prakash, vice
chancellor of the National University of Education Planning and Administration
(NUEPA). Academics in India have researched on how public spending by the Union
and provincial governments has fallen. In his work, Prakash notes that between
2002 and 2006, deemed universities â€" or 'doomed universities' as one
academic waggishly described them â€" grew by a whopping 96%. In the same
time span, central and state universities grew by a modest 11% and 22%
respectively.
This unabated growth without any quality check has
forced academics from Harvard University to scrutinize this sector and note,
"The rapid expansion of capitation fees colleges came about as a result not of
great middle-class pressure or demand, but rather the entrepreneurial activities
of politicians."
Even the Supreme Court recently expressed its
concern about the quality of education in private institutes and the corruption
that is rampant there. Within private higher education, the professional streams
have seen the maximum growth.
Private engineering colleges, which
accounted for just 15% of seats in 1960, now account for over 85% according to
data from the All-India Council for Technical Education, the regulatory body for
professional technical education. From a tiny base in 1970, medical colleges in
the private sector have grown by an eye-popping 900%. The private sector now
accounts for over 45% of medical colleges in the country.
In 2006,
Sanat Kaul in his paper ‘Higher education in India: Seizing the
opportunity’ highlighted instances of a single politician running more
than 100 educational institutes. "There are rampant cases of malpractice in the
form of illegal charges for allocating seats from the management quota. Income
tax raids have revealed that seats are sold for cash, and a medical seat can
fetch as much as Rs 25 lakh. The black money involved runs into thousands of
millions of rupees," Kaul observes in his study funded by the Indian Council for
Research on International Economic Relations.
But none of this has
elicited any action from the government. And naturally so. In their 2004 paper,
‘Indian higher education reform: From half-baked socialism to half-baked
capitalism’, Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta, both fellows of Harvard
College, argued that politicians who had been sugar and liquor barons had turned
to higher education as an industry because of its high returns.
"Even
as political parties rail against de jure privatization, de facto privatization
continues unabated," they noted. Kapur and Mehta acknowledged that while there
was no statistical data, "there is little doubt that a majority of private
institutions have been supported or made possible by the direct involvement of
politicians."
Arun Nigavekar, former chairman of the University
Grants Commission, said private institutes have been granted recognition without
a sense of responsibility. "Time and again, the HRD ministry has failed. There
is a need for a surgical process to undo certain decisions taken by it," he
said.
Echoing Nigavekar, academics say that minister for science and
technology Kapil Sibal will not only have to untangle some policies set by his
predecessor, but also work to ensure high quality in public higher
education.
QnA: Are the private colleges giving placements worth the fees
that they are charging?
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3. Khans of Russia
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For precisely seven hundred years, from that day in 1220 until 1920, when the Soviets moved in, Genghis Khan's descendants ruled as khans and emirs over the city of Bukhara in one of the longest family dynasties in history.
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Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston (Russian: ФéликÑ� ФéликÑ�ович ЮÑ�ýпов, граф Сумароков-ÐльÑ�тон) (variously transliterated from Cyrillic as Yussupov, Yusupov, Yossopov, Iusupov, Youssoupov, Youssoupoff, or as Feliks, Graf Sumarrokow-Elston), was best known for participating in the murder of Grigori Rasputin, the mystic peasant faith healer whom Yusupov and other Russian nobles believed held undue sway over Tsar Nicholas II and especially over the Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna.
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Felix Yusupov was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire. His mother's family, the Yusupovs, were of Tatar origin and very wealthy (there was a time when Felix Yusupov was the richest man in Russia). The Yusupov family acquired their wealth generations earlier through extensive land grants in Siberia, and they owned a string of profitable mines and fur trading posts. In order that the Yusupov name might not die out, the prince's father, Count Felix Felixovich Sumarokov-Elston (October 5, 1856, Saint Petersburg - June 10, 1928, Rome, Italy), General Governor of Moscow (1914-1915) (son of Count Felix Nikolaievich Sumarokov-Elston), took the surname of his wife, Princess Zenaida Nikolaievna Yusupova (September 2, 1861, Saint Petersburg - November 24, 1939, Paris) upon their marriage, on April 4, 1882 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Felix became heir to the immense fortune after his older brother Nikolai Felixovich, Count Sumarokov-Elston (born 1883), was
killed in a duel on June 22, 1908. Consulting with family members about how best to administer the money and property, he decided to devote time and money to charitable works to help the poor.
He also led a flamboyant life, and describes in his candid autobiography often spending time with Gypsy bands and adopting female clothing. In 1909-1912 he studied at University College Oxford in England, where he established the Oxford University Russian Society. He married Princess Irina of Russia, the Tsar's niece, on February 22, 1914 in the Anichkov Palace in Saint Petersburg, and the marriage was extremely well-matched and very happy. They had a daughter, also called Irina born March 21, 1915.
The Yusupovs are a Russian noble family descended from the Khans of the 10th century who, in the 18th and 19th centuries, were renowned for their immense wealth, philanthropy and art collections. Most notably, Prince Felix Yusupov II was famous for his involvement in the murder of Rasputin.
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By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press Writer Jennifer C. Kerr, Associated Press Writer â€" Tue Jun 23, 5:20 pm ET
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WASHINGTON â€" New measures aimed at reducing prison rapes are in the works â€" and states that fail to take steps to protect their inmates could see their federal money cut.
The new standards were proposed Tuesday by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, a bipartisan panel that spent five years studying the issue. It's estimated that about 60,000 inmates are sexually abused each year.
With more than 7.3 million people behind bars or on parole and probation in the U.S., the report said jails and prisons should take a series of steps to eliminate sexual abuse of inmates. Those steps include the adoption of zero tolerance policies, better staff training and improved screening to identify prisoners vulnerable to abuse.
"Individuals who are incarcerated have basic human rights," said U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, chairman of the commission. "Just because they've committed a crime and they're incarcerated does not mean that their human dignity can be abused."
The proposed standards are being sent to Attorney General Eric Holder, who has a year to write national standards. States will be notified of the finalized standards and then must adopt them or risk losing 5 percent of any federal prison grant money.
Some of the report's key findings:
• Inmates who are short, young, gay, or female were more likely to be victimized than other inmates.
• Even when inmates are willing to report abuse, their accounts are not always taken seriously and reported to appropriate officials.
In a 2007 study, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that more than 60,000 inmates are sexually abused every year. The study found that 4.5 percent of those surveyed reported being sexually abused in the previous 12 months.
That study also said more prisoners reported abuse by staff than by other prisoners: 2.9 percent to about 2 percent, respectively.
The commission's report recommended that prison authorities adopt more internal monitoring, such as video cameras, as well as external oversight by review boards.
Justice Department spokesman Matt Miller said the report "is an important next step in our efforts to prevent, detect, and respond to sexual abuse in correction and detention facilities in the United States."
James Gondles Jr., executive director of the American Correctional Association, said he's optimistic that "we can get something that's workable." But Gondles said he's concerned that county jails, which have fewer resources than prisons, may not have the money to implement some proposals, such as adding staff for mental health treatment of abuse victims.
At the commission's news conference Tuesday, Hope Hernandez told a crowded room of her ordeal in a Washington D.C. jail in the late 90s when the then-23-year old was awaiting trial on drug charges.
After begging for a shower for two weeks, Hernandez said a corrections officer showed up one night with a towel and shampoo to take her for a shower. She said he led her to the shower, where he raped her.
"Rape must never be part of the penalty, " said Hernandez, a mother of two who later earned a master's degree in social work.
His punishment, she said, was a seven-day suspension with pay before being returned to duty.
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6. weldone Mr.N.sarkozy for banning the dirty burqa in France .
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Date: Thu Jun 25, 2009 1:04 pm ((PDT))
Weldone Mr. President N.Sarkozy . !!!
Yes Mr. President N.Sarkozy , worth millions of appreciations and congratulations for the courage shown by him , to put ban on burqa in France .
sure , burga for a women is worst of all manifestions of male muslim schauvnisim on thier women .
i think if some one cannot concile to live in a civilized society in accordance to its norms , he should move to afghanistan , saudiarabia or the taliban dens in waziristan where lives thier spiritual bretherns .
it looks so disgusting , women in Paris wearing , those tents like atire of burqa ,is horrible .
i think the rest of the western countries , must must follow the foot print notes of Mr. N.Sarkozy and declare ban on this inhuman atire of burga immediatly as its absolutly contradictory to the free world of Europe .
once again , weldone mr sarkozy .
shame on islamic buggers .
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7. Preparing the Battlefield by Seymour M. Hersh.
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Date: Thu Jun 25, 2009 1:09 pm ((PDT))
Preparing the Battlefield by Seymour M. Hersh.
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Seymour (Sy) Myron Hersh (born April 8, 1937) is an American Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author based in Washington, D.C. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine on military and security matters. [Courtesy Wikipedia/The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/
Seymour Hersh: The secret war in Iran
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Preparing the Battlefield: The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran. by Seymour M. Hersh July 7, 2008
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Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership. The covert activities involve support of the minority Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi groups and other dissident organizations. They also include gathering intelligence about Iran’s suspected nuclear-weapons program.
Clandestine operations against Iran are not new. United States Special Operations Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq, with Presidential authorization, since last year. These have included seizing members of Al Quds, the commando arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and taking them to Iraq for interrogation, and the pursuit of “high-value targets� in the President’s war on terror, who may be captured or killed. But the scale and the scope of the operations in Iran, which involve the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), have now been significantly expanded, according to the current and former officials. Many of these activities are not specified in the new Finding, and some congressional leaders have had serious questions about their nature.
Under federal law, a Presidential Finding, which is highly classified, must be issued when a covert intelligence operation gets under way and, at a minimum, must be made known to Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and the Senate and to the ranking members of their respective intelligence committeesâ€"the so-called Gang of Eight. Money for the operation can then be reprogrammed from previous appropriations, as needed, by the relevant congressional committees, which also can be briefed.
“The Finding was focussed on undermining Iran’s nuclear ambitions and trying to undermine the government through regime change,� a person familiar with its contents said, and involved “working with opposition groups and passing money.� The Finding provided for a whole new range of activities in southern Iran and in the areas, in the east, where Baluchi political opposition is strong, he said.
Although some legislators were troubled by aspects of the Finding, and “there was a significant amount of high-level discussionâ€� about it, according to the source familiar with it, the funding for the escalation was approved. In other words, some members of the Democratic leadershipâ€"Congress has been under Democratic control since the 2006 electionsâ€"were willing, in secret, to go along with the Administration in expanding covert activities directed at Iran, while the Party’s presumptive candidate for President, Barack Obama, has said that he favors direct talks and diplomacy.
The request for funding came in the same period in which the Administration was coming to terms with a National Intelligence Estimate, released in December, that concluded that Iran had halted its work on nuclear weapons in 2003. The Administration downplayed the significance of the N.I.E., and, while saying that it was committed to diplomacy, continued to emphasize that urgent action was essential to counter the Iranian nuclear threat. President Bush questioned the N.I.E.’s conclusions, and senior national-security officials, including Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, made similar statements. (So did Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee.) Meanwhile, the Administration also revived charges that the Iranian leadership has been involved in the killing of American soldiers in Iraq: both directly, by dispatching commando units into Iraq, and indirectly, by supplying materials used
for roadside bombs and other lethal goods. (There have been questions about the accuracy of the claims; the Times, among others, has reported that “significant uncertainties remain about the extent of that involvement.�)
Military and civilian leaders in the Pentagon share the White House’s concern about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but there is disagreement about whether a military strike is the right solution. Some Pentagon officials believe, as they have let Congress and the media know, that bombing Iran is not a viable response to the nuclear-proliferation issue, and that more diplomacy is necessary.
A Democratic senator told me that, late last year, in an off-the-record lunch meeting, Secretary of Defense Gates met with the Democratic caucus in the Senate. (Such meetings are held regularly.) Gates warned of the consequences if the Bush Administration staged a preëmptive strike on Iran, saying, as the senator recalled, “We’ll create generations of jihadists, and our grandchildren will be battling our enemies here in America.� Gates’s comments stunned the Democrats at the lunch, and another senator asked whether Gates was speaking for Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney. Gates’s answer, the senator told me, was “Let’s just say that I’m here speaking for myself.� (A spokesman for Gates confirmed that he discussed the consequences of a strike at the meeting, but would not address what he said, other than to dispute the senator’s characterization.)
The Joint Chiefs of Staff, whose chairman is Admiral Mike Mullen, were “pushing back very hardâ€� against White House pressure to undertake a military strike against Iran, the person familiar with the Finding told me. Similarly, a Pentagon consultant who is involved in the war on terror said that “at least ten senior flag and general officers, including combatant commandersâ€�â€"the four-star officers who direct military operations around the worldâ€"“have weighed in on that issue.â€�
The most outspoken of those officers is Admiral William Fallon, who until recently was the head of U.S. Central Command, and thus in charge of American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. In March, Fallon resigned under pressure, after giving a series of interviews stating his reservations about an armed attack on Iran. For example, late last year he told the Financial Times that the “real objective� of U.S. policy was to change the Iranians’ behavior, and that “attacking them as a means to get to that spot strikes me as being not the first choice.�
Admiral Fallon acknowledged, when I spoke to him in June, that he had heard that there were people in the White House who were upset by his public statements. “Too many people believe you have to be either for or against the Iranians,� he told me. “Let’s get serious. Eighty million people live there, and everyone’s an individual. The idea that they’re only one way or another is nonsense.�
When it came to the Iraq war, Fallon said, “Did I bitch about some of the things that were being proposed? You bet. Some of them were very stupid.�
The Democratic leadership’s agreement to commit hundreds of millions of dollars for more secret operations in Iran was remarkable, given the general concerns of officials like Gates, Fallon, and many others. “The oversight process has not kept paceâ€"it’s been coöptedâ€� by the Administration, the person familiar with the contents of the Finding said. “The process is broken, and this is dangerous stuff we’re authorizing.â€�
Senior Democrats in Congress told me that they had concerns about the possibility that their understanding of what the new operations entail differs from the White House’s. One issue has to do with a reference in the Finding, the person familiar with it recalled, to potential defensive lethal action by U.S. operatives in Iran. (In early May, the journalist Andrew Cockburn published elements of the Finding in Counterpunch, a newsletter and online magazine.)
The language was inserted into the Finding at the urging of the C.I.A., a former senior intelligence official said. The covert operations set forth in the Finding essentially run parallel to those of a secret military task force, now operating in Iran, that is under the control of JSOC. Under the Bush Administration’s interpretation of the law, clandestine military activities, unlike covert C.I.A. operations, do not need to be depicted in a Finding, because the President has a constitutional right to command combat forces in the field without congressional interference. But the borders between operations are not always clear: in Iran, C.I.A. agents and regional assets have the language skills and the local knowledge to make contacts for the JSOC operatives, and have been working with them to direct personnel, matériel, and money into Iran from an obscure base in western Afghanistan. As a result, Congress has been given only a partial view of how the
money it authorized may be used. One of JSOC’s task-force missions, the pursuit of “high-value targets,� was not directly addressed in the Finding. There is a growing realization among some legislators that the Bush Administration, in recent years, has conflated what is an intelligence operation and what is a military one in order to avoid fully informing Congress about what it is doing.
“This is a big deal,â€� the person familiar with the Finding said. “The C.I.A. needed the Finding to do its traditional stuff, but the Finding does not apply to JSOC. The President signed an Executive Order after September 11th giving the Pentagon license to do things that it had never been able to do before without notifying Congress. The claim was that the military was ‘preparing the battle space,’ and by using that term they were able to circumvent congressional oversight. Everything is justified in terms of fighting the global war on terror.â€� He added, “The Administration has been fuzzing the lines; there used to be a shade of grayâ€�â€"between operations that had to be briefed to the senior congressional leadership and those which did notâ€"“but now it’s a shade of mush.â€�
“The agency says we’re not going to get in the position of helping to kill people without a Finding,� the former senior intelligence official told me. He was referring to the legal threat confronting some agency operatives for their involvement in the rendition and alleged torture of suspects in the war on terror. “This drove the military people up the wall,� he said. As far as the C.I.A. was concerned, the former senior intelligence official said, “the over-all authorization includes killing, but it’s not as though that’s what they’re setting out to do. It’s about gathering information, enlisting support.� The Finding sent to Congress was a compromise, providing legal cover for the C.I.A. while referring to the use of lethal force in ambiguous terms.
The defensive-lethal language led some Democrats, according to congressional sources familiar with their views, to call in the director of the C.I.A., Air Force General Michael V. Hayden, for a special briefing. Hayden reassured the legislators that the language did nothing more than provide authority for Special Forces operatives on the ground in Iran to shoot their way out if they faced capture or harm.
The legislators were far from convinced. One congressman subsequently wrote a personal letter to President Bush insisting that “no lethal action, period� had been authorized within Iran’s borders. As of June, he had received no answer.
Members of Congress have expressed skepticism in the past about the information provided by the White House. On March 15, 2005, David Obey, then the ranking Democrat on the Republican-led House Appropriations Committee, announced that he was putting aside an amendment that he had intended to offer that day, and that would have cut off all funding for national-intelligence programs unless the President agreed to keep Congress fully informed about clandestine military activities undertaken in the war on terror. He had changed his mind, he said, because the White House promised better coöperation. “The Executive Branch understands that we are not trying to dictate what they do,� he said in a floor speech at the time. “We are simply trying to see to it that what they do is consistent with American values and will not get the country in trouble.�
Obey declined to comment on the specifics of the operations in Iran, but he did tell me that the White House reneged on its promise to consult more fully with Congress. He said, “I suspect there’s something going on, but I don’t know what to believe. Cheney has always wanted to go after Iran, and if he had more time he’d find a way to do it. We still don’t get enough information from the agencies, and I have very little confidence that they give us information on the edge.�
None of the four Democrats in the Gang of Eightâ€"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Intelligence Committee chairman John D. Rockefeller IV, and House Intelligence Committee chairman Silvestre Reyesâ€"would comment on the Finding, with some noting that it was highly classified. An aide to one member of the Democratic leadership responded, on his behalf, by pointing to the limitations of the Gang of Eight process. The notification of a Finding, the aide said, “is just thatâ€"notification, and not a sign-off on activities. Proper oversight of ongoing intelligence activities is done by fully briefing the members of the intelligence committee.â€� However, Congress does have the means to challenge the White House once it has been sent a Finding. It has the power to withhold funding for any government operation. The members of the House and Senate Democratic leadership who have access to the Finding can also, if they choose
to do so, and if they have shared concerns, come up with ways to exert their influence on Administration policy. (A spokesman for the C.I.A. said, “As a rule, we don’t comment one way or the other on allegations of covert activities or purported findings.� The White House also declined to comment.)
A member of the House Appropriations Committee acknowledged that, even with a Democratic victory in November, “it will take another year before we get the intelligence activities under control.� He went on, “We control the money and they can’t do anything without the money. Money is what it’s all about. But I’m very leery of this Administration.� He added, “This Administration has been so secretive.�
One irony of Admiral Fallon’s departure is that he was, in many areas, in agreement with President Bush on the threat posed by Iran. They had a good working relationship, Fallon told me, and, when he ran CENTCOM, were in regular communication. On March 4th, a week before his resignation, Fallon testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee, saying that he was “encouraged� about the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Regarding the role played by Iran’s leaders, he said, “They’ve been absolutely unhelpful, very damaging, and I absolutely don’t condone any of their activities. And I have yet to see anything since I’ve been in this job in the way of a public action by Iran that’s been at all helpful in this region.�
Fallon made it clear in our conversations that he considered it inappropriate to comment publicly about the President, the Vice-President, or Special Operations. But he said he had heard that people in the White House had been “struggling� with his views on Iran. “When I arrived at CENTCOM, the Iranians were funding every entity inside Iraq. It was in their interest to get us out, and so they decided to kill as many Americans as they could. And why not? They didn’t know who’d come out ahead, but they wanted us out. I decided that I couldn’t resolve the situation in Iraq without the neighborhood. To get this problem in Iraq solved, we had to somehow involve Iran and Syria. I had to work the neighborhood.�
Fallon told me that his focus had been not on the Iranian nuclear issue, or on regime change there, but on “putting out the fires in Iraq.� There were constant discussions in Washington and in the field about how to engage Iran and, on the subject of the bombing option, Fallon said, he believed that “it would happen only if the Iranians did something stupid.�
Fallon’s early retirement, however, appears to have been provoked not only by his negative comments about bombing Iran but also by his strong belief in the chain of command and his insistence on being informed about Special Operations in his area of responsibility. One of Fallon’s defenders is retired Marine General John J. (Jack) Sheehan, whose last assignment was as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Atlantic Command, where Fallon was a deputy. Last year, Sheehan rejected a White House offer to become the President’s “czar� for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “One of the reasons the White House selected Fallon for CENTCOM was that he’s known to be a strategic thinker and had demonstrated those skills in the Pacific,� Sheehan told me. (Fallon served as commander-in-chief of U.S. forces in the Pacific from 2005 to 2007.) “He was charged with coming up with an over-all coherent strategy for Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and, by law, the
combatant commander is responsible for all military operations within his A.O.â€�â€"area of operations. “That was not happening,â€� Sheehan said. “When Fallon tried to make sense of all the overt and covert activity conducted by the military in his area of responsibility, a small group in the White House leadership shut him out.â€�
The law cited by Sheehan is the 1986 Defense Reorganization Act, known as Goldwater-Nichols, which defined the chain of command: from the President to the Secretary of Defense, through the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and on to the various combatant commanders, who were put in charge of all aspects of military operations, including joint training and logistics. That authority, the act stated, was not to be shared with other echelons of command. But the Bush Administration, as part of its global war on terror, instituted new policies that undercut regional commanders-in-chief; for example, it gave Special Operations teams, at military commands around the world, the highest priority in terms of securing support and equipment. The degradation of the traditional chain of command in the past few years has been a point of tension between the White House and the uniformed military.
“The coherence of military strategy is being eroded because of undue civilian influence and direction of nonconventional military operations,� Sheehan said. “If you have small groups planning and conducting military operations outside the knowledge and control of the combatant commander, by default you can’t have a coherent military strategy. You end up with a disaster, like the reconstruction efforts in Iraq.�
Admiral Fallon, who is known as Fox, was aware that he would face special difficulties as the first Navy officer to lead CENTCOM, which had always been headed by a ground commander, one of his military colleagues told me. He was also aware that the Special Operations community would be a concern. “Fox said that there’s a lot of strange stuff going on in Special Ops, and I told him he had to figure out what they were really doing,� Fallon’s colleague said. “The Special Ops guys eventually figured out they needed Fox, and so they began to talk to him. Fox would have won his fight with Special Ops but for Cheney.�
The Pentagon consultant said, “Fallon went down because, in his own way, he was trying to prevent a war with Iran, and you have to admire him for that.�
In recent months, according to the Iranian media, there has been a surge in violence in Iran; it is impossible at this early stage, however, to credit JSOC or C.I.A. activities, or to assess their impact on the Iranian leadership. The Iranian press reports are being carefully monitored by retired Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner, who has taught strategy at the National War College and now conducts war games centered on Iran for the federal government, think tanks, and universities. The Iranian press “is very open in describing the killings going on inside the country,� Gardiner said. It is, he said, “a controlled press, which makes it more important that it publishes these things. We begin to see inside the government.� He added, “Hardly a day goes by now we don’t see a clash somewhere. There were three or four incidents over a recent weekend, and the Iranians are even naming the Revolutionary Guard officers who have been killed.�
Earlier this year, a militant Ahwazi group claimed to have assassinated a Revolutionary Guard colonel, and the Iranian government acknowledged that an explosion in a cultural center in Shiraz, in the southern part of the country, which killed at least twelve people and injured more than two hundred, had been a terrorist act and not, as it earlier insisted, an accident. It could not be learned whether there has been American involvement in any specific incident in Iran, but, according to Gardiner, the Iranians have begun publicly blaming the U.S., Great Britain, and, more recently, the C.I.A. for some incidents. The agency was involved in a coup in Iran in 1953, and its support for the unpopular regime of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlaviâ€"who was overthrown in 1979â€"was condemned for years by the ruling mullahs in Tehran, to great effect. “This is the ultimate for the Iraniansâ€"to blame the C.I.A.,â€� Gardiner said. “This is new, and it’s an
escalationâ€"a ratcheting up of tensions. It rallies support for the regime and shows the people that there is a continuing threat from the ‘Great Satan.’ â€� In Gardiner’s view, the violence, rather than weakening Iran’s religious government, may generate support for it.
Many of the activities may be being carried out by dissidents in Iran, and not by Americans in the field. One problem with “passing money� (to use the term of the person familiar with the Finding) in a covert setting is that it is hard to control where the money goes and whom it benefits. Nonetheless, the former senior intelligence official said, “We’ve got exposure, because of the transfer of our weapons and our communications gear. The Iranians will be able to make the argument that the opposition was inspired by the Americans. How many times have we tried this without asking the right questions? Is the risk worth it?� One possible consequence of these operations would be a violent Iranian crackdown on one of the dissident groups, which could give the Bush Administration a reason to intervene.
A strategy of using ethnic minorities to undermine Iran is flawed, according to Vali Nasr, who teaches international politics at Tufts University and is also a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. “Just because Lebanon, Iraq, and Pakistan have ethnic problems, it does not mean that Iran is suffering from the same issue,â€� Nasr told me. “Iran is an old countryâ€"like France and Germanyâ€"and its citizens are just as nationalistic. The U.S. is overestimating ethnic tension in Iran.â€� The minority groups that the U.S. is reaching out to are either well integrated or small and marginal, without much influence on the government or much ability to present a political challenge, Nasr said. “You can always find some activist groups that will go and kill a policeman, but working with the minorities will backfire, and alienate the majority of the population.â€�
The Administration may have been willing to rely on dissident organizations in Iran even when there was reason to believe that the groups had operated against American interests in the past. The use of Baluchi elements, for example, is problematic, Robert Baer, a former C.I.A. clandestine officer who worked for nearly two decades in South Asia and the Middle East, told me. “The Baluchis are Sunni fundamentalists who hate the regime in Tehran, but you can also describe them as Al Qaeda,â€� Baer told me. “These are guys who cut off the heads of nonbelieversâ€"in this case, it’s Shiite Iranians. The irony is that we’re once again working with Sunni fundamentalists, just as we did in Afghanistan in the nineteen-eighties.â€� Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted for his role in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is considered one of the leading planners of the September 11th attacks, are Baluchi Sunni
fundamentalists.
One of the most active and violent anti-regime groups in Iran today is the Jundallah, also known as the Iranian People’s Resistance Movement, which describes itself as a resistance force fighting for the rights of Sunnis in Iran. “This is a vicious Salafi organization whose followers attended the same madrassas as the Taliban and Pakistani extremists,� Nasr told me. “They are suspected of having links to Al Qaeda and they are also thought to be tied to the drug culture.� The Jundallah took responsibility for the bombing of a busload of Revolutionary Guard soldiers in February, 2007. At least eleven Guard members were killed. According to Baer and to press reports, the Jundallah is among the groups in Iran that are benefitting from U.S. support.
The C.I.A. and Special Operations communities also have long-standing ties to two other dissident groups in Iran: the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, known in the West as the M.E.K., and a Kurdish separatist group, the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan, or PJAK.
The M.E.K. has been on the State Department’s terrorist list for more than a decade, yet in recent years the group has received arms and intelligence, directly or indirectly, from the United States. Some of the newly authorized covert funds, the Pentagon consultant told me, may well end up in M.E.K. coffers. “The new task force will work with the M.E.K. The Administration is desperate for results.â€� He added, “The M.E.K. has no C.P.A. auditing the books, and its leaders are thought to have been lining their pockets for years. If people only knew what the M.E.K. is getting, and how much is going to its bank accountsâ€"and yet it is almost useless for the purposes the Administration intends.â€�
The Kurdish party, PJAK, which has also been reported to be covertly supported by the United States, has been operating against Iran from bases in northern Iraq for at least three years. (Iran, like Iraq and Turkey, has a Kurdish minority, and PJAK and other groups have sought self-rule in territory that is now part of each of those countries.) In recent weeks, according to Sam Gardiner, the military strategist, there has been a marked increase in the number of PJAK armed engagements with Iranians and terrorist attacks on Iranian targets. In early June, the news agency Fars reported that a dozen PJAK members and four Iranian border guards were killed in a clash near the Iraq border; a similar attack in May killed three Revolutionary Guards and nine PJAK fighters. PJAK has also subjected Turkey, a member of NATO, to repeated terrorist attacks, and reports of American support for the group have been a source of friction between the two governments.
Gardiner also mentioned a trip that the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, made to Tehran in June. After his return, Maliki announced that his government would ban any contact between foreigners and the M.E.K.â€"a slap at the U.S.’s dealings with the group. Maliki declared that Iraq was not willing to be a staging ground for covert operations against other countries. This was a sign, Gardiner said, of “Maliki’s increasingly choosing the interests of Iraq over the interests of the United States.â€� In terms of U.S. allegations of Iranian involvement in the killing of American soldiers, he said, “Maliki was unwilling to play the blame-Iran game.â€� Gardiner added that Pakistan had just agreed to turn over a Jundallah leader to the Iranian government. America’s covert operations, he said, “seem to be harming relations with the governments of both Iraq and Pakistan and could well be strengthening the connection between Tehran and Baghdad.â€�
The White House’s reliance on questionable operatives, and on plans involving possible lethal action inside Iran, has created anger as well as anxiety within the Special Operations and intelligence communities. JSOC’s operations in Iran are believed to be modelled on a program that has, with some success, used surrogates to target the Taliban leadership in the tribal territories of Waziristan, along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. But the situations in Waziristan and Iran are not comparable.
In Waziristan, “the program works because it’s small and smart guys are running it,â€� the former senior intelligence official told me. “It’s being executed by professionals. The N.S.A., the C.I.A., and the D.I.A.â€�â€"the Defense Intelligence Agencyâ€"“are right in there with the Special Forces and Pakistani intelligence, and they’re dealing with serious bad guys.â€� He added, “We have to be really careful in calling in the missiles. We have to hit certain houses at certain times. The people on the ground are watching through binoculars a few hundred yards away and calling specific locations, in latitude and longitude. We keep the Predator loitering until the targets go into a house, and we have to make sure our guys are far enough away so they don’t get hit.â€� One of the most prominent victims of the program, the former official said, was Abu Laith al-Libi, a senior Al Qaeda* commander, who was killed on January 31st, reportedly in a
missile strike that also killed eleven other people.
A dispatch published on March 26th by the Washington Post reported on the increasing number of successful strikes against Taliban and other insurgent units in Pakistan’s tribal areas. A follow-up article noted that, in response, the Taliban had killed “dozens of peopleâ€� suspected of providing information to the United States and its allies on the whereabouts of Taliban leaders. Many of the victims were thought to be American spies, and their executionsâ€"a beheading, in one caseâ€"were videotaped and distributed by DVD as a warning to others.
It is not simple to replicate the program in Iran. “Everybody’s arguing about the high-value-target list,� the former senior intelligence official said. “The Special Ops guys are pissed off because Cheney’s office set up priorities for categories of targets, and now he’s getting impatient and applying pressure for results. But it takes a long time to get the right guys in place.�
The Pentagon consultant told me, “We’ve had wonderful results in the Horn of Africa with the use of surrogates and false flagsâ€"basic counterintelligence and counter-insurgency tactics. And we’re beginning to tie them in knots in Afghanistan. But the White House is going to kill the program if they use it to go after Iran. It’s one thing to engage in selective strikes and assassinations in Waziristan and another in Iran. The White House believes that one size fits all, but the legal issues surrounding extrajudicial killings in Waziristan are less of a problem because Al Qaeda and the Taliban cross the border into Afghanistan and back again, often with U.S. and NATO forces in hot pursuit. The situation is not nearly as clear in the Iranian case. All the considerationsâ€"judicial, strategic, and politicalâ€"are different in Iran.â€�
He added, “There is huge opposition inside the intelligence community to the idea of waging a covert war inside Iran, and using Baluchis and Ahwazis as surrogates. The leaders of our Special Operations community all have remarkable physical courage, but they are less likely to voice their opposition to policy. Iran is not Waziristan.�
A Gallup poll taken last November, before the N.I.E. was made public, found that seventy-three per cent of those surveyed thought that the United States should use economic action and diplomacy to stop Iran’s nuclear program, while only eighteen per cent favored direct military action. Republicans were twice as likely as Democrats to endorse a military strike. Weariness with the war in Iraq has undoubtedly affected the public’s tolerance for an attack on Iran. This mood could change quickly, however. The potential for escalation became clear in early January, when five Iranian patrol boats, believed to be under the command of the Revolutionary Guard, made a series of aggressive moves toward three Navy warships sailing through the Strait of Hormuz. Initial reports of the incident made public by the Pentagon press office said that the Iranians had transmitted threats, over ship-to-ship radio, to “explode� the American ships. At a White House news
conference, the President, on the day he left for an eight-day trip to the Middle East, called the incident “provocative� and “dangerous,� and there was, very briefly, a sense of crisis and of outrage at Iran. “TWO MINUTES FROM WAR� was the headline in one British newspaper.
The crisis was quickly defused by Vice-Admiral Kevin Cosgriff, the commander of U.S. naval forces in the region. No warning shots were fired, the Admiral told the Pentagon press corps on January 7th, via teleconference from his headquarters, in Bahrain. “Yes, it’s more serious than we have seen, but, to put it in context, we do interact with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and their Navy regularly,� Cosgriff said. “I didn’t get the sense from the reports I was receiving that there was a sense of being afraid of these five boats.�
Admiral Cosgriff’s caution was well founded: within a week, the Pentagon acknowledged that it could not positively identify the Iranian boats as the source of the ominous radio transmission, and press reports suggested that it had instead come from a prankster long known for sending fake messages in the region. Nonetheless, Cosgriff’s demeanor angered Cheney, according to the former senior intelligence official. But a lesson was learned in the incident: The public had supported the idea of retaliation, and was even asking why the U.S. didn’t do more. The former official said that, a few weeks later, a meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office. “The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,� he said.
In June, President Bush went on a farewell tour of Europe. He had tea with Queen Elizabeth II and dinner with Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni, the President and First Lady of France. The serious business was conducted out of sight, and involved a series of meetings on a new diplomatic effort to persuade the Iranians to halt their uranium-enrichment program. (Iran argues that its enrichment program is for civilian purposes and is legal under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.) Secretary of State Rice had been involved with developing a new package of incentives. But the Administration’s essential negotiating position seemed unchanged: talks could not take place until Iran halted the program. The Iranians have repeatedly and categorically rejected that precondition, leaving the diplomatic situation in a stalemate; they have not yet formally responded to the new incentives.
The continuing impasse alarms many observers. Joschka Fischer, the former German Foreign Minister, recently wrote in a syndicated column that it may not “be possible to freeze the Iranian nuclear program for the duration of the negotiations to avoid a military confrontation before they are completed. Should this newest attempt fail, things will soon get serious. Deadly serious.� When I spoke to him last week, Fischer, who has extensive contacts in the diplomatic community, said that the latest European approach includes a new element: the willingness of the U.S. and the Europeans to accept something less than a complete cessation of enrichment as an intermediate step. “The proposal says that the Iranians must stop manufacturing new centrifuges and the other side will stop all further sanction activities in the U.N. Security Council,� Fischer said, although Iran would still have to freeze its enrichment activities when formal negotiations begin.
“This could be acceptable to the Iraniansâ€"if they have good will.â€�
The big question, Fischer added, is in Washington. “I think the Americans are deeply divided on the issue of what to do about Iran,� he said. “Some officials are concerned about the fallout from a military attack and others think an attack is unavoidable. I know the Europeans, but I have no idea where the Americans will end up on this issue.�
There is another complication: American Presidential politics. Barack Obama has said that, if elected, he would begin talks with Iran with no “self-defeating� preconditions (although only after diplomatic groundwork had been laid). That position has been vigorously criticized by John McCain. The Washington Post recently quoted Randy Scheunemann, the McCain campaign’s national-security director, as stating that McCain supports the White House’s position, and that the program be suspended before talks begin. What Obama is proposing, Scheunemann said, “is unilateral cowboy summitry.�
Scheunemann, who is known as a neoconservative, is also the McCain campaign’s most important channel of communication with the White House. He is a friend of David Addington, Dick Cheney’s chief of staff. I have heard differing accounts of Scheunemann’s influence with McCain; though some close to the McCain campaign talk about him as a possible national-security adviser, others say he is someone who isn’t taken seriously while “telling Cheney and others what they want to hear,� as a senior McCain adviser put it.
It is not known whether McCain, who is the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, has been formally briefed on the operations in Iran. At the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, in June, Obama repeated his plea for “tough and principled diplomacy.� But he also said, along with McCain, that he would keep the threat of military action against Iran on the table. ♦
*Correction, August 7, 2008: Abu Laith al-Libi was a senior Al Qaeda commander, not a senior Taliban commander, as originally stated.
Source: The New Yorker
URL: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh
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8a. Pakistani Christian Murdered for Drinking Tea from a 'Muslim Cup'
Posted by: "turkman@sbcglobal.net" turkman@sbcglobal.net torkmaan
Date: Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:57 pm ((PDT))
Just shut up Mollaa because I have lived there and seen it all with my own eyes. Your false claims can not change minds of people because everybody knows Mollaas are Liars.
What the hell are you doing in this Forum of Communists, Mollaa?
Don't you guys kick us out of your forums all the time?
Why should we not kick you out for this B.S. right now?
--- In communistpartyofpakistan@yahoogroups.com, "Mubashar Bashir" <mubashir@...> wrote:
>
> i know more than u caz i m living in dat area u r talking about. being
> there in usa r uk u never know wots going on here. u r just believing in
> conferences and seminars only. if u want to see the truth come in the
> field and see how ppl r living.
> this is insane
>
> _____
>
> From: communistpartyofpakistan@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:communistpartyofpakistan@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> turkman@...
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 5:41 MuB
> To: communistpartyofpakistan@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [communistpartyofpakistan] Pakistani Christian Murdered for
> Drinking Tea from a 'Muslim Cup'
>
>
>
>
>
> Ladies & Gentlemen,
> Here this man Mubashir Bashir has accused me of writing a fiction under
> name of "International Christian Concern" and "Evanglical News" without
> any proof and knowledge that they are authentic organizations. I post
> more details of this news below that I have received from an American
> that is now running a Campaign to call Pak Embassy in Washington, London
> and Canada about this incident that he has declared a Fiction or a Story
> that I have hatched out of thin air.
>
> --- On Sun, 6/21/09, virginiaf.raines <virginiaf.raines@...
> <mailto:virginiaf.raines%40gmail.com> > wrote:
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> Fourteen employees? That's quite a tea-stall for a village!!
>
> http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/3244010643.html
> <http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/3244010643.html>
>
> The doctor who took Ishtiaq's case told ICC that Ishtiaq had died due to
> excessive internal and external bleeding, a fractured skull, and brain
> injuries.
>
> Makah Tea Stall is located on the Sukheki-Lahore highway and is owned by
> Mubarak Ali, a 42-year-old radical Muslim. ICC's correspondent visited
> the tea stall and observed that a large red warning sign with a death's
> head symbol was posted which read, "All non-Muslims should introduce
> their faith prior to ordering tea. This tea stall serves Muslims only."
> The warning also threatened anyone who violated the rule with "dire
> consequences."
>
> A neighboring shopkeeper told ICC on condition of anonymity that all
> Ali's employees are former students of radical Muslim madrassas
> (seminaries).
>
> Ishtiaq's family said that they immediately reported the incident to the
> police and filed a case against Ali. However, the murderers are still
> freely operating the tea stall.
>
> When ICC asked the Pindi Bhatian Saddar police station about the murder,
> the police chief said that investigations were underway and they are
> treating it as a faith-based murder by biased Muslims. When asked about
> Ali's warning sign, police chief Muhammad Iftikhar Bajwa claimed that he
> could not take it down. However, the constitution of Pakistan explicitly
> prohibits such discrimination.
>
> The public is encouraged to call the Pakistani embassy of their country
> to protest this heinous crime?
>
> Pakistan Embassies:
>
> USA: (202) 243-6500, info@...
> <mailto:info%40embassyofpakistanusa.org>
> Canada: (613) 238-7881, parepottawa@...
> <mailto:parepottawa%40rogers.com>
> UK: 0870-005-6967, hoc@... <mailto:hoc%40phclondon.org>
>
> --- In communistpartyofpakistan@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:communistpartyofpakistan%40yahoogroups.com> , "Mubashar Bashir"
> <mubashir@> wrote:
> >
> > hhahhahahahaahaha
> > nice story
> > u must try to write a book
> > i bet its will be a best seller
> > :D
> > hahahahaha
> >
> > _____
> >
> > From: communistpartyofpakistan@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:communistpartyofpakistan%40yahoogroups.com>
> > [mailto:communistpartyofpakistan@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:communistpartyofpakistan%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of S
> Turkman
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> >
> >
> >
> > Posted by: "HCJB" HCJB
> > <http://us.mc815.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=HCJB&Subject=
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> > the_moderator2001 <http://profiles.yahoo.com/the_moderator2001
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> >
> >
> > Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:58 pm (PDT)
> >
> >
> > Pakistani Christian Murdered for Drinking Tea from a 'Muslim Cup'
> >
> > Source: International Christian Concern, Evangelical News
> >
> > International Christian Concern has learned that radical Muslims
> running
> > a tea stall beat a Christian man to death Saturday, May 9, for using a
> > cup designated for Muslims. The young man, Ishtiaq Masih, had ordered
> > tea at a roadside stall in Machharkay village outside Punjab,
> > Pakistan, after his bus stopped to allow passengers to relieve
> > themselves.
> >
> > When Masih (Messiah in English) went to pay for his tea, the owner
> > noticed that
> > he was wearing a necklace with a Cross and grabbed him, calling for
> his
> > employees to bring anything available to beat him for violating a sign
> > posted on the Stall, warning non-Muslims to declare their religion
> > before being served. Masih had not noticed the warning sign before
> > ordering his tea.
> >
> > The owner and 14 of his employees beat him with
> > Stones, Iron Rods and Clubs, then stabbed him multiple times with
> > kitchen knives as he pleaded for mercy. The other Bus Passengers and
> > some Passersby finally intervened and took Masih to the Rural Health
> > Center in the village, where he died of his injuries. Masih's
> > family immediately reported the Crime to the Police, but so far no
> > action has been taken in the case.
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9a. Moderator please ...!
Posted by: "turkman@sbcglobal.net" turkman@sbcglobal.net torkmaan
Date: Thu Jun 25, 2009 3:00 pm ((PDT))
This is 2nd post by another Anti Communism, Pro Taliban Mollaa here. When thes A** Holes do not let us post in their Forums, why should they be allowed in Communist Forums?
Why is Hyder Shaikh using fake I.D. of Muradali Shaikh being allowed to preach Islam to Communists here?
--- In communistpartyofpakistan@yahoogroups.com, muradali shaikh <muradali_shaikh2@...> wrote:
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> Yea there are no disputed elections in Egypt, Pakistan or Jordan, where they don't hold any or only far and between elections. So you cannot point any flaws with these dictators chosen by their masters.
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> Ultimately you will face defeat with the Unity of Muslim masses represented by Iran, Taliban, Hizbullah and Hammas, because they believe in one God, one Quran and one prophet.
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> Subject: [communistpartyofpakistan] Iran's Disputed Election
> To: "cpp" <communistpartyofpakistan@yahoogroups.com>
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> Posted by: "Gul Agha" gul.agha@gmail. com gul_agha1957
> Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:45 am (PDT)
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> The Iran vote count is rigged with fraud. Actually, they didn't bother to
> count but starting releasing incongruous numbers giving Ahmadnejad almost
> the same percentage of vote everywhere-- Tehran, Tabrez, Lur, etc.--even
> though it was clear that the opposition had strong support in those areas
> (Mousavi is from Tabrez and that area is predominantly Azeri.. they are as
> likely to vote for a Farsi over a native as voters in Thar were likely to
> vote for "PM" Aziz). I suspect that the Interior ministry panicked (the
> Khatami landslide had taken them surprise before--you would think they would
> learn) and weren't even clever about the rigging. One fellow from the
> Interior ministry who came forward to say as much the day after was
> apparently killed.
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> The mullahs have been doing thuggery in Iran for a long time. The Iranian
> regime
> is a thuggish regime that has a long history of suppressing its
> people after the revolution-- leftists were killed by the thousands, one
> president had to escape to France while in office (and was murdered there by
> Iranian agents). Even moderate reformers like Khatami have not been allowed
> to carry out modest reforms. The fanatic thugs who have successively
> murdered critics (even duly elected Presidents and Ministers--remember the
> firing squad that the FM after the revolution Gotbezadeh faced, not to
> mention the assassination of liberal PM Shahpur Bakhtiar, and several
> associates of revolutionary student leader and popularly elected (after the
> revolution) President Bani Sadr -- who then had to escape from Iran and
> survives only because the French taxpayers are paying for his round the
> clock security (as they once did for Ayatollah Khomeini -- there is a
> tradition in the West of protecting human life in their own
> countries and
> granting asylum).
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> Incidentally this supreme leader is even considered supremely unqualified as
> a Shia cleric. He was hastily made Ayatollah so he could become the
> "Vilayat e Faghi" after the designated successor to Khomeini, Ayatollah
> Montezerri denounced the system and the tyranny it had imposed.
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> One category of people that the mullahs always oppress is women. A great
> part of the current vote and mass protest is by women.
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> Even the granddaughter of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the architect of the
> > Islamic republic, voiced frustration at the way women are treated.
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> > "Women are just living things," Zahra Eshraghi told Amanpour. "A woman is
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> > For the first time, women were allowed to register for the presidential
> > race, though none, including Eshraghi, were deemed fit to run by the
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> Women in Iran march against discrimination -
> CNN.com<http://www.facebook .com/ext/ share.php? sid=113071290521 &h=9RUqd& u=Nmyo9&ref= mf>
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> Like thousands of other Iranian women, Parisa took to Tehran's streets this
> week, her heart brimming with hope. "Change," said the placards around her.
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10. why are the iranians dreaming again?*
Posted by: "S Turkman" turkman@sbcglobal.net torkmaan
Date: Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:30 pm ((PDT))
18 June 2009
why are the iranians dreaming again?*
[The following is a guest post from Ali Alizadeh, Researcher at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, U.K.]
Iran is currently in the grip of a new and strong political movement. While this movement proves that Ahmadinejad’s populist techniques of deception no longer work inside Iran, it seems they are still effective outside the country. This is mainly due to thirty years of isolation and mutual mistrust between Iran and the West which has turned my country into a mysterious phenomenon for outsiders. In this piece I will try to confront some of the mystifications and misunderstandings produced by the international media in the last week.
In the first scenario the international media, claiming impartiality, insisted that the reformists provide hard objective evidence in support of their claim that the June 12 election has been rigged. But despite their empiricist attitude, the media missed obvious facts due to their lack of familiarity with the socio-historical context. Although the reformists could not possibly offer any figures or documents, because the whole show was single-handedly run by Ahmadinejad’s ministry of interior, anyone familiar with Iran’s recent history could easily see what was wrong with this picture.
It was the government who reversed the conventional and logical procedure by announcing a fictitious total figure first â€" in four stages â€" and then fabricating figures for each polling station, something that is still going on. This led to many absurdities: Musavi got less votes in his hometown (Tabriz) than Ahmadinejad; Karroubi’s total vote was less than the number of people active in his campaign; Rezaee’s votes were reduced by a hundred thousand between the third and fourth stages of announcement; blank votes were totally forgotten and only hastily added to the count when reformists pointed this out; and finally the ratio between all candidates’ votes remained almost constant in all these four stages of announcement (63, 33, 2 and 1 percent respectively) .
Moreover, as in any other country, the increase in turnout in Iran’s elections has always benefitted the opposition and not the incumbent, because it is rational to assume that those who usually don’t vote, i.e. the silent majority, only come out when they want to change the status quo. Yet in this election Ahmadinejad, the representative of the status quo, allegedly received 10 million votes more than what he got in the previous election.
Finally, Ahmadinejad’s nervous reaction after his so-called victory is the best proof for rigging: closing down SMS network and the whole of country’s mobile phone network, arresting more than 100 leading political activists, blocking access to Musavi’s and many other reformists’ websites and unleashing violence in the streets...But if all this is not enough, the bodies of more than 17 people who were shot dead and immediately buried in unknown graves should persuade all those “objective-minded� observers.
In the second scenario, gradually unfolding in the last few days, the international media implicitly shifted its attention to the role of internet and its social networking (twitter, facebook, youtube, etc). This implied that millions of illiterate conservative villagers have voted for Ahmadinejad and the political movement is mostly limited to educated middle classes in North Tehran. While this simplified image is more compatible with media’s comfortable position towards Iran in the last 30 years, it is far from reality. The recent political history of Iran does not confirm this image. For example, Khatami’s victory in 1997, despite his absolute lack of any economic promises and his focus instead on liberal civic demands, was made possible by the polarization of society into people and state. Khatami could win only by embracing people from all different classes and groups, villagers and urban people alike.
There is no doubt that new media and technologies have been playing an important role in the movement, but it seems that the cause and the effect are being reversed in the picture painted by the media. First of all, it is the existence of a strong political determination, combined with people becoming deprived of basic means of communication, which has led the movement to creatively test every other channel and method. Musavi’s paper was shut down on the night of election, his frequent request to talk to people on the state TV has been rejected, his official website is often blocked and his physical contact with his supporters has been kept minimum by keeping him in house arrest (with the exception of his appearance on the over a million march on June 15).
Second, due to the heavy pressure on foreign journalists inside Iran, these technological tools have come to play a significant role in sending the messages and images of the movement to the outside world. However, the creative self-organization of the movement is using a manifold of methods and channels, many of them simple and traditional, depending on their availability: shouting ‘death to dictator’ from rooftops, calling landlines, at the end of one rally chanting the time and place of the next one, and by jeopardizing oneself by physically standing on streets and distributing news to every passing car. The appearance of the movement which is being sold by the media to the western gaze â€" the cyber-fantasy of the western societies which has already labelled our movement a twitter revolution, seems to have completely missed the reality of those bodies which are shot dead, injured or ready to be endangered by non-virtual bullets.
What is more surprising in the midst of this media frenzy is the blindness of the western left to the political dynamism and energy of our movement. The causes of this blindness oscillate between the misgivings about Islam (or the Islamophobia of hyper-secular left) and the confusion made by Ahmadinjead’s fake anti-imperialist rhetoric (his alliance with Chavez perhaps, who after all was the first to congratulate him). It needs to be emphasized that Ahmadinejad’s economic policies are to the right of the IMF: cutting subsidies in a radical way, more privatization than any other post-79 government (by selling the country to the Revolutionary Guards) and an inflation and unemployment rate which have brought the low-income sections of the society to their knees. It is in this regard that Musavi’s politics needs to be understood in contradistinction from both Ahmadinejad and also the other reformist candidate, i.e. Karroubi.
While Karroubi went for the liberal option of differentiating people into identity groups with different demands (women, students, intellectuals, ethnicities, religious minorities, etc), Musavi emphasized the universal demands of ‘people’ who wanted to be heard and counted as political subjects. This subjectivity, emphasized by Musavi during his campaign and fully incarnated in the rallies of the past few days, is constituted by political intuition, creativity and recollection of the ‘79 revolution (no wonder that people so quickly reached an unexpected maturity, best manifested in the abstention from violence in their silent demonstrations) . Musavi’s ‘people’ is also easily, but strongly, distinguished from Ahmadinejad’s anonymous masses dependent on state charity. Musavi’s people, as the collective appearing in the rallies, is made of religious women covered in chador walking hand in hand with westernized young women who are usually
prosecuted for their appearance; veterans of war in wheelchairs next to young boys for whom the Iran-Iraq war is only an anecdote; and working class who have sacrificed their daily salary to participate in the rally next to the middle classes. This story is not limited to Tehran. Shiraz (two confirmed dead), Isfahan (one confirmed dead), Tabriz, Oroomiye are also part of this movement and other cities are joining with a predictable delay (as it was the case in 79 revolution).
History will prove who the real participants of this movement are but once again we are faced with a new, non-classical and unfamiliar radical politics. Will the Western left get it right this time?
* The title is a reference to Michel Foucault’s 1978 writing on Iran’s revolution: “What are the Iranians dreaming about?�
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11. Taliban gains money, al-Qaida finances recovering
Posted by: "S Turkman" turkman@sbcglobal.net torkmaan
Date: Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:46 pm ((PDT))
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Wreckage of NATO and the U.S. forces vehicles allegedly destroyed by Taliban militants piled up at terminal in Peshawar, Pakistan on Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Truck driver of NATO vehicles said the choice is easy: Pay the Taliban in money or fuel for safe passage, or die. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Taliban gains money, al-Qaida finances recovering
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan â€" He moved his finger slowly across his throat, to show that the Taliban kills truckers who don't pay for safe passage through large swaths of territory near Afghanistan.
"The situation is very dangerous for us. We give them money or our fuel, or they kill us," said Ghadr Gul, a middle-aged trucker, who reluctantly spoke to The Associated Press outside his oil tanker. Along the road, storage depots are piled high with the burned-out hulks of vehicles destroyed by the Taliban.
As the Taliban gains power in Afghanistan and Pakistan, its money is coming mostly from extortion, crime and drugs, the AP found in an investigation into the financial network of militants in the region. However, funding for the broader-based al-Qaida appears to be more diverse, including money from new recruits, increasingly large donations from sympathizers and Islamic charities, and a cut of profits from honey dealers in Yemen and Pakistan who belong to the same Wahabi sect of Islam.
"With respect to the Taliban, the narco dollars are a major if not majority of their funding sources, and I think add in there as well extortion and kidnapping," said Juan Carlos, a former U.S. National Security Council adviser on terrorism who now works at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "With al-Qaida I think it is a mixed bag. They draw benefits from the Taliban but they are not relying wholesale on narcotics. They still rely on sympathetic donors and to a certain extent charities."
Afghanistan produces more opium than any other country in the world. The Taliban charges drug kingpins to move the opium through its territory, for what the United Nations estimates could run upward of $300 million annually.
The Taliban euphemistically refers to extortion money as tolls, taxes or even zakat, the 2.5 percent of donation to charity that Islam requires. A kidnapped Pakistani businessman had to pay more than 10 million rupees ($125,000) in ransom. When his Taliban captors freed him, he said, they told him, "Think of this as your zakat. Now your place in heaven is guaranteed."
Money from drugs and criminal gangs make up roughly 85 to 90 percent of Taliban revenue, estimates John Solomon, a terrorism expert with U.S Military Academy's Counter Terrorism Center. In Pakistan alone, Owais Ghani, governor of northwest Pakistan, puts the Taliban's annual earnings at roughly four billion rupees ($50 million).
Taliban foot soldiers are paid $100 a month, almost $20 more than the average Pakistani policeman. A Taliban commander makes upward of $350 a month, or nearly a third of the average annual salary of most Pakistanis.
The money also goes a long way because explosives are available locally and cheaply, said a senior Pakistani security official. The explosive devices that kill U.S., NATO and Pakistani troops cost less than $100 each to make, said the official, who asked not to be named to avoid compromising his job. The training to make, place and detonate the devices likely comes from al-Qaida, he said.
The informal money transfer system known as hawala or hundi is also still flourishing in Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. During his tenure that ended in 2007, Pakistan's former prime minister, Shaukat Aziz, said upward of $5 billion went out of Pakistan every year through this system, which operates without regulation and moves money with just a phone call. Mostly it's corrupt politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen getting their ill-gotten windfalls out of the country, but terrorists also piggyback onto the system, say financial investigators.
In three of the last five years, the No. 1 source of money into Pakistan through this hawala system has been the United States, according to the Pakistani security official. He couldn't say how much of the money went to terrorists and how much was sent from Pakistanis abroad to their families.
After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the financial crackdown closed some of al-Qaida's most lucrative sources of funding. But with the help of the hawala system, al-Qaida has since re-established its money line, latching onto Taliban crime while making a modest comeback on illicit business and donations after the American-led invasion of Iraq, according to interviews with jihadis, traders, security officials and terrorism experts.
In the last two years, al-Qaida has turned up the call for donations, told new recruits to bring money with them, and shown signs of being more frugal. For analysts, that adds up to one of two things: Either al-Qaida is saving up for another 9/11-style attack, or the crackdown of the last nine years has curbed its fundraising abilities. It could mean both.
"Al Qaida has conserved its funding to allow for continued high-value training and plotting," said Carlos, the terrorism adviser. "I think to a certain extent al-Qaida will find ways of funding more things that are important to them. And to a certain extent it might explain a lot of questions of why we haven't seen another major attack on the scale of 9/11 __ in part because of the disruptive effort, part of it is luck and part of it is financing constraints."
Estimates of al-Qaida's annual budget needs vary wildly from $300 million to as low as $10 million.
Carlos, who estimates al-Qaida's needs as "modest," said its big expenses are payments to families; food and shelter to maintain operations; travel and logistics; money for cells engaged in plots; bribes, and expenses for longer-range plans such as an anthrax program.
Some Islamic charities with known al-Qaida connections have quietly renamed themselves and continued to operate. In Pakistan, charities with links to terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba and al-Qaida, but operating under new names, have cashed in on natural disasters such as the devastating 2005 earthquake and the current refugee crisis from the Swat Valley to replenish their finances. In Kuwait, the Revival Islamic Heritage Society, believed by the U.S. to heavily finance al-Qaida, still operates.
Because of demands from the International Monetary Fund, Pakistan has removed restrictions on the amount of money that can be brought into the country, said Pakistani financial intelligence director, Azhar Quereshi. But Pakistan has limited to $10,000 the money that can leave the country, cracking down on some of the biggest hawala dealers.
"Once the money is inside the country, it is difficult to locate it. Smugglers and transporters help finance the Taliban either out of sympathy for their cause or because they are being forced to give a share," said the Pakistani security official who asked not to be identified.
Militants also said a cartel of Pakistani honey dealers is back in business, laundering money and moving drugs to support al-Qaida. The scale is smaller than in 2001, but revenues to the terrorists are steady.
A former fighter with Afghanistan's wanted guerrilla leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said honey is sent from Pakistan with an inflated price tag to markets in the Middle East â€" mostly Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Kuwait. The profits are returned and sent by courier to al-Qaida.
Honey dealers in Peshawar who didn't want to be identified for fear of harassment by the authorities said that there is no al-Qaida link to their sales. One honey dealer said the outlawed Al Shifa Honey Press still operates in Pakistan's most populous Punjab province but said he knew of no al-Qaida affiliation.
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