Asked about the Bharatiya Janata Party’s demand that India scale down its diplomatic relations with Pakistan, he said: “We are incensed at this issue. In general, if we are angry with someone and consider them our enemy, we just cannot stop talking to them completely. It is enough if we make them know that we are furious… In the same way, we cannot break off dialogue with Pakistan…”
ManMohan Singh.
‘Prime Minister Manmohan Singhon Saturday said India does not want to “accentuate” the situation in the wake of the recent Chinese incursion in Ladakh and is working on a plan to resolve it.”
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Peter Bleach,one of the accused in the Purulia arms drop case of 1995 and who has served Eight years in Indian Jail, has revealed startling facts.
He was approached by a man who wanted some arms to be dropped into India.
Bleach, though an Armsdealer, got suspicious and informed MI5( Internal Security) of British Intelligence.
He was informed that the Government of India was interested in finding out the destination of these Arms and they would like Bleach to go ahead to enable Government of India to arrest the conspirators.
The Government of India led by the vociferous Kapil Sibal, who seems to believe that higher decibel levels means the Truth and the assertion by others in the Comedy group led by Sonia Gandhi have stated that if the CAG’s report of the notional loss of Rs.1,76,000 lakh crore were true, where is it, as the recent auction of the 22 Licences of 2G brought only 9400 Crore?(‘
The auction for second-generation (2G) mobile phone licences raised 94bn rupees ($1.7bn; £1bn). The government had wanted closer to 400bn rupees.
Many companies had complained that prices were set too high. BBC)
Many seem to believe this non sense.
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Facts.
2G is an out dated Technology, where you can not transfer data like SMS and we now have 3G raging in the market.
The band now is 1800 Megahertz , while 900 Megahertz is not auctioned at all.
For non technical idiots like me, this means,the loin cloth that has been superseded by Sarong,is ignored and now the High end X front underwear has come into the market.
Why would some one buy a Loin Cloth?
Even then, the present auction fetched 9400 Crore for 22 Licences while Raja’s first come first served brought not even this much for 122 licences!
The Government knew that the technology is out dated so much that they did not auction 900 mega Hertz as they knew it would be a Dud.
Again to justify their stand that there was no loss, they have deliberately auctioned this now and the Corporate cooperated by forming a cartel to quote a lower price;even then greed out stripped manipulation and the present auction brought in 9400 Crore!
As poet Bharathi put it ‘பேய் அரசாண்டால் , பிணம் தின்னும் சாத்திரங்கள் ‘
If the Devil Rules, Righteous Laws shall eat Corpse,
‘2G (or 2-G) is short for second-generation wirelesstelephonetechnology. Second generation 2G cellular telecom networks were commercially launched on the GSM standard in Finland byRadiolinja (now part of Elisa Oyj) in 1991.[1] Three primary benefits of 2G networks over their predecessors were that phone conversations were digitally encrypted; 2G systems were significantly more efficient on the spectrum allowing for far greater mobile phone penetration levels; and 2G introduced data services for mobile, starting with SMS text messages.
After 2G was launched, the previous mobile telephone systems were retrospectively dubbed 1G. While radio signals on 1G networks are analog, radio signals on 2G networks are digital. Both systems use digital signaling to connect the radio towers (which listen to the handsets) to the rest of the telephone system.
2G has been superseded by newer technologies such as 2.5G, 2.75G, 3G, and 4G; however, 2G networks are still used in many parts of the world.’
.The Centre on Thursday justified in the Supreme Court non-auctioning of 900 MHz spectrum in 2G licences on November 12 along with 1800 and 800 MHz spectrum as it was not the subject matter of 122 licences which were cancelled pursuant to the February 2 judgment.
In an affidavit, the Telecom Secretary R. Chandrasekhar said “no spectrum in the 900 MHz band was put to auction pursuant to the judgment of this Court because no spectrum in the said band of 900 MHz was subject matter of the judgment dated February 2 and further, in any event, there is no available spectrum in this band of 900 MHz. The entire 25 MHz of spectrum in the 900 MHz band available for communication purposes is being fully utilized.”
The Centre gave a chart of licences with date of issue and period of expiry to drive home the point that at the time of expiry from 2014, the band 900 MHz would be available for fresh auction. It said “the spectrum that has been put to auction now is in terms of the final decision taken by the Central Government after duly considering the recommendations of TRAI, Redistribution of 900 MHz spectrum among all the GSM operators would mean fragmenting the spectrum below 5 MHz block. The 900MHz band is valuable from 3G point of view and utilising it for 2G purposes would mean uneconomic use of a valuable commodity.
The decision of some IITs to defy the cEntral Governments decision to conduct a common Entrance Test ( CET) is being opposed by IIT ,Kharagpur and some others while Chennai and Other IIT s are for the move.
One may fault Kabil for shooting his mouth off in 2 G scam unsolicited, but in this case he has his marbles right.
The decision to give weightage to XII std marks is rational.
The proposal was sent to IIT Council and they have endorsed it.
Let not IIT or the Alumni of IITs think that they are Supra Intelligent beings and that others are fools.
We have seen their character when they formed a party to contest elections!
Let IITs remain a Teaching Institution, nothing more.
IITs appeared to be divided today over HRD ministry’s ‘one-nation one-test’ proposal with the prestigious engineering institutions at Guwahati and Kharagpur opposing IIT-Kanpur‘s decision to conduct its own entrance exam from next year and backed the Centre’s move.
IIT-Delhi meanwhile is being pushed by its Alumni Association to follow the example of IIT-Kanpur and oppose the move initiated by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal.
Criticising the decision taken by IIT-Kanpur Senate yesterday, Director of IIT-Guwahati Gautam Barua said he was “surprised” at their “reaction.”
“I am sad actually that they have to take this extreme step for such a small matter,” he said.
“Right now, we are not talking about one common entrance exam. We are basically talking about…. For having a common exam for NITs, IITs and IIITs. Whether this lead to a common exam for everybody, only time will tell,” Barua said.
Professor Damodar Acharya, Director of IIT-Kharagpur, said the institution does not have any objection to the Centre’s move to conduct a common entrance exam for central engineering institutions.
At its meeting, the Senate of IIT-Kanpur had said the IIT Council’s recent proposal on admissions is “academically and methodically unsound” and decided to go it alone.
“In all likelihood, IIT-Delhi Senate seems to be geared up to follow IIT-Kanpur Senate,” IIT Delhi alumni president Somnath Bharti told PTI.
Sources said a meeting of the Senate of the IIT-Delhi is likely to be held in the next 10 days and its decision is expected to be made known.
HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on May 28 had announced that from 2013, aspiring candidates for IITs and other central institutes like NITs and IIITs will have to sit under a new format of common entrance test, which will also take teh plus two board results into consideration.
They can not arrogate themselves to be arbiters of Laws.
In a news story published on 9th June 2012, The Times of India, titled ‘ New cartoon Row,this one on Anti-Hindi Riots’ has published a blurb in the story . calling Tamil as ‘Tongue Twister ‘Where it en-capsules the anti Hindi agitation .
This portion is not available in the On Line version.
Cartoon in NCERT Text Book on Anti Hindi Agitation
” Even before the din over a school textbook cartoon of B R Ambedkar had died down, a fresh row erupted over a cartoon on the anti-Hindi agitation in Tamil Nadu.
MDMK chief Vaiko on Friday shot off a letter to Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal, seeking the removal of a cartoon in the NCERT class XII political science textbook because it distorted history and hurt Tamil sentiments. PMK leader S Ramadoss joined in to say the cartoon insulted the protests in the 1960s over imposition of Hindi in education that left eight people dead.
“The cartoon depicts Tamil students in poor light” portraying them as “merely indulging in violence”, Vaiko said in his letter to Sibal and NCERT director Parvin Sinclair .
For a glorified Dialect, a Language, especially Tamil is no doubt a ‘Tongue Twister’
It is an insult to the Tamil Language as well as Tamils.
If the Times of India were to cover the news item it is welcome.
But why insult a language?
Even the tone of the news item, if one were to carefully read it, one would know that thee is a derisive tone.
If you want to write on Anti Hindi agitation , write it,why call the language as a tongue twister, especially when there is no reason for you to provide the blurb which has nothing to do with the news provided under the head.
If one were to go by the History of Linguistics Hindi, it stands nowhere near Tamil.
Colloquial Standard Hindi is mutually intelligible with another register of Hindustani language called Urdu. Mutual intelligibility decreases in literary and specialized contexts which rely on educated vocabulary. Due to religious nationalism and communal tensions, speakers of both Hindi and Urdu frequently assert that they are distinct languages, despite the fact that native speakers generally cannot tell the colloquial languages apart. The combined population of Hindi-Urdu speakers is the fourth largest in the world.[4] However, the number of native speakers of Standard Hindi is unclear. According to the 2001 Indian census,[5] 258 million people in India reported their native language to be “Hindi”. However, this includes large numbers of speakers of Hindi dialects besides Standard Hindi; as of 2009, the best figure Ethnologue could find for Khariboli dialect was a 1991 citation of 180 million.[1]
The dialect upon which Standard Hindi is based is khariboli, the vernacular of Delhi and the surrounding western Uttar Pradesh and southernUttarakhand region. This dialect acquired linguistic prestige in the Mughal Empire (17th century) and became known as Urdu, “the language of the court.” As noted and referenced in History of Hindustani, prior to the 17th century, it was not referred to not as Urdu but Hindustani. After independence, the Government of India set about standardising Hindi as a separate language from Urdu, instituting the following conventions:[original research?]
standardization of grammar: In 1954, the Government of India set up a committee to prepare a grammar of Hindi; The committee’s report was released in 1958 as “A Basic Grammar of Modern Hindi”
standardization of the orthography, using the Devanagari script, by the Central Hindi Directorate of the Ministry of Education and Culture to bring about uniformity in writing, to improve the shape of some Devanagari characters, and introducing diacritics to express sounds from other languages.
Formal Standard Hindi draws much of its academic vocabulary from Sanskrit, and has looked to Sanskrit for borrowing from at least the 15th century BC. Standard Hindi loans words are classified into five principal categories:
Tatsam (तत्सम / same as that) words: These are words which are spelled the same in Hindi as in Sanskrit (except for the absence of final case inflections).[9] They include words inherited from Sanskrit via Prakrit which have survived without modification (e.g. Hindustani nām/Sanskrit nāma, “name”; Hindustani Suraj/Sanskrit Surya, “sun”),[10] as well as forms borrowed directly from Sanskrit in more modern times (e.g. prārthanā, “prayer”).[11] Pronunciation, however, conforms to Hindi norms and may differ from that of classical Sanskrit. Among nouns, the tatsam word could be the Sanskrit uninflected word-stem, or it could be the nominative singular form in the Sanskrit nominal declension.
Ardhatatsam (अर्धतत्सम) words: These are words that were borrowed from Sanskrit in the middle Indo-Aryan or early New Indo-Aryan stages.[citation needed] Such words typically have undergone sound changes subsequent to being borrowed.
Tadbhav (तद्भव / born of that) words: These are words which are spelled differently from Sanskrit but are derivable from a Sanskrit prototype by phonological rules (e.g. Sanskrit karma, “deed” becomes Palikamma, and eventually Hindi kām, “work”).[9]
Deshaj (देशज) words: These are words that were not borrowings but do not derive from attested Indo-Aryan words either. Belonging to this category are onomatopoetic words.
Videshī (विदेशी) words: these include all words borrowed from sources other than Indo-Aryan. The most frequent sources of borrowing in this category have been Persian, Arabic, Portuguese and English.
Note that Hindi in the present format came into being in 17th Century during the Moghul Empire.
And which Hindi are we speaking about?
Uttarkhand,UP,Bihar or from other places?
To have made Hindi as the Official Language is a travesty of Democracy.
By majority, Telugu should have been the Official language, being spoken as a Single language,followed by Tamil.
Because of the number of seats in the North, Hindi was made the Official Language of India.
One may have a lot to attack the DMK and Karunanidhi but the fact is that but for the Anti Hindi movement by the DMK, South Indians to-day would have been reeling under the weight of Hindi.
Unfortunately these corrupt politicians , in their quest for power and to extricate themselves from Corruption charges have hocked their pride at the altar of Hindi-Vaiko is excluded.
Now the old Karunanidhi is gone.
He will be seen at Delhi licking the feet of Delhi to exonerate his daughter from Corruption Charges or for getting Cabinet berths.
One can witness to-day in South the unnoticed domination of Hindi, starting from the Construction worker level to Company CEOs.
Even the Restaurants/security men in Housing Complexes ,have Hindi speaking people, worse with no ability to speak the local language.
This is horrible. especially in Bangalore, where the people seem to feel that speaking Kannada is beneath their dignity.
Chennai is sligthly better.
Unless you respect your language you will be drowned.-you may not know it now.
By insulting Tamil and the Anti Hindi agitation The Times of India is hurting the sentiments of the Tamils.
Do not reopen the Language issue.
Tamils seem to have graciously accepted Hindi.
If the trend persists , the issue will boomerang.
( Why is it the Entertainment Channels, including the children Channel POGO, depict The Tamils as uncouth ,wearing caste mark grotesquely , mouthing atrocious English? Shah Rukh Khan in his film Ra. One apes a Tamilian eats dirty.How many Tamilians have you seen eating dirty?
I have not traced the History of Tamil. it is for people to find out.
A mixture of Dialects and imported mixture of Persian Urdu can not hold a candle to Tamil/Telugu/Kannada .
First the antics of Kiran Bedi whose immature behavior and intemperate language has nearly ruined the talks with the Government on the sticky points of Citizen’s Charter,Central and State Lokpal and the coverage of all Government servants in the Bill.
Then Kejriwal’s inflaming video speech .
Rightly Anna has avoided them ,though they are sincere ,they come out as immature in negotiations and are impulsive to play to the Gallery.
He can handle negotiations better with his rustic common sense.
Swami Agnivesh, regarded as one of the key members of Team Anna is in the centre of controversy now for his alleged video which has sparked off a row across the web community.
The video clip shows Swami Agnivesh betraying Team Anna, and telling union minister Kapil Sibal that Team Anna is a ‘mad and misguided elephant’. He was allegedly favouring the government in the teleconference instead of defending Team Anna.
“Despite the government giving so many offers, why is he still not accepting it? The team is crossing the limits and trying to sit on the government’s head, which is not tolerable,” he said to Kapil Sibal, which was caught on camera.
But Swami Agnivesh has come out strongly against the allegation, and has said that the webclip is totally doctored. “I never had any such teleconference with Kapil Sibal. You can check my mobile number or even Kapil Sibal’s number to confirm whether we really had any such phone calls. This is an effort to malign me, nothing else,” he lashed.
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