MUMBAI: Lawyers of Kasab will inspect the dinghy used by the 26/11 terrorists to land in Mumbai. Kasab's lawyers Amin Solkar and Farhana Shah have alleged the dinghy did not have the capacity to hold 10 persons. - Shibu ThomasThe boat is currently housed in the Arthur Road jail premises and is a crucial evidence in the case against Kasab.
The Bombay High court division bench of Justice Ranjana Desai and Justice R V More allowed the defence to check the boat.
The police case is that Kasab and the none other terrorists had travelled from Pakistan in the boat Al-Husseini. They then hijacked the Indian fishing boat "Kuber" to reach Mumbai. They abandoned Kuber, and used the dhingy to land at Budhwar Park.
Meanwhile, the defence on Thursday wrapped up the arguments, claiming the evidence against Kasab was weak. The defence has argued that Kasab was not part of the 26/11 terrorist conspiracy. The prosecution led by special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam will reply to the defence claims and subsequently the court will hear the arguments on the death sentence.
Read more: Kasab's lawyers to inspect 26/11 boat - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Kasabs-lawyers-to-inspect-26/11-boat/articleshow/7073355.cms#ixzz17gnoW53p
Friday, December 10, 2010
54 percent Indians paid bribe last year: study
By PTI
Berlin: One person in four worldwide paid bribe during the past year while 54 percent Indians say they greased the palms of authorities to get things done, says a study released today to mark International Anti-Corruption Day.
"Corruption has increased over the last three years, say six out of 10 people around the world, and one in four people report paying bribes in the last year," the Berlin-based non- governmental agency, Transparency International (TI), said.
Releasing the findings of the 2010 Global Corruption Barometer , a worldwide public opinion survey on corruption, TI said it showed that in the past 12 months one in four people paid bribe to one of nine institutions and services, from health to education to tax authorities.
The police are named the most frequent recipient of bribes, according to those surveyed, with 29 percent of those who had contact with the police reporting that they paid bribe.
The biggest number of reported bribery payments in 2010 is in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Cameroon, India, Iraq, Liberia, Nigeria, Palestine, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Uganda where more than 50 percent of people surveyed paid bribe in the past 12 months.
In India, 54 percent of users of services said they paid bribe to receive attention from service providers.
Almost half of all respondents say they paid bribes to avoid problems with the authorities and a quarter say it was to speed up processes.
Most worrying is the fact that bribes to the police have almost doubled since 2006, and more people report paying bribes to the judiciary and for registry and permit services than they did so five years ago, TI said.
Worldwide, sub-Saharan Africa was the region reporting the greatest incidence of bribery with more than one person in two saying they had made such payments to officials in the past 12 months.
The Middle East and North Africa was the next most corrupt regions with 36 percent of people there reporting having paid bribes.
This compared to 32 percent in the former Soviet republics, 23 percent in South America, 19 percent in the Balkans and Turkey, 11 percent in the Asia-Pacific region and five percent in the European Union and North America.
The United Nations established International Anti-Corruption Day in 2003 to raise awareness of graft and promote the global fight against it.
Berlin: One person in four worldwide paid bribe during the past year while 54 percent Indians say they greased the palms of authorities to get things done, says a study released today to mark International Anti-Corruption Day.
"Corruption has increased over the last three years, say six out of 10 people around the world, and one in four people report paying bribes in the last year," the Berlin-based non- governmental agency, Transparency International (TI), said.
Releasing the findings of the 2010 Global Corruption Barometer , a worldwide public opinion survey on corruption, TI said it showed that in the past 12 months one in four people paid bribe to one of nine institutions and services, from health to education to tax authorities.
The police are named the most frequent recipient of bribes, according to those surveyed, with 29 percent of those who had contact with the police reporting that they paid bribe.
The biggest number of reported bribery payments in 2010 is in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Cameroon, India, Iraq, Liberia, Nigeria, Palestine, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Uganda where more than 50 percent of people surveyed paid bribe in the past 12 months.
In India, 54 percent of users of services said they paid bribe to receive attention from service providers.
Almost half of all respondents say they paid bribes to avoid problems with the authorities and a quarter say it was to speed up processes.
Most worrying is the fact that bribes to the police have almost doubled since 2006, and more people report paying bribes to the judiciary and for registry and permit services than they did so five years ago, TI said.
Worldwide, sub-Saharan Africa was the region reporting the greatest incidence of bribery with more than one person in two saying they had made such payments to officials in the past 12 months.
The Middle East and North Africa was the next most corrupt regions with 36 percent of people there reporting having paid bribes.
This compared to 32 percent in the former Soviet republics, 23 percent in South America, 19 percent in the Balkans and Turkey, 11 percent in the Asia-Pacific region and five percent in the European Union and North America.
The United Nations established International Anti-Corruption Day in 2003 to raise awareness of graft and promote the global fight against it.
Half of India's Critical Infra Providers are victims of cyber attacks
New Delhi : Cyber attacks against critical infrastructure providers in India have become more frequent and increasingly effective, said a survey released by Symantec. According to its India findings of its 2010 Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Survey, successful attacks on cyber networks of critical infrastructure providers could have a significant societal impact and potentially even threat national security.
"Critical Infrastructure Protection is not limited to protecting government and defense infrastructure, but extends to both publicly and privately run infrastructure such as telephone networks, power generation and distribution, oil refineries and gas pipelines," said Shantanu Ghosh, Vice President, India Product Operations, Symantec.
According to Ghosh, today security threats have become so advanced that they require a comprehensive and risk-based approach that encompasses security, disaster recovery and information management technology to maintain true network resiliency.
The survey has found that 43 percent of Indian companies said that attempts to shutdown or degrade their computer network were effective. On the other hand, 37 percent said attempts to manipulate physical equipment through network were somewhat effective. Adding to it, more than two-thirds of critical infrastructure providers said that these attacks are increasing.
About 80 percent of Indian providers are positive towards government initiatives to protect critical infrastructure. Moreover, one in five respondents is also engaged with the government on these plans.
Respondents cited security training, response, audits and disaster recovery planning as safeguards that needed the most improvement. In fact, 42 percent said that lack of trained resources within industry sectors is a challenge.
In a global basis, 53 percent of companies suspected they had experienced an attack waged with a specific political goal in mind. While 48 percent expect attacks in the next year, 80 percent believe that the frequency of such attacks is increasing. Two-thirds have positive attitudes about programs and are willing to cooperate with their government on CIP. On the other hand, only one-third of critical infrastructure providers feel extremely prepared against all types of attacks.
Resource : http://keepingpacewiththeworld.blogspot.com/
"Critical Infrastructure Protection is not limited to protecting government and defense infrastructure, but extends to both publicly and privately run infrastructure such as telephone networks, power generation and distribution, oil refineries and gas pipelines," said Shantanu Ghosh, Vice President, India Product Operations, Symantec.
According to Ghosh, today security threats have become so advanced that they require a comprehensive and risk-based approach that encompasses security, disaster recovery and information management technology to maintain true network resiliency.
The survey has found that 43 percent of Indian companies said that attempts to shutdown or degrade their computer network were effective. On the other hand, 37 percent said attempts to manipulate physical equipment through network were somewhat effective. Adding to it, more than two-thirds of critical infrastructure providers said that these attacks are increasing.
About 80 percent of Indian providers are positive towards government initiatives to protect critical infrastructure. Moreover, one in five respondents is also engaged with the government on these plans.
Respondents cited security training, response, audits and disaster recovery planning as safeguards that needed the most improvement. In fact, 42 percent said that lack of trained resources within industry sectors is a challenge.
In a global basis, 53 percent of companies suspected they had experienced an attack waged with a specific political goal in mind. While 48 percent expect attacks in the next year, 80 percent believe that the frequency of such attacks is increasing. Two-thirds have positive attitudes about programs and are willing to cooperate with their government on CIP. On the other hand, only one-third of critical infrastructure providers feel extremely prepared against all types of attacks.
Resource : http://keepingpacewiththeworld.blogspot.com/
Saturday, June 12, 2010
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
INDIA- Delhi to face traffic woes as BJP protests against price rise - A Real Test For Newly Elected BJP President
National Capital New Delhi is likely to experience huge traffic jam on Wednesday,as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) holds a rally to protest against price rise.
BJP sources said they expected over 5,00,000 activists to take part in the rally.
Office goers and commuters are likely to be affected by the event.
Former Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, party president Nitin Gadkari, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, Rajya Sabha Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley and former party president Rajnath Singh - are expected to address the rally.
The rally is being seen as Gadkari's first show of strength as the party president.
BJP Chief Ministers-Narendra Modi, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Prem Kumar Dhumal, Dr. Raman Singh, Ramesh Pokhriyal are also expected to address the rally.
The rally would begin at the Ram Leela ground and will culminate at Jantar Mantar.
The Delhi Traffic Police has issued an advisory to commuters to plan their movement in the city.
The roads affected would be Ring Road, Mathura Road, C-Hexagon, Tilak Marg, Bahadur Shah Jafar Marg, J L N Marg, Asaf Ali Road, Netaji Subhash Marg, Ranjit Singh Marg, Tolstoy Marg, Sikandara Road, Bara Khamba Road, Parliament Street and Ashoka Road etc.
BJP sources said they expected over 5,00,000 activists to take part in the rally.
Office goers and commuters are likely to be affected by the event.
Former Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, party president Nitin Gadkari, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, Rajya Sabha Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley and former party president Rajnath Singh - are expected to address the rally.
The rally is being seen as Gadkari's first show of strength as the party president.
BJP Chief Ministers-Narendra Modi, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Prem Kumar Dhumal, Dr. Raman Singh, Ramesh Pokhriyal are also expected to address the rally.
The rally would begin at the Ram Leela ground and will culminate at Jantar Mantar.
The Delhi Traffic Police has issued an advisory to commuters to plan their movement in the city.
The roads affected would be Ring Road, Mathura Road, C-Hexagon, Tilak Marg, Bahadur Shah Jafar Marg, J L N Marg, Asaf Ali Road, Netaji Subhash Marg, Ranjit Singh Marg, Tolstoy Marg, Sikandara Road, Bara Khamba Road, Parliament Street and Ashoka Road etc.
A Wonderful Volcano - Europe
A volcano with an unpronounceable name may not make you think of Iceland every time you see ash. But named after a geomorphologic phenomenon, Iceland, unsurprisingly, decided that instead of paying the $5 million-plus it owes the UK and the Netherlands, it would rather export another geomorphologic variant and say, "Kiss my ash." Not just scatter the ashes of its economy over Europe; even as a wobbly EU economy cries in despair, "We said, 'Send cash, not ash!'"
The two quotes are a couple of popular exercises of Twitter wit at the queues, cancellations and apocalyptic sense of havoc the ash has inflicted on Europe. But it's filmmaker, writer, New York Times "Opinionator" Errol Morris (The Fog of War, Standard Operating Procedure, Gates of Heaven, etc) who, tweeting on Sunday, perhaps put Eyjafjallajökull in essential and epic perspective: "The volcano is the volcano's punishment for a lack of volcano worship. (I feel less threatened because I've been praying to the volcano.)"No, they hadn't been praying to the volcano. Not those suffering its judgment. And after such ash, what forgiveness?
There's a sense of apocalypse on the ground, where the stranded millions await deliverance; they cannot see the plume and ash high up competing for airspace. (Despite some take-offs in northern Europe on Tuesday, a fresh ash cloud still jeopardises British airspace.) It is in unforeseen but temporarily intractable situations such as this that wisdom dawns on the post-industrial, uber-technological soul: that nature is not one of the arbiters of where we lastingly live, work and procreate; it is the sole arbiter.
If this isn't the apocalypse yet, it's possibly a mere regress in EU economic recovery. If it is, we're best advised to use up the days left on the significances of ash (and fog and mist), sacred and profane. For the symbolic import of ash simultaneously straddles the holiness of sacrificial ascent through cleansing and the busting of all dreams. Under the ash cloud, some may morbidly feel it marks Europe's ultimate failure to recast and remake itself — despite its best efforts as a continent of nanny states or as the superego over the world's id. There is a "valley of ashes" where all Gatsbian dreams die, but it's not necessarily the ash heap of
civilisation.
Volcanic ash, in particular, is known to aggravate asthma and lung disorders. Although some of the ash from Iceland has hit the ground in Scotland, there isn't a high possibility of health hazards, given the relatively small eruption. The haplessness of millions is the result of Eyjafjallajökull affecting an extremely busy airspace and the danger of clogging and damaging jet engines that experts believe it poses (Something the loss-making airlines claim EU governments are exaggerating.). The fine ash is reaching the heights and high winds of big aircraft because of the size and strength of the gigantic steam plumes rising from the glacial ice that's melting on contact with the molten rock and magma.
However, volcanic ash has changed history. For Iceland itself, its worst natural disaster was the Laki eruption of June 1783 that killed a fifth of its then population of 50,000 and thousands in Europe, including 20,000 in the British Isles. Icelanders, for whom geology today is compulsory study in school itself, died of starvation as the livestock and crops died from the environmental damage caused by the "apocalyptic fog" that travelled to cover north Europe. After Laki, they supposedly stopped dancing — an explanation given for the sudden loss of Iceland's traditional dances.
The one eruption in the last millennium to beat Laki was Tambora in 1815 — the biggest in recorded history — when the volcanic ash killed about 10,000 people as it spread out on the ground, although Krakatoa (1883) has captured the popular imagination because it was the first major one in the age of modern communications. Together, Tambora and Mount Pinatubo (1991) twice helped push back global warming by the chill produced from their ash clouds. And, it is said that without Tambora's volcanic cloud, Mary Shelley wouldn't have written Frankenstein, since the unnatural chill had confined the Shelleys indoors, at Byron's Vila Diodati on Lake Geneva.
A white plume, geologists say, doesn't contain ash. A coloured — brown or grey — one does. The volcanic deity usually displays a cruel hand but a soft heart, with its severest punishment meted out in the immediate aftermath of the eruption. If airports are fully operational by Thursday, the stranded, no longer irreverent, would glimpse their first instalments of deliverance through the yellow fog of their dawn and dusk. After the ash, there's always forgiveness.
China mourns quake victims
Top Chinese leaders, including President Hu Jintao, Wednesday paid tributes here to more than 2,000 victims of the devastating quake in northwest Qinghai province, while thousands of people gathered at the quake site to pay their last respects to the deceased.
At least 1,000 people gathered in front of the town hall in Gyegu Wednesday morning to mourn those who were killed in the earthquake April 14, Xinhua reported.
The 7.1-magnitude quake that struck Yushu in Qinghai province last Wednesday left 2,064 people dead. At least 175 people were still missing Tuesday. The quake also left 12,135 people injured.
All sections of people from the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu wore white paper flowers, a traditional symbol of mourning in China, and stood in silence at 10 a.m local time.
At Tiananmen Square in the capital, thousands of people watched the national flag hoisted to full height and then lowered to half-mast at about 5.33 a.m.
Even the rescuers, still working all-out to search for at least 175 missing people, stopped for three minutes to mourn.
A banner hung in front of the Gyegu town hall said, 'In memory of our compatriots killed in Yushu earthquake.'
Eight hundred km from Yushu, thousands of people gathered in the town square in Qinghai's provincial capital Xining to mourn the dead. They stood in silent tribute, with wreaths and white flowers in their hands.
At least 1,000 people gathered in front of the town hall in Gyegu Wednesday morning to mourn those who were killed in the earthquake April 14, Xinhua reported.
The 7.1-magnitude quake that struck Yushu in Qinghai province last Wednesday left 2,064 people dead. At least 175 people were still missing Tuesday. The quake also left 12,135 people injured.
All sections of people from the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu wore white paper flowers, a traditional symbol of mourning in China, and stood in silence at 10 a.m local time.
At Tiananmen Square in the capital, thousands of people watched the national flag hoisted to full height and then lowered to half-mast at about 5.33 a.m.
Even the rescuers, still working all-out to search for at least 175 missing people, stopped for three minutes to mourn.
A banner hung in front of the Gyegu town hall said, 'In memory of our compatriots killed in Yushu earthquake.'
Eight hundred km from Yushu, thousands of people gathered in the town square in Qinghai's provincial capital Xining to mourn the dead. They stood in silent tribute, with wreaths and white flowers in their hands.
IPL3 - Challenging time for MI
The Indian Premier League has always been more than cricket. But thanks to last week's events, you may have started wondering whether it's everything else but cricket.
In such a scenario, a cracker of a game can only stress that cricket remains the crux of the multi-million dollar league. And, we couldn't have asked for a better stage for one such affair - the first semifinal to be played between the Mumbai Indians and the Royal Challengers Bangalore at the DY Patil Stadium on Wednesday.
After the kind of start they had to their campaign in IPL-III, it wasn't surprising to see MI and RCB making it to the last four. What was startling, though, was to see the two squaring off in the penultimate round itself rather than in the grand finale. These two teams have emerged as the prime contenders for the title.
While the Mumbai Indians maintained their terrific start to finish at the top of the league table, the RCB stuttered in the latter half to be in danger of missing the cut at one stage. However, with a net run-rate better than most contenders, Anil Kumble's men eventually scraped through to the semis with a fourth-place finish.
An inconsistent bunch, the RCB would have cherished home support in a big match like Wednesday's. However, they will be deprived of it as both the semifinals, originally scheduled in Bangalore, were moved out after the twin blasts outside the stadium on April 17.
The RCB, who still haven't figured out who their best-four overseas recruits are, wouldn't have minded playing at a neutral venue. But their woes have been compounded with the shifting of matches to Navi Mumbai, where hardly anyone among the 55,000-odd spectators is expected to cheer the men in red and golden yellow.
The Mumbai Indians, on the other hand, opted to rest their key players in Monday's inconsequential tie against the Kolkata Knight Riders. But that was more than a month ago. Can Kumble and Co. recreate that magic of March 20? Wait and watch.
In such a scenario, a cracker of a game can only stress that cricket remains the crux of the multi-million dollar league. And, we couldn't have asked for a better stage for one such affair - the first semifinal to be played between the Mumbai Indians and the Royal Challengers Bangalore at the DY Patil Stadium on Wednesday.
After the kind of start they had to their campaign in IPL-III, it wasn't surprising to see MI and RCB making it to the last four. What was startling, though, was to see the two squaring off in the penultimate round itself rather than in the grand finale. These two teams have emerged as the prime contenders for the title.
While the Mumbai Indians maintained their terrific start to finish at the top of the league table, the RCB stuttered in the latter half to be in danger of missing the cut at one stage. However, with a net run-rate better than most contenders, Anil Kumble's men eventually scraped through to the semis with a fourth-place finish.
An inconsistent bunch, the RCB would have cherished home support in a big match like Wednesday's. However, they will be deprived of it as both the semifinals, originally scheduled in Bangalore, were moved out after the twin blasts outside the stadium on April 17.
The RCB, who still haven't figured out who their best-four overseas recruits are, wouldn't have minded playing at a neutral venue. But their woes have been compounded with the shifting of matches to Navi Mumbai, where hardly anyone among the 55,000-odd spectators is expected to cheer the men in red and golden yellow.
The Mumbai Indians, on the other hand, opted to rest their key players in Monday's inconsequential tie against the Kolkata Knight Riders. But that was more than a month ago. Can Kumble and Co. recreate that magic of March 20? Wait and watch.
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