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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.

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.

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.