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Body of TN IPS officer`s `mistress` exhumed
P C Vinoj Kumar in Chennai
CB-CID officials in charge of the sensational Muthulakshmi murder case have initiated steps for taking the DNA test of the woman, who was found dead in mysterious circumstances near Dindugal last December.
The woman was found dead in her undergarments at Nilakottai on December 11. The death made headlines since she was reportedly a senior IPS officer`s mistress.
CB-CID officials on Monday along with district revenue officials exhumed the body from a cremation ground in Nilakottai for providing DNA sample to the lab in Hyderabad.
Police reportedly conducted the entire operation in secrecy and did not allow the paparazzi to come anywhere near the scene of action.
Muthulakshmi`s sister identified the body, and confirmed that it was her sister, and local police took up investigations.
The case took a curious turn after forensic experts declared that the photo of Muthulakshmi did not match with the skull of the dead person after the superimposition test.
Given the sensitive nature of the case and the alleged link of an IPS officer to the deceased, the case was handed over to the CB-CID.
CB-CID officers had told Sify.com a couple of weeks ago that they were confident of cracking the case very soon and informed that they would be taking the DNA test to establish the identity of the body beyond doubt.
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Body of TN IPS officer`s `mistress` exhumed
P C Vinoj Kumar in Chennai
CB-CID officials in charge of the sensational Muthulakshmi murder case have initiated steps for taking the DNA test of the woman, who was found dead in mysterious circumstances near Dindugal last December.
The woman was found dead in her undergarments at Nilakottai on December 11. The death made headlines since she was reportedly a senior IPS officer`s mistress.
CB-CID officials on Monday along with district revenue officials exhumed the body from a cremation ground in Nilakottai for providing DNA sample to the lab in Hyderabad.
Police reportedly conducted the entire operation in secrecy and did not allow the paparazzi to come anywhere near the scene of action.
Muthulakshmi`s sister identified the body, and confirmed that it was her sister, and local police took up investigations.
The case took a curious turn after forensic experts declared that the photo of Muthulakshmi did not match with the skull of the dead person after the superimposition test.
Given the sensitive nature of the case and the alleged link of an IPS officer to the deceased, the case was handed over to the CB-CID.
CB-CID officers had told Sify.com a couple of weeks ago that they were confident of cracking the case very soon and informed that they would be taking the DNA test to establish the identity of the body beyond doubt.
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Dear Sarwari,
Hah?!?! You wrote the article in the box and sent it off just like that??? Wow. You`re good.
I can`t believe it!!! I wrote a nice, shiny 7000 word (boring in the open university sense) essay on stem cell technology after ACT michigan had cloned a blastocyte at the 6-cell stage during late November last year. Can you believe it? The chowki fellas didn`t post it.
Unbelievable I tell ya. Un - bloody - believable:)
Umer M
Next time send such biological science Shop Talk to Science to -day or Junior Scientist weekly
Next time write about broken promises of Gandhi -Azad-Zakir_Nehru to Minorities of India ..so that all can relate to
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Jul 25, 2002 01:54 am
Umer MurtazaDear Sarwari,
Hah?!?! You wrote the article in the box and sent it off just like that??? Wow. You`re good.
I can`t believe it!!! I wrote a nice, shiny 7000 word (boring in the open university sense) essay on stem cell technology after ACT michigan had cloned a blastocyte at the 6-cell stage during late November last year. Can you believe it? The chowki fellas didn`t post it.
Unbelievable I tell ya. Un - bloody - believable:)
Umer M
Next time send such biological science Shop Talk to Science to -day or Junior Scientist weekly
Next time write about broken promises of Gandhi -Azad-Zakir_Nehru to Minorities of India ..so that all can relate to
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Why not let the AMNESTY do its JOB
Amnesty and Indian diplomats trade blows
RASHMEE Z AHMED
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2002 10:17:19 PM ]
LONDON: Just days after the London-based human rights group Amnesty International went public with criticism of the Indian government for failing to grant visas for its researchers to visit Gujarat, Amnesty has accused India of trying to ``cover up state terrorism`` and covering its tracks by ``making up stories``.
``We can think of no other reason to deny us visas, considering Amnesty always does its own research and we have absolutely no one in India who can do our research,`` Amnesty?s Gulia de Ponte told TNN, rejecting the Indian argument that Amnesty had ``legions of local associates in Gujarat, collecting information on their behalf``.
Earlier, Satyabrata Pal, India?s deputy high commissioner had told this paper, ``We have received a request. It has been considered in Delhi. We have told Amnesty that we understand they have local associates who have been acting there and are collecting information on their behalf. And that we do not see over and above that what a few Amnesty researchers from here could do in Gujarat``.
But De Ponte, one of Amnesty?s two London-based researchers who had applied for visas, claimed that ``Indian officials always knew Amnesty was allowed to set up an office in Delhi only on condition that it engaged in no research``.
She admitted that Amnesty was ``in touch with several anti-communalism groups in Gujarat`` but claimed that ``this was limited to phone calls and emails and Amnesty could not take what they say as true till we see it ourselves``.
De Ponte?s comments come as Amnesty?s Indian staff reportedly said they would publish a Gujarat report anyway, based on information from ``secondary sources``.
The bickering about who said what to whom comes within days of eight MPs of Britain?s governing Labour Party announcing that they would travel to Gujarat in October on ``a fact-finding mission``.
The MPs are yet to apply for Indian visas but sources said that it was unlikely they would list ``fact-finding`` as their purpose in visiting India.
Officials dismissed the MPs` declared intention as bluster meant for ``domestic constituency consumption``, especially in strongly Muslim or Gujarati Muslim areas.
Analysts said the MPs? stated intentions and the new row over visas for Amnesty staff underlined the continuing Western interest in violence-scarred Gujarat.
Sources said that Amnesty?s visa applications appeared to have fallen foul of the authorities? stated determination to prevent the Gujarat issue being raked up again at a ``sensitive time, the worst possible time for Amnesty to be visiting``.
But Amnesty?s de Ponte defended her organisation as ``a respected international human rights group, which knows how to conduct itself in a delicate and sensitive situation such as Gujarat``.
De Ponte insisted that ``For research, we would have to travel from here and we always make our intentions clear to a government when we apply for a visa because we are a transparent organisation``.
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Hey ARJUN_M Why not let the AMNESTY do its JOB
Amnesty and Indian diplomats trade blows
RASHMEE Z AHMED
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2002 10:17:19 PM ]
LONDON: Just days after the London-based human rights group Amnesty International went public with criticism of the Indian government for failing to grant visas for its researchers to visit Gujarat, Amnesty has accused India of trying to ``cover up state terrorism`` and covering its tracks by ``making up stories``.
``We can think of no other reason to deny us visas, considering Amnesty always does its own research and we have absolutely no one in India who can do our research,`` Amnesty?s Gulia de Ponte told TNN, rejecting the Indian argument that Amnesty had ``legions of local associates in Gujarat, collecting information on their behalf``.
Earlier, Satyabrata Pal, India?s deputy high commissioner had told this paper, ``We have received a request. It has been considered in Delhi. We have told Amnesty that we understand they have local associates who have been acting there and are collecting information on their behalf. And that we do not see over and above that what a few Amnesty researchers from here could do in Gujarat``.
But De Ponte, one of Amnesty?s two London-based researchers who had applied for visas, claimed that ``Indian officials always knew Amnesty was allowed to set up an office in Delhi only on condition that it engaged in no research``.
She admitted that Amnesty was ``in touch with several anti-communalism groups in Gujarat`` but claimed that ``this was limited to phone calls and emails and Amnesty could not take what they say as true till we see it ourselves``.
De Ponte?s comments come as Amnesty?s Indian staff reportedly said they would publish a Gujarat report anyway, based on information from ``secondary sources``.
The bickering about who said what to whom comes within days of eight MPs of Britain?s governing Labour Party announcing that they would travel to Gujarat in October on ``a fact-finding mission``.
The MPs are yet to apply for Indian visas but sources said that it was unlikely they would list ``fact-finding`` as their purpose in visiting India.
Officials dismissed the MPs` declared intention as bluster meant for ``domestic constituency consumption``, especially in strongly Muslim or Gujarati Muslim areas.
Analysts said the MPs? stated intentions and the new row over visas for Amnesty staff underlined the continuing Western interest in violence-scarred Gujarat.
Sources said that Amnesty?s visa applications appeared to have fallen foul of the authorities? stated determination to prevent the Gujarat issue being raked up again at a ``sensitive time, the worst possible time for Amnesty to be visiting``.
But Amnesty?s de Ponte defended her organisation as ``a respected international human rights group, which knows how to conduct itself in a delicate and sensitive situation such as Gujarat``.
De Ponte insisted that ``For research, we would have to travel from here and we always make our intentions clear to a government when we apply for a visa because we are a transparent organisation``.
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Hey ARJUN_M
What goes up always comes down ...so relax bud dont get HYPER
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=16900403
India slips further down HDI index
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ THURSDAY, JULY 25, 2002 12:00:59 AM ]
NEW DELHI: At first glance it seems like a setback for India. Having been ranked 115 on the human development index (HDI) of the UNDP?s annual human development report last year, the country occupies the 124th slot this year.
However, UNDP officials said here Wednesday that the rankings are not comparable because the number of countries included in the index have increased.
Last year, 162 countries had been rated whereas this year, the number has increased to 173 countries. Had the number not gone up, India would have actually moved a notch higher, to 114, said Brenda Gael McSweeney, UNDP resident representative in India, at the release function Wednesday. Even then, as is the case now, India would have remained in the category of countries with ??medium human development??.
The HDI, an integral part of the report each year, ranks countries by a composite measure of life expectancy, literacy and income per person.
Leading the pack of 173 countries this year is Norway, followed by Sweden, Canada, Belgium, Australia, and the US. At the bottom of the list is Sierra Leone. In keeping with the theme of this year?s report, ??Deepening democracy in a fragmented world,?? an attempt has been made to assess countries in terms of governance. Noting the importance of politics and human development, the report says: ??Politics is as important to human development as economics.??
Interestingly, the assessment has been done both on the basis of subjective indicators of governance as also objective indicators. On the subjective indicators scale, while India gets a good rating in the civil liberties and political rights arena, it is ranked ??not so good?? where political stability and lack of violence is concerned. Expectedly, the country gets a ??poor?? rating for corruption.
Recognising the fact that the last two decades of the 20th century saw ??dramatic progress in opening up political systems and expanding political freedoms,?? the report says today 140 of the world?s nearly 200 countries hold multi-party elections.
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What goes up always comes down ...so relax bud dont get HYPER
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India slips further down HDI index
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ THURSDAY, JULY 25, 2002 12:00:59 AM ]
NEW DELHI: At first glance it seems like a setback for India. Having been ranked 115 on the human development index (HDI) of the UNDP?s annual human development report last year, the country occupies the 124th slot this year.
However, UNDP officials said here Wednesday that the rankings are not comparable because the number of countries included in the index have increased.
Last year, 162 countries had been rated whereas this year, the number has increased to 173 countries. Had the number not gone up, India would have actually moved a notch higher, to 114, said Brenda Gael McSweeney, UNDP resident representative in India, at the release function Wednesday. Even then, as is the case now, India would have remained in the category of countries with ??medium human development??.
The HDI, an integral part of the report each year, ranks countries by a composite measure of life expectancy, literacy and income per person.
Leading the pack of 173 countries this year is Norway, followed by Sweden, Canada, Belgium, Australia, and the US. At the bottom of the list is Sierra Leone. In keeping with the theme of this year?s report, ??Deepening democracy in a fragmented world,?? an attempt has been made to assess countries in terms of governance. Noting the importance of politics and human development, the report says: ??Politics is as important to human development as economics.??
Interestingly, the assessment has been done both on the basis of subjective indicators of governance as also objective indicators. On the subjective indicators scale, while India gets a good rating in the civil liberties and political rights arena, it is ranked ??not so good?? where political stability and lack of violence is concerned. Expectedly, the country gets a ??poor?? rating for corruption.
Recognising the fact that the last two decades of the 20th century saw ??dramatic progress in opening up political systems and expanding political freedoms,?? the report says today 140 of the world?s nearly 200 countries hold multi-party elections.
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May be ARJUN_M might reveal some secret reason safe with him in code language only he can decipher ...
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Amnesty denied visa
By Anjali Mody
NEW DELHI July 22. An Amnesty International team has been denied visas to India because it wanted to go to Gujarat to investigate the massacres and other human rights violations and to monitor the progress made in bringing their perpetrators to justice.
In a statement issued today, Amnesty International said, ``This refusal damages the image of both the Indian and Gujarat Governments before their citizens and the international community. A Government which fully accepts its responsibilities in protecting its citizens and upholds their constitutional rights to life and equality does not shy away from international scrutiny.``
Amnesty said that the Indian Government`s refusal to grant it access to the State would ``only reinforce the concern that the Government of Gujarat and the State police might have been accomplices in preparing the ground for the violence and in allowing it to occur and could be attempting now to cover up involvement of their officials.``
This is not the first time that the Union Government has prevented the international human rights organisation from coming to the country to study rights violations. Amnesty teams apply for research visas; these applications are processed not by the visa section in London but by the Home Ministry. The Ministry appears to have a growing list of States and subjects that it considers too ``sensitive`` for study by a human rights organisation like Amnesty. In the past, Amnesty has been refused visas because it wanted to study the human rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir and the north-eastern States.
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I WONDER WHY INDIA DENIED VISA TO AMNESTY ?May be ARJUN_M might reveal some secret reason safe with him in code language only he can decipher ...
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Amnesty denied visa
By Anjali Mody
NEW DELHI July 22. An Amnesty International team has been denied visas to India because it wanted to go to Gujarat to investigate the massacres and other human rights violations and to monitor the progress made in bringing their perpetrators to justice.
In a statement issued today, Amnesty International said, ``This refusal damages the image of both the Indian and Gujarat Governments before their citizens and the international community. A Government which fully accepts its responsibilities in protecting its citizens and upholds their constitutional rights to life and equality does not shy away from international scrutiny.``
Amnesty said that the Indian Government`s refusal to grant it access to the State would ``only reinforce the concern that the Government of Gujarat and the State police might have been accomplices in preparing the ground for the violence and in allowing it to occur and could be attempting now to cover up involvement of their officials.``
This is not the first time that the Union Government has prevented the international human rights organisation from coming to the country to study rights violations. Amnesty teams apply for research visas; these applications are processed not by the visa section in London but by the Home Ministry. The Ministry appears to have a growing list of States and subjects that it considers too ``sensitive`` for study by a human rights organisation like Amnesty. In the past, Amnesty has been refused visas because it wanted to study the human rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir and the north-eastern States.
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Novo suspends trials of Dr Reddy`s molecule
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ TUESDAY, JULY 23, 2002 12:30:18 AM ]
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Shares of Dr Reddy`s Laboratories, India`s sixth-biggest drugmaker by market share, slumped to a near-one-year intra-day low on Monday after its Danish ally drugmaker Novo Nordisk suspended clinical trials on its promising new diabetes compound DRF 2725 or ragaglitazar.
Dr Reddy`s, which has been among the high-flying Indian pharma shares, fell 18% in early afternoon trade to Rs 830, a level not seen since July 24, ?01. The stock closed at Rs 874.20, down 13.8% while the BSE healthcare sector index fell 3.6% to 1,312.06, and the benchmark BSE sensex slid 2.4% to 3,153.34.
On Monday, Dr Reddy`s said that rodents ? including a mouse and a number of rats ? on whom initial animal trials of 2,725 were done, developed cancerous tumours in the bladder causing Novo to suspend human trials until a complete risk/benefit assessment of the compound was done. Though the tumours could be specific to rodents and may not occur in humans, Novo said it stopped human trials for patient safety reasons.
Some brokerages are believed to have already factored in the royalty to DRL from sales of this compound in various countries including the US from ?05 onwards, which partly explains the steep drop in the share price, but sentiment also had a role to play, analysts said. Even if clinical trials are initiated again, filing for approval with regulatory authorities is expected to be delayed by close to two years.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?artid=16794027Novo suspends trials of Dr Reddy`s molecule
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ TUESDAY, JULY 23, 2002 12:30:18 AM ]
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Shares of Dr Reddy`s Laboratories, India`s sixth-biggest drugmaker by market share, slumped to a near-one-year intra-day low on Monday after its Danish ally drugmaker Novo Nordisk suspended clinical trials on its promising new diabetes compound DRF 2725 or ragaglitazar.
Dr Reddy`s, which has been among the high-flying Indian pharma shares, fell 18% in early afternoon trade to Rs 830, a level not seen since July 24, ?01. The stock closed at Rs 874.20, down 13.8% while the BSE healthcare sector index fell 3.6% to 1,312.06, and the benchmark BSE sensex slid 2.4% to 3,153.34.
On Monday, Dr Reddy`s said that rodents ? including a mouse and a number of rats ? on whom initial animal trials of 2,725 were done, developed cancerous tumours in the bladder causing Novo to suspend human trials until a complete risk/benefit assessment of the compound was done. Though the tumours could be specific to rodents and may not occur in humans, Novo said it stopped human trials for patient safety reasons.
Some brokerages are believed to have already factored in the royalty to DRL from sales of this compound in various countries including the US from ?05 onwards, which partly explains the steep drop in the share price, but sentiment also had a role to play, analysts said. Even if clinical trials are initiated again, filing for approval with regulatory authorities is expected to be delayed by close to two years.
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Worldwide India-Pakistan peace movement begins?
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No more concessions to India, Pak tells Straw
Press Trust of India
Islamabad, July 22: Pakistan has told Britain that it was not willing to make any new commitments to end the current stand-off with India.
``Islamabad has already taken measures that it could take to ease tensions and it is not prepared to do more,`` British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw was told during the talks he had with his Pakistani counterpart Inamul Haq, media reports said on Monday. Jack Straw was in Islamabad on Saturday.
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Pakistan made it clear that it was not willing to make any new commitments on any account, the Dawn newspaper, quoting officials privy to the talks, reported. It quoted senior government officials as saying that Pakistan pointed out it had already given a ``big strategic concession`` and it was now for the international community to bring India to the negotiating table to address the core issue of Kashmir.
Straw and other senior British officials present during the discussions were told point-blank that Pakistan had done its utmost to promote peace and the ball was now in India`s court, sources told Dawn. India should be asked ``to act with sincerity and do more than taking measures that were self-serving, cosmetic and half-hearted,`` the sources added.
Other government and diplomatic sources told Dawn that apart from some bilateral matters, issues of cross-border terrorism, dismantling of militants` infrastructure, military de-escalation and elections in Jammu and Kashmir figured in the talks.
On the question of Indian allegations of cross-border terrorism, the British Foreign Secretary was told that they were baseless. He was told that US Secretary of State Colin Powell had recently acknowledged that Pakistan had taken all possible steps to block the LoC infiltration.
Straw paid a seven-hour visit to Pakistan on Saturday after holding talks with Indian leaders in New Delhi a day earlier.
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Whats happening Arjun ? You told us the Gen was bought by the west & despised by the Pakistanis ...loser .Do loser keep coming back disproving nay sayer for 3 long years with energizer bunny like Goes On & goes on& Goes On ..http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=12952
No more concessions to India, Pak tells Straw
Press Trust of India
Islamabad, July 22: Pakistan has told Britain that it was not willing to make any new commitments to end the current stand-off with India.
``Islamabad has already taken measures that it could take to ease tensions and it is not prepared to do more,`` British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw was told during the talks he had with his Pakistani counterpart Inamul Haq, media reports said on Monday. Jack Straw was in Islamabad on Saturday.
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Pakistan made it clear that it was not willing to make any new commitments on any account, the Dawn newspaper, quoting officials privy to the talks, reported. It quoted senior government officials as saying that Pakistan pointed out it had already given a ``big strategic concession`` and it was now for the international community to bring India to the negotiating table to address the core issue of Kashmir.
Straw and other senior British officials present during the discussions were told point-blank that Pakistan had done its utmost to promote peace and the ball was now in India`s court, sources told Dawn. India should be asked ``to act with sincerity and do more than taking measures that were self-serving, cosmetic and half-hearted,`` the sources added.
Other government and diplomatic sources told Dawn that apart from some bilateral matters, issues of cross-border terrorism, dismantling of militants` infrastructure, military de-escalation and elections in Jammu and Kashmir figured in the talks.
On the question of Indian allegations of cross-border terrorism, the British Foreign Secretary was told that they were baseless. He was told that US Secretary of State Colin Powell had recently acknowledged that Pakistan had taken all possible steps to block the LoC infiltration.
Straw paid a seven-hour visit to Pakistan on Saturday after holding talks with Indian leaders in New Delhi a day earlier.
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Shadowlines (Part I)
What Arjun,Haramiou,JAY,Soundmeister,Sadna,Not Mullah ,Layman,Nameless,& dozen other cheer leaders WONT EVER INFORM CHOWK ABOUT .Its a hard work keeping up with dozen posters.....
Dr.Reddys company lose its share value precipitously
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?artid=16794027
Novo suspends trials of Dr Reddy`s molecule
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ TUESDAY, JULY 23, 2002 12:30:18 AM ]
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Shares of Dr Reddy`s Laboratories, India`s sixth-biggest drugmaker by market share, slumped to a near-one-year intra-day low on Monday after its Danish ally drugmaker Novo Nordisk suspended clinical trials on its promising new diabetes compound DRF 2725 or ragaglitazar.
Dr Reddy`s, which has been among the high-flying Indian pharma shares, fell 18% in early afternoon trade to Rs 830, a level not seen since July 24, ?01. The stock closed at Rs 874.20, down 13.8% while the BSE healthcare sector index fell 3.6% to 1,312.06, and the benchmark BSE sensex slid 2.4% to 3,153.34.
On Monday, Dr Reddy`s said that rodents ? including a mouse and a number of rats ? on whom initial animal trials of 2,725 were done, developed cancerous tumours in the bladder causing Novo to suspend human trials until a complete risk/benefit assessment of the compound was done. Though the tumours could be specific to rodents and may not occur in humans, Novo said it stopped human trials for patient safety reasons.
Some brokerages are believed to have already factored in the royalty to DRL from sales of this compound in various countries including the US from ?05 onwards, which partly explains the steep drop in the share price, but sentiment also had a role to play, analysts said. Even if clinical trials are initiated again, filing for approval with regulatory authorities is expected to be delayed by close to two years.
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What Arjun,Haramiou,JAY,Soundmeister,Sadna,Not Mullah ,Layman,Nameless,& dozen other cheer leaders WONT EVER INFORM CHOWK ABOUT .Its a hard work keeping up with dozen posters.....
Dr.Reddys company lose its share value precipitously
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?artid=16794027
Novo suspends trials of Dr Reddy`s molecule
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ TUESDAY, JULY 23, 2002 12:30:18 AM ]
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: Shares of Dr Reddy`s Laboratories, India`s sixth-biggest drugmaker by market share, slumped to a near-one-year intra-day low on Monday after its Danish ally drugmaker Novo Nordisk suspended clinical trials on its promising new diabetes compound DRF 2725 or ragaglitazar.
Dr Reddy`s, which has been among the high-flying Indian pharma shares, fell 18% in early afternoon trade to Rs 830, a level not seen since July 24, ?01. The stock closed at Rs 874.20, down 13.8% while the BSE healthcare sector index fell 3.6% to 1,312.06, and the benchmark BSE sensex slid 2.4% to 3,153.34.
On Monday, Dr Reddy`s said that rodents ? including a mouse and a number of rats ? on whom initial animal trials of 2,725 were done, developed cancerous tumours in the bladder causing Novo to suspend human trials until a complete risk/benefit assessment of the compound was done. Though the tumours could be specific to rodents and may not occur in humans, Novo said it stopped human trials for patient safety reasons.
Some brokerages are believed to have already factored in the royalty to DRL from sales of this compound in various countries including the US from ?05 onwards, which partly explains the steep drop in the share price, but sentiment also had a role to play, analysts said. Even if clinical trials are initiated again, filing for approval with regulatory authorities is expected to be delayed by close to two years.
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Militants seek Muslim-free India
Burhan Wazir reports from Gujarat on an explosion of violence, nationalism and Nazi-style politics and its result: 2,000 killed and 100,000 homeless
Observer Worldview
Sunday July 21, 2002
The Observer
At the elegantly simple home of Mahatma Gandhi in Ahmedabad, the bustling capital of Gujarat state, a museum eulogises his contribution to the founding of India. Gandhi`s clothes, books, journals and photographs line the walls. Outside in the freshly watered gardens the mango trees are in full bloom. One journal contains Gandhi`s simple denunciation of violence: `The science of war leads one to dictatorship. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to a pure democracy.`
More than 50 years after his death at the hands of a nationalist militant, Gandhi would find India unrecognisable. In the past five months his home state has been stunned by religious violence that shows few signs of fading.
India`s worst religious violence since the 1947 partition was sparked at the end of February when 57 Hindu pilgrims were killed in the alleged torching of a train carriage by Muslim militants in Godhra. Hindu militants sought a swift revenge.
Since then, massacres by Hindu gangs have become commonplace. In five months, more than 2,000 Muslims have been killed and more than 100,000 displaced, congregating in squalid camps around Gujarat.
The state is in turmoil. On Friday, only hours after the state`s top elected official, Chief Minister Narendra Modi, resigned and dissolved the legislative assembly to seek a fresh mandate, at least two people were killed and eight others injured when police opened fire to disperse rioting mobs. In recent months Mohdi had come under attack for his delayed response to the killings. His resignation was eclipsed, however, on Thursday when 70-year-old Muslim scientist Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, an unrepentant nationalist and the father of India`s nuclear missile programme, was elected to the largely ceremonial role of President.
The violence has been linked to the rise of extremist Hindu groups such as the Association of National Volunteers, or the RSS - a khaki-clad nationalist paramilitary sect formed in the Twenties - and its offspring, the World Hindu Council, or the VHP.
Gujarat is one of the few states in India controlled by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The state has been described as a `laboratory for Hindu fascism`. Since rising to power in the mid-Nineties, the BJP has aggressively pursued a pro-Hindu agenda.
It has also backed the construction of a temple in Ayodhya, where Hindu nationalists destroyed a mosque in 1992. Several members of the present Cabinet, including the Indian Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, were present at the demolition.
The RSS and the World Hindu Council, described locally as `Saffron Warriors`, have one clear aim: Hindu expansion by mass conversion. The militants believe that India was once an empire of 75 countries stretching from Cambodia to Iran.
They have introduced textbooks that convey former Hindu glories, and they propagate the myth of an India under siege from native Islamic militants. The RSS also lobbies to reintroduce the traditional names of cities like Mumbai, until recently Bombay.
`The situation is getting out of control,` says Arvind Sisodia, vice-president of the VHP in Gujarat. A passionate advocate of the Hindutva or `global Hindu conscious ness`, Sisodia is a middle-class worker at the Life Insurance Corporation of India.
`In Gujarat, the Muslims own all the shops; they are involved in illegal trade,` says Sisodia. `And Muslim boys steal our Hindu girls and marry them. So the situation is unbearable.`
In the days after the first killings in Gujarat, the VHP distributed leaflets asking Hindus to pledge a boycott of Muslims - including refusing to be taught by Muslim teachers and ensuring sisters and daughters did not fall into `the love-trap of Muslim boys`.
`It is up to all Hindus to make sure that we restore India to dominance,` says Sisodia. `Hinduism was once the dominant faith. Muslims have to learn to adapt. Otherwise, it will be dangerous for them. We don`t want them here.`
A few days after the deaths at Godhra, on a humid morning in an inner-city enclave of Ahmedabad, around 20 men marched up to the Indian flag and offered the Nazi salute. This was a training camp, or shakha, run by the RSS. There are about 40,000 camps scattered throughout India and informal ones abroad for expatriates.
The men, many of them in their thirties, are middle-class professionals - employees of Ahmedabad`s bustling industrial community. India`s middle classes are the keenest recruits to the RSS - drawn by fears of Islamic terrorism and of Westernisation amid a crumbling national economy.
In a fashionable Ahmedabad gated community lives Vijay Chauthaiwale, a microbiologist. Over lunch, with the World Cup playing on a satellite channel behind him, he explained his attraction to the RSS: `We are a very modern family,` he said, `but I feel that the more we move towards the West, the more likely we are to lose our Hindu values.
`Gandhi would not have understood,` he said. `He was an old-fashioned man with old-fashioned ideas. No one believes those things any more. The world has changed. And for Hindus to survive, we have to protect our culture and our way of life.`
For middle-class families such as Chauthaiwale`s, the Indian secular experiment has proved disastrous. The country`s Muslim population - now 11 per cent - is seen as a primary threat. `Where do the allegiances of the Muslims lie?` asked Kaushik Mehta, general secretary of the VHP in Gujarat.
He pointed to an enclave of Ahmedabad dubbed `mini-Pakistan` for its madrassahs, or Islamic schools. `We can`t allow such places to exist. They train terrorists. Muslims have to integrate. If they refuse to, we`ll be forced to make them. Or they can leave.`
For the 100,000 Muslims in squalid camps around Gujarat there is no such escape. In nearby Pakistan, India`s Muslims are viewed as traitors who betrayed Pakistan after partition. And now the Muslim camps are being shut down, casting their occupants into the streets and into the hands of Hindu extremists.
Most are fearful of returning to their villages. `They can`t go back because they face death threats,` said Father Cedric Prakash, director of Prashant, a human rights group in Ahmedabad. `The fanatics have all the power.`
More violence seems inevitable. At the end of February, Anjum Bana escaped her village in Panderwala with her six-week-old daughter. As Hindu militants torched the village, she hid in the forest. `There was nothing to eat or drink for three days,` she said. `I could hear people shouting RSS slogans all around me. And my child was dying. I know I can`t go back.`
The hawkish former Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narinder Mohdi, however, is unconvinced. In the early days of the rioting, as the body count escalated, Mohdi famously said Gujarat`s Hindus had shown `remarkable restraint`. Shortly before resigning on Friday, he said: `There is no problem with people returning back home. If they don`t want to go, they should be forced back. They have to go back.`
In a shabby camp in a graveyard in Ahmedabad, residents have taken to organising a night-time watch. `They know that once we are on the streets we are vulnerable. I can`t understand it. I have lived with Hindu neighbours for 40 years, and there have never been any problems. Now those same neighbours have turned on me. And no one will look after us.`
· Burhan Wazir presents `Unreported World: Saffron Warriors` on Channel 4 on Saturday at 7.40 pm.
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[UP]
Posted by
Glen
Jul 22, 2002 02:25 pm
[UP]Militants seek Muslim-free India
Burhan Wazir reports from Gujarat on an explosion of violence, nationalism and Nazi-style politics and its result: 2,000 killed and 100,000 homeless
Observer Worldview
Sunday July 21, 2002
The Observer
At the elegantly simple home of Mahatma Gandhi in Ahmedabad, the bustling capital of Gujarat state, a museum eulogises his contribution to the founding of India. Gandhi`s clothes, books, journals and photographs line the walls. Outside in the freshly watered gardens the mango trees are in full bloom. One journal contains Gandhi`s simple denunciation of violence: `The science of war leads one to dictatorship. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to a pure democracy.`
More than 50 years after his death at the hands of a nationalist militant, Gandhi would find India unrecognisable. In the past five months his home state has been stunned by religious violence that shows few signs of fading.
India`s worst religious violence since the 1947 partition was sparked at the end of February when 57 Hindu pilgrims were killed in the alleged torching of a train carriage by Muslim militants in Godhra. Hindu militants sought a swift revenge.
Since then, massacres by Hindu gangs have become commonplace. In five months, more than 2,000 Muslims have been killed and more than 100,000 displaced, congregating in squalid camps around Gujarat.
The state is in turmoil. On Friday, only hours after the state`s top elected official, Chief Minister Narendra Modi, resigned and dissolved the legislative assembly to seek a fresh mandate, at least two people were killed and eight others injured when police opened fire to disperse rioting mobs. In recent months Mohdi had come under attack for his delayed response to the killings. His resignation was eclipsed, however, on Thursday when 70-year-old Muslim scientist Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, an unrepentant nationalist and the father of India`s nuclear missile programme, was elected to the largely ceremonial role of President.
The violence has been linked to the rise of extremist Hindu groups such as the Association of National Volunteers, or the RSS - a khaki-clad nationalist paramilitary sect formed in the Twenties - and its offspring, the World Hindu Council, or the VHP.
Gujarat is one of the few states in India controlled by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The state has been described as a `laboratory for Hindu fascism`. Since rising to power in the mid-Nineties, the BJP has aggressively pursued a pro-Hindu agenda.
It has also backed the construction of a temple in Ayodhya, where Hindu nationalists destroyed a mosque in 1992. Several members of the present Cabinet, including the Indian Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, were present at the demolition.
The RSS and the World Hindu Council, described locally as `Saffron Warriors`, have one clear aim: Hindu expansion by mass conversion. The militants believe that India was once an empire of 75 countries stretching from Cambodia to Iran.
They have introduced textbooks that convey former Hindu glories, and they propagate the myth of an India under siege from native Islamic militants. The RSS also lobbies to reintroduce the traditional names of cities like Mumbai, until recently Bombay.
`The situation is getting out of control,` says Arvind Sisodia, vice-president of the VHP in Gujarat. A passionate advocate of the Hindutva or `global Hindu conscious ness`, Sisodia is a middle-class worker at the Life Insurance Corporation of India.
`In Gujarat, the Muslims own all the shops; they are involved in illegal trade,` says Sisodia. `And Muslim boys steal our Hindu girls and marry them. So the situation is unbearable.`
In the days after the first killings in Gujarat, the VHP distributed leaflets asking Hindus to pledge a boycott of Muslims - including refusing to be taught by Muslim teachers and ensuring sisters and daughters did not fall into `the love-trap of Muslim boys`.
`It is up to all Hindus to make sure that we restore India to dominance,` says Sisodia. `Hinduism was once the dominant faith. Muslims have to learn to adapt. Otherwise, it will be dangerous for them. We don`t want them here.`
A few days after the deaths at Godhra, on a humid morning in an inner-city enclave of Ahmedabad, around 20 men marched up to the Indian flag and offered the Nazi salute. This was a training camp, or shakha, run by the RSS. There are about 40,000 camps scattered throughout India and informal ones abroad for expatriates.
The men, many of them in their thirties, are middle-class professionals - employees of Ahmedabad`s bustling industrial community. India`s middle classes are the keenest recruits to the RSS - drawn by fears of Islamic terrorism and of Westernisation amid a crumbling national economy.
In a fashionable Ahmedabad gated community lives Vijay Chauthaiwale, a microbiologist. Over lunch, with the World Cup playing on a satellite channel behind him, he explained his attraction to the RSS: `We are a very modern family,` he said, `but I feel that the more we move towards the West, the more likely we are to lose our Hindu values.
`Gandhi would not have understood,` he said. `He was an old-fashioned man with old-fashioned ideas. No one believes those things any more. The world has changed. And for Hindus to survive, we have to protect our culture and our way of life.`
For middle-class families such as Chauthaiwale`s, the Indian secular experiment has proved disastrous. The country`s Muslim population - now 11 per cent - is seen as a primary threat. `Where do the allegiances of the Muslims lie?` asked Kaushik Mehta, general secretary of the VHP in Gujarat.
He pointed to an enclave of Ahmedabad dubbed `mini-Pakistan` for its madrassahs, or Islamic schools. `We can`t allow such places to exist. They train terrorists. Muslims have to integrate. If they refuse to, we`ll be forced to make them. Or they can leave.`
For the 100,000 Muslims in squalid camps around Gujarat there is no such escape. In nearby Pakistan, India`s Muslims are viewed as traitors who betrayed Pakistan after partition. And now the Muslim camps are being shut down, casting their occupants into the streets and into the hands of Hindu extremists.
Most are fearful of returning to their villages. `They can`t go back because they face death threats,` said Father Cedric Prakash, director of Prashant, a human rights group in Ahmedabad. `The fanatics have all the power.`
More violence seems inevitable. At the end of February, Anjum Bana escaped her village in Panderwala with her six-week-old daughter. As Hindu militants torched the village, she hid in the forest. `There was nothing to eat or drink for three days,` she said. `I could hear people shouting RSS slogans all around me. And my child was dying. I know I can`t go back.`
The hawkish former Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narinder Mohdi, however, is unconvinced. In the early days of the rioting, as the body count escalated, Mohdi famously said Gujarat`s Hindus had shown `remarkable restraint`. Shortly before resigning on Friday, he said: `There is no problem with people returning back home. If they don`t want to go, they should be forced back. They have to go back.`
In a shabby camp in a graveyard in Ahmedabad, residents have taken to organising a night-time watch. `They know that once we are on the streets we are vulnerable. I can`t understand it. I have lived with Hindu neighbours for 40 years, and there have never been any problems. Now those same neighbours have turned on me. And no one will look after us.`
· Burhan Wazir presents `Unreported World: Saffron Warriors` on Channel 4 on Saturday at 7.40 pm.
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Observer Worldview
This week`s international news
The battle for India`s soul
09.06.2002: Luke Harding: Which way now for India?
03.03.2002: Gujarat riots: Police took part in slaughter
Kashmir crisis comment highlights
10.02.2002: Muzamil Jaleel: My lost country
02.06.2002: `The people suffer in a dispute they cannot control`
12.05.2002: Luke Harding: War at the top of the world
09.06.2002: John Butterworth: No panic in Bangalore
09.06.2002: Charles Glass: Have we learnt nothing from Rwanda?
02.06.2002: Arundhati Roy: Under the nuclear shadow
02.06.2002: Luke Harding in Delhi: The only question: when do you leave?
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09.06.2002: Kashmir dispatch: Here we go again ...
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Shadowlines (Part I)
fROM A SISTER FORUM POST ON INDIA FORUM
HA T ARE THESE OUR INDIANS UP TO? TRUELY VERY ILLETRATE!
Posted by GJM on July 20, 2002 at 04:12:25:
Indians begin worshipping dead British soldier as `god`
Hundreds of people in northern India have begun worshipping a British soldier who died 145 years ago.
They believe he has divine powers and has helped people get off court cases and solve their sexual problems.
Devotees are offering fruit, flowers, meat, cigarettes and liquor at the grave of Captain F Wale, at the palace garden ruins of Moosa Bagh in Lucknow.
Captain Wale of the 1st Sikh Cavalry was killed in action during the Mutiny of 1857.
Locals have even composed hymns and prayers to the soldier and taken to describing him variously as ``Captain Baba`` (Captain Sage), ``Gora Baba`` (White Sage) or ``Gora Bhagwan`` (White God).
The grave, normally deserted, began attracting visitors following rumours of the captain`s powers.
It was believed people involved in serious criminal cases were acquitted by the courts after prayers were offered at the grave, or `mazaar`.
Young men looking for solutions to their sexual problems and barren women hoping to have children are also among those who regularly visit the grave.
Sify.com reports one local man, Krishna Prasad, is reported to have offered beer at the grave in the hope Gora Baba would help him fulfil a wish to have sexual relations with a neighbour.
The self-appointed caretaker of the grave, who is known only by her first name, Sakina, said: ``Devotees took to the practice of offering alcohol and cigarettes at the grave because the captain was thought to be fond of drinking, smoking and sex.``
Follow Ups:
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Posted by
Glen
Jul 22, 2002 02:25 pm
fROM A SISTER FORUM POST ON INDIA FORUM
HA T ARE THESE OUR INDIANS UP TO? TRUELY VERY ILLETRATE!
Posted by GJM on July 20, 2002 at 04:12:25:
Indians begin worshipping dead British soldier as `god`
Hundreds of people in northern India have begun worshipping a British soldier who died 145 years ago.
They believe he has divine powers and has helped people get off court cases and solve their sexual problems.
Devotees are offering fruit, flowers, meat, cigarettes and liquor at the grave of Captain F Wale, at the palace garden ruins of Moosa Bagh in Lucknow.
Captain Wale of the 1st Sikh Cavalry was killed in action during the Mutiny of 1857.
Locals have even composed hymns and prayers to the soldier and taken to describing him variously as ``Captain Baba`` (Captain Sage), ``Gora Baba`` (White Sage) or ``Gora Bhagwan`` (White God).
The grave, normally deserted, began attracting visitors following rumours of the captain`s powers.
It was believed people involved in serious criminal cases were acquitted by the courts after prayers were offered at the grave, or `mazaar`.
Young men looking for solutions to their sexual problems and barren women hoping to have children are also among those who regularly visit the grave.
Sify.com reports one local man, Krishna Prasad, is reported to have offered beer at the grave in the hope Gora Baba would help him fulfil a wish to have sexual relations with a neighbour.
The self-appointed caretaker of the grave, who is known only by her first name, Sakina, said: ``Devotees took to the practice of offering alcohol and cigarettes at the grave because the captain was thought to be fond of drinking, smoking and sex.``
Follow Ups:
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Shadowlines (Part I)
CATCH J I M BEFORE YOU LOSE HIM ..SAYZ YOUR MOM
No More Big Man on Campus?
College Gender Gap Could Mean Women Lose Mating
Game
By Geraldine Sealey
[ABCNEWS.com]
July 18 ? Sure, it`s the 21st century and all, but many single, professional women of a certain age still sweat over the lethal mix of a dearth of educated, successful bachelors and the cruel march of Father Time.
Believe it or not, ladies, the situation appears to be getting bleaker.
Women now comprise 57 percent of all college graduates in the United States. Among Hispanics, the gender gap is even greater ? only 40 percent of college graduates are male. Among blacks, two women earn bachelor`s degrees for every man.
Some demographers and labor studies experts fear this trend portends ominously for the mating game. American men are becoming less literate, less ambitious, less responsible, and less employable than women, they say. This can only mean bad things, the argument goes, for high-achieving women who want husbands who, say, contribute to society, hold their own in conversation and pay their own way.
Andrew Sum, an economist with the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, calls this effect the ``marriage squeeze.``
``The choices for younger women will be more constrained than they were 20 years ago,`` he said. ``This is a serious economic and cultural problem. Men are less mature today than they were 20 years ago. Not everyone will agree with me, but the evidence supports that.``
Women Mature Faster
Sum`s research shows that an average of 62 percent of women in Massachusetts` large central and inner cities graduate from high school and enroll in college, compared to 48 percent of men. His data also reflect the education gender gap`s impact on marriage, he said. An estimated 59 percent of men with only high school diplomas were married compared to 75 percent of men with Master`s degrees or better, Sum said.
Nationwide during the last two decades, women have increasingly earned greater numbers of associate`s, bachelor`s, and master`s degrees than men. There is no state in America where men can claim more bachelor`s degrees than women.
Explanations abound for why women are more likely to enroll in and graduate from college. Educators say that in general, women are more prepared as students, more mature, better writers and readers, and more ambitious.
``Women may feel they have to try harder,`` said Stephanie Coontz, a family researcher and co-chair of the Council on Contemporary Families.
Indeed, there has been much public debate recently about the plight of successful women looking for mates and families. Perhaps most notably, Sylvia Ann Hewlett raised a ruckus with her book Creating a Life about professional women`s often quixotic quest for children, which made 60 Minutes and the cover of Time magazine.
Must Women Go Slummin`?
The academic gender gap shows no sign of abating, which means women may have to start waiting even longer to marry, or they may have to consider ``marrying down.``
Traditionally, men have been more likely to marry women with less earning potential and professional stature, although that trend is shifting. Women have been more likely to pair up with partners who have at least as much academic achievement ? 80 percent of women with bachelor`s degrees marry men who also graduated from college.
Not all experts see trouble ahead, of course. Many see the trend as a reassuring development for women, and for men, eager to break out of traditional marriage roles.
Kathleen Gerson, a New York University sociologist studying work and family attitudes of the 18-to-30 crowd, pooh-poohs the notion that less educated men herald the apocalypse for heterosexual couples.
``When men outnumbered women [in college], it didn`t seem like a social crisis,`` she said.
If women are less dependent on men for financial support, couples can make more honest decisions about being together, says Coontz, who`s writing a book on the history of marriage.
``It`s not a sign of disaster, but a sign that people are able to develop more true free choice and are willing to do so,`` she said. ``This is a good example of the fact that marriage is more of a choice than it`s ever been.``
Put less delicately, the concept of the marriage squeeze is a lot of ``hooha`` about nothing, says Carl E. Van Horn, a professor of public policy and director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University.
Resourceful Women More Attractive Mates
``It`s not like there are no men graduating from college,`` Van Horn said. ``It`s not a big enough change that it`s so noticeable.``
In fact, much research shows that women, just like men, are more likely to be married if they have greater educational attainment and more earning power, says Scott Coltrane, a senior scholar with the Center on Contemporary Families.
Economic equality also translates to more equality in marriage, Coltrane said. ``When women have more resources, couples tend to make decisions that end up sharing more,`` he said.
``I don`t see the institution of marriage being in any trouble. It`s a different vision of marriage. Marriage will be helped by equality of men and women in the workplace.``
Of course, even though women are getting more college and professional degrees and are improving their own earning potential, it remains to be seen whether they can bust through the corporate ``glass ceiling`` that still marginalizes them in executive suites.
If women are to translate their educational achievement into true earning power and professional stature, corporate America will also have to change, some experts say.
``[Women] still face inflexible workplace structures and job opportunities that are gender-biased and biased against parents,`` Gerson said.
Genie Out of the Bottle
Despite these arguments, Sum sticks to his theory that less educated men comprise a social, economic and marital drain. And, he said, if you ask young women, they`d back him up.
``Many women perceive this problem to be real,`` he said. ``It is not our imagination.``
The college gender gap damages young men even more, Sum said. Men not only lag behind female students but lack many of the directed mentoring opportunities designed to encourage professional development after college.
Surely, scholars may disagree on whether the economic deficiency of men is a social plague or a potential leveler of restrictive gender roles. But, Coltrane said: ``There`s no putting the genie back in the bottle. There`s no way to reverse this trend over the next few decades.``
Posted by
Glen
Jul 22, 2002 02:25 pm
CATCH J I M BEFORE YOU LOSE HIM ..SAYZ YOUR MOM
No More Big Man on Campus?
College Gender Gap Could Mean Women Lose Mating
Game
By Geraldine Sealey
[ABCNEWS.com]
July 18 ? Sure, it`s the 21st century and all, but many single, professional women of a certain age still sweat over the lethal mix of a dearth of educated, successful bachelors and the cruel march of Father Time.
Believe it or not, ladies, the situation appears to be getting bleaker.
Women now comprise 57 percent of all college graduates in the United States. Among Hispanics, the gender gap is even greater ? only 40 percent of college graduates are male. Among blacks, two women earn bachelor`s degrees for every man.
Some demographers and labor studies experts fear this trend portends ominously for the mating game. American men are becoming less literate, less ambitious, less responsible, and less employable than women, they say. This can only mean bad things, the argument goes, for high-achieving women who want husbands who, say, contribute to society, hold their own in conversation and pay their own way.
Andrew Sum, an economist with the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, calls this effect the ``marriage squeeze.``
``The choices for younger women will be more constrained than they were 20 years ago,`` he said. ``This is a serious economic and cultural problem. Men are less mature today than they were 20 years ago. Not everyone will agree with me, but the evidence supports that.``
Women Mature Faster
Sum`s research shows that an average of 62 percent of women in Massachusetts` large central and inner cities graduate from high school and enroll in college, compared to 48 percent of men. His data also reflect the education gender gap`s impact on marriage, he said. An estimated 59 percent of men with only high school diplomas were married compared to 75 percent of men with Master`s degrees or better, Sum said.
Nationwide during the last two decades, women have increasingly earned greater numbers of associate`s, bachelor`s, and master`s degrees than men. There is no state in America where men can claim more bachelor`s degrees than women.
Explanations abound for why women are more likely to enroll in and graduate from college. Educators say that in general, women are more prepared as students, more mature, better writers and readers, and more ambitious.
``Women may feel they have to try harder,`` said Stephanie Coontz, a family researcher and co-chair of the Council on Contemporary Families.
Indeed, there has been much public debate recently about the plight of successful women looking for mates and families. Perhaps most notably, Sylvia Ann Hewlett raised a ruckus with her book Creating a Life about professional women`s often quixotic quest for children, which made 60 Minutes and the cover of Time magazine.
Must Women Go Slummin`?
The academic gender gap shows no sign of abating, which means women may have to start waiting even longer to marry, or they may have to consider ``marrying down.``
Traditionally, men have been more likely to marry women with less earning potential and professional stature, although that trend is shifting. Women have been more likely to pair up with partners who have at least as much academic achievement ? 80 percent of women with bachelor`s degrees marry men who also graduated from college.
Not all experts see trouble ahead, of course. Many see the trend as a reassuring development for women, and for men, eager to break out of traditional marriage roles.
Kathleen Gerson, a New York University sociologist studying work and family attitudes of the 18-to-30 crowd, pooh-poohs the notion that less educated men herald the apocalypse for heterosexual couples.
``When men outnumbered women [in college], it didn`t seem like a social crisis,`` she said.
If women are less dependent on men for financial support, couples can make more honest decisions about being together, says Coontz, who`s writing a book on the history of marriage.
``It`s not a sign of disaster, but a sign that people are able to develop more true free choice and are willing to do so,`` she said. ``This is a good example of the fact that marriage is more of a choice than it`s ever been.``
Put less delicately, the concept of the marriage squeeze is a lot of ``hooha`` about nothing, says Carl E. Van Horn, a professor of public policy and director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University.
Resourceful Women More Attractive Mates
``It`s not like there are no men graduating from college,`` Van Horn said. ``It`s not a big enough change that it`s so noticeable.``
In fact, much research shows that women, just like men, are more likely to be married if they have greater educational attainment and more earning power, says Scott Coltrane, a senior scholar with the Center on Contemporary Families.
Economic equality also translates to more equality in marriage, Coltrane said. ``When women have more resources, couples tend to make decisions that end up sharing more,`` he said.
``I don`t see the institution of marriage being in any trouble. It`s a different vision of marriage. Marriage will be helped by equality of men and women in the workplace.``
Of course, even though women are getting more college and professional degrees and are improving their own earning potential, it remains to be seen whether they can bust through the corporate ``glass ceiling`` that still marginalizes them in executive suites.
If women are to translate their educational achievement into true earning power and professional stature, corporate America will also have to change, some experts say.
``[Women] still face inflexible workplace structures and job opportunities that are gender-biased and biased against parents,`` Gerson said.
Genie Out of the Bottle
Despite these arguments, Sum sticks to his theory that less educated men comprise a social, economic and marital drain. And, he said, if you ask young women, they`d back him up.
``Many women perceive this problem to be real,`` he said. ``It is not our imagination.``
The college gender gap damages young men even more, Sum said. Men not only lag behind female students but lack many of the directed mentoring opportunities designed to encourage professional development after college.
Surely, scholars may disagree on whether the economic deficiency of men is a social plague or a potential leveler of restrictive gender roles. But, Coltrane said: ``There`s no putting the genie back in the bottle. There`s no way to reverse this trend over the next few decades.``
What it means to be me in Corporate America?
``..........Of all those pseudo intellectuals who are called on a TV show for an impartial opinion, and deny their Indian origin despite the South Indian sun on their face; those..........``
I bet if they read this will start singing ``baby dont hurt me, baby dont hurt me ooyoooyooooo``
This bharat is a humongous patriarch of the Indian subcontinent (South East Asia)looming ever.... so overshadowing its neigbours that more ppl. hate india [including its OWN ppl.]Every indian is first marathi, gujrati,Bengali & bhaiya but all are anti -pakistan muslim & Islam( Well,not ALL but almost or enough )
Posted by
Glen
Jul 19, 2002 06:21 pm
Inimitable style of hammering those SOBs with a tong & a Hammer ...boy it feels good like a catharcis.``..........Of all those pseudo intellectuals who are called on a TV show for an impartial opinion, and deny their Indian origin despite the South Indian sun on their face; those..........``
I bet if they read this will start singing ``baby dont hurt me, baby dont hurt me ooyoooyooooo``
This bharat is a humongous patriarch of the Indian subcontinent (South East Asia)looming ever.... so overshadowing its neigbours that more ppl. hate india [including its OWN ppl.]Every indian is first marathi, gujrati,Bengali & bhaiya but all are anti -pakistan muslim & Islam( Well,not ALL but almost or enough )
Of Evil Zionists and the Great Satan
THE HINDIANS IN TOTAL DENIAL,.... A PATHOLIGICAL STATE OF MIND ,....TO BE TRUE ,CANT CALL A DUCK EVEN WHEN IT WALKS, LIKE A DUCK ,TALKS LIKE A DUCK & ALL LOGIC SAYS THEN IT IS A DUCK .
SO IS ADVANI NOT AN AVERAGE HINDU BUT A FANATIC ANTI MUSLIM -ISLAM .MAYBE BECAUSE HE HAS PERSONAL REASON BEING FROM MUSLIM PAKISTAN & A REFUGEE ,BUT SOME WORSE SUFFERER OF PARTITION HAS NOT TURNED OUT DEMONIC LIKE HIM E,G. jOYTI bASU ,GUJRAL ,GULZAR,& THIOUSANDS OTHER WHO WERE BORN AS A MINORITY ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDERS.
The irresistible rise of L.K. Advani
Jul 4th 2002 | DELHI
From The Economist print edition
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India`s leading Hindu demagogue moves a step closer to the top
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ATAL BEHARI VAJPAYEE, India`s prime minister, this week performed his most sweeping ministerial reshuffle since coming to power four years ago, swapping the foreign-affairs and finance portfolios of Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha, and strengthening the leadership of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP ). But it is another appointment that could have longer-term political significance for India, not to mention for Pakistan and the wider world. The elevation of L.K. Advani (pictured left, with Mr Vajpayee), the home minister and Mr Vajpayee`s long-time political comrade and rival, to the additional post of deputy prime minister is a milestone.
Mr Advani`s promotion and the lack of dissent from the ruling coalition appears to mean that the coalition`s members have accepted him as the prime ministerial heir to Mr Vajpayee, who is 77 and has visibly aged in the past couple of years. This is a coup of sorts for Mr Advani, who is universally seen as the government`s leading Hindu-nationalist hardliner, a reputation he first earned ten years ago when he led a movement that demolished an ancient mosque on a disputed religious site in Ayodhya, sparking widespread riots.
Although Mr Advani has since said that he regrets the demolition, there is little doubt that if the government were not constrained by its coalition partners, he would have wanted it to implement the BJP`s Hindutva (?Hinduness?) agenda. This would include rebuilding a Hindu temple at Ayodhya and reversing laws that favour India`s 12% Muslim minority. A few weeks back, Mr Advani caused alarm by threatening Pakistan with dismemberment, as in 1971. And he has several times clashed with Mr Vajpayee recently, with Mr Advani generally on the side of intransigence towards Pakistan and India`s Muslims.
The nervous will see this week`s appointment as a sign that the government is swinging to the right and that the BJP will not in future be prepared to see its hawkish Hindu nationalism tempered by political allies. Optimists argue that, for the time being at least, things will not work out like that. Mr Advani is ambitious. He has been softening his hardline image and trying to play down his rivalry with Mr Vajpayee. This week, at his boss`s request, he persuaded Narendra Modi, the BJP ideologue who is chief minister of Gujarat, where 2,000 people died in Hindu-Muslim riots in April, to postpone a controversial yatra, or tour of the state, that would almost certainly have exacerbated already deeply worrying religious tensions.
No one believes that Mr Advani?seen in the BJP as Mr Vajpayee`s undisputed successor as party leader?has really tempered his nationalist fervour. But he has been careful to make himself appear more acceptable to the BJP`s coalition allies. They must reckon that he is here to stay. Although only three years younger than Mr Vajpayee, he has led a more ascetic life, giving him a leaner and sharper look. By contrast, Mr Vajpayee is not expected to remain in active politics much beyond the next general election, due by mid- to late 2004?if he lasts that long.
Mr Vajpayee`s administration has anyway been in urgent need of a facelift. Its defeats in elections and its failure to quell the Gujarat riots have helped the opposition Congress Party to look nationally credible again after six years in the doldrums. As well as promoting Mr Advani, this week`s cabinet reshuffle is intended to reverse that trend in elections over the next 18 months in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, as well as in troubled Gujarat.
The Singh-Sinha job swap is, at first glance, puzzling. Both men have had their posts since 1998, when the coalition first came to power. Mr Sinha needed to be moved because he had failed to win much support for reform. This forced him to water down some of the main proposals in his five annual budgets, and he was blamed for adding to the BJP`s unpopularity this year when tax increases hit the middle classes. Though presiding over some serious financial-market liberalisation, including opening up the insurance sector, he has failed to tackle the growing fiscal deficit and a stream of market scams.
By contrast, Mr Singh has been acclaimed as one of India`s most effective foreign ministers, maintaining a strong stand through India`s peace bids and crises with Pakistan, and transforming relations with America, where he became popular with senior officials in both the Clinton and Bush administrations.
Mr Sinha`s logical replacement would have been one of the government`s younger members, probably Arun Shourie, who has been a successful privatisation minister. But Mr Shourie was regarded as too insensitive a reformer. Mr Singh, Mr Vajpayee`s first choice for finance in 1998, emerged as a logical fall-back. It then made sense to replace him with Mr Sinha.
This compromise may yet work out reasonably well for Mr Vajpayee. He now has a staunch ally in charge of the finance ministry. He can also call the shots on foreign policy through Brajesh Mishra, his national security adviser. But all this supposes that the fast-rising Mr Advani is content for the present to be a co-operative deputy prime minister, holding his instincts in check and refraining from encouraging the hardline Hindu nationalists behind the scenes. That is probably going to be the tricky bit.
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Glen
Jul 11, 2002 04:33 am
THE HINDIANS IN TOTAL DENIAL,.... A PATHOLIGICAL STATE OF MIND ,....TO BE TRUE ,CANT CALL A DUCK EVEN WHEN IT WALKS, LIKE A DUCK ,TALKS LIKE A DUCK & ALL LOGIC SAYS THEN IT IS A DUCK .
SO IS ADVANI NOT AN AVERAGE HINDU BUT A FANATIC ANTI MUSLIM -ISLAM .MAYBE BECAUSE HE HAS PERSONAL REASON BEING FROM MUSLIM PAKISTAN & A REFUGEE ,BUT SOME WORSE SUFFERER OF PARTITION HAS NOT TURNED OUT DEMONIC LIKE HIM E,G. jOYTI bASU ,GUJRAL ,GULZAR,& THIOUSANDS OTHER WHO WERE BORN AS A MINORITY ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDERS.
The irresistible rise of L.K. Advani
Jul 4th 2002 | DELHI
From The Economist print edition
AP
[AP]
India`s leading Hindu demagogue moves a step closer to the top
Get article background
ATAL BEHARI VAJPAYEE, India`s prime minister, this week performed his most sweeping ministerial reshuffle since coming to power four years ago, swapping the foreign-affairs and finance portfolios of Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha, and strengthening the leadership of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP ). But it is another appointment that could have longer-term political significance for India, not to mention for Pakistan and the wider world. The elevation of L.K. Advani (pictured left, with Mr Vajpayee), the home minister and Mr Vajpayee`s long-time political comrade and rival, to the additional post of deputy prime minister is a milestone.
Mr Advani`s promotion and the lack of dissent from the ruling coalition appears to mean that the coalition`s members have accepted him as the prime ministerial heir to Mr Vajpayee, who is 77 and has visibly aged in the past couple of years. This is a coup of sorts for Mr Advani, who is universally seen as the government`s leading Hindu-nationalist hardliner, a reputation he first earned ten years ago when he led a movement that demolished an ancient mosque on a disputed religious site in Ayodhya, sparking widespread riots.
Although Mr Advani has since said that he regrets the demolition, there is little doubt that if the government were not constrained by its coalition partners, he would have wanted it to implement the BJP`s Hindutva (?Hinduness?) agenda. This would include rebuilding a Hindu temple at Ayodhya and reversing laws that favour India`s 12% Muslim minority. A few weeks back, Mr Advani caused alarm by threatening Pakistan with dismemberment, as in 1971. And he has several times clashed with Mr Vajpayee recently, with Mr Advani generally on the side of intransigence towards Pakistan and India`s Muslims.
The nervous will see this week`s appointment as a sign that the government is swinging to the right and that the BJP will not in future be prepared to see its hawkish Hindu nationalism tempered by political allies. Optimists argue that, for the time being at least, things will not work out like that. Mr Advani is ambitious. He has been softening his hardline image and trying to play down his rivalry with Mr Vajpayee. This week, at his boss`s request, he persuaded Narendra Modi, the BJP ideologue who is chief minister of Gujarat, where 2,000 people died in Hindu-Muslim riots in April, to postpone a controversial yatra, or tour of the state, that would almost certainly have exacerbated already deeply worrying religious tensions.
No one believes that Mr Advani?seen in the BJP as Mr Vajpayee`s undisputed successor as party leader?has really tempered his nationalist fervour. But he has been careful to make himself appear more acceptable to the BJP`s coalition allies. They must reckon that he is here to stay. Although only three years younger than Mr Vajpayee, he has led a more ascetic life, giving him a leaner and sharper look. By contrast, Mr Vajpayee is not expected to remain in active politics much beyond the next general election, due by mid- to late 2004?if he lasts that long.
Mr Vajpayee`s administration has anyway been in urgent need of a facelift. Its defeats in elections and its failure to quell the Gujarat riots have helped the opposition Congress Party to look nationally credible again after six years in the doldrums. As well as promoting Mr Advani, this week`s cabinet reshuffle is intended to reverse that trend in elections over the next 18 months in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, as well as in troubled Gujarat.
The Singh-Sinha job swap is, at first glance, puzzling. Both men have had their posts since 1998, when the coalition first came to power. Mr Sinha needed to be moved because he had failed to win much support for reform. This forced him to water down some of the main proposals in his five annual budgets, and he was blamed for adding to the BJP`s unpopularity this year when tax increases hit the middle classes. Though presiding over some serious financial-market liberalisation, including opening up the insurance sector, he has failed to tackle the growing fiscal deficit and a stream of market scams.
By contrast, Mr Singh has been acclaimed as one of India`s most effective foreign ministers, maintaining a strong stand through India`s peace bids and crises with Pakistan, and transforming relations with America, where he became popular with senior officials in both the Clinton and Bush administrations.
Mr Sinha`s logical replacement would have been one of the government`s younger members, probably Arun Shourie, who has been a successful privatisation minister. But Mr Shourie was regarded as too insensitive a reformer. Mr Singh, Mr Vajpayee`s first choice for finance in 1998, emerged as a logical fall-back. It then made sense to replace him with Mr Sinha.
This compromise may yet work out reasonably well for Mr Vajpayee. He now has a staunch ally in charge of the finance ministry. He can also call the shots on foreign policy through Brajesh Mishra, his national security adviser. But all this supposes that the fast-rising Mr Advani is content for the present to be a co-operative deputy prime minister, holding his instincts in check and refraining from encouraging the hardline Hindu nationalists behind the scenes. That is probably going to be the tricky bit.
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