Bush arrived India

Finally the US President arrived India today night at 8.10pm IST in Air Force One and landed on the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, after a surprise visit to Kabul. I thank NDTV to relayed the President’s arrive live. Our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh welcomed the US President Bush, Lara Bush and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. Our President Abdul Kalam is missed in the welcome.

About 5,000 personnel including snipers, commandos and US marines using helicopters, bomb detectors and electronic jammers will protect Bush during the tour.

The Left Parties View of Bush visit India

Just a day to go President George W Bush touches the ground in India. The police, fire service and bomb defeaters are in the final rehearsal throughout the places were Bush visit. In-between the Left parties held a discussion yesterday, in that, they have decided to conduct a mammoth against Bush visit on March 2 morning 11.30 form Ramila ground to Parliament. Like this in Hyderabad, were bush visit on March 3 the Left had decided to conduct a (tharna) struggle and they have called all CPI nation leaders to conduct struggle all over the Country.

Why the left Party struggle against Bush visiting India?

The Left telling that India should not toe the US line on the issue of Iran complying with the NPT. But since last September, India has been going along with EU-3 and the US. The Left stance is that the issue of Iran should not be referred to the UN Security Council; instead it should be resolved by way of consensus within IAEA itself. But the US does not want a peaceful solution. They have set a goal of destroying Iran like they did with Iraq. Only here, they want a quicker destruction. It is not just a technical issue relating to Iran’s nuclear capability. The issue is that the US, as part of its avowed mission of militarily attacking nations which stand against it, is targeting Iran. India should not support such an agenda. It is a matter of upholding our own independence in foreign policy that India should not vote for referring Iran to the UN Security Council over its nuclear capability issue. The Left have asked for a discussion in Parliament, where the concerns of many parties and MPs regarding India’s stance will be conveyed to the government. CPI (M) general secretary Prakash Karat said, But if India still goes along with the US, will see what action is to be taken.

Prakash Karat, general secretary (CPI-M) with CPI leaders, addressing a press conference.

Bush massacred more than one lakh Iraqis just to satisfy his whims. He imposed a blockade against Cuba, and is also moving against many Latin American countries which he considers a threat to the US. Bush openly proclaims that he attacks countries because God directs him to do so. Such a person is an unwelcome visitor in India. The Left has given 19 dissenting notes to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-Left coordination committee on policy decisions. But the response has not been satisfactory. The Left is holding discussions with all those who are in disagreement with the government on issues like allowing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the retail sector, handing over airport modernization to private sector and so on. This includes parties within the UPA government and outside. A broad platform of parties opposing the UPA government’s policies is emerging. The Left said there party is not bound to consolidate a government led by the Congress forever, anywhere. Our goal is to form a Third Front government and we are working towards that agenda. I think after the Bush visit India, the UPA government has a big head pain form the Left.

Bush in India this Week

File Photo U.S. President Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

The U.S. President George W Bush is arriving India on March 1st. the Indian government is doing history security for Bush visit. Indian is expected to sign more than a dozen agreements during the March 1-4 with US, when the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Bush meet. We don’t know what agreements are we going sign. We can see some agreements which India expect from US.

Is a breakthrough deal between India and the US in the aviation sector on the cards during George Bush’s visit? Circles close to chambers of commerce involved in Indo-American economic ties are abuzz with a deal that may pave the way for the domination of Boeing in Indian skies. There is an advantage that we see developing with new airlines coming in and existing airlines on an expansion spree. We would like Boeing to have the competitive advantage. The framework of the deal is expected to give Boeing that extra push. Having bagged a $11 billion deal for 68 aircraft from Air-India, Boeing already has the edge but would not mind some patronage from President Bush. About 80 of India’s 180 commercial aircraft are Boeing.

As the American delegation comes visiting, India Inc. has high expectations. However, unlike the Clinton visit in 2000, Bush’s agenda has been kept a zealously guarded secret. The embassy has not even responded to our requests for time with the president. However, what is certain is the US-India CEOs Forum on March 2.

Coinciding with the Bush visit, the US India Business Council, representing over 130 US companies with trade and investment interests in India, will also launch a mission with CEOs and senior industry leaders. There is a lot at stake with Indian exports to the US expected to rise by 18 to 20 per cent this year to reach $14 billion. The US exports to India are also slated to increase by 20 per cent to over $6 billion. Both countries are hoping to enhance their bilateral trade to $40 billion in three years," said a FICCI source.

Economic advisers said, India should push for a free trade agreement with the US, which would include FDI and services, as it would greatly benefit our domestic economy. India should urgently liberalize FDI across sectors and undertake steps to lower import tariffs, particularly on agricultural goods. Bush is expected to visit the Knowledge Park in Hyderabad on March 3 and address the Agriculture University. In fact, officials, experts and private entrepreneurs in India and the US are giving shape to the proposed joint Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture before Bush’s visit. It will facilitate collaboration in promoting agriculture research, education and commercial links.

The Indian retail industry is expected to grow to $300 billion in the next five years from the current $200 billion, and if India has to grow at 10 per cent per annum, it needs FDI. But there is general fear over FDI in retail. Wal-Mart International CEO and President John B. Menzer have already paid quiet visits to Westside and Metro outlets in Bangalore to get a feel of Indian retail. Wal-Mart, despite having grown bigger in terms of revenue to $288 billion, regrets having missed the bus when India was open to foreign investment in retail in the mid-1990s. Union Commerce Minister, who has been spearheading the FDI drive, is at pains to allay fears over employment loss with FDI in retail. We will examine all possibilitiesokto modernise retail but no new set-up should displace the existing one.
Health care would be the next big initiative that would further strengthen US-India relations. We are in a new age of US-India co-operation in health care. India can help the US in supplying low-cost high-quality health care, which would help the US save more than $300 billion in the next 10 years. Last December saw a number of global business leaders like Bill Gates announcing $1.7 billion investment in India over the next four years. However, it is the formation of the High Technology Cooperation Group dialogue on nanotechnology and biotechnology, and defence technology that has really taken the Indo-American ties to new heights.

Foreign Secretary said India and the US were currently exploring areas of cooperation in technology transfer, co-production, joint development and collaborative research. Indian skills and comparative costs can make themselves felt in defence applications of high technology as well, and become active participants in the global supply chains of major defence vendors. Bush’s visit is also expected to facilitate cooperation for setting up legal and regulatory structures for biological material transfer and formulation of guidelines for conducting clinical trials. India is poised to be the hub of global vaccine and clinical trials. The potential areas of cooperation in nanotechnology are development of metrology and appropriate nomenclature to enable further international development. India, has created an enabling structure for high-technology commerce to expand. With the Bush visit, the focus should now be on promotion and outreach.

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They changed the world

A brief look at some of the momentous happenings in March.

Have a headache? Take an aspirin. This drug was patented on March 6, 1899, by two German researchers. On March 7, 1854, Miller patented a very different invention: the sewing machine.

Rrrring! Rrring! Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was born in Scotland on March 3, 1847. He made the first telephone call in March, many years later (March 10, 1876).

Albert Einstein was born on March 14,1879. March was his lucky month, too. His theory of general relativity was published on March 20, 1916. Another famous publication was Wolfgang Pauli's exclusion principle on March 21,1925.

Uranus was discovered on March 13, 1781, by William Herschel. His less famous sister, Caroline, conducted all the tedious calculations necessitated by their joint observations and was responsible for reducing their data and transcribing it for publication. She also put together two catalogues, discovered many comets and nebulas on her own, and became the first professional female astronomer.

You know about Magellan, of course, but who completed the world's first non-stop circumnavigatory flight? Captain Gallagher, on March 2, 1949.

Other notable dates: Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity on March 1, 1896. The artificial heart was used for the first time on March 8,1952. The first laser was patented in 1960 on March 22.

On March 31, 1889, the Eiffel Tower was inaugurated. The tallest tower of its time, it wasn't universally liked. Some wanted it pulled down!

Social Women

I like to tell u about a women, who have a good care on our society.

I used to see a woman, every day near our house, every morning she used to sweep the entrance of every shop. When walk on the road, if she finds any stones or paper or any garbage in the road, she pick up and put it on the dustbin. Many people will walk on the road but on one will think to pick the waste paper and put it on the dust bin. Up to 6.pm we used to play with our friend in the street next to our house. When the time come 6.pm many children’s will gather on the front of a Ganesh temple near our house with there school bags, we also go there to watch what they are doing in front of the Temple. I used to go there to see what they are doing in front of the temple, I was surprised, because the women who I saw picking papers on the road is teaching lessons for the kids near the temple. She also used to advice us to go and study in your home. On every Friday my mom used to take me to that Ganesh Temple. In every temple I have see only male priest, but in that temple this women was a priest. I wonder to see that temple, because the temple will be very clean and her decoration for lord Ganesh will be very beautiful.

After watching her activities, I asked my mom about her. Who is that women

My mom told me that every one call her mame, she is a widow and good educated. Mom told that she has worked as a teacher in a school, some years back. One day she had felled down and wounded in her head, so some times she used to get fix & sworn, because of this her school has dismissed her, she argue with the school for re-return but they dint take her argue and send her out. But she dint worry and sit, she like to use here education to students, so she took a pledge to take her education to the students who are poor and cant go to school with there family problems. So she started teaching the poor children’s in the temple, who are living near the temple. She teaches the students without getting money form them, because all of them are very poor kids. She also works as a priest in a Pillaiyar (Ganesh) Temple near our house. We don know where she is staying, but the people in our area call her and give food every day. My moms also some times give her food and she also used to help my mom for taking water, putting kolam (drawing in flour) and sweeping our gateway. After some day, some gang people did problem and , said not to allow her to do poojas for god. so they spread wrong words like she was mentally affect so we should not allow her inside the temple. After these incidents she stopped her priest work, but she dint stop teaching lessons for the kids. I our area some people gave her space to take lessons for kids. Two years back when she was waking on the road she got fix and sworn that time a car hit her, and she died. She dint have any relatives or kids, so our area people have gathered and done her final ceremony. She has a good care on our society, and likes to keep our country very clean and does many help for our area people. I don’t know why the got is taking such a good people to him.