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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Universal Soldier may refer to:
Music
- "Universal Soldier" (song), a song by Buffy Sainte-Marie
- Universal Soldier (1967 Donovan album)
- Universal Soldier (1995 Donovan album)
- Universal Soldier (Pastor Troy album)
Film
- Universal Soldier (1971 film)
- Universal Soldier (1992 film)
- Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms, a 1998 direct-to-video sequel.
- Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business, another direct-to-video sequel.
- Universal Soldier: The Return, the official sequel to Universal Soldier.
- Universal Soldier (cyborg), the cyborg type in the 1992 Universal Soldier film series
- Universal Soldiers: The Next Generation, the third film in the Universal Soldier series planned for a late 2009 release
Other
- A rebranded version of the Turrican 2 video game
[edit] See also
Universal Soldier (1992 film)
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| Universal Soldier | |
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Roland Emmerich |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Mario Kassar Allen Shapiro |
| Written by | Richard Rothstein Christopher Leitch Dean Devlin |
| Starring | Jean-Claude Van Damme Dolph Lundgren Ally Walker Ed O'Ross |
| Cinematography | Karl Walter Lindenlaub |
| Editing by | Michael J. Duthie |
| Distributed by | TriStar Pictures |
| Release date(s) | July 10, 1992 |
| Running time | 102 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $23,000,000 (estimated) |
| Followed by | Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms |
Universal Soldier is a 1992 science fiction film, directed by Roland Emmerich, and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren as soldiers who kill each other in Vietnam but are reanimated in a secret Army project along with a large group of other previously dead soldiers.
[edit] Production
The film was followed by two television movie sequels in 1998 — Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms and Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business — with an all new cast.
In 1999, a theatrical sequel, Universal Soldier: The Return, ignored the television films, with only Van Damme returning from the original film.
This was the last film encoded in Cinema Digital Sound.
Deveraux's code number GR44 is a reference to director Roland Emmerich's first film Moon 44.
Most of the film was shot in Arizona. The Vietnamese jungle and village scenes were shot on a golf course in Clarkdale, Arizona. Some exterior scenes were shot on location at the Hoover Dam and Clarkdale, Arizona.
At the 1992 Cannes film festival, Van Damme and Lundgren were
involved in a verbal altercation that almost turned physical when both
men pushed each other only to be separated. On his website, Dolph
Lundgren confirmed that it was just a publicity stunt to promote the
film.
Universal Soldier is Rated R for strong graphic violence and for strong language.
The original script included a voice-over announcement that Devereaux had died several days after the end of the film.
[edit] Plot
Near the end of the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War, an American military squad receives orders to secure a village against North Vietnamese
forces. Pvt. Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) comes to find the
members of his squad and various villagers dead with their ears
missing. His comrade in arms, Sgt. Andrew Scott (Dolph Lundgren) is the
cause of this, having gone murderously insane. Deveraux finds that
Scott, while holding up a string of severed ears, is also holding a
young boy and girl hostage. Deveraux tries to reason with Scott, saying
that the war is over. Scott becomes infuriated and shoots the boy in
front of him, then orders Deveraux to shoot the girl in order to prove
his loyalty.
Deveraux refuses and stops Scott from shooting the girl. The girl
attempts to escape, but Scott throws a grenade at her, killing her. Luc
and Scott shoot each other and both are killed. The next morning, a
U.S. Special Forces squad finds their bodies and the commanding officer
of the squad gives the medics orders to "bag their bodies in ice."
Jumping to modern day, terrorists have taken over the Hoover Dam
and the police agencies are ordered not to intervene or make any
attempt to rescue the hostages. Instead, the Universal Soldiers (or
"UniSols"), an elite counter terrorism unit, are called with Deveraux
(now designated "GR44") and Scott (now designated "GR13") among this
team. They apparently have been revived with no memory of their
previous lives. Deveraux has flashbacks of his previous life, including
a deleted scene in which he meets a Vietnamese bar girl at a Vietnamese
bar called "LUCKY'S".
Deveraux and Scott are sent in to dispatch several of the
terrorists, with Deveraux using efficient means, but Scott using
excessive force. Their camera feeds sent back to the command post
garners concern with the project technicians, suggesting that despite
being emotional blank slates, Scott is actually enjoying it. As the
UniSols infiltrate the area, they demonstrate their superior training
and physical abilities, as one of them (Ralf Moeller as GR74) is shown surviving close-range automatic gunfire.
After the area is secured, Deveraux begins to regain memory from his
former life after seeing two of the hostages who resemble the villagers
he tried to save back in Vietnam. Turning around, he looks upon the
face of Scott (who is also experiencing the same memory) but as a
Unisol, he doesn't say anything. This causes him to ignore radio
commands from the control team.
Back in the mobile command center, the Unisol technician team are
trying to figure out what happened at the Hoover Dam incident. They
reveal that the UniSols have enhanced healing abilities and superior
strength but also have a tendency to overheat and shut down. It is also
revealed that they are given a neural serum to keep their minds under
control and their previous memories suppressed. All of the UniSols are
then ordered to go back into their cooling units and inject themselves
with the serum. As a result of the glitch, Woodward (Leon Rippy),
one of the technicians on the project, feels it may be better to remove
Scott and Deveraux from the team until they can be further analyzed.
But Colonel Perry (Ed O'Ross), the commander in charge, tells them that the mission will proceed as planned.
TV news journalist Veronica Roberts (Ally Walker)
is attempting to get a story on the UniSol project in an attempt to be
reinstated at her job, having previously been fired while covering the
Hoover Dam incident. After speaking with representatives from the
project, she receives evasive answers. She later sneaks onto the base
with a camera to investigate the project further only to discover the
body of a damaged UniSol who appears to be fatally wounded, but is
still alive.
While attempting to escape, Deveraux and Scott are ordered to bring
her back. She escapes to the car of her cameraman, but when the Unisols
pursue, they cause the car to crash and overturn. Scott mercilessly
executes the cameraman and Deveraux again intervenes, preventing him
from shooting Roberts. They both escape in a UniSol vehicle.
After escaping, Scott mumbles to himself softly about Deveraux being
a traitor, but none of the Unisol team realize it. Colonel Perry
resolves to chase the reporter and Deveraux across country to prevent
knowledge of the UniSols from getting out, not only to the public, but
to the American government, as the nature of project is unknown by the
Pentagon.
As Deveraux and Roberts hide out and attempt to get evidence of the
UniSol program to the media, Roberts turns on the television to learn
that she is now being framed for the murder of her cameraman. As the
UniSol team is dispatched, Scott's previous personality begins to
emerge, causing him to kill innocents. As the technicians realize what
is happening, they attempt to stop him, only to be killed themselves.
Scott then takes over the rest of the UniSol team.
Deveraux and Roberts travel around as Roberts tries to dig up more information about the UniSol program. They meet Dr. Gregor (Jerry Orbach),
the originator of the program, who reveals the history of the project.
Deveraux learns more of his past and wants to go home to meet his
family in Louisiana.
After Deveraux reunites with his family, Scott tracks them down and
takes his family and Roberts hostage. A brutal fight ensues with Scott
beating Deveraux mercilessly due to the muscle enhancers he has.
Roberts manages to escape from her bonds only to be seemingly killed by
a grenade thrown by Scott. Scott continues to dominate Deveraux until
he gets a hold of the muscle enhancers Scott uses and injects himself
with one. Deveraux starts fighting back due to his new strength and
manages to impale Scott on the spikes of a hay harvester. Deveraux then
finishes Scott by starting the machine up which grinds him up. Finally,
Deveraux checks on Roberts, who survived the explosion though wounded
and the two embrace.
[edit] Casting
- Jean-Claude Van Damme – Luc Deveraux / GR44
- Dolph Lundgren – Andrew Scott / GR13
- Ally Walker – Veronica Roberts
- Ed O'Ross – Colonel Perry
- Jerry Orbach – Dr. Christopher Gregor
- Leon Rippy – Woodward
- Tico Wells – Garth
- Ralph Moeller – GR76
- Robert Trebor – Motel-owner
- Gene Davis – Lietenant
- Drew Snyder – Charles
- Tommy "Tiny" Lister – GR55
- Simon Rhee – GR61
- Eric Norris – GR86
- Michael Winther – Technician
- Kristopher Van Varenberg – Young Luc Deveraux (uncredited)
[edit] Alternate ending
The Special Edition DVD release features an alternate ending which
takes place shortly after Scott takes Deveraux's family and Roberts
hostage. As Deveraux grabs a shotgun in the kitchen, the front door
opens and he sees his mother before Scott shoots her to death. In the
final fight between Deveraux and Scott, Deveraux does not use Scott's
muscle enhancers. Shortly after grinding Scott to death, Deveraux is
shot by his father before Dr. Gregor and his men appear.
Dr. Gregor explains that he had Deveraux set up to get to him and
Scott, and that Deveraux was living with people posing as his parents.
He then has his men shoot down Deveraux. But before Deveraux dies,
police and Roberts' news crew arrive. The news crew douse Deveraux with
a fire extinguisher to stabilize him while Dr. Gregor and his men are
arrested. Roberts is given the microphone to cover the arrest, but she
loses all composure while on the air, dropping the microphone to
comfort Deveraux.
Several days later, Deveraux is reunited with his real parents. The
film ends with a eulogy narrated by Roberts, who explains that Deveraux
rejected all life-prolonging medications before dying a natural death.
[edit] Reception
Universal Soldier opened in theaters on July 10, 1992 where
it grossed $10,057,084 from 1916 theaters with a $5,249 per screen
average and taking the 2nd spot. From there, it made $36,299,898 in US
ticket sales, becoming a moderate hit. Overseas, it was much more
popular, mostly opening at #1, making over $65 million overseas, which
earned the film a total of $102 million worldwide, on a $23 million
budget.
Mainstream critics dismissed the movie as a Terminator 2 clone, or as a typical, mindless action film. It was poorly received by other critics, and now holds a 23% "rotten" rating at Rotten Tomatoes (2008).
[edit] External links
- Universal Soldier at the Internet Movie Database
- Universal Soldier at Allmovie
- "Universal Soldier" at Dolph-ultimate
- Original New York Times Review
- Original Roger Ebert Review
India gets its Universal soldier!
Troops to be armed with self-injecting solutions during chemical wars; will also carry anti-cyanide drug vials!Antidotes to fight nerve damages and blisters!
We know all about Nandigram, Singur, Lalgarh and Gorkhaland INSURRECTIONS in Marxist Ruled Brahaminical Manusmriti State of West Bengal and the FOLLOW Up Repression, Genocides and Operations!
How the RULING Hegemony creates a DISTURBED Area in a Peace Zone for Political Economic milage, MANGALKOT is the latest Example! It is in the HEART of West Bengal Industrial Belt Durgapur Burdawn Mraxist Base! NINE elected MLAs along with Media Persons were thrashed and injured!
What did our Marxist friends learn from recent History?
THE CPIM Spokes Piece Dainik GANOSHAKTI published the lead story:
JANO ROSHE GRAMBASEERA PETALO MLA -DER!
Means the MLAS have been the VICTIMS of Public Anger and thus, they had been LYNCHED!
We are also aware of the LYNCHING Culture in West Bengal!
Ironically the Ruling marxist hegemony rejects the Democratic Political Process and pleads for PUBLIC Anger justifying the LYNCHING culture! Thus, the GESTAPO works!
Maoists did the same thing in Lalgarh and CPIM leaders, cadres and offices were targeted!The CENTRE and the STATE, jointly with GREEN SIGNAL from Mamata Bannerjee sent forces to FLUSH out the NON Existing maoists from Lalgarh branding TWO MILLION odd TRIBAL Aboriginal Population as MAOISTS!
Let us see how MANGALKOT succeeds to avoid LALGARH Destiny!
I had talks with two eminent editors on my CELL Phone number 91993717833 Land LINE being still DEAD thanks to BSNL!
I asked our dear friend Pankaj Bisht why we do not CONCENTRATE on the ECONOMY? The DIVESTMENT, SEZ, RETAIL, DEPORTATION Drives? Why do we fail to expose the faces behind ULTIMATE Hate Campaign? Why do we fail to DETECT EXTRA CONSTITUTIONAL Elements like MONTEK, PITRODA, NILEKANI and INDI INC CEOs running the POLITY as well as the ECONOMY? Wht about the SELL OFF List and NUMBER GAME of NILEKANI to BOOST REALTY Empire deporting REFUGEES, Tribals, Underclasses and SLUM Dogs? The SECRET Plan and AGENDAS being Acomplished with SURGICAL Precision and best of our BRAINS are WASHED out!
I asked Pankajda how we may defend our SUCIDE PRONE Marxists hoping the LEAD from them in national Resistance Movement while they transform as the Best Agent of Manusmriti, apartheid, TRI IBLIS satanic Order and REPRESSION ? While the y DEVIATE from Ideology and RUN BLIND on the US Super Highway of marxist capitalism? They DISCARD the HONEST OBC leader since 1964 for a BRAHMIN CORRUPT Vijoyan?
In fact, URMILESH is the person who pushed me into the ocean of Journalism. He is from my student life of Allahabad University JNU back ground!We met seldom during last thirty years! He is a very successful journalist and has done a lot to deal with NATIONALITY problems, my greatest CONCERN! We had a common friend named GORAKH Pandey! Rajesh Rahul was also in the gang!
We remebered the OLD GOLD days and the Company! Then we discussed nationality Problems and luckily, he also agrees that the STATE Creates INSURGENCY and TERROR Network to defend the interests of the ILLUMINATI and ELIMINATE the ABORIGINAL, Indigenous and Minority communities branding them TERRORISTS and EXTREMISTS! Thus, the BOOTY is yours! Thus, the MONOPOLISTIC Aggression remains rather a CAKE Walk!
Eminent writer GIR RAJ Kishore also called me to inform that he has got my Lalgarh diary! Girarj Ji happens to be most Staunch gandhian , I ever knew! His Cell Ring Tone is: vaishnav Jan Tene Kahiye!
Gir Raj ji also admits that the Challenge is all about Democracy, Social Justice, Equality and Political Process! Maoist MENACE is the LAME EXCUSE for DISPLACEMENT and CPTURE!
We do agree so easily! We do INTERACT!
What is the RESULT?
In fact, the UNIVERSAL Soldiers AMERICANISED, as DEHUMANISED Humanoid ROBOTS have been deployed in Indian Parliamentary System, Intelligentsia, Media and ECONOMY at such a SCALE that Indigenous Aboriginal Minority Communities, the Majority Enslaved MASSES, selected tp be ETHNICALLY ELIMINATED have no SPACE for any ESCAPE ROUTE!
PRANAB, MONTEK, CHIDAMBARAM,SIBAL, KAMALNATH, NILEKANI, MURLI DEWRA and the Washington Gang led by Dr Manmohan SINGH is the first HUMANOID Ministry forming the Government of India Incorporation which systematically kills every symptom and sign of DEMOCRACY in the COUNTRY to clear decks for MASS DESTRUCTION!
They may not create WAR MANIA against Pakistan any more as the Manusmriti Hegemony is COUPLED with United States of AMERICA and India has to bear with US MILITARY Presence not only Pakistan but everywhere in Asia! DR Manmohan Singh could not go far with his single point agenda of DEALING with Pak Sponsered Terror with Pakistan. The so much so HYPED EGYPT talks ended with DELINKING TERROR so groomed for Ramp Global!The prime ministers of Pakistan and India say action on combating terrorism should not be linked to their peace talks!
To justify the DEFENCE Budget and the ARMS shopping list, the INTELLIGENTSIA and Media had to locate a POTENTIAL THREAT to Indian Nation! They succeded and it is CHINA! Every deal is justified now! Blind Nationalism Enveloped our VISION!
Remember
Jean-Claude Van Damme as the indestructible soldier armed with
self-injectable energy boosters from the Hollywood flick Universal
Soldier? Now, some parts of the thriller are ready to be replicated at
our borders.
Silvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzennegger, Steven Segal, Bruce Lee and
Jackie Chan are the best known of the action stars but with the exception of
Chan, Van Damme is the one who seems to be still most actively in the
business. And these sorts of films are much less popular than they used to
be.
Our
MINISTERS, Parliamentarian, Policy Makers , Chief Ministers, Political
Leaders and Ideologues, Intellectuals and Media personalities, Brands
and ICONS do play as the Best ARMY of UNIVERSAL Soldiers efficient and
competent for ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION and CALMITY Unprecedented!
Jean-Claude Van Damme has been in about a film a year for 15 years now, and
has been the star performer in those films since 1985's No Retreat, No
Surrender.
That's no mean achievement and shows that this action movie star has a
market for his skills, as limited as they might be. The formula isn't Van
Damme's alone but he's certainly the most prolific of the action movie
stars.
The scenario almost invariably includes lots of hand to hand fighting, silly
women and often children who need defending. The plots are stupid and
concocted only to allow Jean-Claude to fight a lot and to show his sensitive
side as he protects the women and/or children.
The mushy bits, accompanied by appropriate music, aren't ever romantic,
Jean Claude could never manage that, but they serve to depict this action
man as being a reluctant hero. He only beats people up, firstly because he
can, but secondly because he has to.
India's government will try to raise most of its record borrowing needs
by the end of September to leave more room for private
half of the 2009/10 fiscal year, the finance secretary said on Wednesday.
Officials from the central bank and finance ministry will meet on
Thursday, a day earlier than planned, to finalise the calendar for record gross
market borrowing of 4.51 trillion rupees ($93 billion) in the 2009/10 fiscal
year (April-March).
Markets were spooked last week when the
borrowing target was raised by a quarter from 3.6 trillion rupees as the
government looks to fund a deficit now seen widening to a 16-year high of 6.8
percent of gross domestic product.
"The market certainly has appetite
today because there is lot of liquidity," Finance Secretary Ashok Chawla said.
"Therefore, we are trying to borrow more directly at this stage." Weekly auction
sizes have ranged between 120 billion and 150 billion rupees since April, and
Chawla said the size was unlikely to come down until September.
Bond
dealers say that the market was comfortable with auctions of 150 billion rupees
every week for now, as there was demand from banks for meeting their statutory
liquidity reserve requirements and liquidity conditions were easy. Chawla said
the central bank would support much of the borrowing programme by buying bonds
from the open market, as it has already been doing, to ensure adequate funds in
the market.
The government's heavy borrowing needs have raised
concerns that private borrowers could be crowded out of the market, as federal
debt soaks up investors cash, and delay expansion plans. Helping soothe nerves,
the finance minister has said authorities might take more steps to make cheaper
and adequate funds available to the private sector. "We are conscious of the
fact as economy revives, which we hope it will in the next three months or so,
there will be demand for more borrowing by other players," Chawla said.
With government borrowing concentrated in the first half of 2009/10,
Chawla said conditions for private borrowers should improve from October.
Earlier, Chawla told Reuters various ministries had been asked to submit
proposals on stake sales in state-run firms by end of July so that the public
offerings could be started. The cash-strapped government is banking on stake
sales and auction of third generation wireless spectrum (3G) to help fill the
budget gap.
The government's borrowing from the market in the 2009/10 fiscal year
will be conducted in a non-disruptive manner, Reserve Bank of
Governor Shyamala Gopinath said on Thursday.
She was responding to
questions from reporters before attending a meeting to revise the borrowing
schedule for the first-half of the fiscal year that began April
1.
The updated budget,
announced earlier this month, raised the target to 4.51 trillion rupees ($93
billion) for 2009/10 from 3.62 trillion rupees announced in the interim budget
in February.
Economic Times reports:
The government will come up with a road map for the sale of its stake in
public sector companies by mid-August, finance secretary
said.
He also said the finance ministry and the Reserve Bank of India
would finalise the government’s borrowing programme for the financial year
on Thursday. The government will have to raise more than Rs 4 lakh crore this
year to finance the highest fiscal deficit on record.
“We will
have a clear road map in the next three or four weeks ... The government will
retain 51%, but the roadmap for disinvestment in terms of actual companies ...
is being worked out,” he said at a Budget discussion organised by industry
body CII.
While Mr Chawla declined to give the exact amount that will
be raised through disinvestment in the current fiscal, another government
official said the road map could target raising Rs 15,000 crore in current
fiscal, depending on market conditions. The Economic Survey had recommended an
annual disinvestment target of Rs 25,000 crore.
The public sector firms that figure in the
road map include NHPC, Oil India and Tyre Corporation. Disinvestment in NHPC and
OIL India alone is expected to fetch about Rs 3,500 crore. The finance ministry
had, on Tuesday, held discussions with officials of some ministries to finalise
the road map.
“The ministries have been consulted. They are
going to look at what is feasible, what percentage is to go when. There is a
certain process which takes time,” he said.
Mr Chawla said the
government plans to borrow Rs 15,000 crore every week till September as part of
its effort to front load most of the current fiscal’s total borrowing of
Rs 4 lakh crore, or 40% of the total expenditure of over Rs 10 lakh crore. This
is to leave room for private sector borrowers in the second half of the fiscal
year, he said.
“As the economy revives, we hope it will in next
three months or so, there will be demands for more borrowing by other players
and therefore, we are trying to borrow more directly at this stage,” he
said.
The RBI will support the government through open market
operations to meet its funding requirements and the effort is to ensure that
private companies are able to find enough funds at the right cost. After the
interim Budget, the government and RBI had come out with an indicative calendar
for market borrowings for the first half and had pegged the requirements at Rs
2.41 lakh crore. Out of this, close to Rs 1.65 crore has already been
borrowed.
Mr Chawla said there is enough liquidity in the system and
market had good appetite which was evident from bond yields. The benchmark
10-year bond yield, which touched an all-time low of 4.86% in early January,
rose to 7.37% by mid-March, its highest since November 2008, on concerns that
the government will borrow heavily to fund economic growth. At present, the
10-year bond is hovering at 6.81%.
He also ruled out any plan to roll
back tax cuts till there is firm economic recovery.
Mr Chawla said
the government would pursue financial sector reforms that have been in the
offing. To ensure better targeting of subsidies, the government was carrying out
a systemic reappraisal to make them merit-based, he said.
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| US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton |
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in India Friday for a
four-day visit. India hopes the visit will demonstrate that the United
States remains committed to building on a strategic partnership
developed between the two countries under the previous Bush
administration.
U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton will
visit India's financial hub Mumbai before heading to New Delhi on
Sunday where she will hold talks with senior Indian leaders, including
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
She comes at a time when
relations between the two countries have leaped forward. The
foundations for the India-U.S. strategic partnership were laid during
the previous Bush administration, which lifted a three-decade long ban
on sale of civil nuclear technology to New Delhi, although India is not
a signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
Bharat
Karnad, a security expert at New Delhi's Center for Policy Research
says India is hoping that the Clinton visit will demonstrate that the
Obama administration also intends to strengthen and deepen ties between
the two countries.
"This is more of an exploratory trip for both
sides," Karnad said. "Both sides are going to sound each other out, see
where there is give, where can there be a bit more take, and serious
talks and negotiations on a whole range of issues is then going to
follow."
In recent months, policy makers and analysts in New
Delhi have voiced concerns on several counts. Some worry that the Obama
administration's focus on fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan
and Pakistan could take some attention away from India.
There
are also fears that the Obama administration intends to put more
pressure on India to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which New
Delhi has long resisted.
Bharat Karnad says New Delhi will be
seeking reassurance, rather than any new initiatives on such issues,
during Clinton's visit.
"They are I think a bit
apprehensive….in particular the Obama administration's emphasis on the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and trying to get India generally into
the non proliferation treaty net," Karnad said. "These are concerns
that I think have led to a little bit of worry on the part of Indian
policymakers, and [they will want] to find out if U.S. policy remains
the same, or if it is not the same, how much it departs from what it
was in the time of President George W. Bush."
During the visit,
the two sides are expected to finalize two agreements. India is
expected to announce that it has set aside two sites for U.S. companies
to build nuclear power plants, clearing the way for American businesses
to get nearly $10 billion in business. The two countries are also
scheduled to sign an agreement to ensure that U.S. arms technology sold
to India is not leaked to third countries.
Naxal violence claimed 3,300 lives between 2004-08
More than 3,300 people have lost their lives in Naxal violence in ten
states during last five
The annual report of the Home Ministry
for 2008-09 says the killings in 7,806 incidents of Naxal violence took place in
Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,
Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Karnataka.
The highest
casualties were in Chhattisgarh where a total of 1,250 people lost their lives
in 2,654 incidents that took place between 2004-08.
The state saw 242
deaths last year, 369 deaths in 2007 and 388 deaths in 2006, the report
said.
The Naxal violence claimed 776 lives in Jharkhand, one of the
worst affected states, in last five years. In 2008 alone, the state witnessed
207 deaths from 484 incidents of violence.
Altogether, 452 people
lost their lives in Bihar in 915 incidents which took place in the last five
years. Last year, the state saw 73 deaths in 164 incidents of Naxal violence
while in 2007, there were 67 deaths in 135 incidents of violence.
Cong calls Bengal shutdown on Friday to protest attack on legislators
The West Bengal Pradesh Congress called a 12-hour statewide shutdown on Fridayas one party supporter died and angry activists torchedbuses and obstructed
rail and road traffic Thursday in protest against the attack on their
legislators in Mongalkote in Burdwan district on Wednesday. (
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Slogan
shouting Congress supporters took to the streets from Thursday morning and put
up blockades at almost all the major intersections of the state disrupting
public life, a day after eight party legislators sustained injuries in alleged
attacks by armed Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) cadres in Dhanyarukhi
village.
While two buses were
torched in the south Kolkata areas of Minto Park and Gariahat, two others buses
were set ablaze in Howrah district and one each in North 24 Parganas and
Murshidabad districts. Several other state-run buses and taxis were damaged as
Congress workers went on rampage with sticks, rods and bricks.
"They (Congress workers)
obstructed all major road junctions across the state for sometime," said a
police officer.
Suburban and
long distance train services of eastern and southeastern railways were affected
as trains got delayed with Congress activists blocking railway tracks.
Around afternoon, the pradesh
Congress committee held an emergency meeting, and decided to call a 12-hour
statewide shutdown against the "murderous assault" on its legislators.
"What happened Wednesday was
nothing short of medieval barbarism. We demand the suspension of the police
superintendent and district magistrate of Burdwan and restoration of democracy.
We have decided to call a shutdown from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday," state party
working president Subrata Mukherje told reporters here.
The Congress has also urged
the Trinamool Congress to support the shutdown. Earlier, Congress legislature
party leader Manas Bhuniya told reporters that a 12-hour shutdown had been
called in 12 of the 19 districts of the state Friday.
"The shutdown call has been
given by our district units spontaneously," Bhuniya said.
The party claimed that one its
supporters had died and five others injured in clashes with the police during a
12-hour shutdown Thursday in the affected Mongolkote block.
However, police and family
members of the victim said he died of cardiac arrest.
Burdwan district police
superintendent Raja Ram Sekharan said six police vehicles were set afire by the
agitators, who tried to block the way of the policemen near Burmud village. "To
disperse them we had to burst tear gas shells and resort to a baton charge".
Eight Congress legislators of
West Bengal were injured Wednesday when they were allegedly attacked by armed
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) cadres in a village.
A 14-member Congress
delegation led by Bhuniya had entered Dhanyarukhi village in Burdwan district
around 3.10 p.m. for distributing relief to party supporters whose houses have
been burnt after the murder of CPI-M district committee member Falguni Mukherjee
when the attack took place.
Seven scribes who had gone to
the spot to cover the delegation's visit were also injured as they were
allegedly beaten up by CPI-M cadres and hit by bricks. Five of the scribes had
to be rushed to hospital.
The
area has seen trouble since Mukherjee was shot dead from point blank range by
miscreants June 16.
Give me some time, space, Nilekani's plea to media
All set to join his new job
of rolling out identification cards for citizens, Nandan Nilekani was today
virtually hounded by the media
for some space saying he was yet to settle down in his task.
"Give
me some time. Give me some space," was all he said in reply to a volley of
questions by reporters on the project for which he resigned from the IT major.
Nilekani was handpicked by the government to head the ambitious
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which would set up an online
data base with identity details of the country's citizens.
Nilekani
was almost hounded by a group of journalists at a book release function here
where Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor was also present.
Repeatedly asked about the project, Nilekani only said that Finance
Minister Pranab Mukherjee had already said that first set of unique identity
numbers will be rolled out in 12 to 18 months.
Releasing the book
titled "Study in America: The Definite Guide for International Students",
written by Renuka Raja Rao, he said it explains complex admission procedures in
the US in a very simple way which would help those who want to study in America.
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Tharoor described the book as a
very thoughtful comprehensive volume which would help the students to a great
extent.
The book provides aspiring students with step-by-step advice
and information on the admission process in various universities and educational
institutions. It also guides students on the all important US visa process.
Sensitive to the specific needs of international students, the book
also shares information , anecdotes and real life examples needed to make a
transition from one culture to another.
Rs 60,000 cr needed for roads till 2012: Nath
Transport Minister Kamal
Nath today said the road and highways sector require an investment of about Rs
60,000 crore in the next three
"The sector's requirements
till 2012 are pegged at atleast USD 12 billion," an official statement quoted
Nath as saying.
During a road show in Singapore organised by the
Road Transport and Highways Ministry to attract foreign investors, Nath said
that of the total 12,000 km of road to be constructed next year, 7,000 km would
be on build-operate- transfer (BOT) toll basis, while the rest would be on
annuity and EPC mode.
The Minister told the investors that "with a
traffic growth of seven per cent and vehicle growth of 12 per cent per annum,
India's road sector presents great potential for growth and private sector
participation".
Apart from the Ministry, the road show was also
organised by the ICICI Bank and JM Financial Institutional Securities.
The Ministry will organise similar road shows in Europe and the US
in the coming months.
Land acquisition challenge for road projects: Kamal Nath
Acquisition of land remains the biggest challenge in road projects
development, Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal Nath said
"When I look at the challenges
ahead I feel that today land acquisition remains the biggest challenge for road
construction," Kamal Nath said while addressing a conclave on highways
development.
"We require land
to build roads and the land acquisition problem is the major factor behind
project delays as multiple authorities are involved," he said.
"We recognise the problem and
the ministry is working on a new strategy for land acquisition which we will
work out soon."
According to
the minister, dispute settlement and availability of long-term debt are other
areas of concern.
SEZs attract more than Rs 10,900 cr FDI in 3 years
The country's special economic zones have attracted foreign direct
investment of over Rs 10,900 crore in the last three years,
for Commerce and Industry Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Wednesday.
"According to the readily
available information, the total foreign direct investment in SEZs is to the
tune of Rs 10,983 crore," Scindia said in a written reply to Rajya Sabha.
He said the impact of economic
meltdown on the performance of SEZs cannot generally be ruled out.
However, export from the SEZ
during the financial year 2008-09 has been to the tune of Rs 99,689 crore
registering 50 per cent growth over the year-ago period.
Asked if the government has
resolved the issues of agitating farmers whose land was acquired for setting up
SEZs, he said, "The state governments have been advised that in case of land
acquisition for SEZs, first priority should be given for acquisition of waste
and barren land and if necessary single crop agricultural land."
Since 2006, when the SEZ Act
was notified, formal approvals were granted for setting up 568 SEZs, of which
315 have been notified.
Have enough cash to execute the orders in hand: Maytas Infra
Maytas Infrastructure, the
company promoted by the son of Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju, today said its
cash position is comfortable
"The company still has an order book of Rs 8,000 crore. These
projects should be executed over the next three years. We are confident and have
a comfortable cash position to execute the products (over that period)," a
senior official of the firm told PTI, but did not wish to be identified.
The infrastructure firm, which this month lost the Rs 12,000-crore
Hyderabad Metro Rail Project after it failed to tie up funds, said, "None of the
orders that were cancelled were on the grounds of (non-performance). They went
because the company was facing a cash-crunch."
However, things have
started improving now. The cash-starved firm got a lifeline when a consortium of
18 banks approved the corporate debt restructuring (CDR) package for it.
As part of this, Maytas will get Rs 100 crore as working capital,
besides more time to repay loans. The company will also get a Rs 200 crore non
fund-based loan, which will help it in infusing liquidity, accelerating the pace
of execution of projects.
Govt to borrow 24% more at Rs 2.99 lakh cr in H1
The government will borrow Rs 2.99 lakh crore from markets which is 24
per cent more than its earlier estimate for the first half of
fiscal.
"We have already done
and announced Rs 1,89,000 crore. So, the balance is Rs 1,10,000 crore which we
are going to be doing up to September 30 in 10 tranches," RBI Deputy Governor
Shyamala Gopinath told reporters after meeting Finance Secretary Ashok Chawla
and other officials here
today.
The government had
earlier estimated borrowing to be at Rs 2.41 lakh crore for the first half of
the current fiscal.
Allaying
fears of disruption in the market due to the government's borrowing plan, she
said, "We would be managing this programme in a non-disruptive
manner."
She added that "there
is ample liquidity in the system". Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the
Budget
The ministry
officials said that initially the sale of bonds would be for about Rs 12,000
crore per week and would later taper off in the last few weeks of
September.
As regard to open
market operations (OMO), which is a system through which the central bank sucks
out or injects liquidity into the system against government papers, she said the
Reserve Bank would continue the operations as announced.
had raised the country's gross borrowing plan to Rs 4.51 lakh crore for
the fiscal 2009-10, thus pegging fiscal deficit at 6.8 per cent of the GDP for
the year.
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| (Top) Miscreants set fire to a bus during a road blockade on Howrah Bridge on Thursday. Traffic came to a standstill due to the blockade. (PTI) |
Calcutta, 16 July : It
was a bandh like situation in Calcutta and its adjoining district on
Thursday. Congress workers took to the streets as early as 9AM in the
morning. Armed with flags and shouting slogans their first target was
the Gariahat crossing where a group of two hundred Youth Congress
workers set a WBSTC bus on fire.
The group then moved towards the Lansdowne-Minto Park crossing where another government faced their ire.
"A group of two hundred odd people carrying Congress flags came from
the southern direction. As soon as they reached the crossing they
turned violent. They surrounded a government bus and ordered the 25 odd
passengers to disembark. They then put the bus on fire," said Gautam
Chatterjee, a private firm employee who was waiting for a taxi at the
Lansdowne-Minto Park crossing. Till 2PM the traffic in entire South
Calcutta was in a standstill position due to road blockades at Hazra
Crossing, Rashbehari Crossing, Jadubabu Bazar and Jadavpur.
Around
150 supporters of Congress put up a blockade near College square at
around 12.30 PM for an hour. After police persuasion, the group cleared
the stretch and headed towards Sealdah flyover.
Once they reached Sealdah, a group of men started throwing bricks
aiming a CTC bus but missed it. Soon, another CTC bus arrived and the
mob stopped it and rained bricks at the bus. A group of men and women
picked up the road dividers and started demolishing the bus and
smashing the windshields. Another CSTC bus which tried to race past it
was also stopped by the supporters and given similar treatment.
At
SN Banerjee road, around 2.00 PM, a group of around 100 supporters
organised a procession and burnt effigy of the Chief minister Buddhadeb
Bhattacharya outside the CMC building. Later they came to the Esplanade
crossing and blocked it for around 20 minutes and then moved towards
Rani Rashmoni Avenue.
According to police,
five buses were set ablaze and seven were damaged during the course of
today's violent protest in and around the city.
A
scuffle between the policemen and protestors took place on Belvedere
Road, in front of Bhawani Bhawan in Alipore. They even tried to enter
the premises of Bhawani Bhawan, the building that houses a number of
offices of several departments, including Criminal Investigation
Department (CID), but police resisted them.
A 12 hour state-wide bandh has been declared from 6 AM tomorrow by PCC (Pradesh Congress Committee).
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US thrusts, Antony sidesteps - Hillary to mount pressure on defence verification pact | |||
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Washington, Defence At Robert “I Last The Antony But Two Blake As India had notified the US on February 3 that it would like these talks, a part of the Indo-US nuclear deal, to begin soon. The |
India plans to raise Rs 1,10,000 crore by Sept
ET Bureau
India plans to raise Rs 1,10,000 crore between now and the end of September, increasing planned borrowing for the first half of the fiscal year crore, central bank Deputy Governor Shyamala Gopinath said. The money will be raised through 10 auctions, she told reporters in New Delhi. This is in addition to the 1,89,000 crore already raised as part of the borrowing programme scheduled for the first half of the fiscal year, Ms Gopinath explained. The government will unveil its new borrowing calendar later today, she said. "We will conduct the borrowing programme in a non-disruptive manner and there is sufficient liquidity in the market," said Ms Gopinath. The updated budget, announced earlier this month, raised the target to 4,51,000 crore 3,62,000 announced in the interim budget in February. | |
RBI says to maintain ample liquidity
REUTERS
UMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) will ensure there is ample liquidity in the banking system and will keep
buying bonds from the market
in a statement on Thursday.
It said it would continue to buy bonds at
auctions conducted on alternate weeks through the first half of the 2009/10
fiscal year (April-March), under a programme it announced in
March
The RBI said it had bought 298.50 billion rupees ($6.1 billion)
of bonds through open market operations so far in 2009/10 versus a target of 435
billion rupees.
The Reserve Bank said it could change the amount of
the OMO and alter the frequency and auction dates as necessary.
It
said it had unwound intervention bonds worth 655 billion rupees, and redemptions
of 45 billion rupees are due before the end of September.
Paulson pressured Bank of America chief to buy Merrill Lynch
AGENCIES
WASHINGTON:
Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson testified on Thursday that he pressured
Bank of America Corp. last year to go through with
Lynch but did not tell the bank's chief to hide potential losses from
shareholders.
Paulson
acknowledged that he warned the bank's chief executive, Kenneth Lewis, that
Lewis could lose his job if he dropped the deal. Paulson also said he pledged
government aid to the bank but declined to put that promise in writing because
the details would have been vague and would have to be disclosed publicly by the
Treasury Department.
Paulson
said negotiations were kept private to protect investors. ``We didn't want to
overly scare people and make it worse,'' Paulson told the House Oversight and
Government Reform
panel.
Paulson's testimony
comes as Congress debates whether to expand the Federal Reserve's power to
monitor large, influential institutions like Bank of
America.
Rep. Edolphus Towns,
the Democratic chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee,
said he believes Lewis squeezed money out of the government by threatening to
back out on the deal. The government ultimately gave $20 billion to the bank to
blunt losses tied to the
acquisition.
"All of this
happened against a backdrop of unchecked government power, with no transparency
or accountability,'' Towns
said.
In
testimony to the committee, Paulson said he told Lewis last year that reneging
on his promise to purchase Merrill Lynch would show a ``colossal lack of
judgment.''
Paulson said that
``under such circumstances,'' the Federal Reserve would be justified in removing
management at the bank.
``By
referring to the Federal Reserve's supervisory powers, I intended to deliver a
strong message reinforcing the view that had been consistently expressed by the
Federal Reserve, as Bank of America's regulator, and shared by the Treasury,
that it would be unthinkable for Bank of America to take this destructive action
for which there was no reasonable legal basis and which would show a lack of
judgment,'' Paulson
said.
Paulson said he believed
his remarks to Lewis were
``appropriate.''
Federal
Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has denied threatening to oust Lewis and said he
never told anyone else to, either. But another Fed official suggested otherwise
in an e-mail obtained by House
investigators.
Jeffrey Lacker,
president of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank, said in a December 2008 e-mail
that Bernanke had planned to make ``even more clear'' that if Bank of America
backed out on the deal, ``management is
gone.''
Paulson said Bernanke
never asked him to relay the message. But, he added, he believed he was
expressing the Fed's opinion that dropping the deal ``would raise serious
questions about the competence and judgment of Bank of America's management and
board.''
Thanks to Asia, economic crisis is rolling back: UN
The current economic
crisis is rolling back due to the significant progress made by countries in Asia
like India and China, a top UN
The
financial stimulus packages and reforms announced by these countries could help
in creating a more integrated and coordinated Asia and the Pacific that builds
up on collective regional strengths and resources, UN Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Executive Secretary Noeleen Heyzer,
said.
During the course of the UN Economic and Social Council
session, which is currently taking place in Geneva, Heyzer highlighted the need
for appropriate investments in infrastructure to create economic corridors that
link less developed countries to economic centres in the region, thereby
increasing intra-regional trade.
As a result, the recovery of larger
economies like China, India and the Republic of Korea will have "greater
reciprocal positive spin offs" for their smaller neighbours, she said.
Heyzer said that her organization has responded to the crisis by
encouraging policies that include social programmes such as health coverage,
pensions, education and agricultural extension services, as well as investment
in small and medium scale enterprises.
Govt to borrow Rs 120 bn weekly: Finmin
REUTERS
NEW DELHI: The government will initially borrow 120 billion rupees a week, which it will taper off in the latter part of the first half of the began in April, a finance ministry official said. The official, who declined to be named, said on Thursday the borrowing in the closing weeks of September could be 110 billion rupees or less. Earlier, a central bank deputy governor said the government would borrow an additional 1.1 trillion rupees ($22.6 billion), taking the total to 2.99 trillion between April and September, a central bank deputy said on Thursday. The additional borrowing excludes 120 billion rupees of bond sale scheduled for Friday. |
India can play a global role: Hillary Clinton
By: IANS | Date: 2009-07-16 | Place:Washington |
cknowledging India's emergence as a global player, US
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says how New Delhi can "play not
just a regional role but a global one as well" would top her agenda on
her India trip.
"We believe India has a tremendous opportunity and a growing
responsibility, which they acknowledge, to play not just a regional
role but a global one as well," she said on Wednesday in a speech to
the Council on Foreign Relations.
"How they choose to define, that we will explore in-depth during the
course of our discussion," Clinton said ahead of what she described as
a 'very broad, comprehensive dialogue' with India during her five-day
visit starting on Friday.
"It's the most wide-ranging that I think has ever been put on the table between India and the United States," Clinton said.
"It has six pillars to it, one of which, of course, is foreign
policy, strategic challenges, along with, you know, other matters like
health, and education, and agriculture and the economy."
US would welcome Indian leadership and involvement in a number of difficult areas including non-proliferation, she said.
"Anybody who ever read Strobe Talbott's book, Engaging India, knows
that it's a very difficult issue. But, we want to look at new ways for
global and regional regimes on weapons of mass destruction,
particularly nuclear."
Clinton said US was also very interested in the role that India sees
for itself in the immediate area like Sri Lanka and "military and
particularly naval implications of decisions that India is making going
forward."
Washington was also interested in the economic actions that India is
taking and "what are they going to do to keep generating growth,
lifting people out of poverty," she said noting, "they weathered the
beginning of the recession better than many places."
US special envoy for climate change Todd Stern will be accompanying
her, Clinton said, to discuss issues relating to clean energy and
climate change.
India and China have understandable questions about what role they
should be expected to play in any kind of new global climate change
regime, she said. But "it is our hope that we can, through dialogue,
come up with some win-win approaches."
Clinton said she was excited about the trip and looked forward to
her meetings with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and External Affairs
Minister SM Krishna and others in India.
"So, I think that this is an extremely rich area. I've just touched
the surface of it," she said pledging that "we're going to do
everything we can to broaden and deepen our engagement."
French first lady to sing for Mandela
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Carla Bruni-Sarkozy will perform for the 1st time in public since marrying the French president Carla Bruni-Sarkozy will lead a glittering line-up of stars at a concert to mark Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday. Bruni-Sarkozy, a model-turned-musician, will perform for the first time in public since marrying French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the concert at Radio City Music Hall in Madison Square Garden on Saturday.  Theevent, which also stars Stevie Wonder and soul queen Aretha Franklin, ends a week of celebrations for the 91st birthday of the former South African president. "Mr Mandela is an iconic statesman whose sacrifice and leadership has had an enormous impact on humanity," the organisers said in a statement. The concert aims to raise funds for Campaign 46664, named after Mandela's former prisoner number when he was jailed for 27 years under the South African apartheid regime before becoming the country's first black president in 1994. Star Power Others who will also attend the celebrations: Forest Whitaker Susan Sarandon Matt Damon Morgan Freeman Whoopi Goldberg Stevie Wonder Aretha Franklin |
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The US hopes that greater understanding "Obviously, we want to see greater understanding and progress, And there are some indications in the Pakistani press that the But the US did not play any role in setting up a meeting Thursday Referring to earlier meetings between Manmohan Singh and Pakistan Asked if the US shared India's perception that Pakistan was still "We think those steps have garnered the support of the Pakistani Denying that Clinton was trying to send a signal by not going to "But that doesn't mean that we attach any less importance to "So we're not trying to send any signal at all, except at this stage | ||||||
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The arrest of Uttar Pradesh Congress chief BJP MP from Uttar Pradesh Maneka Gandhi said here: "The time has "What did Rita Bahuguna Joshi say? She didn't say much and after Speaking to the media at the main entrance of Parliament house, SP Another SP leader, Rajya Sabha MP Kamal Akhtar, said: "The BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said: "We don't justify what Rita "Both the parties - one at the Centre and the other in the state - BSP workers ransacked and set fire to Joshi's home late Wednesday |
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mall at Vashi in Navi mumbai led to the evacuation of employees in the nearby buildings.
and corporate offices at Raghuleela Mall and nearby offices were evacuated after rumours spread of a bomb planted in the basement of a building near Vashi Station. Employees of IndiaGames, IBM, Huawei , ICICI, Spanco and other companies were all evacuated and members of the bomb disposal squad cordoned off entrances of the buildings in the area. Vishal Gondal, CEO of IndiaGames said that there were unconfirmed reports of a bomb found in a basement. "There were rumours of a bomb being found but nothing has been confirmed yet." Meanwhile police officials at the Navi Mumbai control lines dismissed the incident as a rumour. |
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The prime ministers of Pakistan and India say action on combating terrorism should not be linked to their peace talks.
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| Pakistani PM Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani leaves his meeting with Indian PM Manmohan Singh in Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, 16 Jl 2009 |
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh issued the joint statement Thursday, after talks in Egypt aimed
at easing tensions following last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
The two leaders met on the sidelines of a Non-Aligned Movement summit in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Mr.
Gilani said Wednesday he believes his nation's relationship with India
has improved, adding that "a durable peace in South Asia is
achievable."
In his address to the summit, Mr. Gilani
cautioned that before peace can take hold, outstanding issues such as
the status of the disputed Kashmir region must be resolved.
The Non-Aligned Movement summit opened Wednesday with the theme "International Solidarity for Peace and Development."
More
than 50 heads of state are attending the conference. Many leaders there
have called for emerging powers to play a more active role in shaping
the world's economy.
The Non-Aligned Movement was formed by
developing countries that chose not to align with either the United
States or the Soviet Union in the era of Cold War politics. It held its
first summit in 1961.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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Gujarat, Andhra chosen as sites for US nuclear reactors
Pranab Dhal Samanta
Tags : US nuclear reactors, Hillary Clinton, Gujarat
Posted: Wednesday, Jul 15, 2009 at 0854 hrs
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Days
before US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives In India on her
first official visit after taking charge, India is learnt to have
firmed up a site each in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh that will be
dedicated for the first US nuclear reactors after the nuclear deal.
While this has already been indicated to Washington, sources said, a formal announcement could happen during Clinton’s visit.
The identification
of the sites flows from a commitment India had given, through a letter
of intent under the nuclear deal, which commits India to purchase
10,000 MW from US nuclear companies and mark “at least two sites” for
this purpose.
Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh were the two states that offered sites for this and have now been approved.
On a broader level,
India and the US have agreed to restructure their interaction and
condense some 27 ongoing bilateral dialogues at various levels under
what will now be called “five pillars” of the relationship — Strategic
and Defence Cooperation, Science & Technology and Health
Innovation, Energy and Climate Change, Education and Development, and
Economic, Trade and Agriculture.
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It’s
learnt that officials from both sides have also firmed up the
Technology Safeguards Agreement which will allow India to launch
satellites built with US-origin equipment. This is expected to be
signed during the visit and is an important precursor to the Commercial
Space Launch Agreement, which has been pending for a long time.
Another crucial
agreement that is on the verge of being finalized over the next couple
of days is the End-User Verification (EUV) Agreement, which would then
permit US to sell defence products to India.
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