Sunday, November 13, 2005

News Bits

Iran's arm twist:
"Iran expects that the esteemed government of India would compensate the past default by supporting Iran in the next meeting of the IAEA board of governors in November."

Not-so-veiled threat, great! To the best of my knowledge the only PAST DEFAULT India did was not being firm against and hence indirectly supporting Iran's clandestine weponisation program, until good sense prevailed upon "esteemed government of India" earlier this year at IAEA poll in vienna. If India supports Iran in the next meeting heeding to the pressure of left and nutwars then, that would be a default.

What will Iran do if India doesn't support it in the next IAEA meet?
"...or else there will be no next meeting between the two countries on the gas deals."

Wow! thats a great opportunity for India to dump the idiocy called "Iran Gas" (no pun intended). Why should India beg to Iran to supply "its Gas" when what it seems to have supplied is nothing but 'Gas'? Read this.

oh! Iran did because earlier India voted against it, right? So when a 'long standing friend' does crime and if you join those who condemn your 'friend', then your 'friend' disobeys 'friendship' by breaching contract, and still your great sons of soil advocate you to clean the back of this Long standing friend? Do you say this a selfless gesture of friendship? It is nothing but A-grade idiocy.

Ashes series:
In my younger days I heard that Gandhi Museum of Madurai preserves the bloody cloth of Mahatma Gandhi that he did wear at the time of his assassination, and so is its Delhi counterpart. When better sense prevailed upon me later, I brushed aside these spurious claims as nothing but by-product of cheap rumour mill of podhujanam (aam aadmi), common man of India.

But how will you explain when committees formed by government spread such rumours?

The news above says that first two committees "concluded" that 'Netaji' Subash chandra bose died in the plane crash and his ashes were brought to India in 1954. But the latest Justice Mukherjee commission said the Netaji did not die in the plane crash, and indicated that his ashes were not brought to India in 1954. Seems India is paying fee to Japan to maintain the temple that holds Netaji's ashes and in 1995 Pranab mukherjee (then external affairs minister of Rao's cabinet) talked with Japanese to bring Netaji's ashes to India.

Seems like every committee is ressurrecting netaji's ghost from ashes to ashes.

Good News India:
There is a full-fledged news site about India that gives all good news about India. For us, who are sick of getting only bad news (nowadays even about IT), really this site gives a very good perspective about how India empowers itself.

And that is the end of the news. Those who lived during DD National's Tejeshwar Singh's 9:30 pm news days know how to read this line.

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