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Blair to arrive in Delhi on three-day visit tonight

     New Delhi: British Prime Minister Tony Blair will arrive in the Indian capital at 10 p.m. tonight on a three-day visit that will include a one-to-one with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, bilateral meetings in Delhi and Shimla and attending the sixth India-European Union Summit. Blair will lead the EU side at the summit on Wednesday in his capacity as the current President of the European Union Council. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Blair will hold bilateral talks at Shimla. This is the second time that Shimla will be the venue of a bilateral meeting between Prime Ministers of two different countries. The last such meeting took place between Indira Gandhi and Z.A.Bhutto On Thursday morning, Blair will fly to Mashobra, the residence of the former British Commander-in-Chief in India Lord Kitchner. He will return the same afternoon and fly back to London in the evening, a press release said. The India-EU Summit is expected to adopt a Joint Action Plan and a Joint Political Declaration to implement the 'EU-India Strategic Partnership' on several important issues, including economic, security and environment. Blair will also call on President A P J Abdul Kalam on Wednesday.

Patil's five-day visit to China from today (Go To Top)

     New Delhi: Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil will begin his five-day visit to China from tomorrow. He will be accompanied by a delegation which includes the Home Secretary, V.K.Duggal and five other officials. Patil will hold official talks with the Chinese State Councillor and Minister for Public Security, Zhou Yongkang in Beijing. A Memorandum of Understanding for co-operation between the Ministry of Home Affairs, Republic of India and the Ministry of Public Security, People's Republic of China will be signed during the visit. Zhou Yongkang will also host a banquet in honour of Patil. The Home Minister will also call on Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. During his stay in Beijing, he will also unveil a statue of Mahatma Gandhi. Patil's engagements in Shanghai include a meeting with the Mayor of Shanghai, Han Zheng and a visit to the Shanghai Emergency Response Centre. The Home Minister's visit is part of the ongoing high-level exchanges between India and China.

Hurriyat leaders say they are satisfied with talks with PM (Go To Top)

     New Delhi: Leaders of the moderate faction of the All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) have expressed satisfaction over their talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday evening. The three-hour long talks ended with an assurance from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that troop levels will be cut down in Kashmir if insurgent violence and guerrilla incursions from Pakistan cease. Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, who led a five-member delegation for the meeting said the two sides would meet again and Hurriyat would come with proposals to help resolve the Kashmir dispute. "The dialogue has to be sort of mechanised, it has to be consolidated and the process needs to be continued. And the approach the Hurriyat has adopted of a triangular dialogue, India-Pakistan, India-Kashmir and Kashmir-Pakistan, is the way to move forward and I think there is a realisation in New Delhi that the problem is of political nature," he said. "The Prime Minister of India has himself mentioned that there cannot be a military solution to the problem; we need to address the issue at a political level. So I think that's a welcome step. At the same time we need to talk in detail about what can be done by the government of India to improve the situation on the ground level as far as Kashmir is concerned," Farooq added.

Award a recognition for Malayalam cinema: Adoor  (Go To Top)
by K Ashik      

     Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala): Noted art cinema director Adoor Gopalakrishnan, who has been selected for the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Award 2004 for his contribution to cinema, on Tuesday said that the award should be seen as a recognition for the popularity of Malayalam cinema. "This award comes after Mrinal da ...Its an honour for me. Dadasaheb, Mrinal Da they all are gurus for me," said Adoor Gopalakrishnan, already a Padmashree awardee. "There are lot of good movies in Malayalam , nobody can avoid Malayalam cinema. This award came at a early stage for me as all the former recipients are above age of 75 or 80. I think that I am the junior most person who got the award. This award is a recognition of Malayalam cinema. It is for good films," Adoor added. Adoor Gopalakrishnan is the first personality from Kerala to receive the Dadasaheb Phalke award. The award would be conferred upon Adoor Gopalakrishnan in a ceremony early next year. The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is annually bestowed by the Indian government for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema. Kerala-born Adoor is one of the most admired Indian filmmakers in the world of cinema after Satyajit Ray, and his impressive debut in 1972 with "Swayamvaram" marked a beginning of a rich repertoire. Adoor's films were among the pioneering efforts in new age cinema, his work defining so-called "parallel" cinema that competed with commercial films in the 1970s through 1990s. Adoor has won the national award for best Director four times and best script writer award thrice. He was much appreciated even in his foreign outings, when his films were screened in film festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Rotterdam and Toronto. The filmmaker also won the national award for his collection of essays, "The World of Cinema", in 1984.

Petrol prices to go up by Rs 3 per litre, diesel by Rs 2  (Go To Top)
by Ashok Dixit

     New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Tuesday cleared a proposal to raise the prices of petrol and diesel by Rs.3 and Rs.2 per litre, respectively. In Delhi, for instance, the price of petrol will now go up from Rs.40.49 per litre to Rs.43.49 per litre (a little over a dollar) Union Petroleum MInister Mani Shanker Aiyar said that there would be no increase in the prices of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) and kerosene. Since the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) came to power in May 2004, petroleum prices have been hiked three times. A one-year report card of the UPA Government prepared by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas claimed that though it had decided to wind up the subsidy on kerosene and LPG in a phased manner over three to five years, the Government now plans to continue the subsidy for five years for PDS (public distribution system) kerosene and domestic LPG.

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