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Vice President Vietnam Nguyen Thi Doan visit India
Mrs Nguyen Thi Doan,Vice-President of Vietnam is scheduled meets with Indian Vice President Shri Mohamed Ansari,Foreign Minister Shri S.M.Krishna.She will also meet with the leaders of several Indian political parties.

Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan along with a top-level delegation visits India on a five-day official visit to India at the invitation Vice President Shri Mohamed Ansari.

Vice President of Vietnam accompanied by Deputy Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Duc Hoa, Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Vinh Hien, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Huynh Vinh Ai, Deputy Director of the Government Office Nguyen Huu Luc and more than 50 Vietnamese business delgates held business meet with FICCI on Thursday October 1, at Federation House New Delhi.The Business Meet,Mrs Doan’s visit aims to underline Vietnam’s consistent policy of consolidating and strengthening its time-honoured relations of friendship and cooperation with India.Seminar initiated with welcome address by Dr Manju K Prakash,Head -ASEN,FICCI Madam Tran Thi Thury,Chairwoman of Vietnam Women Entrepreneur Council addressed the glaxy of India-Vitenam business delgates,PK DashJoint Secretary,MOC goverment of India,HE Madam Nguyen Thi Doan,Vice President of Vietnam made Key Note address.Business delegates exhanged question answer session about the opportunities of trade between the two emerging economy.

During her visit in India, Mrs Doan is scheduled to have talks with Indian Vice President Shri Mohamed Ansari,President of Congress Party Sonia Gandhi, Foreign Minister Shri S.M.Krishna.She will also meet with the leaders of several Indian political parties.

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President Barack Obama has met Vice President Joe Biden, Defence Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Commander US forces in Afghanistan - General Stanley McChrystal warned that the mission could fail without more resources. He has already spelt out that he wants more boots on the ground. Reports suggest he wants up to 40,000 more troops.

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Secretary General has assured US President Barack Obama that the alliance in Afghanistan lasts as long as it took to finish its mission of dismantling the Al-Qaeda network there.''Our operation in US mission Afghanistan reviewed by US President Barack Obama for their commitment to dismantle the Al-Qaeda network which is creating difficult times with more problems to the NATO alliance in fighting in rocky terrain unfamiliar to the allied forces.
Afghanistan is not America's responsibility or burden alone: it is and it will remain a team effort,said during his meet at White house.

'' NATO's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters during a visit with Obama at the White House..'''This alliance will stand united and we will stay in Afghanistan as long as it takes to finish our job,'' he added.Obama, who is meeting top advisers about Afghanistan on Tuesday and Wednesday, has said he will not decide on sending further US troops for Afghanistan until after a broad review of strategy.

Former Danish Prime Minister Rasmussen said he agreed with Obama's approach of ''strategy first, then resources.
President inner advisors which Vice President Biden are urging caution and Democrats in Congress
too voiced opposition for wider US military role when Pentagon desire more troops.

Obama said he will not decide on sending further US troops for Afghanistan until after a broad review of strategy.

Bofors scam created political sensation in Rajiv Era has been given final burial salute with Solicitor General praying apex court to drop the cases against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the Bofors pay-off issue. Indian government has informed Supreme Court on Tuesday through its Solicitor General Gopal Subramamanium of finally dropping ,withdrawing cases against Quattrochi.

Bofors scandal was worth Rs 150 billion,historical scam came to light during Vishwanath Pratap Singh's tenure as defence minister, revealed through investigative journalism by Chitra Subramaniam of Indian express and N. Ram of the The Hindu.

The name of the middleman associated with the scandal was Ottavio Quattrocchi, an Italian businessman who represented the petrochemicals firm Snamprogetti.The government has told the
Supreme Court that it has decided to withdraw the cases against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrochi as there is no evidence against him. Mr Quattrochi is accused in the Bofors scam.
The CBI also told the Apex Court that efforts to extradite Mr Quattrochi have also failed.

Congress says CBI's views must be respected as the case could not be dragged due to legal validity. Party spokesman Mr Manish Tiwari said the case without any legal validity should not be dragged. BJP has accused the government of saving Quattrochi. BJP leader Mr Ravi Shankar
Prasad alleged that the government machinery has been used to save Quattrochi and to bury the case against him.

CBI has asked the international agency to take off Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, an accused in the Rs 64 crore Bofors payoff scam, from the Red Corner notice list in which he had been put at India's behest.CBI also took Quattrocchi's off its website.

A historical case which changed the destiny of Country, Congress emerging from the major player in Indian Politics to moderate national party.
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi friends and others were accused of receiving kickbacks from Bofors AB for winning a bid to supply India's 155 mm field howitzer.

Bofors scam influence not only of the corruption in high places but ignited questioned the role of prevailing system,the rampant corruption in India which does not allow the development to trickle down to its roots in major part of rural India and remain within the elite class. The Values,ethics, standards that once leader set pre-indpendence saw their nosedive and people who had unflinching support ot their dear Rajiv reached its low ebb.

Voters,supporters of Nehru-Gandhi dynasty thereafter shrinked in such low spirit that directly led to the defeat of Gandhi's ruling Indian National Congress party in the November 1989 in general elections.

Congress the oldest party to govern this country for more than four decades lost its popularity and since then it has not crossed its seats in parliament from more than 200.

CBI also told the Apex Court that efforts to extradite Mr Quattrochi have also failed.

Reacting to the development, the Congress says CBI’s views must be respected as the case could not be dragged due to legal validity.

Party spokesman Mr Manish Tiwari said the case without any legal validity should not be dragged. The Bofors curtain is off and Q- matter quells.E channels made exit story with BJP going in offence and Congress making all efforts to defnce the dead case.

BJP has accused the government of saving Quattrochi. BJP leader Mr Ravi Shankar Prasad alleged that the government machinery has been used to save Quattrochi and to bury the case against him.

When on meeting in 1986,the Janata Dal Party President Chandershekhar,asked about the role of opposition when Congress has more than 412 members in Lokh Sabha.
He replied,”It is unfortunate for the nation beacuse the political acitivity and thought process gets stagnant.”

One quipped ,What Next, he said, “There is rampant corruption in high places and political acitivity has come to stand still for which we shall launch public dharnas at boat club”.

Rajiv’s federal ministers overheard the Janata party’s national issue which were waiting to bring scam in Public domain before next General Elections. Next best minister made it a history of India from one party rule to multi-party system.

Janata Dal U said “CBI is used as a political tool by the Congress government and therefore whenever it comes to power, the Bofors pay-off case gets weakened,” senior JD(U) leader and spokesperson Arun Srivastav said.

CPI M said Bofors payoff case paint intent of government, “With this latest act, the cover-up of the Bofors bribery case is now complete,” said the party in a statement here.“The decision of the central government to withdraw the case against Ottavio Quattrocchi comes in the wake of prolonged efforts to scuttle the case,” the CPI-M said.The party alleged that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was prevented from “pursuing the case seriously”.

Q matter,the Supreme Court will hear the matter on December 11.On September 8, the CBI asked fortnight before a Delhi court for exploring the options available to it in the Bofors payoff case after the withdrawal of Red Corner notice against Italian Businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi first released in in their websites.

What Tweeter has to say:

Intellectuals have an important role to play the history to its better and humane side of the story,their toys in form of ideas break in with collision of poor performance of the system is hallmark of another ideation sprouting in the minds of scholars finding another path of glorious structures.

All those with a sense of history, all those who fought the battle against political corruption will be saddened by Q being let off.

Bofors also showed how all parties protect each other.
VP Singh who rode Bofors to power refused to conclude the case, punish the guilty.

Bofors was not the biggest case of corruption. It was a symbol of the worst evil in our political system. Q was its dirty face.

How can you claim to fight corruption when you shut down the most famous case of corruption in Indian history n allow Q to go free.

In power VP Singh used Bofors as a political tool but never saw it thru to its conclusion. Now the Congress have shamelessly buried it.

This whole Quatrocchi thing is Kafkaesque. Now the Govt has dropped its case against Q! Bofors buried finally. Corruption wins.

Branding - SMEs still unaware

Namrata Kath Hazarika | 11 Jul, 2009
Most Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are still lagging behind in branding strategies due to inadequate infrastructure, capital, management and other amenities, says industry.

Explaining the importance of branding, N.K.Sagar, Chairman, Enkay Sagar Holdings Pvt. Ltd. told SME Times that branding is essential for promotional activities where SMEs are concerned. The fact is not only small and mid-sized businesses are unaware about effective branding methods, they also have inadequate infrastructure, capital, management and other amenities in order to leverage their brand promotional activities.

Branding facilitates a company to get an identity of its own which further allows a company to compete in tough marketing conditions and to bond a strong relationship with their customers to create loyalty.

He said, "SMEs are more engrossed in making or manufacturing products so they are not keen towards developing their brand image. The essential thing for SMEs is to target the right market or the right audiences."

"Branding always facilitates in giving an identification not only to the company but also helps the promoters to get an authentic identification as well," Sagar added.

He also focused on how an effective brand promotion can help a solely-owned venture to get a broader view in the potential market. Mentioning this he further said, "There are many companies especially SMEs whose names are unfamiliar to us. In many cases we are unaware of the services and quality of products a company is manufacturing. Branding will always help in identifying such companies and to boost their image in the potential market."

In fact, Rajann Kochar, Director of Shalimar Precision Enterprises Pvt. Ltd said, "The success of SMEs are dependent on three utmost crucial elements that includes the brand, package and the customer."

"However, most SMEs are unaware of the benefits of branding. SMEs feel that brand-promotion campaigns are waste of time, energy and money," he added.

When asked whether SMEs are focusing on manufacturing products instead of indulging themselves in brand promotion activities, Kochar said, "It is true that SMEs are lagging behind in their brand promotional skills. They usually focus on product quality and their own client base. They are not keen towards increasing their company's image world wide."

Sagar also added, "We can also say that perfection of the product matches with the character of the promoters."

He expressed that once the branding is achieved or established then the goodwill would be achieved simultaneously. And, once the goodwill is achieved it will help a company to come in the top position.

Moreover, branding is often associated with advertisement. Since SMEs have limited resources they probably can't have big advertising and promotional budgets or afford an in-house specialist, which is another reason why SMEs avoid indulging in brand promotion activities.

In this context, Sagar pointed out that it is difficult for SMEs to invest in traditional media. For instance, SMEs can offer consumer discounts, cash card discounts, display low budget advertisements such as door-to-door advertisements and small hoardings can help SMEs in promoting their brand image enormously. Online business promotion is another updated modus operandi at present which is useful in promotional activities.

"SMEs need to increase their awareness about effective branding either via organizing workshops or imparting training on the same," Sagar added.

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Branding of SMEs
Kavitha.N,Rohini Chocolates,Kerala | Sat Jul 11 09:39:32 2009
This article rightly points out what holds the SMEs from branding and marketing.Actually, it is the small and upcoming SMEs who require guidance, awareness and monetary assistance to brand their products and market it widely.The existing guidance and assistance is not reaching the right target(new and upcoming SMEs).Measures should be done to improve the problems faced in mentoring&advocacy,marketing,credit and procedural hurdles faced by SMEs in India.

United Nations has convened a summit on climate change in the hope of opening some way out to the deadlock over the issue of mutual concern.Geoengineering as option of last resort, but the Royal Society asserted that some of the safer geoengineering techniques, like aggressively planting forests, could be implemented currently in conjunction with carbon reduction efforts. The group studied the safety, expense, effectiveness, and quickness of deployment for projects under two main classes of geoengineering One is carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and second solar-radiation management (SRM).

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to give much needed political momentum for negotiations on this crucial issue.The summit on climate change will be held at the UN headquarters in New York later this month on 22nd September, a top UN official told.A record number of world leaders, including the US President Barack Obama, are expected to attend the summit.

Comprehending
the need to cut the Gordian knot over global theme of climate change, the officials of the principal organisation view the involvement of leaders from across the world as a crucial."The full engagement of world leaders is absolutely essential -there are now only 50 negotiating days left before Copenhagen begins," Janos Pasztor, Director of the Secretary-General's Climate Change Support Team said.Noting Security General’s continuous urging to leaders to step up action towards "a fair, comprehensive and effective global treaty that addresses one of the most fundamental challenges the world is facing," he expressed fears on the slow moving international negotiations on the new regime.The Secretary-General's recent visit to the Arctic was a reminder that failure to take action would have serious consequences, "not just for polar bears in the Arctic, but for people on every continent and in every country," he observed.

Pasztor pronounced optimism over the meetings held with the heads of the state and government in the past months by Ban Ki-moon but pointed out that commitments by national leaders to participate in the New York Summit had already surpassed the mark established by a similar gathering in 2007, which had included 82 leaders.The Summit would focus on areas: adaptation, greenhouse gas reduction targets by developed and developing countries, funding to support mitigation and adaptation and the Governance structures needed for an effective regime.No new financial commitments to support the efforts of developing countries are expected during the Summit, but it is hoped that there would be work on a new framework

The upcoming summit is the most significant for global issue of climate, since little is time left for Copenhagen – the climate treaty as a successor to Kyoto protocol and it is becoming hard for the nations to afford to bear deadlock upon deadlock over treaties related to the subject of climate change.

Many analyst believe, The Ice Age ended only 10,000 years ago, and the Little Ice Age - just a century ago. The temperatures are rising now because they were historically low 150 years ago. Ice caps are melting because they hugely increased since sixteenth century. Ice ages come and go in cycles, apparently
related to solar activity. Mechanisms are entirely unclear: for example, periods of low sunspots often surprisingly correlate with volcanic activity on Earth.

Current temperatures are historically low, and their increase is normal. What is the increase, anyway? The ecologists debated it at the conference. That’s right, the conclusions are based on debate; estimates ranged several times. Good for leftists, bad for scholars. Theories are expected to be proven with something more sound than vociferousness. So perhaps global temperatures will increase a few degrees over the century. I love warm weather. People in cold countries would enjoy the change. Africans, they are technologically unable sustain the exploding population whatever the climate.

Carbon dioxide increase coincided with industrialization. Cause-and- effect relationship is dubious. In warmer periods, carbon dioxide increases about 50% from the glacial levels. Current concentration is slightly above that norm, but the norm is average. Most likely, in some periods the average increase was greatly exceeded. On the geological time scale, the current carbon dioxide levels are very low.

Humans contribute hardly 3% to the natural output of carbon dioxide,at least half of which gets regenerated in plants and dissolved in oceans. To claim that a system so well balanced and adaptive as Earth could be destabilized by 1% change is preposterous.

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Dr. Akira Yabe, Vice President, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology,Mr. Yoshio Amano, General Manager, Strategic Planning Office, New Energy Development Division, Mitsubishi Corporation,Miyake Yasujiro First secretary Embassy of Japan in India. Mr Hiroshi Danno,Mr Go Yamada,Mr Ajay Shankar,Mr HS Brahma, Mr Raj Chengappa,Mr Takeshi Yoshida.Mr Yoshio Amano,Mr UV Varadaraju,Mr DK Dubey and Mr Akira Yabe,Mr Sanjay Seth made positive contributions to deliberation, confabulation to disseminate about the two Asian Tigers met under the Nikkei Inc. Japan and TERI organised the first ‘Global Eco-Business Forum’ in India to enhance India- Japan collaboration.
A day long seminar wherin topics from environment to government policies, signature projects of the two giants economical advanced country of Asian continent deliberated.

With paucity of interest from both the countries political big wigs and goverance the technology awaits from Japan to be used in India for road construction,bridges bulding,power sector, air-conditioning,eco-city,railways with bullets trains the pride of Japan are niche areas in which both sides showed keen interest in making headway in near future.
Japan nationalism and ethical value civil society finds itself shy entering the Indian markets in big way as the moderator posed question to Japense businessmen to have extra wit,grit to come forward and take plunge in vast market potntial of the Indian market.

Democratic Party of Japan
in win 308 seats in the 480-seat lower house, thus an end to five decades of continous rule by the LDP, NHK TV predicted.

DPJ, which captured 308 of the lower house’s 480 seats in Sunday’s election, has pledged to name about 100 lawmakers from the DPJ-led coalition in government posts as senior vice ministers and parliamentary secretaries.Some central government officials have voiced concerns over the DPJ’s real ability to govern, considering that the party has a large number of inexperienced lawmakers.

A separate official
at the ministry said he hopes the DPJ will use its own strength to achieve its election pledges, including cash handouts to families with children and toll-free expressways.

Mr Hatoyama, to lead the next government, grandson of the founder of Bridgestone tyres abd his other grandfather was a former LDP prime minister. The official said the LDP to come to power will resolve a long-standing territorial feud with Russia, promised to boost welfare and reform the bureaucracy are its immediate agenda on attention.Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso conceded defeat in elections on Sunday as media exit polls indicated the opposition had won by a landslide, sending the conservatives out of power after 54 years of nearly unbroken rule amid widespread economic meltdown and people of Japan desire for change

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INS building News papers Editors society and second for Small and medium, The Newspapers Editor’s Society with Regd No 35356/1999 with Sunil Dang ,the founder President editor of My Company ,The Day After,National President Mohan Bhai Desai, and Mr Ashok Bedi as its current National Secertary General ,with Delhi Chapter President Dr JN Kaushik,Vice President NK Sagar.Being its excutive member I have still to find the benefits the media man can receive from such society,my mind is contemplating from last one month when find their condition and listen to their horror tales is matter of concern for us or those in profession.Electronic media coming into light which due to its neo tech get attention of masses its anchor with their little lustre or acceptability value has arrogance of being a celebrity with mind and face show little wisdom,humility or apathy towards their younger generation .

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Another editors society of leading news channels on Saturday launched a forum, Broadcast Editor’s Association (BEA) with the aim to high lighting and discussing issues of editorial importance in broadcast journalism. Shazi Zaman, Editor of Star News channel, who has been elected the forum’s President said the association comprises of television news channel editors. Times Now’s Arnab Goswami and NDTV’s Pankaj Pachauri have been named vice presidents of the body and N K Singh would be the General Secretary. Other office bearers of the BEA include Live India’s Sudhir Chaudhary, CNN IBN’s Vinay Tewari, Zee TV’s Satish K Singh, Sahara TV’s Sanjay Bragta, IBN-7’s Ashutosh, News 24’s Ajit Anjum, India TV’s Vinod Kapri and UTV’s Pranjal Sharma.

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.Army-ruled Myanmar called it will hold a referendum on a new constitution in May followed by elections in 2010, Postponement of verdict was aimed at deflecting pressure after last year’s crackdown on protesters and August 8 is the 21st anniversary calling for democratic reform in the country.

(live-PR.com) - Aung San Suu Kyi been in prison for 14 years of the last 20 years in detention.any are opinion that this trial is a ploy by the regime to keep the Nobel Laureate locked up until after elections scheduled for 2010.Burmese court scheduled to deliver a verdict in the high-profile trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said

it is not yet ready to make a decision and adjourned until August 11, according to diplomats.The 64-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate is charged with violating the terms of her house arrest by harbouring an American man who swam to her house uninvited.She faces up to five years in prison.

August is an historic month in Burma’s pro-democracy movement. Twenty-one years ago, millions of Burmese took to the streets to demonstrate, calling for democratic reform in the country, August 8 is the 21st anniversary of the 1988pr uising.

On Thursday, the junta arrested about 20 Suu Kyi supporters in their homes in an overnight operation in Rangoon.The United States and the European Union have said they will push for tougher sanctions on the military government if Suu Kyi is sentenced to prison.Officials in Napyidaw reportedly contacted the Burmese Supreme Court by telephone on Friday and ordered a delay in announcing the verdict.

The postponement comes as the military government faces growing international and internal pressure over the trial of Suu Kyi, who faces up to five years in prison if found guilty of violating the terms of her house arrest.

“The verdict has been postponed to 10 am on August 11,” Nyan Win, Suu Kyi’s lawyer, told The Irrawaddy on Friday morning. Some diplomats were allowed to observe the brief court session, said sources.

Last week,U.S. President Barack Obama asked Burma's military government to free Democratic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from detention immediately and without conditions.A statement issued by the White House Mr. Obama condemned her continued house arrest. He said her current trial on charges of violating the terms of her house arrest is a "show trial based on spurious charges."

UN Secretary General said,last fornight,it is now up to the military junta in Myanmar to set in place the process for a credible and legitimate election in the country."It is now up to the leaders of Myanmar to set in place the elements necessary for the election to be credible and legitimate," Ban Ki-moon said at a press conference in Geneva.

U.N. Permanent Representative of Myanmar, U Than Swe, told the Security Council, "At the request of the secretary-general, the Myanmar government is processing to grant amnesty to prisoners on humanitarian grounds and with a view to enabling them to participate in the 2010 general elections." But offered no specifics beyond his statement.

Secretary Clinton will head the U.S. delegation to ASEAN’s regional forum in Phuket, Thailand, said she was deeply troubled by the decision by the Burmese regime to charge Suu Kyi with a baseless crime, is not unprepared to speak on the Burma issue, but a US policy review on Burma that began in February is still pending.

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Make me feel think not only for myself but to live welfare global community and make an effort to bring peace and progress for all.

In the Patanjali Yog sutra chapter 4, sutra 1, says that latent,mystic powers,inherrent qualities in men can be cultivated, achieved with five ways actions.
Mystic qualities can be achieved by,

1.By Birth due to ones parents gens order.
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