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Friday, November 30, 2007

Malaysian minister snubs Karunanidhi

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"This is Malaysia, not Tamil Nadu." THAT'S WHAT Malaysia's Justice Minister Nazri Aziz had to say after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi expressed his "pain" at the way Malaysian policemen thrashed ethnic Indians last Sunday Aziz told Karunanidhi to mind his own business after the chief minister complained about Malaysia's treat- ment of its ethnic Indian minority, a chunk of which is made up of Tamils. "This has got nothing to do with him... lay off," Reuters quoted Aziz as saying. In Chennai, Karunanidhi defended himself saying, "I don't want to reply to his (Aziz) remarks. It is my duty to defend Tamils.

If there is any punishment for doing the duty, I am prepared to accept it." The issue disrupted proceedings in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, with MPs cutting across party lines asking the Centre to take up the issue with the Malaysian government. Speaker Somnath Chatterjee rejected this demand saying that members should not say anything that would affect relations with the friendly country Earlier: the chief minister wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking him to intervene on behalf of ethnic Indians, who gathered in a 10,000strong rally to protest against their living conditions in Malaysia last Sunday.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Kirsten set to be next coach

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FORMER South Africa opener Gary Kirsten is set to take over as India's next coach later this winter, over seven months after Greg Chappell left the post.

Kirsten, who secretly met top BCCI officials, the coach selection panel (comprising former cap tains Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri and S. Venkataraghavan) and Test skipper Anil Kumble on Monday night in New Delhi, has been offered a two-year contract. "We have offered him a copy of the contract," said BCCI Chief Administrative Officer Ratnakar Shetty "He . will let us know whether he's joining us or not latest by December 3." The South African seemed quite comfortable with the way things had worked out. "The inter view went well, but I haven't signed anything yet," said Kirsten.

HIS SCORECARD ¦ The former South African opener has played 101 Tests and 185 ODIs. He made his debut against Australia in Melbourne in 1993. He has a Test average of 45.27 and an aggregate of 7,289 runs. ¦ He was South Africa's batting coach after his retirement in 2004...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

China's satellite clicks the moon

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CHINA'S LEADERS celebrated the first images sent from the country's first lunar satellite on Monday, saying they showed their nation had thrust itself into the front ranks of global technological powers. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, visiting the scientists who have guided the lunar probe Chang'e 1 into space and around the moon, proclaimed the mission a success after it began to send back images, according to the Chinese state news agency Xinhua news.

"The full success of our country's first lunar exploration mission is helping to turn the Chinese nation's 1,000year old dream of reaching the moon a reality," Premier Wen reportedly said. The picture on the Xinhua website showed a patch of grey moon surface splotched with craters.

Even as hundreds of millions of Chinese struggle in rural hardship, the ruling Communist Party is committed to clambering into the select ranks of global space powers, and Chang'e 1's journey has been accompanied by a stream of patriotic propaganda. In 2003, China became only the third country in the world to put a man into space using its own rocket after the former Soviet Union and the United States. It then sent two astronauts on a five-day flight on its Shenzhou VI rocket in October 2005.

China plans to launch its third manned rocket, Shenzhou VII, into space in October 2008 and may send an astronaut on a space walk, a Shanghai paper said. The probe's success showed the world that "the Chinese people have the will, confidence and ability to constantly compose fine new chapters as we scale the peaks of modern science and technology", Wen said of the mission.
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Monday, November 26, 2007

Bengal Unmoved, Taslima Stuck

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Taslima Nasreen's insistence on returning to Kolkata and the West Bengal government's reluctance to have her back in the city have led to a deadlock, sources in the government said on Sunday . Interlocutors of the central government were working overtime to find a way out for the controversial Bangladeshi writer who has been holed up in Rajasthan House in Delhi since Friday night.

Intelligence sources said Taslima is being persuaded to shift out temporarily to some safe house somewhere else in the country But the author, . who was moved out of her ‘second home' Kolkata last week following violence over her stay is reluctant. ,

A glimmer of hope appeared on Sunday afternoon, when television channels aired reports that West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had welcomed her back. An excited Taslima told HT on phone: "I just saw it on a television channel. Is it true that the CM has made such a statement?" "I just cannot express my feelings. I am really grateful to the CM... Now let me find out how soon I can get back to my flat in Kolkata." But then came the bad news. The chief minister had made no such statement. The reports were wrong.

And Taslima broke down. Talking about life in the past four days, Taslima, who was taken out of Jaipur a day after she reached there as the state government feared unrest over her presence, said she felt being treated like a football, being kicked around.
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