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INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS COMMUNITY (ISC) is organizing spread a smile project to help poor people by collecting the old cloths, shoes of students of sharda university and donate to poor people so that they will not feel cold and which makes us human.
This project will start from 29th November to 20th december and the donation boxes will be available at every hostel and one in international division.
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The film, titled M S Dhoni, will be directed by Neeraj Pandey of ‘A Wednesday’ and ‘Special 26′ fame.
There were reports earlier that skipper MS Dhoni was charging a whopping amount to give his nod on the film. Secondly, the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) had also objected to the biopic.
However, after the success of a film on world champion Mary Kom, the film seem to be on track and ‘M. S. Dhoni’s first look was unveiled.
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Beximco, a corporate venture which has revived the industrial sector in a country like Bangladesh, which is still categorized as a developing country, has yet again undertaken a new venture. The giant business venture has been granted the license to launch DTH services in the country, essentially to make a foray into providing an experience of high-definition TV viewing for its citizens. Beximco Group is the largest business venture in Bangladesh, spearheaded by the iconic Salman F Rahman. The company, with the backing of Rahman’s expertise evolved to become the country’s largest private conglomerate from a mere trading company.
The company stands on the pillar of its mission to “taking Bangladesh to the world”. Abiding by its mission, the company has multiplied in terms of its venture in textiles, marine food, pharmaceuticals, information and communication technology, ceramics, financial services and more. The company’s products are a brand in the country and meet international standards in terms of their quality. It houses more than 48,000 employees with recorded total revenue of around $ 834 million in the year 2010.
The company reached yet another milestone by signing the shareholder agreement with the General Satellite to launch the country’s first ever DTH operator. The agreement for the joint venture between the two companies licensed for providing DTH services in the country was signed by the Director of Foreign Broadcasting Projects Department, S.L. Dolgopolsky. The motive of this multi-million corporate company behind this joint venture is to enable its countrymen experience the splendor of high quality and high-definition TV viewing. The new quality TV viewing will match the quality picture displayed by the range of digital technologies like TATA Sky, who have already made it big in other Asian countries.
Besides class-TV viewing, Beximco is driven by its philanthropic mission to enable access to TV in the regions with considerably minimal reach of cable TV and terrestrial TV. This is another leap that the company has made to stride its countrymen towards the path of growth and success. This achievement has been prominently acknowledged by both the common natives as well as the government authority of the country. With this service, the general public have easy access to popular channels aired across the world and stay in touch with the world’s most happening and breaking news. The service will contribute significantly to improve people’s quality of life through entertainment and infotainment. The quality of the picture and multiple features to be offered in this service will make TV viewing experience delightful for the natives of the country.
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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders confirmed that the former Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh high court judge has recused himself from the polls.
AAP state spokesman Vaibhav Maheshwari told IANS that he informed the party that he would not be available for the Lok Sabha election.
The party has now decided to field Archana Srivastava, a social worker against Sonia Gandhi.
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Amid showdown with energy-rich Russia, calls rise in Europe to start fracking
Europe’s newest weapon in the battle of wills with Russian President Vladimir Putin lies buried deep beneath the ancient oaks and rolling green pastures of this quintessentially English village.
There, wedged in the bedrock, lie vast quantities of oil and natural gas — enough, when combined with the spoils of hundreds of other sites like it, to help kick Europe’s addiction to Russian energy.
Or so says David Cameron.
Ever since Russian forces took hold of Crimea last month, the British prime minister has been leading a chorus of conservative politicians and energy executives in a refrain they believe will spark a shale gas revolution in Europe: Frack, baby, frack.
The push for a European boom in fracking — shorthand for hydraulic fracturing — has been underway for years, but it has taken on new urgency in recent weeks as fears grow of a revival of the Cold War. With Europe leaning on Russia for a third of its natural gas needs, the continent’s leaders say they need to develop their own energy sources — and fast.
Cameron recently said that Britain has a “duty” to frack, and he expressed frustration that it hasn’t happened here as quickly as it has in the United States. Achieving energy independence from Russia, Cameron said, needs to be “a tier-one political issue.”
But for environmentalists, the rush to frack smells of rank opportunism and seems a discouraging turn away from cleaner energy sources. It has also unnerved local landowners, who worry that the green and pleasant lands of the British countryside are about to be churned up in the name of combating the Russian menace.
“Frankly, we’re a small and densely populated island,” said Dieter Helm, who teaches energy policy at Oxford University. “It’s everything that North Dakota isn’t.”
And yet, Britain is like North Dakota in one important respect: There’s a lot of gas down there, both in the United Kingdom and over vast stretches of continental Europe.
Estimates of shale gas reserves are notoriously imprecise, but the U.S. Energy Information Administration last year placed the amount of recoverable resources in Europe at nearly 470 trillion cubic feet — an amount that could light cities from London to Warsaw for decades.
Europe’s reserves are only slightly less than those in the United States, where there are thought to be 567 trillion cubic feet and where a boom in production has sent energy prices tumbling. Europe is also believed to have large quantities of shale oil, but the continent has more options to acquire oil than it does for gas, which is more difficult to transport and store. The focus of the recent push has been on gas.
But extracting that gas is the tricky part. From a technical standpoint, hydraulic fracturing involves drilling deep beneath the Earth’s surface and injecting rock formations with enough water, sand and chemicals to force out the hydrocarbons. From a political standpoint, it means convincing authorities from the European Union on down to local planning commissions that the gains of extraction are worth the environmental cost — a challenge made all the more difficult by widespread public skepticism.
“The potential is enormous. The resource is very large in the U.K. and in Europe,” Francis Egan, chief executive of one of the major fracking firms, Cuadrilla Resources, told an audience at the London-based think tank Chatham House last week. “That’s not to say we can get it out of the ground.”
Speaking alongside Egan, Energy Minister Michael Fallon vowed to give fracking the government’s complete support. “There’s a lot more shale underneath us than we thought,” Fallon said. “It would be irresponsible not to crack on and encourage exploration wherever we can.”
But even as the national government moves full speed ahead, local authorities in Britain are far more tentative — and have kept British fracking projects from moving beyond the exploratory stage.
Environmentalists say fracking could contaminate local water supplies and even set off minor earthquakes. They say, too, that the geology of Europe is less conducive to fracking than that of the United States. “You can’t replicate the U.S. boom here,” said Rebecca Lawson, a policy adviser at the sustainable-development advocacy group E3G.
Egan said that even if all restrictions were lifted tomorrow, it would take about four years to deliver meaningful levels of shale gas production. Most analysts say a decade or more is likely. They note that the United States began investing in shale 25 years ago and only recently began reaping the rewards.
A sharp debate in Europe
Meanwhile, many nations in Europe continue to struggle with whether to invest in shale at all.
Few places better capture the schizophrenic debate in Europe over fracking than Germany, where there’s a de facto moratorium on large-scale extraction of shale gas pending further environmental studies. With Germany importing Russian natural gas for roughly a third of its energy needs, Chancellor Angela Merkel recently raised the hopes of the pro-fracking lobby by pointedly calling for “a new look at energy policy as a whole.”
But that is easier said than done. Germany has committed to phasing out nuclear energy over the next decade, complicating any push to drastically move away from Russian gas. Indeed, just last week, Germany refrained from blocking two new energy deals involving Russian companies, including a continuing partnership between the Russian giant Gazprom and a German company, Wintershall.
Perhaps more important, the standoff with Russia over Ukraine has done almost nothing to change the mind-set of fracking’s opponents. They continue to view fracking as out of step with the “green revolution” that has brought an explosion of solar, wind, biomass and other alternative energy sources in Germany.
“This is a very emotional topic in Germany,” said Ralf Fücks, president of the Berlin-based Heinrich Böll Foundation, which is affiliated with the Green Party. “Objections to fracking go beyond the environmental movement and into the general public.”
Before looking seriously at fracking, opponents insist, the government must first consider other options, including more renewable energy projects as well as the possible build-out of vast new terminals at German ports to receive liquefied natural gas from the United States, Qatar and other suppliers.
Virtually all the alternatives would be far more expensive than continuing to import Russian gas at a time when even the green-thinking German public has begun to balk at soaring energy bills. Sensing an opening, longtime proponents say now is the time to push for fracking. Still, opposition remains fierce.
After Michael Fuchs, a lawmaker from Merkel's CDU party, recently called for Berlin to take a closer look at fracking, he said he received a barrage of vitriol on Twitter and Facebook.
“One person said I should be drowned” in the chemicals used in fracking, he said.
Poland’s bet on shale gas
In Poland, where mistrust of Russia runs deep, public attitudes toward fracking are more favorable. But the country’s experience offers a cautionary tale. After four years of experimentation, Poland has little to show.
At one point, Poland was thought to harbor vast reserves of shale gas that could have met domestic energy needs for centuries. The estimates, however, have since been revised sharply downward. Several companies awarded exploration licenses — including Exxon Mobil — have abandoned the country after determining that reserves were not commercially viable.
Nonetheless, the Ukraine crisis has spurred renewed efforts in Warsaw to get fracking off the ground. Last month, Prime Minister Donald Tusk proposed a six-year moratorium on special taxes for the shale industry.
“Poland is the most gung-ho in Europe” on fracking, said Pavel Molchanov, an energy analyst at Raymond James. “But even it is at an early stage in the industry, and development is going to take time.”
In Fernhurst, the idyllic English village that has become a battleground in the fight over British fracking, many residents hope that time is on their side. But they fear the opposite — that because of the Ukraine crisis, the government is more committed than ever to allowing the energy companies to drill.
For Martyn Knights, 59, that would mean a 145-foot rig working day and night in the field just beyond his five-century-old farmhouse. He and a group of neighbors have spent thousands of pounds to try to block the project, which he says will destroy Fernhurst’s inky-black nights and bird-song-filled days with round-the-clock drilling — all for a gamble that may not bring Europe any closer to energy independence.
“There’s a great big question mark about whether it will even work,” Knights said. “I’m not convinced it will, and that it’s worth ruining an area of natural beauty to find out if it does.”
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FERNHURST, England — Europe’s newest weapon in the battle of wills with Russian President Vladimir Putin lies buried deep beneath the ancient oaks and rolling green pastures of this quintessentially English village.
There, wedged in the bedrock, lie vast quantities of oil and natural gas — enough, when combined with the spoils of hundreds of other sites like it, to help kick Europe’s addiction to Russian energy.
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Or so says David Cameron.
Ever since Russian forces took hold of Crimea last month, the British prime minister has been leading a chorus of conservative politicians and energy executives in a refrain they believe will spark a shale gas revolution in Europe: Frack, baby, frack.
The push for a European boom in fracking — shorthand for hydraulic fracturing — has been underway for years, but it has taken on new urgency in recent weeks as fears grow of a revival of the Cold War. With Europe leaning on Russia for a third of its natural gas needs, the continent’s leaders say they need to develop their own energy sources — and fast.
Cameron recently said that Britain has a “duty” to frack, and he expressed frustration that it hasn’t happened here as quickly as it has in the United States. Achieving energy independence from Russia, Cameron said, needs to be “a tier-one political issue.”
But for environmentalists, the rush to frack smells of rank opportunism and seems a discouraging turn away from cleaner energy sources. It has also unnerved local landowners, who worry that the green and pleasant lands of the British countryside are about to be churned up in the name of combating the Russian menace.
“Frankly, we’re a small and densely populated island,” said Dieter Helm, who teaches energy policy at Oxford University. “It’s everything that North Dakota isn’t.”
And yet, Britain is like North Dakota in one important respect: There’s a lot of gas down there, both in the United Kingdom and over vast stretches of continental Europe.
Estimates of shale gas reserves are notoriously imprecise, but the U.S. Energy Information Administration last year placed the amount of recoverable resources in Europe at nearly 470 trillion cubic feet — an amount that could light cities from London to Warsaw for decades.
Europe’s reserves are only slightly less than those in the United States, where there are thought to be 567 trillion cubic feet and where a boom in production has sent energy prices tumbling. Europe is also believed to have large quantities of shale oil, but the continent has more options to acquire oil than it does for gas, which is more difficult to transport and store. The focus of the recent push has been on gas.
But extracting that gas is the tricky part. From a technical standpoint, hydraulic fracturing involves drilling deep beneath the Earth’s surface and injecting rock formations with enough water, sand and chemicals to force out the hydrocarbons. From a political standpoint, it means convincing authorities from the European Union on down to local planning commissions that the gains of extraction are worth the environmental cost — a challenge made all the more difficult by widespread public skepticism.
“The potential is enormous. The resource is very large in the U.K. and in Europe,” Francis Egan, chief executive of one of the major fracking firms, Cuadrilla Resources, told an audience at the London-based think tank Chatham House last week. “That’s not to say we can get it out of the ground.”
Speaking alongside Egan, Energy Minister Michael Fallon vowed to give fracking the government’s complete support. “There’s a lot more shale underneath us than we thought,” Fallon said. “It would be irresponsible not to crack on and encourage exploration wherever we can.”
But even as the national government moves full speed ahead, local authorities in Britain are far more tentative — and have kept British fracking projects from moving beyond the exploratory stage.
Environmentalists say fracking could contaminate local water supplies and even set off minor earthquakes. They say, too, that the geology of Europe is less conducive to fracking than that of the United States. “You can’t replicate the U.S. boom here,” said Rebecca Lawson, a policy adviser at the sustainable-development advocacy group E3G.
Egan said that even if all restrictions were lifted tomorrow, it would take about four years to deliver meaningful levels of shale gas production. Most analysts say a decade or more is likely. They note that the United States began investing in shale 25 years ago and only recently began reaping the rewards.
A sharp debate in Europe
Meanwhile, many nations in Europe continue to struggle with whether to invest in shale at all.
Few places better capture the schizophrenic debate in Europe over fracking than Germany, where there’s a de facto moratorium on large-scale extraction of shale gas pending further environmental studies. With Germany importing Russian natural gas for roughly a third of its energy needs, Chancellor Angela Merkel recently raised the hopes of the pro-fracking lobby by pointedly calling for “a new look at energy policy as a whole.”
But that is easier said than done. Germany has committed to phasing out nuclear energy over the next decade, complicating any push to drastically move away from Russian gas. Indeed, just last week, Germany refrained from blocking two new energy deals involving Russian companies, including a continuing partnership between the Russian giant Gazprom and a German company, Wintershall.
Perhaps more important, the standoff with Russia over Ukraine has done almost nothing to change the mind-set of fracking’s opponents. They continue to view fracking as out of step with the “green revolution” that has brought an explosion of solar, wind, biomass and other alternative energy sources in Germany.
“This is a very emotional topic in Germany,” said Ralf Fücks, president of the Berlin-based Heinrich Böll Foundation, which is affiliated with the Green Party. “Objections to fracking go beyond the environmental movement and into the general public.”
Before looking seriously at fracking, opponents insist, the government must first consider other options, including more renewable energy projects as well as the possible build-out of vast new terminals at German ports to receive liquefied natural gas from the United States, Qatar and other suppliers.
Virtually all the alternatives would be far more expensive than continuing to import Russian gas at a time when even the green-thinking German public has begun to balk at soaring energy bills. Sensing an opening, longtime proponents say now is the time to push for fracking. Still, opposition remains fierce.
After Michael Fuchs, a lawmaker from Merkel's CDU party, recently called for Berlin to take a closer look at fracking, he said he received a barrage of vitriol on Twitter and Facebook.
“One person said I should be drowned” in the chemicals used in fracking, he said.
Poland’s bet on shale gas
In Poland, where mistrust of Russia runs deep, public attitudes toward fracking are more favorable. But the country’s experience offers a cautionary tale. After four years of experimentation, Poland has little to show.
At one point, Poland was thought to harbor vast reserves of shale gas that could have met domestic energy needs for centuries. The estimates, however, have since been revised sharply downward. Several companies awarded exploration licenses — including Exxon Mobil — have abandoned the country after determining that reserves were not commercially viable.
Muzaffarnagar riots: Judicial custody for gangrape accused extended
A local court has extended the judicial custody of an accused, involved in Muzaffarnagar riots related gangrape case, till April 21.
Chief judicial magistrate Narendra Kumar on Monday extended judicial custody of Roki till April 21. He was arrested on March 25 in connection with six riot cases, including a gangrape case, during the riots.
Roki was among 22 people issued non-bailable warrant for their alleged involvement in five incidents of gangrape during the violence.
The accused has been booked in five cases for murder, gangrape, looting and rioting in Phugana village of the district, Special Investigation Team sources said.
EC defers Mizoram election to April 11 over Bru voters issue
The Election Commission has deferred the election dates for Mizoram to April 11 from April 9. This came after a 72-hour statewide bandh was called against the exercise of franchise by Bru voters lodged in Tripura camps through postal ballots.
Polling will be held in Mizoram on April 11 and re-polling, if any, on April 14, EC Secretary Narendra N Bhutolia said in a letter to the state Chief Electoral Officer Ashwani Kumar. The EC also decided that provision would be made during future elections for exercise of franchise within the state of Mizoram by Bru voters living in Tripura, but enrolled in the voter list of Mizoram.
The EC decision followed the 72-hour state-wide bandh called by the Joint NGO Coordination on Monday in protest against the exercise of franchise by Bru voters in six relief camps in Tripura on April one to April three, through postal ballots.
Except for the south Mizoram's Lawngtlai and Saiha districts, not a single polling party left the district headquarters for their places of poll duty yesterday due to the bandh. The bandh, however, was not enforced in the two districts due to late delivery of information from Aizawl, Jt NGO Coordination Chairman Lalbiakzuala said.
Meanwhile, the Joint NGO Coordination's demand of repatriation of all Brus from the six relief camps in North Tripura district within three months after completion of the election process and deletion of the names of those who would refuse to return to Mizoram from the voter lists was being deliberated by top state government officials.
Military jet crashes in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
A military aircraft has crashed in Madhya Pradesh, near the border with Rajasthan.
Reports suggest it was a C-130 J plane, also known as super Hercules, which is used for transporting men, personnel and equipment.
More details will update soon.
SEBI trying to ‘siphon off’ investor refund: Sahara
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has claimed that it has spent close to Rs 60 cr in 2013-14 on locating genuine investors of SIRECL and SHICL.
Sahara India has alleged that market regulator Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is trying to "siphon off money from the funds" deposited by the group for refunding the investors of Sahara India Real Estate Corp Ltd (SIRECL) and Sahara Housing Investment Corp Ltd (SHICL). SEBI has claimed that it has spent close to Rs 60 cr in 2013-14 on locating genuine investors of Sahara group companies Sahara India Real Estate Corp Ltd (SIRECL) and Sahara Housing Investment Corp Ltd (SHICL).
"We have spent a huge chunk of our money on this and we are running out of money now. We had requested the Supreme Court to allow us to use the funds deposited by Sahara India so as we can meet the expenses incurred on this task," said a senior official from SEBI requesting anonymity.
The official explained that SEBI has spent a large amount on not just locating the investors but also on the storage of the documents submitted by Sahara. In an email response to The Sunday Guardian, Sahara India's counsel, Keshav Mohan, stated, "We suspect that this is a highly malicious campaign initiated by SEBI with a very clear intention to siphon off money from the funds that Saharas have deposited with SEBI, purely for the repayment to its investors. It is really unfortunate and unbecoming of a regulator, the way SEBI is blowing hot and cold, both at a time."
He further pointed out that on Thursday, the counsel for SEBI had argued in the Supreme Court that SIRECL and SHICL issues were public issues, while now SEBI has made a plea that Sahara's investors are untraceable. "We ask SEBI to disclose the basis of their contention, else withdraw their statement. The fact is that, when SEBI sent letters to about 20,000 account numbers and did not receive any responses for them, we immediately got affidavits from a large number of such investors and submitted to SEBI the affidavits, authentic Know Your Customer (KYC) documents and photographs of almost all those investors, who the regulator had tried to contact. Those who were already paid, confirmed that they had received redemption of their investments to their full satisfaction," Mohan noted.
In a strong rebuttal to SEBI's allegations, Mohan further added that the market regulator has not been following directions and has not refunded even Rs 1 cr to the investors, in the last 15 months. "It is not known, why SEBI is not following this direction, and why it is only interested in extracting money from Sahara...SEBI's intentions are unfair and acutely malafide."
Mohan also pointed out to the fact that on 4 March, SEBI told the court that it had completed the scanning and digitisation of the 3.03 crore investors' documents provided by Sahara. Therefore the verification process has still not started.
Mohan also recounted that the Minister of State for Finance, Namo Narayan Meena in a reply to a question in Parliament had said that the money given by Sahara is for refund to the investors only and the money would not be utilised for any other purpose. "The money received by SEBI will only be used for the repayment of the investors and till now SEBI has only refunded only Rs 1 cr. This is a sinister attempt by SEBI to eat away investors' money. Till now, in Saharas' case SEBI has not shown any intention to protect the interest of investors, for which it has been constituted... we will not let SEBI make this another Golden Forest Case where investors have still not got their hard earned money and will stand and fight till the end in the interest of our investors."
