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Friday, August 15, 2008 Volume: 6, Issue: 33
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Agitation in J&K costs its industry Rs 1,500 cr: Assocham |
NEW DELHI: Economic activity in Jammu and Kashmir has been severely impacted due to the ongoing agitation in the region, resulting in a loss of Rs 1,500 crore to the state's industry in the past couple of weeks, Assocham said. Among the sectors worst hit by the agitation and state-wide protests are tourism, silk, hosiery, carpets, handicrafts, fruits, tourism, forest-based and herbal products, the chamber said. "If the agitation continues, Jammu and Kashmir's economy will suffer a major jolt as investors that have committed over Rs 5,000 crore worth of investment for 2008-09 would venture into neighbouring states of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh," Assocham President Sajjan Jindal said.
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Despite warning, Pak interferes in J&K again |
NEW DELHI: Despite New Delhi's warning to Pakistan to keep out of India's internal affairs, Islamabad has once again raked up the Jammu and Kashmir issue and sought immediate end to the violence in the state. Ignoring India's strong reaction to its comments on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who visited the All Parties Hurriyat Conference office in Islamabad to express condolences over the death of Kashmiri separatist leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz, regretted what he described as the excessive use of force by Indian security forces. Qureshi said, "Pakistan regrets the excessive use of force by Indian security forces against the Kashmiri people and calls for an immediate end to violence in Jammu and Kashmir."
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Mentally ill woman kept chained for 15 years |
JAGATSINGHPUR (ORISSA): Kamala Sethi, 26, has spent 15 years chained to a pole by her family that cannot afford medical treatment for her mental illness. Both her legs have been tied with a rope and a chain connecting it is tied to a wooden pole in a straw-thatched room that the family earlier used as a cowshed in Nacchipur village of Jagatsinghpur district, some 120 km from Orissa capital Bhubaneswar in eastern India. She has been living in the shed - like an animal, with no clothes on. It is her bedroom, bathroom, toilet and dining room combined. She is usually found lying down, but sometimes she screams, shouts and thrashes around. "She does everything inside," her father Narayan said.
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Smaller NSG nations for changes in N-deal? |
NEW DELHI: Switzerland and Austria are gearing up to put in amendments — and conditions — on the Indian nuclear deal during the NSG debates in Vienna next week. According to sources, they may be joined by Ireland, Norway, New Zealand and the Netherlands. Although Austria is obsessively anti-nuclear, even refusing to have nuclear plants near its borders, it is Switzerland that is proving to be a bigger problem. In Switzerland too, opinions are divided — while the foreign ministry in Berne might be reasonably supportive, it's the cantons (states) that call the shots in Switzerland and the opposition there has not been overcome yet. The "problem" is acute enough to warrant foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon to visit Berne to persuade the Swiss authorities over the last few days. Simultaneously, an envoy was dispatched to New Zealand to work on the Kiwis, who also have a strong non-proliferation lobby and an election to boot. The PM's special envoy Shyam Saran will accompany Menon and DAE's Anil Kakodkar to Vienna next week.
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