Tamil Super star Suriya: 7am Arivu

The Tamil super hero Suriya (born 23 July 1975 as Saravanan Sivakumar) is an Indian film actor. The actor starred in Tamil films, such as Nandha (2001), Kaakha Kaakha  (2003), Pithamagan (2003), Perazhagan (2004), Ghajini (2005), Vel (2007), Vaaranam Aayiram (2008), Ayan (2009) and Singam (2010).

Suriya made his Bollywood appearance in Ram Gopal Varma's Rakht Charitra (2010). As of 2010, he has won three Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and three Filmfare Awards. He established himself as one of the leading contemporary actors in the Tamil film industry.

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Suriya the also performed in the 1997 film Nerrukku Ner directed by Vasanth and produced by Mani Ratnam.[6] In 2001, he starred in Siddique's comedy film Friends.

His major break came in the form of Nandha, which was directed by Bala. Playing the role of an ex-convict who is very attached to his mother, he received a Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actor.[7] His next venture was Vikraman's Unnai Ninaithu, which was followed by Mounam Pesiyadhe directed by Ameer Sultan.

7Tamil star Surya Sivakumar, who is known to show greater variety in his films, is coming up with a science fiction thriller ‘7th Sense’ this time. For this, he had teamed up with highly acclaimed director AR Murugadoss, who earlier made the blockbuster ‘Ghajini’ with him.

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In ‘Seventh Sense’, Surya has reportedly played three characters - a circus artist, a scientist and a Buddhist monk.

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Test Drive : BMW 330i - Temptation on Wheels

Anamit Sen spent a whole day evaluating a BMW 330i in and around Delhi and the NCR. I'm starting this review with a bit of news. Auto Bild magazine in Germany has just reported that the 2012 version of BMW's 3 Series, which will be the 6th generation of the 3 Series, is ready to be showcased at the Frankfurt Motor Show later this year. The reports say that this new BMW, classified internally as the F30 and going up against the Mercedes C Class, Audi's A4 and Volvo's S60, has borrowed quite a bit in terms of design from the 5 Series. It will break new ground in terms of safety and will have new four-cylinder turbocharged engines. The reports also says that though BMW may not be vorsprung durch technik (borrowing from Audi) or advanced/ahead through technology any more because competitors also have the equivalent of the advantages of Efficient Dynamics, the boffins DO have access to the parts and accessory shelf of the 5 Series. Which means it is quite possible that the F30 may offer features like night vision assistance, heads up display or HUD, lane changing assistance as well as automatic parking.

Giant UFO Crash With Aliens in India Report April Fool’s Day Hoax?

We came across an online news report from the Chandigarh Tribune in India dated March 31. The headline:


‘UFO crashlands in fields near city’

We’ve been unable to find any other reports on this UFO story but, and this is a BIG BUT, the news source, the Chandigarh Tribune, seems to be a legitimate news source ranked 18, 292 on Alexa. According to the report, a giant UFO, an ‘unidentified flying object said to be carrying “aliens” crash landed near Zirakpur in the early hours of Friday morning’. Zirakpur is a satellite town of Chandigarh (Pop. 10 million) located in the Mohali district of Punjab which would make the UFO story, a ‘local’ news report from the Tribune. According to the report, the UFO–an elliptical object the size of ‘five cargo ships’ crash landed ‘with a thud’ in a field. Punjab police have cordoned off the site with NASA officials ‘on their way’ to investigate the crash. Also headed to the alleged UFO crash:

‘Experts from the department of space and the Atomic Energy Commission, sleuths from the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) and crack commandos of the army’s special forces are believed to be on their way to the site.’

When researching this report we discovered something we believe is interesting, the lack of UFO reports from India with a population of 1.2 billion people. We discovered a report which claimed there’s secret UFO bases on the border of China and India which both the China and India governments ‘hide’. (More on the alleged UFO bases later.)

Below, the giant UFO report which we took a screenshot in case it ‘vanishes’ from the web.


The TribuneinIndia.com:

    Chandigarh, March 31


    In a startling development an unidentified flying object said to be carrying “aliens” crash landed near Zirakpur in the early hours of Friday morning. Estimated to be the size of five cargo ships, this elliptical object that emitted an “intense white light encircled the fields before it went down with a thud. No one is believed to have been killed or injured and the area has been cordoned off by a large contingent of the Punjab police that has been rushed to the site.

Sourav has no political association: EC

Rejecting Trinamool Congress' view, the Election Commission on Thursday said it did no wrong in selecting Sourav Ganguly as its brand ambassador for the West Bengal polls and there was no evidence of the former Team India captain's participation in any political campaign.

"We have examined the question of Ganguly as a brand ambassador and ascertained that there is no such evidence of the former Team India's affiliation to CPM as claimed by Trinamool," state deputy Chief Electoral Office Dibyendu Sarkar told reporters here.

On Trinamool Congress submitting a CD to the EC on its allegation, Sarkar said, "The video CD was examined and we didn't find any evidence of participation of Ganguly in any political campaign."

Besides submitting the CD, Trinamool Congress had claimed that Ganguly could not be the EC brand ambassador as he had worked as the brand ambassador of several departments including the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) of the Left Front government in the state.

The CD showed footage of a press briefing by a state minister and news coverage in one of the Bengali television channels.

An EC press release said that Ganguly expressed concern at having his good office being dragged into controversy.

He strongly denied any involvement with any single political party and stated in unequivocal terms that whatever he did was done as a cricketer and in furtherance of the cause of the game, it said.

"The entire complaint along with the CD has been sent to the Election Commission of India and they will take the final decision," Sarkar said.

Ganguly and percussionist Bikram Ghosh were selected by EC which produced an audio-visual for telecast on major channels to create interest among the people to vote. The controversy arose when Urban Development MinisterAshok Bhattacharya, belonging to CPM, claimed Ganguly would campaign for him in the elections.

Top Indian scientist calls for nuclear moratorium

A top Indian scientist and government advisor has called for a moratorium on all future nuclear projects following the nuclear crisis in tsunami-hit Japan.

In an open letter, extracts of which were published in the media Friday, P. Balaram, director of the Indian Institute of Science and part of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's scientific advisory council, described the events in Japan as "a wake-up call" for India.

"We strongly believe that India must radically review its nuclear power policy," Balaram said in the letter, which was signed by 50 prominent figures.

"Pending the review, there should be a moratorium on all further nuclear activity, and revocation of recent clearances for nuclear projects," he said.

Fuel-hungry India has pushed ahead with its nuclear energy plans since 2008 when then-US president George W. Bush signed into law a nuclear deal that ended a three-decade ban on US nuclear trade with India.

Since then, France, Russia and private US and Japanese firms have been locked in fierce competition to sell new reactors to India.

Balaram's call marked the first direct appeal from within government circles for a nuclear moratorium.

Exiled Tibetans elect new leader

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Thousands of Tibetans worldwide vote Sunday for a new leader who hopes eventually to become the new face of the struggle for freedom in China, a cause embodied for decades by the Dalai Lama.

The famous and celebrated monk, now 75, announced 10 days ago that he wanted to retire as political head of his exiled government and hand power to an elected leader who could continue the fight after his death.

Tripura Fir Kills Around 21 People

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Atleast 21 inmates of Mizoram Reang refugee camp in north Tripura district were killed in a devastating fire on Saturday. The death toll could be more as search is underway in the debris at Naishingpara camp in Kanchanpur subdivision, 170km northeast of here.

The flames completely gutted the camp, one of six in the area, in the incident around 11.15am.

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Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) saw its scrip fall 3.71 per cent on the BSE and by 3.92 per cent on the NSE, after news agency reports on Friday morning about lower gas production from its Krishna-Godavari basin fields.

The reports said production of gas at the D-6 block would decrease by 13 per cent and that the company hoped that UK's BP would help fix it. BP, last month, bought 30 per cent stake in RIL's exploration business for $ 7.2 billion (Rs32,400 crore).

Nifty closes below 5450; Maruti, HDFC, DLF slips

Bombay Stock Exchnage

Markets ended in the negative territory as concerns of rising crude oil prices and expectations of more rate hikes kept the bulls under check. FMCG, IT and auto stocks were led the decline while power space ended marginally higher.

Indices opened with a gap-down mirroring losses in the Asian region, worries of high crude oil prices due to tension in the middle-east also weighed sentiments. The Reserve Bank of India's move to hike repo rate, reverse repo rate by 25 bps and keep the CRR unchanged was in line with market expectations.

Union Budget 2011 highlights on Black Money in India

BLACK MONEY

    * Five fold strategy to be put into operation to deal with the problem of generation and circulation of black money.

    * Membership of various international fora engaged in anti money laundering, Financial integrity and Economic development, Exchange of information for tax purposes and transparency, secured.

Various Tax Information Exchange Agreements (TIEA) and Double Taxation

    * Avoidance Agreements (DTAA) concluded. Foreign Tax Division of CBDT has been strengthened to effectively handle increase in tax information exchange and transfer pricing issues.

    * Enforcement Directorate strengthened three fold to handle increased number of cases registered under amended Money Laundering Legislation.

    * Finance Ministry has commissioned study on unaccounted income and wealth held within and outside the country.

    * Comprehensive national policy to be announced in near future to strengthen controls over prevention of trafficking on narcotic drugs.

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AGRICULTURE

    * Removal of production and distribution bottlenecks for items like fruits and vegetables, milk, meat, poultry and fish to be the focus of attention this year.

    * Allocation under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) increased from Rs. 6,755 crore to Rs. 7,860 crore.

Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern Region

    * To improve rice based cropping system in this region, allocation of Rs. 400 crore has been made.

Integrated Development of 60,000 pulses villages in rainfed areas

    * Allocation of Rs. 300 crore to promote 60,000 pulses villages in rainfed areas.

Promotion of Oil Palm

    * Allocation of Rs. 300 crore to bring 60,000 hectares under oil palm plantations.

    * Initiative to yield about 3 lakh Metric tonnes of palm oil annually in five years.

Initiative on Vegetable Clusters

    * Allocation of Rs. 300 crore for implementation of vegetable initiative to provide quality vegetable at competitive prices.

Nutri-cereals

    * Allocation of Rs. 300 crore to promote higher production of Bajra, Jowar, Ragi and other millets, which are highly nutritious and have several medicinal properties.

National Mission for Protein Supplement

    * Allocation of Rs. 300 crore to promote animal based protein production through livestock development, dairy farming, piggery, goat rearing and fisheries.

Accelerated Fodder Development Programme

    * Allocation of Rs. 300 crore for Accelerated Fodder Development Programme to benefit farmers in 25,000 villages.

National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture

    * Government to promote organic farming methods, combining modern technology with traditional farming practices.

Agriculture Credit

    * Credit flow for farmers raised from Rs. 3,75,000 crore to Rs. 4,75,000 crore in 2011-12.

    * Interest subvention proposed to be enhanced from 2 per cent to 3 per cent for providing short-term crop loans to farmers who repay their crop loan on time.

    * In view of enhanced target for flow of agriculture credit, capital base of NABARD to be strengthened by Rs. 3,000 crore in phased manner.

    * Rs. 10,000 crore to be contributed to NABARD’s Short-term Rural Credit fund for 2011-12.

Mega Food Parks

    * Approval being given to set up 15 more Mega Food Parks during 2011-12.

Storage Capacity and Cold Chains

    * Augmentation of storage capacity through private entrepreneurs and warehousing corporations has been fast tracked.

    * Capital investment in creation of modern storage capacity will be eligible for viability gap funding of the Finance Ministry.

Agriculture Produce Marketing Act

    * In view of recent episode of inflation, need for State Governments to review and enforce a reformed Agriculture Produce Marketing Act.

Infrastructure and Industry

    * Allocation of Rs. 2,14,000 crore for infrastructure in 2011-12. This is an increase of 23.3 per cent over 2010-11. This also amounts to 48.5 per cent of total plan allocation.

    * Government to come up with a comprehensive policy for further developing PPP projects.

    * IIFCL to achieve cummulative disbursement target of Rs. 20,000 crore by March 31, 2011 and Rs.

25,000 crore by March 31, 2012.

    * Under take out financing scheme, seven projects sanctioned with debt of  Rs. 1,500 crore. Another Rs. 5,000 crore will be sanctioned during 2011-12.

    * To boost infrastructure development, tax free bonds of Rs. 30,000 crore proposed to be issued by Government undertakings during 2011-12.

National Manufacturing Policy

    * Share of manufacturing in GDP expected to grow from about 16 per cent to 25 per cent over a period of 10 years. Government will come out with a manufacturing policy.

    * Two Committees set up for greater transparency and accountability in procurement policy; and for allocation, pricing and utilisation of natural resources.

    * Issues relating to reconciliation of environmental concern from various departmental activities

including those related to infrastructure and mining to be considered by a Group of Ministers.

    * National Mission for hybrid and electric vehicle to be launched.

    * Financial Assistance to be made available for metro projects in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Chennai.

    * Capital investment in fertiliser production proposed to be included as an infrastructure sub-sector.

Exports

    * Of 23 suggestions made by Task Force on Transaction Cost, constituted by the Department of Commerce, 21 suggestions already implemented. Action to be taken on the remaining two suggestions.

Transaction Cost of Rs. 2,100 crore will thus be mitigated.

    * Self assessment to be introduced in Customs to modernize the Customs administration.

    * Proposal to introduce scheme for refund of taxes paid on services used for export of goods.

    * Mega Cluster Scheme to be extended for leather products. Seven mega leather clusters to be set up during 2011-12.

    * Jodhpur to be included for the development of a handicraft mega cluster.

India’s Union Budget 2011 about Invest Policies

INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENT

Foreign Direct Investment

    * Discussions underway to further liberalise the FDI policy.

Foreign Institutional Investors

    * SEBI registered mutual funds permitted to accept subscription from foreign investors who meet KYC requirements for equity schemes.

    * To enhance flow of funds to infrastructure sector, the FII limit for investment in corporate bonds issued in infrastructure sector being raised.

Financial Sector Legislative Initiatives

    * To take the process of financial sector reforms further, various legislations proposed in 2011-12.

    * Amendments proposed to the Banking Regulation Act in the context of additional banking licences to private sector players.

Public Sector Bank Capitalisation

·        Rs. 6,000 crore to be provided during 2011-12 to enable public sector banks to maintain a minimum of

Tier I CRAR of 8 per cent.

Recapitalisation of Regional Rural Banks

    * Rs. 500 crore to be provided to enable Regional Rural Banks to maintain a CRAR of at least 9 per

cent as on March 31, 2012.

Micro Finance Institutions

    * “India Microfinance Equity Fund” of Rs. 100 crore to be created with SIDBI

    * Government considering putting in place appropriate regulatory framework to protect the interest of small borrowers.

    * “Women’s SHG’s Development Fund” to be created with a corpus of Rs. 500 crore

Rural Infrastructure Development Fund

    * Corpus of RIDF XVII to be raised from Rs. 16,000 crore to Rs. 18,000 crore.

Micro Small and Medium Enterprises

    * Rs. 5,000 crore to be provided to SIDBI for refinancing incremental lending by banks to these enterprises.

    * Rs3,000 crore to be provided to NABARD to provide support to handloom weaver co-operative societies which have become financially unviable due to non-repayment of debt by handloom weavers facing economic stress.

    * Public sector banks to achieve a target of 15 per cent as outstanding loans to minority communities under priority sector lending at the earliest.

Housing Sector Finance

    * Existing scheme of interest subvention of 1 per cent on housing loan further liberalised.

    * Existing housing loan limit enhanced to Rs. 25 lakh for dwelling units under priority sector lending.

    * Provision under Rural Housing Fund enhanced to Rs. 3,000 crore.

    * To enhance credit worthiness of economically weaker sections and LIG households, a Mortgage Risk

Guarantee Fund to be created under Rajiv Awas Yojana.

    * Central Electronic Registry to prevent frauds involving multiple lending on the same immovable property to become operational by March 31, 2011.

Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission

    * Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission set up to rewrite and streamline the financial sector laws, rules and regulations.

    * Companies Bill to be introduced in the Lok Sabha during current session.

India’s Union Budget 2011 Highlights

OPPORTUNITIES

    * Swift and broad based growth in 2010-11 has put the economy back to its pre-crisis growth trajectory.

Fiscal consolidation has been impressive.

    * Significant progress in critical institutional reforms that would set the pace for double-digit growth in the near future.

    * Dynamism in the rural economy due to scaled up flow of resources to the rural areas.

CHALLENGES

    * Structural concerns on inflation management to be addressed by improving supply response of agriculture to the expanding domestic demand and through stronger fiscal consolidation.

    * Implementation gaps, leakages from public programmes and the quality of outcomes pose a serious challenge.

    * Impression of drift in governance and gap in public accountability is misplaced.

    * Corruption as a problem to be fought collectively. Government to improve the regulatory standards and administrative practices.

    * Inputs from colleagues on both sides of House are important in the wider national interest.

    * Budget 2011-12 to serve as a transition towards a more transparent and result oriented economic management system in India.

OVERVIEW OF THE ECONOMY

    * Gross Domestic Product (GDP) estimated to have grown at 8.6 per cent in 2010-11 in real terms.

Economy has shown remarkable resilience

    * Continued high food prices have been principal concern this year.

    * Consumers denied the benefit of seasonal fall in prices despite improved availability of food items, revealing shortcomings in distribution and marketing systems.

    * Monetary policy measures taken expected to further moderate inflation in coming months.

    * Exports have grown by 29.4 per cent, while imports have recorded a growth of 17.6 per cent during

April to January 2010-11 over the corresponding period last year

    * Indian economy expected to grow at 9 per cent with an outside band of +/- 0.25 per cent in 2011-12.

    * Average inflation expected lower next year and current account deficit smaller.

SUSTAINING GROWTH

Fiscal consolidation

    * Fiscal consolidation targets at Centre and States have shown positive effect on macro economic management of the economy.

    * Amendment to Centre’s FRBM Act, 2003 laying down the fiscal road map for the next five years to be introduced in the course of the year.

    * Proposal to introduce the Public Debt Management Agency of India Bill in the next financial year.

Tax Reforms

    * Direct Taxes Code (DTC) to be finalised for enactment during 2011-12. DTC proposed to be effective from April 1, 2012.

    * Areas of divergence with States on proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) have been narrowed. As a step towards roll out of GST, Constitution Amendment Bill proposed to be introduced in this session of Parliament.

    * Significant progress in establishing GST Network (GSTN), which will serve as IT infrastructure for introduction of GST.

Expenditure Reforms

    * A Committee already set up by Planning Commission to look into the extant classification of public expenditure between plan, non-plan, revenue and capital.

Subsidies

    * Nutrient Based Subsidy (NBS) has improved the availability of fertiliser; Government actively considering extension of the NBS regime to cover urea.

    * Government to move towards direct transfer of cash subsidy to people living below poverty line in a phased manner for better delivery of kerosene, LPG and fertilisers. Task force set up to work out the modalities for the proposed system.

People’s ownership of PSUs

    * Overwhelming response to public issues of Central Public Sector Undertakings during current year.

    * Higher than anticipated non-tax revenue has led to reschedulement of some disinvestment issues planned for current year.

    * Rs. 40,000 crore to be raised through disinvestment in 2011-12.

    * Government committed to retain at least 51 per cent ownership and management control of the Central Public Sector Undertakings.

Great Britain issues 20,000 extra visas to Indian workers

According to recent reports, Britain is set to welcome 20,000 extra Indian workers annually as part of a secretive trade deal brokered by the European Union (EU).

According to the EU-India Free Trade Agreement, European nations will issue India between 35,000 and 50,000 visas in return for four billion pounds worth of trade.

On the other hand, India is demanding up to 20,000 of them should be provided by Britain, with only 7,000 asked of Germany and 3,000 from France. Estonia is expected to accept just 19 individuals.

The agreement is expected to be signed later this year. The 20,000 will not count towards the coalition's pledge to cap net immigration at 'tens of thousands'. Britain's unemployment stands at 2.5 million.

Sir Andrew Green, chairman of MigrationWatch UK, said: "The secrecy surrounding this deal has gone on long enough. This scheme makes a nonsense of efforts to limit economic migration."

A spokesman for the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, told The Sunday Telegraph: "Strict criteria are being negotiated to ensure there is a focus on highly-skilled and highly-qualified professionals entering the UK temporarily."

Nearly 30,000 workers came to Britain from India in 2010. Two thirds of them travelled as part of the intra-company transfer scheme. They are except from the coalition's interim immigration cap.

Silver aims record high, crosses Rs 50,000 per kg level

Continuing its record-breaking spree on the back of firming trend overseas, silver futures prices increased by over 2% to hit a new high of Rs 50,699 per kg.

Record levels in the spot market on rising demand, driven by the ongoing marriage season too influenced the white metal prices at futures trade here.

At the Multi Commodity Exchange counter, silver for delivery in September contract climbed Rs 1,043, or 2.10 per cent to trade at Rs 50,699 per kg-- a level never seen before--with a turnover of four lots.

The silver for delivery in March contract also rallied by Rs 982, or 1.82 per cent, to trade at a record high of Rs 49,420 per kg, with a turnover of one lot.

Internationally, silver in the Asian region, gained 1.4 per cent, to trade at USD 33.10, the fresh high since 1980.

Experts told media that the firming trend in precious metals in global markets as spreading unrest in the Middle East boosted their appeal as a safe-haven asset, buoyed the trading sentiment at futures trade here.

In the meantime, at Chennai bullion market, silver prices rallied by Rs 400 to trade at record high of Rs 50,065 per kg in the opening trade.