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Written by admin on 14 February 2009
Shah Rukh Khan’s house attacked
Two motorcycle-borne miscreants hurled a bottle of kerosene at actor Shah Rukh Khan’s Bandra residence, Mannat, at around 2.30 am on Friday. Nobody was injured.
Security personnel at Khan’s bungalow were unable to note the registration number of the bike in the darkness. A complaint was lodged at the Bandra police station.
According to reports, a fundamentalist group was upset with the use of certain words in the song, Marjaani, marjaani, featuring Khan and Kareena Kapoor in the film Billu.
On Friday morning a group of protesters gathered outside Bandra’s G-7 cinema complex, where Billu was being screened, and broke glass panes and tore away posters.
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Written by admin on 09 February 2009
Chandra Grahan
Which according to NASA is a penumbral (partial) lunar eclipse, will be visible on February 9, 2009 in India. In penumbral eclipse there will be a partial shadow of earth on the moon. The Eclipse will be visible at Moonrise along the western coast of India in cities like Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Mumbai, Cochin, Trivandrum, Pune and Chennai. Partial lunar eclipse will be visible in Kolkata, Patna, Hyderabad, Bhubaneshwar, Lucknow, Delhi, Shimla, Bhopal and Srinagar.
The timing of the Penumbral eclipse according to NASA in all places in India is given from 18:09 to 22:08. Middle Eclipse will be at 20:08.
There is a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse, Chandra Grahan, on February 09, 2009. The Eclipse will be visible in India, Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand. The eclipse will be visible at moonrise in Gulf countries, along the western coast of India and Eastern Europe. In Australia and New Zealand the lunar eclipse will begin on the midnight of February 09, 2009 and end early morning of February 10, 2009. The eclipse will be visible at moon setting along the pacific coast of United States of America. It is not visible along the Atlantic Coast.
In penumbral eclipse there will be a partial shadow of earth on the moon. It is a sort of partial eclipse.
Here are the timings of the lunar eclipse around the world on February 9, 2009 as per local timings:
India
Delhi – From 18:09 to 22:08
Mid Eclipse will be at 20:08 (local time)
UAE
Dubai – From 16:39 to 20:38
Mid Eclipse will be at 18:38 (local time)
Hong Kong
Victoria – From 20:39 to 00:38
Mid Eclipse will be at 22:38 (local time)
Nepal
Khatmandu – From 18:09 to 22:08
Mid Eclipse will be at 20:08 (local time)
Indonesia
Jakarta – From 20:39 to 00:38
Mid Eclipse will be at 22:38 (local time)
Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur – From 19:39 to 23:38
Mid Eclipse will be at 21:38 (local time)
Singapore
Singapore – From 20:39 to 00:38
Mid Eclipse will be at 22:38 (local time)
Thailand
Bangkok – From 19:39 to 23:38
Mid Eclipse will be at 21:38 (local time)
Australia
Adelaide – From 22:09 to 02:08
Mid Eclipse will be at 00:08 (local time)
Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney – From 22:39 to 02:38
Mid Eclipse will be at 00:38 (local time)
New Zealand
Christchurch – From 00:39 to 04:38 on February 10
Mid Eclipse will be at 02:38 (local time)
United States
In most of the United States the eclipse will be at moon setting and it is not visible along the Atlantic Coast.
Chicago – From 06:39 to 10:38
Mid Eclipse will be at 08:38 (local time)
Image courtsey NASA
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Written by Rahul on 29 January 2009
London, Jan 29 (ANI): A 29-year-old mortgage advisor in Britain is in demand these days – because he resembles US President Barack Obama.
After Obama’s historic win, Ryan Skeggs has been snapped up by a doubles agency, and is enjoying his instant popularity.
“I first started getting recognised when he was running against Hillary Clinton,” The Sun quoted him as saying.
“But since Obama came to power it’s gone crazy.
“I did some filming up in London for French TV.
“I was flanked by two guys dressed as Secret Service agents and people were scared to speak to me directly.
“They kept asking for permission to say something.
“I felt nervous at the start but then I thought, ‘Why don’t I just run with it.’ So I put on my Barack Obama accent and had fun.
“I had people ringing up their mums, saying ‘I’ve met the president,’” he added.
Skeggs, who lives in Stevenage, is also perfecting his ‘Obama voice’ since signing a deal with an agency last month.
He taped several speeches and sat at home repeating the lines to make himself seem even more convincing. He’s even worked on mimicking his mannerisms.
“I’ve never properly tried to speak in an American accent, except down the pub messing about,” said Skeggs.
“So I watched a few videos of Obama to work on it.
“He speaks in such a clear and precise way and at a lower octave.
“I’ve pretty much nailed it now. It’s so funny tricking people – I can’t get my head around it,” he added.
Skeggs landed his new double job after girlfriend Wendy sent off his snaps to fakefaces.co.uk . (ANI)
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Written by admin on 05 November 2008
MADRAS, India — India’s secularism has gone up in smoke along with the festival of Diwali. Weeks preceding this joyous event — which nowadays has more noise and smoke brought about by unrelenting burst of crackers rather than light and luminosity — the rape and murder of Christianity in parts of the country seriously undermined the country’s much-touted concept of secularism.
The long interreligious animosity between the majority Hindus and the minority Muslims, often provoked, encouraged and kept alive by political radicals, has a new dimension now. A deep rift between Christians and Hindus has been created by hawkish political outfits that directly or indirectly owe allegiance to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
An organization that openly supports the Hindu cause citing centuries-old Islamic invasions of the nation and the destruction and death that followed as reasons for hitting back today, the BJP was responsible for the demolition of the historic Babri Mosque in 1992 and the Godhra (in the western state of Gujarat) genocide in 2002, in which hundreds of Muslims were killed.
Recently the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, which are seen as closeaffiliates of the BJP, have been carrying out a campaign of terror and torture against Christian communities in the eastern state of Orissa and the western states of Karnataka and Kerala.
The case of a 28-year-old Christian nun, Sister Meena Lalita Barwa, who was stripped and paraded through an Orissa village and raped by a fanatical Hindu mob in full view of policemen on Aug. 25, amply illustrates a secularism all shambled.
An ideology that works around the fundamental principles of equality and justice, secularism today is exploited by those in power to meet their own requirements. For weeks before and after this gruesome incident when mobs destroyed churches, torched Christian homes and threatened the followers of this faith to convert to Hinduism, the Orissa state government, run with the support of the BJP, did nothing. Ultimately, an alert media got wind of what was happening in Orissa and beyond areas and began publicizing the events.
All this while, Barwa was in hospital traumatized physically and mentally by Hindu terror. Recently, however, she appeared at a press conference in New Delhi and pleaded with the authorities that her case be probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) rather than the Orissa police. She said that she had no faith in the police, who refused to help her when she and another Christian missionary were beaten, dragged around and humiliated.
The Parishad claims that Christian missionaries have been “forcibly” converting a large number of Hindus to their faith. Admittedly conversions do take place especially in the country’s tribal belts where some of the poorest Indians live. These men and women have found institutional Christianity with its free schools and health care attractive. They have also found caste-less Christianity a wonderful relief from caste-driven Hinduism where those at the bottom of the ladder still face terrible social ostracism from those above.
But such conversions do not take place under coercion, and an individual usually changes religion on his or her own free will. Yes, possibly lured by a better life. To call this as “force” is extremely far-fetched, and there have been no mass conversions as alleged by extremist Hindu groups.
To prove this, church leaders say that the percentage of total Christians in India is just a tad higher than the last census figure of 2.3 percent. Given this fact, they ask, where then are the large-scale conversions that the Parishad is talking about.
In any case, the Indian Constitution states very clearly that every citizen must be allowed to practice his or her religion and convert to another if he or she desires.
As Seema Mustafa writes in her newspaper column: “India is a pluralistic state. It is any number of states and any number of peoples all rolled together under one nation, one flag and one constitution. Its oxygen is freedom based on justice and equality. It will disintegrate and die if it is deprived of any of these, and is compelled to adopt a monolithic mantle that is totally unnatural to its existence. If India is to survive and flourish as a healthy, breathing vibrant democracy, then secularism has to be protected and nurtured.”
It would do well for New Delhi to realize that the Christian issue is altogether different from the Muslim question. Brutality against Christians attracts speedier world attention and condemnation. While Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh goes around the world earning accolades for the nuclear deal he struck with Washington, serious issues are devastating the nation’s social structure and fabric. India could have lived without the nuclear pact and can do so without the moon mission, but it will wither away if it allows secularism to be butchered.
Gautaman Bhaskaran is a journalist based in Madras, India
Source by – japantimes.co.jp
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