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China quake leaves
four lakh homeless
Tribal teen from Orissa makes it to G8
Drafting new Constitution top priority: Yadav |
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MJ beats Pope, Diana in top funeral race
Threat to bomb Indian community centre
26 suspected Al-Qaida operatives held
US Prez to visit India
India’s role vital in meeting global challenges: Obama
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China quake leaves four lakh homeless
Beijing, July 10 The quake measuring six on the Richter scale jolted Yunan province in south-west China yesterday. A 50-year-old woman, was buried in debris of collapsed houses and died later in hospital due to serious blood loss, officials said. The disaster-relief headquarters have put the number of people injured in the quake at 325, 24 of whom are in serious condition, the state-run Xinhua reported today. More than 1,000 soldiers and police officers, including some 300 dispatched by the neighboring Sichuan Province, were helping local residents to move to safe places. The headquarters said more than 400,000 people in the quake zone need to be evacuated or relocated. Officials were distributing tents, medicine and food to local residents. More than 18,000 houses collapsed and 75,000 were damaged in Yao’an and five other counties, all administered by Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture. The lives of 1.26 million people have been more or less disrupted and the quake has so far incurred $365.9 million in economic losses, according to the headquarters.
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Tribal teen from Orissa makes it to G8
L’Aquila (Italy), July 10 Sanjukta Pangi, who is a Class 12 student at a government school in Karanjaguda village of Orissa’s Koraput district, knows the struggle she has gone through to reach this far. She is one of the 14 participating youngsters from different countries who are in Italy for the J8 (Junior 8) summit, an offshoot of the powerful G8, the group of world’s most wealthy and industrialised countries. “I had to struggle to go to school. If I hadn’t convinced my father to let me continue going to school, I would not be at the J8,” Pangi, 16, said. The 14 youngsters were selected to meet the top world leaders from G8 and G5 from among 54 youngsters aged between 14 and 17 years. They have come to attend the J8 summit in Rome, about 100 km from here. At the meeting, the J8 representatives presented recommendations for the 14 leaders (G8, G5 and Egypt) attending the summit here. The youngsters called on their respective leaders to get tough with countries who don’t meet climate change targets and teachers whose standards slip. “If I could ask the world’s leaders to prioritise one thing to help children, it would be education,” said Sanjukta. The young people were chosen by their peers to represent the Unicef J8. One young person represented each of the G8 countries and non-G8 countries - Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Mexico and South Africa - invited to L’Aquila. The young people told the leaders they wanted high quality post-primary education for all children and a safe trip to school. — IANS
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Drafting new Constitution top priority: Yadav
Just six days before the fiscal year ends, President Dr Ram Baran Yadav of Nepal on Thursday unveiled the government’s policies and programmes for the fiscal year 2009-10, stressing for the establishment of constitutional supremacy, rule of law and implementation of past pacts and understanding to make the ongoing peace process a success. President Yadav was able to present the policies and programmes in Parliament today as the major ruling political parties and Maoists reached a four-point understanding to resume the House proceedings on Monday by ending the two month long deadlock. Presenting the policies and programs, Dr Yadav said the main priorities of the government are to rehabilitate and integrate the Maoists combatants, draft new constitution on the basis of national consensus, restructuring the state and achieve economic development in the country. At a time when the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has been expressing its serious resentment against the President Yadav for his controversial decision to retain the sacked Chief of Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal Yadav repeatedly urged all political parties to forge consensus and collaborate to achieve the expected goals and restore lasting peace and stability in the country. The Central Committee meeting of the Maoists, however, sent its two leaders - Parliamentary Party Deputy leader Narayan Kaji Shrestha and Chief Whip Posta Bahadur Bogati - in the parliament just for formality and demonstrated its resentment against President. Meanwhile, giving top priority to the infrastructure development the Nepal government has decided to initiate constructing Mid-hilly road as well as Kosi, Gandaki and Karnali corridor roads projects.
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MJ beats Pope, Diana in top funeral race
New York, July 10 Jackson’s death also became the second top story of the 21st century for mainstream and Internet media, only trailing the election of Barack Obama as President of the US. Measured by the coverage in global print and electronic media from the day of death to the day after funeral, Jackson was way above the rest in cases since 1997. In its analysis, Global Language Monitor found that the death, aftermath, and funeral of Jackson had about 18 per cent more stories in the global print and electronic media. Meanwhile, MySpace said Michael Jackson’s death has given birth to a young new generation of fans of the artist at the online social networking site.
— PTI/AFP
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Threat to bomb Indian community centre
London, July 10 Besides the Indian centre, the threat letter has been sent to the Belfast Islamic Centre and the Polish Association, reports from Belfast said. The letter, threatening of racist violence, from the youth wing of the Ulster Defence Association warned: "No sympathy for foreigners, get out of our Queen's country before our bonfire night (July 11) and parade day (July 12).
— PTI
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26 suspected Al-Qaida operatives held
Cairo, July 10 The group, which was being tracked by the Egyptian security for months, comprised 25 Egyptians and one Palestinian. They were also reportedly promoting ideologies of takfir (excommunication) and jihad (holy war). The group had been communicating with terror outfits linked with Al-Qaida via the Internet and was planning to attack vital sectors in the country, such as the Suez Canal and oil pipelines, Egyptian security sources said.
— PTI
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US Prez to visit India
L'Aquila, July 10 The invitation was renewed by Singh when he and Obama met during a brief ‘pull-aside’ at the G-8-G-5 Summit here yesterday. Obama, on his part, invited Singh for a bilateral visit to the US which was accepted by the Indian leader. “There is an invitation for him (Singh) to go. There is also an invitation to President Obama to come to India. Both have been accepted,” Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told reporters.
— PTI
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India’s role vital in meeting global challenges: Obama
L'Aquila (Italy), July 10 “One thing, I think is absolutely true is, is that for us to think we can somehow deal with some of the global challenges in the absence of major powers- like China, India, and Brazil- seems to me wrongheaded,” Obama said in comments that would please India ahead of the planned visit of his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to New Delhi later this month. Obama was addressing a news conference at the end of the summit of the Group of Eight Industrialised countries here. The President also endorsed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's fresh calls for urgent UN reforms saying the global community would have to “update and refresh and renew” international institutions like the world body that were set up in a different time and place.
— PTI
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A strong earthquake destroyed nearly 1lakh houses leaving 4,00,000 people homeless in a quake-prone Chinese province where a woman was killed and 325 others were injured, state media reported today.
