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13-yr-old Lucknow girl to address world leaders
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Indian student commits suicide
in Australia
Pak prepares list of 83 high-profile terrorists
India, Pak foreign secys to meet
on Sept 26
Al-Qaida threatens Germany online
76 killed in Sudan clashes
Toddler survives being run over by train
Germany wins in WW II re-enactment
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13-yr-old Lucknow girl to address world leaders
New York, September 21 “I am going to tell Obama that the policies that they make today are going to affect us and if they act in present then the future was secured for us,” Yugratna Srivastava told PTI. “We received a very nice planet from our ancestors. It was green, now we have damaged it, polluted it, and we’re going to give a bad planet to our successors and this was not right,” Srivastava, who was also on the youth advisory board of UNEP’s youth organisation called ‘Tunza’, added. “Please listen to the voices of youth and children, and please try your best to solve all the environmental crises that are occurring in our community,” would be her message to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh. The ninth class student of St Fidelis College would be addressing more than a 100 world leaders at the General Assembly during the Climate Change Summit convened by the UN Chief Ban Ki-moon. India would be represented by the Foreign Minister SM Krishna and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh. This summit was being held to mobilise political will ahead of the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December, which is expected to yield a climate treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. “The world leaders had to take into account the opinion of the three billion youths,” Srivastava said. “They can’t exclude us so we were ready to help them and provide full support to them to have a green planet.” Commenting on the divide between the developed and developing world on the issue, Srivastava noted, “Each country should do its best since environmental problems never differentiate political or geographical boundaries.” “Whatever protocol they make, it should be an action oriented one and they should enforce them,”she added. The UNEP was impressed with Srivastava’s performance at a meeting in Daejeon, South Korea, which produced a youth statement on climate change on the road to Copenhagen. She was selected for Tunza after speaking at the high-level event through a competitive process. The young environmentalist said she was proud to represent India. The conservationist recommended that everyone should save water, conserve electricity and plant trees. “The world would change only if each individual changes,” she puts it simply. On the web, Srivastava tweets urgent messages about saving the planet. While she is anxious about her big speech, the young leader is also glad to miss her exams in school. “I’m pretty nervous but I’m also confident that I have the voice of three billion of the population that would reach them and they would act accordingly,” she said. — PTI
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Indian student commits suicide in Australia
Melbourne, September 21 Indian Consul-General in Melbourne, Anita Nair said the reason for Singh's death was yet to be confirmed. “Crorner report will establish the cause of the death of the student,” she said. Singh's relatives have been informed about his death and were coming to take his body back. Commenting on the incident that comes amidst attacks on Indian students, Federation of Indian Students in Australia founder Gautam Gupta said it was an act of desperation. It is said Singh took the extreme step after depressed over not getting a job to fund his studies here. His flat mates are yet to be traced. — PTI
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Pak prepares list of 83 high-profile terrorists
Islamabad, September 21 According to a list maintained by the Interior Ministry, 41 of the most wanted terrorists belong to Punjab, 21 to Sindh, 13 to Balochistan and eight to the NWFP. Of the 83 terrorists, Bramdagh Bugti tops the list with 31 first information reports registered against him, reported the Daily Times. The available data shows the majority of the terrorists belong to various sectarian and terrorist organisations, including the Harkatul Jihad Al-Islami, the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) and the Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP). The majority of the “most wanted” belong to the LJ and the SMP and are wanted in various high profile cases, including assassination attempts targeting Musharraf, former premier Shaukat Aziz and the Karachi Corps commander; the blasts at the Sheraton hotel and foreign embassies; arms smuggling; target killings of rival groups, doctors, police and intelligence officials and personnel; kidnapping for ransom; and attacks on imambargahs and mosques.
— ANI
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India, Pak foreign secys to meet on Sept 26 Foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India would meet in New York on September 26, followed by foreign minister-level talks the next day on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly session. “These meetings will pave the way for resumption of the dialogue process between the two countries,” Pakistan foreign secretary Salman Bashir said here Monday. He said this would be his first meeting with his Indian counterpart Nirupama
Rao. Bashir, who will leave for New York on September 24, said the meeting would be in accordance with the decisions and joint statement issued following the meeting of prime ministers of the two countries at
Sharm-el-Sheikh.
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Al-Qaida threatens Germany online
Berlin, September 21 The Interior Ministry identified the Qaida messenger in the latest video as Bekkay Harrach (32), a German-Moroccan who also appeared in a separate clip on Friday warning Germany faced a “rude awakening” if it did not end its “war” in Afghanistan. The television footage showed Harrach wearing a mask in the latest video. He was clean shaven and wearing a suit and tie in the previous recording in which he directly addressed German Chancellor Angela Merkel, saying that attacks could follow Germany’s federal election on September 27. “In a democracy, only the people can order its soldiers home,” Harrach said in German in the first video. “If the German people decides for a continuation of the war, then it has passed judgement upon itself and showed the whole world that in a democracy civilians are not innocent after all.” Germany stepped up security at airports and train stations this weekend. Of the five parties in Germany’s Bundestag lower house of parliament, only the far-left “Linke” or Left Party is calling for an immediate troop pull-out from Afghanistan. Domestic pressure on Germany to rethink its mission grew this month following a NATO air strike called in by German forces which left scores of people dead. — Reuters
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Juba (Sudan), September 21 “There is a total of 76 killed and 46 injured. This includes a total of 22 soldiers (dead): 11 of them are from the SPLA, the other 11 are from security forces,” said Major General Kuol Diem Kuol of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA). “This is not a raid for cattle but a militia attack against security forces,” he told AFP. Tribesmen from the Lou Nuer ethnic group raided the Dinka Hol village of Duk Padiet yesterday morning, forcing a company of soldiers based there to flee. — AFP
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Toddler survives being run over by train
Tokyo, September 21 The driver spotted the girl standing on the tracks in Suzaka City, northwest of Tokyo, and applied its emergency brakes, the local police said. The train stopped with the girl beneath, it said. She was alive and trapped in the 50-centimetre gap between the train and the tracks, rescuers said. “It could have been a tragedy. It's a miracle that she survived this way,” a rescue worker told the TV Asahi network.
— AFP
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Germany wins in WW II re-enactment
Wellington, September 21 According to spokesman Brian Johns the battle was one of the best they had ever put on. “Everyone is saying that, just because it was really well choreographed and there was a lot happening,” he said. Although, the re-enactment was a representation of the German retreat through France after the Normandy landings during World War II, but on this occasion, the Germans won. “We tend to bounce that one around a bit. Last time, it was the Allies who won.” Johns said the battle scenario involved a German command centre, which was taken over by an Allied contingent only to be outflanked again by a German infantry unit. There were even explosions happening in barrels representing mortar attacks, which the Allies often used. The spectators seemed to be enjoying the battle. “They always do, we spent the rest of the afternoon answering questions people had. We even had an old World War II vet come up with his son to say how much he enjoyed it. That was great,” Johns said. — ANI
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