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6 killed in Egypt unrest
Thousands rally against govt in Yemen
Nepal parties to hold fresh PM poll on February 3
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6 killed in Egypt unrest
Cairo, January 27 Egypt witnessed a second ‘day of anger’ against the 30-year-rule of Mubarak yesterday as thousands of protesters took to streets, shouting slogans like ‘Down with Hosni Mubarak, down with the tyrant,” “We don’t want you”! Downtown Cairo saw thousands of security personnel chase anti-government protesters as they tried to reassemble at Tahrir Square, the same place where more than 20,000 demonstrators converged on Tuesday, occupying it for several hours before being dispersed by security forces early yesterday. At some places, security forces fired tear gas canisters and rubber bullets, and demonstrators threw stones in response. Two persons, a protester and a policeman, were killed yesterday, bringing to six the death toll in the two-day protests, media reports said. Hundreds of protesters, including eight journalists, have been arrested and several injured during the protests, Al-Ahram newspaper reported today. After first day of protests on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry released a statement saying that no further demonstrations of any kind would be tolerated. The police maintained a heavy presence in all places in Cairo. There had also been huge protests yesterday in the port city of Suez, where four people died on Tuesday. There have been calls for protesters from Cairo, where two people died during demonstrations yesterday, to join forces in Suez tomorrow after the Friday prayers. Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the Vienna-based UN nuclear agency, is expected to return to his country Egypt from service abroad shortly to join demonstrators protesting against 82-year-old Mubarak, ‘Voice of America’ reported. — PTI
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Thousands rally against govt in Yemen
Sanaa: Tens of thousands of people are calling for the Yemeni president’s ouster in protests across the capital inspired by the popular revolt in Tunisia.
The demonstrations led by opposition members and youth activists are a significant expansion of the unrest sparked by the Tunisian uprising. They pose a new threat to the stability of the Arab world’s most impoverished nation, which has become the focus of increased Western concern about a resurgent Al-Qaida branch, a northern rebellion and a secessionist movement in the south. Crowds in four parts of Sanaa have shut down streets and are chanting calls for an end to the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been in power for nearly 32 years. “We will not accept anything less than the president leaving,” said independent parliamentarian Ahmed Hashid. — AP
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Nepal parties to hold fresh PM poll on February 3
Nepalese lawmakers will begin a fresh process next week to elect a new prime minister after 16 failed attempts for nearly seven months, as the squabbling political parties were unable to meet a January 26 deadline set by the President to put in place a national government.
President Ram Baran Yadav directed Parliament to begin a fresh process for the election of a PM on the basis of majority vote as political parties had failed to hammer out a deal to form a consensus government. Parliament’s Business Advisory Committee, which runs the prime ministerial poll, announced that the parties would have to file nominations by February 2, following which fresh elections would be held February 3. The second and third round of election, if required, will be held on February 5 and 6 respectively, it said. A key meeting of three main political parties on Wednesday ended in a deadlock as they failed to agree on a consensus prime minister.
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Taj staff’s heroic response a case study at Harvard
Boston, January 27 The multimedia case study ‘Terror at the Taj Bombay: Customer-Centric Leadership’ by HBS professor Rohit Deshpande documents “the bravery and resourcefulness shown by rank-and-file employees” during the attack. The study mainly focuses on “why did the Taj employees stay at their posts (during the attacks), jeopardising their safety in order to save hotel guests” and how can that level of loyalty and dedication be replicated elsewhere. A dozen Taj employees died trying to save the lives of the hotel guests during the attacks. “Not even the senior managers could explain the behaviour of these employees,” Deshpande is quoted as saying in HBS Working Knowledge, a forum on the faculty’s research and ideas. Deshpande said even though the employees “knew all the back exits” in the hotel and could have easily fled the building, some stayed back to help the guests. “The natural human instinct would be to flee. These are people who instinctively did the right thing. And in the process, some of them, unfortunately, gave their lives to save guests.” A documentary-style account of events, the case includes video interviews with hotel staff and footage of the attack. It shows how leadership displayed by people in the bottom rank to the top levels in the organisational hierarchy helped in saving lives. It also focuses on the hotel’s history, its approach to recruiting and training employees, the Indian culture’s “guest is God” philosophy and how the hotel would recover after the attacks. Another key concept of the study is that in India and the developing world, “there is a much more paternalistic equation between employer and employee that creates a kinship.” — PTI
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protesters, including journalists, have been arrested in two days of Tunisia-inspired unprecedented mass protests against President Hosni Mubarak’s autocratic regime that left at least six persons dead.
