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Ex-Im Bank loan guarantee to Air India upheld by US appeals court

WASHINGTON - A U.S. appeals court has upheld a decision by the U.S. Export-Import Bank to finance the sale of 30 Boeing wide-body jets to Indian state-owned carrier Air India in a legal challenge brought by Delta Air Lines to the loan guarantee. The court has however directed the government-run bank to better explain its rationale for providing loan guarantee, which Delta claimed as a ...
Individual choices affect society at broader level Karmapa

Choices made by individuals affect society at a broader level, observed Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa, while stressing that interdependence was a reality and a practical way of looking at the world. Speaking at the launch of his book "The Heart is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out" here Tuesday, the Karmapa said an awareness of interdependence among people, and impact on ...
Nitish wins trust vote says BJP wont win in 2014

Three days after he dumped the BJP, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Wednesday proved his majority in the assembly and declared that his former ally won't win the next Lok Sabha battle. Accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party of now trying to impose divisive politics, he said the politics of consultation which the BJP believed in under Atal Bihari Vajpayee had ended. In a speech in the assembly ...
Court refuses CBI probe into Saradha scam

The Calcutta High Court Wednesday refused to order a CBI probe into the Saradha Group chit fund scam, but did not dispose of the matter "in the interest of justice". Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL), a division bench of Justice A.K. Banerjee and Justice M.K. Chaudhuri refused to order a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the multi-crore Saradha scam. But on the request of the ...
President to visit Tripura

President Pranab Mukherjee will undertake a two-day visit to the Left Front ruled Tripura from Thursday, an official said here Wednesday. "The president will attend the tenth convocation of Tripura Central University at Suryamaninagar near here Thursday. In the evening, he will attend the civic reception by the Agartala Municipal Council," an official told reporters. Mukherjee will inaugurate ...

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Late Marriage (Hatuna Meuhet)

Dover Koshashvilis feature directorial debut, Late Marriage (Hatuna Meuhet), is a blistering (and often funny) critique of conservative family traditionalism intruding on the realm of romantic love. Taking place in Tel Aviv in a close-knit community of Jewish migrs from Soviet Georgia, it tells the simple story of how a family controls its adult sons life and how he is too weak to d ... ...

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Rupee slips to another low ahead of US Fed meeting

The Indian rupee fell to 58.91 against a dollar Wednesday, fractionally less than the record low of 58.98 hit last week, on concerns that the US Federal Reserve might signal cutting back on stimulus that will strengthen the greenback further. The partially convertible rupee opened weak at 58.82 against a dollar after hitting a record closing low of 58.77 in the previous day. The rupee hit a ...
Is UP heading for a flood crisis

With monsoon rains lashing Uttar Pradesh and river banks breached in several districts, the state may be headed for one of its worst flooding. As many as 32 districts in the sprawling state are prone to flooding. Last year, 398 people lost their lives during monsoon. Some officials feel that no lesson seems to have been learnt. Official sources reveal that despite fixing a deadline of June 15 ...
Neil Nitin Mukesh visits Bangla Sahib Gurudwara for new flick

Neil Nitin Mukesh visited Bangla Sahib Gurudwara in New Delhi to pray for the success of his upcoming movie, 'Shortcut Romeo'. During his interaction with media persons, the 31-year-old actor said that he was happy to be in Delhi, which he considers to be his home. "My film is releasing this Friday on 21st June and I am really happy that I am in a city which I consider my home." the actor ...
Atul Singh Coca-Colas new deputy president Pacific Group

Atul Singh, Coca-Cola's president and CEO (India and Southwest Asia), will take over as deputy president (Pacific Group) from July 1, the company said Wednesday. In his new role, he will have responsibility over the Greater China amp; Korea (GCamp;K) and India amp; Southwest Asia (INSWA) business units. "Given the enormous growth opportunities in China, and the uniquely competitive beverage ...
Sunstroke claims three more lives in Tripura

Sunstroke has claimed three more lives in Tripura, taking the total number of people dying of excessive exposure to sun and heat to six in the state in the past one week, police said Wednesday. "A woman and a youth died at Siddhi Ashram and Amtali towns, while a farmer died at Sabroom town due to sunstroke while they were working in paddy fields," a police official said in the Tripura capital ...

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Individual choices affect society at broader level: Karmapa

Choices made by individuals affect society at a broader level, observed Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa, while stressing that interdependence was a reality and a practical way of looking at the world.

Speaking at the launch of his book "The Heart is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out" here Tuesday, the Karmapa said an awareness of interdependence among people, and impact on others and the planet should be a cause for increase in love and compassion.

"It can keep us aware of the impact our actions have on others and on the planet. If we connect to others and to the planet with love and affection, our responsibility to bring about change does not have to weigh heavily on us at all," he said.

He said interdependence was a reality and a "practical way of looking at our existence".

He said individual concerns such as happiness and suffering depend on happiness and suffering of others.

"Individual concerns are, in fact, shared concerns. We need to understand this. It entails sense of personal responsibility to one another. Our choices as individuals, in fact, affect society at much broader level," the Karmapa said.

Citing the growing number of vehicles in Delhi, he said though the decision to purchase a vehicle is regarded as the choice of individual consumer, its impact extends far beyond. ...