from Victoria Scott

Hello,

Greetings to you and your familly, My name is Miss Victoria Scott,the Sales Manager of Hatton Jewellery Company at Hatton Garden London. The company has been recognized for manufacturing high quality Golden and Silver Earrings,Pendants,Necklace and Rings Jewelries.

As a specialist jewellery manufacturing company,we needs raw material by name diamond mixture which we used for the manufacturing of our company products we buy a gram of Diamond Mixture $780 from dealers here in London, recently I discovered a supplier in Middle East that offered me a gram $365 and quality is the same, I offered my company $500 per gram and they are very happy to buy 5kg.

My personal profit in 5kg is $700.000.00 (Seven hundred thousand US Dollars).I am contacting you because my manager will be traveling to UAE for the purchase of this materials in few days time.

Now I want You to act as the middle marketer between the main Dealers of this product in UAE and our company here in London in the sense that you will buy this product from the main dealers at the rate of US$365/per gram and sell to our company at the rate of US$500/per grams after I might have introduced you to our company as the main dealer, and also given you the main dealer's contact in Middle East for you to contact them to know the availability of the product in their stock.

You will met our purchasing manager on his arrival to Middle East and purchase from the main dealer, bring the product to his hotel, collect cash from him, finish. You extract our profit and take your money back to where you bring it. It's a day transaction.

My Company is presently running out of stock of this product. If you are interested and promise your honesty in this business please do get in touch with me so that we can reach into an agreement on how to share this $700.000.00 (Seven hundred thousand US Dollars) profit.

I only want you to assure me that you will be honest with me, and also keep this business secret between both of us, so that our company will not realize that I connived with you to inflate the price of the product for my own interest because if they do, as I say, I will loss my job and also my career will be jeopardized. I will tell you more things about this business if I find you are interested to do the business and I will also guide you to the success of it.

Best wishes,
Miss.Victoria Scott
United Kingdom.
Tel:+447024027808
+447546687299

On Standing Committee Report on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill

Protecting Foreign Suppliers

Clause 17 of the Bill currently reads as follows:
17. The operator of a nuclear installation shall have a right of recourse where -
(a) such right is expressly provided for in a contract in writing;
(b) the nuclear incident has resulted from the wilful act or gross negligence on
the part of the supplier of the material, equipment or services, or of his employee;
(c) the nuclear incident has resulted from the act of commission or omission of
a person done with the intent to cause nuclear damage.

The Standing Committee has recommended that Clause 17 should now be amended as follows (changes in bold):

17. The operator of a nuclear installation shall have a right of recourse where -
(a) such right is expressly provided for in a contract in writing; and
(b) the nuclear incident has resulted as a consequence of latent or patent defect, supply of sub-standard material, defective equipment or services or from the gross negligence on the part of the supplier of the material, equipment or services.
(c) the nuclear incident has resulted from the act of commission or omission of
a person done with the intent to cause nuclear damage.

By adding "and" in sub-clause 17 (a), the right of the operator to claim damages from the supplier of nuclear equipment and material (right of recourse) has now been made entirely contingent on whether such right is explicitly provided in the private contract between the operator and supplier. In the likely scenario of the foreign suppliers not agreeing to provide for right of recourse in the contract, they cannot be held liable for any nuclear damage, even if they have supplied defective equipment. What is more dubious is that this significant weakening of Clause 17 has been done under the guise of strengthening the right of recourse against the foreign suppliers.

The US administration and the American nuclear industry lobby have objected to sub-clause 17 (b). They are not prepared to accept the right of recourse for the Indian operator vis-à-vis American suppliers. The Standing Committee recommendation is fully in line with the demand of the American lobbies. This amendment linking 17 (a) and 17 (b) will make it worse than what is there in the original Bill.

Liability Cap Unacceptable

The recommendation to enhance the operator's liability cap from Rs. 500 crore to Rs. 1500 crore is hardly significant, since total liability for each nuclear incident remains capped at 300 million SDRs (Rs. 2122.40 crore or $ 455 million) as per Clause 6 (1). This amount is less than even the Bhopal settlement of $ 470 million, which has been acknowledged as grossly inadequate by the Government itself.

It is noteworthy that none of the international nuclear liability conventions set any cap on total liability, but only set a floor. Countries like South Korea and Sweden have set operator's liability at 300 million SDRs, not total liability. The operator's liability in the US is $ 11.9 billion. Countries like Japan, Russia and Germany do not have any cap on total liability. In contrast, the Indian bill seeks to cap total liability to 300 million SDRs, displaying scant regard for the lives and security of the Indian people.

Further Objections

The Standing Committee report has failed to take on board several more objections to the Bill, especially regarding the extant provisions protecting the operator and suppliers from facing litigation and the ambiguities regarding nuclear accidents in defence installations and the jurisdiction of the AERB. It has also made an objectionable suggestion to create a liability fund to reduce government liability by levying additional charges on electricity.

The recommendations of the Standing Committee does not alter the fact that the intent behind the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, as well as its provisions, are meant to facilitate India's joining the Convention on Supplementary Compensation (CSC), which was explicitly committed by the UPA-I Government to the US in 2008, during the nuclear deal negotiations. Other than the US, no other country having a substantial number of nuclear plants have signed or ratified the CSC. None of India's neighbours who could be affected by a trans-boundary impact of a nuclear accident are signatories to CSC and its funds cannot be used for augmenting trans-border compensation for settlements. India gains nothing from joining the CSC.

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GoM on Rajiv and Bhopal: sloppiness or cover-up?

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article485563.ece

"After the Central government's intervention, it was stated that Mr. Anderson and others were only taken into protective custody and lodged in the company's guest house to save them from mob violence."

 The GoM report notes in paragraph 16 that an FIR was registered at the Hanumanganj police station on December 3, 1984 against Carbide officials which mentioned only Section 304-A (gross negligence) and no other section.

But the reports by G.K. Reddy and PTI note that Mr. Anderson and others "were arrested" as soon as they landed in Bhopal from Bombay "under seven different sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The Sections are: 120B (criminal conspiracy), 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 304A (causing death by negligence), 426 (mischief), 429 (mischief in the killing of livestock), 278 (making atmosphere noxious to health), and 284 (negligent conduct in respect of poisonous substances)".

In fact the bond which Mr. Anderson signed in Bhopal prior to his release also noted: "I have been arrested by Hanumanganj Police Station, District Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India under Criminal Sections 304 A, 304, 120 B, 278, 429, 426 & 92. I am signing this bond for Rs. 25,000/- and thus undertaking to be present whenever and wherever I am directed to be present by the police or the Court".

Since Section 304 is a 'non-bailable offence', i.e. bail can only be granted by a judge and not on the basis of a bond, were legal corners also cut to ensure Mr. Anderson was released immediately? The prior grant of safe passage meant he should never have been arrested in the first place.

World Cup Schedule

http://www.marca.com/deporte/futbol/mundial/sudafrica-2010/calendario-english.html

കേരളം എത്രയോ ഭേദം !

Saudi walks on electric wire to protest power cuts

Al Qah'tani said that he wanted to prove that the wires often did not carry electricity

• By Habib Toumi, Bahrain Bureau Chief
• Published: 10:07 June 7, 2010
• Reader comments (1)

• Al Qah'tani walks on an electricity line while grasping an overhead wire for balance to draw attention to power outages affecting his village in Saudi Arabia.
• Image Credit: Supplied

Manama: A disgruntled Saudi man risked his life by walking barefooted on an electricity wire without knowing when power could be restored to draw attention to repeated energy cuts affecting his village.

Witnesses said that Mohammad Al Qah'tani climbed up a pole and then walked barefoot for around 100 metres on the wire while holding the overhead wire with his hands for balance amid concerns among fellow villagers that power could be restored at any time.

Al Qah'tani said that he wanted to prove that the wires often did not carry electricity and that the electrical company took a long time to restore power. 

"The residents are fed up with the repeated power cuts that have been causing moral distress and material losses," he said, quoted by Saudi daily Okaz.

Electricity company officials in the village in Asir, in the south western part of Saudi Arabia, attributed the power failures to heavy rains and unstable weather.

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Tamil !

World Classical Tamil Conference – a perspective
Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu

Although Tamil and a few other languages such as Greek, Latin and Sanskrit enjoy the status of classical language in the academic world thanks to their antiquity and rich literary heritage, Tamil is the first living language to be given the official status of a classical language.

We thought it fit to conduct the first World Classical Tamil Conference. We decided to hold it for five days from the 23rd to the 27th of June 2010 at Coimbatore in a grand manner.

Demand for classical status

For more than 150 years, Tamil scholars and those conscious of their Tamil heritage have been demanding that the classical character of Tamil be recognised. They claimed that Tamil has rich and hoary literary and grammatical traditions, its own script system, and an unbroken lengthy history. In addition, the language has continuously been a spoken language at least for more than 2,000 years in Tamil Nadu. It has essentially kept its age-old character intact, even though it is an effective modern language.

The demand for classical status arose in the context of the British Indian administration treating Sanskrit, Persian, and Arabic as classical languages and making special provisions and support mechanisms for the learning and development of these languages. The demand arose also in the context of the strong Tamil tradition and tendency, even now easily discernible, to maintain its own distinct character through various linguistic, literary, religious, anthropological, sociological, cultural, and architectural means and contributions.

In recent years, George Hart, Professor of Tamil Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, reiterated with sound arguments the demand that Tamil should be declared or recognised as a classical language. He wrote in 2000: "First, Tamil is of considerable antiquity. Second, Tamil constitutes the only literary tradition indigenous to India that is not derived from Sanskrit. Third, the quality of classical Tamil literature is such that it is fit to stand beside the great literatures of Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Chinese, Persian and Arabic."

Dr. Robert Caldwell (1814-1891) established beyond the pale of controversy the reality of the Dravidian family of languages and the high antiquity of Tamil. According to him, it is the most highly cultivated of all Dravidian idioms; it can dispense with its Sanskrit altogether, if need be, and not only stand alone but also flourish without its aid.

Caldwell's study provided the base for the formation of the Pure Tamil Movement, founded by the great Tamil savant, Parithimaal Kalaignar (V.G. Suryanarayana Sastri), a Professor of Tamil at the Madras Christian College. He first gave the clarion call to recognise Tamil as a classical language. His view was further nurtured by the renowned scholars, Maraimalai Adigal (1876-1950) and Devaneya Paavanar, who opined that Tamil was the primary classical language of the world.

The 1970s again saw a champion of the cause in Manavai Mustafa, then Editor of UNESCO Courier (Tamil). But he did not have much organisational backing. Since 1975 he has been writing consistently in newspapers and magazines pressing the demand. Chief Minister M.G. Ramachandran asked him to send a petition detailing how Tamil qualified to claim the status.

Fwd: A good message - because we need each other

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From: Ranjit Santakumar
Date: Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:13 AM
Subject: A good message - because we need each other
To:

This is the "wear your seatbelt" ad from the UK - made by a guy not hired to do it.  Because the cause is important to him, he came up with this idea and now it's being hailed across the world as a 'beautiful' commercial.    http://embracethis.co.uk/

Fwd: Fw: What Ratan Tata did for the Mumbai victims.... a every Indian should know

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From: Ranjit Santakumar
Date: Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:54 AM
Subject: Fw: What Ratan Tata did for the Mumbai victims.... a every Indian should know
To:


Kindly Take few moments to read this, its really worth reading..........Thank You.
 
 

Ratan Tata is the chairman of Indian Hotels who own the Taj Mahal Hotel Mumbai, which was the target of the terrorists last year.

Hotel President a 5 star property also belongs to Indian Hotels.
The following is really touching.



What Ratan Tata did for the Mumbai victims.... Don't miss!!!!!!

SALUTE TO
SHRI RATAN TATA




A. The Tata Gesture

All category of employees including those who had completed even 1 day as casuals were treated on duty during the time the hotel was closed.

Relief and assistance to all those who were injured and killed

The relief and assistance was extended to all those who died at the railway station, surroundings including the "Pav- Bha ji" vendor and the pan shop owners.

During the time the hotel was closed, the salaries were sent by money order.

A psychiatric cell was established in collaboration with Tata Institute of Social Sciences to counsel those who needed such help.

The thoughts and anxieties going on people's mind was constantly tracked and where needed psychological help provided.

Employee outreach centers were opened where all help, food, water, sanitation, first aid and counseling was provided. 1600 employees were covered by this facility.

Every employee was assigned to one mentor and it was that person's responsibility to act as a "single window" clearance for any help that the person required.

Ratan Tata personally visited the families of all the 80 employees who in some manner – either through injury or getting killed – were affected.

The dependents of the employees were flown from outside Mumbai to Mumbai and taken care off in terms of ensuring mental assurance and peace. They were all accommodated in Hotel President for 3 weeks.

Ratan Tata himself asked the families and dependents – as to what they wanted him to do.

In a record time of 20 days, a new trust was created by the Tatas for the purpose of relief of employees.

Whatg is unique is that even the other people, the railway employees, the police staff, the pedestrians who had nothing to do with Tatas were covered by compensation. Each one of them was provided subsistence allowance of Rs. 10K per month for all these people for 6 months.

A 4 year old granddaughter of a vendor got 4 bullets in her and only one was removed in the Government hospital. She was taken to Bombay hospital and several lacs were spent by the Tatas on her to fully recover her.

New hand carts were provided to several vendors who lost their carts.

Tata will take responsibility of life education of 46 children of the victims of the terror.

This was the most trying period in the life of the organisation. Senior managers including Ratan Tata were visiting funeral to funeral over the 3 days that were most horrible.

The settlement for every deceased member ranged from Rs. 36 to 85 lacs [One lakh rupees tranlates to approx 2200 US $ ] in addition to the following benefits:

a. Full last salary for life for the family and dependents;
b. Complete responsibility of education of children and dependents – anywhere in the world.
c. Full Medical facility for the whole family and dependents for rest of their life.
d. All loans and advances were waived off – irrespective of the amount.
e. Counselor for life for each person


B. Epilogue

How was such passion created among the employees? How and why did they behave the way they did?

The organisation is clear that it is not something that someone can take credit for. It is not some training and development that created such behaviour. If someone suggests that – everyone laughs

It has to do with the DNA of the organisation, with the way Tata culture exists and above all with the situation that prevailed that time. The organization has always been telling that customers and guests are #1 priority

The hotel business was started by Jamshedji Tata when he was insulted in one of the British hotels and not allowed to stay there.

He created several institutions which later became icons of progress, culture and modernity. IISc is one such institute. He was told by the rulers that time that he can acquire land for IISc to the extent he could fence the same. He could afford fencing only 400 acres.

When the HR function hesitatingly made a very rich proposal to Ratan – he said – do you think we are doing enough?

The whole approach was that the organisation would spend several hundred crore in re-building the property – why not spend equally on the employees who gave their life?

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"Don't talk while he drives"

cartoonist yesudasan on manorama vs toms / http://asadhureborn.blogspot.com/

കോടതിയില്‍ കള്ളം പറയാന്‍ പാടില്ലെങ്കിലും അത്യാവശ്യത്തിനു ചില്ലറ കള്ളങ്ങളും മലയാള മനോരമക്ക് വേണ്ടി ഞാന്‍ കോടതിയില്‍ പറയേണ്ടി വന്നു. ഇപ്പോള്‍ ദുഃഖം തോന്നുന്നു.
ടോംസിന്‍റെ മകളുടെ വിവാഹം വര്‍ഷങ്ങള്‍ക്കു മുന്‍പ് ചേര്‍ത്തലയില്‍ വെച്ചാണ് നടക്കുന്നത്. ഇതിനകം ടോംസ് മനോരമയില്‍ നിന്ന് പിരിഞ്ഞിരുന്നു. ഇരുപതും മുപ്പതും വര്‍ഷം ഒരുമിച്ചു ജോലി ചെയ്യുകയും ഉണ്ണുകയും ഉറങ്ങുകയും ചെയ്ത മനോരമ സുഹൃത്തുക്കള്‍ അനേകരാണ്. വേണ്ടപ്പെട്ട എല്ലാവരെയും കല്യാണക്കത്ത് കൊടുത്തു ക്ഷണിച്ചു.
കാറില്‍ നിന്നിറെങ്ങിയ ഞാന്‍ പള്ളിക്ക് ചുറ്റും ഒന്ന് കറങ്ങി. വേണ്ടപ്പെട്ട ആരെയും കാണുന്നില്ലല്ലോ- മനോരമയില്‍ നിന്ന് പിരിയുകയും മനോരമക്കെതിരെ കേസ് പറയുകയും ചെയ്യുന്ന ടോംസിന്‍റെ പുത്രിയുടെ കല്യാണത്തില്‍ പങ്കടുക്കെണ്ടതില്ലെന്നു എല്ലാവരും ഒറ്റക്കെട്ടായി തീരുമാനിച്ച പോലെ - ഉണ്ണുന്ന ചോറിനോടാണല്ലോ കൂറ് വേണ്ടത് - കോട്ടയത്ത്‌ എന്ന് മാത്രമല്ല എല്ലായിടത്തും ഇതാണ് സ്ഥിതി. മാതൃഭൂമിയിലും മംഗളത്തിലും ഇതു തന്നെ സംഭവിക്കും. ടൈംസ്‌ ഓഫ് ഇന്ത്യയിലും ന്യൂ യോര്‍ക്ക്‌ ടൈംസിലും ഇത് തന്നെ സംഭവിച്ചുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നു - മനസ്സിനൊരു വല്ലാത്ത ഭാരം. സുഹൃത്ബന്ധത്തെപ്പറ്റി ആലോചിച്ചു ഞാന്‍ പള്ളിമുറ്റത്ത് നില്‍ക്കുന്നു. എന്നെ ആരോ കെട്ടിപ്പിടിച്ചു. ടോംസ് തന്നെ. അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്‍റെ പത്നിയും അടുത്തുണ്ട്. ടോംസ് എന്നോട് പതുങ്ങിയ സ്വരത്തില്‍ പറഞ്ഞു: "യേശുദാസന്‍ ഞങ്ങളുടെ മാനം കാത്തു."

അങ്ങനെ വിളിക്കും. പ്രതികരിച്ചില്ലെന്നിരിക്കും. വിളിച്ചില്ലെന്നിരുക്കും. വിളിക്കാന്‍ മറന്നെന്നിരിക്കും. മലയാളത്തിന്‍റെ മനപ്രയാസ്സം!
http://asadhureborn.blogspot.com/

Fwd: what a news

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From: Atulya Sharma
Date: Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:41 PM
Subject: what a news
To: nam <naamhs@gmail.com>


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Fw: Life thoughts by Duckky.

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From: Ranjit Santakumar
Date: Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 2:04 PM
Subject: Fw: Life thoughts by Duckky.
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1 Marriage changes passion. Suddenly you're in bed with a relative. 2 I saw a woman wearing a sweat shirt with 'Guess' on it. So I said 'Implants?' She hit me. 3 How come we choose from just two people to run for president and over fifty for Miss America ? 4 Now that food has replaced sex in my life, I can't even get into my own pants. 5 I signed up for an exercise class and was told to wear loose fitting clothing. If I HAD any loose fitting clothing, I wouldn't have signed up in the first place! 6 When I was young we used to go 'skinny dipping,' now I just 'chunky dunk.' 7 Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference. 8 Wouldn't it be nice if whenever we messed up our life we could simply press 'Ctrl Alt Delete' and start all over? AMEN, AMEN !! 9 Why is it that our children can't read a Bible in school, but they can in prison? 10 Wouldn't you know it..... Brain cells come and brain cells go, but FAT cells live forever. 11 Why do I have to swear on the Bible in court when the Ten Commandments cannot be displayed outside? 12 And remember: life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.