Advani says will check migration to cities

BANGALORE: The Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani on Monday promised to decongest cities like Bangalore by reducing migration through creation of jobs in rural areas with the help of IT, if the NDA was voted to power.Addressing a public meeting at the National College Grounds in Bangalore as part of the party’s election campaign, Advani said his party had plans to create a minimum of 1.2 crore jobs in villages at the rate of 20 jobs in each of the six lakh villages in the country. This, he noted, would check migration of unemployed youth to cities like Bangalore in search of jobs and also help reduce the pressure on urban areas.Trying to strike a chord with the people of the country’s IT capital, Advani said the NDA would use IT as an effective tool to reduce corruption in administration if voted to power. Recalling the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s statement that if one rupee was released by the Centre under welfare measures, only 15 paise would reach beneficiaries in States as there was a “leakage” in the system, he remarked that the NDA would ensure that even the beneficiaries in the States received the full one rupee by bringing in transparency and accountability through implementation of IT in administration.“If there is any party which believes in real secularism, it is the BJP,” he claimed and alleged that secularism had become a synonym for vote-bank politics for other parties. Advani accused the Congress of resorting to vote-bank politics and said, “the BJP believed in justice for all and discrimination against none.”Describing the BJP as one which believed in inclusive policies, Advani said the party-ruled States had taken steps for the welfare of Dalits. The BJP Government in Karnataka had increased allocation for the welfare of SCs and STs by three-fold, he added.He said that the elections to the Lok Sabha would change the history of India. He termed the Third Front as just a “theory” and the Fourth Front as a “farce.”

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India's swine flu death rate is increasing

Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in

Cuba's world-famous cigar festival closes in Havana

Sunday, February 28, 2010 HAVANA: Hundreds of wealthy merchants and cigar aficionados from all parts of the world gathered in Havana this week to bid high stakes for humidors full of premium cigars. Cuba's annual Habanos festival ended on Friday night with an auction of ornate humidors of cedar and mahogany stacked with hand-rolled stogies that raised 800,000 euros ($1.09 million dollars). Habanos S.A. executives this month said cigar sales fell 8 percent to $360 million in 2009, so they have created the Julieta, a smaller, milder version of the Romeo y Julieta cigar, aimed specifically at female smokers. Women now make up only 5 to 10 percent of customers for Habanos. But even with the creation of the Julieta, Garcia said Habanos has only modest hopes for 2010 sales, due largely to a weak economy in Spain, the biggest market for Cuban cigars. The flavor of premium tobacco relies on the soil and climate in which it is grown. The western province of Pinar Del Rio, famous fo

Cyprus lace to be declared UNESCO cultural heritage

Tuesday, September 08, 2009 NICOSIA: Traditional hand-made lace produced in the Larnaca district village of Lefkara in Cyprus known as lefkaritiko includeded in UNESCO’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). Soseilos said that the relevant UNESCO committee has already decided to include lefkaritiko in its list of the world’s ICH, a more recent addition to UNESCO’s long-standing list of World Heritage sites, and the decision will be formally announced at the UNESCO General Assembly next month. The tradition of needlework and lace embroidery in Lefkara goes back centuries.

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