Monday, December 10, 2012




 India start his tour from  Sunday evening for a four-day state visit, in his sojourn the two countries  agree to raise bilateral cooperation ad to strengthen comprehensive partnership.India and Ukraine today signed five agreements to enhance cooperation including in areas of defence, Nuclear, Science and Technology and also to remove barriers in trade and commerce.

The agreements were signed after delegation level talks between visiting Ukraine President Victor Yanukovich and Prime Minister Manmohnan Singh at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi.

The pacts also include a Memorandum of understanding between the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board of India and the Ukranian Nuclear regulator for cooperation in nuclear safety, construction design, operation and nuclear waste management.

Mr. Yanukovich also held talks with External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on matter of mutual interest to both countries

VChangeU wins eNGO Challenge 2012 Award for Organizational Efficiency.
Received award from Mr. Munaf Hakim - Chairman of State Minority Commission, Maharashtra during 9th Manthan Award South Asia & Asia Pacific 2012 on 1st December, 2012 at India Habitat Center, Lodhi Road, New Delhi.
VChangeU is a non-profit organization based in Hyderabad helping young people by educating them what tobacco and alcohol really are, how occasional tobacco and alcohol consumption can lead to regular use and then to addiction that can wreak havoc with health and wellbeing of entire family. Through school-based education programs and public information programs on tobacco, alcohol and drugs VChangeU endeavours to keep the young generation away from these activities for lifetime.

The website www.vchangeu.com has been used to reach out to a large section of people and spread awareness and inspiration on the core issues with good compilation of information in the form FAQ, statistics and analytics. A tool called Stat Counter is used for analysis and monitoring of website visitor activity in real-time. Usage of Social Media, Blogs, YouTube, Skype and Flickr has helped reachout to the younger generation. LinkedIn is used as a channel to connect to the senior people and professionals from different sectors.

Various software tools have been used for designing a number of Anti-Tobacco & Alcohol posters and campaigns with innovative ideas to bring awareness among younger generation. Production of Live, 2D & 3D animated short films on Tobacco awareness were undertaken and they were showcased during presentations in schools and colleges.

More than 300 domains were registered and hosted to create massive awareness on various social causes with more than 150 Facebook pages.

An active usage of Social Media by the organization helps in spreading awareness and motivation among the students and youth.  The organization is using both ICT and local means of campaigning to educate the people on Tobacco and Alcohol Awareness.

Vijay Bhasker is Founder & President and the driving force behind VChangeU, is tirelessly working for the organization says We should live up to our responsibility to society for a better tomorrow.

The Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) has organized this eNGo Challenge for the first time in India to recognize the work of non-profit organizations, using ICT for social development in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal spreading recently to Kenya and other African countries too. There are more than 2000 NGOs registered under the eNGO network and the community is only growing by the day.

RETAIL STAKEHOLDERS TO OBSERVE 12TH DECEMBER 
AS COUNTRYWIDE 'SANKALP DIVAS' 
Slogan 150 plus 30  v/s Crore 120 will be the carrier of future protest activities
 
The retail stakeholders of the Country will observe forthcoming 12th December as " Sankalp Divas" across the Country to take pledge to continue their nationwide movement against FDI in Retail trade under the umbrella of " Khudra FDI Virodhi Rashtriya Morcha".(KFVRM) The farmers, traders,labourers,hawkers,transporters,consumers, SMEs, self employed groups and other sectors of retail trade will assemble at Gandhi statute in their respective cities and will take a pledge to continue the national movement till next Lok Sabha elections in 2014. Mr. B. C. Bhartia, National President and Mr. Praveen Khandelwal, Secretary General of the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) in a joint statement released here today said that the KFVRM has also appealed to all those political parties who have opposed FDI in Retail in Parliament to extend their support and join the protestors in their respective States, in a communication sent to Heads and prominent leaders of all such political parties.

The chain of such "Pledge Ceremony" will be led by a similar function at Rajghat, the Samadhi of Mahatama Gandhi in which leading politicians of different parties, scholars, economists, retail experts and other distinguished persons will join the pledge ceremony.To maintain the dignity of such a pledge a dummy of Mahatama Gandhi will recite the pledge followed by the people of different sections.

Both Mr. Bhartia and Mr. Khandelwal informed that a two days national convention of prominent trade leaders of different states has been convened by CAIT on forthcoming 16th and 17th December at Jaipur to take stock of the situation and to draw future plan of action.

They further said that now this movement will begin with a slogan "150 plus 30 v/s Crore 120". Spelling out the slogan they said that it is fight between 150 domestic corporate houses plus 30 MNCs v/s 120 crore people of the Country and its final verdict will come out from the ballot boxes of Lok Sabha elections in 2014. All those political parties who inspite of knowing the political manipulations of UPA, have supported the FDI in Retail, a pledge campaign will be launched across the Country for obtaining signatures from the people with a clear motto of not to vote for such ;parties. The manner in which the FDI is allowed by ignoring the ground realties of retaail trade and lofting wrong figures and facts by the Govt, a challange has been posed for the livelihood of crores of people in the Country. " We accept the challange and since this issue has been politicised by the Government, it will be replied properly with political ansawers.

Shri Naresh Sirohi, General Secretary, Bhartiya Kisan Morcha said that streaneous efforts are being made with farmer leaders in different states to ensure their maximum particiption in Sankalp function whereas on the other hand Mr. Saudan Singh of National Hawkers Federation has geared up team of hawkers to turn out in numbers in such programmes. The leaders of transport sector Mr. Pradeep Singhal, Shri Ashutosh & Shri Rajender Kapoor said that FDI in Retail Trade will adversaly affect the transport sector and as such intensive efforts are being made to include transporters in large numbers in pledge ceremony. The convenors of Laghu Udhyog Morcha, Shri Ved Prakash Gupta, Shri Ravindra Bansal and Shri M. L. Dhawan said that the notification of the Govt has wrecked the backbome of small industries whereas the prominent leader of Consumers movement in the Country Mr. Bejon Mishra said that the ultimate crackdown of FDI in Retail will be faced by consumers who will be forced to bow down against monopolistic prices of the global retailers.

KFVRM national coordinator Shri Pradeep Sharma and National Organiser Shri Satish Garg informed that on forthcoming 1st January,2013 a national convention leaders of nationwide organisations of farmers, hawkers,traders,consumers, SMEs, cooperative sector, self employed groups and other sections of retail sector will join the convention. They also informed that prominent leaders of all those 14 political parties who have opposed FDI in Retail in Parliament will be invited to join the pledge ceremony

The Delhi State CAIT President Mr. Narender Madan, National Secretary Shri Ramesh Khanna and Delhi State General Secretary Shri Vijay Pal said that hectic preparations have begin to make pledge ceremony at Rajghat on 12th December,2012 a successful event and all leading trade associations of Delhi will participate in the pledge function.
MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO 'Première journée universelle de la renaissance'


Célébration de l’entrée de l’humanité dans le Troisième Paradis.

Vendredi 21 décembre 2012 à partir de 14h.

La démarche créative de Michelangelo Pistoletto l’a conduit à des problématiques sociétales et environnementales. Le 21 décembre 2012 marque selon lui l’entrée de l’humanité dans le Troisième Paradis, réconciliant nature et artifice. Cette date est l’occasion de s’engager ensemble pour une transformation équilibrée et équitable de notre société.

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हिन्दू हितों पर कुठाराघात असहनीय : डा सुरेन्द्र जैन
दिल्ली विहिप ने किए अनेक हित चिन्तक सम्मेलन

नयी दिल्ली। दिसंबर 6, 2012. हिन्दू समाज पर हो रहे चहुं मुखी हमलों पर सख्त नाराजगी व्यक्त करते हुए विश्व हिन्दू परिषद के केन्द्रीय मंत्री डा सुरेन्द्र जैन ने कहा है कि चाहे बाबा अमर नाथ की यात्रा को षडयंत्र पूर्वक रोकने का मामला हो या हिन्दू मन्दिरों पर हमले, पाकिस्तान, बंग्लादेश व कश्मीर में हिन्दूओं का उत्पीडन हो या गौ हत्या व गंगा की अविरल धारा को रोकने का षडयंत्र, इन सभी मुद्दों पर हमारी सरकारें चुप क्यों हैं? विहिप दिल्ली के हितचिन्तक सम्मेलनों में बोलते हुए उन्होंने यह भी कहा कि मुस्लिम तुष्टीकरण की नीति ने देश की राजनीति को आज दूषित कर दिया है जिसे तुरन्त शुद्ध किए जाने की आवश्यकता है। अयोध्या के सदर्भ में उन्होंने कहा कि राम मन्दिर के बगल में या अयोध्या की सांस्कृतिक सीमा में इस्लामिक सेंटर बनाए जाने की किसी भी कोशिश को हिन्दू समाज एक चुनौती के रूप में देखता है।

विहिप दिल्ली के मीडिया प्रमुख श्री विनोद बंसल ने बताया कि आज दिल्ली के अनेक स्थानों का हितचिंतक सम्मेलनों काआयोजन किया गया जिनमें पश्चिमी दिल्ली के ए ब्लाक पश्चिम विहार स्थित गौरी शंकर मंदिर,  ककरोला के पीपल चौक पर, गीता विद्यालय कंझावला में, तथा पूर्वी पंजाबी बाग के आर्य समाज मंदिर में हुए कार्य क्रम प्रमुख थे। इन कार्यक्रमों में हिन्दू समाज के विविध वर्गों यथा जैन, बौध, सिख व वाल्मीकि समाज आदि के प्रमुख पदाधिकारियों के साथ-साथ क्षेत्र के 100 प्रमुख मन्दिरों की प्रबन्ध समिति के लोगों को उनकी उत्कृष्ट सेवा के लिए सम्मानित किया गया। इन सभी ने एक स्वर से न सिर्फ़ गौ हत्या बन्दी व हिन्दू मानबिन्दुओं पर हो रहे कुठाराघात के विरुद्ध आवाज बुलन्द की बल्कि अपने अपने स्तर पर सत्संगों व गौ सेवा हेतु गौ ग्रास सेवा केन्द्र चलाने पर सहमति व्यक्त की।

सैंकडों की उपस्थिति वाले इन कार्यक्रमों को विहिप के केंद्रीय मंत्री श्री डॉ सुरेन्द्र जैन व श्री कोटेश्वर शर्मा के अलावा क्षेत्रीय संगठन मंत्री श्री कैलाश सिंहल, प्रान्त संगठन मंत्री श्री करुणा प्रकाश, प्रान्त महा मंत्री श्री सत्येन्द्र मोहन, उपाध्यक्ष श्री अशोक कुमार व श्री महावीर गुप्ता, दिल्ली संत महा मंडल के महा मंत्री महंत श्री नवलकिशोर दास, मातृशक्ति की क्षेत्रीय सयोजिका श्रीमती मालती शर्मा, विहिप पश्चिमी दिल्ली के मंत्री श्री शान्ति स्वरूप, जिलाध्यक्ष श्री जगदीश राय जैन व श्री प्रेम प्रकाश शर्मा सहित अनेक वक्ताओं ने संबोधित किया।  गत माह समाप्त हुए विहिप के हितचिंतक अभियान में दिल्ली के एक लाख से अधिक हिन्दुओं को संगठन ने अपना नया सदस्य बनाया है जिसे हित चिंतक नाम दिया है।
भवदीय

विनोद बंसल, मीडिया प्रमुख,
इंद्र्प्रस्थ विश्व हिंदू परिषद, दिल्ली 9810949109

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