Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Business Meeting with H.E. Dr Khairallah Hassan Babiker

Interactive Business Meeting with H.E. Dr Khairallah Hassan Babiker
Minister of Trade, Republic of Iraq

5th August, 2013 – New Delhi

I am delighted to inform you that on the occasion of the visit of H.E. Dr Khairallah Hassan Babiker, Minister of Trade, Republic of Iraq to India, FICCI is organizing an Interactive Business Meeting on 5th August, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at Federation House, Tansen Marg, New Delhi.


India and Iraq enjoy strong and friendly relations which go back tens of centuries. Today, the bilateral business ties are being steadily expanded and further strengthened by continuous interaction and cooperation. The bilateral relations between Iraq and India have traditionally been friendly and collaborative. Economic trade between ancient India and Mesopotamia date back to 1800 BC. The 1952 Treaty of Friendship established and strengthened ties between contemporary India and Iraq. By 1970s, Iraq was regarded as one of India's closest allies in the Middle East.


The visit of the Hon’ble Minister is in line with increased bilateral economic relations between the two countries in the recent past, and also holds significance in the backdrop of highly successful recent visit of Minister of External Affairs of India to Iraq in June 2013.


Keeping in view the importance of the meeting, may I request you to kindly join us and participate in this important event. Please send the filled –in registration proforma for confirming your participation at: arab@ficci.com; fax: 011-23765316. For any further query feel free to contact Mr Kurnal Kapoor, Asst Director at 011-23487507.


I look forward to your positive response.


Yours sincerely,

 
Goutam Ghosh
Director , FICCI

COMPARISON OF BJP VS INC RULE

Posted on July 30, 2013 by sagarmedia
Lok Sabha Polls – Seats / Votes Polled / % Votes
Years    Sonia Gandhi INC     BJP RSS +    India Total
1996    140 / 96455493 / 28.80%    180 /  67950851 / 20.29%    343308090
1998    141 / 95111131 / 25.82%    182 / 94266188 / 25.59%    375441739
1999    114 / 103120330 / 28.30%    182 / 86562209 / 23.75%    371669104
2004    145 / 103408949 / 26.53%    138 / 86371561 / 22.16%    389948330
2009    206 / 119111019 / 28.55%    116 / 78435381 / 18.80%    417159281
Comparison of BJP vs INC rule in states points to BJP reduced to just Three Big states and INC with allies and associates ruling most of India.

PML-N candidate set to win Pakistan  presidential poll

Mamnoon Hussain, the India-born nominee of ruling PML-N, is set to become the 12th President of Pakistan on Tuesday, succeeding incumbent Asif Ali Zardari.

The election, which was preponed from 6th August, will see a one-to-one contest between Hussain and Imran Khan's Pakistan Tenreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate Justice (retd) Wajihuddin Ahmed.

Pakistan People's Party withdrew its candidate Raza Rabbani and boycotted the election in protest to the date of polls being changed.

Over 1,000 members of the national parliament and four provincial assemblies will cast ballots for largely ceremonial head of the state.

Khursheed Alam, a spokesman of election commission, said the polling will start at 10.00 am and continue with break till 3.00 pm. The results of the election will be declared Tuesday itself.

Hussain, 73, a leading businessman from the port city of Karachi, is expected to easily win the poll as the PML-N has a clear majority in the electoral college comprising members of parliament and the four provincial assemblies.

"I will be the President for everybody. I will resign from my party office if I become President," Hussain, a close aide of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, had said.

Born in the historic city of Agra, Hussain belongs to the Urdu-speaking ethnic group that migrated from India during partition in 1947.

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