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An Independent Clergy & Laity Partnership Initiative  Issue: No 2028   19-07-2014  ** Please add ican@josephdias.info to your address book to ensure future delivery. ** If the images below do not display correctly, please click here Ecumenical Evangelical Interdenominational Isaiah 41:10 “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” HEADLINE Pope Francis to visit Pentecostal Church in Italy Italy, July 16, 2014: Pope Francis will pay a brief “private visit” to the Italian church of a Pentecostal pastor he knew from Argentina, a Vatican spokesman has said. The visit to the Evangelical Church of Reconciliation in Caserta, about 130 miles south of Rome, “is under study and likely would take place July 26″, … Links Audio Bibles Assamese Bengali English Gondi Hindi Malayalam Oriya Punjabi Tamil Telugu Urdu Text Bibles Awadhi Bengali English Gujarati Hindi Kannada Malayalam Marathi Oriya Punjabi Tamil Telugu Urdu Subscribe Disclaimer Unsubscribe INDIA Bangalore rapes: nun trainee becomes fourth victim Bangalore, July 18, 2014: A 16-year-old girl undergoing training to become a Catholic nun was gangraped Thursday night in Bangalore, southern India. This was the fourth rape case that came to light in the capital city of Karnataka state in the past one week. The novice of the Sisters of the Nativity Convent has been … Persecution in UP, MP & Chhattisgarh – EFI UP: Sunday Worship Attacked, Christians Beaten up On 6 July in Saraia ( Madiyahun, Jaunpur ), Hindu extremists attacked a church Sunday worship meeting after they submitted a police complaint against the Christians and threatened that they would stage a protest in front of a church if there is another Sunday worship meeting in the … Meghalaya starts action against Satan worship Shillong, July 16, 2014: Meghalaya government has started a series of steps to curb the reported increase in ‘Satan worship’ in the predominantly Christian state, media reports say. The cult is particularly troubling Garo Hills, the government has started spreading of awareness against the cult, especially among the youth, the Times of India reported. According … ASIA + Nuns attacked at convent in northern Bangladesh Bangladesh, July 16, 2014: Last week dozens of armed men broke into a convent in northern Bangladesh, beating a group of nuns at a small mission. “The attack was massive and lasted about an hour and a half. The attackers brutally beat the nuns … the convent was seriously devastated,” Bishop Sebastian Tudu of Dinajpur … WORLD Barnabas briefs: Iraq, Sudan, Bangladesh & Burundi Iraq: Kidnapped nuns and orphans freed; Christians denied food rations Two nuns and three orphans who were kidnapped in Mosul last month have been released. Miskintah and Utoor Joseph, along with Hala Salim, Sarah Khoshaba and Aram Sabah, were freed on Monday (14 July), having been captured on 28 June. It is thought their kidnappers … MISCELLANEOUS Squeeze the most out of your day About one hundred years ago, a man named Ivy Lee went to the president of Bethlehem Steel, Charles Schwab, and made a deal with him. 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  India’s Global Innovation Index ranking declines to 76^th

A collaborative study by Cornell University, INSEAD, and World Intellectual Property Organization, has ranked India 76^thout of 143 nations on its Global Innovation Index (GII), with a special mention being made on overhauling of higher education sector in India.

The latest publication of the its Global Innovation Index 2014, reported India’s ranking to have fallen down 10 places to 76^th rank out of 143 economies for this year. The report ranked India 65^th on its Innovation Output Sub-Index, and93rd on its Innovation Input Sub-Index. Amongst other sub-indices, India has exhibited a higher rank of 31 in Global Innovation Efficiency Index.

Other BRICS nations improved their positions wherein Brazil improved by 3 places to 61^st rank, Russia by 13 places to 49^th rank, China by 6 places to 29^th rank and South Africa by 5 places to 53^rd rank. The report cited the divergence in India’s performance from rest of the BRICS nations has been due to challenges it faces in integrating its efforts along the different dimensions of innovation to sustain a high level of innovation success.

The report enumerates that India has shown strength in areas like Research & development, QS University ranking, General infrastructure, Gross capital formation in infrastructure, investments in market capitalization, investments in total value of stocks traded, intensity of local competition, state of cluster development, citable documents H index, growth rate of PPP$ GDP per worker, knowledge diffusion, communication, computer & information services expenditure and creative goods exports.

The report says that India has shown weakening in areas of political stability, business environment, ease in starting business, education, scales in reading, maths and science, tertiary education, environment performances, firms offering formal training to workers, computer software spending for knowledge impact, creative outputs, global entertainment and media output, printing and publishing manufacturers and video uploads on youtube.

The report has made special mention of Indian higher education system and bottlenecks it faces. The report says that rapid growth in higher education sector is concentrated in private rather than public institutions and focused on only a few professional fields. In order to tackle these challenges India needs to ensure quality education, build graduate education and research institutions, provide equity of access, and build excellent liberal arts universities.

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Dr. S P Sharma

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Worst Drought July15, High Floods Last 4-5 Days

Ravinder Singh

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Worst Drought July15, High Floods Last 4-5 Days
July20, 2014

It is appalling BP Ydav Director of IMD – top level IMD Officer issues
Misleading Statements – as of today Rainfall Deficit all over India is
32% but he reported 15% contrary to the daily reporting. Some times he
also comments on Agriculture – Mostly Stupid. As IMD Definition
Deficient 20% to 59% RED in picture is deficient regions and 60% plus
deficient is Scanty YELLOW. Almost Entire India was RED and YELLOW.

50% RAINS 12-07-2014 To 19-07-2014

We can see rainfall upto July12, 2014 was 153.4mm than on July19, 2014
was 230.7mm or 50% rains this season up to July19, 2014 fell last
week.

Deficiency as on July19, 2014 was 32% not 15% reported by him.

Earlier it was 43% on July10 and 40% on July15 – Heavy Rains in last
four days had reduced deficit to 32%.

Severe Drought to High Rainfall has not improved agriculture – FARMERS
CAN’T SOW SEEDS and SEEDS ALREADY SOWN ARE DAMAGED BY HEAVY RAINS AND
WATERLOGGING. Heavy Rains also washes away fertilizer already applied,
crops stored and dry fodder are also damaged.

Irrigated areas are immune to Drought.

Ravinder Singh, National General Secretary.
Sabka Bharat Mission 2019
Y-77, Hauz Khas, New Delhi -110016
Ph: 9650421857, 9718280435
Sabkabharatmission2019@gmail.com