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The woman was driven around west #Delhi early Friday and later taken to a shop where two more men waited. She was #gangraped there.
A woman was kidnapped in a Meru cab by three people, one of whom was known to her, and then driven to a shop where she was gang-raped, police said on Satur
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| Book Launch: Why India is not a Great Power (Yet) Bharat Karnad |
| Thursday, 24 September 2015, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. |
| Gulmohar Hall, Habitat World, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road |
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| Pictured:From the book cover of ‘‘Why India is Not a Great Power (Yet)’ |
Since the economic liberalisation of the early 1990s, India has been, on several occasions and at different forums, feted as a great power. This subject has been discussed in numerous books, but mostly in terms of rapid economic growth and immense potential in the emerging market. There is also a vast collection of literature on India’s ‘soft power’—culture, tourism, frugal engineering, and knowledge economy. However, there has been no serious exploration of the alternative path India can take to achieving great power status—a combination of hard power, geostrategics, and realpolitik.
Why India is Not a Great Power (Yet) published by Oxford University Press, delves exclusively into these hard power aspects of India’s rise and the problems associated with them. Bharat Karnad offers an incisive analysis of the deficits in the country’s military capabilities and in the ‘software’ related to hard power—absence of political vision and will, insensitivity to strategic geography, and unimaginative foreign and military policies—and arrives at powerful arguments on why these shortfalls have prevented the country from achieving the great power status.
The book will be released by General VK Singh (Retd), Minister of State for External Affairs. It will be followed by a panel discussion, which will include:
We request all to be present by 6:30 p.m. for tea and registrations.
RSVP: Anuradha Mukherjee – anuradha.mukherjee@oup.com, 011-43600144
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Dear friends in Delhi,
Zero poverty.
Zero hunger. Zero deforestation. 100% Clean Energy.
These are the types of crazy-ambitious Global Goals Pope Francis and world leaders are announcing in New York next week as the path for our planet through 2030.
But these goals will only ever be words on paper if they don’t land with the power of the world’s people behind them.
That’s why countless people are coming together at hundreds of events around the world to ‘Light the Way’ for Global Goals next Thursday, on the eve of this historic summit.
Here in Delhi, thousands will gather at the footsteps of the Purana Qila at sunset to demand leaders Light the Way for a world that’s radically different from the one we’ve got today!
Come along to this amazing event at 7:00pm this Thursday at Purana Qila in Delhi.
The Global Goals are the follow-up to the Sustainable Development Goals, which oversaw huge strides in things like slashing the number of people in extreme poverty globally, putting more girls in school, and nailing the target for increasing access to clean drinking water. But success was mixed, with some goals lagging behind, and much of it went unfunded until people spoke up for government action.
These goals are even more ambitious. If they sound too good to be true, there’s a risk they are — some leaders are banking on them coming off as “aspirational” (as in, you know, things they won’t actually do anything about). That’s why we need to show up for them — starting next Thursday. The people who work on these issues need to know we’re with them.
From Sydney to New York, people are coming out for this global day of action to show their leaders that people power is behind this key stepping stone for a better world. Join the crowd in Delhi at Purana Qila and Light the Way.
Momentum is ramping up for us to finally get a grip on climate change. With luminaries like Pope Francis taking on the denial machine lobby and big oil, we could add a bolt of lightning to supercharge excitement as we enter the final months before Paris.
With hope,
Iain, Fatima, Oli, Risalat, David and the rest of the Avaaz team
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National Consultation on Children and Internal Migration in India
New Delhi, 16 SAA two-day National Consultation on Children and Internal Migration in India will be held on 22 and 23 September 2015 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The consultation is organized by Aide et Action International, in collaboration with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and Bernard van Leer Foundation.
Internal migrants – estimated at nearly 30 percent (326 millions) as per NSSO 2007-2008 – are a critically vulnerable population, deprived of social protection entitlements, excluded from government policies, and schemes, and prey to ruthless exploitation. As per UNESCO 2013 report on Social Inclusion of Internal Migrants in India, around 15 million children in India are migrants. Most of the children accompany their parents to the urban worksites like construction, stone quarries and brick kilns where they are excluded from accessing basic services like nutrition, schooling, and healthcare.
An Aide et Action & Bernard van Leer Foundation study (2013) on the status and condition of young migrants living at worksites located in 8 cities across the country – Delhi, Chennai, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Jaipur, Patna, Hyderabad and Guwahati – portrays a very grim picture of the children and their conditions. It indicates that 90% seasonal migrant children are excluded from accessing the ICDS services whereas 80% school going children do not access education near worksites. While 65% of the children suffer from ill health, 40% work as child labour and experience various kinds of abuse and exploitation. Needless to say, “girl children endure many more deprivations than boys”, “receive less nutrition and less care than boys, and often have to do double work, at work sites as well as at home.” The adolescent girls living at the worksite are more vulnerable to abuse and sexual violence.
Therefore, this consultation is going to plan and devise meaningful and effective government programme, convergence and policy on several critical issues affecting migrant children:
1. Portability of government entitlements and service-need for convergence and policy
2. Tracking and mapping of migrant children at source and destination
3. Access to child care, health, nutrition, crèche and Anganwadi at worksites
4. Inclusive access and right to education of migrant children
5. Decent housing and healthy environment at worksites for migrant families
6. Migrant child labour and safety and security of adolescent girls living in worksites
7. GO-NGO-Corporate partnership for the welfare of migrant and children at worksites
The consultation will bring together eminent activists, academics, scholars, UN agencies, civil society organizations, corporate and government representatives. The recommendations will be shared with the government for its perusal and positive action.
Date and venue: 22-23 September 2015, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
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| The China Symposia (A series to develop a broader and deeper multi-dimensional understanding of China) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Session on What Does China’s Global Economic Strategy Mean for Asia, India and the World?– With a Focus on China’s “One Belt One Road” Initiative | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| DATE | Wednesday, September 30, 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TIME | 5:45 PM – 7:15 PM (Registration: 5:15 pm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LOCATION | Seminar Rooms II & III, Kamla Devi Complex, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Muller Marg, New Delhi – 110003 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SPEAKERS | Ambassador Shyam Saran, Chairman, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) and Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research (CPR)Mr. Ravi Bhoothalingam, Founder and Chairman, Manas Advisory and Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS)Ms. Suhasini Haider, Diplomatic Editor, the Hindu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CHAIR | Ambassador Kishan S. Rana, Former Indian Ambassador to Germany and Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ABOUT THE EVENT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The 21st century is marked by the unprecedented growth of China, which has made significant progress over the last decade in sustaining and broadening its economic development. According to the World Bank, China is the second largest economy and is increasingly playing an important and influential role in the global economy. In fact, China’s leaders have embarked on a conscious strategy to reshape the economy of Asia and the world to their advantage.
Under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, the “One Belt, One Road” is the most far-reaching initiative that China has ever put forward. Through this project, China is planning to alter the region’s economic architecture, patterns of regional trade, investment and infrastructure development. The ambitious project plans to connect China with Europe and Africa by road, rail and sea by a network of transport and industrial corridors. This session, first in the series under “The China Symposia”, will feature experts from diverse fields who will evaluate the opportunities and challenges for India of China’s ‘Silk Road’ economic strategy.
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