Ahmet Davutoglu on his exit
Davutoglu held a news conference on Thursday after a gathering of the party’s central executive committee.
“I came to the conclusion change in leader of the party and the Prime Ministerial position would serve a better purpose,” he said. “This must be carried out in a peaceful way, keeping with the integrity of the party.”
Holding more than an hours crisis meeting yesterday,a criitical for Davutoglu’s future, local media reported that an extraordinary congress would likely signal his exit at the congress will be held on May 22.
Media Reports suggest President Erdogan had demanded Davutoglu’s resignation following yesterday’s meeting.”Davutoglu will now have to comply with that demand and stand down at the congress … and there will be a new leader of the AKP.”
5 May 2016
UNIC/PRESS RELEASE/096-2016
International Festival of Language & Culture to take place in New Delhi this Saturday
The 14th International Festival of Language & Culture 2016 (IFLC 2016) will be organised for the first time in India. The event will be held on Saturday 7th May 2016 at the Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi where students from 17 countries (India, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Tanzania, Tunisia, Ukraine, Hungary, US-TX, Georgia and Russia) will sing and dance together for promoting the message of peace and brotherhood.
The IFLC is being organized here by the Educational Endowment Trust in association with Ministry of Culture, Government of India and UN Information Centre for India and Bhutan.
43 students and 18 mentors from abroad and 350 students from reputed Delhi schools namely Springdale’s School, The Frank Antony Public School, Ahlcon International School, Mata Guruji School, Tagore International School and Bluebells International School will participate in the 14th IFLC with the theme “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam – ‘The world is one family’.
Mr. Bilal Acikgoz, one of the coordinators of IFLC 2016, said: “We believe that understanding different languages and cultures helps us understand each other better, and that is the motive behind IFLC.” He also added, “I would also like to share that in India we have seen tremendous talent and potential in the local students. They deserve serious attention of global educational and cultural organisations. I think the international education fraternity should work in close cooperation with their Indian counterparts to provide the opportunities the Indian students truly deserve. The Educational Endowment Trust itself is keen to explore the talents of Indian students in other parts of India as well, especially in states like Maharashtra, UP, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand.”
IFLC is a global effort to facilitate a cordial engagement between the young change makers from different parts of the world. For the first time, the Indian capital, New Delhi, will host it where school students from all over the world will sing, dance and act to promote universal harmony and brotherhood at Talkatora Stadium. IFLC has been organised for the past 14 years, showcasing both the rich multicultural diversity of our world as well as the amazing talent of young students. It is an annual celebration that presents a range of linguistic and cultural diversity from around the world.
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RAJIV CHANDRAN
National Information Officer
United Nations Information Centre
for India and Bhutan
55, Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110003
Tel: 91 11 2462 3439
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When Barack Obama entered office in January of 2009, expectations were high. His campaign had suggested that he would be a transformational President but soon that ambition was diminished in domestic infighting and the never ending violence in the Middle East. Still, President Obama made good on his promise to “reintroduce America to the world” and established new parameters for Foreign Policy debates and decision making in the United States. Please join us for a review of his legacy and a look ahead to 2017.
Michael Werz is a Senior Fellow at American Progress, where his work as member of the National Security Team focuses on the nexus of climate change, migration, and security and emerging democracies, especially Turkey, Mexico, and Brazil. He has been a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund where his work focused on transatlantic foreign policy and the European Union. He has held appointments as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and as a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He is a graduate of Frankfurt University’s Institute for Philosophy and was professor at Hannover University in Germany. He is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s BMW Center for German and European Studies.
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” Two Years of Modi’s Leadership: The State of the Nation”
Dear Friend
IDEA OF INDIA COLLECTIVE
The Idea of India Collective is pleased to invite you for the seminar entitled ” Two Years of Modi’s Leadership: The State of the Nation”
Date: 23rd & 24th May, Monday &Tuesday, 2016
Time: 9 AM to 5 PM
Venue: Kamla Devi Block Hall 1&2, India International Centre,
40, Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi
Details about the speakers will follow soon.
Looking forward to your valuable presence and active participation.
Two Years of Modi’s Leadership:
The State of the Nation
Two years of leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi have deeply divided the country and its people. New disputes are manufactured, trying to dub all progressive and dissenting voices as ‘anti-national’. Students, farmers, and working people are targeted by the government’s ire and deliberate neglect.
Youthful voices that question communal and anti-poor policies are criminalised and punished, attempting submission. A young scholar’s suicide because of institutional discrimination against Dalit students in Hyderabad Central University stirred the conscience of the nation when he declared in his first and last letter to the world that he could not escape the fatal accident of his birth; yet Dalit students continue to suffer discrimination, even persecution, in this and other campuses.
A third of the countryside is staggering under one of the century’s worst droughts, often for the third consecutive year. In the eleven states where rains have failed, farmers who depend mainly on rainwater to irrigate their crops – the large majority – have no or very low crop yields. Those who rely on irrigation are scarcely better off, with groundwater sinking and streams and reservoirs drying up. To this are added chronic agrarian distress reflected in a massive slowdown in agricultural growth to as low little as 0.2 percent in 2014-15, with no imminent signs of recovery, resulting in farmers and agricultural labourers taking their lives in many parts of the country.
However, the response of central administration to looming drought is sadly listless, lacking in both urgency and compassion. The Finance Minister claimed he had allocated the highest ever resources to MGNREGA in the 2016 budget. However, allocations have actually fallen significantly in real terms from the peak of 0.6 percent of GDP in 2010-11 to 0.26 percent of GDP in 2016-17. A significant chunk of the alleged increased allocation is going for the past payments In addition, we find no plans are under way in almost any of the drought-hit regions for feeding the destitute, especially old persons left behind when families migrate, children without care-givers, the disabled and single women headed households. ICDS centres are in shambles in many places, starved of central and state funding, otherwise they could have been upgraded to also supply emergency feeding to the destitute during the drought. School meals should be served on all days, including holidays, but these are also erratic and uneven. There are rare arrangements to augment drinking water supply, including ensuring that Dalit and Muslim hamlets had functioning tube-wells, and transporting water where necessary. We find few attempts to create fodder banks and cattle camps, of cattle including those owned by households forced to migrate.
The management of industrial growth is equally listless, with little on the ground beyond slogans like Make in India. For the million young people joining the work force every month, there are few jobs. Most new jobs are without protection, they are dirty, often degrading and demeaning. New definitions are adopted to imagine high growth levels, but industrial production, exports, the rupee all continue to flounder, despite the bounty of global cheap petroleum crude oil. Corruption and crony capitalism are evident given the kid gloves with which large corporate defaulters are treated.
Allocations to the social sector continue to reel under severe cuts. The reality of fiscal devolution is not significantly more resources going to states, only a welcome greater power of decision-making at the level of the states. Both school and higher education, as well as public health, water, sanitation and social protection continue to be starved of funds. Even legally binding obligations under rights-based laws like RTE, MG NREGA and the National Food Security Act continue to be ignored with impunity. The law makes it incumbent on the government to make the budgetary resources available to fulfil such obligations but Centre’s failure to transfer funds have meant that the states simply do not have the resources to fulfil their legal obligations to provide enough employment to those desperate for some work and wages.
Fear and deliberate communal divides mount for religious minorities across the length and breadth of the country. Regions affected by violent uprisings – Kashmir, the North East and central India – face mounting militarisation, violation of human rights and suppression of the media and human rights defenders. India’s foreign policy seems adrift, despite the Prime Minister’s frequent foreign travels.
In order to discuss the state of the Indian nation after two years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, the Idea of India Collective proposes to organise once again a two day intense evaluation by a series of leading experts on 23 and 24 May at the India International Centre, Delhi.
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Dr.Mahalingam M
Research Fellow
Centre for Policy Analysis
C-17, Second Floor,
Green Park Extension,
New Delhi – 110016
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