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KOLKATA: With Governments of India and Bangladesh not clearing the confusion over the surrender or arrest of ULFA Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, prospects for an immediate negotiations between him and the Centre do not look bright.

Gadkaris are those whose forefathers were once entrusted with the task of up-keeping the forts under the kings. The fort Nitin has been asked to hold for the parivar is much larger. The problems he faces look more complex than when Mohan Bhagwat had flamboyantly announced a set of new working arrangements for the BJP. Nitin's fort already seems under siege from both within and outside. This is not the outbursts of a doomsayer. The wel- entrenched Delhi crowd itself boasts about it.

The cat is out of the bag. The drug manufacturers and marketers in India have admitted that they 'induce' medical practitioners with attractive freebies for prescribing their products to patients and hospital administration. They have told the government that they would formulate and follow a 'code of ethics' with regard to the offering of inducements to doctors, who act as an indirect delivery link for prescription drugs between the industry and end-consumers, the patients or the ailing public.

Renewed violence and demonstrations for a separate state of Telangana sponsored by the TRS leader Mr. K Chandrasekhara Rao, whose fast early in December, forced the Congress leadership at the Centre to cave in, are leading to a political crisis in Andhra Pradesh which may be headed for President's rule. The central leaders totally miscalculated with every move and in the process, further weakened the hands of a soft Chief Minister Mr. K Rosaiah to handle firmly the outbreaks of violence.

New York: The top United Nations human rights official voiced deep concern today over the verdict and severe sentencing of a prominent Chinese writer, warning that this represents a serious setback for human rights in China.

New York: The General Assembly approved a budget of $5.16 billion for the 2010-2011 period, in a move immediately welcomed by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Yahoo India, has named AICC General secretary Rahul Gandhi as the most popular newsmaker of India in 2009. This was based on the number of clicks registered for a specific news story pertaining to him. This week the CNN- IBN has declared the young scion of the Nehru- Gandhi family as the politician of the year. India TV too has chosen him as the politician of the year.

New York: The Security Council imposed arms and travel sanctions on Eritrea for supporting insurgents trying to topple the nascent government in nearby Somalia.

New York: The United Nations refugee agency laid out its strategy today to combat xenophobia and racism, which it says triggers flight and can jeopardize its work to protect asylum-seekers, refugees and the stateless.

At the beginning of the year2010, the Indian government has planned to woo its diaspora spread across to globe into the mainstream of its emerging economy. A three-day redesigned gala event - 8th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas - is being organised by the Union Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in partnership with the Delhi government and the Confederation of Indian Industry from January 7.