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Guillotine
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The guillotine (pronounced /ˈgiːjətiːn/ or /ˈgɪlətiːn/ in English; [gijɔtin] in French) was a device used for carrying out executions by decapitation. It consists of a tall upright frame from which a blade is suspended. This blade is raised with a rope and then allowed to drop, severing the victim's head from their body. The device is noted for long being the main method of execution in France and, more particularly, for its use during the French Revolution, when it "became a part of popular culture, celebrated as the people's avenger by supporters of the Revolution and vilified as the pre-eminent symbol of the Terror by opponents".[1] Nevertheless, the guillotine continued to be used long after the French Revolution in several countries.
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[edit] History and variations
[edit] Middle Ages
The guillotine became notorious (and acquired its name) in France at the time of the French Revolution; however, guillotine-like devices, such as the Halifax Gibbet and Scottish Maiden, existed and were used for executions in several European countries long before the French Revolution, the earliest reference to the Halifax Gibbet dating back to 1286.
[edit] Tudor era to 17th century
The first documented use of the (Irish) Maiden was in 1307 in Ireland,[2] and there are accounts of similar devices in Italy and Switzerland dating back to the 15th century. Nevertheless, the French developed the machine further and became the first nation to use it as a standard execution method.
[edit] French Revolution
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Sensing the growing discontent, Louis XVI banned the use of the breaking wheel.[3] In 1791, as the French Revolution progressed, the National Assembly sought a new method to be used on all condemned people regardless of class. Their concerns contributed to the idea that capital punishment's purpose was the ending of life instead of the infliction of pain.[3]
A committee was formed under Antoine Louis, physician to the King and Secretary to the Academy of Surgery.[3] Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a professor of anatomy at the facility of medicine in Paris, was also on the committee. The group was influenced by the Italian Mannaia (or Mannaja), the Scottish Maiden, and the Halifax Gibbet. While these prior instruments usually crushed the neck or used blunt force to take off a head, their device used a crescent blade and a lunette (a hinged two part yoke to immobilize the victim's neck).[3]
Laquiante, an officer of the Strasbourg criminal court, made a design for a beheading machine and employed Tobias Schmidt, a German engineer and harpsichord maker, to construct a prototype.[4] Antoine Louis is also credited with the design of the prototype. An apocryphal story claims that King Louis XVI (an amateur locksmith) recommended a triangular blade with a beveled edge be used instead of a crescent blade,[3] but it was Schmidt who suggested placing the blade at an oblique 45-degree angle and changing it from the curved blade.[5] The first execution-by-guillotine was performed on highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier[6] on April 25, 1792.[7][8][9]
The basis for the machine's success was the belief that it was a humane form of execution, contrasting with the methods used in pre-revolutionary, ancien régime France. In France, before the guillotine, members of the nobility were beheaded with a sword or axe, while commoners were usually hanged, a form of death that could take minutes or longer. Other more gruesome methods of executions were also used, such as the wheel, burning at the stake, etc. In the case of decapitation, it also sometimes took repeated blows to sever the head completely, and it was also very likely for the condemned to slowly bleed to death from their wounds before the head could be severed. The condemned or the family of the condemned would sometimes pay the executioner to ensure that the blade was sharp in order to provide for a quick and relatively painless death.
The guillotine was thus perceived to deliver an immediate death without risk of suffocation. Furthermore, having only one method of execution was seen as an expression of equality among citizens. The guillotine was then the only legal execution method in France until the abolition of the death penalty in 1981, apart from certain crimes against the security of the state, which entailed execution by firing squad.
[edit] Reign of Terror
The period from June 1793 to July 1794 in France is known as the Reign of Terror or simply "the Terror". The upheaval following the overthrow of the monarchy, invasion by foreign monarchist powers and the Revolt in the Vendee combined to throw the nation into chaos and the government into frenzied paranoia. Most of the democratic reforms of the revolution were suspended and large-scale executions by guillotine began. The first political prisoner to be executed was Collenot d'Angremont of the National Guard, followed soon after by the King's trusted collaborator in his ill-fated attempt to moderate the Revolution, Arnaud de Laporte, both in 1792. Former King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were executed in 1793. Maximilien Robespierre became one of the most powerful men in the government, and the figure most associated with the Terror. The Revolutionary Tribunal sentenced thousands to the guillotine. Nobility and commoners, intellectuals, politicians and prostitutes,[citation needed] all were liable to be executed on little or no grounds; suspicion of "crimes against liberty" was enough to earn one an appointment with "Madame Guillotine" (also referred to as "The National Razor"). Estimates of the death toll range between 15,000 and 40,000.[citation needed]
At this time, Paris executions were carried out in the Place de la Revolution (former Place Louis XV and current Place de la Concorde) (near the Louvre); the guillotine stood in the corner near the Hôtel Crillon where the statue of Brest can be found today.
For a time, executions by guillotine were a popular entertainment that attracted great crowds of spectators. Vendors would sell programs listing the names of those scheduled to die. People would come day after day and vie for the best seats; knitting female citizens (tricoteuses) formed a cadre of hardcore regulars, inciting the crowd as a kind of anachronistic cheerleaders. Parents would bring their children. By the end of the Terror the crowds had thinned drastically. Excessive repetition had staled even this most grisly of entertainments, and audiences grew bored.
Eventually, the National Convention had enough of the Terror, partially fearing for their own lives, and turned against Maximilien Robespierre. In July 1794 he was arrested and executed in the same fashion as those whom he had condemned. This arguably ended the Terror, as the French expressed their discontent with Robespierre's policy by guillotining him.[10]
[edit] Guillotine retired
The last public guillotining was of Eugène Weidmann, who was convicted of six murders. He was beheaded on 17 June 1939, outside the prison Saint-Pierre rue Georges Clémenceau 5 at Versailles, which is now the Palais de Justice. The allegedly scandalous behaviour of some of the onlookers on this occasion, and an incorrect assembly of the apparatus, as well as the fact it was secretly filmed, caused the authorities to decide that executions in the future were to take place in the prison courtyard. Jules-Henri Desfourneaux, the presiding "number one" executioner at this time was variously reported as slow, possibly drunk, and indecisive, certainly a far cry from his well-regarded immediate predecessor Anatole Deibler. He was also prone to arguing with his cousin and "number two" André Obrecht which led to the latter's resignation on two separate occasions, the last involving a fistfight between the pair after an execution.
The guillotine remained the official method of execution in France until France abolished the death penalty in 1981. The last guillotining in France was that of torture-murderer Hamida Djandoubi on 10 September 1977.
[edit] Guillotine in other countries
(Historic replica 1:6 scale)
As has been noted, there were guillotine-like devices in countries other than France before 1792. A number of countries, especially in Europe, continued to employ this method of execution into modern times.
In Antwerp, Belgium, the last beheaded was Francis Kol. Convicted for robbery with murder, he received his punishment on 8 May 1856. During the period from 19 March 1798 until 12 March 1856, the town of Antwerp counted 19 beheadings[11]
In Germany, where the guillotine is known in German as Fallbeil ("falling axe"), it was used in various German states from the 17th century onwards, becoming the usual method of execution in Napoleonic times in many parts of Germany. The guillotine and the firing squad were the legal methods of execution during the German Empire (1871-1918) and the Weimar Republic (1919-1933).
The original German guillotines resembled the French Berger 1872 model but eventually evolved into more specialised machines largely built of metal with a much heavier blade enabling shorter uprights to be used. Accompanied by a more efficient blade recovery system and the eventual removal of the tilting board (or bascule) this allowed a quicker turn-around time between executions, the victim being decapitated either face up or down depending on how the executioner predicted they would react to the sight of the machine. Those deemed likely to struggle were backed up from behind a curtain to shield their view of the device.
In 1933 Adolf Hitler had a guillotine constructed and tested. He was impressed enough to order 20 more constructed and pressed into immediate service.[3] Nazi records indicate that between 1933 and 1945, 16,500 people were executed in Germany and Austria by this method.[3] In Nazi Germany, beheading by guillotine was the usual method of executing convicted criminals as opposed to political enemies, who were usually[citation needed] either hanged or shot. By the middle of the war, however, policy changed: the six members of the White Rose anti-Nazi resistance organisation were beheaded in 1943, as were a hundred or more conscientious objectors from that date, including Franz Jägerstätter, beheaded in Berlin on 9 August, 1943. The last execution in what would later become West Germany took place on 11 May, 1949, when 24-year-old Berthold Wehmeyer was beheaded in Moabit prison, West Berlin, for murder and robbery. When West Germany was formed in 1949, its constitution prohibited the death penalty; East Germany abolished it in 1987, and Austria in 1968.
In Sweden, where beheading was the mandatory method of execution, the guillotine was used only once, for the very last execution in the country, in 1910 at Långholmen prison, Stockholm.
In South Vietnam, after the Diệm regime enacted the 10/59 Decree in 1959, mobile special military courts dispatched to the countryside to intimidate the rural peoples used guillotines belonging to the former French colonial power to carry out death sentences on the spot.[12] One such guillotine is still on show at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City.[13]
Although the guillotine has never been used in the United States as a legal method of execution (it was considered in the 19th century before introduction of the electric chair), in 1996 Georgia state legislator Doug Teper proposed the guillotine as a replacement for the electric chair as the state's method of execution to enable the convicts to act as organ donors. The proposal was not adopted.
[edit] Living heads
From its first use, there has been debate as to whether the guillotine always provided as swift a death as Guillotin hoped. With previous methods of execution, there was little concern about the suffering inflicted. As the guillotine was invented specifically to be "humane", however, the issue was seriously considered. Furthermore, there is the possibility that the very swiftness of the guillotine only prolonged the victim's suffering. The blade cuts quickly enough so that there is relatively little impact on the brain case, and perhaps less likelihood of immediate unconsciousness than with a more violent decapitation, or long-drop hanging.
Audiences to guillotinings told numerous stories of blinking eyelids, speaking, moving eyes, movement of the mouth, even an expression of "unequivocal indignation" on the face of the decapitated Charlotte Corday when her cheek was slapped. Anatomists and other scientists in several countries have tried to perform more definitive experiments on severed human heads as recently as 1956. Inevitably, the evidence is only anecdotal. What appears to be a head responding to the sound of its name, or to the pain of a pinprick, may be only random muscle twitching or automatic reflex action, with no awareness involved. At worst, it seems that the massive drop in cerebral blood pressure would cause a victim to lose consciousness in several seconds.[14]
The following report was written by a Dr. Beaurieux, who experimented with the head of a condemned prisoner by the name of Henri Languille, on 28 June 1905:
Here, then, is what I was able to note immediately after the decapitation: the eyelids and lips of the guillotined man worked in irregularly rhythmic contractions for about five or six seconds. This phenomenon has been remarked by all those finding themselves in the same conditions as myself for observing what happens after the severing of the neck...
I waited for several seconds. The spasmodic movements ceased. [...] It was then that I called in a strong, sharp voice: 'Languille!' I saw the eyelids slowly lift up, without any spasmodic contractions – I insist advisedly on this peculiarity – but with an even movement, quite distinct and normal, such as happens in everyday life, with people awakened or torn from their thoughts.
Next Languille's eyes very definitely fixed themselves on mine and the pupils focused themselves. I was not, then, dealing with the sort of vague dull look without any expression, that can be observed any day in dying people to whom one speaks: I was dealing with undeniably living eyes which were looking at me. After several seconds, the eyelids closed again[...].
It was at that point that I called out again and, once more, without any spasm, slowly, the eyelids lifted and undeniably living eyes fixed themselves on mine with perhaps even more penetration than the first time. Then there was a further closing of the eyelids, but now less complete. I attempted the effect of a third call; there was no further movement – and the eyes took on the glazed look which they have in the dead.[15]
[edit] Suicides
There have been several incidents in recent years in which people built homemade guillotines to commit suicide.[16][17][18]
[edit] See also
- Henri Désiré Landru
- Eugen Weidmann
- Marcel Petiot
- Bals des victimes
- Decapitation
- Flying guillotine (weapon)
- Plötzensee Prison
- Use of capital punishment by nation
[edit] References
- ^ R. Po-chia Hsia, Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein, and Bonnie G. Smith, The Making of the West, Peoples and Culture, A Concise History, Volume II: Since 1340, Second Edition (New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007), 664.
- ^ Robertson, Patrick The Book of Firsts Clarkson Potter, 1974.
- ^ a b c d e f g Executive Producer Don Cambou. (2001). Modern Marvels: Death Devices. A&E Television Networks.
- ^ Edmond-Jean Guérin, "1738 - 1814 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin : biographie historique d'une figure saintaise", Histoire P@ssion website, accessed 2009-06-27, citing M. Georges de Labruyère in le Matin, 22 Aug. 1907
- ^ "Joseph Ignace Guillotin". whonamedit.com. http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2275.html. Retrieved on 2008-03-09.
- ^ "Crime Library". National Museum of Crime & Punishment. http://www.crimemuseum.org/library/execution/guillotine.html. Retrieved on June 13, 2009. "[I]n 1792, Nicholas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person to be put to death with a guillotine."
- ^ "Chase's Calendar of Events 2007", p. 291
- ^ Scurr, pp. 222-223
- ^ Abbot, p. 144
- ^ "The Reign of Terror". French Revolution Exhibit. http://www.historywiz.com/terror.htm.
- ^ Gazet van Mechelen, 8 May 1956
- ^ Mrs Nguyen Thi Dinh; Mai V. Elliott (1976). No Other Road to Take: Memoir of Mrs Nguyen Thi Dinh. Cornell University Southeast Asia Program. p. 27. ISBN 087727102X.
- ^ Farrara, Andrew J. (2004). Around the World in 220 Days: The Odyssey of an American Traveler Abroad. Buy Books. p. 415. ISBN 074141838X.
- ^ Excerpt from British Medical Journal, Vol 294: February, 1987, quoting Proges Medical of 9 July 1886, on the subject of research into "living heads".
- '^ Dr. Beaurieux. "Report From 1905". The History of the Guillotine. http://www.guillotine.dk/Pages/30sec.html. Retrieved on 2009-02-13.
- ^ Guillotine death was suicide, BBC News, 24 April, 2003
- ^ Dad's suicide by guillotine, The Sun, 3 April 2004
- ^ Police Find Man's Body, Guillotine In Wooded Area, WDIV Detroit, 12 September 2007
[edit] Book sources
- Abbott, Jeffery (2007). What a Way to Go. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0312366566. http://books.google.com/books?id=suNPDerI7-kC&pg=PA144&lpg=PA144&dq=Nicolas+Jacques+Pelletier&source=bl&ots=kn4rJ4sFLP&sig=M3gKAHcCKpxiGZ7pDgu0LTFP69U&hl=en&ei=gRE0St2YLMSktgfzh_H4Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10#PPA138,M1. Retrieved on June 13, 2009.
- Chase's Calendar of Events 2007. New York: McGraw-Hill. 2007. ISBN 0071468188. http://books.google.com/books?id=-j7ZyqfsS6MC&pg=PA291&lpg=PA291&dq=Nicolas+Jacques+Pelletier&source=bl&ots=E2I78iWHuT&sig=NmB9PSnwnIBaJQQ411dfR9yzzKs&hl=en&ei=BxE0SruqFZiJtgennfD4Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8. Retrieved on June 13, 2009.
- Scurr, Ruth (2007). Fatal Purity. New York: H. Holt. ISBN 0805082611. http://books.google.com/books?id=yLxpgYt4dJcC&pg=PA222&lpg=PA222&dq=Nicolas+Jacques+Pelletier&source=bl&ots=-QvUvI_R5S&sig=mJFUIj5o8tYnfV7hqJXV7Vy2dts&hl=en&ei=FhA0SuHNFMmetwew6qmkCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9#PPA222,M1. Retrieved on June 13, 2009.
- Seligman, Edmond (1901) (in French). La Justice en France pendant la Révolution (1789-1792). Plon-Nourrit et cie. http://books.google.com/books?id=Zr4lAAAAMAAJ&printsec=titlepage.
[edit] Further reading
- Gerould, Daniel (1992). Guillotine; Its Legend and Lore. Blast Books. ISBN 0-922233-02-0.
[edit] External links
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- The Guillotine Headquarters with a gallery, history, name list, and quiz.
- L'art de bien couper a French site with a quite complete list of guillotined criminals, pictures, history.
- Bois de justice History of the guillotine, construction details, with rare photos (English)
- Video showing the 1939 execution of Eugen Weidmann
- Fabricius, Jørn. "The Guillotine Headquarters". http://www.guillotine.dk/Pages/Guillot.html.
Divestment is part of government agenda: Pranab Mukherjee
NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government remained committed to divesting
Replying to the debate on the national budget in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament, the finance minister said there was some disappointment that not enough was said on the government's divestment policy in his July 6 budget speech.
"Perhaps, people expected me to announce the names of the companies and how much money we intend to raise," he said, but added the government's policy on divestment remained what President Pratibha Patil told the joint session of parliament last month.
Mukherjee said public sector undertakings were the nation's wealth and part of that should rest in the hands of the people. Accordingly, while retaining at least 51 percent equity, the government will encourage people's participation in the divestment programme.
"My ministry has initiated the discussions for identifying these undertakings," he said, adding: "Details will be announced in due course."
In the budget speech, too, Mukherjee had said that while selling the shares of state-run companies to the public, 51 percent holding will remain with the government, especially in national banks and insurance companies.
He later said the reason why not much had been said in this regard during his July 6 speech was because the budget was not a document to spell out micro policy details. That was also why, he alluded, a clear direction was missing at that time.
The budget had hoped to raise only Rs.1,120 crore (Rs.11.2 billion/$224 million) this fiscal from sale of stake in state-owned units such as RITES, Cochin Shipyard, Manganese Ore, Telecommunications Consultants India, Rashtriya Ispat and Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam.
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The revision is applicable from July 1, the Department of Public Enterprises said in an office memorandum.
Central Public Sector Enterprises executives holding board level post, below board level post and non-unionised supervisors will get benefit from the decision.
Employees with basic pay of up to Rs 9,500 will now get DA at the rate of 105.4 per cent subject to a minimum of Rs 12,018 per month.
Those with a basic pay of up to Rs 3,500, the DA will be 210.8 per cent subject to a minimum of Rs 4,634.
Employees with basic pay between Rs 3,500 and Rs 6,500, the DA is 158.1 per cent of their pay subject to minimum of Rs 7,378.
DA will be 126.5 per cent for those whose pay is between Rs 6,500 and Rs 9,500. In this category, the minimum DA is Rs 10,277.
What about the SCAVENGERS who live all over in India in SUBHUMAN Circumstances! Modern toilets might have improved their working conditions but the Social Status remains the same. Even the minorities, SC, ST and OBC mainstream practice Untouchability against them in accordance with GRADED Vertical caste system!
In Bengal, the situation is worse as most of the lot is NON Bengali Hindi Speaking people belonging to underclasses. The RESERVATION Quota Fed AMBEDKARITES hate to interact with the Millions of them. Bengali Dalit or Ambedkarite or Bamcef or BSP Political and social Movement dares not to reach the SLUMS or the SLUM DOGS!
You would not go to the Slums! You would never identify yourself with the Downtrodden People You try to be NEO Brahmin while Accommodated, Adjusted, Co Opted in the Rotten system and would cut of every root to link with your Caste and social identity!
You Never care that Two Corore Bengali Refugees countrywide, SLUM Dwellers in Urban Areas and DENOTIFIED Nomadic tribal communities are DEPRIVED of citizenship and PRANAB ADWANI BUDDHA Axis has launched ALL OUT Deportation Drive to streamline the CAPTURE Machine to feed the ILLUMINATI!
Yes, it is an ECONOMIC Agenda projected to be MANDATORY for National security! What national security ? It is all about WAR mania and Blind nationalism to justify the SWISS Bank accounts, ARMS Race and defence Deals resultant in WARS and CIVIL War! They have opened DEFENCE as well as Nuclear energy for DISINVESTMENT!
But EXTRA Constitutional ELEMENT NILEKANI has EMERGED as the SAVIOUR of National security and integrity, READY to ANNIHILATE Black Untouchables, not only Bengali Refugees, but others also who may not purchase CITIZENSHIP!
Me and Sabita, Visited Risra Slums of Muslim Minorities, SCAVENGERS and underclasses and had a meeting in the AMBEDKAR Bhavan!
The people Complained that the Converted WHITE People amongst the Black Untouchables posing as the SAVIOURS of the HARIJAN as MK Gandhi did, the IAS PCS Graded Officers led Social and Political Organisations simply SKIP the Population.
They consist of the Workers` Population who Lost JOB in Jute Mills and Cotton Mills, tea gardens and 56 thousand production units in Bengal.
Most of them being NON Bengalies, as it happens with the JESSOP and TEXMACO Plants, the BHADRAOLOK Brahaminical and even NON Brahaminical set up of the soiety as well as POLITICS NEVER Cared for them and the FAMINE and STARVATION so VISIBLE in every CORNER is NEVER Highlighted!
I was so puzzled with this outburst of our people, who we NEVER VISIT, NEVER Address, I just forgot my Bag on Risra Platfarm as I had to RUSH to join a Marriage party of family Friends DUTTAS coming right from TRIPURA, in Maulali Kolkata. I had to return to the platfarm to get back the bag and luckily I got it! We joined the Marriage Party and returned home after Mid Night.
TUSU stayed with the Marriage party which left by Morning Flight!
Our friend, Bidya Bhushan Rawat from Delhi has been working continuously! I asked the BSP and Bamcef leaders this MORNING why they fail to address INDUSTRIAL Job Loss and starvation, Peasantry and Scavengers!
I asked who work amongst the BALMIKI Samaj and Safai Karmachari Movement?
I asked them why AMBEDKARITES are active only in the CENTRES of POWER and Resources, why Creamy Layer leads the so called social Movement! Why are so ILLUSION with State machinery, IAS and IPS officers who often sabotage the Movement!
Why TITAGARH, KAMARHATI, GORABAZAR in DUMDUM, kanchrapara, Kankinara, Noapara,HALISAHAR, GARIFA, Jgadal,Panihati, Naihati Hindi SPEAKING People have NEVER to be addressed?
Why the Hindi speaking SCAVENGERS in Howrah, HUGLI and elsewhere in Bengal and the SC ST OBC lot in the Jute Mills, cotton Mills, Industrial units with Insignificant social status, deprived of Purchasing power, starving people are not addressed by any POLITICAL and SOCIAL Movement!
Like the Political Parties in Bengal, I am afraid, the people belonging to AMBEDKARITE Social Movement, Despise this lot and Practice UNTOUCHIBILTY as the Caste Hindus do!
More over, the SO CALLED SOCIAL Movements are LIMITED IN SALT Lake and High Profile GOVT. Offices only! It NEVER reaches to the SUFFERING People as they may not CONTRIBUTE!
Is it the way that we should MOBILISE a national Liberation Movement?
In Bengal, these people suffer in such a way, we may not IMAGINE as we have no idea why the LALGARH People or Chatishgarh Tribals behave NON co Operation to STATE Machinery! We have no idea about their Struggle for Sustenance!
I know well lots of People who have Erected Ambedkar Bhavan here and there and Celebrate AMBEDKAR Jayanti, but have NOTHING to do with AMBEDKARITE Ideology and the Aboriginal Indigenous people for who Baba sahib Fought lifelong!
I know the Refugee leaders who never visit any REFUGEE Slum ! I know all those Trade Union Leaders who expertise IN bargaining, not in Trade UNION Movement !
I know Marxists and Socialist and Gandhian Ideologues who are BRAHMINS only!
Last day, SABITA asked me about the Cremations and last rites of Marxists and communists as they work to kill the Caste and religion for Revolution! I could not reply. Please help me!
A team of National Security Guards (NSG) did a recee of the Writer's Building (the State secretariat) in Kolkata on Sunday for an understanding of the layout of the building in the event of any terrorist entering it or of people being trapped inside, West Bengal Home Secretary, Ardhendu Sen said.
Members of the team also took video footage of the surroundings. NSG officials have been carrying out surveys of some key installations in the city.
A regional hub of the NSG with a strength of about 250 commandos had been operationalised in the city earlier this month.
Similar regional hubs have been set up at Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad.
The NSG commandos are currently stationed at the Salt Lake stadium, but will move to a permanent location provided by the Airport Authority of India at Badu by November 2009.
According to the charter of the NSG, they will carry out anti-terror, anti-hijacking and hostage rescue operations.
They will also train the State police in VIP security, bomb-disposal and commando training.
Over the past few years, the bilateral defence ties have seen a growth. Military procurement by India worth between € 5 Billion to € 6 Billion is in the pipeline for which French/European companies are competing.
Top on the agenda is the deal to upgrade the Indian Air Force fleet of Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft.
The Defence Ministry had issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) to French companies. The negotiations were underway over the cost of upgrades that includes avionics and weapons systems.
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Sunday endorsed the high fiscal deficit of 6.8 per cent as projected in the budget for 2009-10, saying increased government expenditure would stimulate growth.
"People raised a point that why risk a higher fiscal deficit. We have argued strongly that we need that expenditure stimulus because the global economic situation is very difficult," Mr. Ahluwalia told Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN's "The Devil's Advocate" programme.
The projection of a high fiscal deficit has triggered alarm bells among investors and the industry.
"The fiscal deficit issue is a very important one. I am one of the people in the Planning Commission who have been arguing that we need that extra stimulus. I am actually grateful that the Finance Minister [Pranab Mukherjee] weighed the issue," Mr. Ahluwalia said.
On whether the government borrowing would impede credit flow to the private sector, Mr. Ahluwalia said, "If you are tolerating a 6.8 per cent of the GDP fiscal deficit, I don't think the Finance Minister needs to work out how they are going to do the borrowing."
Whatever the government is going to do, it is going to be a certain drawing of resources. " ... a basic logic of 6.8 per cent is that the private sector in this year is not going to be doing that much; otherwise there is no case for it."
Mr. Ahluwalia said the top priority was to get the country's growth rate back.
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Obama committed to Nuclear deal with India: Wisner
New Delhi: Former US Ambassador to India Frank G Wisner has said that there will be no change in the US administration''s position on the civil nuclear deal with India.
Wisner told captains of Indian industry here last evening that the Obama administration will not deviate from the previous ''sovereign decision''.
"The United States has made a sovereign decision. We passed a high rank followed by the 123 Agreement. We are bound by those. We are a nation of laws. This administration is just like the previous. We will follow in the same path. We respect its words. It''s the law of the land. President Obama was the Senator who voted in favour of the agreement. It''s the law of the land. The US has no capability, desire or intention. The Congress debated it at that time to stop anybody else from doing what is the law of their land," Wisner said.
Former US President George W. Bush in December last year had signed into law a nuclear deal with India in a major step towards allowing New Delhi to buy U.S. reactors and fuel for the first time in 30 years.
The White House had pushed for the legislation, which was overwhelmingly approved by Congress this month, in a bid to expand ties with the world''s largest democracy and increase trade for U.S. companies.
The Bush administration said the pact will secure a strategic partnership with the world''s second most populous nation, help India meet rising energy demand and open a market worth billions.
For India, it capped a gradual rapprochement with the West since the days of socialist self-reliance, a process that began with economic reforms in the 1990s and has gathered pace with the spread of wealth and Western culture ever since.
India has a yawning energy deficit, and the accord opens up a market worth billions to U.S. companies such as General Electric GE.N and Westinghouse Electric, a unit of Japan''s Toshiba Corp.
Source: ANI
SP, three others arrested in Shopian case following HC order
Srinagar: Four police officers including a Superintendent of Police Javed Iqbal were arrested today in connection with the alleged rape and murder of two women in Shopian shortly after the Jammu and Kashmir High Court ordered the action against the suspended men.
Hearing a PIL filed by Kashmir Bar Association, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Barin Gosh and Justice Mohammad Yaqub Mir directed the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case to arrest all the four suspended officials named in the FIR for alleged destruction of evidence so that the probe could be expedited.
Besides Iqbal the then Shopian SP, the others arrested by the SIT headed by Inspector General (Kashmir range) Farooq Ahmed were Deputy SP Rohit Baskota, SHO Shafiq Ahmed and Sub-inspector Gazi Abdul Rehman.
The court directed the SIT to get the blood samples of the four officers in the presence of the court registrar and also that no relief including bail should be granted by any court to them and all such requests be sent to the High Court.
"The report (submitted by SIT) has suggested that those police officers are being interrogated. However, they have not yet been arrested. We feel that arrest of those officers followed by collection of their blood samples for the purpose of preparation of DNA profile" and matching it with the vaginal semen of the deceased ladies would expedite the probe," the court said.
The counsel for Javed in New Delhi said he would move the Supreme Court tomorrow challenging the arrest as his client was being targeted for political mileage.
"Even if the investigations have to be carried for destruction of evidence (section 201 of RPC), it is a bailable offence," the counsel said.
Source: PTI
PM asks NAM to make efforts to dismantle terror infrastructure
Sharm-El-Sheikh: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday made a strong pitch for dismantling terror infrastructure and asked countries not to provide safe havens for terrorists sending a strong message to Pakistan on the eve of his meeting with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.
"In recent years, terrorist groups have become more sophisticated, more organised and more daring. Terrorists and those who aid and abet them must be brought to justice," he said addressing the plenary session of the two-day summit of the 118-member Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Though Singh did not name Pakistan, his speech left no one in doubt as to who it was aimed at.
Singh meets Gilani on Thursday morning to get a categoric commitment that Pakistan would stop terror acts directed against India and push for expeditious trial of the accused in the Mumbai terror attacks.
"The infrastructure of terrorism must be dismantled and there should be no safe havens for terrorists because they do not represent any cause, group or religion. It is time that we agree on a Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism," he said.
Speaking at the summit, Gilani said there was recently forward movement in Pakistan's relations with India and it hopes to sustain the momentum and move towards comprehensive engagement. Islamabad has been pushing for resumption of the dialogue process stalled since the Mumbai terror strikes in November last year.
Gilani used the occasion to rake up the Jammu and Kashmir issue. Pakistan believed that durable peace in South Asia was achievable if it was facilitated by resolution of all outstanding issues including Kashmir, he said.
Gilani went on to note that peace dividend for the 1.5 billion people in the region would be enormous.
In Singh's speech terrorism figured prominently with the Indian leader saying that "extremism, intolerance and terrorism are our antitheses" because they "seek to destroy us and our movement."
Addressing the summit under the new chairmanship of Egypt, Singh also warned that a stagflation may be in the offing if corrective steps were not taken immediately to deal with the global economic crisis.
"If the aftermath of the crisis is not carefully managed and if the abundance of liquidity leads to a revival of speculative activities, we may well see a period of prolonged stagflation," he said.
He said the global recession has strengthened protectionism in developed country markets, drastically reduced developing country exports and choked credit and capital flows to the third world.
The Prime Minister also spoke about the possible fallout if the crisis continued. "Crucially for the developing world, a continuing slowdown will force more and more of our people back into poverty, bringing down levels of nutrition, health and education. The progress we have made at great cost and sacrifice will be wiped out. The Millennium Development Goals will become a mirage".
Singh said NAM has a great stake in ensuring that steps planned to revive the global economy take into account the concerns of the developing countries. These include the challenges of food and energy security, environment and reform of institutions of global governance.
Amid questions being raised about the relevance of NAM, Singh noted that non-alignment "is an idea that evolves but does not fade. We must take it forward, harnessing it to meet the challenges of today."
Voicing concern over the accumulation of greenhouse gases resulting from over two centuries of industrial activity and unsustainable lifestyles in the developed world, he asserted that any equitable solution to the problem of climate change should acknowledge this "historical responsibility."
Developing countries, Singh said, were the worst-affected by climate change. They had the biggest stake in ensuring the success of global efforts to tackle climate change.
"We recognise more than anyone else our obligation to preserve and protect the environment. We are already making our significant contribution in this regard, but climate change action must not perpetuate the poverty of the developing countries," Singh said.
"The weight of NAM should be used to achieve a comprehensive, balanced and above all, equitable outcome in the ongoing multilateral negotiations, leading up to the Copenhagen Conference in December this year," he said.
Source: PTI
Anil Ambani meets Spielberg, to pump in Rs 4000 crore for films
New York: Industrialist Anil Ambani on Wednesday made his debut in Hollywood film production, roping in ace directors Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider for a joint venture where he would initially pump in Rs 4,000 crore.
Ambani said he was "delighted" at the partnership and that the work on the first film would begin by end of this year and its release expected next year.
Spielberg, who produced hits like 'ET' and 'Jurassic Park', said that he would visit India later this year to explore possibilities with Indian film makers and writers.
He said the partnership would let him make the films that he always wanted to make, independent of motion picture studios.
Future film projects would involve top Hollywood stars George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt, among others.
Dubbing the deal as a "game-changing event" for a partnership with excellence, Ambani said he was looking at reaching out to the global audience and India's teeming youth through this venture.
Asked if the deal was the preamble for listing of Reliance Entertainment, which has committed $1.5 billion for the partnership with Dream Works last year, Ambani said: "All options are open. We'll evaluate the options as we go along."
The partnership is a 50:50 venture between Ambani and Speilberg and Snider. Ambani has nominated his top lieutenant Amitabh Jhunjhunwala on the Board.
Equity component would be $325 million, while Disney would infuse $125 million and the balance from a syndication of banks and other investors.
"We're very excited that we're in business again, independent of motion picture studios," Spielberg said in a conference call with reporters.
"This is a way we can have control over our products as well as co-ownership," he said.
Dream Works based in Los Angeles will eventually make 5-6 films per year.
The goal of the partnership is quality commercial entertainment, said Snider, who was associated with the 'Gladiator' and '21 Grams'.
The rights for all these films across platforms such as theatres, DTH, television, DVD's will remain with Reliance.
Source: PTI
15th 118-nation NAM summit opens in Egyptian town
Sharm-el-Sheikh: Amid doubts over its relevance in an increasingly unipolar world, the 15th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) opened Wednesday with leaders from 118 member countries gathering on the banks of the Red Sea in this Egyptian town to debate on peace and solidarity as well as the economic crisis.
Egypt President Hosni Mubarak took over as chair of the movement from Cuba's Raul Castro, whose country had hosted the last NAM summit in Havana in September 2006. The Indian delegation is led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Mubarak said he looked forward to "serious international solidarity for peace and development", echoing the theme of this two-day summit.
But while peace and development were recurring themes, equally important was the current global economic crisis. Amongst the other issues that will be discussed over the next two days is climate change.
Many speakers referred to the fact NAM was the largest developing country grouping, representing more than half the world's population and almost two-thirds of the UN membership.
This was a "powerful assembly of nations", Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo reminded the gathering and said it was the voice of the developing world.
Dressed in flaming orange robes and a purple turban - a visual representation of the diversity that is the NAM membership - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi echoed the sentiment: "We are a majority in the UN, monopolized by a small group under the influence of one power.
"We are facing new challenges and we need to reconsider, reevaluate the international situation in order for the world to benefit from this huge gathering," he said.
The summit, which traces its roots to the Bandung Conference of 1995 when nations got together to chart a path independent of the East and the West, held its first meeting six years later in September 1961 in Belgrade.
Then, there were 25 countries, including 11 each from Asia and Africa. Forty-eight years later, the movement has grown to 118 members -- 53 from Africa, 38 from Asia, 26 from Latin America and the Caribbean and one from Europe.
Source: IANS
Sensex picks 400 points, leaps beyond 14K mark
Mumbai: Enthused by strong European and Asian markets and renewed buying interest among investors, a key index of the Indian equities markets soared towards closing bell Wednesday, ending the day almost 400 points higher than its previous close.
The 30-scrip benchmark index of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the Sensex, which opened at 13,917.27 points, gained 399.54 points or 2.88 percent to 14,253.24 points.
The Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) similarly closed 2.97 percent higher at 4,233.5 points.
Broader market indices did better, with the BSE midcap index closing 4.15 percent up and the BSE smallcap index ending 4.56 percent higher.
All the 13 sectoral indices on the BSE ended in the green, with those for realty, metal and consumer durables gaining the most.
The market breadth was positive with 2,038 stocks advancing compared to 557 declining. Eighty-nine remained unchanged.
All but one of the stocks ended on the Sensex gainers list. Among those in the green were Hindalco, up 8.22 percent at Rs.79.65; Jaiprakash Associates, up 7.74 percent at Rs.206.10; DLF, up 7.18 percent at Rs.321.65; and Hero Honda, up 6.44 percent at Rs.1,492.05.
The sole loser was Infosys, down 0.85 percent at Rs.1,790.95.
Data with the market watchdog, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), showed that foreign funds were net buyers, lapping up scrips worth $92.7 million Wednesday.
In other Asian markets, the Nikkei 225 Stock Average, a key index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, closed flat Wednesday at 9,269.25 points, up 7.4 points.
The Hang Seng, the primary index of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, ended at 18,258.66 points, up 372.93 points.
European markets, which opened on a firm footing and were trading in the green with the FTSE 100, a key British index, ruling 65.66 points up at 4,303.34 points, while its French peer CAC 40 was ruling 51.1 points higher at 3,132.97 points.
Backed by strong results of semiconductor major Intel, key US market indices futures surged with investors hoping that an economic recovery may not be as distant as predicted earlier.
While the Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose 88 points, the Standard and Poor's 500 index future was up 11.3 points. The technology-scrip heavy Nasdaq futures added 26.75 points.
Source: IANS
Witness says Karkare decided to go to Cama hospital voluntarily
Mumbai: The decision of slain ATS chief Hemant Karkare to rush to Cama hospital in pursuit of the 26/11 terrorists was taken on the "spur of the moment" and on his own volition, a key witness told a special court here on Wednesday.
The statement seeks to set at rest the controversy sparked off by former union minister A R Antulay who had expressed doubts about the killing of the ATS chief by the terrorists by suggesting a link with Malegaon blasts that were being probed by him.
According to prosecution, ATS chief Karkare had gone to Cama hospital along with encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar and Additional Police Commissioner Ashok Kamate. All three were shot dead by Pakistani gunmen.
Deposing before the court, constable Niteen Matne told prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam that he was one of the members of the escort team of Karkare as a wireless operator in mobile van.
When Karkare heard about terrorists unleashing terror he rushed to the hospital from the lane leading towards Mahanagarpalika Marg, the constable claimed.
Before leaving, Karkare had instructed a group of police officers to guard the rear gate of Cama hospital to prevent terrorists from escaping. He left with Kamate and Salaskar towards the hospital's front gate.
Constable Matne told the court that the three officers went to Cama hospital in a Qualis police jeep with Salaskar in driver's seat, Kamate on his left and Karkare in the middle. The driver of the vehicle, Jayant Patil, and Salaskar's assistant, Arun Jadhav, were seated behind.
Only Kamate had an AK-47 rifle while Constable Arun Jadhav had a carbine, the witness said, adding that they went to the hospital at about 11.55 pm.
"Within seven minutes I heard sound of continuous firing coming from the direction of the nearby St Xavier's college. We thought it must be firing by police and remained in the same position where we were stationed. After that there was complete silence," the witness said.
Constable Matne further said, "After about 25 minutes we proceeded towards the direction from where the sound of firing was heard. On reaching ATM centre of Corporation bank we saw Karkare, Salaskar and Kamate lying injured. They were bleeding profusely and there were glass pieces and empty bullets strewn everywhere".
All the three injured officers were then taken to different hospitals in police jeeps where they were declared dead, the witness said.
Matne said he then went to Karkare's house and narrated the incident to his wife and from there came to Azad Maidan police station and filed an FIR.
Source: PTI
Manufacturing of H1N1 vaccine inadequate: WHO
Vaccine: The manufacturing capacity for the influenza vaccines is inadequate for a world of 6.8 billion people, nearly all of whom are susceptible to infection by the new H1N1 virus, a top official of the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday.
Addressing a Conference on Intellectual Property and Public Policy Issues organised by the World Intellectual Property Organisation in Geneva, WHO Director General Margaret Chan said most of these limited supplies would go to wealthy countries, apprehending that people in the rest of the world might not get access to the vaccine.
In her statement, Chan said the ideal vaccine would be one that protects against seasonal influenza viruses as well as a range of candidate pandemic viruses.
Transcripts of her speech were made available at the UN headquarters in New York.
WHO's director-general encouraged the research and development sector, as well as academics, to work on such an innovation -- calling this the "best and most rational insurance policy for increasing supplies and encouraging more equitable access"; the UN spokesman Michele Montas said briefing mediapersons.
Noting that there is the need for innovation, Chan said, "This shortfall in vaccine supplies, in the face of universal need, is the result of limited global manufacturing capacity. It is not, in essence, a result of intellectual property issues."
Observing the ability to pay, whether at the individual or the national level, remains a distinct advantage, she said, "In the field of health, public policy will remain imperfect as long as access to life-saving interventions is biased in favour of affluence."
In this regard, Chan highlighted the resolution on public health, innovation and intellectual property adopted by the World Health Assembly in May that resulted in a global strategy to make health care products more accessible and affordable, especially in the developing world.
"The agreement on a global strategy and plan of action demonstrates that the forces that govern the development and pricing of medical products can indeed be steered in directions that favour more equitable access to medicines," she said.
Source: PTI
Two `mistakes' the celebrated Metro Man E Sreedharan made
New Delhi: Everyone in Delhi feels good about Delhi Metro. It has given residents of the city a public transport network of which they can really be proud. It manages the network efficiently. It runs the trains on time. It provides a clean and comfortable service for commuters at a tariff that is one of the cheapest among all the metro networks in the world. During the construction of the first phase of the network, it even set new standards of safety that other companies in the civil construction sector found worthy of emulation.
The man who got credit for all these achievements was none other than Delhi Metro's managing director, E Sreedharan. You can't have any quarrels with that. Here was a man who worked hard to build a modern metro rail network, ensured the project's implementation on schedule and then put in place a system to run the service efficiently. In a country, where project delays are endemic and inefficiency in public services rarely creates a storm of protests, Sreedharan set up a metro network that raised people's expectations from a public transport network and made them hopeful that they too could continue to travel safely and comfortably.
It is this hope that got shaken on Sunday morning when residents of Delhi learnt of the collapse of a section of a Delhi Metro bridge under construction. The tumbling of the cranes that were commissioned for rescue work the following day shattered whatever little hope that was still left. Every time a commuter travels on Delhi Metro now, he will be wondering if the pillars and the bridge under his train will stay intact while he completes his journey.
Just as all credit for the successful execution and operation of Delhi Metro had gone to Mr Sreedharan, a large part of the blame for allowing such a mishap (mind you, this was not the first one during the construction of the second phase!) should also be shared by him. What were Mr Sreedharan's mistakes? Did the Metro Man go wrong by accepting the challenge of implementing the second phase of Delhi Metro in a relatively short time frame and thereby unwittingly allowing contractors to make compromises on safety norms?
The report of the committee that has been set up to inquire into the reason behind last Sunday's tragedy will come out with specific information to explain what went wrong. While that exercise is under way, it is equally important for Sreedharan to reflect on what mistakes he might have made while executing this massive project in record time.
The Metro Man made two mistakes. One, he did not build a strong team around him to provide a second rung of leaders who could ensure continuity and stability of management of a public transport network. Fourteen years after its inception, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation can boast of only one public face — that of Sreedharan. This is a long time to build the second rung of leadership in an organisation. By not paying adequate attention to the tasks of building his succession, Sreedharan has made himself virtually indispensable. His fine track record as the Metro Man has certainly been dented by this failure.
His second mistake pertains to his response to the bridge collapse on Sunday. He did not take long to announce his resignation, owning moral responsibility for the mishap. This was not the first time that Sreedharan had contemplated resignation. In the early stages of the Delhi Metro project, Sreedharan had once reportedly expressed his desire to quit over differences with sections within the government. There was no public announcement then and he was persuaded to stay back.
Last Sunday, however, Sreedharan decided to make public his decision to quit Delhi Metro. Having done that, which was the most principled and honourable stand taken by any public servant in recent years, Sreedharan should not have gone back on his decision. Now that he has withdrawn his resignation after requests from the government, his critics are likely to say that his resignation announcement was part of a strategy to deflect the public criticism that he would have incurred in the wake of the tragedy. If only Sreedharan had built a second rung of leaders to take over from him, he could have stuck to his decision to quit and silenced his critics as well.
Source: Business Standard
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Mumbai: In turf battle ahead of state polls in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena has promised houses in Mumbai to state's bona-fide residents.
Having lost ground to its faction, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, over hardline political posturing, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray led a bunch of party activists and supporters to the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) head office demanding that non-Maharashtrians should be barred in that allotment of shelters.
"In another two to three months, Shiv Sena is confident of coming to power and then our government will provide 500 square feet area houses to Marathi 'manoos' (bona-fide residents of Maharashtra) to ensure that they need not go out of Mumbai to reside.
Marathi manoos is entitled to shelter and none else. This is our stand," said Thackeray.
"In Mumbai, the houses are built by the MMRDA for the poor. These houses are also grabbed by builders. Immigrants from Bihar and Bangladesh are begging for accommodation whereas what we are demanding is proper accommodation from government which is our right," he added.
The MMRDA last month announced that it would provide 43,000 homes at a rent starting as low as Rupees 800 per month.
The project is aimed at reducing the number of slums in Mumbai.
Shiv Sena members feel that the housing scheme doesn't give preference to Maharashtrians and would encourage outsiders to settle in Mumbai.
Maharashtra will hold elections to state assembly by October and the migrants' issue could swing votes.
Source: ANI
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New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram said in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that the government has failed in assesing the naxal problem in the country. the country had not taken the naxal threat with the seriousness it required, said Chidambaram.
"We did not assess the Left wing extremist challenge correctly. I think we underestimated the challenge, " said P Chidambaram.
This comes a day after the Jharkhand Police recovered a consignment of communication equipment meant for Maoists on Tuesday.
The consignment was sent as cargo from New Delhi on a state-run domestic flight.
The recovered equipment included walkie-talkies, a number of radio sets, micro tape recorders and signal receivers, among others.
Police officials said two persons involved in the operation were arrested, one from Palamu in Jharkhand and the other from New Delhi.
Hundreds of Maoists, who are expanding their influence in India, had declared the town of Lalgarh about 170 km (100 miles) from Kolkata, as a "liberated zone" recently before they fled in face of police action.
Maoists, who say they are fighting for the rights of poor farmers and landless labourers, are expanding their influence in east, central and southern India.
Thousands have been killed in the insurgency which began in the late 1960s and which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described as a grave threat to India's internal security.
(With inputs from ANI)
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