NOVEMBER 2007 E-Magazine - Pravasi Today
NOVEMBER 2007 E-Magazine - Pravasi Today NOVEMBER 2007 E-Magazine - Pravasi Today
NEWS DIARY NRI to head International Recycling Bureau Leading NRI, R S Baxi has been unanimously elected the President of the Brussels-based Paper Division of Bureau of International Recycling. It is for the first time an Asian has been elected to head the division in its 59year-old history, a spokesman of the BIR said. London-based Baxi, Chief of J & H International, a company exporting secondary fibres (waste paper) to Asia, said, "I am overwhelmed by the huge honour and I will strive to live up to the expectation of the international community." Bureau of International Recycling has offices in 65 countries, with its headquarters in Brussels. Baxi, a champion of the environmental issues, said, "Our Planet Earth is undergoing rapid and sustained destruction of its eco-systems. This is giving rise to unacceptable levels of pollution increasing worldwide population disruption and leading to higher levels of carbon emissions." "Climate change is the most pressing environmental, social and economic problem facing the planet. The consequences of climate change are global, long-term and in some cases, irreversible. Some of the recent extreme weather events are caused by Climate Change," he added. ;wjksi dk lcls cM+k fgUnw eafnj cfyZu esa cusxk ;wjksi dk nwljk lcls cM+k fgUnw eafnj cfyZu 'kgj ds ,d ikdZ esa cusxkA teZu jkt/kkuh cfyZu esa bl vk'k; dh ,d vge ?kks"k.kk dh x;h gSA ;g eafnj yksdfiz; fgUnw nsork x.ks'k th dk gksxkA x.ks'k eafnj dk fuekZ.k 28 vDVwcj ls cfyZu dh miuxjh U;wdks,yu ds gslsugkbM bykds esa 'kq: gksxkA LFkkuh; es;j ghat cq'kdksoLdh us Jh x.ks'k fgUnw VsEiy desVh dks bl eafnj ds fuekZ.k ds fy, ,d ikdZ dh tehu 73 o"kks± ds yht ij lkSai nh gSA cfyZu esa jgus okys djhc 6 gtkj fgUnqvksa ds fy, ;g 'kh"kZ /kkfeZd dsUnz gksxkA bls fgUnqvksa dk 'kh"kZ lkaLÑfrd dsUnz Hkh ekuk tk,xkA bl eafnj ifjlj ds izos'k }kj ij 17 ehVj dk ,d lqlfTtr fo'kky Vkoj cuk;k tk,xkA bl ifjlj esa ,d fo'kky eafnj gksxk ftlds bnZ&fxnZ pkj vkSj NksVs eafnj Hkh gksaxsA lcls cM+s eafnj esa 300 ls vf/kd HkDrksa ds cSBus dh O;oLFkk gksxhA bl eafnj ds fuekZ.k ij 11-2 yk[k jde [kpZ gksxhA eafnj ds U;kfl;ksa ds eqrkfcd eafnj ds fuekZ.k ds fy, jde pans ls tqVkbZ tk,xhA bl eafnj dk bLrseky 'kkfn;ksa vkSj tUefnolksa ds fy, Hkh fd;k tk,xkA bl eafnj esa ;ksx ,oa /;ku f'kfoj Hkh yxk, tk,axsA vc rd ;wjksi dk lcls cM+k fgUnw eafnj Jh osadVs'oj gSA ;g eafnj vxLr] 2006 esa cfe±?ke ds ikl cudj rS;kj gqvkA 10 Pravasi Today ✦ November 2007 Indian led taxi strike in New York The second strike in two months by New York taxi drivers led by an Indian origin union leader to protest installation of global positioning devices (GPS) and credit card readers had a lukewarm response on Monday. Bhairavi Desai, the executive director of the New York Taxi Wo r k e r s A l l i a n c e ( T WA ) , estimated the number of striking drivers to be 60 percent, but the local news media put the number at no more than five percent. About 60 percent of the over 40,000 licensed taxi drivers in the city are known to be of South Asian origin. TWA's membership is around 7,000. The main issue in the two strikes has been the new city regulations for taxis effective from January next. The city says the navigation system will let passengers know where they are. The drivers feel it is an invasion of their privacy. The city says credit card payments will be a convenience for riders. The drivers argue they have to pay a five percent fee for every transaction and they stand to lose the fare if the credit card processing malfunctions. Besides, the devices cost over $5,000 to install.
'Sound case' against Indian killer doctor Police chief of the Australian state of Queensland has said the extradition process of rogue Indian surgeon Jayant Patel from the US was on course and there was a "very sound case" against him. "It's a big thing to endeavour to convict a doctor for manslaughter of the doctor's own patients," Commissioner Bob Atkinson said, adding the federal attorneygeneral's office was liaising with US justice department authorities in the case. "We think we've got a very sound case," he said. Patel, who worked as director of surgery at Bundaberg Base Hospital in southeast Queensland from 2003, fled to the US in April 2005 after being linked to the deaths of 17 former patients. Australian authorities last week ruled out any attempt to prosecute Darren Keating, who was the director of medical services at Bundaberg Hospital at the time Patel worked there, because the time limit for such action had run out, according to 'The Australian" newspaper today. This was despite a 2005 inquiry finding Keating had allegedly provided false or misleading information to the Medical Board of Queensland about Patel's registration. NEWS DIARY Over 200 Indian workers claim they are being abused More than 200 Indian nationals working in a Malaysian factory have alleged that they were being abused by their employment agent and are desperate to return home after three of their colleagues were brutally beaten up. The 264 Indian workers, employed at a factory in Senai in Johor state, claimed their agent started abusing them when they arrived in Malaysia two years ago. The workers claimed that three of their colleagues were abducted and beaten up for putting up a notice stating that workers no longer wanted 2.50 (25 Rupees), the cost of hostel canteen food, to be deducted from their daily wages. The Indian workers, part of the 1,500-strong foreign workforce at the plastic-moulding factory, staged a picket to demand the release of the three, local media reports said. The trio, with bruises all over their bodies, has since returned to the hostel, the report said one of the workers, Thangaraju, 39, said he could have ended up dead if not for the strike staged by his co-workers. U;wthySaM dk QS'ku lEeku feyk ,d Hkkjrh; Nk= dks ,u-ih- t;jkt ds fy, ;g ,d [kq'kh dk fnu FkkA fMtkbu fo"k; dh i
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'Sound case'<br />
against Indian<br />
killer doctor<br />
Police chief of the Australian state<br />
of Queensland has said the<br />
extradition process of rogue Indian<br />
surgeon Jayant Patel from the US<br />
was on course and there was a "very<br />
sound case" against him.<br />
"It's a big thing to endeavour to<br />
convict a doctor for manslaughter<br />
of the doctor's own patients,"<br />
Commissioner Bob Atkinson said,<br />
adding the federal attorneygeneral's<br />
office was liaising with<br />
US justice department authorities<br />
in the case.<br />
"We think we've got a very sound<br />
case," he said. Patel, who worked as<br />
director of surgery at Bundaberg<br />
Base Hospital in southeast<br />
Queensland from 2003, fled to the<br />
US in April 2005 after being linked<br />
to the deaths of 17 former patients.<br />
Australian authorities last week<br />
ruled out any attempt to prosecute<br />
Darren Keating, who was the<br />
director of medical services at<br />
Bundaberg Hospital at the time<br />
Patel worked there, because the<br />
time limit for such action had run<br />
out, according to 'The Australian"<br />
newspaper today.<br />
This was despite a 2005 inquiry<br />
finding Keating had allegedly<br />
provided false or misleading<br />
information to the Medical Board<br />
of Queensland about Patel's<br />
registration.<br />
NEWS DIARY<br />
Over 200 Indian workers claim they are being abused<br />
More than 200 Indian nationals working in a<br />
Malaysian factory have alleged that they were being<br />
abused by their employment agent and are desperate<br />
to return home after three of their colleagues were<br />
brutally beaten up. The 264 Indian workers,<br />
employed at a factory in Senai in Johor state, claimed<br />
their agent started abusing them when they arrived in Malaysia two years<br />
ago. The workers claimed that three of their colleagues were abducted and<br />
beaten up for putting up a notice stating that workers no longer wanted 2.50<br />
(25 Rupees), the cost of hostel canteen food, to be deducted from their daily<br />
wages. The Indian workers, part of the 1,500-strong foreign workforce at the<br />
plastic-moulding factory, staged a picket to demand the release of the three,<br />
local media reports said. The trio, with bruises all over their bodies, has since<br />
returned to the hostel, the report said one of the workers, Thangaraju, 39, said<br />
he could have ended up dead if not for the strike staged by his co-workers.<br />
U;wthySaM dk QS'ku lEeku feyk ,d Hkkjrh; Nk= dks<br />
,u-ih- t;jkt ds fy, ;g ,d [kq'kh dk fnu FkkA<br />
fMtkbu fo"k; dh i
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