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Despite controversy, Commonwea lth Games brought benefits to India

The Commonwealth Games organised in New Delhi exactly cwo years ago may have been scarred by controvers y and charges o f corruption that are yet to be proved, but India's besc ever perfor m ance at the O lympics in the London Games displays the progress the country ha s made in sports in the last !WO years

The government in its bid to continue tl1e momentum gain ed from the Oct 3- 14, 2010 Commonwealth Gan1es, ope ned up irn purse- strings under its Opex London 2012 programme. A willing government earmarked a record Rs.260 crore ($53 million) for training and competition a head of the O lympics and tl1e result was for all to see

Thoug h dogged by controversy and adverse media scrnr:iny even before it began, largely because of project overruns and delay in completion of ma jor infrastructure, the Games on the whole were an organisational and sporting success from the lndian point of view.

If a whopping 101 medals in the Commonwealth Games were considered b ig , SL'( medals at tl1e Lond o n Olympics was see n as a big advancement over previous editions.

Shooter Vijay Kumar and w restler Sushil Kumar won silver medals while boxer M.C. :Mary Kom, s hurtler Saina Nehwal, s hooter Gagan Narang and wrestler Yogeshwar Duct bagged bronze medals in London.

\~Thile tl1e Commonwealth Gan1es mig ht have been in tl1e ne\.VS for financial irregularities, it made India a hotspot for tlie top sp orting events in the country.

Though India is far from being a s porting nation, the facilities tliat came u p in tl1e national capital for tlie Commonwealth Games have been a boon for athletes

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Major Dh yan

Chand National Stadium, Kami Singh Shooting Range, S.P. Mukherjee Swimming Complex, Talkatora Indoor Stadium, Indira Gandhi lndoor Stadium a nd tl1e Yamuma Sports Complex are amo ng the best in the subcontinent.

Post the Comm onwealtli Games, while

Nehru Stadium hosred the mighty Bayern Munich football team, SAFF Championship and the Nehru Cup, the National Stadium hosted the hockey Olympic qualifiers tliat sa\v India booking its tickets for London after having missed an O lympics (Beij ing-2008) tl1e first ti m e in 80 years.

The Sports Autl1oriry of lndia (SAI), tlie New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and tlie owners o f most of the stadiun1s also decide d co open the gate.~ to tl1e comi:n o n man under the "Come and Play" scheme of tlie sports ministry. The scheme was well appreciated an d ensured tliat tlie stadiums don't turn into w hi te elepha nts.

The financial irregularities in tl1e preparations for the Common wealth Garnes were also a big .lesson for tl1e government in more ways tlian one It prompted the sp orts ministry to co me up with ;i National Sports Development Code to ger rid of corruption in Indian spor ts.

The l ational Sports Federations may have been up in arms against th e sports ministry over me code bur mey all thank Sports l\{i nister Ajay Maken in private fo r being so gene rous to all sports bodies by way of providing funds fo r training.

Sh ooters were the m ost favoured lot after India's fi rst Olympic gold by Abhinav Bindra at Beijing and Ra jyavardhan Rathore's si lver four yea.rs earli er at Atliens

And tl1e b iggesr beneficiary was ace do u ble trap shoo ter and Asian Gan1es gold medallist Ronjan Sodhi, who received the lio n's s hare of R s 97.37 lakh of the Rs.6.87 crore financial assistance.

Sod hi says sporrspersons have be nefited immen sely b y the govern ment funding after tl1e Com m onwealth Games.

•~'\t tl1e Comm onwealth Games, the Indians proved their mettle and promised to do much more at other major international events. The government too was conv inced and thus increased its funding fo r London.

\'{/e are iliankful to the spo rts ministry for helping us to prepare for tl1e Games," said Sodhi

Atli letics Federation o f India (AF]) technical director M.L. Dogra said goveromem funding has helped tlie federation to se nd athletes for exposure trips abroad

"Around Rs 15.94 crore was been allornted for athletics and the atlile tes trained abroad for lo nger durations to prepare for ilie O lympics. Commonwealm Games discus gold medallist Krishna Paonia training in tl1e US was fully funded by tl1e m inistry. US- based discus thrower Vi kas G owda als o performed well in the recently held \l(/o cld Cham pionships in So uth Korea," said Dogra.

Paonia (Rs 24.20 lakb) and national record holder Gowda (Rs.24.51 lakh) beneficed from the government's Operation Excellence 2012. Their performance at the London Garnes was impressive though tliey failed to make a podium finish. Poonia was seventh while Gowda made a creditab le eighth finish in the Games.

Two years is a small ti.me to determine the benefits of the hosting the Commonwealth Games. But Indian athletes are still reaping its benefits

India pauses in its busy tracks to remember Gandhi

It was rime again on October 2 to remember thar greatest icon of peace. On Mahatma Gandhi's 143rd birth annive rsary, millions enjoyed a holiday but iliousands also flod<ed to places dedicated to his memory to pay tribute to tl1e man who spearheaded India's bloodless struggle for freedom from British rule and left a legacy of amity and 'ahimsa' as eternal as ti m e.

As the nation's leadership gathered at his memorial Raj Ghat for the annual remembrance, ceremonies were held across the country co mark tl1e day, o b served as Gandhi Jayanri.

The symbolism of tl1e day, also marked as the foternarional Day of Non- Violence, was lost o n nobod y with many, from filmmake rs to politicians, starring new ventures and making new promises.

Activist Arvind Kejriwal chose the da y to lau n c h his po li tical p arty in the national capital. W itl1 a p ic ture of Gand hi in the backdrop, Kejriwal, wearing a Gandhi cap witl1 tl1e slogan ·'.A1ein hoo11 t111111 adt11i, 11111/he chab!J'e ]011/okpat' (I am common man, I want

Jan Lokpal) printed on it, kicked off bis party by vowing to light against corru ptio n.

In Mumbai, where 120 inmates of Arthur Road prison took an o ath to create an India of their dreams, the first look of tlie film Freedom was unveiled by director Vivek Agnihocri

There were p le n ty of ceremonial functio n s.

The centrepiece of the formal observance was R a j Ghat, where Gandhi was cremated after bei ng felled by an assass in 's bullet on Jan 30, 1948. His last words " Hey Ram", forgiving eve.n in deatl1, are inscribed on a black stone s lab.

President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid A n sad, Prime Minister Manmoh an Singh, Congress presidem Sonia Gandh i and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani were among tl1ose who garnered to rememb er t he father of tl1e nation.

Ma hatma Gandhi's favo uri te 'bha jans' li ke. Raghupati fuigbav R,y,1 &111 and Vaishmiv Jana To were played and an all -religion prayer conducred in m ernory of the father of the nation,

It was also tlie 108th birch anniversary o f former ptin1e minister Lal Bahadur S hastri. And the leader s hjp paid fl oral cribures to both in the Central Hall of p arliamenr The prime minister, Congress pres ident, Lo k Sabha speaker Meira Kumar and a host of 1vfPs and ministers were in attendan ce.

Away from the formal rituals, observed year after year, ther e were a lso those who tried to get a grip on me man, who went from being Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to simply tl1e Maliatma, or tl1e great soul - tieified in ever y corner of l ndia but with his ideology o f Gand11is m to a Luge extent con fined w itliin pages of textbooks.

At Raj Ghat, for instance, tl1ey gathered to un derstand me m ystique. of the man, descrjbed as a half naked fakir by former British prime minister W ins ton Ch urchill

From young professionals ro college students, from families to foreign tourists, they walked around tl1e complex trying to soak it all in.

" \~'e need a nationwide revolutio n against corruption - a re\7 o lu tion based on Gandhian principles," said Krishan K umar, a 44-yearo ld shop owner from Dar yagan j in Old D elhi.

Agreed D ave Lyneta, a 38-year-o ld Canadian

''I've read Gandhi's biography twice. If only more people around tlie world followed his principles, there wo uld be no 9/1 l or lraq or J\fghaaisran wars," he said.

For Khizar Hayat, 22, stu dying at me Jarnia Nliilia Is larnia in New Delhi, an introduction ro Gandhi through his Class 9 tei.,,..tbook was the begin ning of his journey toward s knowledge.

"My devotion cowa rd s him gtew over me years I'm trying co imbibe his teachings in me way l live n1y life or treat othe rs I used to be violent till a couple of years ago. Bue I have learnt to contro l m y emotions an d more importantly, channelise m y aggr ession in a posi tive way," said Hayat Gandhi was bo rn on Octob er 2 in Porbandar in Gujarat in 1869. AU of 143 years later, some lesso ns are still ones that n eed co be learnt

Indian - Americans strongest supporters of Obama: Survey

Indian-Americans are by far the stronges t supporters of U S President Barack Obama, giving him a n edge of 68 percent to five percem over his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, acco rding ro a new survey.

Thus, while two Indian -American Republican Governo rs, Bobby Jinda l of Louisiana and Nikki Haley of South Carolina, are among me strongest critics of Ohama, tl1ey seem to be in a relatively small minority of the community who support Romney, says tl1e s urvey

As ian Americans give significantly higher job approval racings to Obama than the national average (59 percent vs. 50 percent, respec tively), and t hey have a considerably less favourable impression of R omney than the national average (30 percent vs. 45 percent, respectively), acco rding ro me National Asian American Survey (NAAS).

Approval of the pr esident's job is particularly high among I ndian Americans (82 percent), and is conspicuously low among Filipinos (45 percent) and Samoans (41 percent), says the su rvey of Asia n and Asian Pacific Islanders (AJ\.Pls).

Obama 's relarivel y high approval raring an1ong AA Pi s is also matc hed by higher favourability ratings man the national average, it says, noting while 5 1 percent of di e national population has a favourable impression of Oba.ma, 59 percent of Asian Americans do so.

The favourability raring is particularly high anwng Indian Americans (88 percent) and Korean American s (76 percent) , an d is particularly low am ong Vietnamese Americans (20 p e rcent) and Filipino Americans (46 percent)

O ne in six As ian Americans (17 percem) lives in a battleground stare wi th Indian Americans and Korean Americans constituting a larger share of tbe battleground sta tes than tlie.ir national averages, the survey notes.

As ian Ame ricans also have a m o re favo urable impression of Democrats in Congress than the national average (43 percent vs. 34 percent, respectively), it notes

The survey, based on a national poU co nducted July 31-Sep 19 through telephone of 3,034 people, includ ed 386 IndianAmericans.

Ir was me coUaborative effort of Karchick Ramakrishnan at Univers ity of California.Riversid e and Taeku Lee at Univers ity of California -Berkeley

India presses for UNSC expansion to meet global challenges

India sought a reform of instimcion s of global governance including an expa nsion o f the UN's top decis io n- making Securjry COLmcil to reflect contempo rary realities for converting today's challenges into oppor tunities.

Competitors at a traditional boat festival race along the Ganga river at Sahidpalli, 65 km from Kolkata, 19 Sept ember 2012. Competitors from different parts of Bengal participated in the festival with their country and snake boats. The 15- metre-long boats can carry ten to 25 people.

The ,vo rld today was "faced wim multiple global chaUenges chat transcend national boundaries," Indian External Affairs :Minister S.i\lL Krishna said in his address to the U general assembl y o utlining tbe problems ranging from tepid recovery from the downturn in d1e global econ omy to the scourge of terrorism.

' 'Developing countries are still co recover from t he downttm1 in the global econ o my. Their quest fo r po,,ercy eradication and sustainable develop m ent remains an uphill task," be said

"The West Asi a and Nortl1 Africa region is seeing unprecedented socio - po li tical upheaval The question of Palestine remains unresolved ," Krjshna said.

"And , threats emanating fro m terrorism, maritime pirac)~ drug trafficking and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction con tinue to multiply."

''These challenges demand drnt we act to work for solutions in a concerted and coordinated manner. This i s the only path to success," he said, s uggesting a reform of me architecture of g lobal governance to reflect contemporary realities.

" The mos t important and decisive step cowards remedying dus situation pertains to the UN Secur ity Counc il, which mus[ be e.'-panded in both permanent and nonpermanent categories," Krishna said.

"The reformed Council muse include countries tl1ac are capable an d w illing to bear additional burdens relating to tl1e maintenance of imerna tion a l peace and se curity and be able to sustain global campaigns against new and emerging global dueats," he said.

"Equally, L1dia will promote and l end her weight for e nhancing me voice and parriciparion of developing countries in decision making in g lobal economic and Jin a nci alin scitutions," he said.

The IMF's quota reform process must be accelerated w im altered quotas reflecting comemporary econonuc weight, Krishna said.

Expr essing support for me governmem and people of Afghanistan, K ri shna said the "continui ng existence o f sa fe havens and sancruaries for terrorises b e)'o nd A fghani stan's borders is tl1e major impedim ent to tl1e restoration o f peace and security in Afghanis tan."

Calling terrorism as one of the most pote.m threats to international peace and security, he also asked d1e world to show me necessary polirical will to agree on a Comprehensive Convene.ion o n Imernarional Terrorism.

New hopeforterminal heart patients

There's new hope for terminal heart patients, w ith a new pumping device pronusing to provide rest co d1e worn-out heart an d even recharge it - adding years and quality ro a patient's life.

The Ventricular Assist Device (\TAD), or Heartmate II, is surgically inserted between d1e ch est an d u pper abdomen and is powered by a b attery. The titanium device is connected co a monitor worn outside tl1e bod y d1at controls t he blood Aow. L1troducing the device in India and educating doctors a bout ic, India- bo rn , USbased cardiac surgeon an d healtl1 economist Mukesh Haiiawala says around 10,000 people across me world have h ad got di e Hearanate II imp lanted an d the results h ave been "fantastic".

"Heartmate II has a very huge success rate and very few complications," said Hariawala, who is associated with the Harvard Medical School Affiliated Hospitals in Boston, speaking during a vis it to New Delhi.

""Patien ts can live for 8-10 years, if the rest of the body stays well. The device rakes cai·e of the pumping function of t he heart"

Hariawala, who was felic itated as "L1dia's Most Admired Surgeon" at 1vlumbai on Sep 21 b y Maharashtra Governor K Sa n karan arayan, said tl1e Hearcmare II is implanted in d10se who are in end -stage or terminal heart patients, "chose who cannot go duough angioplasty, stem or bypass" lr can be implanted in patients of any age, but is g iven usually to patients who are 50 -p lus, e.5pecially d1ose waiting for a heart transp lant.

A major advantage of Heartmate 11 is mat the heart "s ta r ts remodelling itself ".

Explaining, Hariawal a said tliar wim tl1e pumping load reduced, the "typically diseased a nd enlarged heart starts reducing in size" and the patient ''is able to m ove about, climb stairs and his /her endurance ,,mcreases

" The patient lives lo nger and the qu,'1.1.icy of life is better," he added

Hariawala was a m ember of the surgical team that performed the first bypass surgery oo Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 1990 along witl1 John Wlright at Harley Street Clinic in London.

Hearanate lI is manufacmred by US firm Thoratee, a worl d leader with more than 10,000 "s uccessful" implantations and the device is "soon to be offered ro India", he said.

Most of d1e imp lantations have been done in me US , Europe and Australia, and tl1e demand is ina·easing in Asia, he said.

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