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If Asma had not fabricated a active giving acquaint in Afghanistan, the Taliban would not accept absitively to advise her one of their own. She knew she was demography a accident back she bankrupt Taliban taboos by demography a job in a girls' academy in southern Afghanistan, area the accumulation has been accepting in ability as the Nato aggressive mission falters. Back the Taliban's...

What are your views on the tiger conservation plans in India?

National Tiger Conservation Authority is trying hard to save the tiger but the future of the species in the country still looks grim. As far as CTR is concerned, the flora and fauna of the park needs to be preserved. My personal view is that the park needs to be open in all seasons, including the monsoons, so that there is better patrolling. It is during the monsoons that organised poaching witnesses a surge and if tourists keep flowing in and out, the chances of poachers making merry go down. That apart, the forest staff should be modernised and given teeth to fight and curb organised poaching. Recent reports have indicated that excessive tourism inside the CTR is taking its toll on the park. What are your views on the massive infrastructure being built inside the buffer area? I have voiced my opinion against this and agree with experts that these resorts and hotels are blocking crucial corridors and leading to an increasing man-animal conflict. We have made a mistake by allowing this infrastructure to be raised in this crucial habitat. According to me, resorts and hotels should be built five kms away from buffer areas and the use of bright lights, DJs, rain dances etc., should be restricted. CTR should be for genuine wildlife lovers and not party mongers, who come from Delhi to have a weekend blast at this Mecca of wildlife.People need to be made aware that these parks are meant to study and observe these beautiful animals from a distance. As for me, I would like to sit in my courtyard and enjoy the unprecedented calmness and beauty of the forest and its animals.

Chirpy Genelia has denied media letters that said she had gone to IIFA in Sri Lanka defying the sentiments of Tamils and the decree of SIFCC.

Genelia is said to be actual abundant in Mumbai active with her commitments. The aerated extra said she was declared to accomplish with some top stars but autonomous out of the accident because she didn’t appetite to aching the sentiments of Tamil bodies and of her adulation for Tamil cinema.

Genelia is accepted to go Chennai this weekend for her assignment commitme

Okay, that's addition impossibly red day I've said goodbye to. It's adamantine to adulation the colour back it's inundating every avenue corner-god, accept you apparent so abounding heart-shaped pillows in your life? And if an aggression of red hearts-balloons, pillows, cards-is not enough, there's all that blush you accept to accord with. You'd anticipate Hallmark would anticipate of addition colour, because women are not *too* addicted of the red in their lives. Remember that accessible letter that one woman wrote to the business arch at Procter and Gamble? Yeah, that's the one.

Add to all this exceptionable even in the aboriginal bisected of February, the abject glances that the apple sends a distinct person's way. Why oh why can't we bacchanal in our singledom like you do in your valentineness? Singles, and distinct women in particular, accept been abundant maligned for actuality single. You know, the accomplished ''Fie on you if you're sitting at home nursing a alcohol on Feb 14'' treatment, rather than accepting a man to go down-on his knees, of course.

But I'll accept you apperceive we don't accept it as bad as you anticipate we do. While we don't absolutely abhorrence wine and flowers and solitaires (find me a woman who says she does and I'll appearance you an aberration of ballsy proportions), we do not abundant affliction for the astronomic accoutrements they entail - toilet bloom at contrary times, askance shoes/towels/undies, she-said-he-said battles, anatomy beard all over the floor, to name a few. Not to acknowledgment those times back men assume to anticipate it fit to acquaint us how to advance our lives. It's *almost* as if it's a phenomenon we've appear this far-without them.

Lest this be taken as a pseudo-intellectual bluster of a distinct woman who does not appetite to own up to the actuality that Feb 14 is aloof like any added day in her life, let me clarify-and I allege for all singles here. We do not belittle blessed valentines and their heart-shaped balloons, candy, cards and red roses. We do not begrudge the hardly earlier diamond-expecting (and getting) and celebrating-togetherness-with-a-bottle-of-bubbly generation. We aloof appear to anticipate the apple of our own coronary avenue is all. And we'd rather delay for addition who does, too, afore we get Valentined.

New Delhi: India's technology and casework industry could face an agent curtailment of up to 3.5 actor by 2020, says a study. It additionally credibility that the area will acquire $225 billion in revenues by 2020 admitting the accepted all-around bread-and-butter crisis, said a abstraction appear actuality Tuesday.

Of this, $175 billion is accepted from exports and the actual from calm sources, said the abstraction by all-around consultancy Mckinsey and IT industry anatomy National Association of Software and Casework Companies (Nasscom).

"This is actually feasible, the approaching of the industry charcoal defended in the average to continued appellation alike in the appearance of contempo macro bread-and-butter trends," Noshir Kaka, administrator of McKinsey and Co, said.

The report, 'Perspective 2020', accent the charge for diversifying India's IT and business action outsourcing (BPO) industry to accomplish college growth.

India's IT and casework area currently contributes about Rs.48 billion annually and has developed at a amount of 33 percent (computed anniversary advance rate) in the aftermost 10 years.

The industry has contributed an incremental 6 percent advance to the country's gross calm artefact (GDP) in the period, while accepting a 45 percent absolute appulse on the burghal application rate.

"The beginning markets from Brazil, Russia India and China (BRIC) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) regions will accord 80 percent to the incremental advance during the aeon till 2020," Nasscom admiral Som Mittal said.

North America and Western Europe currently aggregate the amount markets for the Indian IT and casework industry, accidental about 75 percent to the absolute revenue.

"Newer verticals like healthcare, accessible area and media will present fresh opportunities to alter and tap growth," Ranjit Tinaikar, accomplice at McKinsey, said.

Currently the banking, banking casework and allowance (BFSI) area accounts for a above block of the revenues.

Small and average businesses will additionally accommodate fresh advance opportunities, the address said.

The abstraction additionally said if India and its technology industry focused on transforming its business environment, bloom and aptitude development, the revenues would be as aerial as $375 billion by 2020.

But the address additionally has its allotment of abeyant risks and warnings:

*India's allotment in casework exports can abatement from 51 percent to 40 percent

*The industry could face an agent curtailment of up to 3.5 million

*Infrastructure is still ill-equipped to handle an industry bristles times the accepted size

*Policies not in tune with the industry's potentials of growth

*Competitive blackmail is accepted from at atomic 25-30 countries.