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THE REAL STORY OF THE MAD MAX XB GT FALCON
By Peter Barton, 18 May 2015 Features
Mad Max: Fury Road is creating a new generation of fans, but you can't beat the magic of the original. If you've never read it before, this is the true story of The Last of the V8s
IT WAS 1976 and pre-production of Mad Max had begun. Byron Kennedy and George Miller had budgeted $350,000 for their film, including a mere $20,000 for props and vehicles, and a paltry $5000 to keep those vehicles on the road. The climax of the film was to feature a super-hot pursuit car, known at this point only as the Pursuit Special.
A year later, funding in hand, work commenced on the cars. The initial designs for the feature car were highly stylised and futuristic, with spoilers to the roof and boot, flares on the wheel arches, and a modified front end. The overall design looked not unlike a modified Mustang, and for a brief moment that is what Max was going to drive.
Murray Smith — one of the film's mechanics — remembers his opinion of that suggestion: "You'll be flat-knackered trying to get parts for the thing!"
He was right; this wasn't a show car but a fully functional film car that would be driven hard and used for stunts. It was almost certain that repairs would be required and the foreign Mustang would be too much for this low-budget production.
The guys were confident they could instead modify and maintain some Aussie Fords to fit the bill. It was the height of the van craze and they'd seen Monza fronts for Holdens that looked like they could be modified to fit the Ford and achieve the look they were after.
Next stop was a car auction in Frankston, Vic. Three cars were purchased for less than $20,000 — two ex-police V8 XB sedans and a white V8 XB GT coupe that'd been repossessed. The sedans became Big Boppa and Max's Yellow Interceptor, while the GT would become the Last of the V8 Interceptors.
The coupe was to get a Monza front but it turned out that similar fronts were being built to suit Fords by Peter Arcadipane, a former Ford stylist. His work on the Concorde show van caught Ray Beckerley's eye. Ray worked at Graf-X International and had been contracted to customise cars and bikes for the film.
Lindsay Houston (now of LDI Kustoms) was working with Graf-X, which did a lot of van interiors, including 70s show vans Tangerine Dream and Midnight Madness.
"Mad Max was just another job. It was no big deal, it was no more important than anything else we were doing at the time."
It's a sentiment echoed by many who worked on the film. By the same token it was no less important either and the hard work these guys put in is a large part of what makes the film what it is.
The coupe was one of the first creations. First the blower was fitted, simply mounted on top of the air cleaner. The fibreglass nose was fitted in Peter Arcadipane's workshop while the spoilers were the work of Errol Platt at Purvis Fibreglass Products: "They were actually ripped off Bob Jane's Monaro Sports Sedan. It didn't take a lot to make them fit, just a little bit of grinding, some Sikaflex and bog and all of a sudden, there's your spoiler," Ray says. "One of my little sick fantasies. I looked at the car from side-on and thought it needed a wing on the roof as well. Aerodynamically it was horrible.
"The flares were done by a bloke called Rod Smythe and his brother. Rod had just gone out on his own. I'd known him a long time as he was a truck painter and I'm a signwriter by trade."
When it came to the paint scheme, Ray was given a brief by the movie's art director, Jon Dowding, that it had to be black on black.
"I took that to mean gloss and matt, which is the way it finished up." Similar to the factory XB GT design, it differs in swooping up from the rear wheel arch to follow the line of the rear spoiler.
Filming finished in 1978 and the movie was ready for release in Australia by April '79. It was an instant hit, far exceeding everyone's expectations. Worldwide it met with much the same reception. The exotic car had fans talking and featured heavily in promotional artwork, along with the 'Interceptor' tag, which became it's official title for fans worldwide.
Following the completion of filming the producers had run out of money and put the car up for sale — for $7500 it could have been yours — but there were no takers. Instead it went to mechanic Murray Smith as settlement for unpaid work. With the success the film achieved on release, the producers decided to buy the car back, for a sequel.
This time the budget was much more generous and they built a double, to give them more flexibility. The original GT was retained for most of the close-up shots; the double was a much rougher Fairmont — an automatic! — used for most of the wide shots and stunt work.
Much to the horror of fans, the script called for the car's death in a crash and burn sequence, and that's exactly what they did — to the double. They rolled the car down the embankment several times until they got the shots they were after, leaving it genuinely as battered as it looks on film. One final explosion was then set off to burn it to the ground.
Through all this, the original GT survived, largely intact. At the end of the sequel it was again put up for sale with the other props and vehicles. Even a good coupe wasn't bringing too much money back then and this one was badly beaten up — the original GT front was missing, the boot had been cut out to install the fuel tanks, and the interior had been stripped.
Just the same, the new owner didn't have the heart to strip it down and it became a curiosity. It eventually moved to another owner, near Adelaide, where it sat until it was rediscovered by Bob Fursenko. He restored the car and put it on display for the fans. During the following years, the car toured the country, with plenty lining up to have their photo taken sitting in the Mad Max Interceptor.
However, by the early 1990s Mad Max hysteria had passed and the car was on display in the Birdwood Motor Museum in Adelaide. Bob decided he'd done everything he wanted with the car and put it up for sale. Yet again there were no takers.
Finally car collector Peter Nelson heard of its whereabouts. He runs the Cars Of The Stars Motor Museum in the UK, and has an extensive collection of movie cars. He'd long had the Interceptor high on his wish-list and at a car rally in Germany in 1992 he heard it was available. After contacting Bob and verifying that the car was the real deal, he shipped it to the UK.
It now takes pride of place in Peter's museum, and people travel from around the world to see it. To Peter, the Interceptor is much more than just another film car.
"This car was the most important car, I felt, to a country. Some people would say Mad Max is probably one of the most important Australian films." Of course, the car also appeals to Peter for the same reasons as the rest of us: "I like the styling. It suits the film perfectly, and it made a great presence within the film."
Peter has hinted that if the car ever leaves his museum, he'd like to see it come back to Australia, though he's in no hurry to part with it. And despite its poor history in the market place, we reckon you'd need to write a fairly large cheque these days.
Since the story above was originally published, the car has moved to Miami Auto Museum in Florida.
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Creates and returns an NSURL object initialized with a provided a format string as a template into which the remaining
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Review : London Zoo
London Zoo was officially open in 1828 as the world's first scientific zoo, it was not opened to the public until 1847. Located near to Regent's Park, the grounds of London Zoo were designed by Decimus Burton and included a number of features including the Clock Tower, the Giraffe House and the East Tunnel that links the north and south parts of the zoo together. Later other architectural features were built including the mountain landscape of the Mappin Terraces in 1914, the Round House in 1933, The Penguin Pool in 1934 and the Snowdon Aviary in 1964.
In recent years, the Zoological Society of London which runs the Zoo have decided to concentrate more on conservation and breeding programmes and to have fewer animals and begin to build environments that was more suitable for the animals that live in them.
Highlights of the zoo include :
Land of the Lions is the latest new enclosure for London Zoo's Asiatic lions, which opened in Spring 2016. The enclosure is designed to resemble the Gir Forest National Park in India.
Tiger Territory recreates an Indonesian habitat for its Sumatran tigers which are under threat in the wild, the successful European breeding programme has led to the birth of tiger cubs at the zoo in the last couple of years.
Gorilla Kingdom features a colony of western lowland gorillas in a purpose-built environment.
Penguin Beach recreates a South American beach landscape with a colony of Humboldt penguins (and one special rockhopper).The new exhibit features a large pool with underwater viewing areas.
Butterfly Paradise allows visitors to walk inside a giant caterpillar and be immersed into a world of butterflies and moths from around the globe. A large variety of species flutter around you, seeking out plants on which to feed and rest.
Into Africa offers the opportunity to look at some of Africa's animals including Giraffes, zebras, okapi, warthogs and African hunting dogs.
In with the Lemurs is a walk-through exhibit where visitors can get closer than ever before to ring-tail lemurs.
Animal Adventure is the children's zoo, B.U.G.S! is designed to explain about biodiversity, in the Reptile House you can find London Zoo's collection of reptiles and amphibians, including snakes, lizards, frogs and crocodiles. ZSL London Zoo has had an Aquarium since 1853, and is home to different types of fish, the Aquarium is involved in many different conservation projects and breeding programmes.
The Zoo arranges a series of daily events, feeds and demonstrations and has a number of food and drink options. There are number of child activities throughout the day and plenty of shopping for those cuddly toys and other animal related merchandise.
London Zoo has changed considerable over the last 25 years as the public's awareness of animal welfare has changed, gradually the zoo has become an important contributor of conservation and breeding programmes and pioneered education programmes to keep customers informed of global initiatives to save endangered species. Larger animals are generally kept at ZSL Whipsnade and new enclosures are being built to provide a better quality of environment for the animals. As the number of large animals has diminished in the zoo, the number of immersive attractions has grown providing a more interactive experience.
For more information or book tickets, visit the London Zoo website here
Tags: Butterfly Paradise, Clock Tower, Decimus Burton, Gorilla Kingdom, Humboldt penguins, In with the Lemurs, Land of the Lions, Mappin Terraces, Regents Park, Review : London Zoo, Snowdon Aviary, The Penguin Pool, Tiger Territory
By londonvisitors2014 in London Attractions, London Zoo on August 9, 2016 .
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£10m boost from CITB to get people of diverse backgrounds into construction
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CITB will be targeting more than 11,800 people to attract them into construction careers, as part of the Pathways Into Construction programme.
Construction output is expected to grow by 1.3% per year with 168,500 jobs being created by 2023 - challenging employers to recruit more people from diverse backgrounds.
Just 16% of construction employees are female, and 7% are from BAME backgrounds.
This has been due, in part, because construction employers have relied over the years on traditional recruitment methods (PDF. 903kb) such as word of mouth.
Pathways Into Construction will attract people from underrepresented groups over the next three years with CITB's investment establishing recruitment pathways that employers can use in future.
This supports construction employers by helping them meet their workforce and skills needs. Pathways Into Construction will see a £10m investment in 270 colleges; construction employers and federations; infrastructure projects; councils; housing associations; armed forces organisations; charities; prisons; recruiters and training providers across England, Wales and Scotland to connect employers with people who traditionally don't enter the industry.
CITB insight into critical training and employment issues underpins the Pathways Into Construction programme with investment aimed at key groups including young people not in education, training or work; women; long-term unemployed; service leavers who left the military at least 12 months ago; and full-time learners, focusing on CBE Diploma students.
In the West Midlands and East Anglia, Women Into Construction will assist 240 women with work-readiness support and job placements with 30 companies, half of which are to be small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
Specifically in Wales, Creating Enterprise will also run work readiness courses and placements for more than 140 long-term unemployed people, including careers support plans beyond the project. Also in Wales, the Community Impact Initiative will provide nine renovation projects for 72 women to train on, plus CSCS card testing, along with vital on-site work experience to enable employment in the industry.
In Scotland, Sibbald will target 180 service leavers and young people not in education, training or employment within the North Glasgow area, in partnership with Glasgow Kelvin College, TIGERS Ltd, Keepmoat and Morgan Sindall.
Stephen Cole, CITB Head of Careers Strategy, said: "With thousands of jobs being created in the coming years, Pathways Into Construction will demonstrate that we need to stop fishing in only half the pond and diversify the talent pool to meet future skills needs.
"We'll explore the best routes, which employers can adopt in future, to bring under-represented groups into the industry, not only filling the skills gap but also supporting employers by recruiting domestic talent with Brexit on the horizon."
Other organisations leading Pathways Into Construction multi-partner projects include: Abbey Access Training; Balfour Beatty; Construction Youth Trust; Croydon Council, Doncaster College; EN:Able Futures; Ethos VO Ltd; the Home Builders Federation; Leeds Beckett University; Lendlease; Sibbald Ltd; and YTKO.
Find out more about Pathways Into Construction.


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Shanahan & Portis
Thread starter Miles Monroe
Miles Monroe
So, assuming we do get Shanny, do you think this would help Clinton's chances of remaining with the team ?
Is this a naive question question ? Shanahan traded him away while putting up huge numbers, and he's nowhere the player he was back then. That right there might scream to some people Portis is done here for sure.
I think Portis is done here no matter what.
If 2010 is an uncapped year then I think Portis is gone no matter what. Mike loved Portis as a player but it's easy to get in his doghouse when you start grumbling about your contract. Shanahan nipped a potential holdout in the bud by dealing Clinton to the Skins for Roland Bailey.
If 2010 turns out NOT to be an uncapped year, and Shanahan becomes HC, then I think Mike and Portis can co-exist just fine, providing that's what Shanahan wants.
I think any big name coach (and Shanahan qualifies) is going to come in here sending an early message that the culture is changing. Portis is as big a symbol of what needs to change as there is. That coupled with him being non-productive this year, and on the downside of his career leads me to agree with Henry. He's gone.
The Burgundy Ghost
The Shadows of the Unknown
Allen will love 2010 b/c he can clear the Skins of cap, while using money to bring in the players needed to upgrade the team.
$$ wise 2010 would be the year to either a) cut Portis or b) significantly alter his current contract (ie tear it up and write a new one for 2011) based on performance etc.
I think the Skins probably cut him outright on June 1st for the following reasons:
1. age- CP is only 28 but with his career and # of snaps, he's about 50 in football years. I could be wrong and CP may still have it for another 3-4 seasons, but I'm thinking he's now where Edgerin James was in his last 2-3 years with the Cardinals. So more or less CP will be productive and have a few games of flashes (like his 78 yard run vs. KC) but mostly look for a 3-4 ypc.
2. attitude- he was a headache for Zorn. Maybe he was right, maybe not. But I have to think the next coach won't want to put up with it. Gibbs got rid of Arrington IMO for similar reasons (being a distraction).
3. $$- big contract/probably not worth it anymore. Many owners will love the uncapped year if only to trim the fat on their future caps (no way will the NFL or the union remain uncapped IMO, their current system is one of the better ones in major sports). Yes, CP is guaranteed a large portion of his salary but that's nothing for Snyder. If this was the Bengals, I'd say he'd be here in 2010 b/c of the guaranteed money.
beamish
i remember one summer, portis twinged his hammy on the first day of training camp. when they interviewed shanny to get his thoughts on the opening of camp, he was already in mid-season form going on and on about how he couldn't believe he had some players who had the nerve to show up at camp out of shape. he specifically said pulling a hamstring on the first day is an indication that you are not in football shape. then he cut the interview short. unless shanny has gotten old and tired, that's the tone he will set at redskin park.
IF Portis comes back,I hope whoever the new coach is makes him do the Oklahoma drill
RedskinfaninOC
Orange County, California
Has anyone thought about how many starters are out, but the team still is in the game? Look at the games for the Saints, Cowboys and Eagles. Do we have starters who perhaps are not as good as we thought? I think that Portis will be out. I hope they keep Cooley and not use him in a trade to get other players. Besides, everytime we trade a good play, it always comes back to bite us. I would like to see Cooley and Davis together.
RedskinfaninOC said:
I think Cooley is safe, but agree with all that Portis is done in DC.
Camp Fodder
Portis is gone.. the uncapped year all but guarantees it.
I wouldn't rest thinking Cooley was safe either. Davis' play has made him a very attractive bit of trade bait.
I'd bet we could get a second for him, and if we can. I'd have really think about pulling the trigger.
~Bang
I agree. Lets get rid of the guys we know won't consistently produce. And remember, it's not just about blowing it up to produce maximum draft picks - we've got to have some of our vets to show them the ropes as well. There are things coaches can't coach, but that they can learn from vets.
so no one would trade cooley, but would you trade davis for a second rounder?
love the prospect of a tandem TE set, but is there anyone else on the roster that could be used as tbait?
InsaneBoost
Henry said:
The only way I see us keeping him is if for some odd reason we draft a RB and they want Portis to play the mentor style role. Something like what the Nationals are doing with Ivan Rodriguez.
Call me Ismail
beamish said:
Santana Moss. Imagine him in New Orleans and how he would help that offense
Just a second? Nope. It would have to be a first or a combination of picks at this point and then it would still depend. Right now, I am looking at two TE sets as potentially better for this team than 3 WR/1 TE sets. Much more difficult to defend as far as pass defense is concerned and still good to run out of.
Andre Carter. He is nearing the end and while he is playing well this year how many more does he have? One? Two? Follow the NE model and trade him for a something like they did with Seymour before he isn't worth anything.
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I would be keeping him to play in the slot next year like NE does with Welker. Use Thomas, Kelly and Mitchell on the outside. Combine that with our possible 2 TE sets... Man, those are some serious match up issues for a defense.
ismail, santana is another one i would hate to see go. will we ever forget those TDs in Dallas when all hope was lost? but yeah, i would grudgingly move him given the opportunity.
mike, if you can get a decent draft pick for landry, yep i'd pull the trigger with the intention of drafting an o-lineman. i'm just not convinced he's valuable to anyone else right now.
so, neophyte, you wouldn't make any changes on offense, and one change on D (carter). why get rid of cerrato, or even zorn? just stay the course with snyderato.
imo, when you're 4-9 (4! AND 9! DAMNIT!), no one deserves to be immune from being cut or traded. no one.
(apologies for veering us off topic, maybe all this warrants its own thread)
You won't get a second for Davis. I'd consider trading Cooley for a second.
Davis has played well enough that we know we will get some production from that position even without Cooley. Cooley is a good player. I love the guy. But a game-changer he is not. Not in the mold of Shannon Sharpe.
Moss is too old. Only the Redskins give up significant picks for players in their 30s.
Noone's going to give up anything for a 31 year-old WR who's good for about 60 catches and 900 yards a season.
It isn't so much that I would not make a changes but more like who I would trade of the players I deem tradable.
And I think you are wrong about no one being immune. I have a few sacred cows that I would not touch as you need something to build around. Cooley, Davis, Orakpo, Haynesworth, and Jarmon are on that list. The problem is they are also, in all likelihood, the only players another team would want.
I would trade Rogers but he is a RFA and I'm not sure how that would work so I left him off the list. I am on the fence about the Landry as him being effect depends on getting a legit FS. I am not sure we could get enough for Horton to make it worth the deal.
Campbell I am leaning toward keeping. The kid has really turned it up in the last few weeks and I think he could be even better in a WCO like Shanahan's.
Who else is there?
That doesn't mean I wouldn't make changes or that I wanted Cerrato involved in the changes we already know have to be made. We know the offensive line needs a lot of work. We know that we need a SAM and a FS. And we know we need to say goodbye to a number of vets who will need to go after this year.
No worries, sir. Threads are living, breathing things that often follow their own path in this world.


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Jamie xx's debut solo record is now available as a free video on iTunes.
Jamie xx streams new record as a visual album
By Will Hodgetts	on	 May 27, 2015 News
London-born music producer Jamie xx has released his debut solo record titled In Colour as a free visual stream on iTunes.
The album will be released on 1st June and features guest appearances from The xx's own Oliver Sim and Roby, as well as Four Tet, Young Thug and Popcaan.
The tracklisting for In Colour is as follows:
1. Gosh
2. Sleep Sound
3. Seesaw [feat. Romy]
4. Obvs
5. Just Saying
6. Stranger In A Room [feat. Oliver Sim]
7. Hold Tight
8. Loud Places [ft. Romy]
9. I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times) [feat. Young Thug and Popcaan]
10. The Rest Is Noise
11. Girl
Jamie xx has also recently confirmed that he will be playing three shows in October after the festival season has finished. These will be at London's O2 Brixton Academy, the Manchester Albert Hall and Glasgow Arches on the 15th, 16th and 17th, respectively.
In Colour is available as a free download on iTunes now.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Morgan Stanley on Wednesday reported first-quarter profit of $2.43 billion.
The New York-based company said it had earnings of $1.39 per share. Earnings, adjusted for pretax gains, were $1.33 per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.17 per share.
The investment bank posted revenue of $13.56 billion in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $10.29 billion, also surpassing Street forecasts.
"We delivered solid earnings despite a slow start to the year following the turbulent markets in the fourth quarter," Chairman and CEO James Gorman said in a statement. "Even though risks to the global environment remain, markets have recovered and we are well positioned to serve our clients and invest in our businesses."
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India teen student Suvir Mirchandani tells US how to save $400 million by changing font
A 14-year-old Indian-origin boy has come up with a unique plan that could help the U.S. save nearly $400 million a year by merely changing the font used on official documents.
Suvir Mirchandani, a student in a Pittsburgh-area middle school, claimed that if the federal government used the Garamond font exclusively it could save about $136 million per year, nearly 30 per cent less than the estimated $467 dollars it spends annually on ink.
An additional $234 million could be saved annually if state governments also implemented the change.
Mirchandani said the idea came to him when he was trying to think of ways to cut waste and save money as part of a science fair project at his school, CNN reported.
The youngster noticed that he was getting a lot more handouts than he did in elementary school and decided to figure out if he could minimise use of paper and ink.
While recycling paper was one way to save money and conserve resources, Mirchandani said little attention had been paid to the ink used on the papers.
"Ink is two times more expensive than French perfume by volume," he said, adding that he then decided to focus his project on finding ways to cut down the cost of ink.
As part of his experiment, he collected random samples of teachers' handouts and focused on the most commonly used characters such as e, t, a, o and r.
He noted how often each character was used in different fonts like Garamond, Times New Roman, Century Gothic and Comic Sans and then measured how much ink was used for each letter, using an ink coverage software.
From his analysis, Mirchandani figured out that by using the Garamond font with its thinner strokes, his school district could reduce its ink consumption by 24 per cent and in turn save as much as $21,000 annually.
He repeated his tests on five sample pages from documents on the Government Printing Office website and got similar results that changing the font would save money.
Mirchandani's findings have been published in the Journal for Emerging Investigators (JEI), a publication founded by a group of Harvard students in 2011 that provides a platform for the work of middle school and high school students.
One of the journal's founders Sarah Fankhauser said that of the nearly 200 submissions they have received since 2011, Mirchandani's project stood out.
"We were so impressed. We really could really see the real-world application in Suvir's paper," Fankhauser was quoted as saying.
JEI challenged the teenager to apply his project to a larger scale, preferably the federal government, to determine how much real savings his idea could generate.
The government has an annual printing expenditure of $1.8 billion and implementing Mirchandani's idea on such a massive scale was more challenging than a school science project, the CNN report said.
Media and public relations manager at the Government Printing Office Gary Somerset described Mirchandani's idea as "remarkable" but said it was concentrating on saving money by publishing documents online instead of hard copies.
"They can't convert everything to a digital format," Mirchandani said.
"Not everyone is able to access information online. Some things still have to be printed. I recognise it's difficult to change someone's behaviour," he said.
But "I definitely would love to see some actual changes and I'd be happy to go as far as possible to make that change possible," he said.
Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade still in shadow of fresh criminal charges
Delhi: At a time when the United States and India are trying to move beyond a rift over an Indian diplomat's arrest in a domestic worker case, news that charges against her had been dropped – for now – was greeted with a mix of scepticism and relief.
However US prosecutors said they might seek a new indictment against Devyani Khobragade, the deputy consul general who was arrested in December and charged with lying to investigators on the visa application for her domestic employee. Prosecutors did not provide a specific timeline
"The judge ruled there's no bar to a new indictment, and we intend to proceed accordingly," said a spokesman for the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, James Margolin.
It is unclear what would happen if the office of US Attorney Preet Bharara decided to re-indict the diplomat.
"Any re-indictment would only be for show since the government well knows this case is never going to be tried," said Ms Khobragade's lawyer, Daniel Arshack.
But beyond the shadow of fresh criminal charges, the diplomat still may face some snags. Indian newspapers are reporting that Dr Khobragade is being investigated by Indian authorities because her children allegedly have both Indian and US passports, which is illegal in India.
Dr Khobragade's arrest, strip-search and indictment caused a firestorm in India and was widely viewed as unnecessarily harsh treatment by US law enforcement. The Indian government went to great lengths to show its displeasure, taking a series of retaliatory steps against the US Embassy in New Delhi – removing security barricades, launching an investigation into the visa status of employees at the American Embassy School and limiting the embassy's distribution of imported alcohol.
On Thursday, Syed Akbaruddin, a spokesman for the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, said he hoped that the judge's ruling would bring the controversy to a close. But later in the day, the ministry issued a terse statement noting that the "judgement does not consider the merits of the case".
Dr Khobragade, 39, was arrested outside her daughter's school in December and charged with visa fraud and making false statements about the work agreement with her Indian maid, Sangeeta Richard. Dr Khobragade and her husband had brought Richard to the US from India to work as a maid and nanny.
In the January indictment, prosecutors alleged that Dr Khobragade had paid Ms Richard only $US573 ($635) a month – a "legally insufficient" wage – and made her work more than 100 hours a week. The maid eventually left Dr Khobragade's home and sought protection from an activist organisation that helps victims of human trafficking. Dr Khobragade's family has maintained throughout that the maid was well treated.
Shortly before the indictment, India transferred Dr Khobragade to a position at the United Nations, which gave her full immunity from prosecution.
Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that regardless of whether Dr Khobragade had immunity when she was arrested, her UN status at the time of the indictment mandated that the charges be dropped.
Dr Khobragade was expelled from the US in January.
Indian-American in immigration scam settles with US body
An Indian-American businessman and two Chicago based organisations will pay $15 million to settle charges of raising $158 million dollars from close to 300 investors as part of an immigration scam.The US Securities and Exchange Commission had charged Anshoo R Sethi, A Chicago Convention Centre, LLC (ACCC) and Intercontinental Regional Centre Trust of Chicago, LLC (IRCTC) for their roles in the scam.
The US SEC had in Feb 2013 complaint accused them of targeting foreign nationals who sought to invest in the US economy and gain a legal pathway to citizenship through the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Programme.
The final settlement entered by a US District Court last week provides for joint-and-several liability for over $11.5 million in disgorgement and prejudgment interest, subject to offsets for certain amounts refunded or credited to investors.
It also provides permanent injunctions against future violations of securities law and restrains defendants for twenty years from offering or selling securities issued by any of them or issued by any entity owned or controlled by Sethi, according to an SEC media release.
In April last year, the Court granted the Commission's motion to return to investors the entire $147 million of principal that had been frozen pursuant to the SEC's motions.
The agreed upon settlement resolves, among other things, the disposition of approximately $11 million in administrative fees paid by investors, which are the only funds remaining to be returned in order to make the investors whole, SEC said.
Fiji indian Monika Chetty ended her life by begging and spending her final moments in the bush – Sydney, Australia
For the last year of her life, Monika Chetty lived rough in suburbia, despite suffering horrific burns. How did this mother of three from a good family end up in such a state?
"Her whole back was black" … The western Sydney bush reserve where Monika Chetty spent her final months.
"Her whole back was black" … The western Sydney bush reserve where Monika Chetty spent her final months. Photo: Wolter Peeters
The call came to Green Valley police late one Friday in January 2014. Throughout Sydney's west, people were preparing for the year's first weekend, but in Ferraro Crescent, West Hoxton, a newish community of land-and-home packages and multiple cars, not everyone was settling into the languor of mid-summer.
A resident had become suspicious of a woman hovering around bushland abutting one stretch of the street. For a year, she had been seen near the local playground, cleaning herself at a tap or collecting washing from a stretch of barbed wire as suburban life bustled around her. She wore long tops and pants and her hair was obscured by a cap, but it was clear she was scarred. There were marks on her face and bandaged hands, and the hair that protruded from beneath her cap appeared to be just fuzz.
She was conspicuously anonymous, her air of destitution so improbable in this neighbourhood of drive-in, drive-out residences, and she might have been homeless had it not been for the sightings of her shuffling down the side path of one local house, where onlookers presumed she was staying. She had a habit of dragging around black garbage liners, and at least one resident, concerned she was doing something sinister, had considered calling police. But until January 3, no one did.
"She was smart, funny" … Monika Chetty, before her life went downhill
Late that afternoon, a resident heard a call for help from the bush. At 7pm, two general duty officers waded into the overgrowth, just beyond a patch of discarded bikes and tyres, and found the woman, in tracksuit pants and a beanie at the height of summer, lying behind someone's back fence on an old patch of concrete. As police helped her to her feet, her long-sleeved top shifted.
"Her whole back was black," says Green Valley police superintendent James Johnson. His officers were horrified at the extent of the woman's disfigurement, so severe that just by looking at her they could not even be sure she was who she claimed to be. "From the eyebrows up, she had no hair. It had all been burnt off."
She said she was Monika Chetty and that someone had thrown acid on her in a Liverpool park days earlier – the latest in an uncannily dire series of events that had left her with shocking burns on at least two prior occasions. Her skin, which looked dirty, was actually charred. Yet her cries for help had nothing to do with the excruciating pain she must have been enduring: she simply needed a hand getting up.
Monika Chetty with her school friend Shelly Zammit (at left) in 1990.
Future imperfect … Monika Chetty with her school friend Shelly Zammit (at left) in 1990.
With a level of stoicism that seemed super-human, she had been living rough in the middle of suburbia, without medical attention, despite full-depth burns to 80 per cent of her body. Horrifically disfigured and homeless, at 39 her existence seemed to have been reduced to the garbage bags she habitually hauled around with her.
Yet even in her abysmally reduced state, she had quietly managed to maintain some of the accoutrements of 21st-century life: a mobile phone, a bank account, a Facebook page. They provided some of the few enduring links to who she had been.
She had the most contagious laugh," says Rani Thind, a warm, 30-something woman who, having spent several periods helping homeless people, still cannot believe that a friend of 24 years could have fallen into this category. "She was always bubbly, always had a smile."
Monika Chetty, aged 14.
Monika Chetty, aged 14. Photo: Supplied
Monika Chetty came into Thind's life in her early teens, when she was still Monika Prasad and dreamed of love and domesticity. They met as school girls through mutual friends. "She talked about growing up, getting married, having a home, having children."
Born in the Fijian town of Lautoka, Chetty arrived in Australia as a teenager with her parents and her sister, Mohini, in 1988, another family joining the exodus from post-coup Fiji, and settled in western Sydney. She attended Burwood Girls High in years 9 and 10 and finished her schooling in Blacktown, where her parents opened a corner store.
She and Thind shared similar ambitions. "You know, those girly dreams that you have when you are young: a happy home, a husband who kisses you goodbye when he goes to work in the morning. She was at my wedding and danced all night. She was always saying that she was so excited about getting married and having all that."
Insurance advisor Anujay Singh, who met Chetty through his cousins around the same time, remembers a nice young woman who loved dressing up. "She was smart, intelligent, a good girl – funny, with a great sense of humour."
She attended TAFE and studied business administration, and by 19 she was married. Her idealised life seemed to have begun. But the union did not last.
At 23, she married again. Her second husband, Ronald Chetty, had spotted her at a party. "She was quite friendly and talkative and was open-hearted; she was a very cheerful person," he says now.
They were married in 1998, and with her mix of warmth and assertiveness she assumed the role of homemaker, eventually presiding over a family of three children. "She was the boss," says Ronald. "She was making all the decisions, and we had a good time."
Like many others, their union was sometimes patchy, but Ronald seems to have tried to please his wife. "He looked after her like a queen," says Shelly Zammit, who was a year ahead of Monika Chetty at school. "He did everything for her. He paid all the mortgage, he paid the bills and if she didn't want to work, he said, 'That's fine.' "
Chetty had been a shop assistant at Myer and Target earlier in her career, and she worked for a time as a nursing aide in Fairfield after the births of her two sons. But with the advent of parenthood she was mostly at home, living in a comfortable three-bedroom place in Bonnyrigg, with no outward indication of the darkness that was to come.
By 2007, "she still seemed to be quite a together person", says Thind. She enjoyed family day trips and picnics, and spent time with her children and her friends and their children, although the complexities of family life were sometimes straining. She had become gloomy about her sometimes-rocky marriage, but was determined it would survive. "She wanted it to work out for the kids as well, so that she and their father were together for them," says Thind.
"Sometimes she was unhappy," says Zammit, who was always struck by her friend's fierce independence. "It wasn't the husband; it wasn't the kids she was unhappy [about]. It was something about her. She would never ask for help. She thought she could look after herself. She didn't need anyone."
Eventually, however, the marriage ended. "When the third child was born, she wasn't happy," says Ronald Chetty. "I was home and she said, 'It's not going anywhere' … And I said, 'Why, what's wrong?' And she didn't say anything."
Her husband was left to assume that money was a contributor to their marriage breakdown. "She wasn't working and probably I wasn't earning that much to entertain her," he says. In 2008, she moved out with her two primary school-aged sons and infant daughter, and moved in temporarily with her father, Jitendra, and sister in Blacktown. (Her mother had died several years earlier.) By 2009, she was divorced.
In her early 30s, Chetty was now a single mother living at first off Centrelink benefits and later from her cashier's job at a fruit market. After several months, she moved into a Toongabbie flat and the children would see their father at weekends. There was still a semblance of domesticity to life, but already its once measured rhythm was shaky. Chetty fell out with her father and sister. She developed breast cancer. Soon the tensions of her complicated life were overwhelming.
In late 2010, she contacted her ex-husband. "It was the last day of school," he recalls, "and she rang me and said, 'Can you have the kids for a while?' because she didn't have a place to live." She had been given notice after failing to pay rent, but promised to take the children back once she was settled in a housing commission place. Ronald Chetty had no reason to disbelieve her: "She was always a good mother." But even a plan this simple would prove to be wishful thinking.
Away from her immediate family, Chetty's movements, like her welfare, became unclear. A photo taken in October 2011 shows no signs of scarring, but as that year morphed into 2012, she was becoming increasingly distant from those who had once been among her closest circles.
She phoned her children at least weekly when they first returned to live with their father. But within a year her calls had become sporadic, and the gap soon spanned months.
In late 2011, she called her ex-husband asking for money. They met at a car park near his Fairfield home and he was shocked: "If I saw her on the street, I wouldn't have known who she was." Her face and neck were blistered, her hair was gone, even her skin colour had changed. "She was very dark, and wasn't well at all."
Chetty provided few details. She said she had been burnt by a car radiator on a freeway, and that her hair had fallen out from chemotherapy. But that was not all that disturbed her former husband. He had started hearing that she was asking strangers for money in nearby suburbs: Fairfield, Parramatta, Cabramatta. The location kept changing, but the thrust of the rumours did not. This was not the woman he knew.
Chetty was broke. On her own and impoverished, she began begging, an especially difficult proposition for a woman who had been so fiercely independent. Her plight was made more difficult by the way she now looked, so badly scarred on at least her face and hands, sometimes wearing bandages, that no outfit seemed to completely hide the external signs of the hardships she was enduring.
By December 2012 she was working through a list of potential helpers when she phoned Anand Kumar, a family friend for 20 years. After several calls, he finally agreed to see her. They met in January 2013 on the footpath outside his home (she had refused to come inside, saying, "You might get scared if you see me") and Chetty's head was covered and her hands were burnt. She mentioned the car radiator and Kumar did not inquire further. He gave her $200 and did not help her again.
Around the same time, Chetty also contacted Jarvis Prasad after 15 years. They were friends in their early 20s, and Prasad was astonished that she now wrote to his brother on Facebook, then phoned Prasad himself. "How come she called me after so many years?" says Prasad. "I thought she must be really desperate." Chetty avoided answering how she was, saying only that she needed $100. For someone frantic for money, it seemed a surprisingly paltry amount.
Prasad was happy to help. "I told her I would meet her anywhere; I wanted to see her." But she never showed up, leaving Prasad so unsettled – by her dire financial state and her refusal to meet him – that he contacted other old friends, among them Rani Thind. Around March last year, Thind phoned her schoolmate and said she could move in.
Chetty sounded desperate. Although Thind had heard she was living in a car, she claimed to have secured a housing commission spot in Liverpool. What she really needed, she said, was $500 in her bank account to stop her car being repossessed. Thind did not have the money. "But I said, 'Come and see me and I will talk to the car company and come up with some kind of arrangement with them.' And she said, 'No, no, I have an arrangement that I have to pay them and they won't give me any more time.' "
Thind thought Chetty's response was odd. "If you are in a situation where you are really desperate and someone you knew since you were kids was giving you a place to stay … it surprised me that she didn't want to come and see me … She wouldn't even meet." Their friendship had always seemed open, but now Chetty was intensely secretive. "She wouldn't give me an address. She wouldn't give me anything. She said she would call me, but she didn't. I tried to call her over and over." But Chetty never answered her calls again.
By early 2013, Chetty was frequenting West Hoxton. She had told her children's father that a woman she called "Aunty" lived there and that she had been helping her but, as ever, she provided scant details. Her presence on Ferraro Crescent, however, was noted.
"I could hear her crying in the bush late, late at night," says resident Giola Motti. "I used to wake my husband up and I would say, 'Can you hear that?' and he's going, 'It's just cats', and I said, "It's not cats, that's a human cry.' "
Around March, Motti first noticed Chetty hovering around the bush carrying garbage bags. Sometimes she would move them from outside a nearby house, where Motti assumed she was staying, to the bush reserve. Each time Chetty was covered head to toe. Then, late one hot night as she went for a run, Motti spotted her in a small green car parked a few houses away. A streetlight was shining on her, but Chetty seemed oblivious as she sat in the front seat in a singlet.
"She had massive gouges, like her skin had been burned down to her cheekbones," says a horrified Motti. "It looked like she had just come back from war. All I could see were craters. Everywhere, her skin, her arms … it was like something out of a horror movie."
Still, Motti did not alert anyone to what she had seen. Chetty had been going to the property a few houses away. The residents there, Motti figured, must have seen her. Surely that meant she wasn't homeless?
By the time Jameel Ahmed and his wife, Firoza, saw her at Carnes Hill shopping complex in May 2013, Chetty's scarring was noticeable even from a distance. "You could see that she was in trouble," he says. "She was looking for help." As Chetty left her car and approached the couple for money, Jameel Ahmed began to learn about the unlikely unravelling of her once ordinary life.
With her belongings in storage, she told them, she had left a women's refuge in Liverpool after some youths tormented her, and for several months an Indian-Fijian woman had given her shelter and money and the chance to work as a cleaner. When that had started to impinge on the woman's family life, the woman had bought her the cheap car that now doubled as her bed.
Chetty's existence was unrecognisable from the comfortable life she had known so recently. She was still in the suburbs, but now she wandered by day as far afield as Liverpool and Parramatta. She spent her nights, friends heard later, sleeping on back verandahs if she was lucky, or more often in her car, which was both a saviour and a curse. She said she had been badly injured opening the radiator cap, then the bonnet had fallen on her hands. She had been burnt another time by hot cooking oil, on both occasions receiving medical help. Still, the indelible legacy of those accidents was apparent each time she stepped beyond the shadows.
Yet she seemed most troubled by money. At the car park, Ahmed gave her cash and later transferred more to her bank account, around $500 in all. Over several ensuing phone calls, he also directed her to a Hindu temple and found her a job in a Parramatta restaurant. But again she declined all but monetary help. "She felt embarrassed and non-presentable. She looked disfigured … I can't blame her," says Ahmed, whose persistence eventually waned.
"I felt frustrated because she never sought [out] all those avenues I presented to her," he says. "She was not helping herself." But he remained so deeply affected that he emailed community leaders in late May, feeling then that "if she doesn't find shelter and doesn't get back on her feet again, she is going to end up in a worse situation than she is now".
Ahmed's letter spawned the first of several email chains among Sydney's Indian and Fijian communities. In May 2013, Dr Yadu Singh, president of the Indian Australian Association of NSW, found Chetty at the same shopping complex, covered up in long clothes and a cap, her hands bandaged. "I didn't feel that she was in health troubles because she was walking around," says Singh, a cardiologist. "I didn't see anything that said she was in fear, at that time at least."
She told him she was okay and needed no help, so he offered no more. "If a person says, 'I am okay', you have to walk away, you can't intrude."
Several other community members also spoke to her. One offered her the use of an office space. Another said he might be able to assist with a job, food and clothing, and would even help her approach Centrelink, her own direct efforts having apparently failed. But she resisted them all.
Chetty's movements over the following months are unclear, although she was spotted in various suburbs of western Sydney with obvious injuries. At a Liverpool street function one night in October, bandaged and heavily clothed, she approached a man for money. As he handed her $10, he failed to recognise her as his wife's cousin.
By January 2014, Chetty had become a ghoulish site around West Hoxton, an unknown but non-threatening presence in Ferraro Crescent. "My kids would say, 'That scary man is up at the park again', " says Joanne Malloch, who lives with her extended family on a curve of the street just beyond the bush reserve.
For half a year, her husband, Joseph, had noticed clothes and towels strung out on a nearby barbed-wire fence and had often seen a short person shuffling on the footpath. But it was not until late afternoon on January 3 that Joanne Malloch drove past Chetty, who appeared to have a surgical mask on her face, and spotted the horrific burns.
Malloch did not contact anyone about what she had seen. But within a couple of hours, her neighbour Giola Motti did. On a recent early morning run, she had stumbled upon Chetty sleeping in the bush. "I thought she was dead. She was just lying there covered in old clothes. I coughed to make some noise and she sort of rustled around and picked her stuff up and started going."
Having repeatedly seen the woman moving bags into the bush, Motti was convinced she was up to no good.
Chetty was meant to see her children on January 3. She had phoned her former husband in the morning, not having hugged her sons and daughter in close to a year, and had made a loose arrangement to visit them at home some time after 6pm.
Instead, she found herself trapped on a rough bit of land in someone else's neighbourhood, her isolation shattered by the arrival of emergency crews. She was quiet and reserved as police helped her stand. They called an ambulance when they saw her horrific wounds and only then did she become upset, insisting vehemently she would not go to hospital. She did not say why. She was moved to a specialist burns unit and the difficult task of saving her from the wounds that had not seemed to trouble her began.
With no idea who had caused her injuries, or even if acid had been thrown, police launched an investigation. That night they began to circulate an old photograph of Chetty in the hope that someone might reveal the source of her wounds. "I looked at the picture of her in the paper and it was actually nice to see," says Green Valley Police crime manager, Detective Inspector Brendan Bernie, who was on duty that evening. "If you saw what she looked like [on January 3] and you saw the face as it appears in that photo, you couldn't say that they were the same people."
Chetty's fate morphed into a collective burden. Another chain email began circulating among community members wondering how to help her. Within days, more than 150 names were on the list. After all this time seemingly alone, a circle began to re-form around her. Her former husband, Ronald, and her eldest son, now well into his teens, visited her in hospital, where she was eventually placed in an induced coma. Her elderly father, Jitendra, and her sister, Mohini, from whom she had been estranged, became key links for the health and community officials working towards her recovery.
But before any semblance of a future could be planned, Chetty died. After the isolation of her final months, the grief at her demise was collective and audible. Her death, on January 31, was announced on local Hindi radio. Close to 150 people attended her funeral: women in saris, men in white business shirts, her father and sister, her children and their father, old school friends, community leaders and a minibus load of young men dressed neatly in high-school uniforms.
Chetty's elderly father was especially distraught. The day after the funeral, as he went to collect his daughter's ashes, he suffered a suspected stroke.
He was rushed to hospital, but died later that day.
Police are unsure about much of Monika Chetty's demise. They don't know why she chose Ferraro Crescent, with its tract of supposedly snake-infested bush, to spend her final nights. Her endless need for cash is also unclear, given the regularity with which she was helped. "I don't think she was starving, because of the amount of people who gave her food and coffee," says Green Valley police's James Johnson.
But her death has dispelled some of the myths that accumulated as she moved quietly through suburbia. The garbage bags that worried some residents contained nothing more than clothes. What remained of Chetty's former life had become confined to the inside of those flimsy liners, and the house in Ferraro Crescent where she had been allowed to store some things. An occupant of the house refused to be interviewed for this story, but Johnson says the residents there also fed her. "They did take a little bit of care of her as neighbours."
Chetty left other bags around West Hoxton, presumably for safe-keeping. But like her former life, nothing was guaranteed protection in the end. A neighbour found some of the clothes-filled liners in the bush and, figuring they were rubbish, threw them away.
Monika Chetty's life, once hopeful and unexceptional, ended bitterly and prematurely. Old friends and family still struggle to reconcile her final months with the laughing young woman who loved dressing up like a Bollywood star.
"What happened to her?" wonders former husband Ronald Chetty, ruling out whispers about drugs and depression. "She was a very, very nice person when I met her. She was still a very nice person when she left me. And in the last two-and-a-half years, I don't know what happened. No one can tell me."
Rani Thind desperately wants her old friend to be remembered for who she was for the bulk of her 39 years, and not just at the end. "She was alive before everything went wrong. She was asking people for money and she was living on the street. This is not the person that she was. It feels like a stranger."
NGA (National Gallery of Australia ) refuses to return $US5m Shiva statue despite evidence it was stolen from Indian temple
The National Gallery of Australia will continue to resist returning the Dancing Shiva statue it purchased for $US5 million from disgraced antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor in spite of damning evidence that it was stolen from an Indian temple and in the face of an official request for its return from India's High Commission.
The Chairman of the NGA Council, Allan Myers, QC, said the gallery would wait for the processes of the law to take place before deciding whether to send the statue back to India.
The Canberra-based gallery's failure to adequately check the ownership history of the statue and other items purchased from Mr Kapoor's Art of the Past in New York has also been sharply criticised in a report aired on ABC1's Four Corners on Monday.
Antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor is currently on trial in India for looting. Photo: Supplied
Arts Minister George Brandis said: ''The due diligence standards of the NGA which are very high, in fact are world's best practice, were not in my view sufficiently complied with on this particular occasion.''
Senator Brandis said the decision to buy the statue for $US5 million in February 2008 was ''incautious".
''There couldn't have, in my view, been a sufficient level of confidence in the provenance of the object to make the decision to acquire it at the time appropriate,'' he said.
But the chairman of the NGA Council, Allan Myers QC, defended the gallery's procedures, including its failure to contact the previous owner of objects it purchased from Mr Kapoor, who is currently on trial in India for looting.
''The usual processes of the gallery to investigate provenance were undertaken and they're very detailed and they were adhered to in this case,'' he said.
The Art Gallery of NSW also holds a number of Indian artefacts purchased from Mr Kapoor, including a stone sculpture of the God Ardhanarishvara bought for $300,000 in 2004 and which was almost certainly stolen from a temple.
The gallery's director Dr Michael Brand appeared to indirectly criticise the lax procedures of the gallery under his predecessor Edmund Capon, who presided over the purchase of several items from Mr Kapoor between 1994 and 2004.
''I think the best answer there is that they would not have passed our current acquisition policy but again I'm not going to comment on decisions made by my predecessors,'' Dr Brand said.
But it is the Canberra-based NGA that is under attack, along with its director Ron Radford and senior curator of Asian Art Robyn Maxwell, for the debacle over its purchases of almost certainly looted Indian artefacts.
One month prior to the purchase of the Shiva, the NGA received independent legal advice that there was no evidence to prove the origin of the object and suggested it could have been looted from a temple.
"I am unable to determine whether or not the object was legally or illegally exported from India. The absence of official documentation suggests that the object was exported without compliance with that legislation,'' said cultural heritage law expert Shane Simpson.
Four Corners stated that the gallery sought telephone advice from an Indian antiquities expert who denies he advised the NGA to buy the statue.
Both the NGA and AGNSW also largely ignored an Indian research institute that keeps meticulous records of the contents of temples in southern India prior to their spending sprees on antiquities that would have shown the ownership records provided by Mr Kapoor were false.
Four Corners also stated Mr Kapoor also allegedly made a confession in 2012 while in police custody although he has otherwise proclaimed his innocence.
Fairfax art critic John McDonald told Four Corners that galleries had an obligation to thoroughly check the provenance if they wanted to ''buy in this very dangerous area''.
''To me it's extraordinary that museum professionals can acquire Indian objects or Indian artefacts in this day and age and not seriously check the provenance.''
Anonymous NRI from Texas pays for operation on 10-month-old's heart
A good Samaritan from Texas offered to pay R1.2 lakh to clear Baby Sakshi's blocked arteries, which will help her lead a normal life
Hours after mid-day reported that 10-month-old Sakshi Acharya required two surgeries to fix a hole in her heart and clear her blocked arteries, a person offered help from halfway across the globe.
Sakshi's operation is scheduled for tomorrow, in which the doctors will clear the blocked arteries, which will allow free flow of blood to her lungs
On Sunday, this newspaper had reported that the first surgery of the infant would cost Rs 1.2 lakh, an amount her security guard father and sales executive mother simply did not have.
The NRI from Texas, USA, who requested anonymity, reached out to this reporter and took the details of the case, including contact information of her parents and the doctors of Jupiter Lifeline Hospital in Thane.
"Though I'm not originally from Mumbai, I've spent some time working and living in Powai and make it a point to read mid-day online to keep in touch with the news of the city," said the man who has been working for an energy company in Texas for the last eight years.
By Monday afternoon, he transferred the entire sum for the first operation to the hospital account. Dr L Srinivas, a senior surgeon at Jupiter Lifeline Hospital said that the hospital has been flooded with phone calls from people willing to help Sakshi and her parents.
"Since the entire amount has been taken care of by the generous donor, we have politely declined other offers. We have asked Sakshi's parents to admit the child today; her operation will be tomorrow." "I have always heard stories of how kind-hearted Mumbaikars are, and now I can confirm it's true.
We can now look forward to see Sakshi lead a normal life," said Manoj Acharya, her father. Manoj added that they also received a cheque of R25,000 from another individual, which they returned.
Gay NRI bank worker in London kills wife to hide sexuality
A Court in England has been informed about a gruesome murder of a newly married Indian bride by her gay husband who wanted to hide his sexuality.
Prosecutor Deborah Gould informed the Wolverhampton Crown Court on Wednesday that gay Indian bank worker Jasvir Ram Ginday attacked and strangled his wife Varkha Rani with a metal pipe from a vacuum cleaner following which he burnt her body in the garden incinerator.
The Court was also told how Ginday bragged to his neighbour about setting "general rubbish of his home" on fire.
When the police got to the scene and lifted the lid of the metal incinerator, they saw the remains of a skull.
Ginday and his 24-year-old wife Rani got married in India in March 2013 and moved to UK last August after being granted a visa.
Ginday however was gay and have been in relationships with men since 2008
Ms Gould informed the Court that the hard drive from Ginday's computer showed internet searches and information on incinerators just a month before Rani's death on September 12.
Ginday – a resident of Walsall in West Midlands was arrested in September after police discovered the unrecognizable remains of his wife.
Ms Gould told jurors at Wolverhampton Crown Court "Despite his sexual orientation, in October 2012 the defendant and his mother travelled to India to find him a wife. He met Varkha Rani, shortly before his return to the UK through the intervention of a match-maker, who was known to both families. No doubt to Varkha's family he appeared to be a perfect match for their intelligent, well-educated, and attractive young daughter."
Ginday had initially told the police his wife had walked out on him after 'using' him to gain entry to the UK.
Police however found that Ginday had bought large quantities of petrol on September 12.
Ginday was hoping that Rani's remains would be taken away by the garbage collectors. Instead the police got their hands on it.
When the police questioned him about what was burning in his garden, Ginday allegedly told officers it was 'ashes' before correcting himself and saying 'no, I mean leaves'.
Rani's father, Surjit Singh told the jury he was completely unaware of his son-in-law's sexual orientations.
Ginday denies a charge of murder but has admitted manslaughter and a further charge of perverting the course of justice by lying to police.
UAE Exchange COO Sudhir Shetty Conferred NRI of the Year Award
Y Sudhir Kumar Shetty, COO – Global Operations, UAE Exchange, has been chosen for the NRI of the Year Award in the Professional category. The award is in honour of those individuals, who have achieved high level of success in leading an organisation as an employee. This is the first ever edition of these awards instituted together by ICICI Bank – India's largest private sector bank and Times Now – India's No.1 English news channel from Times Group. The award ceremony was held in Mumbai, India, on 24 March, 2014.
"I feel extremely honoured." beamed Y Sudhir Kumar Shetty, COO – Global Operations, UAE Exchange. "I am thankful to the jury, who considered me worthy of qualifying for the award and I am grateful to each one, who voted for me online."
Y Sudhir Shetty, a Chartered Accountant and a Law Graduate, has been heading UAE Exchange, the leading global remittance and foreign exchange brand, as its COO – Global Operations, since 1991. From an organisation with four branches in the UAE, Sudhir Shetty has led the entity to emerge into a global player with over 700 branches in 31 countries, the largest networked brand in its class. Today, UAE Exchange serves over 6.5 million expatriate customers, worldwide, handling 6% of the total global remittances. Along side, Sudhir has been instrumental in building strong bonds with the various expatriate communities, including a large percentage of Indians, who trust the brand for its quality services and professional customer care.
"Heading UAE Exchange has been an exciting journey of self discovery for me. The freedom and trust bestowed on me by its founders has empowered me to do a responsible job. Added to it, the efficient team of professionals, working with me, made the challenging role, easier. I am extremely thankful for all of that. This recognition has filled pride in me as an Indian. I feel it is an apt ode to the NRIs, whose contributions have mostly gone unnoticed." Sudhir Shetty added.
Considered an authority in the financial realm, especially in remittance and foreign exchange, Sudhir Shetty is the voice, the industry and the Media turn to. An alumnus of the Harvard Business School, Sudhir Shetty has been instrumental in streamlining the remittance and foreign exchange segment in the UAE, in particular. He is one of the founding members of Foreign Exchange and Remittance Group (FERG), which is the regulatory body for remittance and exchange houses in the UAE. His command over a range of subjects and exceptional oratory skills have made him a much-sought-after speaker in various seminars, events, educational institutions, worldwide.
Meanwhile Sudhir Shetty was also bestowed with the Eminent Aloysian Alumni Award by his alma mater St. Aloysious College in Mangalore on 22nd March, 2014. Sudhir thanked the institution for instilling strong values, which helped him in building a successful career on a global canvas.
These new feathers add more colour to his rich cap, which adorns awards like Global Personality Award, Mayura Award, Akshaya Global Award, Vishwamaanya Award and many more at an individual level. He has also driven the culture of excellence in UAE Exchange, which won several coveted awards under his leadership.
97% of 12,000 new NRI voters from Kerala for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections
For the first time, non-resident Indians will be voting in the general elections. A total of 11,844 NRIs have enrolled via post for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections but they will have to travel to their constituency to cast votes on the polling day.
Kerala accounts for the bulk of the NRI voters at 11,488, while Punjab with 138 and Tamil Nadu with 112 come a far second and third, respectively. NRI voter registration figures not only point to migration patterns but also indicate levels of political awareness. Uttar Pradesh, the state with the largest number of general voters, has no NRI voters.
"Kerala has a large migrant population in Gulf countries. Also, Keralites are politically aware and so many have registered to vote," said UAE-based Pravasi Bandhu Welfare Trust chairman K V Shamsudheen.
Following the amendment of The Representation of the People Bill in 2010, citizens of India living abroad were given a chance to register as voters. As of May 2012, the ministry of overseas Indian affairs put the number of NRIs at more than a crore, and the overseas Indian community (which includes NRIs and people of Indian origin) at 2.5 crore.
An NRI is eligible to vote if he or she does not hold citizenship of any other country, according to the Election Commission rules. An NRI can vote in the constituency that is mentioned in his or her passport as the place of residence in India. The form to be filled and posted to the electoral registration officer of the constituency is available on the EC website. An NRI will get a letter or an SMS once his or her name is added to the rolls.
Though the forms and photocopies of supporting documents can be sent by post, an NRI has to appear in person to cast vote. Postal ballot, online voting or even polling in the local Indian missions are not an option.
"The government should allow us to vote in the Indian consulate or embassy or send our votes by post. It is not possible for 25 million NRIs to travel to their hometowns just to vote," said a spokesperson for NRI Voting Rights, a forum of NRIs in the US.
"When we can register online, why not cast our votes online? The EC can introduce extra layers of checks and verification processes," said Shamsudheen. "The government can make use of the details such as fingerprints and iris scans that we have already given for Aadhar registration so that we can vote from the place where we are working," he said.
Smaller states seem to have more politically conscious citizens than larger ones. At least 56 citizens from Puducherry who are living in France have enrolled themselves, while 27 voters from Goa are on the rolls. New Delhi and Maharashtra have 13 NRI voters each, while the rest of the states have just one each.
"The Election Commission has made it easy for NRIs to register as voters by explaining on its website the procedure to be followed. The manner of voting has to be decided by the government and it may take time," said an EC official.
Diaspora ballot
Total No. of NRIs: 1 crore
Total No. of NRI voters: 11,844
Kerala: 11,488
Punjab: 138
Tamil Nadu: 112
Puducherry: 56
Goa: 27
New Delhi: 13
Maharashtra: 13
Migrant Indians among most enterprising in UK: Report
Chicago. Prabhu Sinha. The 2014 Indian Lok Sabha election will select 543 members , to the national Parliament. The new Lok Sabha will elect the Prime Minister, only BJP and AAP, seems to have chosen their leader for the Prime Minister's post. BJP's Narendra Modi and AAP Arvind Kejriwal, both have one thing in common-fighting the Grand Old Party of Indian National Congress. While Modi has introduced the American style of Politics, Congress still empowers the Parliament Style of Politics, the Prime Minister to be chosen by elected Members of Parliament.
Seven in ten Indians are dissatisfied with the way things are going in India today, are the historic examples of a vibrant Democracy and the aspirations of the Young India emerging, with thumping demands to challenge China, United States, Canada, England and the G-8 Club of Nations. Non Resident Indians are, recently conducted a Phone Poll, to determine their issues and concerns, with 62 % prefer Arvind Kejriwal over Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi, to lead India's 700 million people for better in changes and their expectations. Just 57% NRI's are satisfied by UPA Government of Dr. Manmohan SIngh, desiring a more aggressive leader Rahul Gandhi to cope up with modernization of China. Modi's Mission for 2014 has the support of 44% as a national leader, but short on all fronts as a International Leader, much in demanding of the India, as a emerging power.
Overseas BJP, Shiromani Akali Dal, Indian Overseas Congress and Aam Admi Party are the major Foreign Cells of the Indian Political Parties, here in the USA, Canada and England. Overseas BJP, while happy with the Ambassador Nancy Powell's call on Modi in Gandhinagar, are in political oblivion in reference to Local Congressman, US Senators, Canadian and England Parliamentarians. Aam Admi Members, have successfully ran NRI enrollment campaign, financing New Delhi Elections and winning the confidence of NRI community at large. Indian Overseas Congress, the oldest Foreign Cell of Indian National Congress is well entrenched with the Republican and Democrats in US, Liberal, Conservative and NDP, in Canada and spearheading campaigns in England with Conservatives and Labour Party.
Post 2014 Lok Sabha election, opinions were solicited in the NRI Poll, Liberal Ajit Sandhu feels India Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh's political weakness is going against the Congress Party and will cost it dearly, Conservative Gurmant Sidhu, echoes Aam Admi Party's agenda of corruption, which will favor the tally of 100 seats of Aam Aadmi Party, paving the way for a New Coalition Government in South Block New Delhi. NDP member Jivan Sharma, calls for Modi's aggressive campaign as a positive election strategy for gains in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, where Right Wing Hindus have a majority.
Aam Admi Chairman Sunil Mishra feels Rahul Gandhi, has been kept too long under her Mother Sonia Gandhi and his "inner-outer campaign" is going against him. IOC President Vikram Bajwa on the recent US diplomacy on Modi commented " its like the issue in Ukraine, where the Leaders themselves are confused, while Modi himself is fear of entering the White House", he is best suited for State Politics, not National. Modi cannot face the International Press in New York or Washington DC, said Bajwa and Executive Member Dr. Jayant Patel. Shiromani Akali Dal member Harjinder Dhillon, fears the Punjab 'Drug Problem", will diminish the expected wins in Punjab.
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Enough!
by pelcan Sun Feb 24th, 2008 at 02:14:00 AM EST
Some time ago, I wrote an article on "frontrunner" Clinton and how she wasn't like Sego Royal because she doesn't have that inspirational quality. Allow me to flip flop.
Hillary is no Segolene (at least not in character)
by pelcan Wed Jan 9th, 2008 at 08:41:56 PM EST
As the ever longer campaign season rolls along, I notice how much history is repeating itself, even if that history is over half an year ago and took place in another country. People who won't vote for a woman because of her gender. People who vote for her because of her gender. (I feel both sentiments are irrational) And, oh, that media obsessiveness on her clothes, her actions, and debating whether or not being a woman is hurting her campaign.
This is the most talked-about race in my lifetime. After the midterms, no one talked about the results, or at least no one I knew started a conversation about it. After Bush was reelected, maybe two or three people discussed it. Now, people who I'd never expect to be interested are wondering about what the next primary state is. I'm ever the political junkie, but for some reason, even the 2004 Dem primary was more interesting for me. Now, I feel that most of the candidates place themselves above cleaning the huge mess Bush made. Which brings me the Democratic front runner...
A spectator's guide to the Democratic crop
by pelcan Wed Jul 25th, 2007 at 03:21:12 AM EST
I'm tired of the democratic civil war in the blogosphere. Obama girl isn't even backing Obama, decried one MyDD Edwards supporter. Hillary's holding huge, unassailable leads in the polls, pro-Hill Kossacks boast. And so on and so forth. So from now on I'm keeping quiet on who I support until the primaries are over. Some of these critics are forming arguments remind me of the Republicans.
So now, let's ride this donkey into the 2008 race. Just 500+ more days to go!
Welcome to Jesus Camp
by pelcan Mon Jul 23rd, 2007 at 12:29:55 AM EST
Jesus Camp. The documentary that was so disturbing I had a little difficulty sleeping last night, yet it's enlightening in a way that Silent Spring accomplishes with it's first chapter. Where do we even begin? First of all, I felt that the clips I watched were worth watching after a while, and the movie was so intelligently made and open-minded that it's no wonder it was nominated for an Oscar (An Inconvenient Truth won). Whether you think the camp and the fundamentalist movement is good or bad for Christ depends on your sanity level.
First, with the sale of the (last?) Harry Potter book, let's see what the camp director feels about the boy wizard...
Great political videos and more [updated]
by pelcan Mon Jun 25th, 2007 at 07:28:07 PM EST
Here are some of the best political youtube videos I've seen:
The Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, John O. Pastore, "was not previously familiar with Rogers' work, and was sometimes described as gruff and impatient." (wikipedia) PBS is like the American BBC, it is, for the most part, unbiased, provides objective reporting, and represents how news should be. I'm also a big fan of NPR, the channel's radio station, which provides a huge contrast when you switch from the stupidity that is talk radio to the intelligence from its reporting. With all the talk among the Republicans about how Christianly they are, one would have thought they acted like this man, a minister who acts out what real Christian values should be.
US energy crisis- lobby your representatives now
by pelcan Fri Jun 15th, 2007 at 01:53:38 AM EST
From Moveon:
Americans have spoken--in fact, we've yelled--that we need relief from high gas prices and a smart energy policy. But in the dead of the night, Congress weakened the bill that would make gas price gouging a federal crime. Now it's virtually unenforceable.
Big Oil and their friends in Congress were hoping no one would notice. We did. And we have to show them that this kind of bait-and-switch isn't acceptable.
There are more votes coming, and Congress needs to feel the heat from voters, so they stand up to the oil lobby.
Greed, pants, and $54 million
by pelcan Thu Jun 14th, 2007 at 06:58:52 PM EST
I'm sure many of you have heard of the lawsuit crisis in America that is costing taxpayers billions and seems to have no end in sight. Now I agree with some of them. Exxon still hasn't fully paid for the Valdez spill. Gender pay discrimination is alive and well. Tobacco companies have been lying to the public for years. But while in these cases, the companies' lawyers can take care of justice, it seems the most ridiculous cases are not as entertaining as they are unfair. Failed supreme court nominee Robert Bork, who fought for a cap on how much plaintiffs can get paid, recently tripped on his way to the podium for a speech and is suing the host for $1 million for not providing proper care for people getting up to speak (I don't think the host did anything wrong). One lady spilled hot McDonalds coffee over her lap: $2 million. A waiter spilled water and someone tripped over it. A mother who sued Disneyland over the emotional harm caused when her children saw people coming out of costumes, thus ending the magic (fortunately the judge had half the sense of turning her case down). The guy who sued the city who sponsored a baseball contest where he slipped in. The millions NYC pay each year to people who trip on the streets and in buildings. The list goes on. And on. And on. As stockholders and pension holders lose out from company payments to those doucebags. As prices go up. As lawyers buy their third vacation home. As those doucebags get rich off the decent people's backs. There have been few efforts to correct this wrong. The Republicans response is to blame the Dems for this mess and enact their own measures, which end up restricting people's access to courts and preventing good lawsuits.
Democratic Debate Open Thread
by pelcan Sun Jun 3rd, 2007 at 08:58:26 PM EST
In my first non-revolutionary literature-titled diary, I'd like to focus on the CNN New Hampshire Democratic debate. I'm not a fan of debates, even in the Kerry-Bush race, which I paid a lot of attension on, I skipped watching them. In the Sego-Sarko race, perhaps the one I was most passionate about, I didn't bother to watch the english version of the debate (at least Sgo employed a lot of English female translators). But I finally decided to watch the 2nd of (I belieive it's) 7 democratic primary debates (do they really need so many? Why does the party lack the comon sense of canceling the Fox CDC debate where the only 3 last place challengers are showing up?).
by pelcan Fri May 25th, 2007 at 07:00:43 PM EST
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
-Albert Einstein
"The first rule of holes: when you're in one, stop digging"
-Molly Ivins
"There is no reason for the United States of America to remain in Somalia. The American people want them home, I believe the majority of Congress wants them home, and to set an artificial date of March 31 or even February 1, in my view, is not acceptable. The criteria should be to bring them home as rapidly and safely as possible, an evolution which I think could be completed in a matter of weeks. Our continued military presence in Somalia allows another situation to arise which could then lead to the wounding, killing or capture of American fighting men and women."
-John McCain, 1993
" Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is,"
-Gov. George W. Bush , April 9, 1999, on President Clinton not setting a timetable for exiting Kosovo.
Les Miserables partie deux
by pelcan Wed May 9th, 2007 at 06:57:02 PM EST
After Dubya won by a larger margin in 2004, the late and great Molly Ivins quoted a man who said, "Don't worry now, the worse is yet to come." (Luckily, Ivins lived to see us take back America in '06) So it's time to look at the brighter side of the French elections- as well as some of the darker moments, Andy Rooney-style.


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