New Delhi, July 29: After portraying a string of intense and serious contemporary characters on the silver screen, National Award-winning actress Konkona Sen Sharma says she would now love to act in a period film. “I would love to do a period film now. I have potrayed different characters in films but have never been part of a period film,” Konkona told PTI on the sidelines of a recent event in the national capital. Known for her sterling performances in films like ‘Mr and Mrs Iyer’, ‘Page 3’ and ‘Omkara’, the 29-year-old actor from Bengal says the commercial aspects of cinema is not something she would die for. “This business, trade and money involved with films is one aspect of cinema I dont quite like. I just love playing different kinds of roles but not for profit and gains,” Konkona says. “I am very particular about the films that I watch and want to act in,” she adds. Acting in plays is equally fascinating for Konkona, who says rehearsing for plays builds up a great atmosphere for an actor. “I love rehearsing for plays as well as for films, it builds a very stimulative and creative atmosphere.” Talking about her two upcoming flicks, ‘Wa
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Congress rallies around PM over Pakistan
New Delhi, July 27: With fresh disclosure of the contents of a dossier detailing action against the Mumbai attackers given by Islamabad to New Delhi, the Congress on Monday came out in strong support of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Pakistan initiative that delinks action on terror from the composite dialogue process.
“The Congress is confident that when the prime minister speaks in Parliament on July 29, he will set at rest all the questions, all apprehensions and speculation relating to the Indo-Pak joint statement at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt,” AICC general secretary Janardan Dwivedi told reporters. The prime minister should have the liberty to take decisions and “move forward” on key foreign policy issues like Pakistan, added union minister Salman Khurshid while denying that there was a rift between the party and the government over the July 16 joint statement that includes for the first time a reference to Balochistan and agrees to delink the issue of terrorism from the composite dialogue process.
“The Congress is confident that when the prime minister speaks in Parliament on July 29, he will set at rest all the questions, all apprehensions and speculation relating to the Indo-Pak joint statement at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt,” AICC general secretary Janardan Dwivedi told reporters. The prime minister should have the liberty to take decisions and “move forward” on key foreign policy issues like Pakistan, added union minister Salman Khurshid while denying that there was a rift between the party and the government over the July 16 joint statement that includes for the first time a reference to Balochistan and agrees to delink the issue of terrorism from the composite dialogue process.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
South Africa to speed up trade agreement with India
JOHANNESBURG, July 26: The South African Government is to press its regional partners in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) to speed up the finalization of the preferential trade agreement with India that could double the current $6-billion trade between the two countries.
SACU consists of Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland. “We have been going far too slowly on the preferential trade agreement,” South African Minister of Trade and Industry Rob Davies conceded to captains of business and industry from India and South Africa at the closing session on Saturday of the Doing Business with India Conference organized here by the Indian mission and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). “We are saying where can we give each other preferences. Let us try to accommodate each other in ways that are mutually beneficial, so this trade agreement is very important,” he added.
“The reasons that I heard it is moving so slowly has to do with the dynamics of SACU itself,” Davis said. “We have to negotiate trade agreements with our partners in SACU. We are going to insist that this matter of negotiating with India is given the priority it deserves and that we are not going to accept any further blockages in the process. That you can take as a very firm commitment — we’re going to make this thing happen,” he added.
Davies said that both he and India’s Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma had committed to doing everything that they could to remove any blockages in boosting trade and investment between the two countries. Analysts here believe that the current India-South Africa trade of $6 billion could be easily doubled with a preferential trade agreement. (IANS)
SACU consists of Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland. “We have been going far too slowly on the preferential trade agreement,” South African Minister of Trade and Industry Rob Davies conceded to captains of business and industry from India and South Africa at the closing session on Saturday of the Doing Business with India Conference organized here by the Indian mission and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). “We are saying where can we give each other preferences. Let us try to accommodate each other in ways that are mutually beneficial, so this trade agreement is very important,” he added.
“The reasons that I heard it is moving so slowly has to do with the dynamics of SACU itself,” Davis said. “We have to negotiate trade agreements with our partners in SACU. We are going to insist that this matter of negotiating with India is given the priority it deserves and that we are not going to accept any further blockages in the process. That you can take as a very firm commitment — we’re going to make this thing happen,” he added.
Davies said that both he and India’s Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma had committed to doing everything that they could to remove any blockages in boosting trade and investment between the two countries. Analysts here believe that the current India-South Africa trade of $6 billion could be easily doubled with a preferential trade agreement. (IANS)
PM, Antony pay homage to Kargil martyrs
NEW DELHI, July 26: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Defence Minister AK Antony visited the Amar Jawan Jyoti here on Sunday morning and paid homage to the Kargil war martyrs on the 10th anniversary of the armed conflict with Pakistan.
The prime minister laid a wreath at the memorial to the unknown soldier at the India Gate. “I join the entire nation in paying homage to the martyrs of the Kargil war. They sacrificed their lives in defence of Indian unity and integrity,” the prime minister said.
The prime minister is to head to Visakhapatnam later on Sunday to launch the country’s first indigenous nuclear powered submarine. The face-off in the snow-peaked mountains of Kargil in Jammu and Kashmir in the summer of 1999 had brought India and Pakistan virtually to the brink of their fourth full-scale war. An estimated 530 Indian soldiers were killed in two months of fighting before the Pakistanis were pushed back across the international border. (IANS)
The prime minister laid a wreath at the memorial to the unknown soldier at the India Gate. “I join the entire nation in paying homage to the martyrs of the Kargil war. They sacrificed their lives in defence of Indian unity and integrity,” the prime minister said.
The prime minister is to head to Visakhapatnam later on Sunday to launch the country’s first indigenous nuclear powered submarine. The face-off in the snow-peaked mountains of Kargil in Jammu and Kashmir in the summer of 1999 had brought India and Pakistan virtually to the brink of their fourth full-scale war. An estimated 530 Indian soldiers were killed in two months of fighting before the Pakistanis were pushed back across the international border. (IANS)
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