Pakistan port run by China a "matter of concern" for India: minister

BANGALORE (Reuters) - China's role in operating a strategically important port in Pakistan is a "matter of concern", India's defence minister said on Wednesday, as New Delhi and Beijing jostle for influence in the region.

Indian policy-makers have long been wary of a string of strategically located ports being built by Chinese companies in its neighbourhood, as India beefs up its military clout to compete with its Asian rival in what it sees as its sphere of influence.

Management of Gwadar port, around 600 km (370 miles) from Karachi and close to Pakistan's border with Iran, was handed over to state-run Chinese Overseas Port Holdings last week.

When complete, the port, which is close to the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil shipping lane, is expected to open up an energy and trade corridor from the Gulf, across Pakistan to western China.

India, the world's biggest arms importer in recent years, plans to spend around $100 billion over the next 10 years in upgrading its mostly Soviet-era military hardware to keep pace with China's ramping up of defence spending.

The country was bound to modernise its armed forces in response to China's own modernisation, Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony told reporters at a press conference at an air show in the southern city of Bangalore, adding that strengthening its north-eastern border with China was not a confrontation with its neighbour.

"It is our duty. If they are doing it, we will also do it," said Antony, adding that the presence of a Chinese delegation at the show was a "welcome step," without elaborating.

Despite the push to overhaul its military, India's defence budget will not escape a tightening of government spending this year, Antony said, as New Delhi looks to rein in its fiscal deficit.

"Our priority areas will not face budget cuts. Those essential to operational preparedness, there won't be any budget cuts," Antony said.

A long-awaited deal for India to buy over 100 Rafale fighter jets from France's Dassault Aviation is being reviewed by a cost negotiation committee, Antony said, adding that the delay in finalising the deal was not due to budget cuts.

(Reporting by Anurag Kotoky and A. Ananthalakshmi; Additional reporting by Frank Daniel in NEW DELHI; Writing by Henry Foy; Editing by Matthias Williams and Jeremy Laurence)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-port-run-china-matter-concern-india-minister-095902118--business.html

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What Marco Rubio learned from Tupac and Biggie

By BETSY KLEIN and MICHAEL CONTE

WASHINGTON - In a crowded Capitol Hill bar filled with well dressed twenty-somethings, Sen. Marco Rubio shared thoughts on immigration reform and climate change along with life lessons he learned from Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. in a candid conversation at the inaugural BuzzFeed Brews event with host and BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith.

The junior senator from Florida spoke passionately on immigration, an issue that has become an important issue for the Republican Party following the 2012 election.

"What I think will honor our legacy as a nation, is if we can do something that respects the rule of law, but also treats these people in a humane and respectful way," Rubio said.

On the topic of global warming, Rubio voiced concern that tackling the issue would harm the economy.

"Anything that we would do on [climate change] would have a real impact on our economy, but probably, if it was only us [the United States] doing it, a very negligible impact on the environment," he said.

Rubio voiced his support for reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act.

"Who's for violence against women?" Rubio quipped. He noted that he opposed the amendment that he said diverted spending for domestic violence prevention from state programs.

When asked about whether he planned a 2016 run for president, Rubio neither confirmed nor denied his intentions.

"Running for president is not a decision, it's a process," Rubio said. "You only get that big plane in the end, at the beginning, you have to rent a car in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, you're meeting the same 10 people over and over again who are still undecided.

"I really believe that if I do the best job that I can in the Senate, in a couple years I'll be in a position to make a decision about whether I want to run for reelection, leave politics and give someone else a shot, or run for some other position," he said.

Smith noted that Rubio coaches the football team of his son, Anthony, 7. When asked whether he thought Congress would take measures to make football safer, Rubio quipped, "The idea that Congress, who can't even pass a budget, is somehow going to solve concussions in the NFL is, you know, doubtful at best."

Rubio even discussed his musical leanings, and showed off his diverse knowledge of '90s rap music.

"I think Tupac's lyrics were more insightful, my opinion, with all apologies to the Biggie fans," he said. "In some ways, rappers are like reporters. In particular at that time, from the West Coast, it was a lot of reporting about what life was like ? so the '90s was a time when this was really pronounced. You had gang wars, racial tension, and they were reporting on that."

The young conservative wrapped up, his beer still untouched, talking broadly about his vision for the Republican Party.

"Ultimately," he said, "The real answer is to convince people that what we stand for, that free enterprise and limited government is the best way to create the conditions for their dreams to be possible."

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How the Kansas City Royals made the NRA's list of enemies

(AP)Do slugger Mike Moustakas, running back Jamaal Charles and coach Jeff Fisher realize they're working for an organization designated as an enemy of the National Rifle association? Does Yadier Molina know he's in the clear?

What the NRA calls its list of "National Organizations With Anti-Gun Policies" has been getting a lot of play over the past few days, and the Kansas City Star noted Tuesday that several Missouri businesses were on the list ? including the Kansas City Royals, Kansas City Chiefs and St. Louis Rams. (Oh, and Hallmark cards. Send a card, not a bullet.)

The list does not include the other major league teams in the state, the St. Louis Cardinals or St. Louis Blues. The NRA's list says it was published first in September 2012, but with the amount of discussion regarding gun-related violence going on, it was only a matter of time until it got attention.

So, what put the Royals, Chiefs and Rams in the NRA's, uh, crosshairs? After a series of failures, the state of Missouri in 2003 passed a law that allows individuals to apply for a permit to carry a concealed weapon. The Royals, Chiefs and Rams ? quite understandably ? didn't want to encourage fans to pack heat at ballgames.

Alcohol- and bravado-fueled fights in the grandstands happen often enough (sadly) that clubs wisely don't want to add guns to the mix. Front-line ballpark security don't carry guns. Only when on-duty cops are called do you see firearms holstered. Imagine the panic alone once some fan whips out a gun he sneaked into the park, never mind if some kind of shootout in the bleachers breaks out. Leave it to security, please, and their tasers. If tasers.

It's not clear in what form the teams protested ? petitions, letters to the editor, donations to state legislators ? but the Royals, Chiefs and Rams made known their opposition to conceal-carry in Missouri, at least when it came to sports stadiums. This was on the record as early as 1999, when The Star published an editorial against a conceal-carry law being considered at the time.

And the K.C. sports teams got what they wanted; the law doesn't apply to stadiums with a capacity over 5,000. You still can't bring a gun to a Royals game, thank goodness. And those sneaky Cardinals and Blues get the same benefit without making the NRA's bogeyman list.

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Linux Today - Foolish Investing in a New Open Source Order

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Guess who was on the list? Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), with a program called Typescript, a new language for creating Javascript applications. Yahoo was also on the list with something called Mojito, which Wired once called its "Apple app store killer."

Companies release software as open source because they want other eyes on it, other hands on it. They are no longer just releasing software they no longer care about. They are trying to build programming communities around the software. They're trying to create alliances around it. They're trying to grow it.

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Film Review: 'Midnight's Children' | Mumbai Boss

Satya Bhabha and Siddharth as Saleem Sinai and Shiva.

Director:?Deepa Mehta
Cast:?Satya Bhabha, Ronit Roy, Shahana Goswami, Seema Biswas, Rajat Kapoor, Siddharth, Shriya Saran, Darsheel Safary, Shabana Azmi, Rahul Bose
Rating: ?????

At a recent event to promote Deepa Mehta?s adaptation of Salman Rushdie?s Midnight?s Children, the film?s producer David Hamilton said that fans of the book were likely to have their own cinematic versions playing in their heads, each incomparable to the other. It?s that sort of novel. Perhaps these films should never be allowed to leave cranial walls as Midnight?s Children, to use an arboreal comparison, is like a lush banyan tree?its narrative branches off into scores of delightful digressions and mini stories that would be impossible to fit into a movie of watchable length. However the?Midnight?s Children?to emerge from Mehta?s attractive salt and pepper head?and Rushdie?s ruddy, bald one as he wrote the screenplay?is like a tree in winter. The film is a clipped rendition that races to cover a period that spans pre-Independence India and the end of the Emergency in two and a half hours and in the process minimises characters and crucial events.

The only character you get a sense of is Saleem Sinai (Satya Bhabha). Born on the midnight of Independence, Saleem and his fellow midnight?s children, all of whom have special powers, embody the promise of a new India. (Scenes in which the kids telepathically meet seem like an Indian version of X-Men.) But Saleem is hardly given a chance to fulfill the promise because events beyond his control take charge of his life the moment he?s born. The illegitimate child of a minstrel and a Brit on his way out of the country (Charles Dance), Saleem is swapped at birth with Shiva by nurse Mary (Seema Biswas, who delivers the best performance in the film), who in a misguided tribute to her communist lover Joe decides that the boy born to a poor woman must lead a life of comfort and the boy born to rich parents a life of poverty.

And so Saleem is brought up by the affluent Sinais while Shiva grows up as an angry tough guy on the streets of Bombay. Life casts Saleem among Pakistani generals, erases his memory with a flying spittoon, air drops him into Bangladesh during the 1971 war and repatriates him to India in a magic basket. On the other hand little is shown of Saleem?s antithesis, Shiva, a fantastic character who is only shown as a pugnacious boy and a stony-faced Aviator-wearing military hero (Siddharth). Saleem?s love interest and midnight?s child Parvati (Shriya Saran) too is unsatisfactorily etched. Saran turns Parvati, a magician living in a colony of entertainers in Delhi that Mehta imbues with a perplexing exoticism, into a simpering, eyelid-batting flirt with little emotional weight.

A large part of the novel?s appeal lies in Rushdie?s ability to conjure the bizarre and magic realism with wit and incredibly evocative language. Mehta?s film is leached of humour and strangeness and the magic real bits are often ridiculous. In a Harry Potter-esque moment, the day-time sky darkens ominously when Indira Gandhi announces the Emergency and Picture Singh (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), a turbaned patriarch in the colony of entertainers, gazes upwards and gutturally declares, ?Curse is upon us?. Rushdie tries to compensate by way of a voice-over?he delivers it himself?that draws from the language of the novel. But it?s simply not enough.

Tags: Charles Dance, David Hamilton, Deepa Mehta, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Salman Rushdie, Satya Bhabha, Seema Biswas, Shriya Saran, Siddharth

Source: http://mumbaiboss.com/2013/02/01/film-review-midnights-children/

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Sharp manages an operating profit in Q3, but forecast remains cloudy

It's been a while since we had any good financial news for Sharp, so we'll start there. On an operating basis, Reuters and Nikkei report it managed to turn a profit for the October to December quarter of 2.6 billion yen ($28.5 million) -- more than analysts had predicted -- despite still recording a net loss of $398 million. That's not so bad when you consider the massive losses of a year ago, although questions raised last fall about the company's viability still remain. We'll see if a slew of new devices and partnership with Qualcomm are what the doctor ordered -- hopefully the #1 manufacturer of 60-inch and above HDTVs in 2012 can continue on long enough to put its 8K Super Hi-Vision TV in our living rooms.

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Fujitsu announces bevy of FMV Windows 8 AIO PCs, laptops along with WiFi-only Arrows tablet

Staggered product releases? Perish the thought with Fujitsu, who just launched twelve (count 'em) products into the Japanese market -- including laptops, AIO PCs and a tablet, all sporting Windows 8. For portable computing, Fujitsu's brought the Lifebook AH Series of 15.6-inch PCs, with Core i7-3632QM processors, 8GB memory and Full HD IPS touchscreens on the high-end models, along with niceties like Pioneer speakers and Blu-ray drives. Lower-end models in that range will feature Core i5 or i3 processors and 1360 x 768 LED touch panels. The Lifebook SH Series are 13.3-inch Core i5 models with 1366 x 768 non-touch panels, while the UH Series feature 13.3-inch and 14-inch models with Core i3 and i5 processors, respectively, along with 1360 x 768 non-touch panels and weighing in at a low of around 3 pounds.

As for AIO models, Fujitsu's FH Series hits the high-end of its line with 2.40 GHz Intel Core i7 processors, 8GB memory and 1920 x 1080 touchscreen panels for the 23-inch models, and a non-touchscreen panel with the same resolution on the 21.5-inch offerings. The low-end EH-series will sport 20-inch, 1600 x 900 panels with AMD-E2-1800 CPUs and 4GB of RAM. All the laptop and desktop models will come along with Office Home and Business 2013, Fujitsu's My Cloud hybrid cloud service, and options like gesture control. Finally, Fujitsu has also announced a WiFi-only version of its 10.1-inch Arrows QH55/J Windows 8 tablet, which packs Full HD resolution, a quad-core 1.7GHz Tegra3 processor, stout 10,800 mAh battery and Office Home & Business 2010. The high-end laptops will arrive by the end of February, and the rest will arrive on February 7th, with no pricing shown yet. If that all sounds good, just remember -- you'll likely need to be in Japan to get any of it. Check the PR after the break for more info.

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Tablets

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/01/fujitsu-announces-bevy-of-fmv-windows-8-aio-pcs-laptops-tablet/

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