Word: prakash
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...These ideas and others were addressed last month at a one-day conference exploring integrated lake-basin management for the Udaipur lakes, hosted by Mewar at his Fateh Prakash Hotel beside Lake Pichola. Masahisa Nakamura, director of the Center for Sustainability and Environment at Japan's Shiga University and chairman of the International Lake Environment Committee Foundation's scientific committee, identified several human factors that are to blame for the lakes' sorry state: deforestation, construction of new hotels and private homes too close to the lakes, sewage and waste dumping, and poor governance, bribes and corruption. Nakamura was particularly critical...
...costly setbacks in their strongholds of West Bengal and Kerala. In the last government, the Communists and their allies - known collectively as the Left Front - were an influential part of the ruling coalition. Now they have been relegated to the fringes of Parliament. "This necessitates action and rethinking," said Prakash Karat, general secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), the main Communist faction, speaking to reporters soon after the polls. (See pictures of Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi on the campaign trail...
...Indian stars aren't all bad either. Chakraborty exudes a fine and understandable exasperation at Sidhu's shenanigans; and 23-year-old Padukone, a former Model of the Year and the daughter of Indian badminton star Prakash Padukone, is up to the job of looking pretty while glycerine tears run down her perfect cheeks...
...Prakash Shimpi, managing principal at Towers Perrin, downplays this risk, noting that contractual law requires both parties to inform and get approval from the other before selling the CDS policy to someone else. "These transactions don't take place on a handshake," he said. Still, being unregulated, there is no standard contract, no standard capital requirements, and no standard way of valuating securities in these transactions. As a result, Pincus said she wouldn't be surprised to see a surge in litigation as defaults start happening. "There's a lot of outcry right now for more regulation and more transparency...
Important as the project has been to neuroscience, says Yuri Ostrovsky, a graduate student at M.I.T. and lead author of the paper, "the best thing about it is the humanitarian aspect." Project Prakash has funded about half a dozen mobile eye camps--teams of ophthalmologists that travel to remote areas of the country and provide eye care. The concept itself isn't new, but unlike other camps, these are aimed just at children...