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Written by admin on 06 February 2012
Gurgaon, Feb 6 (IANS) Global nutrition major Nestle sees potential growth for its food products that meet specific dietary needs not met through normal diets in India due to changing lifestyle.
“With the impact of economic growth and changing lifestyles in India, the need for science-based nutrition in products that we consume everyday is going to be almost critical for a good life,” Patrice Bula, Nestle’s global sales and marketing head, said here Monday.
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Bula, executive vice president (EVP), Nestle S.A., is on a visit to India to understand the domestic market and changing customer demands.
“We firmly believe that sales and marketing is about responsible engagement with consumers. I have seen some very good innovations and renovations in advertising communication, product development and in expanding the distribution network,” Bula said.
The company, which has products like Maggi, Nescafe, Kit Kat, Everyday and Polo, is observing its 100 years in India.
Nestle’s first sales agents in India began work in Chennai and Kolkata in 1912.
“The next 100 years will clearly be even more exciting for Nestle in India,” said Bula.
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Written by admin on 23 January 2012
Gurgaon, Jan 23 (IANS) Sanjay Dutt’s look as the evil Kancha Cheena in the new “Agneepath” has garnered appreciation for the actor from all spheres, even more than the all-white look of lead actor Hrithik Roshan himself, but Sanjay says he is not trying to outdo anyone.
“We are not here to overshadow anybody, we have been very comfortable during the film. This film has been made without egos and it is not about competition. Hrithik is fantastic in the film,” Sanjay told reporters here Monday.
He was here with Priyanka Chopra and Hrithik Roshan to promote “Agneepath”, which is set to hit the screens Jan 26.
Even Bollywood heartthrob Hrithik admits that he is, in no way, trying to compete with a “talent” as “great” as Sanjay.
“First of all you have to give credit to the talent (Sanjay), I think it is a very rare thing that in one role he projects epitome of goodness in ‘Munnabhai’, then does something extremely negative like Kancha Cheena and still blows your mind away,” said Hrithik.
“As an actor my job is not to compete against talent that great, but my only duty is to be honest to my character. There is competition between our characters Vijay and Kancha Cheena and not us as actors,” he added.
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Written by admin on 23 January 2012
Gurgaon, Jan 23 (IANS) He is one of the most sought after male leads in Bollywood but Hrithik Roshan still doesn’t consider himself as a good actor.
“I am not a good actor, in the sense that I can’t just stand up and act. I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing,” Hrithik told reporters here Monday.
The actor was here along with Sanjay Dutt and Priyanka Chopra at PVR cinemas, in Ambience Mall for the promotion of their forthcoming film “Agneepath”, a remake of the 1990 film starring Amitabh Bachchan in the role of Vijay Dinanath Chauhan. The megastar had got the national award for it.
Hrithik revealed he was initially wary of taking up the role.
“My first reaction was why should I do it? This is an iconic role played by Amitabh Bachchan. But when I heard the subject, screenplay and basic story, it drove through all my pre-conceived notions as an audience, as an actor and it touched my heart completely,” he said.
“It was so refreshing that I forgot about the old ‘Agneepath’. Moreover it was a character that I was identifying with. I felt there is no reason for not to do this film,” he added.
The film, produced by Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions, is set to hit the silver screen Jan 26.
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Written by admin on 17 January 2012
Gurgaon, Jan 17 (IANS) About 48 percent of pediatricians across Delhi, Haryana and Punjab, areas with most skewed sex ratio in India, have observed baby girls are more malnourished than boys, according to a survey released here Tuesday.
The Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) conducted an online survey among 679 pediatricians in these three states.
According to the survey, about 65 percent pediatricians observed that the birth of a boy is more celebrated while 26 percent felt that celebration is equal at the birth of a baby with either gender.
“The reason for conducting this survey on pediatricians was that they are perfectly positioned to observe gender discrimination playing out vis-a-vis child health,” said Mahavir Jain, organising secretary of the annual national conference of the Indian Academy of Pediatrician (PEDICON 2012).
Haryana has the lowest child sex ratio of 830 girls per 1000 boys followed by 846 in Punjab and 866 in Delhi against the 914 across India.
“Malnutrition is the breeding ground for all diseases and a major reason for deaths of children. About 1.3 million children do not get to live more than a year. Suppose we save these lives, then it will be a major step to achieve one of the the UN Millennium Development Goal,” said Rohit Agarwal, president of IAP.
PEDICON will be held Jan 18-22 on theme ‘Nuture with care — dedicated to our precious daughters.’
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Written by admin on 14 January 2012
Panipat (Haryana), Jan 14 (IANS) President Pratibha Patil Saturday expressed concern over the declining sex ratio in the country, pointing out that sex ratio between the age group of 0 to six years was the lowest after India’s independence in August 1947.
Addressing an international symposium on ‘Women and Child Empowerment’ to mark the 175th birth anniversary of noted poet and social reformer, Maulana Khawaja Altaf Hussain Hali at Hali Park here, Patil said the statistics of Census 2011 were shocking as far as sex ratio was concerned.
‘In the age group of 0 to six years, there were 914 girls per 1,000 boys and this being the lowest after freedom of the country is an issue of concern,’ she said.
The president said efforts of the Haryana government for women’s empowerment had helped in improvement of sex ratio in the state.
Haryana, which had the worst sex ratio at 861 females per 1,000 males earlier (2001 Census), had improved the figures in the 2011 Census with 877 females per 1,000 males.
Describing female foeticide as a heinous crime, Patil said every person should come forward to eradicate this social evil and ensure equal status for women in all spheres of life.
She said that she herself has taken an initiative as per which brave girls who have set an individual example against social evils were invited to Rashtrapati Bhavan.
‘I urge people to encourage such girls,’ she said.
She added that the social development of any nation could be assessed by the condition in which the women were living.
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda praised the efforts made by Hali in empowering women.
‘Hali raised his voice when the condition of women was deteriorating in the society,’ Hooda said.
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Written by admin on 13 January 2012
Book: ‘Jailed Without Crime’; Author: M.L. Kak; Publisher: Utpal Publications, Delhi; Pages: 335; Price: Rs.300
M.L. Kak calls this personal account of his 40-plus years in journalism, much of it spent in Jammu and Kashmir by a quirk of fate, an ‘untold story of Emergency’. The subtitle is somewhat misleading. But the book is readable and informative and at times even racy.
Although coming from a family of journalists, Kak was an unwilling entrant into the profession. But once he chose it, he embraced it with passion.
Kak was no political activist. But Haryana’s then powerful chief minister Bansi Lal, who had become a Man Friday of Sanjay Gandhi, hated him. So when Indira Gandhi declared Emergency in June 1975, Kak found himself in prison, spending weeks with political leaders he used to interview for a living. By the time Indira Gandhi, following appeals by Kak’s friends, ordered the innocent man’s release, he too had begun to hate Bansi Lal.
But this is more than a saga of the Emergency. It is a cocktail of all that Kak underwent as a long-time Tribune staff writer, first in Hisar (Haryana) and then in Jammu: hard work, learning the ropes, pettiness in newsrooms, scoops and disappointments, and financial hardships.
‘In the initial stages of my career I had a wrong notion that meeting ministers and bureaucrats along could provide material for good stories.’
Kak, whose career ended in 1990, would go anywhere chasing a story. Once on the Haryana-Rajasthan border, a humble tea vendor revealed how police connived in the smuggling of food grain. To make up for his poor salary, Kak contributed stories on the sly for The Motherland, the erstwhile Jana Sangh paper. After a small time journalist tipped off the Tribune, Kak begged Motherland editor K.R. Malkani to issue a letter naming a Misri Lal as the Motherland’s stringer in Hissar. ‘It was a big lie on my part. I could not afford to be truthful like Mahatma Gandhi… If I had not played the trick, I would have lost the (Tribune) job.’
Kak’s observations on the VIPs of Haryana and Kashmir make for great reading. Bansi Lal’s undoing, he says, was his arrogance. Bhajan Lal, later a terror, would never dare to take on Bansi Lal – at one time. There was a socialist leader who would often travel over 90 km by bus to Hisar only to get his statement published in The Tribune!
There were politicians in Kashmir who regularly sought Kak’s opinions on various issues. He speaks glowingly of Moulvi Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone, both of whom were assassinated. In response to The Tribune’s request, Kak asked Union Minister Farooq Abdullah if he planned to marry Bollywood’s sultry Rekha. Pat came the reply: ‘If at all I have to marry, why wouldn’t I go for a younger actress like Sridevi?’ Kak promptly filed the story but The Tribune junked it.
The book’s biggest drawback is sloppy editing.
(M.R. Narayan Swamy can be contacted at narayan.swamy@ians.in)
Tags: Book: 'Jailed Without Crime'; Author: M.L. Kak; Publisher: Utpal Publications, Delhi; Pages: 335; Price: Rs.300
M.L. Kak calls this personal account of his 40-plus years in journalism, much of it spe, Haryana, New Delhi
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