
Date : Friday, N ovember 21, 2008 Venue : Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi |
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| Inauguration by Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India | 1000-1045 AM |
| Moderator : Dr. Amit Mitra, Secretary General, FICCI |
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DAY 01 SESSION |
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‘India needs political reservation’
Cherie Blair, honorary Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Fellow, International Society of Lawyers for Public Service speaks to Paramita Ghosh on women’s empowerment and other issues.
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‘Glass half-empty for Americans’
Iranian-American political strategist Vali Nasr spoke to Mohammad Waqas and Renuka Narayanan on the ‘war on terror’ and other issues.
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Pak will not be the first to use N-weapons: Zardari
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari promised a no-first-use nuclear policy towards India and proposed regional cooperation towards a non-nuclear S Asia, report Vinod Sharma and Zia Haq.
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Test cricket needs to be re-jigged : Vaughan
Dravid and Vaughan came together to express their views on the current tumultuous climate that is threatening to split world cricket and on the pitfalls of over-milking the cashcow that is the Twenty20 format. Varun Gupta reports.
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Educate everyone in English: Chetan Bhagat
Bhagat said all India's youth wanted were better colleges, opportunities and better jobs. He shared a three-point agenda to help achieve this: change politics of difference to politics of similarity, stop elitism and educate everyone in English since that would guarantee jobs. Colleen Braganza.
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No more politics for next 10 years: Sanjay
Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt, who once aired his wish to follow in the footsteps of his late father and MP Sunil Dutt by joining politics, said he had deferred the idea and wanted to concentrate on his acting career instead, reports Princy Jain.
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Effort must be made to reduce airfares: Patel
An embattled aviation industry, groping for options to stay afloat in turbulent times, virtually rules out any immediate reduction in airfares, reports Samiran Saha.
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Bhave: India will be among the first few to recover
Securities and Exchange Board of India, Chairman, CB said that India will be among the first few countries to recover from the present economic crisis, reports Sandeep Singh.
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Blair: Global effort needed to tackle present crisis
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said whether it's the economic challenge, the terrorist threat, climate change or the battle for resources, we are in this together, reports Lalita Panicker.
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