The News Review:
- Afghan child mortality drops by 25 pct – ministry
- Cities in last lap for Games gold
- Wednesday, April 11
- New York’s high society pitched in Rs 2.15 cr during an event held to…
Afghan child mortality drops by 25 pct – ministry
Reuters AlertNet – Nov 4, 2007
"I am thankful to all the health service organisations and the international community from the bottom of my heart," he said. "This is the biggest happiness in Afghanistan — that we are now able to keep 89,000 children alive. " Only two countries — Angola and Sierra Leone — have worse child mortality rates than Afghanistan, according to UNICEF. Afghanistan is far behind its neighbours Pakistan where 99 children per 1,000 die before their fifth birthday and Iran where the number is 36 per 1,000. Under-five mortality in the United States is seven children per 1,000 and in Norway, Sweden and Finland, it is just four, UNICEF figures show. The United Nations, international donors and non-governmental organisations have spent billions of dollars trying to rebuild Afghanistan’s infrastructure since U.
Cities in last lap for Games gold
The Observer – Nov 4, 2007
Not surprisingly, this fact has generated rounds of wildly enthusiastic support for its candidacy. ‘I offer Nigeria both my personal support and that of the people of my country,’ South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki recently said. Similarly President Hifikepunye Pohamba of Namibia said ‘that it is time for the Commonwealth Games to be hosted in Africa’, while Ahmed Kabbath, President of Sierra Leone, decreed Nigeria’s case for the hosting of the 2014 Games as being ‘watertight’. The city hosted the 2003 All Africa games, with competitors from 53 nations. Backers of the Abuja bid say this proves that Nigeria can provide the infrastructure for an international sporting event. The main stadium in the city has a capacity of 60,000. Support for Glasgow’s case has been a much more local affair.
Wednesday, April 11
news24.com – Nov 4, 2007
1805 – Britain and Russia, by Treaty of St Petersburg, agree toform a European league for liberation of German states, the ThirdCoalition against France. 1814 – Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates unconditionally as emperorof France and is banished to Elba by Treaty of Fontainebleau. 1843 – Britain separates Gambia from Sierra Leone as crowncolony. 1894 – Uganda is declared a British protectorate. 1899 – The treaty ending the Spanish-American War is declared ineffect; the Philippines are transferred from Spain to the UnitedStates. 1919 – New Zealanders vote in a referendum against prohibition. 1921 – Iowa becomes the first US state to impose a cigarettetax.
New York’s high society pitched in Rs 2.15 cr during an event held to…
Mumbai Mirror – Nov 4, 2007
But there has been a lot of buzz about it in the mainstream American press. “I never thought a day would come when all our phone lines lit up at the same time and there were press inquiries from CNN, ABC and NBC,” Dutt said. The bulk of the evening belonged to the two recipients of the Breakthrough Inspiration Awards: Ishmael Beah, the former child soldier from Sierra Leone, who survived the brutal war in Africa to become the best-selling author of his autobiography A Long Way Gone; and Vikram Pandit, a hugely successful investment banker — currently the chairman and chief executive officer of Institutional Clients Group — whose presence at the event indicated how much organisations like Breakthrough have to depend on the support of the wealthy Indian American community. Beah was introduced by the former NBA star Earl ‘The Pearl’ Monroe, who has played for the New York Knicks and the Baltimore Bullets. And Pandit was introduced by his friend and former Morgan Stanley colleague Madhav Dhar. Dhar’s wife Patricia is on the Breakthrough board. The two are big supporters of the organisation and Dutt referred to them as “the best godparents a girl can have”.