Forbes India Completes one year.
Forbes India, India’s most influential business magazine, celebrates its first anniversary on May 21, 2010. To commemorate the occasion, it has unveiled a special first anniversary collector’s issue, consisting of an unprecedented feature where 25 of the world’s finest minds have exclusively written on the theme of the issue – “What is the one idea that could change the world?”
This stellar constellation of global thought leaders and pioneers has been drawn from a variety of disciplines including business pioneers such as Anand Mahindra( Vice Chairman & MD,Mahindra Group),Tarun Khanna(Professor of Strategy, Harvard Business School), Tony Fernandes (Group CEO,Air Asia) and noted thought leaders, humanitarians and authors such as Mohammad Yunus( Nobel laureate & Founder,Grameen Bank), Bianca Jagger(Human Rights Activist), Thomas Davenport (Management thinker and consultant), Dan Ariely(Noted behavioral economist & author) and more.
The Forbes India 1st Anniversary Special Issue was presented at an event in Landmark at Lower Parel, Mumbai amongst a power packed audience of corporate honchos, thought leaders and those who have contributed to the anniversary issue and featured within the magazine. The magazine was unveiled by actor Mr. Aamir Khan along with Arun Maira (Member, Planning Commission & Ex-Head, Boston Consulting Group India) and Raghav Bahl (Founder & Editor, Network18) and this was followed by a special discussion on the theme of “Ideas that could change the world”, moderated by Senthil Chengalvarayan (President & Editorial Director, TV18 Business Media).
Facebook page on Prophet blocked in India too?
A Facebook page that led to a backlash and a ban on the social networking website in Pakistan now appears to be inaccessible from India.
A Facebook user, inspired by an American woman cartoonist, had organised an Everyone Draw Mohammed Day competition to promote “freedom of expression”.
The Pakistan government took action against Facebook on Wednesday after a court order to block the site till May 31 over the page.
Two days later, it seems like the page, with 106,424 fans, may have been blocked from India, too.
Thousands of users wrote on the wall of another page, Against Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!, to congratulate Facebook for taking the offensive page down.
Islam strictly prohibits any depiction of the prophet as blasphemous.
The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority has banned access to Facebook, YouTube and more than 450 links, including restricted access to Wikipedia in view of what it called “growing sacrilegious content” on the Internet.
Pakistan is estimated to have 2.5 million Facebook users.
‘Home ministry to take final call on Afzal Guru’s plea’
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday said the final decision on parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s mercy petition rests with the central home ministry.
She said the Delhi government has made its position clear on the matter in the file, which was sent back to Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna Wednesday. In its reply, the Delhi government has not opposed Guru’s death sentence but expressed concerns of law and order if he is executed.
“We have sent the file on mercy petition of Afzal Guru to the lieutenant governor. The final decision rests with the home ministry,” Dikshit told reporters on the sidelines of a function here.
The file will be sent to the home ministry after getting clearance from Khanna’s office.
As per the laid down procedure, the president sought the home ministry’s views on the mercy petition of Guru in 2005.
The procedure on mercy petition also requires the home ministry to seek comments of the state government in whose jurisdiction the crime, for which the death penalty is awarded to the convict, has been committed.
Guru, a resident of Sopore in the Kashmir Valley, was found guilty of plotting the Dec 13, 2001, parliament attack and was sentenced to death by a trial court in December 2002. The Delhi High Court confirmed the death penalty in October 2003.
The Supreme Court had also upheld the capital punishment given to Guru for his role in the terror attack. Guru’s wife, Tabassum, filed a mercy petition to the president after the apex court’s verdict.
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