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India Middle-East Economic Corridor will boost Maritime Trade & Security: Minister Piyush Goyal at CII Business Conclave

India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) is an important initiative that can add to India’s maritime security and faster movement of goods between Europe and Asia. This was stated by Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, Shri PiyushGoyal at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) India-Mediterranean Business Conclave 2024 today in New Delhi. Commerce Minister said that IMEC was…

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Comments On Mamta Banarjee: भाजपा नेता ने पश्चिम बंगाल पुलिस को किया चैलेंज, कहा- अगर हिम्मत है तो मुझे गिरफ्तार करके दिखाए

Image Source : ANI Dileep Ghosh Highlights भाजपा नेता ने पुलिस को दी चुनौती, कहा- मुझे गिरफ्तार करके दिखाए तृणमूल कांग्रेस के अत्याचरों के खिलाफ आवाज उठाते रहूंगा मैं हत्यारी टीएमसी से नैतिकता या शालीनता नहीं सीखूंगा Comments On Mamta Banarjee: भाजपा के राष्ट्रीय उपाध्यक्ष दिलीप घोष ने पुलिस को उन्हें गिरफ्तार करने की चुनौती दी और कहा कि उन्हें ‘‘हत्यारी और भ्रष्ट’’ तृणमूल कांग्रेस से शालीनता…

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Bengal: TMC seeks Ghosh arrest for remarks on CM

Bengal: TMC seeks Ghosh arrest for remarks on CM

Taking exception to alleged unsavoury comments by BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at a programme of a media group, Trinamool Congress (TMC) general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has demanded his arrest. During an interaction at the ‘India Today East Conclave’, Ghosh had allegedly made some derogatory remarks about Banerjee’s…

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TMC Sidestepped MP Mohua Moitra Moitras Statement, MP Also Clarified About It

TMC Sidestepped MP Mohua Moitra Moitras Statement, MP Also Clarified About It

Kali Poster Vs TMC: काली माता पोस्टर विवाद पर एक नया मोड़ आया है. इस पोस्टर के पक्ष में खुलेआम खड़ी हुई तृणमूल कांग्रेस  (All India Trinamool Congress) सांसद महुआ मोइत्रा ( MP Mohua Moitra Moitras) के बयान से उनकी पार्टी ने पल्ला झाड़ लिया है. पार्टी के ट्विटर (Twitter) हैंडल से किए गए ट्वीट में कहा गया है कि इंडिया टुडे कॉनक्लेव ईस्ट 2022 (India Today Conclave East 2022) में सांसद महुआ मोइत्रा…

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Megaphone -- Musing 246

Bitter cross-winds Views, like dung   defile the path: Teachers who disagree

The bane of the now far-too-well-informed and multi-sourced spiritual path is that today everyone has an opinion.

One hundred years ago the left hand of Buddhism had little to no inkling of what the right hand was doing. Yes, there were local conclaves and some international visits, but on the whole, no meaningful communication passed between the various Buddhist schools.

Travel back another two thousand years or so and I believe, like Sue Hamilton, that one Buddhist monastery was probably too far removed from the next for much exchange of views and information to occur. As a result, the consensus is that within two hundred years of Gotama Buddha’s death, nineteen (at least) individual and different Buddhist schools had formed, all with their own “take” on what Gotama really said, or—more to the point—what he really meant.

Many of these early school died (I guess “fizzled out” describes it well), while some up and migrated before the opinion-wielding Muslims virtually extinguished all of Indian Buddhism: north, to Tibet, south-east to Burma and Thailand, north-east to China, and farther east still, to Japan.

Only one strand of Buddhism made it out of India intact and alive: Theravada (and its Pali Canon) migrated to Sri Lanka very early on where they remained in relative safety—we still have the Pali Canon.

We humans are never short of opinions. We all form them, carry them, nurse them, and disseminate them—sometimes we even kill those who refuse to share them, those who refuse to see things our way—the Indian Muslim invasion and the Christian Inquisition serve well as examples).

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A true guru barely has enough of an ego left to even feed himself. At times, he (or she) could care so spiritually less about physical survival that others have to keep the body alive: the young Ramana Maharshi comes to mind.

A false guru is so much ego that he (or she) can barely stop talking, preaching, exhorting, arguing, convincing, and yes, sometimes: killing.

The old Indian saying that an empty gourd makes a lot more noise than a full one is, I think, a brilliant and very apropos metaphor.

When we consider that two thousand years ago, a trip (trek) from India to Tibet, say, was not only extremely dangerous but would also take months at best, we can understand how a teaching like Buddhism would (and did) take on another flavor with its own local gurus (both true and false) as it slowly so slowly made its way across East Asia.

Thus, China grew its own flavor—Chan.

As did Japan—Zen.

My guess is that, at that time, the ratio of empty gourds to full ones would have run something like ten-to-one (figure grabbed out of thin air, I admit). And for something like a thousand years, different areas sprouted and nursed their own versions, interpretations, convictions, flavors of Buddhism, strands that neither conflicted nor met. The twentieth century changed all that, and now, the twenty-first has gone completely overboard.

Today, I think the empty gourd to full gourd ratio is a hundred-to-one, at best. And all these empty gourds make a lot (a real lot) of noise. George Saunder’s wonderful essay “The Braindead Megaphone” comes to mind.

I would have loved to have been one of Gotama Buddha’s personal disciples, with no competing Buddhas around to contradict and argue. Yes, there were the Jains, and we had the Brahmins, and a countryside quite well-stocked with wanderers and spiritual recluses, but there was only the one Buddha, and he taught only the one Dhamma, and he knew what he meant and he said what he meant and we needed no “brilliant” gurus to interpret for us or to tell us what Gotama really meant.

Now, twenty-five hundred years later, every empty gourd has its own take on things (and its own Twitter account and Facebook page).

Still, when it comes to truth, there can only be the one Ultimate one.

Yes, you can come back (cleverly) and say that there might be two ultimate truths—one viewed from this end and another viewed from that—but, I say, should that be the case then that is the one ultimate truth. End of ultimate story.

I believe that the Buddha not only experienced the ultimate truth at his enlightenment, but I believe that this experience is also what he taught.

I also believe, to be fair, that many of his apostles (as it were) were also enlightened and taught the ultimate truth (and the path to it) to the best of their abilities. But I also believe that a lot of gourds did not understand the Buddha and instead of delving deeper within to fully see and understand both life and themselves (the same thing), settled for what they thought was right (and, perhaps, profitable) and then spread that gospel as far and loudly as they could.

I believe this is a pattern that holds for all religions, throughout all of our little planet’s history.

And today, with the advent and proliferation of first the Internet and then upon its heels (and foundation) Social Media, this trend has, as I said, spun completely out of control, i.e, overboarded.

That’s why the little Wolfku above: Bitter cross-winds: Views, like dung defile the path: Teachers who disagree.

The ultimate contradiction: Disagreement about the ultimate. It’s terribly noisy and confusing and dispiriting. Someone should dump all these fighting ego-views on a desert island somewhere and not let a single one of them off until they all agree—that would serve mankind much better than the current spiritual cacophony.

All these Me-Me-Me-gaphones.

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India Today Conclave-East 2021: Amit Shah, Mamata Banerjee, Nusrat Jahan to attend event, check what's in store https://ift.tt/2NcUADW

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Ravi Shastri has his say on reports of rift with BCCI President Sourav Ganguly - cricket

The reports of a possible rift between Indian cricket team head coach Ravi Shastri and BCCI President Sourav Ganguly has been doing the rounds for quite some time now but Shastri dismissed it as ‘brilliant chaat and bhel puri for the media’. Shastri and Ganguly had a public fallout in 2016 when the former reapplied for coach’s job and the latter was a part of the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC), which selected Anil Kumble for the position. In 2017, Shastri got back the job after Kumble resigned following his much-publicised difference of opinion with skipper Virat Kohli.“He took over Indian cricket at the most troubled times. You needed the faith of the people to come back. What he has done as a cricketer... I have the utmost respect. If people think I don’t respect that, to hell with them. As far as the Sourav-Shastri game that goes, that’s brilliant chaat and bhel puri for the media,” Ravi Shastri said in the latest episode of India Today Inspiration.READ: Virat Kohli six runs away from achieving massive feat in T20IsDuring ‘India Today Conclave (East)’ on Friday, Ganguly was asked about conjecture that he has an axe to grind with Shastri because of past differences.“That’s why it is speculation. I don’t have an answer to it . It’s pretty simple. It’s about performance. You perform, you continue or else somebody else would take over. It’s a simple formula,” Ganguly had said.READ: Sri Lanka bowler Isuru Udana’s show of sportsmanship wins internet - WatchGanguly also saidthat there shouldn’t be a need for re-appointment of the head coach even though the ad-hoc Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) formed to select the head coach back in August was served conflict notice by Ethics Officer DK Jain.“I don’t think so that it will jeopardize the selection of Shastri. I am not sure though. Even we had selected the coach when there was this conflict issue,” Ganguly pointed.(With agency inputs) Read the full article

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SOURAV GANGULY EXCLUSIVE: Dada ने कहा Dhoni के भविष्य पर फैसला लिया जा चुका है | Sports Tak

SOURAV GANGULY EXCLUSIVE: Dada ने कहा Dhoni के भविष्य पर फैसला लिया जा चुका है | Sports Tak

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India needs new strategy to woo young Chinese tourists, says tourism expert – Economic Times

KOCHI: China’s emerging class of young, educated and resource-rich travel lovers are passionate about visiting countries, especially in East and South Asia, but India is yet to figure in their list of top eight destinations, an international conclave was told here today.

Kerala, as one of India’s leading tourist destinations, must strive to latch on this new trend of graduates from China below 35 years of age touring abroad mostly with families, Beijing-based Richard Matuzevich of the World Tourism Cities Federation told the International Conference on Tourism Technology (ICTT).

At the opening session of the third edition of the two-day ICTT, organised by the Association of Tourism Trade Organisations, India (ATTOI) in collaboration with the Kerala government’s Department of Tourism, being held in Kochi Matuzevich noted that the world’s most populous country today has its financially well-off segment keen to show their peers that “we have been there, done this and that.” With a monthly income ranging between 2,400 and 3,400 US dollars, a chunk of them can speak foreign languages as well, he added.

The average time such Chinese tourists spent on a visit abroad was nine to 10 days in a country. As for social media, China has popular tools such as Weibo (microblogging website), Wechat (multipurpose messaging app equivalent to WhatsApp), DouYin (similar to TikTok), Little red book (a platform facilitating review of products including those on tourism), Bilibili (video-sharing facility akin to YouTube) and Meipai (short video platform), he said.

Matuzevich recalled a 2013 incident from when no less than 65,000 Chinese tourists keep flocking a lavender farm in New Zealand’s Tasmania every year after a model osted on social media an image of hers with a doll of that colour where it is manufactured. The speaker said India, particularly Kerala, offered enormous opportunities for such methods to woo Chinese tourists.

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Conclave on Indian parliamentary election held

Conclave on Indian parliamentary election held

IFP Editor, Pradip Phanjoubam during the conclave on “Indian parliamentary election Reflections on Manipur and India’s North East” today evening at Sangai Hall, Hotel Imphal

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Imphal Free Press (IFP) in association with People’s Campaign for Resurgent Manipur (PCRM) organised a conclave on “Indian parliamentary election: Reflections on Manipur and India’s North East” today…

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Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Nov 13 (ANI): Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday chose to market his state by putting forth his vision for the state in the presence of a galaxy of luminaries from the corporate world. Patnaik, while inaugurating 'Make in Odisha Conclave-2018' at Janata Maidan here, highlighted the success of first 'Make in Odisha Conclave-2016' which attracted 124 investment intents worth more over Rs two lakh crore, and created employment opportunities for over one lakh people. "About two-thirds of these projects are at various stages of implementation," he said. "I am delighted to welcome our friends, the captains of business and industry from across India and the globe, who have come all the way to Odisha and join us in 'Make in Odisha-2018' conclave. We are also glad to have Japan, as our partner country for this second edition of Make in Odisha conclave," he added. The Chief Minister further stated that under the 'Odisha Industrial Development Plan: Vision 2025,' the state government targets to attract investments worth Rs 2,50,000 crore and the creation of 30 lakh job opportunities in six identified focus sectors by 2025. "Targeting port-led development, we have planned a chain of ports along the East Coast Economic Corridor. Apart from Paradip and Dhamra, we are developing deep-water ports at Subarnarekha and Gopalpur, a riverine port on Mahanadi river and a chain of 12 other non-major ports. We have launched the Skilled-in-Odisha Mission to build an iconic global brand," Patnaik said. "Odisha has one of the most progressive start-up policies. During the last 18 months, 310 start-ups have been registered and 40 of whom have already been provided with assistance. We aim to be among the top three start-up hubs in the country by supporting at least 1,000 start-ups by 2020. Odisha also offers enormous investment opportunities in areas of hospitality, sports, and entertainment," he added. The inaugural ceremony was attended by a number of top honchos of Indian industrial conglomerates including Reliance Industries' chairman Mukesh Ambani, Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of Aditya Birla Group, Anil Agarwal, chairman of Vedanta Resources, Tata Sons chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran and so on. Also among the attendees were a host of top government officials including T K Chand, the chairman of National Aluminum Company Limited (NALCO), Anil Kumar, chairman of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), Rajnish Kumar, chairman of State Bank of India (SBI), Ananta Das, Odisha's Minister for Industries and the state's Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi. Japanese Ambassador to India Kenji Hiramatsu was among the top delegates from several countries attending the conclave. Odisha Chief Secretary Padhi said, "Thanks to the relentless works done by this government over the last few years, Odisha has emerged as a preferred investment destination not only in India but also across the world. We have the availability of raw materials, uninterrupted power supply, skilled workforce, among many other facilities." He invited industrialists to explore these opportunities. Sanjeev Chopra, Principal Secretary, Industries Department, said: "We are proud of what Odisha has achieved over the past few years in terms of development through our sustained efforts. Our top focus has been grounding of projects, ensuring industries or organizations who have given their consent or intent to invest in Odisha receive all the required support in terms of clearances and implementation." Speaking at the summit, RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani said, "Today Odisha is growing at 8 per cent per annum, more than the national average growth rate under the dynamic leadership of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. Reliance Jio is a committed partner in 'Make in Odisha' vision and has already invested Rs 6,000 crore in the state. At this moment, I proudly announce an additional investment of Rs 3,000 crore in the state from Reliance Jio." The five-day event will conclude on November 15. (ANI)

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NTripura will be a drug-free state: Biplab Kumar Deb

NTripura will be a drug-free state: Biplab Kumar Deb

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Saturday said he will “not comprise” on drugs and vowed to make Tripura a drug-free state.

Speaking at the India Today Conclave East 2018, Deb said: “We have found 50,000 kg of ganja, which was cultivated illegally in different parts of Tripura. Small-scale farmers will buy this ganja for Rs 500 to Rs 700 from this organised group and then it travels to…

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Tripura Will Go In For Citizens List If Its Successful In Assam: Biplab Deb

Tripura Will Go In For Citizens List If Its Successful In Assam: Biplab Deb

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Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Saturday said that he will go in for National Register of Citizens (NRC) in his state if the exercise was successfully implemented in Assam.

“…everybody is waiting and watching what is happening in Assam, including the central government, the Supreme Court and people of India, let it happen,” Deb said at the India Today Conclave East 2018.

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Modi is enemy No. 1, say Congress, TMC and CPM at India Today Conclave East 2018

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India Today Conclave East captures eastern and northeastern states in India Today Conclave East captures eastern and northeastern states in all their gloryall their glory

India Today Conclave East captures eastern and northeastern states in India Today Conclave East captures eastern and northeastern states in all their gloryall their glory

The stage was set for India Today Conclave East at Kolkata, and quite fittingly West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee chose the forum to make a defining statement – she promised to let Sanjay Leela Bhansali screen Padmavati in West Bengal. Banerjee made this brave suggestion at a time when c The stage was set for India Today Conclave East at Kolkata, and quite fittingly West Bengal Chief…

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Padmavati controversy: Rani Mukerji says 'we need to be more loving as a society'

Padmavati controversy: Rani Mukerji says ‘we need to be more loving as a society’

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Kolkata: Actress Rani Mukerji, was present in the city for the India Today Conclave East 2017 on 24 November.

During her session, Mukerji emphasised that the society needed to be more loving when she was asked about the unrest surrounding Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s epic war-drama Padmavati.

“We need to be more loving as society, as humanity… We need to go towards…