He was a member of the illegal strike committee in Gdansk Shipyard in 1970. In 1976, Walesa lost his job in Gdansk Shipyard.

In June 1978 he joined the illegal underground Free Trade Unions of the Coast (Wolne Zwiazki Zawodowe Wybrzeza), organized by Bogdan Borusewicz, Andrzej Gwiazda, Krzysztof Wyszkowski, Lech Kaczynski, Anna Walentynowicz, Antoni Sokolowski, and others.

On 14 August 1980, after the beginning of an occupational strike in the Lenin Shipyard of Gdansk, Walesa became the leader of this strike. The strike was spontaneously followed by similar strikes, first in Gdansk, and then across Poland.

In September of that year, the Communist government signed an agreement with the Strike Coordination Committee to allow legal organization, but not actual free trade unions. The Strike Coordination Committee legalized itself into National Coordination Committee of Solidarnosc (Solidarity) Free Trade Union, and Walesa was chosen as a chairman of this Committee.

First, it hardly has any new scheme for children, except some reorganization in education, nor is there more money. Second, it has managed to place a fresh debt burden of Rs 3500-and rising-on the head of every Indian, including 450 million persons less than 18 years’ old. According to calculations made by HAQ: Centre for Child Rights, which has been analysing central and state budgets from a child rights perspective for ten years, the Budget for Children for the current fiscal is only Rs 43104.16 crore. In other words, the amount of money allocated to various children’s programmes is only 4.21 per cent of the record Rs 10.20 lakh crore of total expenditure budgeted for 2009-10. This is the lowest share accorded to children in the last four yearsas table 1 shows, the BfC share was .85 per cent in 2005-06. This is much less than the 5.31 per cent share for children budgeted for 2008-09 as well as the reduced share of 4.31 per cent in therevised estimates of that year.

In fact, the BfC share comes to even less — 3.88 per cent-if we take into ccount Statement 22 of the Expenditure Budget 2009-10 document, defined as Budget Provisionsfor Schemes for the Welfare of Children, prepared by the finance ministry. This `children’s budget statement’ was initiated by former finance minister P Chidambaram last fiscal, and this year’s statement shows a few glaring omissions of schemes probably due to departmental tardiness and is therefore smaller than HAQ estimate.

Braving close to 90 degree Fahrenheit temperature, Indian Americans came from all over the tri-state area, including septuagenarians, a few of whom were seated on wheel chairs.

The Federation of Indian Associations (FIA), an umbrella group of cultural, educational and community organisations in the New York tri-state region. The parade, an annual event, was organised by the Federation of Indian American Associations.

Since 1980, the parade has been showcasing India’s cultural and religious mosaic and the bond Indian Americans feel with their motherland despite living for decades away from the country. The parade began on 41st Street, winded down Madison Avenue and culminated in a variety show on 23rd Street, drawing an estimated 50,000 people.

Children perched on the shoulders of their parents so that they could get a better view of the colorful parade Following traditions, the FIA had Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty to act as grand marshal. Shilpa flew in from India two days before the event. Past grand marshals include Amitabh Bachhan, Sridevi and Asha Bhosle, among others.

Since December 2005, when Mahinda Rajapaksa made his first visit to New Delhi less than a month after he took over as Sri Lanka’s president, India was aware of his intention to take the LTTE head on.

Although in the initial days he was advised to seek a negotiated settlement with the Tigers, New Delhi saw merit in Rajapaksa’s argument that the LTTE was only biding its time to regroup and rearm itself and that war was inevitable sooner than later.

And if the LTTE was preparing for a showdown, Rajapaksa did not want to be caught off guard either. His armed forces needed to be ready for any eventuality.

The president therefore sent his brothers Basil and Gotabaya to New Delhi with a shopping list for essential weapons and equipment that the Sri Lankan armed forces needed. The shopping list included air defence weapons, artillery guns, Nishant unmanned aerial vehicles and laser designators for precisionguided munitions.

Kochhar debuted at number 20 behind Gandhi who was ranked 13 in the list led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Indian-origin chief executive of Pepsico Indra Nooyi figured at number three after Sheila Bair, Chairperson of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Yahoo’s Carol Bartz was ahead of Gandhi at number 12 in the list.

Besides Gandhi and Kochhar, Biocon’s chairman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw also featured in the list at number 91.

Gandhi improved her ranking from 21 last year to 13 this year, while Mazumdar-Shaw moved to 91 from last year’s 99th place. Nooyi retained her third position in the list.

Bahujan Samajwadi Party leader and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, who was ranked 59th in last year’s list, did not figure in the latest list put up on Forbes.Com.

Regarding Gandhi, Forbes said, she is “still the country’s dominant force since she reluctantly entered politics in the 1990s.” The landslide victory in the recent general election further strengthened her position as the leader of “India’s most powerful political party” — Indian National Congress.

Kochhar was named as the first woman boss of India’s second largest lender ICICI Bank and took charge in May this year. “She now oversees a bank with assets of $100 billion,” Forbes said. She was instrumental in transforming the retail business of ICICI Bank and turning it into a retail banking powerhouse.

Besides, Anglo American Chief Cynthia Carroll, Temasek CEO Ho Ching, Kraft Foods Chief Irene Rosenfeld, DuPont head Ellen Kullman, WellPoint CEO Angela Braly, Areva Chief Anne Lauvergeon and Sunoco head Lynn Elsenhans are among the top 10 powerful women.

SMAI has always aimed at providing a Swiss quality education to students from all over the world. Unfortunately, the conservatism of Switzerland restricted its global pursuit. Despite its excellent location and security, Switzerland remains small. With its 6 million inhabitants, the country does not offer many job opportunities for international students. In addition, the high living costs are prohibitive and the conservative nature of the current government limits visas granted to international students.

Therefore, SMAI moved its headquarters to Rome, Italy where the living costs are favourable and student visa issuance most probable. Similarly, the move was to offer our international students the possibility to work and undertake internship within the
enlarged European Union of which Switzerland is not a member.

In yet another sign of deepening relationship between India and the US, over two dozen American Senators, including some of the most powerful and influential ones, turned up for the reception.

With nearly two-dozen Senator from both the Republican and Democratic parties appearing for the reception, old timers at the Capitol said this is reflective of the growing ties between the two countries and the value been given to Indo-US relationship by lawmakers.

Senator Dodd, who has replaced Hillary Clinton as Co-Chair of Senate India Caucus from the Democratic, said India is a “good luck charm” for the United States Senate.

The list also features Cognizant Technology Solutions, headed by India-origin Chief Executive Francisco D”Souza. Infosys is placed at the 100th place while Cognizant is ranked 90.

Apple and Google are at 39th and 68th spots, respectively. Writing about Infosys, the magazine said, “India’’s No 2 IT firm counts Goldman Sachs and UBS among its 570 clients”.

Fortune noted that Cognizant attributes a part of its growth to expansion in India and China. Other companies in the list include Nasdaq OMX Group (42), Amazon.com (52) and Dreamworks Animation SKG (63).