Monday, August 24, 2009
4 Indian women among world's most powerful
PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi was ranked third by Forbes magazine in its 2009 list of "The 100 Most Powerful Women in the World." Nooyi topped other candidates such as Queen of Jordan, First Lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Four women of Indian origin and one Bangladeshi are among the South Asians that made it to the list. Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi is ranked 13th; Chanda Kochhar, chief executive of ICICI Bank, comes in at 20; South African Navanethem Pillay, high commissioner for human rights at the United Nations, is ranked 63rd; Bangladesh's Prime Minister Hasina Wajed comes in at 78; and Kiran MazumdarShaw, chairwoman of Biocon in India, makes it at 91.
The list is not about the money, the magazine says, and it isn't about celebrity or popularity - it's about influence. "
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Four women of Indian origin and one Bangladeshi are among the South Asians that made it to the list. Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi is ranked 13th; Chanda Kochhar, chief executive of ICICI Bank, comes in at 20; South African Navanethem Pillay, high commissioner for human rights at the United Nations, is ranked 63rd; Bangladesh's Prime Minister Hasina Wajed comes in at 78; and Kiran MazumdarShaw, chairwoman of Biocon in India, makes it at 91.
The list is not about the money, the magazine says, and it isn't about celebrity or popularity - it's about influence. "
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Labels: bangladeshi prime minster hasina wajed, forbes, forbes list, icic bank chief executive, magazine, michelle obama, popularity, powerful women list, queen of jordan, sonia gandhi, United Nations
Monday, June 2, 2008
United Nations employee crowned ‘Miss Pakistan World 2008'
Natasha Peracha, 23, was crowned ‘Miss Pakistan World' at the sixth annual pageant held in Mississauga on May 23. More than 500 guests came to see the nine contestants vying for the title.
Contestants began with Pakistani traditional wear, followed by a talent show and evening gown rounds. Participants showed a variety of talents from flamenco dance to playing clarinet, singing and belly dancing. The 2005 title winner Naomi Zaman sang ‘I Will Always Love You' by Whitney Houston as a tribute.
York Regional Police Chief Armand La Barge was the chief guest. Consul General of Sri Lanka Bandula Jayasekara and several other dignitaries also came as guests.
Peracha, director of communications at the United Nations, which she represented at the pageant, won the title, impressing the judges with her answer to the deciding question: "What should be done to better the India-Pakistan relationship?" Her solution to the long standing tension between the two countries she said, was to start exchange programs for youth so that they can learn each other's political, cultural and business systems. According to her youth have to be the focus of discussions and progress toward peaceful co existence between the two countries.
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Contestants began with Pakistani traditional wear, followed by a talent show and evening gown rounds. Participants showed a variety of talents from flamenco dance to playing clarinet, singing and belly dancing. The 2005 title winner Naomi Zaman sang ‘I Will Always Love You' by Whitney Houston as a tribute.
York Regional Police Chief Armand La Barge was the chief guest. Consul General of Sri Lanka Bandula Jayasekara and several other dignitaries also came as guests.
Peracha, director of communications at the United Nations, which she represented at the pageant, won the title, impressing the judges with her answer to the deciding question: "What should be done to better the India-Pakistan relationship?" Her solution to the long standing tension between the two countries she said, was to start exchange programs for youth so that they can learn each other's political, cultural and business systems. According to her youth have to be the focus of discussions and progress toward peaceful co existence between the two countries.
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Labels: Beauty pageant, Contestants, crowned, cultural, employee, guests, Miss Pakistan World 2008, Naomi Zaman, Natasha Peracha, Pakistani traditional wear, United Nations
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Self-help groups and micro-credit, pathway to poverty eradication
It was a life-long passion verging on obsession for uplifting the disadvantaged and down trodden that drove two siblings to volunteer with an NGO associated with the United Nations. Rajyashree and Shomik Chaudhuri, born into privilege and brought up with the best of education in Kolkata, India, volunteered time and resources to run programs to benefit the underprivileged in the city.
Over the years they saw the results of conflicting interests of other representatives that clogged the flow of resources to the ultimate beneficiaries that retarded development. As a source of a major inspiration was Shomik's selection to represent the United Nations System in India to the World Summit for Social Development at Copenhagen, Denmark in 1995. Being the youngest person in history to represent the U.N. at a World Summit, Shomik's experience and interactions open another dimension to what true development can create.
The siblings formed their own NGO with other like-minded people under section 25 of the Indian Companies Act in 1996, making it a public limited company equivalent but nonprofit in nature. That way, they believed, the organization would be transparent and the service rendered professionally inspired.
The founding members of the Institute also believed that human or moral values were the foundation of any sustainable, holistic development. To create a benchmark in that regard, the Institute organized the 'First International Conference on Values for a Better World' soon after its formation. It had the presence of a galaxy of eminent personalities including Dr. Robert Mueller, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and presently the Chancellor of University of Peace, Costa Rica.
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Over the years they saw the results of conflicting interests of other representatives that clogged the flow of resources to the ultimate beneficiaries that retarded development. As a source of a major inspiration was Shomik's selection to represent the United Nations System in India to the World Summit for Social Development at Copenhagen, Denmark in 1995. Being the youngest person in history to represent the U.N. at a World Summit, Shomik's experience and interactions open another dimension to what true development can create.
The siblings formed their own NGO with other like-minded people under section 25 of the Indian Companies Act in 1996, making it a public limited company equivalent but nonprofit in nature. That way, they believed, the organization would be transparent and the service rendered professionally inspired.
The founding members of the Institute also believed that human or moral values were the foundation of any sustainable, holistic development. To create a benchmark in that regard, the Institute organized the 'First International Conference on Values for a Better World' soon after its formation. It had the presence of a galaxy of eminent personalities including Dr. Robert Mueller, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and presently the Chancellor of University of Peace, Costa Rica.
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Labels: education, groups, india, kolkata, micro-credit; pathway, NGO, people, poverty eradication, United Nations, World Summit
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