The Sagar Daily Published by Naresh Kumar Sagar 23 February 2016 Leisure Environment Education BusinessArt & Entertainment World #news#hyderabad Today’s headline Hope for GST passage, incentives in Budget: Allcargo exec www­.moneycontrol­.com– Currently, any domestic cargo movement requires more consideration to the taxation structure than the need for logistics systems, Tulsiani says, adding GST would ease processes for the industry.   … Advertisement Accelerate Mobile App Dev Telerik webinar featuring Forrester, Wednesday, March 9. Join free webinar. 20 contributors – featured today: Read paper →

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Greetings Welcome to a fresh Tuesday edition of our newsletter. This time we have for you the Frankfurt Fellowship Programme announcement and the second in series of our updated German Book Market Report. I hope the information provided here is of interest and use to you. Enjoy the read! Best wishes, The German Book Office Team Frankfurt Fellowship Programme 2016 First launched to mark the 50th anniversary of the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1998, the Frankfurt Book Fair Fellowship Programme provides information and networking within the international publishing world. During those last nineteen years, more than 300 participants from 55 countries have gained so far from this experience. The Frankfurt Fellowship Programme focuses on information exchange, professional dialogue and the creation of networks between young international publishers. We visit publishing houses and booksellers, see market presentations, have match-making events and dinners, and offer our fellows networking opportunities in Frankfurt and two other German cities. Application Requirements Qualifications Several years’ experience in publishing Good knowledge of the English language Basic knowledge of the German language recommended Application* Your filled-in application form (from March 2016) Three letters of recommendation from international business partners Letter of recommendation from applicant’s own employer * Applications for the upcoming programme will be accepted in March/April 2016. Applications from Asia Applicants from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are asked to send their applications to the German Book Office New Delhi Contact: Prashasti Rastogi atrastogi@newdelhi.gbo.org The German Book Market The e-book market in Germany ·         e-books’ share in turnover in book sales:  4,3% (2014), 3,9% (2013) ↑ +10.2% ·         75,218 new e-book releases in 2013 ·         65% of the publishers (survey 2013) had e-books in their programme, 53% (2012) ↑ +22.6% ·         79% of the booksellers (survey 2013) sold e-books, e-readers or both, 73%    (2012) ↑ +8.2% ·         Share of major genres on E-book Sales-fiction (84%), non-fiction (6%), guidebooks (5%), children’s books and young adult (5%) ·         Disponibility of printed books as e-books: new titles 48% (survey 2013), backlist 36% (2013) ·         4.1% bought at least one e-book for private use (2013), 2.3% (2012) ↑ +1.8% Translation rights sold to foreign countries Rights contracts sold ·         Rights sales to foreign countries: 6,443 (2014), 6,466 (2013),  ↓ -0.3% ·         Top 2 languages translating from German (2013): Chinese (15.3%), English (7.0%) ·         Rights sales to English-speaking countries: 450 contracts in total (2014), 444 (2013)↑ + 1.3 1. the USA: 191 contracts (2014), 196 (2013)  ↓ -2.5 2. Great Britain: 127 (2014), 158 (2013) ↓ -19.6 3. India: 71 contracts (2014), 87 contracts  (2013) ↓ -18.3% ·         Rights sales to Europe: 4,221 contracts (2014) 4,182 contracts (2013)  ↑+ 0.1% Genres in translation ·         Top 3 genres in translation (2013): children’s and young adult literature (36.7%), fiction (18.6%), guidebooks (12.6%) ·         Main field of interest for English language publishers: Science, Medicine, Informatics and Technology (148 licenses sold), Humanities, Music and Art (87 licenses sold), fiction (67 licenses sold) GBO CALENDAR 2016 What’s coming up? JUMPSTART – 2nd – 3rd August Frankfurt Book Fair, Guest of Honour- Flanders and Netherlands– – 19th – 23rd October Publishers’ Training Programme– 2nd – 3rd December

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The Asian news Daily Published by Naresh Kumar Sagar 23 February 2016 Leisure Business Technology Science Art & Entertainment World #news #business Today’s headline Zee News producer quits: Video we shot had no Pakistan Zindabad slogan indianexpress­.com– A PRODUCER with Zee News has resigned from the TV channel after expressing reservations over its “biased coverage” of the JNU protests and the sedition charge against the university’s students unio… Advertisement Advertising is hard We do it all day. Let us teach you what we’ve learned. Learn how the experts market their startups. Grab the free ebook. 33 contributors – featured today: Read paper →

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“The Pox and the People: The Culture and Politics of Interventions against Smallpox in 19th & 20th Century India and China.” By Professor Prerna Singh

UPCOMING EVENT: When: Monday, February 29, 2016; 12:00-2:00 PM Where: Orozco Room (712), 66 West 12th Street, New York, 10011 The India China Institute will be hosting Professor Prerna Singhfor the first Colloquium on the Economies and Societies of India and China (CESCI) of 2016. She will present her paper “The Pox and the People: The Culture and Politics of Interventions against Small pox in 19th & 20th Century India and China.” Manjari Mahajan, Assistant Professor of International Affairs at The New School will serve as a discussant. Register Here! Please RSVP as space is limited. Abstract: Historically, one of the greatest threats to humanity has come from tiniest of creatures – disease causing microorganisms. Epidemics of infectious diseases have not only caused human morbidity and mortality on a horrific scale but have also profoundly shaped commerce, culture, and politics. Pathogens, both as triggers of long-standing infectious diseases including TB, and ‘new’ diseases, such as Zika, Ebola, H1N1, SARS and also increasingly as potential weapons of bioterrorism continue today to pose a grave global risk. One of the reasons why infectious diseases generate global panic is that they do -not respect social and political boundaries. Yet historically certain societies and polities have been far more effective at countering the equivalently severe challenges posed by particular diseases. Why? I seek to answer this question through an examination of the differential effectiveness of the control of smallpox through a subnational comparison of Madras presidency and Canton in the nineteenth century and a national comparison of India and China in the twentieth centuries. Smallpox is one of the oldest and deadliest diseases to afflict mankind; it is also the only disease to have been successfully eradicated. India and China, were known in the colonial imagination as “the cradles of smallpox”. Madras and Canton shared similar histories of recurring severe epidemics. In part because of the length and intensity of their experience with the disease, both regions also had rich repertoires of ritual practices, etiologies, cultural norms and techniques of treatment. In both provinces the British East India Company introduced the recently “discovered” Jennerian vaccine in the early 1800s. Yet why did vaccination spread much more rapidly in Canton than in Madras? In terms of a national level comparison, in the 1950s, China and India were characterized by similar rates of smallpox incidence and similarly complex disease environments. Both countries were also emerging from a tumultuous period of conflict and faced equally severe challenges of state consolidation and state building, including widespread poverty, low levels of industrialization and infrastructure including health infrastructure. Yet from these roughly equivalent starting points, China had managed to effectively eradicate smallpox by the early 1950s while India was one of the last countries in the world to eradicate smallpox in 1975. Why was this the case? This talk draws on a range of sources to make a case for the importance of attention to local cultural practices around disease and healing, and the role of affective mobilization for the success of public health outcomes.Prerna Singh is Mahatma Gandhi Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies and faculty fellow at the Watson Institute, and co-convenor of the Brown-Harvard-MIT Joint Seminar in South Asian Politics. She completed her PhD and MA from the Department of Politics at Princeton University, the tripos in social and political studies from Cambridge University, UK, and a BA (Honors) in economics from Delhi University. Prior to joining Brown, she taught in the Department of Government at Harvard University. She has also been a junior fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and held a pre-doctoral research fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study for India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania. Her book, How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Her articles have been published in several journals, including Comparative Political Studies,Comparative Politics, World Development, World Politics, and Studies in Comparative International Development. Singh is also the co-editor of the Handbook of Indian Politics (Routledge 2013).

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Pro Kabaddi League Team – Dabang Delhi

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Hindustan Powerprojects

cordially invites you

for a

Meet-up session

with the players of

Pro Kabaddi League Team – Dabang Delhi

The event would also witness the player’s interactive session with 10 under-privileged children from Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh and Mr. Ravi Arya, President – Thermal, Hindustan Powerprojects

	Date: Wednesday, 24th February, 2016  Time: 4:30 pm onwards Venue: Thyagraj Stadium, INA Colony, New Delhi

R.S.V.P.

Megha Nath

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