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Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper – India
Gulf Times – Apr 25, 2005
0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ‘Times New Roman’">After going through over 500 files, Vittal is learnt to have pointed out âserious irregularitiesâ in the purchase of arms, ammunition, equipment and spares and also pointed out that proper procedures were not followed while awarding contracts, the sources said. 0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ‘Times New Roman’">Some of the big-ticket deals that have come for criticism are the procurement of 250 armoured recovery vehicles, laser guided Krasnapol artillery shells, engines for the home grown Arjun main battle tank, Kornet E anti-tank missiles and spares for the Visakhapatnam ship repairing centre. 0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ‘Times New Roman’">Vittalâs probe makes a strong case for fixing responsibilities and punishing those found guilty, said defence ministry officials. 0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ‘Times New Roman’">The revelations thrown up in 2001 by the now defunct Tehelka wbsiteâs sting operation on defence deals were also noted by the CVC, who has reportedly asked for explanations on why Kornet E anti-tank missiles, as also ammunition bought for the navy, had failed trials.
What We Need Is Vibrancy
Washington Post – Apr 25, 2005
Nor, for that matter, will you find too many high fliers getting knocked off the list after taking one chance too many. Although I haven’t (or couldn’t) run the regression analyses, I bet one would show that the best predictor of a company’s ranking was its ranking last year — hardly a sign of the vibrant, yeasty, entrepreneurial economy the regional boosters are always crowing about. What does it tell you that in one of the supposedly most important biotech clusters in the nation, public biotech firms added a grand total of 113 local jobs last year?Or that in an area with one of the highest levels of disposable income on the planet, there are virtually no home-grown retailers on the list, nor any in the creative worlds of advertising and design. Our main contribution to the creative world of fashion is Jos. What does it tell you that, in the online world that Washington was once poised to dominate, the local contender, America Online, seems to be in a state of perpetual reorganization? Or that the next Steve Case is.
MUSIC REVIEW FRONTING ETERNITY: ROYAL MELBOURNE PHILHARMONIC
The Age – Apr 25, 2005
Photo: Tamara Voninski MUSIC REVIEW FRONTING ETERNITY: ROYAL MELBOURNEPHILHARMONICMelbourne Town Hall, April 23The first program for the year from the Royal MelbournePhilharmonic Choir and Orchestra featured the local premieres oftwo major Australian works, both fairly freshly minted. The troublewas that the best wine was served first at this feast and thehome-grown material suffered by comparison. At either end of the night stood two settings of the Mass forthe Dead. Peter Sculthorpe’s Requiem was first performedat last year’s Adelaide Festival. A large-scale work for chorus andorchestra, with plenty of percussion, it picks and chooses itsLatin texts, interpolating an Aboriginal lullaby for good measure. More importantly for the work’s impact, the score is dominated bythe timbre of the didgeridu – player Ron Murray occupying primacyof place in the work’s overall impact.