Jade Goody left India after a cancer diagnosis from her doctor in London, amid speculation that it was just a publicity stunt. But the reality show star, who’s back in London, fears she may never live to watch her two sons grow up.
   In an interview to a UK tabloid, Jade broke down, admitting, “I am fighting for my life.” She is now preparing herself to tell her sons – Bobbie, 5, and Freddie, 3, of her health. “Bizarrely enough, I want to take the boys to a third world country to make them appreciate what they have. I’d like them to see how lucky they are to have so much compared to others. I’m so desperate to see them but I know I won’t be able to stop the tears flowing and they are both sensitive little boys and it will only distress them.”
   She says she wants to battle the disease if that’s the last thing she does. “At the end of the day, I am going to bloody beat this thing because I’ve got two amazing kids to live for. And there’s no way I’m gonna let them down,” she said. Jade left India after she was told she had cancer. A large tumour in her womb may have spread to her bloodstream,putting major organs such as her liver and kidneys at risk. She will undergo a hysterectomy next week.
   She recalled the moment in Mumbai when she received a call from her doctor.“The blood drained from me as my doctor said,‘We have looked again at your biopsy,and there are severe abnormalities. You need to fly home immediately.’ I looked at the phone in disbelief as he said, ‘You have cancer, Jade, it’s real and it’s serious.’ I collapsed to the floor,thinking,‘My boys.Oh my God,I’m going to die’.”
   Her consultant, Dr Ann Coxon, said, “She has serious second stage cancer and needs surgery as soon as possible. The cancer is in an advanced stage and was diagnosed in the nick of time. The bottom line is, if she’d stayed in India for the next three months, she wouldn’t be here.”
Jade revealed that four previous tests to detect cervical cancer revealed pre-cancerous cells in her womb – but she was given the all-clear. “Always, the medics told me there was nothing to worry about. I feared I was becoming a hypochondriac,” she said. But then, three weeks ago, Jade collapsed at her home in the UK. Paramedics rushed her to Princess Alexandra Hospital in Essex, where she stayed almost a week.
Jade recalled, “The doctors still insisted they couldn’t find anything wrong with me, so I insisted on an ultrasound scan. But nothing showed up. I just got on with my life. I thought about cancelling the India trip. But they had offered me £100,000 (more than Rs 80 lakhs), which will go towards bringing up my kids. People think I’m a multi-millionaire from telly, which couldn’t be further from the truth.”
IANS

At the crux of this entire political conundrum, the core issue, which lays quite forlorn and forgotten is the nuclear issue. Today the politicians might have turned it into an opportunity to topple the UPA Govt but few remember that it all started with the nuclear deal.
   
Surely few of these politicians would have actually taken the effort to read the 82-page nuclear deal and tried to understand what it is all about. Somehow that does not come as a surprise at all! So without getting into the “political” angle of it, let us take a look at what exactly is this nuclear issue. What would India gain if UPA wins the vote and what we stand to lose if the deal gets cancelled?
   
What exactly is nuclear power?
Nuclear power is generated using Uranium, which is a metal mined in various parts of the world. It produces around 11% of the world’s energy needs, and produces huge amounts of energy from small amounts of fuel, without the pollution that you’d get from burning fossil fuels.  
   
Where does India currently stand on nuclear power?
In India, nuclear power is being produced under the Nuclear Power Corporation of India. Seventeen reactors are under operation and five reactors are under construction. These power projects are highly capital intensive and currently, takes care of 2.8% of the power needs of the country. Amongst the 30 countries in the world that use nuclear power, India’s rank at 27 is one of the lowest.
   
Why nuclear power?
To take India’s economic growth rate to greater heights, there is no doubt that power would be required as the main fuel for this growth. Though coal, thermal and hydro fuel would remain India’s dominant energy mix, it cannot continue to depend on coal alone. Global warming considerations and the immediate availability of clean coal technologies may constrain the coal route at least in the short term. Hydropower may also face constraints that arise from changes in the hydrological cycle triggered by long term climatic change. Hence having nuclear power in India’s energy portfolio is crucial for preserving India’s energy security  
   
What does 123 agreement mean?
The 123 Agreement is the terms of engagement which operationalizes the treaty agreement between India and USA for transfer of civil nuclear technology. India’s right to test nuclear weapons, guarantees of lifetime fuel supply and India’s right to reprocess the spent fuel have all been covered in this agreement.
   
What is the Hyde Act?  
The Henry J. Hyde United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act of 2006, it is known as the Hyde Act. It is the legal framework for this deal and provides the legal basis for the 123 Agreement with India.
   
What would the deal with USA mean for India?
The Govt has chalked out a roadmap wherein over the next 25 years, through the deal, it has set a target of generating 20,000 MWe  (unit of nuclear power) as against the current 3,900 MWe.  
   
The biggest advantage, which the UPA Govt is actually seeking is projecting to the world that it an ally of USA, which is a superpower in the world of today. The deal would provide India with access to American civilian nuclear technology. It would finally open up the door to US military technology, especially the fascinating US missile defense system.
   
Once the new reactors are set up, and they go critical without any time overrun, the nuclear power generation would take care of 8% of India’s total power requirement. More than 80% of the power generated in India comes from coal and thermal. And that will continue but just as oil has become critical today, coal will also one day reach such a stage. And unless we have backups ready, our entire country could get unplugged. Having nuclear power could help India, over the long run, offset the rising cost of coal.
   
Yes, price of uranium is also mounting. Between 2005 (when the India-US nuclear deal was first proposed) and 2007 (when the 123 Agreement was finalised), since then, the spot price of uranium has quadrupled. According to a June 2008 market assessment, a further 58 per cent increase is expected. But remember unlike oil, we are dealing with more mature economies here who will supply uranium and hopefully, they will prevent the present cartelization which we see in oil.
   
What is the cost of nuclear power?
At present, power from existing nuclear reactors costs, after huge subsidies, between Rs 2.70 and Rs 2.80 per kWh. The coal-fired Sasan mega power project in Madhya Pradesh will be supplying power at Rs 1.196 per unit. The real cost of power from existing nuclear reactors is around Rs 4 per unit; the cost of power produced by new reactors will be around Rs 5.50 per unit. But the economies of scale would soon start giving the advantages. Plus, these costs are today at the present levels of coal price, so when price of coal escalates further, cost would only go up.
   
What would the deal mean to Indian companies?
India  has plans to set up 15 plants over the next 20 years. Business worth $100 billion is expected to be generated from this nuclear deal over the next 20 years. Apart from USA and France, which would benefit immensely, Indian companies too will get a part of this juicy pie. Over 400 Indian companies are expected to benefit, mainly for those involved in making equipment for nuclear power plants.  
   
Why did the Left withdraw support?  
The Left alleged that the deal would undermine the sovereignty of India’s foreign policy. It has also stated that the Indian government was hiding certain clauses of the deal, which would harm India’s indigenous nuclear program.

Pray for Aarushi

Lets come together to pray for our beloved Aarushi…

May Her Soul rest in peace…

God of power and mercy, you have made death itself the gateway to eternal life. Look with love on our dying sister, and make her one with Your Son in His suffering and death, that, sealed with the blood of Christ, she may come before you free from sin. —Amen—

Aarushi Talwar

Noida: Following a clean chit by the CBI stating that there was no substantial evidence against dentist Rajesh Talwar, the court granted him bail on Friday.

Designated judge Sapna Mishra granted bail to Talwar asking him to furnish a personal bond of Rs five lakh and two sureties of the same amount.
The court has remanded Rajesh Talwar’s compounder Krishna and Durranis’ domestic help Rajkumar to 14 days judicial custody.

Earlier, the CBI said there is no substantial evidence against Dr Rajesh Talwar, who has been in the judicial custody for more than one month, after being named a prime accused in the May 16 murder of his teenaged daughter Aarushi Talwar and domestic help Hemraj.

At a news conference on Friday afternoon at the CBI headquarters, the bureau’s Joint Director, Arun Kumar, said there was no certainty about the turn the probe might take.

Kumar said the CBI had asked the special court in Ghaziabad – before which Talwar, his compounder Krishna and Rajkumar, the domestic help of the Talwars’ family friends, the Durranis, are being produced – to take this into account before deciding on the three suspects.

Talwar was arrested by Noida police soon after the twin murders of Aarushi and Hemraj, but when the CBI took over the case a fortnight later, Krishna was taken into custody as well. A few days later Rajkumar was also arrested.

CBI joint director Arun Kumar said Talwar’s wife, Dr Nupur Talwar, had been subjected to polygraph and narco-analysis tests but the investigating agency found no conclusive evidence. He said Nupur Talwar was subjected to a second lie-detector test because the first one was inconclusive. The joint director added that no deception was recorded in either Nupur or Rajesh Talwar’s polygraph test.

Kumar clarified that this was the reason Talwar was not subjected to a narco-analysis test. The Talwar couple was also subjected to a psycho-analytical test at AIIMS in Delhi but these tests were also clear.

The Joint Director said Krishna initially misled investigators but later confessed to the crime. Reconstructing the sequence of events on the night of May 16, Kumar said Krishna, Rajkumar and another domestic servant Vijay Mandal met up over drinks in Hemraj’s quarters. Krishna was angry with Talwar for having pulled him up for a mistake at his clinic two days ago. Soon Aarushi’s name came up for discussion and the servants entered her room, probably with a view to sexually assault her.

Aarushi, who Kumar said, had a sore throat raised an alarm but was hit by a blunt object. Her parents, who were in their room did not hear anything because their door was closed and air-conditioners were on in their room as well as Aarushi’s.

The servants then went to the roof where they scuffled with Hermaj and killed him. They later came downstairs to Aarushi’s room and slit her throat.