Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation is an American attire company, and the world’s largest shirt company. It owns brands such as Calvin Klein,Tommy Hilfiger, , Izod, Arrow , Van Heusen, G. H. Bass and  it licenses brands such as Geoffrey Beene, BCBG Max Azria, Chaps, Sean John, Kenneth Cole New York, JOE Joseph Abboud and MICHAEL Michael Kors. Its main headquarters are located in Manhattan, with administrative offices in Bridgewater, New Jersey, and Los Angeles, California. The popular ‘Van Heusen India Men’s Week 2010′ would now take place in New Delhi. The show will commence from the 27th of August and continue till the 29th of August and would take place at the “The Grand”. The show will have over 17 exhibitors and will showcase a total of 16 shows . The main objective is to showcase the very best of the Indian fashion talent. This has made India, the fourth Fashion Capital in the World to host a self – governed Men’s Week.

Many fashion designers would be invited to show their talents and skills in every kind of men’s fashion stuff and would include everything ranging from men’s wear as well as accessories and the best part of this show, is that everything would be found and can be purchased under the same roof. The visitors as well as prospective buyers can check out the apparel as well as the other associated stuff and can choose from a wide range to shop.

There would be a certain segment planned called the ‘Van Heusen Emerging Designer of the Year Contest 2010′ in association with FDCI’, where one budding and talented designer would be felicitated and would also get an opportunity to display his or her piece of clothing or art in front of some of the best fashion enthusiasts from the nation world wide.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Taliban officials have been given expectation they can succeed in the war as a consequence of President Barack Obama’s July 2011 deadline. That is to start withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan,

But it was told by the General James Conway that the insurgents will be let down when they discover that no key withdrawal is on the edge among US forces deployed in the Taliban.

Conway’s forthright estimation is certain to rise debate over Obama’s war strategy and also the July 2011 date, giving missiles for Republican lawmakers who have wretched the deadline as lacking resolve in the nearly 9-year-old war.

Obama’s fellow Democrats in Congress and White House officials do not offend the deadline as a way of approaching Afghan leaders to do something quickly to take charge of their protection.

The US president faces mounting public opposition to the war.

Conway said Taliban foot soldiers would mostly undergo a blow to their morale after July 2011 passes with no dramatic departure of American forces.

The general, just returned from a visit to Afghanistan, said government army and police forces in key southern provinces will not be ready to take over from foreign troops for at least “a few years,” and that he had told his Marines to brace for a long fight.

Conway told reporters, referring to Marines deployed in the provinces of Helmand and Kandahar.

Conway said some Afghan units “somewhere” might be able to assume the lead for security in 2011 but not in the south, the birthplace of the Taliban.

He also approved that public support for the US mission was drastically reducing but was previously warned of the risks of any previous withdrawal.

Conway pleaded for patience, naming a fellow commander’s assessment that they can either lose very quickly or may win slowly.

The confidential security contractor formerly known as Blackwater, has decided to give amount $42m in fines for a number of violations regarding US export rules as mentioned according to the New York Times.
The violations included a number of them such as illegal weapons exports to Afghanistan, trying to make unauthorized proposals to train troops in southern Sudan, and also providing sniper guidance for police in Taiwan, the newspaper mentioned on Friday.
The New York Times also reported that by attaining the agreement with the US state department to pay the fines, the company usually prevents criminal charges over the violations regarding US export control regulations.
Blackwater, aided in providing guards and services to the US government in countries like Iraq, Afghanistan and in many other places, its name was changed to Xe in 2009.
Paying the compensation will let Xe to carry on competing for government contracts, the New York Times had told.
US export rules necessitate that the government approval is essential for the export of specific forms of US military technology or knowledge.
But Xe actually began to look for training contracts from various foreign governments and other foreign associations without following strictly to American regulations”, the newspaper had reported.
It also had shipped mechanical and automatic weapons and also other military equipment which can be used by its personnel in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan in violation of export controls, and in a few cases wanted to conceal its actions.
According to the daily, investigators were also eager to know if weapons shipped to Iraq were sold on the black market.
However, it was noticed that the decision does not determine other legal troubles involving the company and its previous executives and other officials.

At least around 47 recruits and soldiers were killed and about 77 individuals were wounded when a suicide bomber just blew himself up at an army recruitment centre. It took place in Baghdad today, which was 2 weeks prior to the end of the US combat mission in Iraq.

The blast just tore through a number of recruits and was one of the bloodiest scenes this year. Tensions are simmering and officials are pressurized following an inconclusive election which took place five months ago that has to still create a new government.

Insurgents have been aiming Iraqi police and soldiers as they organize to take complete responsibility for security on 1 September, when the United States just ends its 7-year combat mission.

US troop figures will be condensed to 50,000 for a training mission just before a complete withdrawal planned for the following year.

They all were lined in a long queue. They also included officers and soldiers. Unexpectedly an explosion took place. recruit Saleh Aziz said that only his hands were injured to the Reuters Television while doctors in al-Karkh hospital helped in treating his and other’s wounds.

The count of 47 in the attack on an army base in the vicinity of Baghdad’s central Maidan square was final and not projected to augment further. This was told by Deputy Health Minister Khamis al-Saad. Some policemen and army sources said that the death count could be more than 52, with approximately 120 wounded.

The place of the attack was supposed to be the Defence Ministry under Saddam Hussein, which later turned into an army recruitment centre and military base in 2003.

One army source who refrained to be recognized told that there might have been one or two suicide bombers, which is a hallmark of Sunni Islamist al Qaeda and its local affiliates.

Twenty-nine more people die and fear of disease outbreak grows amid torrential rains.

At least around 29 more people have been killed due to torrential rains that battered the northwestern China, boosting the fears of disease occurrence in under developed areas.
The chances of spreading diseases were drastically increasing in Zhouqu, which is a remote town located in the mountains of Gansu province, a health ministry official told on Friday.
Fresh landslides that occurred had killed 24 people in the cities of Longnan and Tianshui, which are not far from Zhouqu, the ministry of civil affairs told on Friday.
In a small town named, Sichuan, five people were killed and eight were gone astray in rural, mountainous Mianzhu, the official Xinhua news agencyinformed, citing a local official. Hundreds to thousands of them were also evacuated in Shaanxi province because of heavy rains.
Almost 800 medical workers have been sent to the spot but efforts to sterilize the place were extremelyhard, with a lot of human and animal corpses buried under the mountains of debris decaying, the official said.
Local health authorities said tonnes of garlic and Sichuan pepper, which in China are believed to guard against various ailments, have been sent to Zhouqu.  More than 1,100 people were killed in Zhouqu and at least 600 people were missing after the weekend avalanche of mud and rocks, which levelled an area of five kilometres long and 300 metres wide.
The mudslides in Zhouqu are the latest in a string of weather-related disasters across China.
Almost around 10,000 police and firefighters were dispatched to the town to assist the rescue efforts, but persistent downpour made work almost impossible.
Troops still continued to excavate through the mud in Zhouqo looking for those who were missing. But so far they have found out only a few survivors.

HP told the previous night that Mr Hurd had made his confirmation to leave just after the inquiry into a sexual harassment claim which was made against him and the company by an earlier HP contractor.

The investigation concluded stating that the company’s sexual harassment policy was not debased by any means, however it was noticed that the standards of business conduct were violated.

In a statement, Mr Hurd said that during the investigation he “realised there were instances in which I did not live up to the standards and principles of trust, respect and integrity that I have espoused at HP”.

He also told that he supposed it would be hard to carry on as an efficient leader at HP under these circumstances.

Mr Hurd and Robert Ryan, HP’s lead independent board member, stressed that Mr Hurd’s exit has not affected the company’s financial health in any possible way.

Later it was announced by the technology company that Chief Financial Officer Cathie Lesjak as its temporary CEO.

HP told that a board committee will be set up to decide the new CEO.

Ms Lesjak, who has been at HP for 24 years, however will still continue to work as CFO the company. She has informed that she does not want to be considered for the position of permanent CEO, the company told.

Also overnight, HP issued initial outcomes for its financial third quarter, which almost came in to some extent above analyst expectations.

HP said its revenue had a drastic increase by about 11 per cent from the previous year to approximately about $US30.7 billion ($33.52 billion), while analysts from the same field were expecting for an amount of $US30 billion ($32.75 billion) in revenue.

Several films are born with a fortune and an inherent sense of timing, one such is Avatar… How else can you explicate the timing of the re-release of a miracle “Avatar”. On Wednesday, the Indian government refused to give clearance to a mining project by Vedanta in Orissa citing ecological grounds. This news spread across the world as this meant the protection of the Dongri-Kondh tribals and their way of living. “Avatar”, is in effect, their story, as it is the story of tribal’s throughout the ages.

When “Avatar” released almost a year back, it touched many chords globally with its story set in the far-off  and distinct planet of Pandora where a giant corporation is out to extract the minerals and disturb the living of the tribal’s on that rich planet,.

Besides dazzling audiences with its splendid 3D effects, it’s simple yet politically supercharged story became an symbol for the struggle of aborigines through the ages to protect their life and nature against the attack of ‘development’. Once in a blue moon in the history of cinema, has a any film managed to endear itself to such a different  and variant cross section of society.

A warm welcome that the film finds as a re-release with nine minutes of extended footage, with such a flawless timing. The new footage comprises scenes of cow hunting by the Naavi tribe, glow worms, and some extended fight sequences are extended. The film earned USD 3 billion, and claimed to be the highest grossing film of all time.

One way to explain the extraordinary timing of “Avatar” is the fact that the war between tribal’s who want to protect their way of life and living and trigger-happy men willing to shove their idea of development on them, is as old as the forests and hills they protect. This war t has continued for millenniums and will continue to fume forever.

ISLAMABAD – The nastiest floods in remembrance in Pakistan have occurred. They have affected approximately more than 3 million people until now. The death toll has massively increased over 1,400, as told by a spokesman for the U.N. Children’s Fund on Tuesday.

Abdul Sami Malik said 1.3 million people were severely affected by the floods in the northwest, triggering heavy criticism of the government over its response to the disaster.

Pakistani authorities and officials are working hard to aid sufferers of the flooding. Many of them have lost their homes and source of revenue. The victims said that they had not been acknowledged with any official warnings that uncontrolled waters were about to attack them.

Malik told that aid agencies and Pakistani government officials will gather on Tuesday to establish if there is an urgent requirement to make an international appeal for any further assistance.

Islamist charities, have led their hands to offer assistance. They played a major role in the aid attempt following an earthquake in Kashmir in 2005. It killed about 75,000 people.

Officials expect the death toll to significantly augment, with predictions of the intense monsoon rains that have been pouring and destroying the area since the previous week. Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority told that almost more than 29,500 houses were destroyed and a major trade highway to China was blocked due to excessive flooding.

President Asif Ali Zardari’s government is by now ostracized because of prevalent allegations of corruption and its collapse to deal with politically-explosive issues such as chronic power cut.

Waters have receded in some flooded areas. But Malik has articulated worry that waters were scattering from the most terrible hit province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the Pakistan’s Punjab heartland, which is considered to be the major food-producing province, and also as the Sindh region.

Ever since the primary reports of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt splitting up, Hillsfans understandably assumed wondered if it was one more big PR hoax. Looks like it isn’t. Almost two months following the plastic princess went to court looking for legal separation from the puppet master, the reality star has filed for divorce. Heidi Montag cites the usual “irreconcilable difference” as the cause for the pair’s split in a divorce appeal filed in Santa Monica, Calif., Court. “Heidi has amended her appeal for separation and has filed an appeal for closure of marriage from Spencer Pratt,” attorney Jodeane Farrell said. The couple has decided they would like their divorce to be finalized in a timely manner.” Adding that conditions will be hashed out in an out of court conclusion, Farrell said “both parties are friendly with each other and finalizing the divorce.” The couple staged a sham wedding in Cabo in 2008, then tied the knot for actual in April 2009 at a church in Pasadena, Calif., appearing cheerful. Things went downhill fast, however. Heidi Montag underwent 10 plastic surgery events in one day, fired Spencer as her manager, released dreadful music, accused The Hills creator Adam DiVello of sexual persecution and became alienated from her family and so on. For his part, Spencer Pratt has grown more and more eccentric, and even admitted to being a celebrity whore and choosing his “career” over his wife. He echoed that feeling yesterday to People. “I love Heidi but our marriage was a show – it was part of The Hills world,” Pratt said after the separation filing. “That world is on a sound stage.” Referring to himself in the third-person, he adds: “It’s clear that realism TV-fame-loving Spencer Pratt does not fit with my ex-wife Heidi Montag’s ambition for a motion picture actor/pop star profession and being a single sex symbol for the world.” “Some say if you can’t handle the high temperature get out of the kitchen, Well, Heidi couldn’t handle King Spencer’s reputation so she got out of the marriage.” So mostly, his stardom is just too huge. Makes sense!.

The General Assembly of the United Nations made a declaration that safe and clean drinking
water and sanitation is a human right essential to the full enjoyment of life and all other human
rights. The declaration voices the UN’s concern over the issue that almost 900 million people
worldwide do not have access to clean water. The UN also calls upon its member states and
other international organizations to support this cause by providing funds, technical support and
also other resources which can help poorer nations in their efforts to provide clean, accessible
and affordable drinking water and sanitation for everyone. Although 41 countries abstained
from voting, the resolution was passed with 122 votes in favor and zero votes against the cause.
The resolution cites certain facts: Approximately 884 million people lack access to safe drinking
water and more than 2.6 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation. About 1.5 million
children under the age of five die each year and 443 million school days are lost because of
unclean water and sanitation related diseases. The UN Independent Expert on the issue of
human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation, Catarina de
Albuquerque, has been asked to report annually to the UN General Assembly. The report will
primarily focus on the major challenges in achieving the right to safe and clean drinking water.
It will also address the progress made in this regard as part of the relevant Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs are a series of targets for reducing social and
economic ills the world over by 2015. Ms. Albuquerque presented her first report today in
which she highlighted some details from her nine-day official visit to Japan. She praised Japan
for its nearly 100 percent access to clean and safe water and its use of innovative technologies to
treat sewage water and promote hygiene. But she also expressed shock that some members of
the Utoro community near Kyoto, a predominantly Korean community, still did not have access

to safe water and were badly affected by the absence of a sewage system.