Imran Khan was his confident and passionate self the day after a grenade attack at a rally he’d just finished addressing, in the Frontier region, claimed the life of one policeman and sent many (security personnel and civilians) to hospital.
Pakistan’s solitary World Cup-winning captain has been after the Establishment for years and, as a result, has made life miserable for most of the entrenched politicians.
Saudi police exchanged fire with “masked gunmen” during a protest in the oil-rich east, killing one of them, state news agency SPA reported early on Saturday, in the second such incident in 24 hours.
Activists contacted by AFP from Dubai said that Zuhair al-Said, 21, was killed as security
forces dispersed a protest on Friday against the death of another Shiite demonstrator the previous day.
“Security forces following an unauthorised gathering in the (Shiite) town of Al-Awamiya in Qatif district came under fire from masked gunmen,” SPA quoted a police spokesman as saying.
Hacker group Anonymous Friday night took down the website of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), media reports said Saturday.
Citing online publication PC Magazine, RIA Novosti said the website was still offline.
“CIA TANGO DOWN: https://www.cia.gov/ #Anonymous,” the hacker group wrote on Twitter.
Anonymous did not make public any details about the hacking, but the group’s hackers normally use distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to knock their targets offline.
FIFA vice-president has warned that Muslim women would be driven away from soccer fields if the football’s governing body decided to ban the wearing of hijab in playgrounds during its meeting next month.
“It is very important that everybody has the chance to play the sport that they love and obviously the laws of the games have to be amended to allow that,” Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein of Jordan, a FIFA vice-president, told Reuters on Friday, February 10, in an interview in Singapore.
The total number of workers in the Kingdom’s private sector reached 6,991,200 in the fiscal year 1431H-1432H (2010-2011), 10.37 percent of which were Saudis at 724,655, the Saudi Ministry of Labor’s statistics report said.
Non-Saudi workers reached 6,266,545, representing 89.63 percent of the total.
Riyadh region registered the highest number of workers at 2,396,632, of which 259,994 were Saudis at 10.85 percent. Second came Makkah Region with 1,516,284 workers, 11.33 percent of them were Saudis.
In a major breakthrough in the baby Falak case, the Delhi Police on Friday arrested the key accused, Rajkumar. The police managed to arrest the man while he was trying to flee the capital. Meanwhile, a woman named Pratima was also arrested. She was a part of the human trafficking racket that allegedly exploited the 14-year-old teenager who brought baby Falak to AIIMS in a battered and badly bruised condition on January 18. Rajkumar’s arrest is crucial, say police, as he was the only missing link in the case. The police also arrested eight others in connection with the case.
The Greek cabinet approved on Friday a draft bill committing the country to reforms required by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund in return for a new €130-billion ($171-billion U.S.) bailout Athens needs to avoid a messy bankruptcy, government officials said.
“It was approved,” a minister who took part in the cabinet meeting said.
The bill is scheduled to be voted in parliament on Sunday, which would take Greece one step closer to getting the loan.
Three Muslim extremists who distributed leaflets calling for homosexuals to be hanged, stoned and burned to death were jailed by a British court Friday.
The trio were found guilty at Derby Crown Court last month.
The group had handed out the material in the street as well as posted it through letterboxes in a hate-filled campaign calling for the execution of gay people who they claimed were at the root of society’s problems, the Daily Mail reported Friday.
Through the ACB raids on liquor syndicates, the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has rubbed many of his colleagues on the wrong side. According to sources more than 80 Congress MPs, MLAs and ministers are engaged in liquor trade. They are all now sore that the CM was striking at their very financial roots. According to information of the 80, 9 are MPs while there are 3 MLCs.
UNION minister and senior Congress leader Sriprakash Jaiswal told reporters on Thursday that the next CM of Uttar Pradesh ( UP) will be remote- controlled by Rahul Gandhi. “ Whoever becomes the CM ( if Congress comes to power), the remote will be in Rahul ji ’s hands,” the coal minister said in New Delhi, a day after an impressive 64 per cent turnout in the first phase of the state assembly elections for 55 seats in 10 districts.
It’s finally official. The taxpayer in Gujarat will pay for Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s Sadbhavana Mission, his campaign of fasts for communal harmony and brotherhood with a strong political flavour.
The Indian Express has learnt that the General Administration Department planned for expenses related to the Mission as early as in November, passing two government resolutions instructing all department heads, district collectors and authorities to debit these costs as “accidental expense” under the government’s exigency account number “8000”.
Iran’s ambassador to Russia says Tehran enjoys ample military capabilities to counter any acts of aggression against it and delivers a crushing, unexpected response to any possible attack.
“In case of a possible military strike by the US against Iran, we will make the White House regret its blatant mistake,” Ambassador Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi said at a press conference in Moscow on Wednesday.
He emphasized that Iran has good means at its disposal to react to possible US military attacks against Tehran, all around the world.
Two Emirati men resorted to social authorities in Ras al Khaimah last year along with hundreds of other spouses who sought settlement for disputes with their wives. But what distinguished those two from the others was that they were beaten by their wives and the main reason was the internet.
The social guidance and rehabilitation centre said the two husbands reported their wives to the centre last year and that both cases were eventually settled.
More than one-and-a-half century after events of 1857 sealed the fate of the Mughal Empire, two Muslim institutions that emerged in Aligarh and Deoband seem to have roles reversed. Both institutions are believed to having a lasting impact on Muslim psyche, imparting political as well as religious guidance.
Congress on Thursday likened BJP to a “supermarket of corruption, pornography and misgovernance”, a remark which drew a strong reaction from the opposition party, which suggested that those living in glass houses should not throw stones on others.
“The entire spectrum of immorality and corruption can be found under one roof of BJP’s Super Market. If you want to go shopping for corruption, pornography, spectacle of loss of lives and properties and misgovernance, BJP is the single window supermarket of corrupion,” Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi told reporters in New Delhi.
Chennai, February 09: In a spine-chilling incident, a class nine student stabbed his teacher to death in a private school in Chennai on Thursday. The student stabbed the teacher while she was giving lessons. She died while being taken to the hospital, the police said.
Confirming the unfortunate incident, school management said that the 39-year old teacher was stabbed several times by the school boy at around 10.50 am.
Initial reports suggest that the teacher was trying to discipline him when the ill-fated incident took place.
Deputy Inspector General of Andhra Pradesh police N Balasubramanyam was questioned by CBI on Wednesday in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
This marks the start of investigation into the Hyderabad module of the encounter case. Since 2005, this part of the conspiracy was not probed by either CID (Crime) or CBI.
Balasubramanyam was grilled on logistical support provided to the Gujarat cops who had abducted Sohrabuddin, his wife Kauserbi and Tulsiram Prajapati from Hyderabad right before staging the encounter in Ahmedabad.
Iran is capable of carrying out military strikes on US interests all around the world if the country is attacked by the United States, Iran’s ambassador to Moscow said on Wednesday.
The United States has tried to force Tehran to scrap sensitive nuclear work by imposing sanctions targeting Iran’s central bank and giving US banks new powers to freeze Iranian government assets.
Iran’s ambassador to Moscow said that the United States would be making a serious mistake, akin to suicide, if it risked a military strike on OPEC’s No. 2 oil exporter.
Pakistani authorities have purchased Bollywood legend Dilip Kumar’s ancestral home for ` 3 crore and declared it a heritage site. Kumar was born as Muhammad Yusuf Khan at his family home at Mohalla Khudadad in the famed Qissa Khwani Bazar of Peshawar on December 11, 1922.
A new virus scam is circulating on Facebook that tricks people into downloading malware by asking them to open a fake CNN report about World War III.
The story, using CNN logos, offer video footage of a breaking news story, but says users need to upgrade their Flash video software to watch.
The fake news page says that US attacks Iran and Saudi Arabia, and begins of World War III.
When users ‘upgrade’, their PC gets infected with a trojan.
Muslim scholars in the Indonesian province of Aceh have taken a strict position against celebrating the Valentine’s Day, describing the occasion as a threat to Islamic values and Shari`ah.
“It is haram for Muslims to observe Valentine’s Day because it does not accord with Islamic Shari`ah” Tgk Feisal, general secretary of the Aceh Ulema Association (HUDA), told The Jakarta Globe on Monday, February 6.
Valentine’s Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14, by many people throughout the world.
Valentine’s Day: Roots & Islamic View
The Narendra Modi government in Gujarat on Wednesday came in for harsh criticism from the state High Court, which verbally rapped it for failing to have provided compensation to religious places destroyed or damaged during the 2002 post Godhra riots.
Upholding a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by the Islami Relief Committee Gujarat (IRCG), the High Court ordered the Gujarat government to get repaired or reconstructed the places of worship which were damaged fully or partially during the riots.
A minor doubt over structural compensation to owners of 10 properties, being acquired for road-widening for the Hyderabad Metro Rail, helped the district administration unearth a Rs 1.75 crore compensation scam. If the fraud was not detected, a land acquisition officer and her aides would have pocketed the entire amount.
Hyderabad, February 08: The Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case has taken a new turn with the CBI having summoned deputy inspector general of intelligence of Andhra Pradesh police, N Balasubramanyam and assistant commissioner of AP Ch Srinivas Rao to their Gandhinagar office for questioning.
The Bhagyalakshmi temple at Charminar, which was embroiled in a controversy recently over the ringing of bells during the Juma prayers, has been served a notice by police asking the temple committee to shut the place of worship by 9 pm in view of the prevailing atmosphere in the Old City.