Ali Khan Sharjah, April 08: The humble lungi, the traditional drape of millions of Indians, has attracted the wrath of authorities in Sharjah.
The police are reportedly cracking down on men wearing the dress in public places.
Local reports said an Asian man was arrested and interrogated by a police patrol in Sharjah a few days ago for wearing a lungi in public. He was told not to wear the dress in public again.
Minnesota, April 07: THE noose is tightening around Rev. J.P. Jeyapaul, a priest who is evading the long arm of the law for his sexcapades in the US. The priest is accused of sexually abusing a 14- year- old girl during his ministry in Minnesota in 2004.
Jeyapaul is currently at his home diocese in Ooty, where he functions from the Bishop’s house and looks after churchrun schools.
He was asked by the Archbishop of Madras on Tuesday to return to the US for investigations.
A group of clerical abuse victims has also called for his suspension and return.
Gurgaon, April 07: A 20- YEAR- OLD girl was raped by five men in Gurgaon, after she was abducted near her home in Delhi’s Bijwasan area as she waited for an auto- rickshaw.
The incident took place early on Sunday. Mona ( name changed), a correspondence student of Delhi University ( DU), was waiting for an auto around 8 am when two men — identified as Sonu and Rishi — passed her in a Maruti car.
Bangalore,April 07 :People willing to shell out as much as Rs 1,000 for the CD that allegedly features Nithyananda’s sex romp
The Hong Kong Bazaar near Upparpet police station has become a hub for the sale of porn CDs. The porn flicks are being sold here at throwaway prices. And the latest addition to the plethora of porn movies is that of Swami Nithyananda.
Hyderabad, April 07: Clothes Ayesha Siddiqui wore when she got intimate with Pak cricketer will be handed over to forensic lab; may prove clinching evidence in the case The Ayesha Siddiqui-Shoaib Malik saga is only getting murkier with each passing day. And with Ayesha now providing clinching evidence like the clothes she wore when she had a sexual relationship with the Pakistani cricketer and other documentary evidence to prove that the two were indeed married, there seems to be no respite for Shoaib.
New Delhi, April 06: First it was gobar gas ( biogas generated from cow dung) that revolutionised renewable energy in rural India. Now it is the turn to harness urine.
The pee, that raises quite a stink, is going to undergo a sea change thanks to the efforts of a scientist from the Delhi Indian Institute of Technology ( IIT).
Scientists believe that urine smells when it gets oxidised.
The idea is to trap the urine and, with it, the smell.
Hyderabad, April 05: Insiders say bad press surrounding tennis sensation’s Pakistani husband-to-be and case of cheating lodged against him yesterday have left the Mirzas shaken
The controversies surrounding Shoaib Malik are getting to his bride-to-be Sania Mirza’s family.
To make matters worse, Ayesha Siddiqui, who has publicly claimed to be Malik’s wife and asked him to divorce her before he marries Sania, filed a case of cheating against him at the Banjara Hills police station in Hyderabad yesterday.
This has added to the family’s worries.
Hyderabad, April 05: Hyderabad police today reached Sania Mirza residence and asked Shoaib Malik to surrender his passport and cell phone.
Police also threaten Shoaib Malik to arrest, if he further denied his link up with Ayesha.
Earlier Hyderabad cops are keeping an eye on Sania Mirza’s residence; have also instructed immigration officials to not let Shoaib leave the country without their consent.
Geneva, April 05: SPACE is about to have a female population explosion, with four women set to be in orbit at the same time.
This week NASA will attempt to launch three women to the International Space Station, where they will join another woman who is already circling earth in a Russian capsule.
It will be the most women in space at the one time.
The astronauts are a former schoolteacher, a chemist who once worked as an electrician and two aerospace engineers.
Islamabad, April 05: Shoib Malik may cry hoarse saying he was cheated and deceived by Ayesha Siddiqui, but in his homeland Pakistan, public sympathy is with his alleged first wife. This interesting fact was revealed in an opinion poll conducted by a television channel there.
A Geo TV show on Shoaib’s much- anticipated wedding with Sania Mirza put a question to the viewers, asking who they thought was wrong in the controversy.
Ayesha won with an overwhelming majority, with 68 per cent of the viewers believing she was wronged. Only 38 per cent sympathised with Shoaib.
Hyderabad, April 03: Even after Supreme Court’s green signal last week to 4% quota for Muslims in jobs and education in Andhra Pradesh, Congress remains cautious about minority quotas as it closely considers the political cost-benefits of such gambits at the Centre.
Barring BJP, most political parties have been quick to welcome the SC order staying the Andhra Pradesh High Court’s decision to strike down the quota and Muslims groups were quick to see this as a big step forward. But with UPA-1 having wrestled with OBC quotas, Congress may prefer to wait and watch.
Moscow, April 03: A 17- YEAR- OLD girl has been identified as one of the two suicide bombers who carried out the blasts at Moscow’s tube stations on Monday.
Quoting police sources, leading Russian business daily Kommersant reported on Friday that Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova from Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan belonged to the ‘ Black Widows’ brigade.
‘ Black widows’ — as Russian journalists have dubbed women suicide bombers — are the preferred choice of Islamic rebels from the North Caucasus to carry out such attacks.
New Delhi, April 03: AT 27, Fatima Bhutto isn’t busy typing out status updates on Facebook, which she insists she loathes. Instead, she has spent the last six years writing a “ love letter” to her father in which she has resurrected him, 14 years after his assassination, and held her aunt and uncle responsible for his tragic end.
London, April 02: Thought you knew all about the negative side effects of smoking? A new study reveals cigarettes may contain traces of pig’s blood which could be “very offensive” to Muslims and other religious groups, Australia’s The Australian reported on Tuesday.
University of Sydney Professor Simon Chapman referred to a “recent Dutch research which identified 185 different industrial uses of a pig – including the use of its haemoglobin in cigarette filters,” The Australian said.
Sistani, April 02: The tribal elders gathered in the desert outside Marjah, the frontline of the U.S.-led battle in southern Afghanistan to provide services and security after years of Taliban control.
Around 20 sat in a circle, waiting for Lt. Col. Brian Christmas, U.S. Marine commander in northern Marjah who has — so far — kept American troops out of the small village of Sistani to the northwest.
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Hyderabad, April 02 (Zahed Farooqui): It seems like ghost vendors are active in riot-ravaged Hyderabad. When curfew was relaxed for two hours in the Old City of Hyderabad on Thursday, the prices of all essential commodities recorded four to five time extra from its normal price.
We are unable to buy vegetables and other commodities because of curfew relaxation timings are in two phases. “Hamare Shouher Auto Chalate, roz kamana roz khana hai, 4 din se ghar mein hai” said Mrs. Ghousia a resident of Fathe darwaza.
Lahore, April 01: Seven visas for India have been issued to Shoaib Malik’s family.
Family sources of Shoaib Malik told Geo News that among the persons issued the visa are Shoaib’s mother, brother, sister, brother-in-law and children while one of his sisters and a few close relatives have applied for Indian visa from Germany.
Sources said that as the marriage will take place on April 11, the Shoaib’s family will leave for Hyderabad Deccan three days earlier for attending other wedding rituals and both families are finalizing dates in this regard.
A must watch video for all worried Hyderabadis living in the city or abroad.
Mumbai, April 01: ICICI Securities, the largest integrated securities
firm, today released a proprietary real estate survey. The survey was
conducted across 8 Indian cities (Mumbai, Delhi/NCR, Bangaluru, Chennai,
Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Pune) among 2697 online, 6767 offline
buyer respondents as well as 57 property consultants.
As per the survey, Indian home buyers are cautiously optimistic about the
property prices. They are primarily interested in mid-income housing (Rs.
2-5 million) and are conservative on ticket size. End-user demand is higher
Hyderabad, April 01: Hyderabad City Police Commissioner AK Khan exclusively speak to Siasat.
Paris, March 31: FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy has called for US economic reforms and, in comments echoing Franco-American spats of the past, said Washington cannot “run the world” alone.
The French leader used a visit to New York today, where he met with students at Columbia University, to deliver what he called “home truths” to his hosts.
Sarkozy, accompanied by his wife Carla Bruni, a former supermodel, was in New York a day before meeting President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington on Tuesday.