Ali Khan Bhopal, February 26 (Pervez Bari): The South Asian Council for Minorities, (SACM), and The Milli Gazette have strongly condemned the barbaric suicide attack on the residential facilities of the Indian Medical Staff and other civilians in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.
Bhopal, February 27 (Pervez Bari): The Social Democratic Party of India, (SDPI), has demanded that the UPA Government should have a re-look at hiking of fuel prices, following the presentation of Union Budget, to save “Aam Aadmi” (common man) from further blues of shooting prices of essential goods.
A. Sayeed, General Secretary SDPI, in a Press release said that SDPI is totally disappointed with the Union Budget presented by Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in Parliament as increase in fuel prices will further fuel upward the prices of essential commodities.
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Hyderabad, February 27 (Zahed Farooqui): The celebrations of the birth anniversary of Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) have reached at their peak as people came on road and have decorated homes, mosques, streets and bazaars with bunting, flags and lightings to express their reverence for the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him).
Several religious leaders took out Milad processions from different localities which reached Makkah Masjid roam around Charminar to Nayapul.
Mumbai, February 27: As PlayStation 3’s latest offering raises eyebrows in the Middle East, the release of Quantic Dream’s Heavy Rain has started a debate among gamers, parents and censors over a long forgotten proposal by the Censor Board to screen video games coming to India.
The game, which released in the US yesterday and Europe today, contains a sex scene and has already been banned in the UAE. It has an 18+PEGI rating from the European rating standards.
Don’t look now: Heavy Rain, which contains a sex scene, has been banned in the UAE
New delhi,February 27 :A self style guru from Chitrakoot in Uttar Pradesh, has taken the debate over sex and spiritualism to a new plane.
Shiv Murat Dwivedi or Ichchadhar Sant Swami Bhimanand Ji Maharaj Chitrakoot Wale as he is known among his followers, was a spiritual teacher by day and a pimp by night.
He amassed a fortune by peddling sex and spiritualism till his luck ran out recently.
“Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you. Remember that you will indeed meet your Lord, and that He will indeed reckon your deeds.”
This sermon was delivered on the Ninth Day of Dhul Hijjah 10 A.H. in the ‘Uranah valley of Mount Arafat’ (in Mecca).
After praising, and thanking God he said:
“O People, lend me an attentive ear, for I know not whether after this year, I shall ever be amongst you again. Therefore listen to what I am saying to you very carefully and take these words to those who could not be present here today.
Tripoli,February 26: Libya’s leader called for a jihad, or holy war, against Switzerland on Thurday because of its ban on mosque minarets – escalating a long-running diplomatic feud between the two countries.
Moammar Gadhafi also urged Muslims everywhere to boycott Swiss products and to bar Swiss planes and ships from the airports or seaports of Muslim nations.
Luknow,February 26 :With an eye on election in three muslim dominated states where congress party has been relegated to zero position because of Babri-masjid issue the regenerated congress party under the leadership of royal scion rahul gandhi wants to rule and woo the innocent muslims of uttar pradesh bihar and west bengal who by themselves account for more than 50% of indias muslim population.
Ghaziabad,February 26 :Four others have also been arrested in the case. The five were held from a house in Loni’s Ram Park area. The girl, who is from Guwahati in Assam, has been rescued.According to SP ( City) A. K. Vijeta, Raju Thakur, the main accused, was striking a deal with two persons — Babu and Alam — to sell off his sister.
The girl was supposed to be sold to Raj Pal and Dharm Pal, two farmers from Dadri and Jarcha in Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Budh Nagar district.Acting on a tip- off, the police raided the house and arrested the five accused.
Washington, February 25: Dick Cheney went home from the hospital Wednesday, three days after suffering his fifth heart attack. The 69-year-old former vice president “will resume his normal schedule soon,” a spokesman says.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 18, 2010, before his latest heart attack.
Nothing so remarkable about that these days. And that’s the point.
New York, February 25: You may not differentiate between Arabs as an ethnic group and Islam as a religion. You start punching in the words “why do Arabs…” And here you will be baffled, amused or horrified at what happens next.
The ‘Google Suggest’ feature, a labor saving device designed to predict queries will automatically suggest completing your query with ‘why do Arabs stink?’ or ‘why do Arabs have big noses?’
The suggestions are not programmed by Google but rather are based on an algorithm that takes the frequency of Google queries into account.
Jerusalem, February 25: Harvard fellow calls for genocidal measure to curb Palestinian births. Is this genocide that Prof. Martin Kramer of Harvard, the Washington Institute of Near East Policy, and president of Israel’s Shalem Center is advocating here? I think it may be as the international genocide treaty specifically bans “imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.”
Beijing, February 25: China warned the United States on Thursday to “speak and act cautiously” to avoid further strains in ties and denied any military involvement in recent cyberattacks against Google.
A defence ministry spokesman also said Beijing’s position on suspending military exchanges with the United States over arms sales to Taiwan remained unchanged, after the Pentagon said at least three visits had been postponed.
New Delhi, February 25: THE Delhi government has decided to increase the security deposit for cutting a tree from Rs 1,000 to Rs 28,000.
The state cabinet approved the changes on Wednesday.
Chief minister Sheila Dikshit said she hoped it would discourage people from cutting trees unnecessarily.
As of now, people who want to cut a tree are required to take permission and then deposit Rs 1,000 per tree as security money, which is refunded after they plant 10 trees for each one they cut.
Ghaziabad, February 25: AT 23, Devinder Singh Jass had the world at his feet. Armed with an engineering degree and three months away from his MBA, Jass had already landed a job in one of the world’s top accounting firms, Deloitte.
But fate, as they call it, had other ideas.
Ever since childhood, Jass had wanted to join the army. Having completed his schooling from Guru Har Kishan Public School near India Gate, he enrolled for a degree in computer engineering at IIIT, Allahabad.
While pursuing engineering, he applied for the army but could not clear the test.
Riyadh, February 24: In what is largely considered a sign of increasing awareness among Saudi women, brides-to-be have started to focus more on divorce settlement than on dowry details in order to secure their financial rights in case of separation, local media reported Wednesday.
This trend has also proved beneficial to the girls’ suitors. Young men starting their lives are happy to put less money in a dowry as this lightens their conjugal financial burden, the Saudi newspaper al-Riyadh reported.
Riyadh, February 24: A prominent Saudi cleric has issued an edict calling for opponents of the kingdom’s strict segregation of men and women to be put to death if they refuse to abandon their ideas.
Shaikh Abdul-Rahman al-Barrak said in a fatwa the mixing of genders at the workplace or in education “as advocated by modernisers” is prohibited because it allows “sight of what is forbidden, and forbidden talk between men and women.”
Mumbai,February 24: The close-knit Sindhi community in Ulhasnagar, north-east of Mumbai, is undergoing a social upheaval of sorts. Over the last two years, a sizeable number in the township — primarily created for Sindhis who came in as refugees from Pakistan’s Sindh province after partition — have drifted away from Hinduism and embraced Christianity.The “conversions” have sent shockwaves among the community elders, specially since Indian Sindhis, weighed down by the scars of partition, are known to be staunch followers of Hinduism.
New delhi,February 24 :A WITNESS in the trial for torching of the Sabarmati Express’s S6 coach in Godhra on February 27, 2002, has alleged that he was “ abducted and tortured” by members of the special investigating team ( SIT).
The Supreme Court had set up the SIT to ensure justice in 14 cases, including the train carnage.
Hyderabad,February 23 :Ysr supporters are gunning Rosiah to take induct ex chief minister wife as a cabinet minister and pressing the chief minister and high command to include her in the next cabinet expansion.Andhra Pradesh chief minister K. Rosaiah is in a quandary.On the one hand there’s the boiling cauldron called Telangana.On the other, the memories of Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy to contend with.
New Delhi, February 22: A DELHI court has framed criminal charges against actor and Congress MP Raj Babbar for pelting stones at policemen during a protest march of his former party, the SP, in Delhi in 2000.
“… you along with co- accused on May 9, 2000… in furtherance of your common intention formed an unlawful assembly and restrained complainant SI Mahender Singh and other policemen from performing their duties by throwing stones,” the court said.
New Delhi, February 22: It has come to light that the number of people who commit suicide over failed love affairs is larger than those who kill themselves due to the other two reasons.
At least 10 people in India end their lives daily after being let down by their lovers, where as poverty and unemployment — considered big drivers of suicides in the West — forces eight and six Indians, respectively, to commit the crime, data released by the National Crimes Records Bureau ( NCRB) for 2008 said.
A total of 3,774 people committed suicide in 2008 over matters of the heart.
Washington, February 20: The quest for a cream or gel to prevent AIDS infection has narrowed to using powerful HIV pills that are already on the market, scientists say.
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AIDS experts have long been searching for a microbicide — a cream, gel or vaginal ring that women or men could use as a chemical shield to protect themselves from sexual transmission of the deadly and incurable virus.