Ali Khan

Saudi sex braggart loses in court

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Riyadh,February 10: A Saudi appeals court has upheld a sentence of five years in jail and 1,000 lashes for a Saudi man who bragged about his sexual exploits on television, newspapers reported on Tuesday.

The court in Jeddah also confirmed a five-year travel ban for airline employee Mazen Abdul-Jawad, and sentences of two years plus 300 lashes for three friends who also appeared on the show, aired by Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC)

Officials at the court could not be reached for comment.

Pawar bows before Thackeray

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Mumbai,February 08:Natinolistic Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday diluted the Congress’s “Rahul Gandhi effect” on Mumbai when he met Bal Thackeray at his home — ostensibly praying for the safety of Australian cricketers in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Thackeray’s Shiv Sena had enforced an “embargo” on the Aussies in protest against the series of attacks on Indians Down Under.

40 cr from IAS officer raid

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Bhopal,February 07 :THE figures are mindboggling. One serving IAS officer of the rank of a secretary, 220 bank accounts, assets worth Rs 40 crore, and all of this exposed after simultaneous raids by 200 Income- Tax Department investigators at 20 places across Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

WHITE FLAG between SRK-SS War

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Mumbai,February 07 :Rattled by Rahul Gandhi’s whirlwind Mumbai visit that literally derailed the Shiv Sena, the party continued its flip-flop on its next target — Shah Rukh’s My Name Is Khan. Even as SRK, who returned to Mumbai from the US on Saturday, declared that he had done nothing wrong and that his statement was twisted, the Sena squirmed on how to position itself on the issue. The editorial in the party mouthpiece, Saamna, said the Sena was not going to oppose SRK’s soon-to-be-released My Name is Khan anymore.

I-cub RAHUL TAMES p-TIGER

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It all started with MNS shouldering marathi manoos issue the old paper tiger Bal thakeray who was hibernating for the last 10 years jumped into the bandwagon of marathi pride from retirement.

Gays in UK & US military

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London, February 03: When the UK took the step of allowing gay men and women to serve openly in the armed forces 10 years ago, public opinion was in favour but the armed forces themselves were not.

An NOP poll in September 1999 found seven out of 10 Britons believed lesbians and gay men should be allowed to serve in the military.

At the same time General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, a leading opponent of the change, told the BBC: “Two surveys have disclosed that the overwhelming majority of those in military service today find homosexuality abhorrent.”

12-year old Saudi bride drops divorce case

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Riyadh, February 03: A 12-year-old Saudi girl unexpectedly gave up her petition for divorce from an 80-year-old man her father forced her to marry in exchange for a dowry, Saudi media reported Tuesday.

Despite support from human rights lawyers and child welfare advocates, the girl and her mother, who originally sought the divorce, withdrew the case Monday in a court in Buraidah, in Al-Qasim province, newspapers said.

The girl told the court that her marriage to the man was done with her agreement, according to Okaz newspaper.

THE RSS- BJP’S LIMITED IDEA OF FREEDOM

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By Jyotirmaya Sharma: THE shadow- boxing between the BJP and the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra is nothing but a finely choreographed charade in order to mislead the voters in Bihar and UP. There is little substance in the RSS saying that all Indians have the freedom to live anywhere they want.

It is as obvious as saying that all Indian citizens are Indians. It is true that the RSS has always been skeptical of regional and linguistic diversity, and has over the years argued for a strong Indian unitary state woven together by one language and one single national consciousness.

Hi-tech ‘WUDU’ machine to save water

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Kuala Lumpur, Fabruary 02: A Malaysian company has invented a machine it says will help Muslims perform their washing rite before prayers without excessively wasting water.

The ornate, green-colored machine comes with automatic sensors and basins to curb water usage during wudu, an Arabic word used to describe the act of washing the face, arms and legs before prayers.

The wudu, or ablution, rite precedes the five daily prayers that Muslims perform. There are more than 1.7 billion Muslims in the world, with the majority in Africa and the Middle East where water supplies are scarce.

Sex before marriage is rape: HC

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New Delhi, February 02: The court rejected pre-arrest bail to a man who repeatedly had sex with a woman but refused to marry her even after their engagement.

The woman stayed with her fiance, Nikhil Prasar, in Mumbai for a few days, “where they had fun, and then went to Delhi and stayed in a hotel where they had sex”.

When it came to fixing a date for marriage, however, Nikhil refused, on the grounds that he had learned that she belonged to a different caste.

The woman complained to the police and a rape case was registered.

BIKINIS BAN ON GOA BEACHES

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Panaji, January 30: A top tourism official from the state said authorities are preparing new directives for international tourists that, among other things, will forbid women from wearing bikinis in Goa’s hugely popular beaches.

THE GOA government has responded to the January 26 rape of a nineyear- old Russian girl with a move that the travel business fears will only diminish the beleaguered beach haven’s reputation internationally.

Aussie cash for Taliban converts

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Canberra, January 29: AUSTRALIA last night announced $100 million in new civilian funding for Afghanistan, including $25m for a new fund to reward Taliban fighters who lay down their arms.

Foreign Minister Stephen Smith unveiled the funding at an international conference in London as Western powers strived to revive the flagging process of stabilising Afghanistan.

Indo-Pak can’t afford war, must talk

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New Delhi, January 29: India and Pakistan should resume their dialogue as neither can afford a war, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani said Thursday in an interview to an Indian television channel.

Referring to the Mumbai terrorist attack of November 2008, Gilani said: ‘If we are hostage to one incident then the beneficiaries are terrorists and, therefore, we should move ahead.’

Evil:” Black goat” sacrified for Zaradari every day

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Karachi,January 28:A black goat is slaughtered almost daily to ward off ‘evil eyes’ and protect President Asif Ali Zardari from ‘black magic’. Does this, and the use of camel and goat milk, make the beleaguered president appear to be a superstitious man?
Well, not to his spokesman. “It has been an old practice of Mr Zardari to offer sadqa (animal sacrifice). He has been doing this for a long time,” spokesman Farhatullah Babar told Dawn on Tuesday.
But his detractors would see in his new-found religiosity a sign of nervousness in the wake of the scrapping of the NRO.

FBI agent who spied on mosques sues FBI

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Santa Ana, January 27: A Southern California man who said he spied on mosques for the FBI has filed a lawsuit accusing the agency of letting him go to jail for work he did as an informant.

Craig Monteilh, 47, of Irvine, a fitness consultant, is seeking $10 million from the FBI in a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in Los Angeles. Monteilh also sued the Irvine Police Department.

30% Women RAPED in US Military

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Washington, January 27: According to NPR, “In 2003, a survey of female veterans found that 30 percent said they were raped in the military. A 2004 study of veterans who were seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder found that 71 percent of the women said they were sexually assaulted or raped while serving. And a 1995 study of female veterans of the Gulf and earlier wars, found that 90 percent had been sexually harassed.”

30% US Military Women Are RAPED

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Washington, January 27: According to NPR, “In 2003, a survey of female veterans found that 30 percent said they were raped in the military. A 2004 study of veterans who were seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder found that 71 percent of the women said they were sexually assaulted or raped while serving. And a 1995 study of female veterans of the Gulf and earlier wars, found that 90 percent had been sexually harassed.”

US to Buyout TALIBAN

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Kabul, January 26: Officials reportedly plan to announce a massive “Peace and Reintegration Trust Fund” containing hundreds of millions of dollars to pay off low and middle level Taliban fighters. The funds will come from the United States, Britain and Japan.

The plan has reportedly been in negotiation for weeks and appears to stem from Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s calls to bribe insurgents in hopes of slowing what seems to be an ever growing level of Taliban control over the nation.

Tought NUT “Zarine Khan “

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Mumbai,January 25 :She definitely cannot boast of a filmy bloodline. Zarine Khan cannot help but admit of her modest background, troubled teens and obese days. But there’s a strange grit that comes across when you speak to her. “I am the only earning member of my family.
This job that feeds my family (mom Parveen and sister Sana). I always admit that I come from a modest background. That is why Salman says that I am destiny’s child.”

STOP reservation to MUSLIMS: VHP

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Kozhikode, January 25: VHP today said it would launch an agitation against any moves to ensure job and educational reservation to Muslims and other minority groups.

Such a move would go against interests of the SC, OBC and other sections from the Hindu community, VHP leader Praveen Togadia told reporters here

VHP would mobilise students and youths against any moves by
Centre to enhance job and educational quota out of the existing 50 per cent reservation as per the Rangnath Mishra commission report, he said.

–PTI

Sushma quotes Nehru promise for Telangana

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Hyderabad,January 23 : Sushma swaraj has now become the messiah of telangana,A few years back before 2004 NDA was in power and NDA was responsible for forming out 4 new states but they had forgotten the telangana issue when in power .Now BJP wants telangana at any cost.
Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today reminded the Congress leadership of the promise made by first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on carving out separate Telangana from Andhra Pradesh, if the unification experiment failed.

Avoid HOT TEA to avoid CANCER

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New Delhi, January 23: Your morning cuppa has to be had lukewarm. Drinking hot tea makes you four times more prone to cancer of the oesophagus, or food pipe, says a study conducted by the Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH).

The act beats hollow well-known causes of oesophageal cancer like chewing tobacco, smoking and excessive alcohol intake.