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Iran sends troops to Syria, says bloodshed otherwise would be worse

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Iran has sent its troops to help the regime of embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fight opposition forces, a senior commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards has said.

“Before our presence in Syria, too many people were killed by the opposition but with the physical and non-physical presence of the Islamic republic, big massacres in Syria were prevented,” said Ismail Gha’ani, deputy head of the Quds force, a branch of the Revolutionary Guards in charge of overseas operations.

Bill Gates meets Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav

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Microsoft founder Bill Gates met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow today.

Mr Gates, who is on a day-long visit to the state, met Mr Yadav at 1:30 pm. They were expected to discuss healthcare programmes in the state that Mr Gates intends to take up through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a charitable organization that he runs along with his wife.

Members of the Gates’ foundation have already had preliminary meetings with state government officials from the health and family welfare department to lay the ground work for the meeting between the two.

Wrong to call me ‘badshah of cricket’, says SRK

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Bollywood ‘Badshah’ Shah Rukh Khan refuses to be called the “badshah of cricket” following the recent title victory of his Indian Premier League (IPL) team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). He says the credit for the win goes to the entire team.

“The team’s badshah is our CEO Venky (Mysore), Jai (Mehta) and of course the whole cricket team. It would be wrong for us to take any credit for the win, me or Juhi (Chawla),” Shah Rukh said here Tuesday night after his return from Kolkata.

12-year-old Bihar boy clears Class 12 after cracking IIT-JEE

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After cracking the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE), Satyam Kumar, the 12-year-old boy from Bihar, has now passed Class 12 with 85 percent marks.

Satyam has become the youngest in the country to clear the Class 12 Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examination, family sources claimed on Tuesday.

Setback for UPA, AP High Court quashes 4.5 percent sub-quota for minorities

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In a setback for the United Progressive Alliance government at the centre, the Andhra Pradesh High Court Monday quashed the 4.5 percent sub-quota for the minorities carved out of the 27 percent reservation for other backward classes in jobs.

A division bench of Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice P.V. Sanjay Kumar, set aside the office memorandum (OM) issued last December to provide the sub-quota to minorities.

Every man has a private life: ND Tiwari

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Former Andhra Pradesh governor ND Tiwari, who is embroiled in a paternity suit, broke his silence on the issue while talking to a TV channel on Tuesday and said that every man has a private life and it should remain private.

Exuding confidence that he will be exonerated of the charges of having a son out of wedlock, the veteran Congress leader said that nothing “will come out of the blood test.

Earlier today, the Congress leader finally gave his blood sample for DNA profiling as per the orders of the Supreme Court.

Jagan arrested in assets case, Andhra on alert

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Sunday evening arrested YSR Congress party leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy in a disproportionate assets case.

YSR party leader J. Prabhakar Rao told reporters outside Dilkusha Guest House, the CBI camp office, that the CBI has arrested Jagan, as the young leader is popularly known.

The MP and son of late chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy was arrested after the CBI grilled him for the third consecutive day.

Anticipating violent protests by the supporters of Jagan, police went on high alert across the state.

Want to be a step ahead of Vidya Balan: Veena Malik

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Pakistani actress Veena Malik, set to sizzle in the Kannada version of hit Bollywood film The Dirty Picture, aims to go a step ahead of Vidya Balan’s act in the original. She maintains the two films are different.

“I have not seen the The Dirty Picture in Hindi, though I have heard that Vidya Balan has delivered an awesome performance in the film. But I really want to go one step ahead in my performance in this film,” said Veena.

Students’ anxiety to be over soon as CBSE to declare class XII results on May 28

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The results of class XII Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examination 2012 will be announced on May 28.

The results will be declared at 11 am on May 28, said a CBSE statement on Friday. The results will be available on the websites www.results.nic.in, www.cbseresults.nic.in and www.cbse.nic.in.

Students can also get their results on email by registering themselves on these websites.

Students can also dial 011-24357276 to get their results. Besides, they can get their results through SMSes.

The results for class X examination were declared on Thursday.

Violence continues, Syria situation remains serious

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The situation in Syria “remains extremely serious” and UN efforts to end the political crisis in the country have seen only “small progress”, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said in a report to the Security Council.

“There is a continuing crisis on the ground, characterised by regular violence, deteriorating humanitarian conditions, human rights violations and continued political confrontation,” said the report, obtained by Al Arabiya, ahead of a Security Council meet on Syria next week.

I’ll do a better ‘ooh lala’ than Vidya: Rakhi Sawant

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Item girl Rakhi Sawant is all set to star in the Bengali remake of ” The Dirty Picture” and she says she will be better than National Award winning actress Vidya Balan.

The 33-year-old will play a sex siren in the untitled film to be directed by Bengali actress-turned-politician Shatabdi Roy and she says her film will set more tongues wagging than the original.

Anglo-Arabic school admits girls, writes new chapter in 350-year history

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The 350 year-old Anglo-Arabic senior secondary school took a giant leap today by admitting girls for the first time in its history.

Darakshan, Mehwish – both admitted in class XI- and Gulafshan – admitted in class VI created history by ending a three-and-a-half century old tradition and becoming the first girls to be admitted at a school, whose former students include Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan, founder of Aligarh Muslim University.

ATS files charge sheet against 4 in May 2011 serial blasts

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Almost a year after three bomb blasts shook the city killing 27 people and injuring many others, ATS today filed a 4,000-page charge sheet in a special MCOCA court against four accused in the case.

The four accused, Naquee Ahmed, Nadeem Shaikh, Kanwar Pathrija and Haroon Naik, are facing trial under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), IPC and other laws.

A copy of the confession given by Nadeem before a Magistrate has also been filed in the court.

The Necessity of Ikhlas (Sincerity) in Deeds

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Ikhlas (sincerity) in our actions and statements is of utmost importance for the acceptance of our deeds. Al-Bukhari and Muslim narrated that ‘Umar said, “I heard the Messenger of Allah (s) say:

“Verily, the reward of deeds depends upon the Niyyah (intentions) and every person will get the reward according to what he has intended.”

Four years on, parents to be charged with Aarushi murder

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Four years after the killing of 14-year-old Aarushi, her parents Rajesh and Nupur Talwar will stand trial for her murder and that of domestic help Hemraj. After several twists and turns in this dramatic case, a Ghaziabad sessions court on Thursday ordered the framing of charges against the couple, while observing that there appeared to be enough evidence against them.

CBI grills Jagan for over 7 hours, to continue questioning Saturday

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Friday grilled YSR Congress Party leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy for over seven hours in the illegal assets case and will continue questioning him Saturday amid speculation that he could be arrested.

Emerging from Dilkusha Guest House, the CBI camp office here, at 6.30 p.m, Jagan told reporters that he had been asked to come again Saturday at 10.30 a.m.

Musharraf killed my mother: Bilawal Bhutto

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Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed because the government of then president Parvez Musharraf did not provide her adequate security, her son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has alleged.

Bilawal, who is chairman of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), said Musharraf was aware of the threats when Al Qaeda had instructed the Taliban to kill her.

Musharraf “sabotaged the security” when he knew about the impending attack, Bilawal said.

Six sins that make drought invincible

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It’s drought time again. Nothing new in this announcement. Each year,first we have crippling droughts between December and June, and then devastating floods in the next few months. It’s a cycle of despair, which is more or less predictable. But this is not an inevitable cycle of nature we must live with. These droughts and floods are man-made, caused by deliberate neglect and designed failure of the way we manage water and land. What we must note with concern is that these “natural” disasters are growing in intensity and ferocity.

Doctors among four charged with rape

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Four people, including two government doctors, have been booked for gang-raping a teenage girl for nine days in Haryana’s Mewat district, police said Friday.

Police in Punhana area of Mewat said they were looking for all four who are absconding since the girl lodged a complaint.

The doctors include senior medical officer (SMO) Munish Bhalla and medical officer Ashish Kumar.

The 17-year-old victim told police that the doctors, posted at Punhana, 350 km from here, and two others raped her for nine consecutive days.

Jagan to appear before CBI, security tightened

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Security was tightened around Dilkusha Guest House where the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will be questing YSR Congress Party Chief and Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy in connection with the disproportionate assets case today.

Besides deploying huge police force at the Dilkusha Guest House, the CBI’s Camp Office, security was also tightened at ‘Lotus Pond,’ the residence of Mr Jagan, government offices and also at Kadapa District, the native place of Mr Jagan, to avoid any untoward situation.

Senior police officials have reviewed the security arrangements with the CBI.

Ready To Go Nude For Hollywood

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Bong beauty Koena mitra revelas that its Hollywood projects that interests her more as compare to Bollywood films. The actress who is busy filming Michael Hershel’s, ‘The Story Of Naomi’ was in the capital for the launch of ‘Looks Skin Clinic’ in Greater Kailash.

Geeta Basra-Harbhajan Singh marriage plans revealed

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Marriage season in B-town continues. Geeta Basra who’s dating Harbhajan Singh for several years is destined to take their association to the next phase. As per a source, the much awaited ceremony is going to take place in Sept this year.

The pre-nuptial ceremony will start at Geeta’s home town Yorkshire and the marriage will be held in India. Geeta Basra and Harbhajan Singh has been seen on and off the ground in several events but still both kept refusing their affair.

CPI (M) opposes Somapeta power project

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Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary B V Raghavulu on Friday demanded that the State Government recover 1,046 acres of land allotted to the Nagarjuna Construction Company for the gas-based power project at Sompeta in Srikakulam district.

Talking to media persons at party office, Raghavulu said that the NCC was establishing the power plant in Sompeta against the wishes of people and it would cause huge damage to local environment. In a letter written to the government, he demanded that 1,046 acres of land allotted for the project be recovered immediately.

TDP suspends Mysoora for meeting Jagan

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Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday suspended its politburo member and former MP M V Mysoora Reddy from the party on the charges of indiscipline soon after the latter met YSR Congress Party president Jagan Mohan Reddy at his residence in Lotus Pond.