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Indian Purchased Pak Player For Match Fixing: Salman Ahmed

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New Delhi, August 06: Pakistan cricketers’ manager Salman ahmed has said that the bookies who approached Pakistani players for match fixing in Sri Lanka Pakistan were Indians.

Ahmed said they have registered a complained with the PCB regarding the issue. Ahmed will leave for Colombo on Wednesday night.

Earlier, former chief selector Abdul Qadir suspected that some players might be involved in it considering the strange manner in which the team lost the Test and ODI series in Sri Lanka.

Bomb Blast In Afghanistan 21 Civilians Killed

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Kabul, August 06: An Afghan police chief says a roadside bomb hit a group of people traveling to a wedding in southern Afghanistan and, 21 civilians were killed.

The Afghan Ministry of Defense confirmed the Wednesday attack and said at least 20 people were killed.

Helmand provincial police chief Assadullah Sherzad says women and children were among the dead in Garmser district, where roadside bombs are frequently used to attack foreign and Afghan forces.

Thousands of U.S. Marines and British soldiers are conducting offensives in Helmand, one of the centers of the Taliban insurgency.

Swine Flu Spread In Children Over The Country

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Pune, August 06: Women cradling babies, schoolchildren tagging along with parents, college-going teens, senior citizens and even pregnant women – more than People wait for H1N1 test a thousand people thronged Pune’s Government-run Naidu Hospital on Wednesday as panic deepened two days after the country’s first fatality from swine flu was reported from the city.

Men, women and children with the slightest hint of cough and cold, anxious to get tested for the flu virus, began gathering from early morning and doctors and hospital staff soon found themselves swamped by a jostling crowd.

Satyam’s Raju Feel Comfirtable In Chanchalguda Jail

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Hyderabad, August 06: The most famous inmates of Chanchalguda jail are certainly making themselves at home.

After ensuring the availability of quality food, comfortable bedding and visual entertainment, Satyam scam-tainted B Ramalinga Raju and company started playing shuttle badminton in the jail premises last week.

While the badminton courts have been always available for prisoners to workout, they were in a dilapidated condition as there were no takers until now. After Raju expressed his intention to play shuttle, the jail authorities readied the courts.

Iran Banned Her Pilgrims To Saudi Arabia Over Swine Flu

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Tehran, August 06: Iran has banned pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia during the upcoming Muslim holy month of Ramadan to prevent the spread of swine flu.

Health Minister Kamaran Baghri Lankarani says the measure has been imposed because of possible outbreaks of the disease among pilgrims.

State radio quoted Lankarani as saying Thursday that the high number of pilgrims who come to Saudi Arabia during Ramadan increases the risk of infection.

Graham Onions: ‘I’ve waited so long for this taste of Test success’

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Edgbaston, August 06: There comes a time in a sportsman’s life when he knows he has made it at last.

For Graham Onions that moment may have arrived when he took two Australian wickets with the first two balls of the second day at Edgbaston last week and sent the crowd into expectant raptures.

On the other hand, it may be the revelation that the pop chanteuse and archetypal modern gal Lily Allen has become Onions’ biggest fan. “I think,” Ms Allen said the other day in a Twitter message, probably after seeing those two wickets, “I’m a little bit in love with a man called Graham Onions.”

Is Liverpool ready for Aquilani?

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Rome, August 06: Arriving in a city famous for its left-wing, working-class culture, Alberto Aquilani will hope that one embarrassment in particular can be put behind him as quickly as possible. Last year Liverpool’s new £20m signing admitted a grudging admiration for Italy’s former fascist dictator Benito Mussolini which might yet take some explaining to his new fans.

Barter is back with a bang – for young brides

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New Delhi, August 06: ‘Give one girl away and take another’. The age-old bartering custom still thrives in Haryana which has a deep-rooted preference for sons, thanks to the shrinking male-female ratio and demand for young brides in the state.

The dwindling sex-ratio, which has made it very difficult for men to find brides locally, has led to a new trend called ‘Atta Batta’, which means a girl will be married in exchange of another girl for her brother, say local social activists.

Sensex in the red, 81 points down late morning

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Mumbai, August 06: A key index of the Indian equities markets was ruling in the red today after a weak start and shortly before noon was 81 points lower than its previous close.

At 11.30 a.m., the 30-scrip benchmark index of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the Sensex, which opened lower at 15,881.47 points, was at 15,822.66 points — 81.17 points or 0.51 percent lower than Wednesday’s close.

At around the same time, the S&P CNX Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE), too, was trading in the red at 4,674.2 points, down 0.42 percent.

Ashes rivals join forces to applaud the Barmy Army

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Headingley, August 06: A ferocious atmosphere is expected at Headingley tomorrow as plans to convert the ground to a cross between a library and a closed monastery appeared to founder.

Fears about the behaviour at the most unseemly of English Test venues were swept aside by the players who are ready and willing for a match to be played throughout at fever pitch.

TV blackout and boycott mar Ahmadinejad’s swearing-in

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Tehran, August 06: The man who is now formally Iran’s President for the next four years cut an isolated figure as he took his oath of office yesterday. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in for a second term at a ceremony boycotted by scores of parliamentarians, leading clerics and other important figures who would normally have been expected to attend.

Rangers v rebels: fight to save rare gorillas

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Africa, August 06: For the past week a remarkable battle has been raging in the mountain forests of Eastern Congo. Park rangers entrusted with protecting some of the world’s most endangered gorillas have launched an offensive against the rebel armies in the area and the charcoal industry that helps to support them.

Specially trained wildlife officers, backed by UN troops, have attacked and destroyed hundreds of illegal charcoal kilns deep in the forests of Virunga National Park, in a bid to disrupt the environmentally devastating industry.

Two US journalists freed from Korean gulag

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Washington, August 05: It was one of the best kept secrets in the annals of international diplomacy: clandestine, triumphant and potentially momentous.

The former US president Bill Clinton yesterday travelled to North Korea, the most insular nation on Earth, on a surprise mission to seek the release of two US journalists who were imprisoned in March for straying into North Korea while on assignment in China.

Muslim group refutes terror allegations against Madrassas

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Patna, August 05: ‘Madrassas have nothing to do with terrorism,’ a religious group says in a report that also negates the allegations that Muslim seminaries in India are breeding ground for terror.

The report by All India Coordination Committee for Madrassas (AICCM) said ‘a concerted campaign… to malign madrassas’ had led to the deterioration of educational standards in Muslim seminaries.

Sensex closes in the green

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Mumbai, August 05: A key index of the Indian equities markets, which rose about 120 points in the last 30 minutes of trade Wednesday, gave up most of the gains but still closed in the green, 42 points up over its last close.

The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 15,882.39 points, ended trade at 15,873.85 points (provisional), up 42.87 points or 0.27 percent.

The Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE), too, shut shop in the red at 4,684.8 points, up 4.3 points.

For a few rupees, Chandigarh woman loses a bagful

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Chandigarh, August 05: Being told that a few currency notes had fallen near her car cost a woman dear. Her purse was stolen as she went looking for the notes.

Police said Wednesday that Devinder Kaur Kang, a resident of the city’s upscale Sector 2, was getting into her car in Sector 22 Tuesday when a man told her that a few currency notes had fallen near her car.

As she went to fetch them, her purse carrying Rs.28,000, gold and diamond ornaments, and a cheque book was stolen by the miscreant from her car.

Mayawati government denies plan for corridor behind Taj

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Lucknow, August 05: Contrary to reports, the Uttar Pradesh government has no plan to build any kind of corridor behind the 17th century Taj Mahal, a top state official said here Wednesday.

State housing principal secretary Harminder Raj Singh flatly denied reports appearing in a section of the media about the Mayawati government’s plans to erect a foot overbridge or a ropeway over the Yamuna river, just next to the heritage monument.

Troops’ armoured trucks stuck in Dubai

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Dubai, August 05: Heavily-armoured trucks meant for British soldiers in Afghanistan have been stuck hundreds of miles away in another country for nearly three weeks, it emerged today.

As the Ministry of Defence prepares to name the latest British soldier killed in a roadside explosion in southern Afghanistan, officials blamed “operational priorities” for delays in transferring a fleet of Ridgback vehicles from Dubai since July 16.

Iraq plans internet porn and violence crackdown

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Baghdad, August 05: The Iraqi government has decided to crack down on internet service providers and ban sites that incite violence or carry pornography, officials said , a move that has been strongly criticised by freedom of speech advocates as a dangerous first step toward political censorship.

The plan to strengthen government control of content and usage will require internet cafes – and later the service providers as well – to obtain licenses that are subject to government review and cancellation if compliance requirements are not met.

Defiant Ahmadinejad back at Iran helm

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Tehran, August 05: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in today for a second term in office as president of Iran, appealing for national unity and denouncing foreign interference in his inauguration speech before parliament.

Ahmadinejad took the oath and pledged to protect the constitution but his inauguration speech was unusually soft-toned for the bellicose Iranian leader. He focused on foreign policy, saying he would make it “stronger and with more effective new plans.”

Kasab impressed to know importance of ‘Rakhi’

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Mumbai, August 05: Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, being tried by a special court for 26/11 attacks, today could not contain his curiosity when he saw colourful ‘Rakhis’ on the wrist of lawyers and policemen in the court room.

When told about the significance of the festival by his lawyer Abbas Kazmi, an apparently impressed Kasab asked “When would some one come to me and tie a Rakhi?”

Kazmi told him, “If some one treats you like a brother she would surely come and tie a Rakhi”.

Pak Taliban chief’s wife killed in drone strike

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Islamabad, August 05: Targeting Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, US drones destroyed his father-in-law’s house, killing him and the militant commander’s wife along with two others in a pre-dawn attack in the lawless tribal belt.

Official sources were quoted by a television news channel as saying that the militant leader’s second wife and her father, Malik Ikramuddin, were killed when the drone struck their home near Makeen, a village in a remote area of South Waziristan dominated by the Mehsud tribe.

Gas leak sickens more than 100 in China

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Beijing, August 05: An ammonia gas leak at a pharmaceutical factory sickened more than 100 people today in northern China, state media reported.

An initial investigation showed that workers failed to properly unload more than 50 tons of ammonia from a truck at the Chifeng Pharmaceutical Factory in Chifeng city in Inner Mongolia today morning, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

All residents within two kilometers downwind of the plant were evacuated and those exhibiting symptoms such as headaches, lightheadedness and respiratory problems were taken to a hospital, the report said.

Indian Americans to throng India Day Parade in NJ

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Washington, August 05: Thousands of Indian Americans are expected to participate in the India Day Parade in Edison – also called Little India – in New Jersey this weekend, organisers said today.

Celebrated Bollywood actress, model and television presenter, Mandira Bedi, would lead the mile-long parade along the Oak Tree Road, which over the past one decade has emerged as the hub of Indian American community in New Jersey.

FIR a desperate act of political vendetta: Singh

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New Delhi, August 04: Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh today dismissed as a “cheap gimmick” a complaint of criminal misconduct filed against him by the Himachal Pradesh anti- corruption bureau.

“The FIR is a cheap gimmick which shall collapse under its own weight. It is another desperate move to damage the Congress party through false and baseless accusations and unscrupulous vilification,” he said in a statement here.