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Satyam’s Losing Job Staff Has Legal Options

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Hyderabad, June 16: With their internet connections snapped, their office access cards to be taken away and all entitlements and reimbursement of expenses discontinued, Satyam employees who have been moved to the virtual pool are now considering moving the court to challenge the company’s decision to force a huge chunk of the workforce to sit at home.

Employees who spoke to this newspaper said that some of them had already approached lawyers to consider their legal options that they could use against the firm.

Racial Attack Victim Advised To Indians, Don’t Come Australia

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New Delhi, June 16: Twenty-year-old Sunny Bajaj has made up his mind. He will leave Australia for good. The Shalimar Bagh boy, who studied at Sachdeva Public School in west Delhi and is pursuing accounting at Deakins University for the past one-and-a-half years now, has been left badly shaken by the attack on him at Melbourne on Friday night when he was racially abused and bashed up, leaving him with bruises and a fractured finger.

Nuclear War Held If Tension Not Reduce, N Korea Warning

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Seoul, June 14: North Korea’s communist regime has warned of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula while vowing to step up its atomic bomb-making program in defiance of new UN sanctions.

The North’s defiance presents a growing diplomatic headache for President Barack Obama as he prepares for talks Tuesday with his South Korean counterpart on the North’s missile and nuclear programs.

BJP Should Give Up The Policy As It Has “Failed” To Attract Commoners: Baburao Vaidya

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Nagpur, June 14: Criticising the BJP for its “inconsistency” in toeing the ‘Hindutva’ policy,senior RSS ideologue M G alias Baburao Vaidya said the party should give up the policy as it has “failed” to attract commoners.

Narrating the history of the then Jana Sangh which later converted into BJP, Vaidya, in his weekly column in local Marathi daily ‘Tarun Bharat’, said BJP had adopted Gandhian socialism, but could not stop itself from being labelled as a communal party.

Protests mount in Dhaka against Indian river project

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Dhaka, June 14: Bangladesh’s main opposition has threatened to move the United Nations as the Sheikh Hasina government has called for talks over a river valley project India is planning in its north-eastern region.

Protests are gaining momentum even as a Bangladeshi parliamentary delegation, accompanied by experts, prepares to visit the planned Tipaimukh project on the Barak river in India’s Mizoram state later this month. India had proposed the visit last month.

Pakistan is on a suicidal course, says Imran Khan

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London, June 14: Pakistan’s cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has expressed fear that the ongoing military operation against the Taliban in Swat could backfire and fuel extremism and terror attacks in the country.

‘Pakistan is on a suicidal course,’ said Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek Insaf (PTI) party was quoted by Online news agency Sunday.

He criticised the Pakistani government for luanching an all-out war against the Taliban in the northwest on the advice of the United States.

Hope – and disappointment – in Tehran

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Tehran, June 14: Just a few days ago, the same street in Central Tehran where my taxi had to slow down due to joyful opposition supporters, had now turned into an obstacle race as we walked and ran to escape the teargas and passed burning garbage bins. On Saturday, it was a harrowing experience while returning home from work.

Al Qaeda financier held in Yemen

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Yemen, June 14: Yemeni police have detained a Saudi man suspected to be the main financier of Al Qaeda operations in Yemen and neighbouring Saudi Arabia, the defence ministry said Sunday.

It said in a statement posted on its website that the suspect, identified as Hassan Hussein bin Alwan, was ‘the financier of the operations carried out by members of Al Qaeda in Yemen and Saudi Arabia’.

It further described him as ‘one of the most dangerous Al Qaeda terrorists’. The statement gave no further details on the suspect or location of the arrest.

Post-LTTE, Sri Lankan Tamil party warms up to India

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New Delhi, June 14: The shadow of the Tamil Tigers gone, Sri Lanka’s main Tamil bloc in parliament wants to forge new ties with India.

Widely seen as a political front for the now decimated Tigers, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has just held talks with New Delhi. In 1992 India became the first country to outlaw the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

Mamata announces special trains for Ajmer Sharif, Puri

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Howrah (West Bengal), June 14: The Indian Railways will run 66 pairs of special trains carrying pilgrims to Puri in Orissa for the June 24 Rathyatra festival, railways minister Mamata Banerjee said here Sunday.

The railways will also run special trains between Sealdah in Kolkata and Rajasthan’s Ajmer Sharif, which houses the mausoleum of sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti, on June 25 and June 26 for the celebration of the Urs or annual pilgrimage.

Directors don’t get importance in a project: Manoj Kumar

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Mumbai, June 14: He has been a part of Hindi film industry for five decades and carved a niche for himself both as an actor and filmmaker, but legendary actor Manoj Kumar is not so happy with the current scenario. He thinks that in today’s time directors don’t get any importance in a project.

“A lot has changed in the industry. Earlier, the director used to be the captain of the ship and was considered the most important part of a project. But today directors have no value, barring a few,” Manoj Kumar told IANS.

Yashwant Sinha quits party posts, BJP in turmoil

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New Delhi, June 14: The turmoil in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after its poll debacle deepened on Saturday with the resignation from all party posts of former central minister Yashwant Sinha, who joined a swelling number of senior leaders criticising the manner in which the party was functioning.

Sinha faxed his resignation as party vice president to BJP president Rajnath Singh from Hazaribagh, the constituency in Jharkhand from where he won the Lok Sabha elections this time.

Party spokesperson Shrikant Sharma confirmed that Sinha’s resignation had been accepted.

Windows 7 due on October 22

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Germany, June 14: The new Windows 7 operating system (OS) will be available starting on October 22, Microsoft says.

Users who buy Microsoft’s current OS, Windows Vista, in the Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate versions will soon be able to take part in an upgrade program with “participating dealers and PC makers.”

Indian nuclear scientist found dead in mysterious circumstances

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New Delhi, June 14: The body of India’s senior atomic scientist was recovered from a river near a nuclear plant in India’s southern Karnataka state after six days of search operations following his disappearance, news reports said Sunday. Divers found the body of Loknath Mahalingam, 47, in the Kali river on Saturday night, after he went missing from the Kaiga Atomic Power Station, about 500 kilometres north of state capital Bangalore, Mahalingam’s family identified the victim, the report said.

I will never do intimate scenes: Jaaved Jaaferi

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New Delhi, June 14: Jaaved Jaaferi, who tickled the funny bone of audiences in ‘Salaam Namaste’, says he will never do intimate scenes in films.

‘I can never do intimate scenes in films. I’m not comfortable doing scenes which require a lot of sexuality,’ Jaaved told IANS in an interview.

The actor is all set for his forthcoming film ‘Paying Guests’.
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Abhi-Aish second honeymoon at Macau IIFA

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Macau, June 14: For Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, the IIFA week could well have been a second honeymoon.

The couple, clearly very much in love in their second year of marriage, showed something rather rare in their public life otherwise – their affection for each other very publicly at the various International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards events and also during stage activities at the grand finale show at this entertainment and gambling hub that is a Special Administrative Region of China.

Suspected US missile strike kills 5 in Pakistan

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Islamabad, June 14: A suspected US missile strike killed at least five people today in a tribal region where Pakistan’s top Taliban commander is based, intelligence officials said, breaking a lull in such attacks and posing a test for growing anti-Taliban sentiment in the country.

Surat Gang Rape case: Police commissioner Swaroop transferred

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Ahmedabad, June 14: Cracking the whip, Gujarat government transferred Surat Commissioner of Police Deepak Swaroop as the protests against the the gang rape case became shriller and widespread and several outfits including VHP calling for a bandh on Monday. It is believed that a statement of Swaroop has cost him dear.

He had said that the victim girl was in compromising position and the three youth took undue advantage of this. They posed themselves as police and made both sit in the car and gang raped the 17 year old girl. This was stated by the girl in her complaint of gang rape.

Cong wish list in budget may have ‘aam aadmi’ priorities

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New Delhi, June 14: With eyes on ‘aam aadmi’, Congress is expected to give its wish list to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee who is expected to meet AICC office-bearers on Monday to accommodate party’s views in the upcoming Union Budget.

The budget, to be presented in the first week of July, is likely to keep the focus on the ‘aam aadmi’ (common man) who was the trump card of the party, catapulting it to power in the Lok Sabha elections.

Gowarikar’s ‘Jodhaa Akbar’ sweeps IIFA awards

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Macau, June 14: Bollywood director Ashutosh Gowarikar’s historical love epic ‘Jodhaa Akbar’ swept the 10th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards here, taking home trophies for best picture, best director and best actor.

The movie tracing the rise of the great Mughal emperor Akbar in the 16th century and his romance with Hindu princess Jodhaa took home 10 trophies in total including the gong for the ‘Best Film’.

CM rides autorickshaw to cyclone-hit Sundarbans

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Hingalganj, June 14: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday travelled in an autorickshaw to meet Cyclone Aila victims in remote areas of this North 24 Parganas block.

Bhattacharjee, who had been heckled and jeered by the disgruntled cyclone survivors owing allegiance to the Trinamool Congress during his on June 2 visit to the block, was well received by people who showered petals and raised slogans praising the state’s Left Front government.

Iraq gets ready for the Yanks to go home

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Baghdad, June 14: There are few American patrols on the streets of Baghdad and soon there will be none. In just over two weeks, on 30 June, US military forces will withdraw from Iraqi cities. The occupation which began six years ago is ending. On every side there are signs of the decline of US influence.

When the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, held a meeting with 300 top military commanders last week a US general who tried to attend was asked to leave. “We apologise to you, but this is an Iraqi meeting and you’re not invited,” he was told.

Shatrughan’s daughter says ‘yes’ to Salman’s film

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Mumbai, June 14: Will she, won’t she? That was the question being asked on whether Shatrughan Sinha’s daughter Sonakshi would accept Salman Khan’s film offer. And she has now said yes.

Sonakshi was offered a role by Salman in a film to be produced by Arbaaz Khan. But Sonakshi, apparently in two minds about a film career, decided not to do it. She had studied fashion designing and that’s what she wanted to pursue as a career.

Gang-rape accused bashed up in Surat

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Surat, June 13: An enraged mob severely beat up three men accused of gang-raping a 17-year-old girl here as a police team brought them for medical examination to a hospital in this Gujarat city today.

The accused – Shahid Saiyad, Tariq Qutubuddhin Saiyad and Abu Bakr Sheikh – allegedly raped the girl in a moving car on Friday. They also recorded the act on a video, according to police.

The three were brought for medical examination at the civil hospital here in the morning when patients and other visitors, on learning about the gang rape, beat them up severely, according to police.

Two Matches Must Win, If India Wants Reach T20 Final

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London, June 13: Defending champions India will need to improve all aspects of their game following their upset loss to West Indies on Friday if they are to get past the second round of the Twenty20 World Cup.

India meet England at Lord`s on Sunday evening in their second Super Eight match before playing a confident South Africa side at Trent Bridge in Nottingham on Tuesday.