Gali Nagaraja

A woman in the UAE, who found her husband had a sexually transmitted disease and refused to have sex with him, sought divorce when she caught the man watching pornographic movies on his computer.

The woman, a doctor by profession, opened the laptop computer and browsed through it, before she realised several movies and pictures of a sexual nature were saved in different folders, the Gulf News daily reported.

The woman had found out that her husband had syphilis, and asked him not to have sex with her.

She asked him to go for medical treatment before they could sleep together.

Four people, including three policemen, were arrested in Kashmir’s Anantnag district Sunday for allegedly beating a woman to death during a police search for contraband drugs, a police official said.

“Three policemen and the son-in-law of the woman have been arrested. Further probe will be done after the autopsy report,” the police official said.

People in Ahlaan Gadool village in the Kokarnag area of Anantnag Friday staged a protest demonstration after the death of 65-year-old Mukhti.

Pakistan captain Mohammad Hafeez conceded that the team could not live up to the expectations of its fans at the World Twenty20 but insisted that the side gave its best before being ousted in the semifinals.

Hafeez on Saturday returned to Lahore along with some other players and coach Dav Whatmore.

“We all knew that our people were following the World Twenty20 very closely and wanted us to do well and play in the final. Unfortunately we couldn`t do that and Sri Lanka was the better team in the semifinal,” he said.

Top ULFA leader Anup Chetia, currently lodged in a jail in Bangladesh, is likely to be handed over to India by the end of this year.

This indication was given by Dhaka saying the procedure to repatriate Chetia was underway, a senior government official told PTI.

The issue has been flagged to Dhaka and will be discussed at the three-day India-Bangladesh Home Secretary-level talks beginning in Dhaka on October 14.

He is the most talked about player ahead of the World Twenty20 final but for Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene, the explosive Chris Gayle is “just another player in a very good West Indies team”.

“We never went after individual players. We have tried to control things the way we can control. He (Gayle) is just another player in a very good West Indies team. We have to have our focus on the entire team,” Jayawardene replied instantly when questioned on how he is thinking of tackling the Gayle threat.

Contrary to the rosy pictures being painted of Bihar’s economic rise, the reality is that shoddy implementation of government schemes has led to anger among the people, a BJP MP in the state who is part of the ruling alliance says.

The frustration is particularly acute among the young, Uday Singh told IANS here, adding that both Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and deputy Sushil Modi were overlooking the undercurrents in Bihar.

The second time MP from Purnia said that there was so much frustration that he would not be surprised if a section of youth takes to guns one day.

Two planes – with 297 and 384 passengers on board – collided while on the ground at Madrid’s Barajas airport, but there were no casualties, a media report said.

The incident occurred Saturday between an Air Europe flight – with 297 passengers – bound for Venezuelan capital Caracas, and an aircraft from the Iberworld airline – with 384 passengers – travelling to Mexico’s Cancun city, Xinhua reported.

Sources told Xinhua the incident took place when the Air Europe plane was being pushed back from its station, and its tail collided with the wing of the Iberworld aircraft.

The Israel Air Force intercepted and shot down a drone that had penetrated the country’s airspace, the military said.

A military spokesman told Xinhua that two fighter jets were sent from a southern air base, after a ground control station identified the drone.

The drone was shot down over the Yatir forest in the Negev region.

Military spokesman Capt. Roni Kaplan said they could not tell from where the drone originated and what its objective was.

The military said the drone was initially spotted entering Israeli airspace from the Mediterranean Sea and heading south.

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud Saturday named Abdi Farah Shirdon Saaid, as the country’s new prime Minister, nearly a month after the president was elected.

At a joint news conference here, the Somali president made the announcement of Saaid’s nomination.

Saaid, a businessman by profession, is a newcomer to Somalia politics. He is expected to form the cabinet within the next few weeks in consultation with the country’s president and various other parties.

Fans of Adnan Sami were in for a musical treat as the popular singer-composer entertained them with some mesmerizing melodies and his unbeatable keyboard symphonies here at the Kingdom of Dreams’ second anniversary celebrations Saturday night.

Dressed in an all-black outfit, the 39-year-old British-born Pakistani singer kickstarted his performance with the “Mehbooba mehbooba” song from the film “Ajnabee”, and went on to sing his other popular tracks like “Salaam-e-ishq”, “Chain muzhe ab aaye na”, “Sun zara” and “Noor-e-khuda”.

Dozens of fighters of the rebel Free Syrian Army have been killed in an operation by Syrian government forces in Homs province near the border with Lebanon, Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen TV reported.

A base of one of the armed groups near the village of al-Qusayr was destroyed. At least 40 rebels including the leader of the group were killed.

Several militants, four of them Turkish citizens, were killed Saturday in Aleppo, Syrian news agency SANA reported.

Government forces repelled an attack by militants who “supposedly came from Turkey” in the north of Aleppo, it said.

Seven Iranian aid workers, who were abducted by unidentified people and detained for over two months in Libya, have been set free, Iran’s Ambassador to Libya Hussein Akbari said.

The Iranians, who were freed Saturday, are from the Red Crescent Society of Iran, Xinhua reported.

They had been taken from their vehicle by unidentified kidnappers in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi, according to the Libyan branch of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

A huge fire at a thermal power plant in Sweden caused an explosion in a turbine, but there were no reports of any casualties.

Control room personnel called rescue services when the fire alarm rang in the electricity company in Orebro city, around 160 km west of the capital city of Stockholm, Xinhua reported citing Swedish television channel SVT.

Rescue personnel were for some time unable to get into the building due to the heat inside. Firemen activated the sprinkler system an hour after the blaze started, which helped bring the fire under control.

India Against Corruption (IAC) leader Arvind Kejriwal Saturday said that he is ready to face a defamation case if the corruption charges levied against Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, are proven false.

“I am ready to face defamation charges if the corruption charges against Robert Vadra are proven wrong. Why is the Congress silent on the merits of the case,” Kejriwal asked while speaking with reporters.

Cooking gas (LPG) price was today hiked by Rs 11.42 per cylinder following government decision to raise commission paid to the dealers. Petrol and diesel prices too may go up marginally as the Oil Ministry considers raising dealers commission by at least 23 paisa and 10 paisa a litre respectively.

The Ministry yesterday issued orders raising commission paid to LPG dealers from Rs 25.83 per 14.2-kg cylinder to Rs 37.25, government officials said. The 44 per cent or Rs 11.42 per cylinder increase in the commission on the subsidised cooking fuel is being passed on to consumers, they said.

Chris Gayle, whose powerful batting laid the foundation for a West Indies semi-final win against Australia Friday, is predicting his side will emerge victorious when they meet Sri Lanka in the World Twenty20 final Sunday.

Gayle batted throughout the innings to be unbeaten on 75 before the West Indian bowlers ripped the heart out of the Aussie batting as the Caribbean side prevailed by 74 runs.

“I am very happy with the team win and I think this World Cup is going to be ours. Sorry Sri Lanka but it’s definitely ours” Gayle was quoted as saying by CMC.

Pakistan is yet to implement a visa agreement it signed with India last month, though New Delhi has already begun enforcing the new policy, a senate penal heard.

The Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs was told Friday that the delay was caused by the interior ministry, which was yet to present it before the cabinet for ratification, the Dawn reported.

Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said the delay was “procedural in nature”.

Unsatisfied with the explanation, committee chairman Haji Adeel censured the ministry for moving slowly on the matter.

Renowned Telugu film director S S Rajamouli, whose one of the superhit films ‘Magadheera’ is set to be remade in Hindi, says actor Hrithik Roshan would be the “best choice” to play the lead role in the Hindi version.

‘Magadheera’ is a 2009 Telugu historical drama directed by Rajamouli. The film starring Ram Charan Teja and Kajal Aggarwal in the lead roles, was a huge hit down south.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Saturday termed the UPA government’s decision to increase FDI limit in the insurance sector to 49 percent from the current 26 percent as diversionary and more to anaesthetise the corruption charges against it.

“The UPA government is unfazed by the sufferings of the common people, small traders and small farmers. The latest FDI flag is diversionary – more to anaesthetise the mammoth corruption charges against it, especially when elections seem imminent,” she said in a statement.

Former Pakistani prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who has been living in the presidency since his ouster in July, has gone back to his hometown Multan, a media report said.

Gilani has informed President Asif Ali Zardari about his decision to return home and also expressed his displeasure over removal of some top bureaucrats he had appointed, Dawn reported.

Tamil Nadu Police Saturday arrested former DMK minister K. Ponmudi in a red sand quarrying case.

Ponmudi was the minister for mines and minerals and higher education in the previous DMK government that was voted out last May.

Ponmudi’s arrest in Villupuram, around 150 km from here, comes a day after the Madras High Court dismissed his anticipatory bail plea.

The police have registered a case against Ponmudi on a complaint that his son, Gowtham Sigamani, and other close relatives were involved in quarrying of red sand and not paying any fee to the state.

NCP today demanded a CBI probe into the 900-point ‘flash crash’ of National Stock Exchange (NSE) index Nifty, which had halted trade on the exchange for about 15 minutes.

NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik said a CBI probe was necessary to find out the “conspiracy” behind the incident.

“This was a conspiracy to destabilise the economy, which was looking good after the Centre’s reform measures. Small investors have been looted and the need of the hour is to go into the root cause of the conspiracy,” NCP spokesman Nawab Malik said.

Troubled Kingfisher Airlines would have to submit a detailed plan to aviation regulator DGCA before they are allowed to resume flights, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said today.

Asked whether the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) was likely to move ahead with suspending or cancelling the crisis-ridden carrier’s flying license, he said it was for the regulator to decide after it studies their reply to the show-cause notice issued to them.

Center for Urdu Language, Literature and Culture of Maulana Azad National Urdu University is conducting a two-day seminar on “Writings of Women and Writing on Women (with reference to Urdu Literature)”

The inaugural session will be held at 10 a.m. on 16th October at the Auditorium of Distance Education Department of the University. Ms. D.Purandeshwari, Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Govt. of India will be the Chief guest.

TRS MLA Mr. K.Taraka Rama Rao heavily criticized the statements made by Mr. L. Rajagopal, Congress M.P., from Vijayawada. He told that by issuing such misleading statements, Mr. Rajagopal is creating confusion among the people of Telangana. He is twisting the facts of negotiations of Mr. K.Chandrasekhara Rao with the Central leaders. He told that negotiation of accepting Telangana State without Hyderabad by Mr. K.Chandrasekhara Rao does not arise. Mr.