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Stampede inside flooded Delhi school; 5 dead

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New Delhi, September 10: Five children were killed and 27 injured on Thursday in a stampede in a flooded government school in the Capital.

Thirty-one of the victims were girls. At the time of the incident there were reportedly around 1,000 students inside the school premises.

The stampede was sparked by rumours that electric current had leaked into the water that had flooded the school, police said.

The incident took place in a government-run school in Khajuri Khas in northeast Delhi on Thursday morning.

Actress Katherine Heigl to adopt Korean girl

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London, September 10: Actress Katherine Heigl has filed papers and plans to adopt a 10-month-old Korean girl.

The “Knocked Up” star started the adoption process more than six months ago with husband Josh Kelley, reported contactmusic.com.

The adoption of the girl Nayleigh will be complete by the end of the week and the couple can take the baby home.

“She is thrilled. She and Josh are so happy,” a source said.

–Agencies

Police to file chargesheet against filmmaker Prakash Jha

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Patna, September 10: Filmmaker Prakash Jha seems headed for trouble with police in Bihar ordering a chargesheet to be filed against him for allegedly distributing money among voters during the April-May Lok Sabha elections that he contested, police said Thursday.

West Champaran Superintendent of Police K.S. Anupam said Jha was found guilty of violating the model code of conduct during the Lok Sabha elections that he contested as a Lok Janshakti Party candidate from West Champaran seat.

Five students killed, 30 injured in Delhi school stampede

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New Delhi, September 10: Five girl students were killed and at least 30 others injured Thursday in a stampede in a flooded government senior secondary school in the capital. The stampede was sparked by rumours that electric current had leaked into the water that had flooded the school, police said.

The injured students have been admitted to the Guru Tegh Bahadur (GTB) Hospital where the condition five is stated to be serious.

The incident took place in a government-run school in Khajuri Khas in northeast Delhi in the morning.

Lily Allen battling severe back pain

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London, September 10: British singer Lily Allen is battling crippling back pain after falling off a stage in Finland.

“I thought I was paralysed when I had the fall last month. I was crouched down on a stage and lost my balance and fell backwards four or five feet and landed really awkwardly,” the sun.co.uk quoted the singer as saying.

“The doctors gave me an epidural as the pain was so bad. It’s still not right,” she added.

–Agencies

Sensex slips from morning high

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Mumbai, September 10: A key index of the Indian equities markets gave up some of its early morning gains a little after noon Thursday and was ruling 0.87 percent above its last closing figure.

At 12.17 p.m., the sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened higher at 16,295.92 points against Wednesday’s close at 16,183.55 points, was ruling 140.29 points or 0.87 percent higher at 16,329.05 points.

Five tribal students in Chhattisgarh suspended for ragging

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Raipur, September 10: Five tribal students of a government-run school in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district have been suspended for ragging after over a dozen junior students complained that they were forced by the seniors to stroll naked in the hostel complex and beaten, an official said.

Raju may seek bail on health grounds

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Hyderabad, September 09: B Ramalinga Raju, disgraced founder of Satyam Computer, is likely move a fresh bail petition citing health reasons.

The 55-year-old had been admitted to Hyderabad’s premier Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) late on Monday night after he complained of chest pain. Doctors attending on him in the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICCU) in the VIP block indicated that Raju needs to be under observation for four weeks.

Hospital sources revealed that Raju’s condition seem to have improved on Tuesday. He has been reading newspapers and having plain food.

Ishrat’s family wants action against guilty Guj cops

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Mumbai, September 08: ”She was as patriotic and loved the country as much as you,” said an impassioned Nusrat, the younger sister of Mumbai collegian Ishrat Jahan who was shot dead and branded a traitor by Gujarat police and whose killing has been proved to be a ‘fake encounter’.

A day after an Ahmedabad court ruled that the killing of Ishrat Jahan, the 19-year-old college student gunned down with three of her friends in June 2004, was a “fake encounter”, her family came out Tuesday to demand the sternest punishment possible for the guilty policemen.

Satyam’s Ramalinga Raju suffers heart attack

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Hyderabad, September 07: B Ramalinga Raju, former chairman of Satyam Computers, on Monday suffered a heart attack. According to the sources, he has been taken to government-owned Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences at Panjagutta.

B Ramalinga Raju, lodged in Hyderabad’s Chanchalguda Jail, suffered heart attack at 8 pm on Monday, reports said.

He was taken to government-owned Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS). He was taken straight to the ICU. The doctors have admitted him and he is under observation.

Pakistan flag found in Muslim shrine, four held

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Anand, September 07: Four people were detained after a Pakistani flag was found atop a tree in the premises of a Muslim shrine in Gujarat’s Anand district, police said Monday.

“We have detained four people, including a trustee of the shrine in Umreth town. They are being questioned as to how the Pakistani flag went unnoticed for the last two months as informed by the local residents,” a senior police official said.

“The state home department had been informed of the detention as the matter is sensitive. A Pakistani flag had been spotted for the first time in the region,” he said.

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ kids to work with Anthony Hopkins?

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London, September 07: Rubina Ali and Azhar Ismail, the child actors who shot to fame after working in Oscar-winning movie “Slumdog Millionaire”, may get an opportunity to work with Hollywood legend Anthony Hopkins in an upcoming project.

Rubina and Azhar have been roped in for “Lord Owen’s Lady”, about a Welsh nobleman who falls in love with an Indian girl, reports imdb.com.

The film will be shot in Wales and India and the producers are in negotiations with Sir Anthony Hopkins to play Lord Owen’s father.

–Agencies

DJB explains ‘erratic’ water supply in Delhi locality

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New Delhi, September 07: Shahdara in east Delhi has not been receiving water supply for close to three months as the locality comes at the tail end of a supply line, authorities explained before the Delhi High Court Monday.

The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) in its reply to the court said: “The area is situated at the tail end, so low pressure sometimes lead to erratic supply from the Bhagirathi water treatment plant.”

It also pointed out that the population of the area has almost doubled over these years, leading to a rising demand compared to the supply.

Ahmadinejad: Iran won’t halt nuclear work

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Tehran, September 07: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday Iran will neither halt uranium enrichment nor negotiate over its nuclear rights but is ready to sit and talk with world powers over “global challenges.”

His statements came as the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog warned of a “stalemate” over Iran’s nuclear program. Members of the International Atomic Energy Agency began meetings in Vienna that could set the stage for a toughening of sanctions against Iran.

Tropical depression forms far out in Pacific

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Miami, September 07: A tropical depression has formed far out over the Pacific Ocean and forecasters say it could become a tropical storm.

According to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, the depression has maximum sustained winds near 35 mph (55 kph) but is expected to strengthen.

The tropical depression is centered about 1,145 miles (1,840 kilometers) west-southwest of the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula early Monday. It’s moving west-northwest near 8 mph (13 kph).

-Agencies

Amjad Ali Khan, Sehwag, Sameera Reddy to walk the ramp

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Kolkata, September 07: Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, star cricketer Virender Sehwag and film actors Rituparna Sengupta and Sameera Reddy will be among the showstoppers at the second Emami Kolkata Fashion Week, beginning here Wednesday.

Sarod players Ayan Ali Bangash and Aman Ali Bangash, model-cum-Bollywood heroines Amrita Rao, Rimii Sen, film actor Neil Nitin Mukhesh, starlets Sophie Choudhury and Neetu Chandra, as also Brazilian model Giselle Monteiro will set the ramp ablaze during the five-day event.

AIDS patients may get cheaper transport for treatment

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New Delhi, September 07: Indian Railways have agreed to examine a proposal to provide 75 percent concession to HIV/AIDS patients for their rail journeys for medical treatment while various states have agreed to provide free transport to them for the purpose, the Supreme Court was informed Monday.

A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice P. Sathasivam was given this information by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) during the adjudication of a public interest lawsuit, seeking various types of medical and other helps for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHAs).

Tension at Khairtabad as miscreants play mischief

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Hyderabad, September 07: Tension prevailed in the CIB Quaters at Khairtabad after the miscreants attacked the youths and pelted stones on the minority community. The miscreants tried to give communal colour to a petty accident that took place early this evening.

Gandhi memorabilia to go under hammer at Bonhams

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London, September 07: A bronze statue of a seated Buddhist deity presented by Mahatma Gandhi to his Irish friend Emma Harker will go on sale here on Tuesday.

The 13-inch-high figure, possibly of the Bodhisattva of compassion Avalokitesvara, is estimated to sell for 3,000-5,000 pounds at Bonhams sale of Asian art.

The sale comes at a time when buyers are showing a renewed interest in Gandhi memorabilia. On July 14, three of Gandhi’s autographed letters sold for 4,750 pounds while a signed khadi cloth which was said to have been woven by him fetched 2,125 pounds.

Yasin Malik returns home with Pakistani bride

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Srinagar, Septembe 07: Separatist leader Yasin Malik returned to this Jammu and Kashmir summer capital along with his Pakistani wife Mishaal Mullick on Sunday.

The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman had married the Pakistani artist Feb 22 this year.

As the couple arrived at the Srinagar airport, they were warmly received by friends and relatives. Later, they reached their Maisuma residence where hundreds of supporters, mostly women, had gathered and greeted them with songs.

Germany’s Merkel launches re-election campaign

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Berlin, Septembe 07: Chancellor Angela Merkel has kicked off her conservative party’s campaign for the Sept. 27 German election by calling for a center-right coalition with the pro-business Free Democrats.

Merkel called at a rally of her Christian Democrats on Sunday in Duesseldorf for a new partner in government after four years of an uneasy coalition with her party’s main rival, the Social Democrats.

Mukhya mantri without mantris

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Hyderabad, September 07: Konijeti Rosaiah is a chief minister without a council of ministers. Setting to rest the controversy whether the former cabinet
colleagues of Y S Rajasekhara Reddy continue to be ministers, Advocate General (AG) D V Sitarama Murthy is believed to have told the state government on Saturday that it is mandatory for all the former ministers to take oaths afresh if they wanted to stay in the Rosaiah’s cabinet.

Karachi is Asia’s largest slum, not Dharavi: UNDP

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Mumbai, September 07: Dharavi, which is in the heart of India’s financial capital Mumbai, is not the largest slum in Asia as many believe, according to a report
by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

“Dharavi is not Asia’s largest slum, but Karachi’s Orangi Township has surpassed Dharavi,” the Human Development Report for Mumbai, compiled with the help of UNDP and released by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), said.

Mexico City’s Neza-Chalco-Itza barrio has four times as many people as Dharavi, it said.

G20 pledges to implement IMF reforms

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London, September 07: Finance ministers of the Group of 20 (G20) countries on Saturday pledged to give India and other emerging economies a greater voice in the running of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other global financial institutions.

In their final communique issued after September 4-5 meetings of the group representing 80 per cent of world GDP, the finance ministers pledged to implement reforms to the World Bank by Spring 2010 and the next IMF quota review by January 2011.

Air India (Blue) beat Tata Sports Club, enter final

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Mohali (Punjab), September 07: Air India (Blue) beat Tata Sports Club by five wickets in a semi-final match of the Sahara Corporate Cup at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) stadium here Sunday.

With this win, Air India (Blue) have cemented their place in the Sep 8 finals.

Air India Blue elected to field and with the help of some tight spells from its bowlers, they managed to bundle out Tata Sports for 267 runs in 49.4 overs.