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Man jumps to death

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A 60-year-old man, reportedly suffering from depression due to chronic illness, Tuesday jumped to his death from the sixth floor of a north Delhi hospital, police said.

The deceased has been identified as Bhagwat Prasad, resident of Seelampur area of north Delhi.

“According to the doctors, the deceased was suffering from chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease which often causes bouts of depression in the patients,” a police official told IANS.

This allegedly led Prasad to take such a drastic step.

Police officials said that no one has yet come forward to claim the body.

India has four lakh Gaymen

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The government Tuesday told the Supreme Court that there were four lakh men who have sex with men in India and face a high risk of AIDS.

Sensex on a two-week high on higher advance tax payout hopes

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A benchmark index for Indian markets rose to a two-week high Tuesday, closing 225 points higher as traders were enthused by indications of higher advance tax payments by corporates suggesting improved earnings. Cues from global bourses too were positive.

The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 17,680.23 points, closed at 17,813.62, up 225.95 points or 1.28 percent compared to its previous close at 17,587.67 points.

White paper on black money likely in budget session

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The government is likely to bring in the budget session a white paper on black money stashed abroad, Minister of State for Finance S.S. Palanimanickam said Tuesday.

“The white paper is likely to be brought during the budget session,” Palanimanickam said in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha.

He said the government has commissioned a study to access the quantum of black money stashed abroad. “The study is expected to be completed by September 2012,” he said.

Mayawati added Rs.23.64 crore to her wealth in two years

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Outgoing Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati’s wealth has gone up by Rs.23.64 crore in the past two years, an affidavit submitted by her while filing her nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha reveals.

In the affidavit, Mayawati informed the vidhan sabha secretariat that she is owner of movable and immovable assets of Rs.111.64 crore. Her immovable assets include a home worth Rs.62 crore in New Delhi’s Sardar Patel Marg near the Uttar Pradesh Bhawan; two shops in Delhi’s prime address, Connaught Place, and a Rs.15 crore residence in Lucknow.

India’s spy satellite to be launched in April

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A wholly Indian-built spy/surveillance satellite – Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) – that can see through clouds and fog and has very high- resolution imaging is slated for launch in April, a senior official of the Indian space agency has said.

Uproar in parliament over Sri Lanka’s ‘war crimes’

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Parliament witnessed uproarious scenes Tuesday over allegations of “war crimes” during Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) that ended in 2009 with the killing of the rebel leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran.

Two key Tamil Nadu parties — DMK and AIADMK — came together in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha to vociferously ask the Indian government to vote against Sri Lanka on an US-sponsored resolution before the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights (UNHCHR) in Geneva on the war crimes.

Congress cannot take our support for granted: Shahid Siddiqui

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Set to reign Uttar Pradesh on the back of a massive mandate, the Samajwadi Party (SP) wants the Congress-led UPA government in New Delhi to help it with funds for development of the state, says party leader Shahid Siddiqui, adding that the Congress should not take his party’s support for granted.

The SP, which won a stupendous victory in the recently-held assembly elections, supports the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance from outside.

“Our support should not be taken for granted,” Siddiqui told IANS in an interview. His party has 22 MPs in the Lok Sabha.

5 arrested for gangraping Gurgaon pub employee

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Five people have been arrested for the gangraping a woman pub employee in Gurgaon while two accused are still on the run, police said.

All the accused are jobless youths and belong to village Madina of district Rohtak in Haryana, police claimed Tuesday.

Bollywood is holy Cow :Seduction’s the name of game

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Now a mach fixing scandal linked to Bollwood starlet.Bollywood is tired of taking the blame for every other controversy. This time, it was dragged in a recent Sunday Times (UK) report alleging that a Bollywood actor played honeytrap in a match-fixing scam spanning Test matches, Twenty20s, IPL and county matches in England. The actor’s picture was all over the front page.Seduction’s the name of game, actor in fixing scam

Bilingual dictionaries to promote India’s mother tongues

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The campaign to preserve vernacular mother tongues and make knowledge accessible to students through translation across the linguistic arc has taken a big stride with a new bilingual dictionary series in Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada from the source language, English.

An initiative of the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), National Translation Mission, Regional Institute of South Asia and Pearson Education, the six bilingual dictionaries is the first lot of the 11 dictionaries that the government is collaborating on with Pearson under its Longman imprint.

Aishwarya happy playing mom: Abhishek

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Actor Abhishek Bachchan says his wife Aishwarya Rai is happy playing mother to their three-and-half-month-old daughter and would return to work when she feels like doing so. Meanwhile the actor is keen to work in films inspired by plays by young writers.

“As and when she wants to come back, is completely her decision… as and when she decides, when she sees a script she is inspired by – the decision is entirely hers. Currently she is very happy doing what she is doing,” the 36-year-old said here at the launch of Sorabh Pant’s book “The Wednesday Soul”.

Nupur is not involved in Matchfixing

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Little known Bollywood actress Nupur Mehta Monday rubbished allegations of her involvement with match-fixing and her role in luring cricketers into throwing games.

The Sunday Times claimed Sunday that tens of thousands of pounds were being offered to players to throw international matches. This included the World Cup semi-final between India and Pakistan last year.

The paper carried a picture of the actor, with the face blurred, wearing a green sequin bikini.

Mamata blames Left Front for ‘brutal’ land laws

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With her government facing flak on farmer’s suicides, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday slammed a law framed by the previous Left Front government under which a farmer would lose his land if he failed to pay his debts.

“In 2006 the West Bengal government had formed a law – West Bengal Cooperatives Societies Act, 2005 – which stated that if a farmer fails to repay loans taken from cooperative banks then the property and the land of the farmers will be encroached. This is brutal and shameful law,” Banerjee said.

Rakhi Sawant visits parliament

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Television actress Rakhi Sawant Monday visited parliament on the first day of the budget session, saying she wanted to see how it works.

“No one invited me. I just came to meet the MPs. I’ve come to see parliament, to see how it works and how our leaders are working,” she told reporters.

“I’ve come to convey the message to (Congress chief) Soniaji (Gandhi), on behalf of all the people and women that there should be something for women in the budget and it should be fair to everyone,” she said.

Pub girl gang-raped in Gurgaon

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Gurgaon In yet another instance of crime against women, a girl was kidnapped on the road at night and assaulted.
A 23-year-old girl working in a pub at a mall here was allegedly gang-raped by six youth in a flat in the city.

After the assault, the girl was dropped by the youth near Chattarpur Metro Station in Delhi where she approached Delhi Police who in turn contacted their Gurgaon counterparts.

Team ANNA to fight for slain IPS officer

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Team Anna will launch a three-day fast in Bhopal tomorrow demanding justice for IPS officer Narender Kumar Singh, who was killed by the mining mafia, and passing of a strong law to protect whistleblowers.

Two jailed in UAE for sex out of wedlock

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A Pakistani man and a woman from the Philippines have been sentenced to two months in prison in Dubai for having sex out of wedlock at the home of the woman’s sponsor.

The Dubai Misdemeanour Court convicted the 23-year-old Pakistani and the 27-year-old Filipina maid after they admitted their love blossomed after they met on Facebook, Gulf News reported Monday.

“We chatted for two weeks on Facebook and fell in love. She provided me with her contact number, she helped me sneak into her sponsor’s villa where we had sex,” the Pakistani man told the court.

Premji selling Wipro shares worth Rs.1,530 crore to fund education

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The Azim Premji Trust of Wipro founder chairman Azim Premji will sell 35 million shares valued at Rs.1,530 crore ($300 million) to fund educational activities of Azim Premji Foundation, which also runs a private university in this tech hub.

In a regulatory notification Monday, the trust said the amount raised through the sale of shares would be used to scale up the foundation’s activities to improve the quality and equity in school education.

At close of trading Monday, the IT bellwether’s blue chip share of Rs.2 book value was quoting at Rs.437.15.

Supreme Court notices to six Andhra ministersa

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The Supreme Court Monday issued notices to six Andhra Pradesh ministers and nine bureaucrats for their alleged role in issuing orders during the tenure of late chief minister Y.S. Rajashekara Reddy to favour the business interests of his son Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy.

The notices were issued on a petition seeking a probe against the ministers and the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers in the case involving the alleged illegal assets of Jaganmohan Reddy.

Two workers burned to death in furnace

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Two Austrian metalworkers died a tragic death when a colleague switched on a massive oven without realising that they were cleaning it inside.

According to detectives investigating the horrific deaths, the pair had tried to rip the insulation off the oven’s wall and clawed at the door in a desperate bid to get free, the Daily Mail reported.

The incident occurred when the oven’s automatic door at the factory closed. The giant oven, which reaches a temperature of 800 degrees centigrade, was then switched on.

IPS official commits suicide

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An Indian Police Service (IPS) official, Rahul Sharma, Monday afternoon committed suicide by shooting himself with his service revolver.

Sharma, an IPS official of 2002 batch, was posted as District Superintendent of Police in Bilaspur. The exact cause that led the IPS official to take such an extreme step could not be ascertained.

Having served in the Maoist-infested Dantewada district, 37-year-old Sharma was transferred to Bilaspur in January this year. Prior to his new assignment, he was district police chief of Raigarh.

Vijay Bahuguna named new Uttarakhand chief minister

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Congress MP Vijay Bahuguna will be the next chief minister of Uttarakhand, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad announced here Monday.

“It was decided by the MLAs and all the party leaders that Vijay Bahuguna will be the chief minister,” Azad announced.

Bhaguna is the Lok Sabha MP from Tehri Garhwal.

Thanking Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and her son and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi, Bahuguna just said: “I will take all sections of the party along and there will be no breakup.”

Bahuguna, 65, is the son of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna.

Husband axes wife’s limb for spending night away

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Suspicion, they say, can break up a marriage; it can also leave you crippled for life. A 30-year-old woman lost a leg after being attacked by her husband who suspected her of infidelity. Arti’s left leg was hacked by her husband, Shankar Lad, 32, at their home in Virar.

Using a long, sharp knife (called ‘koyataa’ in local lingo), Shankar busted Arti’s kneecap, leaving the lower part of the limb dangling. She also sustained injuries to her neck and shoulder. The attack took place on Saturday night, a couple of days after Women’s Day was celebrated on March 8.

Lightening strikes 4 US planes

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Houston Passengers on board four aircraft had a narrow escape as their planes were struck by lightning in Houston airspace.

According to the Houston Airport System officials, lightning hit United flight 1001 from Houston to Bogota yesterday afternoon.

Airline officials said 124 people were on board.

The plane was sent back to Houston and landed safely.

A United Express flight from Houston to Mobile, Alabama was also struck by lightning in the air.

That plane, which had 47 people on board, returned to Houston and landed safely.