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140 soldiers killed in Yemen

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Violence is continuing to soar in the Abyan Province of southern Yemen today, with the two day toll of a battle over a Yemeni government military base now over 140 dead, with at least 110 of them soldiers loyal to new Yemeni ruler Major General Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

The fighting began yesterday when forces initially termed by the military as “al-Qaeda” but now revealed to have been from the Ansar al-Sharia faction attacked a military base outside of provincial capital Zinjibar.

Thumbs up for SP and Akali, Congress wounded

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It was a day of grand wins and bruising defeats. As counting ended Tuesday for elections in five states, the Samajwadi Party (SP) surged back to power in Uttar Pradesh and the Akali Dal broke a four-decade jinx to win another term in Punjab, leaving India’s ruling Congress battered and the main opposition BJP counting its losses.

Attack on US airbase in Afghanistan kills two

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Two children died Monday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in front of a US airbase in eastern Afghanistan.

The attack took place around 5.30 p.m. at the main gate of the Bagram Airbase, an interior ministry official said. Two other civilians were injured, Xinhua reported.

The target might have been a military convoy, he said.

A spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said no ISAF soldiers were killed. The Bagram Airbase is located 50 km from Kabul.

Bihar to have its first ‘open jail’

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Some convicts in Bihar will soon get a chance to live with their families, step out for work and lead a life similar to that outside prison, thanks to the state’s first open jail that will begin functioning in May in Buxar district.

“It will be the first of its kind in Bihar where convicts would be able to live with their families in an atmosphere conducive to development of their skills and talent so they could make useful contributions to society,” a prison official said.

SpiceJet foresees tough times

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Budget carrier SpiceJet’s chief executive Neil Mills feels the aviation sector, marred by high fuel and interest cost in the coming fiscal, will continue to face “tough operating conditions”.

“I think the tough conditions will continue for a while in the coming fiscal. Our futures are pegged with oil prices and they are very high right now,” Mills told IANS in an interview.

“There are some decisions on new policy like direct import of fuel and foreign direct investment. We are evaluating them and will do what is best for us.”

Indian Americans remember 2002 Gujarat victims with rally

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Hundreds of Indian Americans of diverse religious backgrounds held a rally and a candlelight vigil in front of the Gandhi statue in Union Square to remember the victims of the 2002 anti-Muslim Gujarat riots.

“We want Gandhi’s Gujarat not Modi’s Gujarat,” they chanted at the rally Saturday night pointing to Gandhi’s statue.

Cries of “Narandra Modi, Has Got to Go, Got to Go” and “Halla Bol, Halla Bol, Narandra Modi pe halla bol” rent the air at repeated intervals.

Iran overturns death sentence for CIA ‘spy’ii

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The Iranian Supreme Court has overturned the death penalty given to an Iranian-American CIA “spy” by a lower court, an official said Monday.

“The case of the defendant was sent to the Supreme Court after his appeal, and finally the (death) sentence was overturned… So the (case) was returned” to the court for retrial,” prosecutor general and judiciary spokesman Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei said.

One in three British teenage girls ‘sexually assaulted’

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A British survey has found that a third of teenage girls become victims of sexual violence by their boyfriends. Experts fear that some do not even realise they are victims of a crime and others are too terrified or embarrassed to speak out, the Daily Mail reported Monday.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who was helping to launch an unprecedented advertising campaign to stem the tide of abuse, told an audience of teenage girls Monday that the latest figures were shocking.

Clegg said: “We’ve got such a highly sexualised culture at the moment and there are huge pressures.

Iran to supply 5000 MW of electricity to India

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Iran is likely to supply 5,000 MW of electricity to India as power exports are more cost-efficient, says an Iranian media report.

Quoting Iran’s energy minister Majid Namjou, the Press TV has said that India has indicated its willingness to import 5,000 MW of electricity from

Iran.
“Transferring electricity is less costly compared to (exporting) natural gas,” Namjou was quoted as saying to reporters on Sunday.

Oil touches $ 124 per barrel

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Global oil prices have soared once again with Brent crude seeing an 83-cent increase to exceed USD124 per barrel on fears that international sanctions against Iran are limiting supply.

The price hike came on Monday as US President Barack Obama was going to discuss Iran sanctions in his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, heightening uncertainty over Iran’s future oil exports.

Use of WI-FI, Laptop damage Sperm

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Radiations from WiFi connections can reduce sperm activity in up to a quarter of men, a new study has suggested.

Conrado Avendano and his team from the Nascentis Medicina Reproductiva in Cordoba also found that working on a laptop wirelessly may hamper a man’s chances of fatherhood.

The researchers took sperms from 29 men aged 26 to 45 and placed them either under a wi-fi connected laptop or away from the computer.

The laptop then uploaded and downloaded information from the Internet for four hours.

Congress will play crucial role in formation of UP govt

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The Congress today claimed it will play a crucial role in formation of the next Government in Uttar Pradesh and dismissed as personal views the Union Minister, Mr Beni Prasad Verma’s suggestions for a tie-up with BSP.

“We will cross the bridge when we come to it. The results have not yet come… ,” Congress leader and Union Minister, Mr Rajeev Shukla, told presspersons on the sidelines of an all-party meeting convened by the Speaker, Ms Meira Kumar, ahead of the Budget session of Parliament commencing on March 12.

Indians convicted of sexually abusing daughter-in-law

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A US court has convicted three members of an Indian family here on charges of sexually abusing their daughter-in-law who came to America after an arranged marriage and was threatened to work as a slave.

Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe said Vishal Jagota, 34, his mother Parveen Jagota, 57 and sister Rajani Jagota, 31 were found guilty after a bench trial of labour trafficking and assault charges for using intimidation, threats and physical violence to force the young woman into a life of “servitude and sexual abuse”.

Abida Parveen enthralls audience at Delhi Sufi Festival

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The songs in praise of legendary poets and saints were rendered in throaty voice of Pakistan’s internationally acclaimed Sufi singer Abida Parveen during a Sufi music festival that concluded Sunday night inNew Delhi.

Abida Parveen, enthralled the audience with her famous rendition “Lal meri pat rakhiyo bhala jhoole laalan” at end of Jahan -e-Khusrau world Sufi music festival here.

Team Anna wants Congress to declare Sonia,Rahul helicopter expenses

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Team Anna today asked the party to make public expenses incurred for hiring choppers for the just-concluded Assembly elections to five states, particularly for Sonia Gandhi and Rahul, and the source of funding.

Anna Hazare and his close aide Arvind Kejriwal demanded that the expenses should be made public but was rebuffed by AICC General Secretary Digvijay Singh who said his party will “declare the expenses to the Election Commission and not to Arvind Kejriwal.”

Sonia returns and Vadra faints

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Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who visited US for a routine medical check-up, returned to India at a crucial time when Uttar Pradesh assembly election result 2012 is all set to be declared. Sonia has twin problem one is Sons Rahul who came out openly for UP elections and if an failure Rahul will be taken to task by the opposition parties specially BJP.

Congress spokesperson Janardhan Trivedi, meanwhile, announced, “Congress President Sonia Gandhi has come back after her routine check up and she is absolutely fine.”

E- retail growing by 35 on MOM basis

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LAST week, when Arun Sirdeshmukh, chief executive officer ( CEO) of Reliance Trends, the retail arm of Reliance Industries Ltd ( RIL), announced his decision to step down and start his own fashion e- retail venture, it hardly raised eyebrows.

Sirdeshmukh is just another one in the league of executives who have left lucrative jobs to start their own eretail ventures — an industry which is growing at 35- 45 per cent per month.

“SATTA BAZAR” garam for Lucknow Gaddi

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Once the final phase of UP elections are over the SATTA bazar from Mumbai to Kolkatta and kanya kumari to Kashmir is working overtime to make money.
Mulayam Singh is into first position with 100 : 125 bet and Mayawati is 100 :250 and Bjp is poor third with 100 :500 .
UP is the largest state with 80MPS and the royal battle for 2014 PM RACE IS ON.Rahul Baba has invested lot of time and energy and infact he came out for quota for Muslims of 4.5 % which was his brainchild .

Goons smashes girl head with beer bottle

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IN AN incident reminiscent of the infamous Jessica Lal murder case, a girl, partying with her friends at a night club in Bangalore, was attacked by a reveller with a beer bottle. The assault left Gina needing 19 stitches on her head and has affected her hearing.

Gina was apparently trying to save her friend from the assailant, Nithin Reddy, who wanted to dance with her. Following repeated rebuffs, Nithin decided to take out his anger on the victim and smashed a beer bottle on her head.

Jaya Prada hotel room raided ?

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THE RAMPUR police late on Thursday night raided the room at a local hotel in which the Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Prada was staying.

The police claimed the raid was conducted on the suspicion that the Rampur MP was carrying huge amount of money for distribution among the voters.

Though a Samajwadi Party MP, Jaya Prada owes allegiance to suspended party leader Amar Singh who had floated Lok Manch. The outfit has fielded candidates in the UP assembly polls.

Mamata proving a disappointment for Bengal

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Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s inability to transform herself from a rabblerouser to a responsible politician cannot but have come as a huge disappointment to the people of West Bengal.

Sensex closes flat in special session

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Indian equities markets which opened Saturday for a special 90- minute trading session closed on a flat note. State-run firms were among the major gainers, while some realty scrips edged lower.

The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) opened at 17,648.47 points and closed at 17,636.99 points, barely moving from its Friday close at 17,583.97 points.

The 50-scrip S&P CNX Nifty of the National Stock Exchange also closed similarly unchanged at 5,359.4 points.

For the week, the Sensex shed 1.6 percent, while the Nifty lost 1.28 percent.

Delhi cop who caused man’s death arrested

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A Delhi Police constable who pushed a 66-year-old man leading to his death has been arrested, police said Saturday.

Vikram Singh, who joined the force in 2008, was taken into custody three days after Anil Kumar Arora’s death caused outrage, a police officer said.

Arora was treated roughly by the constable when he intervened in a row between the policeman and his son Tuesday night in Delhi Cantonment area in west Delhi.

Arora fell, suffered a stroke and died, his family said.

US House resolution asks Gujarat to restore religious freedom

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To mark the 10th anniversary of Gujarat communal riots, a Democrat lawmaker has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives urging the state government to restore religious freedom.

The non-binding resolution “recognising the 10th anniversary of the tragic communal violence in Gujarat” introduced by Keith Ellison early this week has been sent to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Raja is “One Year Old” in Tihar

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The 2G spectrum smitten former minister A Raja on Thursday, Feb 2 completed one full year in Tihar jail, however, he is still far from breathing the air of freedom. Meanwhile, his tenure in jail is not slated to get over any time soon.