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Iran declines reports of arms supplies to Syria

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Iran has rubbished the media reports saying that it has sent weapons to Syria, ISNA news agency reported Saturday.

The Islamic republic of Iran rejects any military intervention in Syria’s developments and dismisses reports on weapons delivery to the Syrian government, Xinhua quoted Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast as saying.

Iran’s position on Syria has always been supporting any reform in favour of the Syrian people, he said.

Earlier, media reported that Iran has kept supplying Syria with arms to assist its government to crack down on the opposition.

Two ‘crime reporters’ arrested for extortion

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Posing as crime reporters, the two would extort money from NGOs and businessmen by threatening to expose them in the media but were exposed and arrested, police said Saturday.

Mithun Singh Rajput, 24 and Gursharan Kaur, 37, both residents of Delhi, were running an extortion racket for the last couple of years wherein they posed as crime reporters of a weekly newspaper “Rashtra Ki Aawaz- Aaj Tak”, police said.

They would approach businessmen and NGO’s and would threaten to expose their ‘negative’ deeds if they failed to give them the amount of money asked.

‘Jodi Breakers’ costumes up for grabs

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Wish to grab the stylish clothes worn by Bipasha Basu and R. Madhavan in “Jodi Breakers”? They are up for sale on an e-commerce portal.

GetTheLook.in, an e-commerce website dedicated to Bollywood style and fashion, have put Bipasha’s dresses, shoes, bags and other accessories, as well as Madhavan’s shirts, jackets, pullovers, blazers and jeans from the film, on sale.

The range of clothing and accessories has been launched at premium prices.

Celebs have edge over genuine social workers: Salman

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Salman Khan, who runs charity organisation Being Human for underprivileged people, feels that due to media coverage movie stars tend to have an edge over others who sincerely work toward the betterment of society. And he is not too happy about it.

“We (celebrities) have an edge because we are there on every TV and every screen, good films, bad films, stuff like what we do in restaurants…So, we are there all over and we have an advantage over people who are really great people, and have not been given the coverage because of TRP ratings,” the 46-year-old said here.

Jagan to face CBI music

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The two accused Industrialists, AK Dandamudi and Madhav Ramchandran have given a statement in the local court that former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister late YS Rajasekhar Reddy had asked them to invest in YSR Congress president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s firms.

While, Dandamudi, a resident of Gunrock Enclave in Secunderabad invested Rs 10 crore, Ramchandran of Bengaluru had invested Rs 19.6 crore for Jagan’s firms.

Ramacharan had said that when he met Rajasekhar Reddy in Dubai, Reddy had asked him to invest in his son’s firms.

Sania enter Dubai double Finals

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Sania Mirza and her Russian partner Elena Vesnina beat Shuai Peng of China and Chinese Taipei’s Su-Wei Hsieh in a hard-fought battle to book a berth in the doubles final of the Dubai Duty Free Women’s Tennis Championships.

The second seeded Indo-Russian pair took an hour and 40 minutes to get the better of their opponents in the super tie-break, 6-2 6-7 (5) 1-0 (13/11) yesterday night.

While Sania and Vesnina managed to convert as many as five out of the seven break points they got, Hsieh-Peng could convert only three off eight.

Nagarjuna to enter Politics ?

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Telugu actor Nagarjuna on Saturday, Feb 25 expressed his desire to enter active politics in Andhra Pradesh.

Telugu superstar said that he was interested in politics and followed politics regularly but will take some more time to make a final call on it.

Meanwhile, popular star Nandamuri Balakrishna has already announced to contest the 2014 elections on behalf of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP).

Mayawati capenter brother gets Noida land ?

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Accusing Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati of shielding her close aide Naseemuddin Siddiqui, Congress has demanded his dismissal and inquiry against Mayawati’s brother Anand Kumar.

Talking to journalists, Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) chief spokesperson Ram Kumar Bhargava said that Naseemuddin Siddiqui is only a small component.

Two men chop off friend’s hand to claim insurance

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Two men in the US allegedly chopped off a third man’s hand with a pole saw so that the three of them could file for an insurance claim.

The men from South Carolina state received a payout of over $671,000 (426,275 pounds) from a homeowner’s insurance policy and three accidental death and dismemberment policies, the Daily Mail reported.

Gerald Hardin, 34, faces six charges, including mail fraud for the 2008 incident in Florida’s Sumter County, WMBFnews reported.

Bengal: Intellectuals protest killing of CPI-M leaders

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Expressing shock at the “brutal murder” of two Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leaders in West Bengal, a group of leading scholars and intellectuals Friday accused Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of trying to “thwart opposition or discontent against her misrule by open use of terror and falsification”.

Gaga ‘scolded’ by father for wrong gesture

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Pop star Lady Gaga was “scolded” by her father for stiking her middle finger up at photographers at a baseball match.

The 25-year-old was watching the New York Mets in 2010 when she stuck up her middle finger to photographers, which did not impress her dad Joseph Germanotta.

“It was the first time in nearly two years that I was scolded by my father – partly for misbehaving in public and partly for attending a Mets game. But that’s the beauty of baseball, isn’t it?” femalefirst.co.uk quoted Gaga as saying.

West seeks Iran regime change: Putin

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The West is using a nonproliferation campaign as a blind for bringing about regime change in Iran, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said.

“Under the pretext of stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by neutralizing a new nuclear club member – Iran – attempts are underway to change the regime,” he said Friday.

“We have suspicions to that effect,” Putin said, adding that Russia disagrees with the Western position on Iran and ways of solving “the Iran problem”.

Obama campaign reaches out to Indian Americans

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President Barack Obama, whose administration has by far the largest number of Indian-Americans, has turned to three prominent members of this growing and influential community to help his re-election campaign reach out to some three million Indian-origin voters.

Iran has drone engine know-how

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Iran has the know-how to build engines used in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), an official said.”We are building turbofan engines for a variety of UAVs,” Iranian Armed Forces deputy Brigadier General Abdolkarim Banitarafi said Friday.

The construction of the engines is a significant step in the direction of building indigenous drones, the state-run Press TV quoted Banitarafi as saying.

Turbofan is a type of jet engine widely used for aircraft propulsion. Iran has taken “major steps” towards designing large Turbofan engines, Xinhua reported.

Millioner British hotelier sued by parents

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Parents of a 60-year-old Indian-origin hotelier, reportedly one of Britain’s wealthiest men, are sueing him for 100 million pounds (around $157 million), claiming their son took the family business for himself.Jasminder Singh, chairman of the Radisson Edwardian Hotels, is accused of renouncing the Sikh tradition of sharing family wealth and barring his parents from their multi-million pound business, the Daily Express reported.

His 84-year-old father, Bal Mohinder Singh, stands to take a third of the family fortune if he wins the high court battle against his son.

Oil prices rise

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Crude oil prices rose Friday after a confidential report of the UN nuclear watchdog showed expansion of Iran’s uranium enrichment program.The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report increased worries about more confrontation between Iran and the West, Xinhua reported.

Light, sweet crude for April delivery gained $1.94, or 1. 80 percent to settle at $109.77 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. For this week, it soared $6.53, or 6.33 percent.

BJP IN CRISES

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How corruption has taken the toll on parties who were crying hoarse about corruption from Bofors scandal to 2G scandal.Crisis in BJP’s Karnataka unit appeared to worsen on Friday with former chief minister B. S. Yeddyurappa insisting on a February 27 ultimatum for his reinstatement and party president Nitin Gadkari ruling out replacing incumbent Sadananda Gowda.

Mr. Yeddyurappa, who was forced to resign more than six months ago after a Lokayukta report indicted him on illegal mining, made it clear to the party chief that he was in no mood to wait any longer.

Seven US Marines killed in helicopter collision

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Seven US Marines were killed in a mid-air collision of two US military helicopters in southern Arizona, CNN reported Thursday.

The crash took place during routine training operations Wednesday night along the California-Arizona border, the Marine Corps said in a statement.

The collision, which occurred near the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, involved an AH-1W “Super Cobra” attack helicopter and a UH-1Y “Huey” utility chopper.

“The circumstances are being investigated,” it said.

Saif is sorry, says provoked

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A day after being involved in a scuffle in the Taj Mahal hotel, actor Saif Ali Khan said he was “sorry” and regretted he didn’t resort to “Gandhigiri” – but insisted it was definitely not a publicity stunt for his upcoming film “Agent Vinod”!

The actor said he reacted only after friends of South Africa-based Indian businessman Iqbal Sharma misbehaved with his women friends.

Amitabh discharged from hospital

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Megastar Amitabh Bachchan was discharged from the Seven Hills Hospital here late Thursday after a 12-day stay post two abdominal surgeries.

He was discharged at 9.30 p.m. and was accompanied home by his wife Jaya Bachchan.

The 69-year-old actor, who was admitted to the hospital Feb 11, was kept under observation following complaints of pain post the surgeries.

He was feeling restricted in his movements but kept his fans updated about his activities and progress through social networking mediums.

“Bomb ka badla Bomb” Samjhuta bomber Chauhan

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It all happened under the nose of police and it tokk 5 years for Delhi police and 2 year for NIA to find out the real intention of Samjhuta Express bomber.

The arrest of Kamal Chauhan, a former RSS worker, five years after the Samjhauta Express blast, shows that the investigators may still have a lot of ground to cover. The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which took over the Samjhauta blast case in 2010, took almost two years to identify Chauhan as one of the bombers who planted explosives on the train.

US girl made to ‘run to death’ over candy bar

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The grandmother and stepmother of a nine-year-old US girl who died after allegedly being forced to run around her family house for hours as punishment for lying about taking a candy bar have been charged with murder, police said.

“Joyce Hardin Garrard, 46, and Jessica Mae Hardin, 27, were both arrested and charged with murder in connection to the death of Savannah Hardin,” the CNN quoted Capt. Jeremy Walker saying in a release issued by the Etowah County Sheriff’s Office.

The girl died Monday.

British mother, son jailed over dogs’ deaths

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A British mother and her son have been jailed for starving two dogs after imprisoning them in an attic and nailing it shut.

A court heard how the dogs — Rottweiler Axel and Staffordshire bull terrier Bully — were starved, denied water and exercise for weeks before they died in agony, emaciated and dehydrated, the Daily Mail reported.

Jamie Taylor, 31, and his mother Julie, 50, were each jailed for 16 weeks and disqualified from keeping animals for life after causing “horrendous suffering” to the pets.

Girl died after drinking soft drink

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Girl dies after drinking soft drink in college canteen
The president of a students’ union died Thursday apparently due to food poisoning after she had a cold drink from her college canteen, police said.

Kanika Sharma, 20, a resident of Ghaziabad on the outskirts of Delhi, had had a cold drink from the canteen of Vivekananda College where she was studying in BA third year and was and heading the students’ union.

SC pulls up Delhi Police, Ramdev for violence

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The Supreme Court Thursday came down heavily on Delhi Police for the midnight crackdown on Ramdev and his followers here last year in which a woman was killed but said the yoga guru was also guilty “of contributory negligence”. Police said they would act against the erring officers and Ramdev vowed to launch more protests.

The court awarded ad hoc compensation of Rs.5 lakh to the family of Haryana woman Rajbala who suffered spinal injuries and died after police assaulted scores of sleeping men and women at Ramlila ground here on the night of June 4-5, 2011.