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Two held for raping Kolkata woman in moving car

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Two people were arrested Saturday for raping a 37-year-old Anglo-Indian woman, mother of two and a former call centre employee, in a moving car after offering her a lift here earlier this month, police said.

“We have arrested Rahman Khan alias Tusi and Sumit Bajaj,” said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Damayanti Sen. They were arrested from Howrah station area. The two Kolkata residents were held while fleeing from the city.

“We are interrogating them. We are also trying to apprehend some other persons who have been identified,” she said.

Iran to hold military drill Sunday

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Iran will conduct military drills Sunday, Xinhua reported.

Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) commander of ground forces Brig. Gen. Mohammad Pakpour said the drills will be conducted in a desert in central Iran.

The drills, code-named Valfajr, are aimed at enhancing combat preparedness of the IRGC forces, the Mehr news agency quoted Pakpour as saying Saturday.

Warship Deployed

Iranian warships entered the Mediterranean after crossing the Suez Canal on Saturday to show Tehran’s “might” to regional states, the navy commander said, at a time of simmering tensions with Israel.

Azhar faces warrant in cheque bounce case

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A Delhi court Saturday issued non-bailable warrant against former Indian cricket team captain and MP Mohammed Azharuddin for not appearing in court on the day of final verdict in a cheque-bounce case, a lawyer said.

Metropolitan Magistrate Vikrant Vaid issued non-bailable warrant against Azhar, whose counsel Firoj Khan Ghazi said that he was busy campaigning in Uttar Pradesh for the ongoing assembly elections.

The court would next hear the case March 1.

According to complainant Sanjay Solanki, he helped Azhar in a deal to purchase a property in Bandra in Mumbai for Rs.1.5 crore.

Man chops off ex-wife’s nose for remarriage

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A man allegedly chopped off the nose of his ex-wife in Rajasthan’s Chittorgarh district, police said today.

The accused Suresh was apparently enraged as the woman had married again, they said.

Suresh along with around six other men barged into the house of the victim in Choti Sadadi area and chopped off her nose, police said.

No arrest has been made so far.

Odisha gang rape: Activists demand women panel chief’s sacking

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Social and political activists Saturday staged a demonstration demanding dismissal of state women panel chairperson Jyoti Panigrahi for ruling out rape in her report on an alleged gang rape victim.

The activists, comprising members of opposition parties and members of civil society and women’s organisations, demonstrated near the official residence of Governor M.C.Bhandare.

Sasikala’s husband Natarajan arrested

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The husband of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa’s former confidante Sasikala was arrested here Saturday on a land grab charge here, police said.

According to police, M. Natarajan was arrested here on a complaint lodged by Ramalingam of Thanjavur, 325 km from Chennai. A police team from Thanjavur arrested Natarajan and took him there.

As per the complaint, some men — allegedly at the instigation of Natarajan — occupied land measuring around 10,000 sq ft in Thanjavur belonging to Ramalingam and threatened him when he had asked them to vacate the land.

Pakistan mosque blast toll reaches 36

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The toll in a suicide blast at a mosque in northwest Pakistan rose to 36 Saturday after six more people succumbed to their injuries.

The explosion took place Friday afternoon in Parachinar city in Kurram Agency, bordering Afghanistan. Dozens of people were injured.

The attacker rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a mosque when Shia Muslims were offering Friday prayers.

A faction of the militant Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), TTP Islahi, has claimed responsibility for the attack, Xinhua quoted Geo TV as saying.

Lucknow “Maya Jal” for NRI

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“I was mesmerised by the change,” says an excited Sifat Khan, a 21-year-old who grew up in Australia and visited poll-bound Lucknow this winter after four years. She was thrilled to find recreation spots, malls, well-lit roads and a changing lifestyle – not to mention the renovated commercial hub of Hazratganj.

Italy impounds fake US bonds worth $6 tn

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Italian police have confiscated counterfeit US state bonds worth $6 trillion, media reports said Friday.

The operation was sanctioned by the prosecutor’s office of the southern Italian city of Potenza and was the result of an investigation initiated a year ago by the Potenza prosecutor and Swiss authorities.

The false securities supposedly issued by the US Fed in 1934 were confiscated in a Swiss company based in Zurich in January but it became known only recently.

The police also detained eight people on suspicion of creating a company for international financial fraud.

Shiv Sena-BJP-RPI triumphs in Mumbai, Thane

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The Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party-Republican Party of India alliance Friday came up trumps in elections to the Mumbai and Thane municipal corporations, while the Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) did better than expected, marking its presence at several places.

Though the Shiv Sena-led alliance fell short of the magic figure in both the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC), it is widely expected to retain power with the help of rebels and independents.

25 killed in Pakistan suicide blast

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At least 25 people were killed and over 50 others were injured in a suicide blast that hit a mosque Friday in Pakistan’s northwest tribal Kurram Agency that borders Afghanistan, media reports said.

The attack took place at about 1.50 p.m. local time when a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a mosque located near a market place in Parachinar city in Kurram Agency, Xinhua reported citing Urdu TV channel Express.

A large number of people were offering Friday prayers inside the mosque when the blast took place.

Hitler had son with French teen

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Adolf Hitler had a son with a French teenager while serving as a soldier during the First World War, The Telegraph reported Friday.

Jean-Marie Loret, who died in 1985 aged 67, never met his father, but went on to fight Nazi forces during the Second World War.

His extraordinary story has now been backed up by a range of compelling evidence, both in France and in Germany, which is published in the latest edition of Paris’s Le Point magazine.

Hitler is said to have had an affair with Loret’s mother, Charlotte Lobjoie, 16, as he took a break from the trenches in June 1917.

34 militants killed in Pakistan

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Pakistani security forces killed some 34 militants Friday in the country’s northwest tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border Friday, media reports said.

At least 17 militants were killed Friday night by the Pakistani security forces in the Tera Valley area of Khyber Agency which borders Afghanistan, Xinhua reported citing Urdu TV channel Dunya.

Meanwhile, at least three security personnel were killed and two injured when a remote-controlled bomb hit security forces’s vehicle in the same area Friday night.

Rahul, Akhilesh, Jayant: Young Turks brigade leads dynasty charge in UP

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The old order changeth, yielding place to the new… Alfred Tennyson’s immortal words are playing out again in the dusty heartlands of Uttar Pradesh where three sons are preparing to carry on their political legacies. For Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh Yadav and Jayant Chaudhary, out to prove they are worthy inheritors, this could well be a make-or-break election.

Sand and stone…

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Two friends Ismail and Ibrahim were walking through the desert, as the sun was beating down on their heads, and they were thirsty for water they began to argue. The argument got more and more heated and eventually Ismail struck Ibrahim across the face. Ibrahim felt hurt inside, but without anything to say, he wrote in the sand:
“Today, my best friend slapped me in the face.”

Tiger Salman with Kaif in Havana

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Tiger Khan “Salman ” is right now with Katrina Kaif not on a honeymoon trip but shooting for “ek tha tiger ” yash raj film .Salman chauffeurs & romances Katrina on Havana’s marine drive

KATRINA Kaif looked every bit the sexy trafficstopper as she swooshed past on Havana’s seafront boulevard El Malecon with Salman Khan in a snazzy convertible on Wednesday.

The couple wasn’t celebrating an extended Valentine’s Day vacation.

Iran flexes Nuclear muscle ?

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Tehran is unrelenting and after the bomb explosions in New Delhi and Bangkok had barely subsided on Wednesday when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dropped another bombshell by showcasing the country’s advancements in nuclear technology — a move seen as Tehran’s determination to precipitate a confrontation with the West.

Iran’s claim that it has achieved major advances in its programme to master production of nuclear fuel is being seen as a defiant move in response to increasingly tough Western sanctions over its controversial nuclear programme.

Simi and Bajrang dal: Bhagwat and Bukhari are sides of Same coin

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Frustation is looming in each and every party as huge polling turnout are giving sleepless nights .The poll percentage has gone by by 33% ove 2007 .In The last Assembly elections the pooling was around 42% now its is around 57 to 62 % . Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh went all guns blazing on Wednesday against RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and the Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari, accusing them of fomenting terrorist activities in the country.

US drone strikes kill 11 in Pakistan

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Islamabad Eleven people were killed in US drone attacks in northwest Pakistan Thursday.

Seven people died when drones targeted a militant hideout in Miransha of North Waziristan. Four more were killed when missiles hit a vehicle suspected of carrying militants in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan, Xinhua quoted the local ARY TV as saying.

India may allow Pakistani investments

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In a major step forward towards normalising business ties, the Indian government plans to bring changes in the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) to allow investments from Pakistan, a senior government official said Thursday.

“Commerce ministry has sent a proposal to the finance ministry for change in FEMA rules to allow investments from Pakistan,” said a senior official who is accompanying Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma on his official trip here.

Pakistan is the only country from where investment is not allowed in India.

BCCI gives in, Sahara India back as Team India sponsor

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Mumbai Sahara India was Thursday back as cricket Team India sponsor and the owner of Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Pune Warriors after the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) agreed to most of its demands.

Sahara, sponsors for last 11 years, had decided to sever all its ties with the BCCI earlier this month citing denial of “natural justice”. The last straw that split the relationship was BCCI’s refusal to allow ailing cricketer Yuvraj Singh’s price to be added to Pune Warriors’ auction purse after the southpaw was ruled out of the tournament with a lung tumour.

45 percent voting in Mumbai civic polls

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In a show of voter apathy, Mumbai Thursday marked a turnout of 45 percent in elections to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). In all the 10 Maharashtra municipal corporations, where voting took place during the day, the average voter turnout was around 54 percent, official sources said here.

A total of 3.5 crore voters were registered to elect 1,244 councillors, including 624 women, in Mumbai, Thane, Ulhasnagar, Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Solapur, Nashik, Akola, Amravati and Nagpur municipal corporations.

Big B to stay more ,Tweets as fresh complications arise

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Amitabh Bachchan Thursday thanked his legions of fans for their prayers and love but said it might take him longer to recuperate from the surgery he underwent for an earlier complication. As doctors extended his stay at the SevenHills Hospital due to fresh complications, the megastar connected with his fans on twitter.

“I have no idea now how long this will take, but it does look as though it will be long… thank you for your prayers and love…!!,” he tweeted Thursday evening from his hospital bed.

Delhi has highest per capita income

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The capital has the the highest per capita income in the country recorded at Rs.1,16,886 in 2009-10.

“The per capita income of Delhi during 2009-10 was Rs.1,16,886, which is also the highest among all states and union territories,” stated the report titled “Level and Pattern of Household Consumer Expenditure in Delhi.”

The report also reveals that monthly per capita expenditure of 51 percent of the total household in Delhi is Rs.2,501 and above.

Forced sterlization: BJP Congress two faces of a coin

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Wheather its Congress or BJP when its comes to sterlization campaign both the political parties sail in the same boat.Forced sterlization and poor medical care is responsible for lot of deaths in MP .

WHEN IT comes to population control, the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in Madhya Pradesh appears to be inspired by Sanjay Gandhi and his forced sterilisation drive.

In a grim reminder of the Emergency days, health officials in Madhya Pradesh are adopting unethical ways to meet birth control targets.