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New Delhi, January 05 : A court here Thursday extended till Jan 19 the judicial custody of six accused in the 2010 Jama Masjid firing and blast in which two foreigners were injured.

Police told the court that they were awaiting the forensic report of bullet shells found at the site of September 2010 incident.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav asked police about the forensic report of the articles recovered from the place of incident. The police replied that the report was awaited.

New Delhi, January 05 (IANS) India Thursday said the frisking of former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at New York’s JFK Airport was a “blunder” and it would not accept the violation of any rules that exempted certain dignitaries.

Speaking at a function here, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai said the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was willing to send an official to apologise, but the “former president was an extremely gracious person” and the matter was closed.

Kolkata, January 04:The tense relationship between West Bengal’s two ruling parties nose-dived Wednesday after the Congress called the Trinamool Congress a ‘B-team’ of the BJP and Left. A furious Trinamool asked the Congress to quit the state government.

The state Congress leadership’s comment came a day after Trinamool leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged that the state Congress was colluding with the Marxists to hurt her party.

Shanghai, January 04 :A Chinese woman gave birth to a baby girl on a flight from southwest Sichuan province to Wuhan.

The young female crew members trained to handle in-flight childbirth came to her help, China Eastern Airlines said.

Feng Yu, who was near the end of her term, felt the first contractions around 9 a.m. The 23-year-old’s baby weighed three kg.

On landing, medical workers boarded the plane and took Feng and the baby to a nearby hospital. “Both the mother and baby are in good condition,” a doctor told Shanghai Daily.

Islamabad, January 04: Over 3.7 million Afghan refugees have been sent back to their homeland from Pakistan in the last decade, the UN refugees agency said Wednesday.

Between March 2002 and December 2011, over 37,31,000 Afghan refugees were sent back to their country through the repatriation centres in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces, Xinhua reported quoting the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Jodhpur/Pune, January 04: In two major breakthroughs in the missing nurse Bhanwari Devi case, the leader of a gang suspected to have disposed off her body was arrested in Maharashtra while a man believed to be the owner of a jeep used to dispose the body was nabbed in Rajasthan, police and sources said Wednesday.

Pune police in a joint operation with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Bishnaram Bishnoi in Lonavala, 70 km from Pune.

Ajmer, January 04: Saiyed Saleem Chishty, arrested Tuesday in connection with the infamous 1992 Ajmer sex scandal case in which over 100 schoolgirls were blackmailed on the basis of their photographs in compromising positions, was remanded in two-day police custody by a court here Wednesday, officials said.

“Chishty was produced in the court of additional chief judicial magistrate Wednesday. The court has remanded him in judicial custody till Jan 5,” a senior police officer told IANS.

Ahmedabad, January 04: The year 2011 will be remembered in Gujarat for verdicts related to the Godhra train burning incident and the riots that followed.

A trial court awarded death penalty to 11 people and life imprisonment to 20, nine years after the incident in which 59 people, mostly karsevaks died. The carnage triggered riots in the state killing over 1,000 people, mostly Muslims.

Another major verdict came in one of the post-Godhra riots case of Sardarpura village in Mehsana district where the special court sentenced 31 people to life imprisonment.

Islamabad,January 04 :Taliban’s supreme commander Mullah Mohammad Omar now in hiding has put pressure on his groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan to form a new grouping which has pledged to stop targeting Pakistani security forces and instead focus attention on US-led troops in Afghanistan.
“Following the intervention of one-eyed Omar, the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban formed a joint five-member shura or council with other Pakistani militant groups on Sunday to oversee an end to attacks on Pakistani forces,” The News daily quoted its sources in the Taliban as saying.

New Delhi,January 04 :THINK Bipasha Basu, and you are normally thinking bold. The Bong bombshell has cultivated that image for herself over the years.

Fans of the sexy star were in for a surprise, therefore, when she recently landed in Bangalore for the store opening of a jewellery brand she endorses and chickened out on seeing a large crowd.

Baghdad,January 04 :About 162,000 people, almost 80% of them civilians, have been killed in Iraq from the start of the 2003 US-led invasion up to withdrawal of American forces in 2011, a British NGO has said.

Iraq Body Count (IBC) warned that, contrary to apparent trends in figures released by the Iraqi government, the level of violence has changed little from mid-2009.

The organisation, however, revealed that attacks were markedly down from when the country was in the throes of sectarian war in 2006 and 2007, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

Gurgaon,January 02 :20 men assault woman and friend on MG Road.NEW YEAR hooliganism touched a new low in Gurgaon on Saturday night, where a group of about 20 men mobbed and molested a woman and assaulted her friend on the busy MG Road in full view of a 500- strong crowd.

The mob had gathered near the a posh mall, where a group of lawless men was running riot on the busy MG Road — all in the name of welcoming the New Year.

Mumbai,January 02 :Noted Sufi singer Kavita Seth, who recently released an album titled ‘Khuda Wohi Hai’, has been invited to perform in Pakistan.

“The artistes from Pakistan have invited me and I have been getting calls from Pakistan inviting me to perform there soon,” the songstress said on the eve of her performance to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad.

Being an ICCR (Indian Council of Cultural Relations) empanelled artist, Seth has performed across the globe, including cities like London, Birmingham, Berlin, Oslo and Stockholm.

Islamabad, January 02: The political scene in Pakistan appears to be hotting up, with the cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan’s Tehrik-e-Insaf party indicating that it is open to an alliance with former military ruler Pervez Musharraf.

The party’s new vice-chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi said a decision on forming an alliance with Musharraf’s All Pakistan Muslim League will be taken in due course of time after considering circumstances.

New York,January 02 :Two former CIA analysts have advised US President Barack Obama to immediately put an end to the “torrent of war propaganda against Iran” as this will lead to the destruction of Israel and devastation of world economy.
Ray McGovern and Elizabeth Murray wrote on the consortiumnews.com that Obama’s “repeated use of the bromide that ‘everything is on the table’” indicates that the US president does not fully recognize the consequences of a military confrontation with Iran.

Mumbai,January 01 :The wholee world was celeberating new year but Rats in Mumbai had a field day.Father woke up only to find his son dead, with his right arm completely chewed off

A four-month-old boy died after rats gnawed his entire right arm from the shoulder down at his Ulhasnagar hutment yesterday. Unfortunately, for the tot, his parents were fast sleep and they only realised the grisly incident when they woke up in the morning.

Four-month-old Ganesh died after his right hand was completely
eaten by rats at his Ulhasnagar hutment yesterday

Tuticorin January 01: Three US tourists indulging in New Year’s revelry were injured when local public thrashed them after they allegedly hugged and kissed women passers-by in an inebriated state here, police said today.

The three men from California were injured when the public assaulted and threw stones at them last night. Two of them, later handed over to the police, have been hospitalised while another managed to flee the scene, police said adding they were in their late 40s.

Hospital sources said the two had suffered bruises and concussions and were under treatment.

New Delhi, January 01: The new year may bring in loads of cheers for job-seekers, as the experts expect the companies to hire more than five lakh new employees during 2012 despite the uncertainties prevailing about the overall economic scenario.

Adding to the cheers of the job market, the employees could expect double-digit salary hikes during 2012.

“If all goes well, and depending on policies of the government and market situation, more than 5 lakh jobs will be created across all segments,” executive search firm GlobalHunt’s Director Sunil Goel said.

Karachi, December 27: MORE than one lakh people rallied in support of Pakistani cricket legend and Opposition politician Imran Khan in Karachi on Sunday, further cementing his status as a rising force in politics.

His message of cracking down on corruption and standing up to the US has found new resonance at a time when Pakistanis are fed up with the country’s chronic insecurity and economic malaise.

Malda,December 25 : The horror of crib deaths is back to haunt Malda district hospital. On Thursday night, six newborns died in the hospital within six hours.

The babies were aged between 1 and 70 days. Apart from one, all were born in the hospital itself. Hospital authorities claimed that a severe cold wave along with ailment since birth was the reason behind the babies’ death. Worse, 50 more children suffering due to the cold are battling for their lives. The mercury touched 8.8°C in Malda on Friday.

Ahmednagar, December 25: Dismissing Digvijay Singh’s statement that he had links with late RSS leader Nanaji Deshmukh, Anna Hazare Sunday said that such allegations were being levelled against him by “supporters of corruption” as they had no other issue to raise.

“The allegations prove that supporters of corruption in India have no valid issues left,” he said.

The Gandhian said social leaders like Deshmukh were above political ideologies, and selfish party and power politics.

Lucknow,December 25 : At the core of the tussle for schedule lie ten Rajya Sabha seats. The BSP wanted the elections to be held in April so that by virtue of its majority, it could get maximum members elected to the Upper House in the biennial poll which are due in March.

The Congress wanted an early election because hopes to form a government in UP in alliance with Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party.

everything works according to the Congress’s plans, the party may be able to increase its strength in the Rajya Sabha where it is in minority.

Jaipur,December 25 :THE HEAT generated by the Bhanwari Devi sex scandal is likely to reach Delhi, especially after reports of her links with a couple of senior political leaders have started doing the rounds.

Speeches made at the massive ‘ Kisan Swabhiman Rally’ in Jodhpur on Friday evening pointed towards this allegation.

The rally, organised by the Adarsh Jat Mahasabha to mark the birth anniversary of late Chaudhary Charan Singh, was attended by nearly 40,000 people.

Lyon,December 25 :POLICE have announced an international manhunt for a former butcher at the centre of a breast implants scandal affecting thousands of women all over the world.

Interpol is searching for Jean- Claude Mas, the 72- year- old founder of Poly Implant Prothese ( PIP), which sold thousands of implants full of industrial silicone to women all over the world.

The firm — which was based in Marseilles, in the south of France — was liquidated by judges earlier this year, with Mas “ disappearing”, according to detectives.

Kolkata, December 24 : As authorities at the state-run SSKM hospital Saturday ordered an enquiry into the death of a patient after he was allegedly bitten by a rat, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday hinted that the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) were leaving rats in the hospitals in order to embarrass her government.