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New Delhi,December 24 :Congress sets agenda for UP elections by giving 4.5% quota to minorities from the existing 27% for the OBCs

THE Congress is finally fighting its political opponents with the perennially potent quota weapon.

By the simple, albeit cynical, expedient of announcing religion- based subquotas in jobs and educational institutions along with the insertion of caste and religion- based quota in the Lokpal Bill, the grand old party has overnight shifted the political discourse from corruption to reservation.

Ahmedabad, December 23: Alleging that Chief Minister Narendra Modi was “dramatis personae of the Gujarat carnage of 2002”, suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt Friday again sought access to certain records of post-Godhra riot period.

In a letter to the Nanavati commission which is probing the riots, Bhatt has sought directions to the DGP, ADGP state intelligence bureau and the chairman of Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing some of the cases, that he be provided with access to certain records of post-Godhra riot period and the statements made by him before SIT.

New Delhi, December 23: The Congress and Lok Janshakti Party Friday welcomed the government’s decision for a 4.5 percent reservation for minorities, but the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dubbed it as a poll stunt and the Communist Party of India of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Samajwadi Party termed the measure inadequate.

The quota decision, taken at a cabinet meeting Thursday, has been hailed by Congress leaders in Uttar Pradesh as fulfillment of an election promise.

Rome.December 23 :A 33-year-old Spanish model was arrested at the Rome airport for attempting to smuggle 2.5 kg cocaine in prosthetic breasts.

The model — who arrived on a flight from San Paolo, Brazil, and identified by authorities only as M.F.M. — was arrested Wednesday after women detectives at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport found crystal white powder hidden in her fake breasts and bottom.

The prominent size of the suspect’s chest and posterior drew the attention of airport customs agents leading to the search, officials said.

New Delhi, December 23: Just ahead of Uttar Pradesh elections, Congress has played its minority card with the Union Cabinet on Thursday approving 4.5 per cent quota for minorities within the larger 27 per cent quota for the Other backward Classes (OBC) in central government jobs and educational institutions.

Lucknow,December 18 :UP election where Muslims account for 22-24 % of votes are being woed by Rahul,Maya ,Mulayam at the same time.Every political party is playing the blame game on each other for the economis and education backwardness of Muslims .”My birthday (January 15) is just round the corner and unlike the past, we may not be able to celebrate it with the usual pomp and show, There is every possibility that the Election Commission will announce dates for the 2012 assembly elections, thereby bringing in the code of conduct,” she told a mammoth rally in Lucknow [ Images ] Sunday afternoon

Mumbai,December 18 :Controversial Pakistani actress Veena Malik, who had gone ‘missing’ from Friday morning while shooting for a film in Goregaon here, has been found at a hotel in Juhu in suburban Mumbai. “Veena Malik is in Oakwood hotel. She has registered in the hotel by her real name Zahida and she has
all the papers. She was unwell for a couple of days,” Machendra Bodke of Juhu police station told media persons.

New Delhi,December 18 :THE CBI has booked 20 Gujarat policemen, including three IPS officers, on the charge of killing Ishrat Jahan and three others in a fake encounter seven years ago.

The CBI’s Mumbai unit has registered a case of murder and destruction of evidence against the then joint commissioner ( crime branch, Ahmedabad) P. P. Pande, former assistant commissioners G. L. Singhal and N. K. Amin, besides former DIG ( crime branch) D. G. Vanzara.

Vanzara and Amin are accused in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case as well.

Chennai, December 16: More than a thousand employees are being evacuated from an IT park near Chennai after the police received a phone call warning of a bomb.

The complex houses the training centre of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).

A special police squad has been rushed to the site. TCS is India’s biggest exporter of software services.

Hyderabad, December 15: In the last 15 years chilkur Balaji Temple Known as the visa temple, the Chilkur Balaji temple, about 35 km west of Hyderabad, has a large following of people for whom the rise and fall in the value of the dollar matters a great deal. The temple on Wednesday launched a special daylong prayer to alleviate the dollar crunch and in

the process arrest the fall of the rupee vis-à-vis the US currency.

Hundreds of people wanting to go abroad throng this prayer house, generally seeking the Lord’s intervention in getting the visa.

Badauan, December 15: Playing the Muslim card, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that minorities were not getting any benefits in Uttar Pradesh and accused the Mayawati government of ignoring their welfare.

“Sachar committee report (on welfare of minorities) was implemented and money for minorities was sent, but has UP benefited. The report is being implemented in other states like Haryana, Delhi and Maharashtra,” Rahul said in a rally on the second day of his tour of western UP.

Gandhinagar,December 14 :THANKS to the grit of a teenaged girl, an age- old tradition stands challenged at Vadia village in north Gujarat’s Banaskantha district.

Locals belonging to the Sarania community have taken the cue from her and agreed to marry their daughters off instead of pushing them into flesh trade.

Come March 2012, the village will witness its first ever community marriage in which at least 10 girls will tie the knot.

New Delhi,December 13 : Bihar’s Sushil Kumar, who made headlines when he became the first contestant to win Rs.5 crore on ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati 5’, hasn’t received his prize money yet. Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, host of the show, says the former’s cheque is ready, but he wants it at the CNN-IBN Award ceremony.

‘People asking why Sushil Kumar not paid his KBC win.. cheque ready, but he wants it at CNN-IBN Award ceremony in Delhi on 16th ..,’ tweeted Big B.

Mumbai,December 13 :Mahek Chahal had ugly fights with her “Bigg Boss” inmate Akashdeep Saigal and things became so unpleasant between them that a patch up had to be effected. Many felt that she got the special treatment because of the game show’s co-host Salman Khan, but the model-actress denies this.
“It is not right to say that Salman has been favouring me. I share a very nice relationship with him but that doesnt mean he is biased towards me,” Mahek told IANS on phone from Mumbai after being voted out of the show.

Mumbai,December 13 :Twenty five billion dollars, sitting free and idle and earning little return, can lead to a lot of speculation… even more so if the company holding it is Reliance Industries (RIL). That’s perhaps why it has been forced to issue official denials to quell two rumours of big buyouts. The first was the buzz that it’s making a hostile bid to acquire Valero Energy, the world’s largest oil refiner.

Hyderabad,December 12 :OSTENSIBLY in favour of constituting an autonomous Telangana Regional Council ( TRC) as a solution to the imbroglio over a separate state, the Congress high command is believed to have initiated backroom negotiations with Telangana Rashtra Samithi ( TRS) president K. Chandrasekhara Rao to convince him to accept the proposal.

According to sources, the AICC’s top leaders recently opened a hotline with KCR and have been continuously negotiating with him since.

London, December 11: VEENA Malik says the stress caused by the FHM India scandal has aged her.

The Pakistani model- actress, who is suing the publishers of the magazine, claims the cover was doctored to make her appear nude when she actually posed in clothes.

But she has revealed that since launching her lawsuit, she has been threatened in an attempt to get her to drop it. Malik said: “ I feel completely cheated.

Lucknow, December 11: THOUGH history is not on her side, Iram Khan, the lone female contender for the top post at the Aligarh Muslim University students union, is hoping that she will be able to break new ground at the minority institution.

Voting for the student body concluded on Saturday evening. An estimated 92 per cent of the 18,207 voters exercised their franchise.

All eyes are on Iram, a student of B. A. LLB ( hons).

Lepaz, December 09: A teenage swimmer has been eaten alive by piranhas after he leaped into a Bolivian river infested with the fish.

The unnamed 18-year-old boy was drunk when he jumped out of a canoe in the town of Rosario del Yata, 400 miles north of the capital of La Paz.

Guayaramerin police officer Daniel Cayaya said the teen bled to death after the attack, which happened last Thursday. The incident emerged yesterday when it was reported by Erbol, a local radio station.

New Delhi, December 09: Hackers broke into the Congress’ official website and replaced part of Sonia Gandhi’s profile with some objectionable material in a cyber attack coinciding with the party chief’s birthday.

“The hackers could penetrate deep inside the website and changed one paragraph,” AICC Computer Department chief Vishwajeet Prithvijeet Singh said.

Singh said that Congress websites — aicc.org.in, congress.org.in — were subjected to the attack prompting the party to “put them down” this morning.

Washington,December 09 : Weeks after Anwar al-Awlaki was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, his father is sparking controversy as radical Muslim groups claim he is now supporting his son’s terror tactics against the West.

But in a statement released to CNN, Nasser al-Awlaki says his audio speech was misinterpreted.

“A media outlet recently misunderstood me to be endorsing violence, but that was not what I intended, nor is that what I have ever endorsed.” the elder al-Awlaki wrote in a statement released to CNN Thursday through the American Civil Liberties Union.

Mumbai,December 09: Pakistani actress and model Veena Malik’s father Malik Muhammad Aslam has condemned her for having posed nude on the front cover of FHM men’s magazine. Veena’s father stated that her act has brought shame to the country and has called upon the Pakistani authorities to take stringent action against his daughter.
But the newest stir is her father making a statement to British media on disowning her and how he wants her to be punished for what she has done!

New Delhi,December 08 :RAISING serious doubts over the police’s claims that he had recced Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore before the 2010 blast there, the family of 21- year- old Gayoor Ahmed Jamali on Wednesday pleaded his innocence, saying he had never left Bihar.

The suspected Indian Mujahideen ( IM) operative was arrested from his residence on November 24, but the local police in Madhubani had refused register an FIR against the arrest. The final- year student of almiyat at the Darul Uloom Ahmadiya Salfiya, Darbhanga, has no criminal record at the local police station.

London,December 08 :A teenage stewardess became pregnant with a married captain’s baby after they took British Airways’ Hug A Pilot scheme a bit too far.

The airline bosses, with the motto ‘To Fly, To Serve’, had ordered the cabin crew to socialise with cockpit colleagues to boost their morale.

It is believed that the stewardess slept with the captain earning 100,000 plus pounds-a-year during a boozy stopover between flights.

“The Hug A Pilot edict was not supposed to lead to this,” the Sun quoted an insider as saying.

Nagpur,December 07: Former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam on Tuesday revealed that former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao had asked him to make preparations for nuclear tests, which were subseuqently conducted (at Pokhran) during the NDA government, headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Kalam was addressing the probationers at the National Academy of Direct Taxes (NADT) here.

The former President said that in May 1996, he had received a call from Narasimha Rao asking to meet him at the earliest.