wajid Durban,November 23 :THE POLYGAMOUS king of Swaziland has kicked his twelfth wife out of his royal palace following claims she cheated on him with one of his friends, it was reported on Sunday.
Officials working for King Mswati III, 43, ordered Nothando Dube, 23, to vacate her official residence the previous week, a report in South Africa’s Sunday Times said.
New Delhi/Ahmedabad, November 22: Truth out despite govt’s bid to derail Ishrat probe Though it got many opportunities to find the truth, the state police failed to find out whether the encounter in which
Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed was fake or not. It needed an SIT appointed by the Gujarat high court to uncover the truth about the criminal role of the Ahmedabad crime branch.
New delhi,November 21 :Family members of Ishrat Jehan, who was killed in a fake encounter in Gujarat in 2004 along with three others, today demanded capital punishment for the accused policemen and sought explanation from chief minister Narendra Modi over the issue.
The Gujarat high court-appointed SIT
concluded that the controversial police encounter with Ishrat and three others was “fake” as they were killed prior to the incident.
New Delhi,November 21 :SUSPENDED IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt on Sunday again took on the Narendra Modiled Gujarat government calling it a “ laboratory for politics of hatred”. Bhatt said Gujarat had been turned into a laboratory for the politics of hatred that culminated in the 2002 riots. However, Bhatt who is in the Capital for a seminar, expressed confidence that the victims of the 2002 communal violence will get justice even though it might be delayed.
NEW Delhi,November 21 :ON A bright Sunday morning, BJP patriarch L. K. Advani pitched his tent bang in the middle of Ramlila Maidan — the site where Anna Hazare’s agitation had earlier brought forth corruption as the central political issue against the UPA.
Reading out a collective pledge against black money by NDA MPs at a rally to mark the culmination of his 40- day- long Jan Chetna Yatra, this was Advani’s most forceful effort to resist attempts to edge him out of the PM race.
Srinagar,October 21 :A LITTLE over 20 years ago when Kashmir was burning in insurgency and desperate security forces were trying to douse the fire, army soldiers allegedly gang- raped over 30 women at Kunan Poshpora village in Kupwara district.
There were 34 petitioners against the incident — all describing in gory details the army brutality — on the intervening night of February 23 and 24, 1991.
Mumbai,Octoner 19 :Commercial sex workers from Nagpada’s red light area have helped the police nab a man who came to Mumbai from West Bengal last week to force his wife into prostitution.
“We have arrested Lallan Ayub Sheikh, 24, who hails from Murshidabad in West Bengal and rescued his wife Ayesha, 21, (name changed to protect her identity),” said senior police inspector Sanjay Kadam of the Nagpada police station on Tuesday.
New Delhi,October 19 :Starlet’s book ‘blows cover’ on Bollywood casting couch.AN ISRAEL- based model and Bollywood struggler — Rina Golan — has ruffled quite a few feathers in the film industry with her new book Dear Mr Bollywood: How I Fell In Love With India, Bollywood And Shah Rukh Khan , in which she has named many prominent celebrities who allegedly indulge in casting couch. The book was released at the ongoing MAMI film festival in Mumbai.
He had hoped to guard ex- IMF chief if he became prez.A POLICE chief who hoped to guard Dominique Strauss- Kahn if he became President of France organised an orgy with him in a Paris hotel, it was claimed on Monday.
The senior officer is also said to have accompanied prostitutes to New York to meet up with Strauss- Kahn when he was in charge of the International Monetary Fund.
The well- sourced allegations about Jean- Christophe Lagarde are not only deeply embarrassing for Strauss- Kahn, but point to wide- scale corruption at the heart of French political life.
Karachi,October 19 :Former Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi on Tuesday came out of retirement saying he is available for selection for the limited-over formats now that a new chairman is in charge of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
Afridi, who led his country to World Cup semi-finals earlier this year, announced his retirement two months later after he was stripped of the ODI captaincy following a spat with coach Waqar Younis and former PCB chairman Ijaz Butt.
New Delhi,October 19: Indicating hardening of stand against Prashant Bhushan, Anna Hazare today took an indirect dig at the lawyer-activist saying some people talk “incoherent” things about Kashmir though they cannot do anything on ground.
“Some people talk incoherent things about Kashmir related issues… Today once again if I have to, am ready to take part in war against Pakistan. But some people can only speak and don’t do anything on ground (for Kashmir) and this is unfortunate,” he said on his blog as he continued his indefinite “silence”.
Jerusalem, October 18: The first convoy of Palestinians to be freed by Israel under a landmark prisoner swap, in exchange for soldier Gilad Shalit, left prison early Tuesday heading for the West Bank, public radio reported.
The 96 freed Palestinians were to be followed by three other convoys which would soon be heading to the Kerem Shalom Israeli army post which lies near the Israel-Gaza border, the radio report added.
In total 477 Palestinian detainees are due to be released on Tuesday.
New Delhi,October 17 :THE sarpanch (village headman) of activist Anna Hazare’s village is scheduled to meet Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi on Tuesday on an invitation from the latter. “Congress MP E.T. Kamath had visited Ralegaon Siddhi earlier this year and he was impressed with the progress of the model village,” sarpanch Jaisingrao Mapari said. Ralegan Siddhi, in Ahmednagar district, some 280 kms from Mumbai, was reeling under drought, poverty, debt, and unemployment till 1975, when Anna Hazare mobilised the people and started a host of projects.
Gorakhpur,October 17 :Expressing surprise at the suggestion made by Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan that a referendum should be held in Kashmir, the RSS today said he is speaking the language of separatists.
RSS General Secretary Suresh Bhaiyyaji Joshi said the Sangh Parivar can never agree to a referendum in Kashmir.
“Kashmir is an integral part of India. We cannot accept any such suggestion. The people of this country will never agree to it. This is the language and vocabulary of the separatists. It is very surprising that such language has been used (by Bhushan),” he said.
Mumbai,October 16 :Mumbai Police has no clue about the files on the man it claims is a drug lord and one of the key perpetrators of the 1993 serial blasts
HE IS said to be the country’s biggest drug lord wanted for crimes ranging from murder to involvement in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.
Yet when Scotland Yard finally arrested Iqbal Mirchi on a murder charge, police officers in Mumbai weren’t exactly jumping with joy.
New york,October 16 :APPLE’S new Siri voice- control system includes a pre- programmed response that brings up contacts for local prostitutes, sorted by how near they are to you using the phone’s GPS system.
If you say, “ I am horny” or “ Do I make you horny?” to the handset, it brings up numbers of nearby “ escort” services.
Other requests for escorts bring up statements including “ Bad Boy! Looking for escorts”, users found.
If you ask the handset for hard drugs such as cocaine or heroin, the handset recommends nearby rehab centres instead.
Lucknow,October 16 :Rss which was proclaiming from roop tops that its is financing ANNA movement against corruption has given a veiled threat of withdrawing its support to ANNA movement .
ANGRY at Anna Hazare’s denial of RSS support to his movement, Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday issued a veiled threat that the Sangh could withdraw its support to the activist, which would cause his movement to fizzle out.
Hyderabad,October 16 :There were many warnings given by Telangana leaders about the siege of the region would only paralyse the entire state economy. With the indefinite Sakala Janula Samme, which was started on 13 September and still going strong, the warning ceases to be one and has become a reality. The shortage of power generation caused by the ongoing samme is spelling doom for the industry and has the agriculture in dire straits.
New Delhi, October 11: A meeting of the Congress Core Group will be held this evening to decide on the final position on the issue of a separate state of Telangana, party sources said.
The Core Group meeting is being held in wake of a threat by Congress MPs from Telangana region that they would intensify their agitation unless the Centre takes an early decision on the issue.
Several rounds of consultations have been held by the party top brass over the past few days on the issue of Telangana.
Mumbai, October 11: Many may think that with her upcoming film The Dirty Picture grabbing a lot of eyeballs, even before its release, Vidya Balan would celebrate Dussehra this year with much pomp and show. The truth however, was something entirely different. The actress was admitted to a hospital on the very day.
I FIRST heard Jagjit Singh at Amitabh Bachchan’s residence way back in 1976.
Symptoms such as loss of memory become dangerous when they occur in persons in power or at least in power brokers and troubleshooters on whom the all-powerful rely. Seeing the NDTV interview of Pranab Mukherjee, one suspects that problems are in store for Mrs. Sonia Gandhi and her young (actually 40-year old) son and heir, Rahul.
New Delhi,OCTOBER 09 :RSS CHIEF Mohan Bhagwat’s admission that his outfit was actively involved in Anna Hazare’s movement snowballed into a controversy on Friday, with the Congress attacking the Gandhian for his saffron links.
Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, who was the first AICC general secretary to allege that Hazare’s anti- graft agitation was propped up by the RSS, led the charge saying that his stand has been vindicated.
New Delhi, October 09 : The Centre appears to have gone into overdrive to settle the Telangana issue after the Andhra Pradesh governor met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today and pressed for prompt action to stop the situation from spiralling out of control.
Congress sources said indications were the leadership was making up its mind to form a separate state, nearly two years after the Centre’s midnight announcement on initiating the process of Telangana statehood had triggered a political mutiny in the rest of Andhra.
Washington, October 07: CIA has entrenched itself in Pakistan-Afganistan for the last 30 years.Its was Western countries and especially American which took up the challenge in training Taliban recently the wikileaks have come out with documents on how CIA helped Rabbani Network both financially and technologically.