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London,October 05 : The Taj Mahal will collapse within five years unless urgent action is taken to fix its rotting foundations, campaigners warn.

The 358-year-old marble mausoleum is India’s most famous tourist attraction, bringing four million visitors a year to the northern city of Agra.

But the river crucial to its survival is being blighted by pollution, industry and deforestation.

Campaigners believe the foundations have become brittle and are disintegrating.

Mumbai,October 05 :Anna is at war mood again this time he warning is directed towards congress party which is dilly dialling on the Jan Lok Pal bill for the last three months.Anna Hazare, who led India’s largest street protests against corruption in decades, said on Tuesday he plans a hunger strike against the ruling Congress party during state elections in Uttar Pradesh next year if the anti-graft Jan Lokpal Bill is not quickly passed.

Mumbai,October 04 :Raj Thackeray is flexing his muscles because of impending muncipal elections in Mumbai early next year,Now Raj is targeting North Indians his target is now shifted from Muslims to North Indians.Blaming the north Indian migrants from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar for the auto strike that inconvenienced thousands of Mumbaikars Monday, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena Chief Raj Thackeray lashed out against them with renewed vigour Tuesday.

Amethi,October 04 : Supporters of India’s anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare has started a fresh campaign by targeting Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi constituencies in Amethi to garner support for the passage of the Jan Lokpal Bill.

Hazare supporters initiated a survey to determine the vote bank for Gandhi and the Congress party, during the next general elections, in case the Congress Party fails to pass the people’s Ombudsman Bill in the Parliament.

Hyderabad,October 04 :As the indefinite strike by all sections of Telangana people completed three weeks on Monday, with no signs of any decision by the Centre on the demand for a separate Telangana state, the border between Andhra and Telangana region in Nalgonda district looked like a battle zone. Angry Telangana agitators went on a rampage against private buses coming from Vijayawada to Hyderabad, shattering the glass-panes of more than 20 buses in heavy stone-pelting.

New Delhi, October 04 : A 58-year-old man was arrested here for cheating around 4,000 people across India by inducing them to make investments in his company, police said Monday.

Akhtar Ansari, resident of Pant Nagar in south Delhi, was arrested Sunday, Additional Commissioner of Police Ajay Chaudhry said, adding they had received a total of 465 complaints against him already and more were coming in.

Ansari created a website of ‘Anjak Overseas’, which claimed that his family ‘has been a major business group in British Colombia (Canada) for 30 years’.

Lucknow,October 03 :Bjp which got a temporary lease of life after UPA 2 got into a muddle due to many scandals like 2 g,cwg etc etc is now facing internal dissension.BJP IS a divided house when it comes to who will be party’s prime ministerial candidate. The national leadership has been ducking the issue but local leaders are quite vocal about it.

Two groups belonging to rival Uttar Pradesh BJP leaders, Satish Mahana and Radhey Shyam Pandey, engaged in a violent clash in Kanpur on Sunday in which at least four workers were injured.

New Delhi,October 03 :“The Bill needs only simple majority. But, if the NDA supports the Bill it will be passed with two-thirds majority. So it is the Congress which has to decide, not others,” he said.

The young TRS MLA said his father and Kothandaram would present the “right picture” to the Prime Minister when they meet him on the situation in the Telangana region.

He alleged that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has not been providing the “right picture” to the Centre and has been “misleading” everyone by his public statements.

Mumbai, October 03 :It’s almost a ‘Bachna ae haseeno’ moment in the ‘Bigg Boss’ house this season. Thirteen beauties from different walks of life entered the fifth edition of the controversial reality show, with Bollywood villain Shakti Kapoor in tow Sunday night. What will add ‘double dhamaal’ is hero Salman Khan and ‘khalnayak’ Sanjay Dutt’s chemistry as the hosts.

The women contestants are an eclectic mix – controversial models, actresses, a wrestler, as well as a proud transgender.

Hardoi,October 01:Yoga guru Ramdev has said that had he not fled from the Ramlila ground in Delhi during the police crackdown in the wee hours on June 5, he too would have met the same fate as Rajbala.

In reply to a question from one of his followers in Hardoi on Friday, Ramdev claimed he would have been killed had he not fled from the Ramlila maidan.

“I would not have been here among you had I not fled that day,” he said. Ramdev is currently undertaking a ‘Swabhiman Yatra’ and is touring various districts of Uttar Pradesh.

Ajmer,September 26 :Life of an ordinary citizen specially the poorer sections of the society is becoming very difficulty the latest example is the dog entering the labour room and eating the new born kid.At a time when the government has just launched a special scheme for expectant mothers and newborns in the state, a street dog managed to enter the labour room of the government hospital at Kishangarh town and took away a newborn on Saturday. The body of the infant was later recovered by the hospital staff and relatives.

Islamabad,September 26 : Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday called back foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar from the US amid strained ties with Washington following an accusation that Pakistan was supporting the Haqqani terror network.

Khar was called back for consultations over the strained relationship between Pakistan and the US, Online news agency quoted sources as saying.

New Delhi,September 26 : Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday said home minister P Chidambaram should be in jail for his alleged involvement in the 2G spectrum scam.

“The proof against Chidambaram is overwhelming. He should be in jail with A Raja,” BJP leader Yashwant Sinha told reporters here.

He also said the prime minister acted on Chidambaram’s advice on the 2G spectrum allocation, and his silence showed his approval.

Chidambaram was the finance minister at the time the spectrum was allocated in 2008.

New Delhi,September 25 :Three-day exhibition of Quran in 53 languages closed on Day 2, 56 detained at Daryaganj police station .The three-day Quran exhibition put up by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat-Delhi at the Constitution Club was cut short on Saturday, the second day of exhibition, after protests by Muslims.

Newyork,September 25 :2G scam is taking its tool on UPA 2 govt which is facing one scandal after another scandal.Not only UPA allies are facing trouble buts congress party wo Minister are throwing their faces in towels.Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has arrived here for a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the 2G spectrum issue in the wake of a Finance Ministry note involving P. Chidambaram.

Mukherjee arrived here from Washington rescheduling his travel plans ahead of his return home on Sunday evening.

Srinagar, September 25 :With annual exams less than a month away, they have unnecessarily wasted my 12 days of study.” These were the first words of Shariq Ahmed to his father when he was released by the Jammu and Kashmir Police at Kishtwar last night, less than 24 hours after the cops had secured his remand for a further six days.

Hyderabad,September 25 :The striking employees of the electricity department in Telangana have threatened to cut power supply to the houses and offices of Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy and other ministers in Hyderabad.

As the indefinite ‘people’s strike’ demanding separate statehood to Telangana entered the 12th day Saturday, the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of electricity employees said they would resort to power cuts if the government failed to respond favourably to the demand.

Mumbai,September 24 : Renowned ghazal singer Jagjit Singh was admitted to a hospital here today after he suffered a brain hemorrhage and is in a critical state, doctors attending to him said.
Doctors at the Lilavati Hospital in suburban Bandra performed a life-saving surgery on him, hospital sources said.

Singh (70) is under observation and is stated to be in critical condition, they said. Sources also say a medical bulletin will be released on Saturday afternoon.

Mr Singh was admitted just hours before he was to perform with another Ghazal maestro, Ghulam Ali in Mumbai.

Bhopal, September 23: The funeral procession of late former Indian cricket captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi began from his home here with sobbing family members, friends and several celebrities paying their last respects before his burial which will be held on Friday in Pataudi.

The former captain, who would forever be remembered for leading India to their maiden Test series triumph abroad, died on Thursday due to a lung infection at the age of 70.

Gandhinagar, September 23: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the procedure to get visas should be relaxed for Pakistanis wanting to visit Ajmer Sharif shrine.

Modi was inaugurating the annual convention of Indian Association of Tour Operators XXVII IATO at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar on Thursday when he suggested this to Union Tourism Secretary R H Khwaja, who was present at the event.

Mumbai,september 21 :Kareena Kapoor won’t celebrate her birthday this year. The superstar, who turns 31 on September 21, has decided to cancel all celebrations owing to the ill health of Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, father of her actor- boyfriend Saif Ali Khan.

Kareena had earlier planned a grand bash on Wednesday, to mark a double celebration.

Apart from her birthday, Kareena was also in the mood to toast the blockbuster success of her latest release, the Salman Khan- starrer Bodyguard , which opened in August on the occasion of Eid.

Mumbai,September 21 :Malaika Arora Khan, Bollywood’s undoubted item queen, may have become choosy about shaking her booty in solo dance sequences but she agreed to do an item number in Sajid Khan’s Housefull 2 . The song will be choreographed by Sajid’s sister Farah Khan. Farah had incidentally directed the moves of Chhaiyya chhaiya in 1998’ s Dil Se , the song that brought Malaika in the limelight, as well as Munni badnaam . Sajid had earlier wanted to rope in Karisma Kapoor for the item dance in question.

New Delhi,September 20 :Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has written a letter to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas assuring him of India’s “full support” for his country’s bid for statehood at the UN.

“India has always supported the Palestinian people in their pursuit of legitimate goals and for development with dignity and self reliance. I assure you of India’s full support in the United Nations,” Singh wrote in the letter to Abbas.

India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Hardeep Singh Puri read out the one-page letter at a briefing with Indian reporters.

New Delhi,September 20 : Pakistanis once worshipped Imran khan as a criceter is now seeing a new Khan in the shape of a crusader against American drone war in Afghanistan . Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has denounced Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari as “Hijda puppet” who has not delivered anything to the Americans, and said the US was going to “have to kill a lot of people to make any impact” in the war on terror.

ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has boasted of sleeping with eight women in one night.

Berlusconi, 74, made the claim in a bugged phone chat with businessman Giampaolo Tarantini, who allegedly recruited escort girls for his wild parties.