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New delhi,August 28 :Anna Hazare will end his 12-old-day fast at 10 am on Sunday after Parliament endorsed in principle three of his key demands to deal with corruption in a compromise between government and the Gandhian.

Both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha went out of their way to discuss in a special sitting on Saturday an issue thrown up by the campaign of the 74-year-old activist who has been demanding enactment of Jan Lokpal for which he started a fast from August 16.

Tripoli,August 28 :ABIZARRE photograph album filled page to page with pictures of Condoleezza Rice was found at the compound of Muammar Gaddafi.

Gaddafi had previously hinted at a serious admiration for US’ former secretary of state.

In an interview with Al- Jazeera in 2007, he had said: “ I support my darling black African woman. I admire and am very proud of the way she leans back and gives orders to the Arab leaders.

… Leezza, Leezza, Leezza.

Tripoli,August 26 :A grisly scene was discovered in Tripoli today, when reporters came across a former Gadhafi camp in central Tripoli where pro-regime fighters were found massacred, including a number that were bound before their execution.

In a discovery the UN termed “alarming,” a number of the victims were also found in the field hospital, having been executed there while receiving treatment for wounds. Reports have the death toll in this single incident at over 30.

New Delhi, August 24: Sheila Dikshit son and Delhi MP played an important role in bringing congress and Anna camp, a meeting between Kejeriwal and Salman Khursheed was held in Sandeep house.

Hours before the government on Tuesday offered to talk with Anna Hazare, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit met the Prime Minister to discuss the growing public sentiment in favour of the activist’s hunger strike.

Dikshit conveyed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that everyone is against corruption, but the issue seems to have got entangled.

Lucknow, August 24: The Royal Family of Awadh has extended its support to Anna Hazare’s anti-corruption movement. And have decided not to celebrate Eid as a mark of their protest this year.

General secretary Royal Family of Awadh (RFA) Sikoh Azad on Tuesday said, “Nearly 20,000 RFA members will not celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr to express solidarity to Anna Hazare’s crusade against graft.” He added that members of the royal family would go to Delhi to take part in Hazare’s campaign. Regarding Jan Lokpal Bill, Azad said that Jan Lokpal Bill will help in bringing a change for the royal families.

Kharagpur,August 23 :LENDING support to Anna Hazare’s campaign for a stronger Lokpal, a section of students at IIT- Kharagpur on Monday refused to accept degrees from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The PM was at the institute to address its 57th convocation programme.

New Delhi and Lucknow,August 24 :THEIR heart is with Anna Hazare but their mind refuses to accept the anti- corruption crusader’s mode of protest.

Muslim and Dalit organisations supported Anna’s fight against corruption, but feared that the Sangh Parivar could hijack the campaign. They also warned him about it.

Hyderabad: The Congress party faced another political crisis in Andhra Pradesh on Monday as 24 legislators resigned their assembly seats to protest the inclusion of late chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy as a conspirator in a case filed against his son and party rebel Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, who has been charged with amassing wealth disproportionate to his income when the senior Reddy was in power.

Srinagar,August 22 :An inquiry report into unmarked graves conducted by the SSP of the state human rights commission, Bashir Ahmad Yatoo, have detected that there are 2,156 unidentified bodies buried in 38 graveyards across five districts of north Kashmir.

This excludes 574 bodies that were buried as unidentified but later identified as those of locals. The probe has also found 18 mass graves and detected 20 charred bodies and five skulls.

New Delhi, August 22: Team Anna is desperately trying to keep itself immune from RSS influences. After a series of brainstorming, the Core Committee of India Against Corruption has come out with a strategy to counter communal forces.

The strategy includes emphasis on using more and more symbols of communal harmony and giving programs to strengthen it.

Jaipur,August 21: Rajasthan’s additional director general of police A. K. Jain, then chief of the special operation group, announces a reward of ` 25,000 on bootlegger Dara Singh.

New delhi,August 21 :THE GROUP of interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir has advised the government to release those militants who have no serious charges against them and to expedite the cases of the undertrials.

The Union home ministry revealed this in response to a Right to Information ( RTI) application filed by M AIL T ODAY . The ministry said the three interlocutors — Dileep Padgaonkar, Professor Radha Kumar and M. M. Ansari — wanted the state government to permit peaceful protests by civilians.

Hyderabad,August 21:Cornered by CBI probe into his assets, Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, MP, today made his mother Y S Vijayamma write a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pleading to “bring some semblance of justice, sanity and fair play” in the ongoing investigation. In a five-page letter to the Prime

Minister, the late YSR’s widow attacked Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and asked if the CBI investigation against her son was not a clear case of “witch-hunting and political vendetta”.

New delhi,August 21: DEEP FISSURES have emerged between the government and the Congress party over the “ inept” handling of the Anna Hazare issue.

Those belonging to the Rahul Gandhi camp have been quite vocal, of late, in their criticism of the failure of the partyled government to control the situation and letting it escalate out of control.

Party leaders are especially angry at the way the Gandhian social activist was arrested and which, in fact, led to the groundswell of support in his favour.

Hyderabad, August 21 :Naxals who were frustrated with NDA led government at centre from 1997-2004 were instrumental in getting congress elected from their stronghold and then an olive branch was offered to them for talks which failed miserablly.Out of 100 odd Naxals who came out of their hideouts 96 were gunned down in Andhra pradesh.Observers of the Maoist movement said there are serious lessons to be learnt from Anna Hazare’s anti- corruption campaign that has pushed large sections of urban India on to the streets.

Islamabad,August 19 :The time may have come for an Anna Hazare type campaign against corruption in Pakistan, the Dawn newspaper said Thursday.

An editorial in the mass circulation paper said that parallels can be drawn between India and Pakistan on the issue of corruption.

“Pakistan is perceived as corrupt not just by the public mindset but also in the findings of international watchdogs that keep track of such matters,” it said.

New delhi,August 18:In a late night breakthrough in the deadlock between Anna Hazare and Delhi police over the duration of his anti-corruption protest, the Gandhian accepted the offer for 14 days of hunger strike beginning on Thursday at the Ramlila Maidan.

Bhopal 18:The family of slain Right To Information (RTI) activist Shehla Masood accused the police on Wednesday of selling a suicide theory and demanded a CBI probe into her death. Unidentified miscreants shot Masood, in the neck, from a point-blank range on Tuesday morning when she was boarding her car outside her residence at the upscale Koh-e-Fiza locality.

Some police officers had suggested the injury resulting in Masood’s death might have been ‘self-inflicted’. Medico-Legal Institute director DS Badkur made a similar observation.

New Delhi,August 17 :The growing TSUNAMI and countrywide protests against the arrest of Anna Hazare, who was sent to Tihar Jail on seven days’ judicial custody, the government did a u-turn and decided to release the Gandhian crusader hours after his incarceration.

Hazare was arrested on Tuesday morning, shortly before he was to undertake an indefinite fast to demand an all-new Lokpal Bill. He refused to accept the conditions set by the police and was arrested along with seven other associates.

New delhi,August 17: Team Anna and the Delhi police were close to an agreement on the number of days for Anna Hazare’s fast to push for a strong Lokpal Bill, police sources said late Wednesday.

According to Delhi police sources, as per a new agreement, Hazare has been given three weeks to stage the protest.

Earlier, the police had given him seven days, which was extendable, while Team Hazare was demanding a month.

New delhi,August 18 :Congress which was handling the country political destiny for more than 45 years by posponing crucial decisions have now run out of strategy ,The blue blood politicians who dont have grass root support but are very close to gandhi family are making final and illogical decisions which are proving very dangerous for the party look at two important decisions take by these convent educated and saavy leaders like the demand of telangana where more than 700 students have commited suicide and the high command is taking the side of rich Andhra leaders who are prevaling the postpon

NEW DELHI,aUGUST 17: Anna Hazare has declined government’s release order. He demanded an unconditional permission from government to continue his indefinite fast at JP Park.

Earlier, Hazare and some of his close associates were arrested and prevented from going ahead with their indefinite fast demanding a “strong” Lokpal in defiance of the prohibitory orders, an action that came under attack from political parties and triggered protests by supporters across the country.

Cochin,August 16 :1,00,000 CRORES TREASURE AND The stargazers have taken over. Speaking through them, Sree Padmanabhaswamy, the presiding deity of Thiruvananthapuram ( in picture), has made it known that he is not amused by the opening of the temple’s underground cellars which has revealed him as the nation’s richest god.

Wagah, August 15: Even after 63 years of becoming independent countries indo pak army and politicians on both sides of the border have a lot of ego and inferiority complex.
As Indian and Pakistan troops exchanged sweets on Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district on Independence Day, the celebrations were marred by violation of ceasefire from across the border in Samba sector in J&K.

The eternal Bollywood romanticist Shammi Kapoor had a cherished tryst which he will never be able to keep. The ‘Yahoo’ boy as he was popularly known here, was scheduled to visit Kashmir next month — a locale which he made famous in the length and breadth of India through his movies — to stay at a hotel where he started his romance with the Valley during the shooting of Kashmir Ki Kali. But to the disappointment of his fans here, the actor will never make that trip and his death was deeply mourned by a dedicated group of Shammi fans.