Month: May 2009

Free Lipitor, Viagra, 70 other drugs for jobless

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Washington, May 15: The recession might be a little less painful for some Americans, who won’t lose their prescription medications if they lose their jobs.

Pfizer Inc. said Thursday it will give away more than 70 of its most widely prescribed drugs, including Lipitor and Viagra, for up to a year to people who have lost jobs since Jan. 1 and have been taking the drug for three months or more. The announcement comes as the unemployment rate topped 8.9 percent in April.

No face veil for Muslim women on Danish buses

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Muslim women who wear the face veil in Denmark will now have to bare their faces when their travel passes are being checked, Arriva — one of the country’s leading transport operators — said Tuesday.

“All bus companies have recently come to an agreement on this point as it is normal that passengers holding photo travel passes should identify themselves to the driver or the conductor,” Arriva spokesman Martin Wex said.

” I don’t drive with veiled women because I don’t drive with masked passengers ”
Bus driver

Bajaj Hindusthan issues warrants to promoters

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MUMBAI, May 14: Sugar producer Bajaj Hindusthan Ltd (BJHN.BO: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday said its board has approved issuing 14.5 million warrants to the promoters.

The warrants entitle its holder to one share each at a price of a minimum of 52.14 rupees each.

Shares in Bajaj Hindusthan were trading up 0.38 percent at 106.50 rupees in a weak Mumbai market.

Teen gang raped before being hanged by assailants: Police

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Lucknow, May 14: The teenaged girl allegedly hanged by six men here on Monday night in her residence was first gang raped by them, police sources said on Wednesday.

The autopsy report of the minor girl has revealed that she was first gang raped before being hanged to death, the sources said.

Police have not made any arrests in connection with the incident so far. A senior police official said they have developed some clues and were working on it.

Arrest warrants against Prabhakaran, Pottu in Kadirgamar case

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Colombo, May 13: Tamil Tiger supremo V Prabhakaran and his intelligence chief Pottu Amman were on Wednesday issued fresh arrest warrants by a Sri Lankan court in connection with the assassination of former foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, who was killed by a suspected LTTE sniper team in 2005.

This was the second time this year that the Colombo High Court had issued open warrants for arrest against the two LTTE leaders in the Kadirgamar case.

The court had earlier on January 26 issued the warrants for the two fugitives, also wanted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

At ur age hitler commited suicide

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Teacher : U failure !

At ur age Bill gates stood first in the class

Student : Mind u, Sir,

but at ur age hitler commited suicide

Ants will finish you

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a girl’s speaking 2 a boy……..
u r very handsome.
u r very cute.
u r very sweet.
ooph…….sorry.
i can’t call u sweet….
because ants will finish u.

Aik Pagal dusry se

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Aik Pagal: “Mujhe Katrina ne shadi k lye haan bol di hai”

Doosra: “Dikha di na usne apni auqat.
Main bhi itni asani se tallaaq nahi dunga.”

CIA and ISI together created Taliban, says Zardari

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Islamabad, May 11: In a new revelation, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the CIA of the United States and his country’s ISI together created the Taliban.

“I think it was part of your past and our past, and the ISI and CIA created them together,” Zardari told a television news channel in an interview.

In the interview, which was given on 7th May, Zardari also accused the US of supporting the military rule of Pervez Musharraf who was alleged to be taking sides of the Taliban.

BOYS NAMES

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Aaban
آبان
8th Persian month, angel of iron

Aabdar
آبدار
Bright, like glass.

Aabis
آبص
Lucky.

Aadheen
آدھین
Obedient, submissive.

Aafiya
عافیه
Good health; Bin Ayyub had this name; he was a narrator of Hadith

Aali
عالی
High, tall.

Aalim
عالم
Scholar Plural is ulama normally used for religious scholors

Aamil
عمل
Doer, Work man.

Aaqil
عاقل
Intelligent.

Aarib
آرب

Depressed Inter student commits suicide

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Hyderabad, May 11: An Intermediate second year student of Sri Chaitanya Junior College, Aushapur, committed suicide by hanging himself in the college bathroom on Sunday afternoon.

Ch Santosh Kumar, 17, of Korutla in Karimnagar district, was pursuing Intermediate II year (MPC stream) at Sri Chaitanya residential junior college in Aushapur village of Ghatkesar police limits.

After finishing classes at 12.30 pm, Santosh walked into a bathroom in the college premises and hanged himself with a plastic wire.

Baghare Baigan Recipe

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Find out how to make baghare baigan hyderabadi style which has coconut, tamarind and tadka of curry leaves.

Ingredients:

500 grams Brinjals
4 medium Onions
5 grams Ginger
2 nos. Garlic cloves
12 grams Coriander seeds
40 grams Sesame seeds
70 grams Peanuts
5 grams Cumin seeds
3 grams Poppy seeds
20 grams Dessicated coconut
2 grams Fenugreek seeds
2 grams Turmeric powder
5 grams Red chilli powder
6 grams Jaggery
75 grams Tamarind
4 grams Curry leaves
As per taste Salt
120 ml Oil

How to make baghare baigan:

FISH KORMA RECIPE

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Ingredients:

1 kg fish
1/2 cup curd
1/2 cup onion paste
2 tsp ginger paste
1 tsp garlic paste
1 tbsp coriander paste
6 cardamom
1 inch cinnamon
2 tsp salt
3/4 cup ghee or oil
6 green chilli
2 tbsp kewra
1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp lemon juice

Preparation:
Use large fish for korma.
Do not cut the fish into too small pieces.
Carp is great for Korma.
Except for the green chilles and kewra, add all the rest of stuff into the cooking dish. Mix well. Heat covered in low heat.
Turn over the fish once (be careful).

Teacher gifts student grenade on her wedding

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Phnom Penh, May 11: Cambodian police arrested a 37-year-old high school teacher after he allegedly sent a homemade hand grenade as an anonymous wedding present to a former student, local media reported Monday.

Police said Moung Chhavry admitted to sending the grenade to the bride, who he claimed to have had a relationship with when he was her grade 10 teacher, the Phnom Penh Post reported.

But the 21-year-old bride told police she had rejected his advances and was shocked to see her former teacher after he was arrested.

Moung faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

Shankaracharya calls Mallika Sherawat ‘Pure Soul’

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Mumbai, May 10: Calling Mallika Sherawat ”a pure soul,” Shreemad Jagadguru Shankaracharya Shree Shree Raghaveshwara Bharathi Swamiji, the 36th and present pontiff of Shree Ramachandrapura math, made a special invitation to Mallika Sherawat to visit his new ashram in Karnataka and organized a number of special pujas in her honor.

Police Inspector, SI held for bribe

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Hyderabad, May 09: ACB officials caught red-handed a Police Inspector today at his residence in Visakhapatnam while accepting a bribe of Rs two lakh from a complainant for doing an official favour.

Before U.S. Talks, Pakistan Claims Combat Gains

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Islamabad,May 09: Pakistan — As the president of Pakistan preparedfortalks in Washington on Wednesday, the security forces here, underAmericanpressure to show greater resolve in combating militants, claimed tohavekilledatleast 35 Taliban fighters in hotly contested areas of the country’s northwest.

SBI may raise Rs 20,000 cr

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Kolkata: State Bank of India might raise Rs 20,000 crore in 2009-10 preferably by way of a rights issue in order tofunditsgrowthneeds,according to its Chairman, O.P. Bhatt. Also see “We need capital for growth, andthere are many ways for raising it. We have various options of raising capital such as such as follow-on-offer, rights issue or preferential issue.
“Our preferred option will be the rights issue,” Bhatt told newspersonshere on Friday on the sidelines of the function held ontheoccasionofthereleaseof the book “The Evolution of StateBankofIndia,Vol4,19551980”.Morebankstories.

Nothin’ at all…says Bollywood’s ‘Badshah’ Shah Rukh Khan

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Bollywood’s reigning royal couple, Shah Rukh and Gauri Khan, are ensconced in a deeply comfortable cream leather couch in the living room of their beautiful home, casually dressed and exuding a zest for life which tells you why they command the love of millions.

We are at Mannat, a 7-storey mansion, in a living room that, with its sumptuous furniture, massive art pieces and oversized coffee tables strewn with silver champagne urns carrying imported wines, shows off the impeccable taste of the style diva that Gauri Khan is.

Security beefed up for Friday prayers

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Hyderabad May 08: Police force has been beefed up in Bholakpur as several mosques are located inthearea.WithlargeturnoutlikelyforFridayprayers,
police officials do not want to take any risk so increase the number of pickets. Six police pickets were set up on May 5, the day seven deaths were reported from the area. Two more pickets were added as a precautionary measure. Apart from the pickets, two mobile parties have also been deployed to keep tabs on the situation, Musheerabad station house officer P Venkata
Ramana told.

Saudi mulls child marriage law as divorces rise

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With skyrocketing divorce rates and a flurry of cases in which older men married young girls, Saudi Arabia is considering a new law to prohibit girls marrying before the age of 18, according to press reports Saturday.

Recognizing changes in contemporary society and the prevalence of divorce among girls married before they turn 18 years old, Justice Minister Mohamed al-Eissa declined to disregard fatwas that permit minor marriages but said that such religious rulings do not address its drawbacks.

Day temperature to fall further in Delhi

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New Delhi, May 06 : Delhiites will continue to enjoy a break from the scorching heat with meteorological officials today forecasting a further fall in day temperature.
The maximum temperature today will hover around 37 degrees Celsius, four degrees below the normal for this time of year. The minimum temperature settled at 24 degrees Celsius, an official at the Safdarjung met office said.
“Delhi will enjoy a pleasant weather with maximum temperature recording a downfall,” the official said.

India may come under pressure from US to sign NPT

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Washington, May 06: India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel should join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the global pact meant to limit the spread of atomic weapons, a senior US official said on Tuesday.

Speaking on the second day of a two-week meeting of the 189 signatories of the pact, assistant secretary of state Rose Gottemoeller also defended a US-India civilian nuclear deal, which developing nations have complained rewards New Delhi for staying outside the NPT.

“Pakistan’s Pants are on fire”: US Congressman

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Washington, May 06: The United States on Tuesday pressed Pakistan to confront Taliban militants whose influence is spreading in the nuclear-armed country but said it solidly supports Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.

“Pakistan must demonstrate its commitment to rooting out al Qaeda and the violent extremists within its borders,” Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said in prepared congressional testimony.