Month: June 2009

Advice for Obama: Visit India for ‘Jai Ho’ US policy

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Washington, June 12: The head of a Washington think tank has some unusual advice for President Barack Obama: visit India and see why ‘Jai Ho’ should be the key words of the US’ long- term foreign policy.

David Rothkopf, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and president and CEO of Garten Rothkopf, a Washington DC-based international advisory firm, has been so impressed with India despite its dichotomies that he says Obama could profit more by a trip to that country than the headline-grabbing Egypt visit of last week.

Bangalore police seize gold worth 60 million rupees

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Bangalore, June 12: Sleuths of Karnataka Police in Bangalore, who had arrested nine persons and seized from their possession stolen gold ornaments worth 60 million rupees, have managed to solve one of the sensational robberies in the recent past.

The Bangalore City’s Commissioner of Police S M Bidari disclosed this on Thursday.

A gang of burglars looted the ornaments on June 2 when they waylaid the manager of Muthoot Finance Company, a private non-banking company.

Aamir, John step into Depp’s shoes?

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Mumbai, June 12: Hollywood film-maker of Indian origin Nagendra Karri (whose last film Where Are You Sophia? was showcased at Cannes this year) is now making a thriller called Mobster in which superstar Johnny Depp is tipped to play a CIA agent. But what makes this project more interesting is that the director is plotting to remake the film in Hindi that might see Aamir Khan or John Abraham stepping into Johnny’s shoes.

Braless Posh braves London cold with nipple-flashing top

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London, June 12: After being an international style icon for years, Victoria Beckham, it seems, has lost her mojo.

After being an international style icon for years, Victoria Beckham, it seems, has lost her mojo.While stepping out in London on Wednesday, the singer-turned-fashion designer gave an eyeful- courtesy her protruding nipples, reports the Sun.

The former Spice Girl attended appointments in London after leaving Claridge’s hotel in Mayfair wearing a nipple-flashing top.

I resfused to let SRK share publicity with Jackky

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Mumbai, June 12: Producer Vashu Bhagnani’s war with his director Vivek Sharma just got murkier.

One of Vivek Sharma’s demands on his producer is to let Shah Rukh Khan share the publicity hoardings with debutant Jackky Bhagnani.

But Vashu protests, “Vivek had worked with Shah Rukh in Bhootnath. He came and told me he wanted to bring Shah Rukh into a cameo in Kal Kisne Dekha and now he wants it publicized. How can I single out Shah Rukh for prominence when there’re other big stars making guest appearances in Kal Kisna Dekha?

Recipe: Oat cookies

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Try out this lip smacking, easy to make recipe.

Ingredients:

1 Cup oats
1 egg
1/2 tsp Salt
1 1/2 Cup brown sugar
1 tsp Vanilla essence
1 Cup chopped pecans

Procedure:

Put oats in an oven at 200 degrees for 10 minutes.
Beat the egg.
Add salt and sugar.
Blend well.
Mix oats, vanilla and pecans.
Pour the mixture by teaspoonfuls on cookie sheets.
Bake at 200 degrees for 30 minutes.
Store in air tight containers.

Why Salman wants to be bhai-bhai with Shahrukh?

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Mumbai, June 12: The latest buzz in the Bollywood rumour mill is that actor Salman Khan wants to extend his friendly hand to Shahrukh Khan. Sallu bhai has gone a step further and planning to invite his arch rival rival Bollywood King Khan to his popular show 10 Ka Dum.

Buzz up!

Man axes two minor daughters

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New Delhi, June 12: Apparently fed up with strained relations with his wife, a 25-year-old man allegedly axed his two minor daughters to death at a
village here, on Friday police said.

Yogesh Sharma murdered his two daughters – Aarti (4) and one-and-half-year-old Priyanshi – with a sharp edged weapon on Thursday when his wife Rinki was not present in the house at Jever village in Gautam Buddha Nagar district, Superintendent of Police (Rural) S K Verma said.

Recipe: Chilli Paneer

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Try out the delightful Chilli Paneer recipe.

Ingredients:

• 600 gm Paneer (Prepare small Paneer balls)
• 5 tbsp Corn Flour
• Green chilli (10 medium sizes)
• 2 tbsp Tomato Sauce
• 1 tbsp Chilli Sauce
• 2 tbsp Soya Sauce
• Salt to taste
• Oil for frying
• 1 Green Capsicum (chopped)
• 4 Onions

Procedure:

• Mix Paneer balls with corn flour fry it in a kadai till it become brown.
• In a separate kadai, fry onions till brown.
• Cut green chilli into small pieces and add it to fried onion.

Six-year-old is India’s latest swine flu case

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Hyderabad, June 12: India Friday reported one more swine flu patient, taking the number of cases to 16, with a six-year-old girl who had arrived here from the US testing positive for the H1N1 virus.

The samples of the girl, who arrived here along with her parents and six-month-old brother from New York on June 9, had tested positive for influenza A(H1N1), commonly known as swine flu, doctors said.

She has been quarantined and is being treated at the Andhra Pradesh Chest Hospital, the nodal centre for dealing with flu cases.

Dhokla

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Ingredients:

• 1 Cup Moong Dal

• 2 Tsp Gram Flour

• 2 Green Chilies

• 2 Tbsp Chopped Cabbage

• 2 Tbsp Chopped Carrots

• 2 Tsp Fruit Salt

• 1 Tbsp Fresh Curds

• A Pinch Asafetida

• Salt to Taste

Method:

• Soak moong dal for two hours and drain the water.

• Add little water and green chilies.

• Grind the mixture in a mixer.

• Add gram flour, asafetida, curds and salt.

• Add fruit salt and mix properly.

• Sprinkle with chopped cabbage.

• Steam cook for about 10 minutes.

Shami Kabab

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Ingredients:
• ½ Kg Minced Meat
• 2 Tbsp Channa Dal
• 1 Tsp Cumin And Coriander Powder
• 1 Tsp Garam Masala
• 6 Garlic Flakes
• 2 Pieces Cinnamon
• 3 Cloves
• 1 Piece Ginger
• 2 Cardamoms
• 6 Pepper Seeds
• 2 Tsp Chili Powder
• 1 Bunch Coriander Leaves
• 1 Egg
• Lemon
• 2 Onions
• Oil for Frying
• Salt to Taste

Method:
• Wash and soak channa dal in water for 30 minutes.
• Wash and drain the minced meat.
• Mix the chana dal, whole spices, a cup of water and salt to taste. Cook well.

Chicken Roll Recipe

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Ingredients:

• 1 Cup Cooked Chicken

• 2 Tomatoes

• 2 Onions

• 2 Eggs

• 1 Tsp Ginger Garlic Paste

• 1 Tsp Garam Masala

• Few Tortillas

• 2 Tsp Oil

• Salt to Taste

• Chili Powder

Method:

• Wash, clean, cut and cook chicken.

• Cut onion and tomato separately.

• Sauté chopped onions in heated oil.

• Add ginger garlic paste and fry.

• Add tomato and chicken.

• Fry well and add the chili powder, salt to taste and garam masala.

• Sauté well and remove from flame.

Strawberry Watermelon Punch

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Ingredients:

• 1 Pint Strawberries

• 4 Cup Fresh Watermelon Juice

• ½ Tsp Pureed Ginger

• ½ Cup Sugar

Method:

• Wash and stem berries in cold water.

• Force through a food mill to separate seeds from the puree.

• Extract the fruit puree using nylon sieve.

• Combine all the Ingredients: in a jug, stir well and refrigerate for few hours.

Chicken Malai Kebabs Recipe

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Ingredients:

• ½ Kg Chicken Boneless

• ½ Cup Fresh Cream

• 1 Tsp Red Chili Paste

• 1 Tbsp Lemon Juice

• 1 Tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste

• 1 Tsp Garam Masala

• 1 Tsp Red Chili Powder

• 1 Tsp Cumin Powder

• 1 Tbsp Oil

• Salt to Taste

Method:

• Wash and clean chicken.

• Cut it into 1 inch pieces and make slits on all sides.

• Mix all Ingredients: along with chopped chicken pieces.

• Allow it to marinate over night.

• Refrigerate it after marinating for one hour.

Chicken Fry Recipe

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Ingredients:

Chicken – 1 kg
Chilly powder – 2 tbsp
Coriander powder – 2 tbsp
Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
Garam masala – 1 tbsp
Grinded Ginger – 1 tsp
Grinded Garlic – 1 tsp
Salt, Oil – As required
White part of egg – 3 eggs

Procedure:

1. Slice Chicken in big pieces and make cuts on them.

2. Mix Chilly powder, Coriander powder, Turmeric powder, Garam masala, Grinded Ginger, Garlic and marinate for 45 minutes.

3. Heat the Oil in a Kadai.

4. Dip Chicken pieces in egg white and deep fry.

An Indian Student Again Attacked In Australia

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Merborne, June 12: In yet another racial attack on Indians in Australia, a 22-year-old student was allegedly assaulted by a teenager in Adelaide after making “rude” comments about his turban.
Police said the student suffered a broken nose in the assault in Adelaide’s busy market area of Rundle Mall yesterday and that they have arrested a 17-year-old youth in this connection.

They said the attacker has been bailed to appear in the Adelaide Youth Court.

Congress steps up campaign against TRS

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Hyderabad, June 12: The Congress appears to be preparing for an all-out offensive against the Telangana Rashtra Samithi. Apparently taking a cue from Chief Minister YS Rajansekhara Reddy’s tirade against Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K Chandrasekhar Rao in the Assembly on Wednesday, ministers belonging to the Telangana region as well as PCC chief D Srinivas stepped up their campaign against the TRS.

Its Suggested To Lok Sahba Seats Increasing, Women’s Reservation Bill

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New Delhi, June 12: Raising the number of seats in the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies is being seen as a way out to arrive at a consensus on the Women’s Reservation Bill which is being opposed in the present form by some political parties.

Both the government and the Congress have made it clear that there would be no dilution of the proposed 33% reservation for women in Lok Sabha and in state assemblies.

Over a decade after the exercise started, there is no unanimity on how to go about with the task without antagonising various sections.

LeT man was setting up terror hub on Maha coast

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Mumbai, June 12: Terrorists are still trying to penetrate the country’s, especially Maharashtra’s, coastline. The November 26 terror attacks had exposed the vulnerability of the state’s porous coastline.

Mohammed Omar Madani, the Laskar-e-Tayiba operative arrested by officers of the special cell of Delhi police on June 4, has told them that his primary duty was to make inroads into the Konkan coast of Maharashtra and the Malabar coast of Karnataka. But in the course of interrogation, police learnt that Madani was entrusted with multiple tasks.

China cautions India on troop build-up near border

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Beijing, June 12: China on Thursday rejected suggestions that incursions by its troops into the Indian territory were on the rise, and cautioned India that any move to increase troop presence along the disputed border in Arunachal Pradesh “would only lead to a rivalry between the two countries.”

Brazil…Few Imams, Closed Mosques

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Cairo, June 12: Though Muslims enjoy a unique atmosphere of tolerance in Brazil, many of their mosques are closed because of the rarity of imams, something that threatens the Islamic identity of many Muslims, particularly the younger generations.
“One third of the mosques are closed due to the absence of imams,” Al-Sadiq Al-Othmani, head of the Islamic Affairs Department at the Sao Paulo-based Center of Islamic Da`wah in Latin America, told IslamOnline.net over the phone.

There are mosques in all the major capitals of the Brazilian states and some cities in the interior.

UP teen raped by father over 3 yrs

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Lucknow, June 12: A 15-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh has accused her father of raping her for three years and making her pregnant twice, police said on Thursday.

“The class 10 student, a resident of Mahadev Nagar in Aligarh district, alleged that her father forced her into an illicit relationship, threatening her,” police inspector Udaiveer Malik said over telephone from Aligarh.

Nand Kishore, who is absconding, is a lecturer at a college in Sonbhadra district. A case has been registered against him.

Akki meets his match in Kane

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Mumbai, June 12: Bollywood’s khiladi No. 1 Akshay Kumar met a bigger khiladi in size, at least in his Mumbai home yesterday morning. WWE superstar Kane, an idol of Akki’s son Aarav, visited the actor’s family, and the six-year-old was almost sleepless the night before, overcome with excitement.