Month: June 2009

Dhoni refuses to take queries on Sehwag’s fitness

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Nottingham, June 10: India’s cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Tuesday refused to take any questions from the media on his deputy Virender Sehwag’s fitness.

Sehwag has been ruled out of the World Twenty20 due to an apparent shoulder injury and will return home.

On the eve of the match against Ireland, Dhoni was asked about Sehwag’s fitness and he said: “Whatever is related to fitness, you will get it from the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India).”

Cold war evident between Runway heroines

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Mumbai, June 10: Cold war evident between Runway heroines At the music launch of action thriller Runway at Geet Indo Afro pub on Monday June 8th evening, the cold war between its two female leads Tulip Joshi and Deepal Shaw was more than evident. We were witness to the two pretty ladies’ cold shoulder to each other.

Naidu hard sells TDP’s cash transfer scheme

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Hyderabad, June 10: Congratulating chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on coming back to power in the state, opposition leader and TDP president N
Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday suggested that the state government implement the cash transfer scheme (CTS), which was the his party’s main electoral plank in the 2009 election.

Why the BJP lost Elections-2009

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New Delhi, June 10: Most media pundits and Bharatiya Janata Party supporters were surprised with the party’s performance in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. It was always in doubt whether the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance would reach the magical figure of 272, but optimists believed that post-electoral alliances could help.

Lovebirds commit suicide in Lambi PS

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Chandigarh, June 10: Prodded into action by the enraged families of on-the-run lovebirds, cops were shocked into stunned silence on Tuesday when the
detained couple committed suicide inside Lambi police station. Ranjit Kaur, from Baazigar community, and Joga Singh, a Jat Sikh of Punjaba village near Lambi, consumed poison barely hours after they had been detained. While Ranjit died immediately, Joga succumbed in a hospital.

Hackers wipe 100,000 websites from hosting company Vaserv

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Washington, June 10: An English website hosting company may have lost the data for over 100,000 websites after hackers exploited a security vulnerability in software used to provide customers with hosting facilities.

According to Rus Foster, the company’s director, hackers managed to gain access to the root level of a key piece of software the company uses to provide its low-cost virtual website solutions.

“We were hit by a zero-day exploit” in HyperVM, a virtualization application made by LXLabs in Bangalore, India.

Sajid Nadiadwala back together with Salman Khan

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Mumbai, June 10: Sajid Nadiadwala back together with Salman Khan Salman Khan and producer Sajid Nadiawala’s association has been for five films in a row but then Sajid went on to make two back to back films with Akshay Kumar and left Salman alone. Buzz had begun in industry circles about a rift between the Sajid and Salman that lead to this. But now its confirmed that all bad talks were mere rumours as Sajid is all set to begin his next starring Salman in the lead.

Australian PM warns Indian students over revenge attacks

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Sydney, June 10: A second night of protests by Indian students over perceived racially motivated violence against them prompted Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to warn Wednesday against the formation of vigilante groups.
“I fully support hardline measures in response to any act of violence towards any student anywhere – Indian or otherwise,” Rudd said. “And furthermore we also need to render as completely unacceptable people taking the law into their own hands.”

‘Pregnant man’ gives birth to second baby

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Los Angeles, June 10: Thomas Beatie, the transgendered man who created history last year by giving birth to a baby girl, has done it again.

ABC News reported that Beatie gave birth to a son early Tuesday in Bend, Oregon, and that the child would be nursed by his wife, Nancy.

Beatie, 35, was born a woman, but legally changed his gender. He decided to get pregnant after it emerged that Nancy could not conceive. Photos of a bearded pregnant Beatie caused a sensation last year.

Tantra is not just sex: Upset Hindus tell actress Heather Graham

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Mumbai, June 10: Hindus have criticized actress Heather Graham and other “Hollywood types” who apparently think of Tantra as just sex.

Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Tantrism was a major channel in Indian religious traditions and besides Hinduism, it also exerted considerable influence on Buddhism and Jainism. Sankaracharya had mentioned the names of 64 Tantras.

South Africa beat New Zealand by 1 run

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London, June 10: South Africa rode on some excellent bowling to clinch a one-run win over New Zealand in a thrilling Group D clash of the ICC World
Merwe Twenty20 at Lord’s.

With both teams having already qualified for the Super Eight stage, this was about keeping the momentum going and South Africa earned the bragging rights as they restricted New Zealand to 127 for five.

But things didn’t go as planned for Graeme Smith’s men as they managed just 128 for seven after they were put into bat by New Zealand stand-in skipper Brendon McCullum.

Arshad gets down and dirty

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Mumbai, June 10: Arshad Warsi can’t stop raving about his role in Vishal Bharadwaj’s Ishquiya shot in Gorakhpur.

But when it comes to the topic of his look in the movie

A 6.5-crore song!

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Mumbai, June 10: Rohit Shetty gives new meaning to the phrase “got it for a
Fardeen Khan, Sanjay Dutt and Ajay Devgan shooting for the song in Goa
song”.

The Bollywood director who spent Rs 6 crore on the song Tha Kar Ke featuring Kareena Kapoor and Ajay Devgan in Golmaal Returns, has upped the ante on another number in his next film — Ajay Devgan’s All The Best.
“Ajay is bindaas! The song is shot on all the actors — Ajay, Bipasha Basu, Sanjay Dutt, Fardeen Khan and Mughda Godse, it cost Rs 6.5 crore and is definitely bigger than Tha Kar Ke,” said Rohit.

I’m not a lesbian: Neetu

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Mumbai, June 10: Neetu Chandra is beside herself with rage. A recent erotic photo shoot she did for a magazine has drawn the ire of a bunch of individuals who Neetu Chandra found her look too hot to handle.

“Until now, everyone has had their say. It’s my turn now. Till now, you will recall no controversy about me — none that was blown so out of proportion. The shoot has been given many names including ‘Lesbian Shoot’. It was interrupted because it was found too hot for Indian men to digest. And, never done in the history of Indian cinema,” she fumes.

Katrina’s advice to Claudia

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Mumbai, June 10: Claudia Ciesla, the German model with the 38-DD cleavage and leading lady of Karma — Crime Passion and Reincarnation, is not really
Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif “Salman Khan’s blue-eyed girl”.

BT learns there is no truth to the Claudia-Salman proximity theory.
The German model met the Bollywood hunk through a common friend at his home in Galaxy Apartments, Bandra. Present at the meeting was also Katrina Kaif, because Salman had asked her to be present when Claudia arrived and make her feel comfortable and at home.

TDP MLA faults Naidu

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Hyderabad, June 10: The Legislative Assembly on Tuesday was agog with rumours that TDP MLA from Kovur in Nellore district, N Prasanna Kumar Reddy, was contemplating to quit Telugu Desam and join Congress.

The rumour spread like wild fire as Prasanna Kumar distributed a letter which he said he had written to party president N Chandrababu Naidu. In the letter, Reddy has advised Naidu to be wary of `chamchas’ and `buffoons’ who had “surrounded him and giving wrong advice leading to hasty decisions on important issues.”

Fine quality rice still eludes consumers

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Hyderabad, June 10: The state government is finding it hard to live up to its promise of making fine quality rice available at Rs 20 per kg despite a
crackdown on hoarders across the state over the past fortnight.

Civil supplies minister J Krishna Rao on Tuesday said that a spate of raids on millers and hoarders across the state was yielding results with millers coming forward to sell fine quality rice (sona masuri) at Rs 26 per kg. The minister said raids by the vigilance and enforcement department across the state had resulted in the seizure of stocks worth Rs 119 crore.

Naidu hard sells TDP’s cash transfer scheme

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Hyderabad, June 10: Congratulating chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on coming back to power in the state, opposition leader and TDP president N
Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday suggested that the state government implement the cash transfer scheme (CTS), which was the his party’s main electoral plank in the 2009 election.

Jealous senior killed MBA student

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New Delhi, June 10: A fortnight after the murder of 26-year-old MBA student Anand Tewari, Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested a former student of a
management institute for allegedly bludgeoning the victim to death. Accused Rahul Chaddha (28) was detained on Monday night for his alleged involvement in the May 25 murder. Chaddha’s friends Arjun Acharya (27) and Arun Raghav (26), also suspects in the case, are absconding.

Sheetal gets bail, walks out of jail

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Mumbai, June 10: After a night in the Byculla Women’s Prison, socialite and businesswoman Sheetal Mafatlal went home to her plush Altamount Road home on Tuesday. Additional metropolitan magistrate M J Mirza took over an hour to dictate the order before pronouncing her release on a bail of Rs 5 lakh.

14 dead, 57 hurt as bomb goes off in Pak hotel

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Peshawar, June 10: A huge suicide truck bomb ripped through a luxury hotel Tuesday killing 11 people and wounding 52 in Pakistan’s Peshawar city, capital of a northwest province plagued by Taliban violence.

Two foreigners were among the dead in the devastating blast at the five-star Pearl Continental hotel, provincial information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said, but would not reveal the nationalities.

SIT chief in Ahmedabad to assess probe on Modi’s role in Gujarat riots

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Ahmedabad, June 09: Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) chief R K Raghavan is in town to assess the progress made in the probe on the
role of chief minister Narendra Modi and 62 others in post-Godhra riots, officials sources said on Tuesday.

The SC had last month ordered SIT to probe within three months a complaint that Modi, his cabinet colleagues, police officials and senior bureaucrats aided and abetted post-Godhra riots of 2002.

IAF plane with 12 people goes missing

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Shillong, June 09: A transport plane of Indian Air Force carrying six IAF personnel went missing on Tuesday over the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh and is feared to have crashed, an IAF spokesman said here.

The AN-32 plane had flown from Dibrugarh in Assam to Mechuka in Arunachal from where it took off again with the civilians for Jorhat at around 2 pm, after which the aircraft went missing, said IAF spokesman Wing Commander P Sahu.

He said the plane was feared to have crashed. The six civilians were being ferried as part of the IAF plane’s regular sortie.

Senior Maoist leader surrenders

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Hyderabad, June 09: Vexed with the Maoists philosophy and unhappy with the leadership, a senior leader of the CPI (Maoist) gave himself up to the police in Vizianagaram district today.

Kondagorri Kurma Rao alias Kurranna was a member of the Maoist Nagavali area committee and was allegedly involved in several offences, including blasting of Gummada railway station, a mandal development office, and attack on Udayagiri police station.

Vizianagaram district Superintendent of Police Y Gangadhar said the latter was vexed with the Maoist philosophy and wanted to lead a normal life.