Month: June 2009

Manager held for accidental death of man in theatre

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Chennai, June 15: Police on Saturday arrested the manager of the cinema hall where a 40-year-old man died last week when he tripped and fell on an iron
rod protruding from the seat. He has been booked for negligence. Hunt is also on for the owner of the theatre who is said to be in Singapore.

The identify of the man, who died in the theatre last Thursday, is yet to be established. “We have printed pamphlets with the victim’s photograph and circulated them in the Kothavalchavadi area to trace his identity,” inspector G Hari Kumar of Kothavalchavadi police station told The Times Of India.

Two docs held for forcing minors to donate blood

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Jaipur, June 15: While many were observing the World Blood Donor Day on Sunday, a group of doctors and paramedics in Karauli district shocked the state
when they were arrested on charges of forcibly extracting blood from minors after kidnapping them, all for some paltry gains.

Two docs held for forcing minors to donate blood

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Jaipur, June 15: While many were observing the World Blood Donor Day on Sunday, a group of doctors and paramedics in Karauli district shocked the state
when they were arrested on charges of forcibly extracting blood from minors after kidnapping them, all for some paltry gains.

Man kills colleague after altercation

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Panaji, June 15: A 26-year-old restaurant employee was murdered in Panaji, allegedly by a former colleague, while on his way to his room late on Saturday
night.

Panaji police said the deceased, Khushi Jamir, a native of Nagaland was employed as a kitchen helper with a city restaurant.

Actor Shiney Ahuja detained on rape charges

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Mumbai,June 15: The Oshiwara police on Sunday evening detained Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja for questioning in connection with a rape case. Ahuja’s
teenaged domestic maid lodged an FIR against the actor alleging that he had raped her while they were alone at the actor’s flat on Sunday afternoon. Ahuja is likely to be arrested.

Gafoor failed to lead Mumbai cops during 26/11: Panel

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Mumbai, June 15: A two-member committee that investigated the police response to the 26/11 terror attacks has singled out then Mumbai police commissioner
Hasan Gafoor for his complete failure to provide leadership in the hour of crisis.

Gafoor was replaced on Saturday by D Sivanandan, chief of the state intelligence department. TOI had earlier carried reports on how the committee headed by veteran bureaucrat Ram Pradhan had given the Mumbai police a clean chit, saying their actions during 26/11 had to be viewed in the context of the “war-like situation”.

England knock India out of World Twenty20

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London, June 15: Defending champions India bowed out of the World Twenty20 after losing to hosts England by three runs in a key Super Eights match at a
England packed Lord’s on Sunday.

India restricted England to 153-7 after electing to field in good batting conditions, but then fumbled their reply to be stopped at 150-5 despite scoring 56 runs in the last five overs.

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Swine flu cases in India rise to 23

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New Delhi, June 15: With four confirmed cases of H1N1 influenza reported in the country on Sunday, the number of people hit by the pandemic
Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases in Bangalore Support staff stand outside the swine flu ward at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases in Bangalore. rose to 23. Of the four, three were reported in Hyderabad and one, of a schoolboy from Punjab, in Delhi.

Full moon again: Chand back to Fiza

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Chandigarh, June 14: Politics makes strange bedfellows, indeed! Chand Mohammad went back to Fiza, his second wife whom he divorced three months ago after a two-month-old wedding, and asked for forgiveness. Fiza had filed a criminal complaint against Chand at the Mohali police station and threatened to contest against Chand, a Congress MLA from Kalka.

With Assembly elections in Haryana due in a few months, many believe this might be Chand’s ploy to keep Fiza at bay.

Rat Island finally rat-free

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Anchorage, June 14: Alaska’s Rat Island is finally rat-free, 229 years after a Japanese shipwreck spilled rampaging rodents onto the remote Aleutian island, decimating the local bird population.

After dropping poison onto the island from helicopter-hoisted buckets for a week and a half last autumn, there are no signs of living rats and some birds have returned, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Cellphones, websites blocked

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Tehran, June 14: The main mobile telephone network in Iran was cut in the capital Tehran on Saturday evening while popular internet websites Facebook and YouTube also appeared to be blocked, correspondents said.

The communication cuts came after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a landslide re-election victory, sparking rioting in the streets by opposition supporters who claimed the result had been rigged.

Volcanic ash threatens planes

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Moscow, June 14: A volcanic eruption on a remote Russian island north of Japan has created a giant ash cloud that threatens passing airplanes, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported on Sunday, citing Russian geologists.

The eruption of Sarychev Peak on uninhabited Matua Island, part of the Kuril Islands archipelago in the north Pacific Ocean, began overnight between Thursday and Friday and is still underway, the news agency said.

Woman constable murdered in city , police suspects husband

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Hyderabad, June 14: A woman constable was allegedly murdered by her husband here on Sunday at city outskirts and he remained untraceable emerged as the prime suspect in the case, police said.

Kusum Kumari (38) attached to Charminar police here was found dead in her house at Kukatpally area here this morning with blunt injuries on her face even as her husband Bikshapati, an autodriver who is suspected to have “killed” her is absconding after the incident, Kukatpally police said.

Biden still eyeing WH

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Washington, June 14: US Vice-President Joe Biden isn’t ruling out his own presidential aspirations.

The two-time presidential candidate says the current line-up is the right one, with Biden as President Barack Obama’s No. 2. The Vice-President says he is a close adviser to Obama and is satisfied with his role in the administration.

For instance, Biden says, he reacted to Supreme Court nominees as a veteran Senator. Now, he gets to help pick them.

But he says he still has his eye on the Oval Office.

Biden is 66 years old and would be 73 on Election Day in 2016.

Hostage-takers get €10m

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Helsinki, June 14: The daughter of a Finnish industrialist was released this weekend following a two-and-a-half-week kidnapping ordeal after payment of a €10m ransom, police reported on Sunday.

Minna Nurminen, 26, was released in a forest near the city of Turku on Saturday after the ransom’s payment. Police said she was in good health. She had been reported missing May 27.

She is a daughter of Hanna Nurminen, an heir to the Herlin family and owner of elevator manufacturer Kone. The mother is considered to be Finland’s richest woman.

Nuclear War Held If Tension Not Reduce, N Korea Warning

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Seoul, June 14: North Korea’s communist regime has warned of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula while vowing to step up its atomic bomb-making program in defiance of new UN sanctions.

The North’s defiance presents a growing diplomatic headache for President Barack Obama as he prepares for talks Tuesday with his South Korean counterpart on the North’s missile and nuclear programs.

BJP Should Give Up The Policy As It Has “Failed” To Attract Commoners: Baburao Vaidya

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Nagpur, June 14: Criticising the BJP for its “inconsistency” in toeing the ‘Hindutva’ policy,senior RSS ideologue M G alias Baburao Vaidya said the party should give up the policy as it has “failed” to attract commoners.

Narrating the history of the then Jana Sangh which later converted into BJP, Vaidya, in his weekly column in local Marathi daily ‘Tarun Bharat’, said BJP had adopted Gandhian socialism, but could not stop itself from being labelled as a communal party.

Protests mount in Dhaka against Indian river project

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Dhaka, June 14: Bangladesh’s main opposition has threatened to move the United Nations as the Sheikh Hasina government has called for talks over a river valley project India is planning in its north-eastern region.

Protests are gaining momentum even as a Bangladeshi parliamentary delegation, accompanied by experts, prepares to visit the planned Tipaimukh project on the Barak river in India’s Mizoram state later this month. India had proposed the visit last month.

Pakistan is on a suicidal course, says Imran Khan

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London, June 14: Pakistan’s cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has expressed fear that the ongoing military operation against the Taliban in Swat could backfire and fuel extremism and terror attacks in the country.

‘Pakistan is on a suicidal course,’ said Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek Insaf (PTI) party was quoted by Online news agency Sunday.

He criticised the Pakistani government for luanching an all-out war against the Taliban in the northwest on the advice of the United States.

Hope – and disappointment – in Tehran

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Tehran, June 14: Just a few days ago, the same street in Central Tehran where my taxi had to slow down due to joyful opposition supporters, had now turned into an obstacle race as we walked and ran to escape the teargas and passed burning garbage bins. On Saturday, it was a harrowing experience while returning home from work.

Al Qaeda financier held in Yemen

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Yemen, June 14: Yemeni police have detained a Saudi man suspected to be the main financier of Al Qaeda operations in Yemen and neighbouring Saudi Arabia, the defence ministry said Sunday.

It said in a statement posted on its website that the suspect, identified as Hassan Hussein bin Alwan, was ‘the financier of the operations carried out by members of Al Qaeda in Yemen and Saudi Arabia’.

It further described him as ‘one of the most dangerous Al Qaeda terrorists’. The statement gave no further details on the suspect or location of the arrest.

Post-LTTE, Sri Lankan Tamil party warms up to India

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New Delhi, June 14: The shadow of the Tamil Tigers gone, Sri Lanka’s main Tamil bloc in parliament wants to forge new ties with India.

Widely seen as a political front for the now decimated Tigers, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has just held talks with New Delhi. In 1992 India became the first country to outlaw the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

Mamata announces special trains for Ajmer Sharif, Puri

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Howrah (West Bengal), June 14: The Indian Railways will run 66 pairs of special trains carrying pilgrims to Puri in Orissa for the June 24 Rathyatra festival, railways minister Mamata Banerjee said here Sunday.

The railways will also run special trains between Sealdah in Kolkata and Rajasthan’s Ajmer Sharif, which houses the mausoleum of sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti, on June 25 and June 26 for the celebration of the Urs or annual pilgrimage.

Directors don’t get importance in a project: Manoj Kumar

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Mumbai, June 14: He has been a part of Hindi film industry for five decades and carved a niche for himself both as an actor and filmmaker, but legendary actor Manoj Kumar is not so happy with the current scenario. He thinks that in today’s time directors don’t get any importance in a project.

“A lot has changed in the industry. Earlier, the director used to be the captain of the ship and was considered the most important part of a project. But today directors have no value, barring a few,” Manoj Kumar told IANS.

Akshay’s win over Salman Khan

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Mumbai, June 14: Though we know that Salman Khan was the original blue eyed boy of producer Sajid Nadidawala and the two made a series of films together setting the box-office cash registers ringing endlessly. But, it seems the phase is over and done with.

HELLO INDIA, Akshay Kumar impresses Udita!

With the arrival of Akshay Kumar, it seems Sajid Nadidawala has found his new lucky mascot and the emerging chemistry between the two has sidelined Salman Bhai.