Month: July 2009

For teeth, orange juice worse than whitening agents

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Washington, July 01: When it comes to dental health, an acidic fruit juice like orange is even worse than teeth whitening agents, warns a recent study.

University of Rochester Medical Centre’s YanFang Ren and his team determined that the effects of six percent hydrogen peroxide, the common ingredient in over-the-counter whitening products, are insignificant compared to acidic fruit juices.

For the first time, researchers were able to see extensive surface detail thanks to a new focus-variation vertical scanning microscope.

Ronaldo’s move to Real completed

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Washington, July 01: Cristiano Ronaldo’s world-record transfer to Real Madrid from Manchester United has been completed, the Barclays Premier League champions have confirmed.

An “unconditional £80m” fee was agreed between the clubs last month and then came an announcement last Friday that the deal had been finalised and the world player of the year would become a Real Madrid player today.

A statement on www.manutd.com this morning stated the transfer fee has been paid, prompting manager Sir Alex Ferguson to pay tribute to the Portugal winger.
–Agencies

Paneer Butter Masala

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Ingredients:

400 gms. paneer
2 tbsp. butter
1 medium onion
2 small tomatoes
¼ cup cashew nuts
½ “ginger
2 flakes garlic
½ cup fresh cream
1 tbsp. chilly powder
2 tbsp coriander powder
1 tsp. garam masala powder
½ tsp. turmeric powder
2 tbsp. oil
1 tbsp. chopped coriander leaves
Salt to taste

Method:

Witness identifies Kasab as gunman who killed brother

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Mumbai, July 01: Emotional scenes were witnessed in the court conducting the trial of 26/11 terror attack accused Mohammed Ajmal Kasab on Wednesday, when a witness broke down while identifying him as the gunman who killed his brother.

Bharat Vaghela, who lives in a hut near the Cama Hospital which was one of the sites of the terror attacks, broke down as he said he had seen Kasab killing his brother.

“My brother has small children. Who will look after them?” an emotional Vaghela said.

Gunmen shoot at 7 teens at Detroit bus stop

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Detroit, July 01: Two gunmen in a green minivan have opened fire on a group of teenagers waiting at a bus stop near a Detroit school, leaving 7 wounded, 3 of them in critical condition.

The kids had just left Cody Ninth Grade Academy where they had been taking summer classes.

The teenagers, four of whom are boys and three of them girls, are aged from 14 to 17 years old.

The gunmen, who apparently masked their faces with used T-shirts, exited a vehicle and “asked for a person by name” before they “opened fire at the crowd”, said Detroit Public Schools Police Chief Roderick Grimes.

Security situation in Afghanistan deeply worrying: India

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Washington, July 01: Concerned over the security situation in Afghanistan, India on Wednedtoday told the UN Security Council that the talks of “reconciliation” requires greater caution and said distinctions like “good” and “bad” Taliban could be seen as reflection of “weakness”.

“The security situation remains deeply worrying. It does not take much foresight to predict that the coming six months will be difficult, most of all, for the Afghan people,” the Indian Ambassador to the UN, Hardeep Puri, said at a special meeting of the Council On Afghanistan.

Mother and daughter missing on mountain

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London, July 01: An elderly woman and her daughter have gone missing after setting out to climb England’s highest mountain, police said today.

The women set out for Scafell Pike yesterday morning but had not returned to their campsite by midnight.

A search and rescue team and an RAF helicopter search failed to find them last night.

The pair, who are in their 80s and 50s and from the York area, were accompanied by three black and white collie dogs.

Both women are described as being of slight build and around 5ft.

MLC flexes muscle to get his pound of flesh

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Hyderabad, July 01: N Vidyasagar, a Congress Member of Legislative Council (MLC), who represents local bodies from Nalgonda, emulated his more illustrious colleague when he took the law into his own hands on Monday night. Along with 30 of his followers, he forced his way into a realtor’s office near Sushma theatre at Vanasthalipuram and drove away the staff following a dispute with the realtor.

Criminal cases were booked against the MLC by the Cyberabad police who also arrested 13 of his followers.

Protests over water shortage continue in Delhi

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New Delhi, July 01: ‘Na bijli, na paani, yeh kaisi rajdhani’ (No power, no water – what kind of a capital is this?) asked angry residents of the national capital as protests continued Wednesday over power cuts and water shortage.

Angry residents of the capital protested the erratic water supply by shouting slogans and breaking earthern pots in the middle of the road.

Complaining that there is no water supply for nearly two weeks and the little that they get is murky, people took to the roads in areas like Dabri, Janakpuri and Durga Park in west Delhi.

Runaway five caught at Visakhapatnam

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Vishakapatnam, July 01: The five schoolchildren of Bhashyam School in the city, who left their respective homes more than a week back to undertake a pleasure trip, were finally traced in Visakhapatnam. They were caught by the Government Railway Police (GRP) after they landed in Visakhapatnam railway station on the East Coast Express late on Tuesday night.

MPs turn students in meet with Ramadevi

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Hyderabad, July 01: The newly-elected members of Parliament should exercise discretion while dealing with the power of Legislature, while ensuring overall uplift for people at the local level.

The message rang clear from ex-Governor of Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh, and one time Election Commissioner V S Ramadevi, at a meeting with new MPs at the Osmania University campus. The interaction, organised jointly by the University and the Centre for Political Development saw academics interact and discuss issues with the political players at a session lasting well over two hours.

Sack minister, cry Chennai lawyers

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Chennai, July 01: A day after the sensational revelation by justice R Regupathi of the Madras High Court that a Union minister had tried to “strongly influence” him into granting bail to two persons accused in a forged mark sheet case, a section of lawyers reacted strongly and sought the unnamed minister’s dismissal.

The anticipatory bail application came up for hearing before justice Regupathi on Monday and the judge lost his cool when counsel for the petitioners complained that he was “passing orders” on the basis of the prosecution’s submission alone.

Slapping of bank manager by MP most unfortunate: Moily

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New Delhi, July 01: Describing as “most unfortunate” the alleged slapping of a bank manager by a Congress MP, Law Minister M Veerappa Moily on Wednesday said he did not think anybody, more so a Member of Parliament, could indulge in such an act.

“It is most unfortunate. I don’t think anybody should indulge in such things…Members of Parliament should be more responsible and he should not have done it,” Moily said here.

Reservoirs dry up as monsoon plays truant

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Hyderabad, July 01: The delayed monsoon has been keeping the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) on tenterhooks since the last few days. The biggest question on the minds of Water Board officials is whether daily water supply to Greater Hyderabad can continue.

The one-month delay in the South-West monsoon has directly affected water levels in the five reservoirs which are important sources of drinking water to the GHMC limits and a few hundred villages belonging to adjoining districts.

Cops forcibly shift TDP MLA to hospital

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Hyderabad, July 01: Amid high drama and tension, police foiled the indefinite hunger strike of Kovvur TDP MLA TV Rama Rao at Indira Park here Tuesday and forcibly shifted him to the Gandhi Hospital.

Rama Rao has been on fast since Monday demanding that the charges of rape and murder of a student in his college be dropped.

Extending their support to the MLA, his family members and scores of nursing students joined his protest.

After MP slap, victim faces atrocity case!

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Hyderabad, July 01: A day after Nagarkurnool MP Manda Jagannadham slapped a bank manager, criminal cases were booked against him for assaulting and intimidating a public servant and bank employees’ unions are gearing up to launch an agitation.

Govt hikes trade margins on liquor, prices may go up

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Hyderabad, July 01: The cash registers of the Chief Minister’s relief fund are going to ring from Wednesday.

To increase the volume of flow of money into the relief fund, the State Government, by a GO, has revised the trade margin of Andhra Pradesh Beverages Corporation Limited (APBCL) for various varieties of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) with effect from July 1. As a result the retail prices of all categories of liquor are set to be hiked.

Shahid Kapoor-Genelia to Yahoo… No Way!

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Mumbai, July 01: As reports of Ken Ghosh’s Shahid Kapoor-Genelia D’Souza film being called Yahoo fill the papers and television tickers, the director is one worried man.

“Because as far as I’m concerned my film is not called Yahoo, ” explains Ghosh with much distress. “The title has registered with the public because it has been thrown at them so often. But it hasn’t been registered with us.

We don’t have the title, plain and simple. Some other producer has the title Yahoo. Not that I’m really keen on calling the film Yahoo.”

I am contract bound to do 2 more films with Yashraj

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Mumbai, July 01: The fresh-faced and utterly natural Anushka Sharma who danced her way into victory with Shah Rukh Khan in Aditya Chopra’s Rab Ne Bana De Jodi won’t be seen in another film for quite a while.

She’s under contract with Yashraj who aren’t starting another film with her in a hurry.

“Yes, I’m under contract to do two more films with Yashraj, ” Anushka informs softly. She also admits the next film is not around the corner.

KVP to head panel on public safety

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Hyderabad, July 01: The State Government on Tuesday appointed Rajya Sabha member K V P Ramachandra Rao as Chairman of Advisory Committee on Public Safety and Security. Chief Secretary to Government and Director General Inspector General of Police will be the Co-Chairmen.The Principal Secretary to Government, Home Department, Additional Director General of Police (Intelligence), Director General, A.P Fire Emergency services and Chairman, A.P State Council for Higher Education will be the Ex-Officio members.

STs to get pass books on july 5

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Hyderabad, July 01: Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy will issue pass books to ST (Scheduled Tribes) beneficiaries under the ST and other traditional forest dwellers (Record of Rights) Act, 2006.

The chief minister will visit the Rampachodavaram tribal agency on July 5.

‘Government harassing my party workers’

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Hyderabad, July 01: The Praja Rajyam party president has Chiranjeevi alleged that the Government was harassing his party leaders and workers.

He said that the police were booking cases against party leaders and workers and disturbing their businesses. These incidents took place in Prakasam, Krishna, West Godavari districts and in Tirupati, he explained.

Chiranjeevi wanted the ruling party leaders to direct their district leaders not to resort to such activities.

Shahid and Priyanka – Still in Love or not?

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Mumbai, July 01: Few Mumbai tabloids had claimed that the affair between Priyanka Chopra and Shahid Kapur had gone kaput. However, the couple has been spotted at various spots of the city after that.

Sources inform that just after the story of their recent split was out, Priyanka and Shahid were seen having cosy lunch at a restaurant very close to their residence in Versova, Mumbai. In fact Priyanka Chopra’s brother was also seen accompanying them. Later the same night the two of them were spotted having dinner at China House.

Hour-long traffic snarl for 7-minute sea bridge drive

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Mumbai, July 01: It was houseful on India’s first open sea bridge Wednesday – celebrities and commoners came out in droves to drive up and down the newly opened engineering marvel on the sea, leading to hour-long traffic snarls at both ends.

When the Bandra Worli Sea Link (BWSL) was thrown open at midnight Tuesday, there were very few vehicles, but by dawn the numbers increased, said an official of the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC).

’54 overseas students died in Oz in 2008, half Indians’

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Melbourne, July 01: Australian coroners have suppressed the details of the death of over 50 international students “amid evidence the death toll is higher” than the government has admitted, a media report claimed Wednesday.

“Details of the deaths of more than 50 overseas students have been suppressed by Australian coroners amid evidence the death toll is higher than the Federal Government has admitted,” The Age reported Wednesday.