Bhubaneswar, September 07: A man in Orissa’s Bhadrak district has been arrested for allegedly raping his daughter for over a decade and forcing her to undergo several abortions over the years, police said Monday.
Bishnumohan Panda, a 58-year-old resident of Rajgurupur village, was arrested after his daughter complained to the police Saturday with the help of villagers, said Damodar Mohapatra, in charge of the police station in the village.
Kolkata, September 07: Candidates can take examinations for jobs in the railways in regional languages as well as Urdu, Railway Minister, Mamata Banerjee, said here on Sunday.
The options available now are Hindi and English.
Ms. Banerjee did not attend the day’s programme to flag off three new trains from the city, by remote control from Kolkata station. Trinamool Congress chief whip in the Lok Sabha, Sudip Bandhopadhyay, did the formalities.
New Delhi, September 07: Energy-starved India, armed with permission to buy atomic fuel from around the world after the end of a three-decade ban, is courting new partners alongside old friends in its global hunt for uranium.
The strategy, spelt out in a government paper published last week, will see New Delhi reach out to Mongolia, Namibia and Kazakhstan besides traditional allies like Russia in its search for the ore that is refined into nuclear fuel.
Kolkata, September 07: Nearly 1.5 lakh people were affected by storms and heavy rain in the southern districts of West Bengal, including areas severely affected by cyclone Aila three months ago. About 14,000 houses were destroyed.
The rain, accompanied by gales, was caused by a depression over the Bay of Bengal, officials said here on Sunday.
The State government has sanctioned Rs. 4 crore to provide relief,said Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta.
Tarpaulin sheets and clothes were also distributed. Embankments were breached at 19 places , he said.
Dushanbe(Tajikistan), September 07: President Pratibha Patil arrived here on Sunday on the second leg of her two-nation tour of Russia and Tajikistan.
There is considerable buzz around her visit with the Indian side describing it as a part of its “high-level engagement of all Central Asia Republics.” President Patil is the first Indian head of State to visit Tajikistan, and will be the only foreigner so far to have attended functions to mark its national day on September 9.
New Delhi, September 07: The Congress is in a Catch-22 over finding a successor to Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who died in a chopper crash on Wednesday.
Party general secretary Digvijay Singh was sent to Hyderabad on Sunday even as Congress leaders said the high command would comment on the situation only after the mourning period is over.
Kathmandu, September 07: Three people were killed and seven others injured Sunday in a bomb blast in western Nepal, a media report said.
The blast took place in Malakheti village in Dhangadhi area of Nepal’s western Kailali district, Nepalnews.com reported. Three of the injured were in serious condition at a hospital.
Chief district officer Shiv Prasad Nepal said the explosion occurred Sunday evening in the courtyard of the house of Harka Bahadur Mohta.
The police have launched an investigation into the incident.
—Agencies
Berlin, September 07: Restless nights, lack of sleep and bloodshot eyes are usually associated with parents who can’t get their newborns to sleep. But these sleep problems can linger well into the child’s early school years.
A baby screaming through the night can easily become a child who actively resists going to bed. Later on, parents find themselves fending off a child who’s barging into the living room at all hours when he ought to be sound asleep.
To a degree, such behaviour is normal, say experts. But if sleep becomes a serious issue, parents should seek expert advice.
Kakinada, September 07: East Godavari Collector and district election officer Gopalakrishna Dwivedi said here today that the September 9 by-elections for the posts of panchayat sarpanch of Uppumilli in Kajulur mandal and member ward two of Nedunuru village of Ayinavilli mandal have been postponed owing to the demise of former Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy. Under the revised schedule announced by the state election commission, he said, these by-elections now would be held on September 16.
Berlin, September 07: Giving a child a drink might be a quick and easy way to help fight headaches.
Letting the child spend less time in front of the computer or TV might also help the pain, advises Peter Kropp, a professor at the Institute for Medical Psychology at the University Clinic of Rostock in Germany. Making sure children get enough sleep is another possible remedy.
Mumbai, September 07: Audiences and critics can’t stop raving about Shahid Kapoor’s performance in the hit film “Kaminey”, but the 28-year-old actor says doing the dark thriller was a “litmus test” as his well-wishers felt breaking away from his lover boy image may ruin his career.
Hyderabad, September 07: Congress AICC General Secretary Digvijay Singh today consoled the family of former Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy who killed in a chopper crash on September 2.
Mr Singh who arrived here today, visited the residence of the late Chief Minister at camp office and met the family members and expressed his grief over the death of charismatic and people’s leader.
Later, talking to newsmen he said he had come here only to console YSR’s family as he did not attend the funeral.
New Delhi, September 07: As many as 13 people died of the A (H1N1) influenza in the country in the past 24 hours taking the toll to 131. So far this is the highest number of deaths reported in a day .
As many as 93 confirmed cases of swine flu were also reported from across the country.
With this the cumulative number of flu cases has touched 4,738.
The highest number of deaths was reported from Karnataka (7), followed by Maharashtra (3) and Andhra Pradesh (2) . One death was also reported from Gujarat.
Mumbai, September 07: Oscar winner Resul Pookutty is an exception. Sound engineers take away rough edges from flat voices, add pauses and oomphs to songs, but hardly ever get credit for their work, rues Satish Gupta who gave his magical touch to hits like “Bheege honth tere”, “Sandese aate hain” and “Kaho na pyaar hai”.
Manila, September 07: A Panama-registered cargo vessel with 20 South Korean and Filipino crew members on board sank off the eastern Philippines as the death toll in the sinking of a domestic passenger ferry rose to nine, the coast guard said Monday.
All four South Korean and 15 Filipino crew members of the MV Hera were rescued Monday off Eastern Samar province, 660 km south of Manila, coast guard spokesman Lieutenant Armand Balilo said.
“They are all in a lifeboat which is being towed by a fishing boat,” he said.
Shanghai, September 07: General Electric Co (GE.N) is confident about winning contracts to supply engines to China’s big aircraft project, the company’s China chief said on Monday.
“The fact that we are on the first plane…gives us confidence. But the thing that gives me most confidence is that I am very sure of our aircraft engine product. I think we have the best product,” GE’s China President Mark Norbom told Reuters on the sidelines of an industry event.
–Agencies
New Delhi, September 07: The Congress leadership is yet to begin the process of selecting a successor to Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who died in a helicopter crash on September 2, Union Minister for Law and Justice and AICC general secretary in charge of Andhra Pradesh M. Veerappa Moily said on Sunday.
Talking to The Hindu after meeting Congress president Sonia Gandhi here, Mr. Moily said the discussions were routine. But he did not deny that they touched the Andhra Pradesh issue.
New Delhi, September 07: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Sunday said the tenure of the UPA government in its second term confirmed that it would continue with its neo-liberal policies.
The party criticised the Centre’s handling of the drought situation and described the proposed direct tax code as “regressive.”
Islamabad, September 07: The terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore was funded by elements from the island nation, said Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, based on information given to him by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
“In Libya, the Sri Lankan President told me they had clues that the attack on the [Sri] Lankan team was funded from Sri Lanka. I told him if he was willing to share these clues, we could send our officials from the Interior Ministry,” Mr. Gilani told journalists here.
New Delhi, September 07: India has never ruled out the involvement of state actors in Pakistan in the Mumbai terror attacks despite Islamabad’s contention to the contrary, Home Minister P. Chidambaram has said.
“We have never ruled out [involvement of] state actors. Although Pakistan has maintained that only non-state actors were involved, we have never ruled out the involvement of state actors and we have never accepted this distinction between state actors and non-state actors because both operated from Pakistani soil,” he told NDTV.
Pune, September 07: Sixty-one year old Eric Nadel, a US citizen, breathed his last on Sunday morning at 11.30 am after struggling for his life for 11 days. Eric and his wife Heather (59) — both followers of spiritual guru Avatar Meher Baba, had sustained severe head injuries after being brutally attacked by robbers in the early morning hours of August 26 at their isolated bungalow at Arangaon village, 9 km from Ahmednagar. The couple has been staying on the trust’s residential premises at Arangaon for 35 years. Heather is a trustee of the Avatar Meher Baba Trust in Meherabad.
Baghdad, September 07: Iraq’s prime minister pressed a U.N. envoy Sunday on the need for an international tribunal to bring Syrian-based bombing suspects to trial, as Damascus refused to hand over those it called political refugees.
The dispute, triggered by devastating suicide truck bombings on government ministries in Baghdad last month, threatens to unravel steps toward better ties between the one-time adversaries.
Kabul, September 07: An airstrike by U.S. fighter jets that appears to have killed Afghan civilians could turn into a major dispute for NATO allies Germany and the United States, as tensions began rising between them Sunday over Germany’s role in ordering the attack.
Afghan officials say up to 70 people were killed in the early morning airstrike Friday in the northern province of Kunduz after Taliban militants stole two tanker trucks of fuel and villagers gathered to siphon off gas.
Hyderabad, September 07: The battle for a successor to YS Rajasekhara Reddy became ugly on Sunday when party workers publicly insulted senior leaders unwilling to make YSR’s son, YS Jaganmohan Reddy, the chief minister.
Clear battle lines also emerged with reports that many YSR loyalists in the earlier council of ministers were unwilling to work under short-term chief minister K Rosaiah. However, the Congress high command and Rosaiah seem to have bought some time with all ministers before being sworn-in at a simple ceremony at Raj Bhavan in the afternoon.
Hyderabad, September 07: YS Rajasekhara Reddy’s son Jaganmohan on Sunday tried to dissociate himself from the campaign to install him as the Andhra Pradesh chief minister, with the Congress high command making it clear that the party was not going to be forced into taking a decision.
Jaganmohan urged his supporters to go by the decision of the party leadership after senior Congress leaders told him that the campaign was doing his prospects more harm than good.