Ranchi, September 28: Maoist rebels burnt a dumper and a road roller of a construction company in Simdega district of Jharkhand, police said Monday.
According to police, Maoist rebels set ablaze the dumper and roller of a construction company at Jaldega village of Simdega district, around 130 km from here, late Sunday night. The construction company was involved in road construction in Simdega district.
Chandigarh, September 28: Nine people including three women, all from prominent families, were arrested here on charges of gambling, police said Monday.
The nine men and women were carrying over Rs.900,000 when they were arrested late Sunday from a house in Sector 19, the police claimed.
“On a tip-off that some people from affluent families of the city are gathering in a house and are indulging in this activity, we laid a trap and nabbed them red-handed,” Superintendent of Police (Crime) Madhur Verma told IANS.
Hyderabad, September 28 (Siasat News): The seventh Haj training camp was conducted at Masjid-e-Sahifa, Azampura under the joint aegis of AP state Haj committee and All India Jametul Mashaikh.
The special feature of the camp was that even the pilgrims, who are bound for the holy pilgrimage through other private traveling agencies, made it a point to attend the camp. The training camp was commenced with the Qir’at of Maulana Md. Azam Sidiqui whereas Mr. Bilal Sufiyan Quadri rendered the naat.
Islamabad, September 28: Dismissing reports of a safe exit “deal”, former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has said he did not resign as President or leave Pakistan under the terms of any secret agreement.
“I neither quit the government nor left the country under any deal,” Musharraf, who is currently in the US for a lecture tour, told reporters in Virginia.
Musharraf quit as President of Pakistan in August last year. He left Pakistan in mid-April and has been living abroad since then.
Washington, September 28: Defence Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged on Sunday it will be “tough” to close the US prison at Guantanamo Bay by a January deadline set by President Barack Obama.
“It’s going to be tough” for the Obama administration to meet the January 22 deadline to shut the camp condemned as a “legal black hole” by rights groups, Gates said.
New York, September 28: Noting that the global order has changed dramatically since the establishment of the United Nations some 65 years ago, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna has asserted that the world body should also change and reflect the contemporary reality.
As such there is need for the expansion of the permanent and non-permanent member category of the UN Security Council, Krishna told press conference hours before he met the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
Islamabad, September 28: A Pakistani court has summoned former President Pervez Musharraf and several of his key aides to appear before it on October 7 for the hearing of a petition seeking their trial in the murder of Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Bugti.
Agra, September 28: Despite housing the Taj Mahal and two other World Heritage monuments, Agra’s tourist flow remains more or less static due to poor infrastructure and an unclean environment, say hotel owners and tour operators.
Even as official bodies organised ritualistic welcome of foreigners at hotels on World Tourism Day Sunday, industry leaders complained of lack of official patronage to develop tourism infrastructure in the city.
Srinagar, September 28: Three separatist guerrillas and a local resident were killed in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district in a gunfight between security forces and the guerrillas Monday, an official said.
‘Three terrorists including two Pakistanis and a local terrorist were killed in an encounter between the security forces and the terrorists in Amlar (Tral) village of Pulwama district today,’ a senior police officer told IANS here.
The officer also said one local woman died in the crossfire between the security forces and the guerrillas.
Chandigarh, September 26: Nine people including three women, all from prominent families, were arrested here on charges of gambling, police said Monday.
The nine men and women were carrying over Rs.900,000 when they were arrested late Sunday from a house in Sector 19, the police claimed.
‘On a tip-off that some people from affluent families of the city are gathering in a house and are indulging in this activity, we laid a trap and nabbed them red-handed,’ Superintendent of Police (Crime) Madhur Verma told IANS.
Ranchi, September 28: Maoist rebels burnt a dumper and a road roller of a construction company in Simdega district of Jharkhand, police said Monday.
According to police, Maoist rebels set ablaze the dumper and roller of a construction company at Jaldega village of Simdega district, around 130 km from here, late Sunday night. The construction company was involved in road construction in Simdega district.
New York, September 28: Noting that the Al Qaeda and Taliban now have a large presence in Pakistan, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday said that in the last nine months Islamabad had increased its commitment in the fight against terrorism, but the Obama Administration is not “satisfied”.
“Well, look at, again, what has happened in the last nine months. Pakistan has increased its commitment in the fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda,” Clinton told a news channel in an interview.
Lucknow, September 28: On the lines of CBSE board, the UP Board of Secondary Education will also implement grading system in class X examinations from the year 2011.
“Draft of the grading system has been prepared and it will be implemented in 2011 board examinations. Besides, there will only be one question paper for each subject,” Secondary Education Minister Rangnath Mishra told reporters in Fatehpur on Saturday.
He said that the high school students will be required to appear in five papers only.
Mumbai, September 28: The Election commission has clarified that the central police force would guard the strong rooms for the Electronic Voting Machines in the poll bound states of Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh.
The Commission has directed the Chief Electoral Officers of these three states to take this additional security measure in view of availability of adequate number of CPF for the assembly polls.
Washington, September 28: The U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she doesn’t believe Iran can convince the U.S. and other world powers that its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes, putting Tehran on a course for tougher economic penalties beyond the current “leaky sanctions.”
The Defence Secretary Robert Gates played down the effectiveness of military strikes against Iran’s newly disclosed secret uranium-enriching facility. Gates and Clinton said economic and diplomatic pressure would have a better chance of changing Iranian policies.
Taipie, September 28: A Taiwan film festival has put a biopic about exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer back into its official programme, an organiser of the event said Monday, defying a stern warning from China.
The decision was announced just days after Taiwan’s China-friendly government said it would not issue a visa to Kadeer, reviled in Beijing as a “criminal” and a mastermind of deadly unrest in her home region of Xinjiang.
Thailand, September 28: Nearly 16,000 Thais ignored the false rumors that they were being infected by the AIDS virus, and overcame their fears of becoming social outcasts to participate in the first HIV vaccine trials to show positive results.
Many of the volunteers — an eclectic mix of housewives, fishermen, factory workers, laborers and prostitutes — had seen firsthand how the disease ravaged this region of plantations and industrial estates in southeast Thailand, part of the epidemic that kills millions worldwide each year.
Sydney, September 28: Stimulus spending will need to be curbed and interest rates rise as the economy quickens after the mildest downturn in recent times, Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens said Monday.
“In due course, both fiscal and monetary support will have to be unwound as private demand increases,” Stevens told a parliamentary committee.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said a year ago that Australians were in for their worst recession since the Great Depression of 1930s.
Berlin, September 28: Heart attack symptoms are not nearly as obvious in women as in men, reports a German medical association.
Men will tend to report sudden, prolonged periods of pain in the chest, reported the German Federal Group of Apothecary Associations (ABDA). The pain often radiates through the arms, back, stomach, throat and jaw while a man’s face will go pale and grow sweaty.
Difficulty breathing, dizziness, unconsciousness and fear are symptoms as well.
Dhaka, September 28: Authorities say security agents have arrested five suspected Islamic militants in south-eastern Bangladesh and seized bomb-making materials.
Bangladesh’s anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion says the suspects were arrested on Sunday in a forest in Khagrachari district, 175 km southeast of the capital, Dhaka.
Security commander Col. Mizanur Rahman said on Monday that it is believed the suspects belong to the banned radical Islamic group Jumatul Mujahideen Bangladesh.
Mr. Rahman said agents also seized explosives and bomb-making materials from the men.
Washington, September 28: People who suffer frequent minor irritations on their face should pay attention to how often they touch their face with their hands, experts say. The hands often carry a lot of bacteria, which can cause irritations.
“Irritations often occur on the face in areas we touch with our hands,” said German makeup artist Boris Entrup. This includes the forehead, which many women touch when they adjust their bangs or when they push aside longer strands of hair.
Hamburg, September 28: A combination of LED light therapy and a lotion made from green tea extract is far more effective at removing facial wrinkles than conventional therapies, according to a team of German researchers.
The combination of high-intensity light from light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and a lotion made of green tea extract works ten times faster than a similar anti-wrinkle treatment that uses LEDs alone, according to the findings published in the journal Crystal Growth and Design.
New Delhi, September 28: There are 900 parent hopefuls in the queue, but no children to take home. Adoption agencies in the capital are facing an acute shortage of babies, and one major reason they say is unwed mothers are no longer willing to abandon their child.
“We are facing an acute shortage of children. This trend has been happening for the past four years. There is a sharp decline (in getting children for adoption),” said Leila Baig, honorary secretary of the Coordinating Voluntary Adoption Resource Agency (CVARA), a voluntary association of 10 adoption agencies in Delhi.
New Delhi, September 28: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday returned from the G20 Summit at Pittsburgh with some major gains at hand that are making the rich nations now look at the developing world in a new light.
It was evident from the final communique issued by the G20 leaders at the end of the Summit on Friday that it reflected a lot of what Manmohan Singh had been pointing out prior to the summit – and all this with a sense of ‘confidence’ as he himself said.
Mumbai, September 28: Yes, that’s how the credit titles of Balki’s Paa will bill the super-icon.
Says the director Balki, “The credits will read “Starring Abhishek Bachchan…Vidya Balan…Introducing Amitabh Bachchan.’ I truly believe this is Mr. Bachchan’s first film, firstly because he has never played a 12-year old. His character is named Auro…No it’s short for Aurobindo. He’s just…Auro! And if there are any members of the audience who haven’t seen him before they won’t recognize him.”