Telaviv, September 27: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged the imposition of harsh sanctions on Iran, in wake of evidence of a clandestine Iranian nuclear facility, the Israel Ha’aretz daily reported on Sunday.
Centurion, September 27: His 126-ball 128 set the stage for Pakistan’s comprehensive win over India in a Champions Trophy Group match here, but Shoaib Malik feels the scenario could have been different had Mahendra Singh Dhoni introduced Harbhajan Singh early in the attack.
Man-of-the-match Malik, who shared a match-winning record 206-run fourth wicket stand with Mohammad Yousuf (87), said Dhoni missed a trick by bringing on the off-spinner late in the attack, especially after Pakistan were tottering at 65 for three at one stage.
New Delhi, September 27: Rakhi Sawant chose her fiance, Canada-based businessman Elesh Parujanwala, from among 16 prospective grooms on a TV show, but the item girl now says her would-be husband has ‘an egg-like face’.
Rakhi and Elesh are part of a new reality show ‘Pati, Patni Aur Woh’ on NDTV Imagine, where they will be seen taking care of babies of different ages. Rakhi said the first kid was scared of Elesh because of his face.
‘The kid we were given initially used to start crying whenever he used to see Elesh. I think that’s because Elesh has an egg-like face,’ she quipped.
Lucknow, September 27: A 62-year-old Australian who counts Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda as his gurus is leading a campaign here to turn the Taj Mahal city of Agra sparkling clean.
Remco van Santen, who has been motivating and leading cleanliness drives with school children across India, says the time has come to overhaul Agra, India’s most popular tourist destination.
Of Dutch origin, van Santen feels it was unfair to expect the authorities to do the cleaning job. Citizens need to chip in too.
Washington, September 27: The US prison for suspected terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will not be closed by January as planned, US government officials said Saturday.
According to a report by US broadcaster CNN, two members of the US administration stated that the planned date to close the facility would not be met due to unresolved legal questions.
The closure of the facility is still planned to proceed as soon as possible, the officials said.
Amman, September 27: The Jordanian government on Saturday announced that it was asking the US authorities for information about a Jordanian teenager, Hosam Smadi, who was charged on Friday with attempt to blow up a 60-storey tower in Dallas, Texas.
“The government has started contacts, through its embassy in Washington, with the US departments of foreign affairs and justice in a follow-up of the Jordanian citizen’s case,” Minister of State for Information Affairs and Communication Nabil Sharif was quoted as saying by the official Petra news agency.
Mumbai, September 27: Twelve Air India flights, including seven on international routes, were cancelled Sunday as striking pilots continued their agitation for the second consecutive day.
‘The international flights from Delhi to Bangkok, Singapore and Kathmandu were cancelled as a few pilots who were put on duty did not report for work,’ a senior Air India official told IANS.
The official said the pilots are expected to hold talks with the management at the Air India office in Mumbai Sunday.
Srinagar, September 27: Police today arrested two persons with alleged links to Lashkar-e-Toiba from Jammu and Kashmir”s Baramulla district and recovered a AK-47 rifle from them. The duo – Nazir Ahmad Rather and Hilal Ahmad Rather – were apprehended from Takia-Wagoora, 60 kms from here, last evening, the police said.
One AK 47 rifle with a magazine was recovered from the duo and a case was registered against them in Kreeri police station. The arrest comes close on the heels of three suspected LeT operatives being apprehended by the police in Pulwama on Friday.
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Tehran, September 27: Iran tested two short-range missiles as its elite Revolutionary Guards began several days of war games on Sunday, state television reported.
Iran’s English-language television channel Press TV said the tests also included a multiple missile launcher.
“Iran tests two short-range missiles,” Press TV said in a scrolling headline. It earlier said new missiles had been tested, without giving details.
London, September 27: Parts of ISI are supporting Taliban and protecting their chief Mullah Omar and other militant leaders in Pakistan’s Quetta city, where US officials have discussed sending commandos to capture or kill the terrorists, a media report said in London today.
The US is threatening to launch air strikes against Mullah Omar and the Taliban leadership in Quetta as frustration mounts about the ease with which they find sanctuary across the border from Afghanistan, ‘The Sunday Times’ reported.
Melbourne, September 27: Australian batsman Cameron White has said that Michael Clarke should remain the first choice for the Twenty20 captaincy. White, current vice-captain Clarke and Brad Haddin are the candidates in the running to fill the role, following the retirement of Ricky Ponting from Twenty20.
White, who has led Victoria to all four finals of Australia’s domestic Twenty20 Big Bash tournament, said he was happy with his own credentials but backed Clarke, who’s the favourite to take over.
Johanesburg, September 27: Pressure sits like a razor-sharp knife on the edge of a table, waiting to be tipped over and chop off someone’s toes, or be moved gently, so that its blunt side faces the danger end.
The last time South Africa faced England in a major tournament was with the blade pointing straight at them. That was two years ago, at the 2007 World Cup and South Africa were desperate for a win to stay in the Super Eight stage of the competition.
New Delhi, September 27: A CBI court here has reserved order on framing of charges against former Uttar Pradesh MLA Uday Bhan Singh and five others, accused of killing an eye-witness of a triple murder in Varanasi in which they are allegedly involved.
Special CBI judge O P Saini, after hearing arguments advanced on behalf of the probe agency and the accused, posted the matter for framing of charges to October 8.
The CBI counsel, earlier, submitted that there was sufficient “prima facie” evidence to frame murder charge against the accused.
Imphal, September 27: Nine persons have so far been arrested in connection with September 18 incident in which some unidentified persons kept a ‘car-bomb’ at Manipur Raj Bhavan complex, official sources said Sunday.
Sources said all the nine were being interrogated extensively.
On September 18 last, some unknown persons who came on the pretext of submitting a memorandum to the Governor Gurbachan Jagan left a car filled with 25 kgs of explosives and three hand grenades, sources said.
The explosives were later defused by the bomb experts of Manipur police.
London, September 27: England team director Andy Flower has said he would not have called back Angelo Mathews had be been in Andrew Strauss’s position.
Strauss said his decision to recall Mathews after he had been run out last night was influenced in part by the fallout from a similar incident in England last summer, but Flower did not share the sentiment.
The right of children to free and compulsory education is perhaps the biggest inclusive step taken by India since independence. The delay in enacting the law has caused the country to slip deeper into illiteracy, poverty and social discrimination.
Many would argue that this landmark legislation should have preceded the promise of ‘Roti, Kapda and Makaan’. Or perhaps Indian planners have finally heeded to a Chinese proverb: ‘Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.’
Centurian, September 27: With India’s 54-run loss against Pakistan in their Champions Trophy Group A match here, skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said if his side were to repeat last night’s poor performance they should pack up and go back home.
”From now onwards it will be a knock-out tournament for us. If we don’t improve in the next two matches it is better we pack up and go back home,” Dhoni said.
Melbourne, September 27: Australia’s tournament has begun with a 50-run win over a depleted West Indies, but Ricky Ponting was the first to admit that the outcome was not entirely convincing. Australia needed Mitchell Johnson’s late-hitting to lift them from 171 for 7 and then, in the field, conceded a shocking 36 extras on a pitch Ponting termed as “inconsistent”.
Johanesburg, September 27: England’s victory against Sri Lanka has added an interesting twist to Group B, where every remaining match is of vital importance. South Africa have to beat England in Centurion in order for their semi-final hopes to not depend heavily on a difficult permutation and combination of results.
AB de Villiers, though, is confident South Africa will “come off when the pressure is there”, despite their history of falling short in must-win games.
Sanaa, September 27: The US and key Arab states have expressed their ‘full support’ to the Yemeni government in its offensive against local Shia fighters.
The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her counterparts from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Iraq, Egypt and Jordan have issued a joint statement following their talks in New York, AFP reported on Saturday.
“The ministers … noted their concern for the situation in Yemen,” said the US-Arab statement.
Pittsburgh, September 27: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said his country wants increased trade relations and dialogue with Iran, despite confirmation that Tehran has built a second nuclear-enrichment plant.
‘Brazil has good trade relations with Iran and we want to strengthen them,’ Lula told a press conference after the G-20 summit.
The president said he will receive Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as scheduled Nov 23 and plans Iran next year.
Cuba, September 27: The US Department of Justice says that two prisoners of Guantanamo Bay detention center have been sent to Ireland and another one to Yemen.
Washington “has coordinated with the governments of each of these nations to ensure the transfers take place under appropriate security measures and will continue to consult with these governments regarding these detainees,” the department said in a statement on Saturday.
US authorities did not release the names of detainees who were sent to Ireland, but media reports in July suggested the two are Uzbek nationals.
Baghdad, September 27: A US reconnaissance drone has crashed into the office of one of Iraq’s biggest political parties, the US military has said.
The drone struck the local office of the Iraqi Islamic Party, Iraq’s biggest Sunni Arab political group in the northern city of Mosul on Saturday, Reuters reported.
Major Derrick Cheng, a military spokesperson in northern Iraq, says no injuries have been reported and there is no indication that the drone has been shot down.
Cheng said it was a coincidence that the drone struck the political party’s office.
Chennai, September 27: Tamil Nadu Government’s decision to hold the 9th World Tamil Conference in Coimbatore next year is snowballing into a major political controversy with AIADMK outrightly rejecting the move to hold such a meet and other opposition parties questioning its timing citing the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka.
AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa had sought to know from the Government whether it has got the backing of International Association of Tamil Research (ITAR), saying the organisation can alone conduct such conferences.
Washington, September 27: Eyeing India’s estimated $100 billion defence pie, major US arms suppliers are wooing Indian defence agents and officials as New Delhi embarks on a major military shopping spree to modernise its Soviet-era arsenal, a US media report said.
At the US embassy in New Delhi, defence contractors such as Northrop Grumman are sponsoring little league baseball teams, the companies’ names stitched onto the uniforms, the Washington Post said in a report from New Delhi.