Nagpur, October 03: All-round performances helped Rest of India take a huge 201-run lead with all their wickets intact against Mumbai on the third day of the Irani Trophy match here Saturday.
A destructive spell from Munaf Patel (5-70) and Sreesanth (3-46) packed up Mumbai for 230 runs in the first innings after they added just 30 runs to their over night score of 200 for six.
Srinagar, October 03: Twenty-two people, including an additional superintendent of police, were injured as protestors clashed with police in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla town Saturday, a day after a 13-year-old died when he was hit by a teargas smoke shell, an official said.
“At least 12 policemen, including the Baramulla additional superintendent of police, were injured in stone pelting by an irate mob. Ten protesters also suffered minor injuries in the clashes,” a senior police officer said here.
Odense, October 03: India finished 18th after going down 1-2 to Hong Kong in the World men’s team championship squash.
Gaurav Nandrajog, who started off well for India by winning the first game, eventually lost to Leo Au here Friday night. The Hong Kong star stepped up the tempo from the second game and had Nandrajog running in circles. Au won the 42-minute duel 9-11, 11-7, 11-8, 11-2.
In the second singles, Ritwik Bhattacharya, playing in place of the injured No.1 Saurav Ghosal, took the first two games against Dick Lau and looked certain to win the match.
New Delhi, October 03: Young Australian opener Phillip Hughes said an interaction with Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar helped him get over the disappointment of being dropped during the Ashes series.
Hughes, 20, was dropped from the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston.
The New South Wale Blues player last month flew to India to meet his batting coach Neil D’Costa in Nagur who is helping out at a newly built academy. It is here Hughes expressed his wish to meet Tendulkar.
Abu Dhabi, October 03: Unesco’s Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Heritage has identified 12 such items in eight countries in need of urgent safeguarding, WAM news agency reported Saturday.
The list includes three items from China. These are the Qiang New Year festival, traditional designs and practices for building Chinese wooden arch bridges and traditional Li textile techniques: spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidering.
Amritsar, October 03: Amritsar MP and former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu finally returned to his constituency Saturday after staying away for nearly three months.
The chirpy Sidhu, who is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Lok Sabha MP from here, was apologetic to his supporters and the electorate for remaining away from the constituency.
Sidhu’s return came just two days after a local BJP leader, R.S. Chhina, resigned as Amritsar Improvement Trust chief. Sidhu had opposed Chhina’s appointment,saying he (Chhina) had worked against him in the Lok Sabha election in May.
London, October 03: Most babies born in rich countries this century will eventually make it to their 100th birthday, new research says. Danish experts say that since the 20th century, people in developed countries are living about three decades longer than in the past. Surprisingly, the trend shows little sign of slowing down.
In an article published Friday in the medical journal Lancet, the researchers write that the process of aging may be “modifiable.”
London, October 03: A key witness in the conviction of the Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi in the Lockerbie bombing was secretly paid up to two million dollars (1.4 million euros) in a deal approved by the US government, according to legal papers released Friday.
The claims were made in new documents published by Megrahi, which he maintains prove he is innocent of the 1988 bombing of a passenger jet over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing 270 people.
Hyderabad, October 03:The regular students and private candidates without school study who are going to appear for the first time for the SSC Public Examinations to be held in March 2010 with Tamil, Hindi and Urdu as first language shall write the examinations in the changed question paper pattern i.e. Part – A for 30 marks of descriptive and Part – B for 20 marks of objective type questions both in Paper I and Paper II, according to Ms Pronoti Suhasini Kavoori, Director of Government Examinations, Hyderabad.
Karachi, October 03:Pakistan’s cricket community reacted sharply Saturday after the country’s players were “snubbed” at the International Cricket Council (ICC) Awards ceremony in Johannesburg earlier this week.
Fans back home were confident that at least one Pakistani cricketer – all-rounder Shahid Afridi – would win the ICC award for the best Twenty20 performance of the year. But they were stunned when Afridi was overlooked for the award despite of the fact that he helped Pakistan win the 2009 World Twenty20 title in England in June.
New Delhi, October 03: India have been clubbed with defending champions Maldives in the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championships to be held in Dhaka from Dec 4.
India, Maldives, Nepal and Afghanistan are in Group A while hosts Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bhutan are in Group B. The two top teams from each group will qualify for the semis and the final will be played Dec 14.
All matches will be played at the Bangabandhu Stadium and the winner will take home prize money of $50,000.
Mogadishu, October 03: Kidnappers on Saturday released three foreign aid workers they had held in Somalia for more than two months, an Islamic militia commander said.
Hizbul Islam commander Sheik Abdullahi Nor said he saw the three former hostages board a small plane Saturday in the southwestern Somali town of Luq.
Intermediaries had contacted Hizbul Islam to ask about using their airstrip in Luq to fly out the former hostages, Nor said, explaining how he knew about the release.
“I don’t know who released them or whether ransom was paid,” Nor said.
New Delhi, October 03: India have been clubbed with defending champions Maldives in the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championships to be held in Dhaka from Dec 4.
India, Maldives, Nepal and Afghanistan are in Group A while hosts Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bhutan are in Group B. The two top teams from each group will qualify for the semis and the final will be played Dec 14.
All matches will be played at the Bangabandhu Stadium and the winner will take home prize money of $50,000.
Shimla, October 03:Two more patients in Himachal Pradesh have tested positive for influenza A (H1N1), taking the number of swine flu cases in the state to four, a health official said Saturday.
“Medical reports of two sisters in the age group of 18 to 20 of Kasauli have tested positive,” swine flu nodal officer Vinod Mehta told IANS.
He said the sisters had shown mild systems of the communicable disease.
Kasauli is about 25 kms from the district headquarters town of Solan.
New Delhi, October 03:A 25-year-old man was arrested for kidnapping and molesting a 15-year-old girl while his younger brother was arrested for raping her when she refused to marry him, police said Saturday.
Rinku, who is married, was insisting the victim get married to his brother Deepak, police said.
When she refused do so, they kept her hostage for 10 days in their Model Town house in northwest Delhi, “where the elder brother molested her and the younger one raped her. They also threatened her with dire consequences,” said a police officer.
Kabul, October 03:A South African security contractor working on a U.S. anti-drugs project in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand is being held for shooting dead an Afghan colleague, Afghan police said on Saturday.
Helmand Province police chief Asadullah Sherzad said the contractor, head of the Helmand office of a security firm, had shot the guard after a quarrel inside the firm’s compound in Lashkar Gah, capital of Afghanistan’s most violent province.
Hyderabad/Banglore, Ocotber 03: The flood situation in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka showed signs of improvement with record-breaking water levels starting to recede Saturday after three days of torrential rain. The death toll in the two neighbouring states due to the rain, caused by a deep depression in the Bay of Bengal, rose to 190.
While Karnataka has reported around 140 deaths, Andhra Pradesh has reported 50 deaths, according to officials.
Rescue and relief operations by army helicopters, boats and teams from the National Disaster Relief Force were continuing in the two states.
Washington, October 03: India has proposed annual bilateral dialogues with the United States and the European Union to exchange notes on the issue of climate change, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has said.
The proposed dialogue with the Europeans and the Americans could be on the lines of the first India-China energy dialogue scheduled to take place in New Delhi Oct 21, he said at a press conference here Friday at the end of his US visit.
Padang, October 03: At least three Indonesian villages were obliterated by earthquake-triggered landslides that buried as many as 644 people including a wedding party under mountains of mud and debris, officials said Saturday.
The full extent of Wednesday’s 7.6-magnitude earthquake was becoming apparent three days later as aid workers and government officials reached remote villages in the hills along Sumatra island’s western coast.
Patna, October 03: LJP president and former Union minister Ramvilas Paswan today undertook a visit to the areas dominated by ”Mahadalits” in Phulwarisharif constituency in Patna and enquired about their plight. Paswan, accompanied by RJD spokesman Ramkripal Yadav, went to Balmi chak, Harni Chak, Ismailpur, Chilbili, Ganjpar, Palanga, Suitha and other Dalit-dominated localities in the constituency and castigated the state government for its alleged move to “divide Dalit samaj”.
Baghdad, October 03: Iraqi troops have arrested 140 suspected al Qaeda members and other Sunni Arab militants in the past four days in raids on the northern city of Mosul, security officials said on Saturday.
Mosul is the last urban stronghold of a largely Sunni Arab insurgency that comprises Islamist groups such as al Qaeda plus some members of Saddam Hussein’s outlawed Baath party.
“This operation targets al-Qaeda and Baathists in the city … and those collaborating with them,” said Defence Ministry spokesman Major-General Mohammed al-Askari.
Manila, October 03: A powerful typhoon slammed into the northeastern Philippines on Saturday, killing four people, tearing roofs off houses and uprooting trees, but damage and flooding was much less than expected.
Typhoon Parma, the strongest typhoon to hit the country since 2006, made landfall in the northeastern tip of the remote Cagayan province. The weather bureau said the storm would be back over the sea by early on Sunday.
Nagaur, October 03: United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi, 62, on Friday said panchayati raj institutions were often undermined by politics and selfish motives.
“In many states, panchayats have been dismissed summarily. In villages the voice of the people is still stifled.
The Congress is striving to work in the right direction.” Gandhi was speaking at a ceremony to commemorate the 50th year of Panchayati Raj at a government college in Rajasthan’s Nagaur district, about 290 km west of state capital Jaipur.
New Delhi, October 03: Bihar Police said on Saturday they have arrested 11 people, including the mastermind behind the massacre of 16 people, including five children, in Khagaria district two days ago and more arrests would be made soon.
Additional Director General of Police (headquarters) Neelmani said the mastermind behind the massacre O.P. Mahto had been arrested and was being interrogated along with the others. “Police have got some vital information about the incident and more arrests will be made soon,” he said.
Mumbai, October 03: Rakhi Sawant’s new reality show ‘Pati, Patni Aur Woh’ is in for some trouble. After hurting the sentiments of social organisations as well as disturbing many of its viewers (thanks to Rakhi’s manhandling of the child), the government has asked for a ban on the show.