Month: November 2009

Koda hospitalised; IT raids continue

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Ranchi, November 03: Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, who is under the Income Tax scanner for alleged hawala transactions, was on Tuesday admitted to a hospital in Ranchi after he complained of illness.

“He was admitted to hospital around noon after he complained of some ailment. He is in the intensive care unit. The doctors are attending on him and only after getting the pathological report can we say about the ailment,” a spokesman of the Abur Razzak Memorial Weavers Hospital Javed Akhtar, told PTI.

Ban on pre-paid mobile services temporary: Farooq

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Srinagar, November 03: Union New and Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah today said that the ban imposed by the Centre on prepaid mobile phone connections in Jammu and Kashmir was “temporary” and would be lifted soon.

“The ban on prepaid cell phone connections in the state is temporary and would be lifted soon,” Abdullah told reporters here in S K Stadium.

Abdullah said the ban was imposed as Centre had apprehensions that the mobile connections were being misused.

Advani keeps medal hope alive in Indoor Asian Games

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Hanoi (Vietnam), November 03: Reigning world champion Pankaj Advani kept India’s hopes alive in the third Indoor Asian Games after advancing to the quarterfinals of the 15-Red Snooker discipline here today.

Advani, who yesterday crashed out in the pre-quarterfinals of the 6-Red Snooker discipline, showed immense maturity and depth in his technique and won both his encounters of the day with elan in the 15-Red Snooker.

Antony stresses need for maintaining communal harmony

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Kozhikode, November 03: Emphasising the need for maintaining communal harmony, Defence Minister A K Antony today said religion and faith should be treated as a personal matter.

“People and religious leaders should maintain utmost restraint in the event of any clash so that no one becomes a victim of communal violence,” Antony said.

Govt Stands By Rights Of Minorities- Chidambaram

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Deoband, November 03: Interior Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday assured the Muslim clerics and Islamic scholars, who attended the convention of Deoband, the UPA government is committed to unquestionable rights of indigenous minorities worldwide working for the development of all sectors of society.

Andhra launches pension-cum-insurance scheme for poor women

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Hyderabad, November 03: The Andhra Pradesh government Sunday launched the YSR ‘Abhaya Hastam’ (Helping Hand), a co-contributory pension-cum-insurance scheme for poor and low income women.

Chief Minister K. Rosaiah launched the scheme, named after former chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who devised the scheme and formally announced it earlier this year.

Karachi, Train Crash Toll Rises To 10

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Islamabad, November 03: The death toll in a train accident near the Jumma Goth Quaidabad area of Karachi has reached 10 of 38 passengers were injured in the incident.

Allama Iqbal Express, which ran to the interior Karachi Tuesday morning, hit a stationary freight train in the area Jumma Goth.

The accident halted train traffic on the main runway. Railroad division superintendent has said that traffic will be restored within three to four hours.

Let my baby die, says mother

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London, November 03: A mother has called for her baby boy to be allowed to die to save him from leading a “miserable, sad and pitiful existence”.

The child’s mother supports doctors who went to court yesterday asking a judge for permission to switch off her son’s life support.

10-year-old stripped naked, chained and dragged for theft

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Lucknow, November 03: A 10-year-old boy was assaulted, stripped naked, chained and then dragged for several metres by a group of shopkeepers in an Uttar Pradesh village on charges of stealing Rs.20, police said today.

The inhumane treatment was meted out to Sainki, a resident of Dayanand Sagar village in Muzaffarnagar district, about 350 km from state capital Lucknow, police said.

Ajmer Shatabdi runs down four, passengers stranded

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Gurgaon, November 03: Four people were run over by a train near this suburban city early today leading to angry protests that saw hundreds of passengers aboard the New Delhi-Ajmer Shatabdi Express being stranded.

The incident took place in Pataudi, 26 km from this satellite town in Haryana, at about 7.30 a.m., railway officials said. “Four people were run over by the New Delhi-Ajmer Shatabdi express this morning when they were illegally crossing the railway tracks in Pataudi. The accident happened at 7.30 a.m.,” Anant Swarup, spokesperson of the Northern Railways, told the media.

Congress in Andhra divided over poll tie-up with Chiranjeevi

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Hyderabad, November 03: Serious differences have cropped up in the ruling Congress in Andhra Pradesh following its state chief’s decision to forge an alliance with the Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) of actor-cum-politician Chiranjeevi for the ensuing Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections.

A day after state Congress chief D.Srinivas said the party would have an alliance with the PRP, several ministers opposed it, saying the ruling party was strong enough to contest the elections on its own.

We failed as a batting unit: Dhoni

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Chandigarh, November 03: Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni blamed his batsmen for the loss against Australia in the fourth One-day international here Monday that allowed the visitors to level the seven-match series 2-2.

Chasing a victory target of 251, India were all out for 226 in 46.4 overs on a batting friendly track at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium (PCA).

‘We should have achieved the target and for that we had to bat 50 overs. But we failed as a batting unit. It was a fantastic One-day wicket,’ said Dhoni.

’21 male family members were killed within hours’ (25 years after Indira Gandhi’s assassination)

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New Delhi, November 03: She was 20 then, happily married for two years. But Manjeet Kaur’s world came to be covered in blood the night of Nov 1, 1984 when her husband along with 20 other men in the family were butchered right outside their homes in the mindless anti-Sikh violence.

Twentyone lives, all from the same family, snuffed out in a matter of hours – can you imagine? “Now my whole life is like this – there is no single moment when the thought of my husband goes away,” says Kaur, now 45.

She speaks about the massacre after a lot of persuasion. But no pictures, she says.

Gayle back as Windies captain to tour Australia

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Bridgetown (Barbados), November 03: Chris Gayle was reinstated as West Indies captain to lead a full-strength squad on a three-test tour of Australia later this month.

The 30-year-old Jamaican was appointed yesterday after he and other leading players had withdrawn from a home series against Bangladesh in July and the Champions Trophy in September due to a long-standing contract conflict with the West Indies Cricket Board.

A unique Urdu book, courtesy retired school teacher

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Lucknow, November 03: His Urdu poetry book is just 130 pages long, but Uttar Pradesh resident Waqarul Hasnain took more than a decade to write it. That’s because his work makes use of only 14 letters and doesn’t contain a single ‘nukta’ – dots commonly used to form words in the script.

Hasnain, a retired primary school teacher and resident of Rampur district, some 270 km from Lucknow, has come up with the unique book titled “Murassaye Hilm”.

Victory (for a crooked, corrupt and discredited government)

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Kabul, November 03: The election in Afghanistan has turned into a disaster for all who promoted it.

Hamid Karzai has been declared re-elected as President of the country for the next five years though his allies inside and outside Afghanistan know that he owes his success to open fraud. Instead of increasing his government’s legitimacy, the poll has further de-legitimised it.

Dal Khalsa activists stop trains in Amritsar

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Amritsar, November 03: Dal Khalsa activists stopped trains at the Amritsar Railway station Tuesday following a call for a strike across Punjab. The radical activists are demanding justice for the thousands of victims who were killed in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi and other places.

The Amritsar-New Delhi Shatabdi Express, Jan Shatabdi Express, Sachkhand Express, Dadar Express, Super Express and the Deluxe train were stopped by Dal Khalsa activists at the railway station here.

Scores of activists squatted on the rail tracks and blocked trains from moving out.

Ponting feared 250 would not be enough

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Mohali, November 03: Relieved after the series-levelling 24-run win, Australia captain Ricky Ponting said he was afraid that 250-run may not be enough but his bowlers made it possible.

“It was a good win but I thought we left out some 30-40 runs. We lost wickets at crucial moments which causes to lose momentum and 250 seemed a little short. But our bowlers did a great job,” a beaming Ponting said after the win over India.

Clinton backtracks on Israeli settlements after Arab anger

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Washington, November 03: Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, was forced into an awkward diplomatic pirouette yesterday, insisting to Arab foreign ministers that Washington had not capitulated to Israel’s continuing hunger for new Jewish settlements even if statements she had made 24 hours earlier seemed to imply exactly that.

43 nominations filed for GHMC election

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Hyderabad, November 02: A total of 43 nominations were filed today for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections scheduled to be held on November 23.

With today’s nominations, their total number so far is 53, State Election Commission sources said.

As per the schedule announced for the civic polls in the Andhra Pradesh capital, the last date for nominations is November six. The nomination papers would be scrutinised on November seven and the last date for withdrawal is November 10.

Two injured in grenade attack at shrine in Baramulla

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Srinagar, November 02: Suspected militants hurled a grenade at a shrine in Baramulla district this evening, injuring two persons, police said.

The grenade was hurled at the devotees visiting the shrine at Athasan Mohalla near Palhullan, 40 kms from here, police said adding two vendors were injured in the attack.

No militant organisation has owned responsibility for the attack, the police said.

–Agencies

Australia beat India by 24 runs, level series 2-2

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Mohali, November 02: Let down by the batsmen, India slumped to a 24-run defeat in the fourth One-dayer that not only allowed Australia to level the
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seven-match cricket series 2-2 but also prolonged the hosts’ wait to become the number one ODI team in the world on Monday.

Scorecard | Match in Pics | Schedule

Chasing 251, India got off to a flier with Virender Sehwag (30 off 19 balls) looking eager to wrap up the issue and Sachin Tendulkar (40) going great guns.

Rowdy Sheeter Akbar murdered in Old City

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Hyderabad, November 02: A Rowdy-sheeter belonging to Old City was brutally murdered this evening creating tension in the Bhavani Nagar area. The 50 year Old Mohammed Akbar an rowdy sheeter of Moghalpura Police station who was well known as Shahenshah Akbar was brutally mudered by his associate Basheer of Talabkatta.

The Police sources told that Basheer called Akbar to his residence at Nasheman Nagar in Bhavani Nagar and stabbed him to death.

Student’s suicide: No arrests so far

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Hyderabad, November 02: Though it has been three days since the class X student from Saidabad, P Vijaya Vani, committed suicide due to alleged harassment by the principal and correspondent of Princeton High School, the City Police are yet to arrest the culprits. Saidabad police inspector G Srinivas told ‘Expresso’ that police are inquiring from the school teachers and other students of the school to ascertain the facts. “In the suicide note purportedly written by Vijaya Vani, she only stated that she was harassed but did not mention how she was harassed.