Guwahati, Dec 03: Assam is on high alert following intelligence reports that ULFA cadres are planning to launch an offensive to protest the reported detention of the outfit’s Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa in Bangladesh.
Police said as per intelligence inputs, ULFA ’Commander-in-Chief’, Paresh Barua, reportedly in Myanmar now, had directed the members of the banned outfit to carry out bomb blasts in different parts of the state.
Karachi, December 03: Pakistan Cricket Board lost revenue worth USD 47.22 million after the Indian government didn’t allow Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s men to tour the trouble-torn country for a Test series earlier this year, following Mumbai terror attacks.
The accounts of PCB, scrutinised by the Auditor-General of Pakistan show that the board lost revenues of around USD 39 million from the cancelled series, which it would have earned from the sale of television rights.
Haathras, Dec 03: AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi will interact with the students of Aligarh Muslim University, during his two-day visit to Uttar Pradesh starting December 7.
“Mr. Rahul, who has been invited by vice-chancellor P K Abdul Azis, will address students at Kennedy hall of the university on December 7,” AMU spokesman Rahat Abrar said here.
This will be Mr. Gandhi’s first visit to AMU.
Around 800 students selected from various faculties, residential halls and schools affiliated with the AMU will also attend the event.
Mumbai, December 03: What does it take to be happy in a relationship? If you’re working to improve your marriage, here are a few habits of happy couples. 10 Habits of happy couples
1. Go to bed at the same time
Remember the beginning of your relationship, when you couldn’t wait to go to bed with each other to make love? Happy couples resist the temptation to go to bed at different times. They go to bed at the same time, even if one partner wakes up later to do things while their partner sleeps.
2. Cultivate common interests
Washington, Dec 03: While infection is reported in some 50 percent of patients admitted to intensive care units across the world, more than 70 percent of them receive antibiotics.
According to a study more than half of the ICU patients suffer from various infections.
Lungs are the main infection site in some 64 percent of the cases. Staphylococcus aureus followed by E. coli and Pseudomonas are the most common germs in ICU infections.
Infections particularly blood-borne ones, such as sepsis, are the leading cause of long hospitalizations and non-cardiac deaths in ICU.
Hyderabad, December 03 (Siasat News): An auto driver in a rare case of showing honesty, returned the bag of a passenger that was left behind in the auto, containing 40 tolas gold and cash, to the Nampally police station.
In the meantime, Inspector Ashok Chakravarthy said that Chandrakant, native of Chittapur, Karnataka, had hired an auto from Mangalhaat as he had to book his tickets from Nampally railway station.
Geneva, Dec 03: Bone marrow stem cells can be used to help the heart that has been damaged after a heart attack repair the injury, a new study finds.
Previous studies had reported that the injection of stem cells extracted from the patient directly into the heart can treat heart attack patients.
The new study, however, benefited from the intravenous infusion of a stem cell product known as Prochymal harvested from a single healthy donor and cultured in laboratories.
London, Dec 03: Low-dose radiation from mammograms and chest X-rays may place young women at an increased risk of developing breast cancer.
A recent advisory panel advised against routine breast mammograms for women in their 40s, aiming to lower the worry and expense of extra tests to distinguish between cancer and harmless lumps.
Women at very high risk of breast cancer, however, are still recommended to get both a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and mammogram starting at age 30, as MRI alone increases the risk of false-positive results.
Islamabad, Dec 03: Pakistani security forces have killed 15 militants, including a senior commander, in separate clashes as they seek to rout the Taliban from strongholds in the country’s northwest, officials said Thursday.
The deadliest fighting was in Swat Valley, the site of a major military offensive this summer that was declared a success but has been the scene of sporadic violence since.
Ten suspects were killed in overnight fighting following a raid on a militant hide-out near the Swat Valley town of Kabal, Maj. Mushtaq Ahmed said.
United Nations, December 03: The UN right treaty to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women has helped in changing the “perception of discrimination” against women in all areas within India, Justice Sujata Manohar said.
Speaking at the UN on the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Manohar cited the 1997 landmark case of Vishaka v State of Rajasthan to explain how treaty had impacted the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the right to equality guaranteed under the Indian Constitution.
Hyderabad, December 03: TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao, who is on a fast-unto-death for a separate Telangana state, was admitted to a government hospital here on Thursday after being shifted from Khammam.
Rao was brought to the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Science (NIMS) this morning from the Khammam Government Hospital, where he was undergoing treatment for the last four days.
The former Union minister is being treated in the Acute Medical Care (AMC) ward of NIMS by a special team of doctors, official sources said.
Karachi, December 03: Flamboyant Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi today said he would want to prepare himself for the 2011 World Cup by skipping Test cricket until that mega event in the sub-continent.
“There was a time when I was very keen to play Test matches but unfortunately I didn’t get enough opportunities then. But now there is so much international cricket being played that I want to focus on T20 and ODIs until the World Cup is over,” Afridi said.
Chandigarh, Dec 03: India is home for me and one does not visit but come home, Sir Ben Kingsley gets nostalgic over the extraordinary welcome he receives in the country, happy that the thread that was created in 1981-82 during the filming of Gandhi has not snapped.
New Delhi, December 03 : ULFA Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa has indicated that the banned militant outfit is ready for peace talks.”I want to clear my stand that I still stand for the cause of the Assamese people. We are against the domination of Assamese community by mainstream India.
“We do not want our revolution to end but there should be a peaceful solution to it, preferably in a constitutional way. I want peace talks to restart and conclude…That is why I have come forward to carry on my agenda,” he told a TV channel.
Mumbai, December 03: Hers was a voice that enthralled millions, a voice, which she claims, was stifled by her contemporaries in the Hindi film industry.
“I don’t want to name them. Everyone knows them. They snatched away work from me, ensuring that no music director or film-maker ever gave me any,” Mubarak Begum told PTI.
The 70-year-old singer lives in penury in a small house of Behrampauda area in western suburb Jogeshwari, with an ailing daughter and a son who drives a taxi.
“It’s a struggle to take care of the grocery, phone and electricity bills,” she added.
Mumbai, December 03: Virender Sehwag and Murali Vijay gave India a flying start in reply to Sri Lanka’s first innings total of 393 and were 92 for no loss off 18 overs at lunch on day two of the third and final Test at the Brabourne Stadium here today.
After quickly polishing off the last two wickets of the visitors for the addition of just 27 runs in 22 balls and in less than half an hour this morning, Sehwag and Vijay started in rollicking fashion.
New Delhi, December 03: The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday conducted searches on the premises of realtor EMMAR MGF in connection with the multi-crore illegal Hawala and investment case involving former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda.
The search followed the ED finding certain documents that showed Koda’s associates on the board of certain EMAAR group companies, ED sources said.
EMAAR MGF is a joint venture between Dubai-based EMAAR Properties and India’s MGF Development.
Porayar (TN), December 03: Nine school students and a teacher drowned when their van fell into a pond at a village in Vedaranyam block, about 60 km from here, today.
The van was carrying 25 students and two teachers when the mishap occurred at Kathripulam village, police said.
Some of the students received minor injuries.
–PTI
Cape Town, December 03: David Beckham is set to stay in South Africa to assist England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup despite the death of his grandfather.
It is understood that the former England captain, who is with the bid team on the 2018 campaign trail in Cape Town, wants to stay on after learning yesterday that his grandfather, Joseph West, had died aged 83 after a serious illness.
New Delhi, December 03: ULFA Chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa has indicated that the banned militant outfit is ready for peace talks.
“I want to clear my stand that I still stand for the cause of the Assamese people. We are against the domination of Assamese community by mainstream India.
“We do not want our revolution to end but there should be a peaceful solution to it, preferably in a constitutional way. I want peace talks to restart and conclude…That is why I have come forward to carry on my agenda,” he was quoted as having told North East TV channel.
–PTI
Hyderabad, Dec 03: TRS President K Chandrasekhar Rao, who is on a fast-unto-death for a separate Telangana state, was admitted to a Government Hospital here on Thursday after being shifted from Khammam.
Mr. Rao was brought to the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Science (NIMS) this morning from the Khammam Government Hospital, where he was undergoing treatment for the last four days.
The former Union Minister is being treated in the Acute Medical Care (AMC) ward of NIMS by a special team of doctors, official sources said.
Perugia, December 03: A defence lawyer for an American student accused of killing her British roommate broke down after urging the court to give his client back her life.
But a prosecutor called the accused, Amanda Knox, a compressed spring who exploded the night of the murder.
Ms Knox, 22, and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 25, are being tried in Perugia for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, of Coulsdon, Surrey. They deny any wrongdoing.
Luciano Ghirga, one of Ms Knox’s defence lawyers, insisted in court that Ms Knox was the victim of a “mechanism that crushed her”.
New Delhi, Dec 03: India on Thursday accused Pakistan of fabricating evidence about New Delhi’s alleged support to insurgents active in Balochistan.
“Two statements of the Pakistani foreign minister read together make it evident that Pakistan is fabricating evidence (of India’s alleged role in Balochistan),” External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said in the Rajya Sabha.
“The Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh) has said we believe in a stable and prosperous Pakistan living in peace with its neighbours is in India’s interests. We fully stand by this,” Mr. Krishna added.
Bangkok, December 03: Thailand has agreed to conduct joint war games with China for the first time next year with the US invited as an observer, media reports said Thursday.
The joint games, to be held at a still unspecified date in early 2010, were agreed to “in principle” Wednesday during a visit by Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie, the Bangkok Post reported.
Liang reportedly proposed military exercises on the scale of Cobra Gold – Thailand’s joint war games staged in the kingdom with the US military on an annual basis – but the Thai side opted for a much smaller operation.
New Delhi, Dec 03: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the Centre has committed substantial funds for urban renewal along with the states and urban local bodies
Noting that urban chaos was becoming a way of life, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday emphasised on urban reforms, saying cities and towns are not an acceptable face of a rapidly modernising and developing economy.