Bangalore and Belgam ,January 27:Winning elections and losing intrest in the issue is BJP habit they have taken the idgah issue to the boiling point before elections and one in power in karnataka BJP has totally forgotten the idgah issue.
THE BJP has lost an important item on its agenda in Karnataka after the administration hoisted the Tricolour on the Hubli Idgah grounds, following a Supreme Court order restoring the ownership of the land to the local municipality.
New Delhi, January 27: Dense fog blanketed the national capital again Wednesday, dropping visibility to nearly zero, disrupting over 100 flights and delaying at least 30 trains, while many were rescheduled or even cancelled.
In the city, visibility dropped to near zero at 5.30 a.m. and continued to remain below 50 metres, said an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official. It affected road traffic as well, with motorists forced to drive slow.
Sydney, January 27: The Australian government has released a police dossier of high-profile attacks on Indians over the past year, which shows that nearly half of those arrested since March last year for vicious assaults were less than 18 years old.
The dossier, prepared by Victoria Police, was handed over after Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith telephoned Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on January 11 to express his condolences over the January 2 murder of Indian student Nitin Garg in Melbourne.
Washington, January 27 :US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has left for London to attend the crucial conference on Afghanistan to be attended by over 60 countries, including India which will be represented by Foreign Minister S M Krishna.
“This conference is about further understanding what (Afghan) President (Hamid) Karzai plans to do as he continues to form his government,” Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs P J Crowley said.
Los Angeles, January 27: The wife of Tiger Woods has called off their divorce after visiting the golfing superstar at a clinic where he is undergoing rehab for sex addiction, website reported on Tuesday.
The report said that Elin Nordegren spent five days at the rehab centre participating in the therapy for Woods, who apparently cheated on her with at least a dozen women during their marriage.
“She was happy when she came home,” a source told “Things went well.”
New Delhi, January 27: “Phir mile sur”, the new version of the vibrant music video of 1988 showcasing the myriad colours and hues of India, features over 65 prominent faces from various walks of life, but viewers are critical of an overdose of Bollywood and exclusion of legends like Sachin Tendulkar and former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
The 16-minute-long video is available on Youtube site and surfers thronged it after it was unveiled Tuesday on the occasion of the 61st Republic Day.
Colombo, January 27: The farmer and his wife spent two months scrambling to survive in the bloody final war zone of Sri Lanka’s civil war, where up to 10,000 civilians died. They had scurried to avoid shellfire and scrabbled to find enough to eat and drink. They had buried the dead in the bunkers where they fell and then dug themselves another.
Karachi, January 27: Former Pakistan captain Moin Khan wants the International Cricket Council to experiment with the Umpires Decision Review System (UDRS) in one-day internationals.
Moin, who played 69 Tests and 219 one-day internationals, said he believed it was far more important to have the UDRS in ODIs than in any other form of the game.
“I am happy they have this system being experimented with in Test matches but it is required more in one-dayers where the margin for error is less and one bad decision can change the course of a match,” he said.
Manama, January 27: Kuwaiti women married to foreigners will be given houses by the government if a motion filed in parliament gets approved.
The draft law calling upon the government to provide “appropriate” houses to all Kuwaiti women who are married to non-Kuwaiti men was endorsed by the parliament’s Women’s Committee and will be discussed by the MPs at a regular session.
According to the motion, widowed or divorced Kuwaiti women should also be entitled to a house from the government, Al Siyassah daily reported.
Manama, January 27: Two Bahraini men accused of planning attacks in Bahrain and neighbouring countries, including US navy ships, were sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday.
The men — a 21-year-old customs officer and an employed, 22, — were arrested on April 26 based on information obtained by the NSA that one of them had contacts with a terrorist cell, believed to be of Al Qaida.
New Delhi, January 27: Dense fog once again disrupted air, rail and road traffic in the city this morning even as the minimum temperature climbed up marginally to settle at 9.8 degrees Celsius.
Around 50 domestic and international flights operating from the Indira Gandhi International Airport here were delayed, diverted or cancelled as the fog started descending on the city late last night.
The runway visibility dropped to 50 metres due to which 21 domestic and international flights were diverted while 15 others were cancelled,” an airport official said.
Hamburg, January 27: A new study disclosed that around 125.2 million preggies are prone to malaria annually.
Plasmodium falciparum, a protozoan parasite occurring in the tropic and sub-tropic, is the major cause of the majority of malaria fatalities.
But, the most common type of malaria is P. vivax malaria, which also thrives in temperate areas.
The majority of malarial casualties are among young kids in sub-Saharan Africa but expecting mothers and their unborn babies are at high risk of having malaria.
Seoul, January 27: North and South Korea have reportedly exchanged artillery fire near a disputed sea border off the west coast of the peninsula.
South Korea’s Yonhap news agency quoted presidential officials as saying the two sides fired into the air on Wednesday and there were no casualties.
South Korean security officials scrambled for an emergency meeting over the exchange, which has ratcheted up tensions on the divided peninsula.
Mumbai, January 27: Injuries to key middle order batsmen Rahul Dravid, V V S Laxman and Yuvraj Singh ahead of the tough Test rubber against South Africa has opened the door for younger aspirants to claim places in the Indian squad for the home series to be picked on Thursday, 28th January.
Dravid and Yurvraj Singh, who were injured during the course of the ongoing second Test against Bangladesh, are virtually out of the opening match against South Africa commencing on February 6 at Nagpur.
Washington, January 27: The leak yesterday of confidential cables written by America’s ambassador in Afghanistan voicing doubts about the wisdom of troop increases and sharply criticising President Hamid Karzai has reignited tensions between Washington and Kabul at a politically sensitive time.
Melbourne, January 27: The captain Mitchell Marsh’s impressive 97 set up Australia’s entry into the Under-19 World Cup final, but not before they were given a huge fright by a committed Sri Lanka.
On a tense day it was Australia’s first-class players who had the major impact, with Marsh backing up the effective bowling of Josh Hazlewood and Alister McDermott, as they sneaked to 206 for 8 with nine balls to spare.
Chandigarh, January 27: In an honour for first Indian female astronaut late Kalpna Chawla, a medical college in her memory will be soon be established in the state, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced today.
Speaking at the 60th Republic Day celebrations in Jhajjar Hooda said Kalpna Chawla Medical College will soon be setup at Karnal and the state government has initiated scheme to promote health infrastructure at a cost of Rs 1,500 crore.
Chicago, January 27: Charged with conspiring in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Coleman Headley will be produced in a court here on Wednesday where he will respond to the charges against him.
Headley is set to appear for his arraignment before U.S. Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois.
Co-accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana appeared in the same court on Monday and pleaded not guilty to providing material support to terror plots in Mumbai and Denmark.
Chandigarh, January 27: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today pledged to donate his eyes to enable the blind to see the light of the day.
Hooda took the vow while unveiling “Nehru Drishti Yojna” and “Indira Bal Swasthya Yojna” schemes at the Republic Day function at Jhajjar, an official spokesman said.
Hailing the Chief Minister’s decision, former Haryana Assembly Speaker Raghbir Singh Kadiyan said his gesture would inspire others to donate theireyes.
Washington, January 27: President Barack Obama approved secret joint U.S. military and intelligence operations with Yemeni troops that began six weeks ago and killed six regional al Qaeda leaders, The Washington Post reported.
Barack Obama
Obama approved a December 24 strike against a compound where a U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Aulaqi, was believed to be meeting with regional al Qaeda leaders, the newspaper said in its Wednesday editions.
Colombo, January 27: Keeping beyond his main rival in the presidential election, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has extended his lead over former army Chief General Sarath Fonseka as heavily armed troops Wednesday surrounded the hotel where the general was staying.
With over a million votes counted by 6 a.m. Rajapaksa had recorded 689,261 or 60.01 percent against Fonseka’s 442,292 or 38.51 percent, agency reported.
As the votes were being counted, soldiers surrounded the hotel where Fonseka was staying.
Ranchi, January 28: A special CBI court would announce its judgement in a multi-crore fodder scam case on January 28.
Official sources today said special judge Praveer Jha would pronounce the judgement to nine people accused in of fraudently withdrawing about Rs 50,33,531 from Hazaribagh treasury during 1993-94.
Altogether 14 people, including the then Regional Animal Husbandary Director Kashinath Singh, were made accused in the case.
Five among them died during the trail.
The CBI court had awarded punishment in 34 out of total 53 cases of fodder scam.
–Agencies
Mumbai, January 27: Ajay Devgan pushes back his own film’s release date because his friend Aseem Bajaj requested him to . The release date of Amita Pathak’s debut production, Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge? starring Ajay Devgn, Konkona Sen Sharma and Paresh Rawal, has been pushed back from February 26 to March 5.
Says a source, “Ajay Devgn is very close to cinematographer Aseem Bajaj. Ajay can never refuse friends and bails them out when in trouble. When Aseem was in hospital last year, Ajay had arranged for his entire medical stay there, including his doctor.
Toronto, January 27: Canada Tuesday deported the mastermind of the 1984 Indian Airline hijacker to India.
Parminder Singh Saini, 46, who took refuge here 15 years ago and faced deportation to India, was put on the plane back to India earlier Tuesday, officials said. Saini was escorted by officials of the Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA) to Toronto airport to board a flight for India.
It was not known on which airline flight he was put on his one-way journey to India.
Jeddah, January 27: Last week, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah extended the “King Abdullah Scholarship Program” by another five years.
Studying abroad provides students with the skills needed in this era of globalization and economic prosperity in the Kingdom, and Saudis have long appreciated the value of studying aboard, something that has long been seen as a way of securing good employment. Whether this is true or not is another matter.