Bijnor, February 28: Two brothers have been sentenced to life imprisonment by a court here for murdering a boy over a land dispute in 2004.
Fast Track Court Judge Bina Chaudhary awarded the sentence to the duo– Brahma Pal and Sheesh Pal– and also imposed a fine of Rs 35,000 each on them.
The Judge referred the case of the third brother, a co-accused in the case, for hearing to the Juvenile Court as he is a minor.
Parts of tiger reserves in Bellary &Shimoga to be hived off for leases. HERE’S one more reason why tigers are fast disappearing from India — minelords with limitless greed for leases and a state government that accedes to their demands.
Unmindful of the declining number of India’s national animal and one of the world’s severely endangered species, the Bellary mining cartel in Karnataka has been given the green signal by the state government to enter tiger habitats and exploit the mineralrich land for lucrative exports.
Mumbai, February 28: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan and Vidya Balan bagged the Best Actor and Actress award for their performances in ‘Paa’ while ‘3Idiots’ scooped six trophies including best film at the 55th Filmfare awards.
The year 2009’s biggest blockbuster ‘3Idiots’ won best director award for Rajkumar Hirani, who also picked up the best story trophy with Abhijat Joshi at the ceremony held here on Saturday.
Hirani also won best Screenplay Award with Vidhu Vinod Chopra for the Aamir Khan starrer. The duo also bagged the Best Dialogue Award for the film.
New Delhi, February 28: His name is Khan. And he, like the protagonist of a recent blockbuster, is also fighting the system to establish his innocence after he was dismissed from the Indian Army, which alleged that his late father had links with Osama bin Laden. He is afraid the army may challenge his reinstatement.
The Armed Forces Tribunal has scrapped an Indian Army order dismissing Naib Subedar Fayaz Khan.
Khan has now moved the Supreme Court, apprehending that the army may challenge the tribunal’s order restoring his service.
Riyadh, February 28: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accompanied by over 100-member strong delegation arrived here Saturday to a warm welcome.
Singh and his delegation was received by Crown Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, Deputy Premier, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General, Prince Naif Bin Abdul Aziz, Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Interior, and Prince Salman Bin Abdul Aziz, Emir of Riyadh.
Dhaka, February 28: Bangladesh’s opposition leader Khaleda Zia has announced a mass agitation against the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, asking her to quit if she cannot govern properly.
“The country is not functioning, all institutions are inoperative. The caretaker government has taken the country 20 years back and it will further go back if Awami League stays in power,” she said.
“They must step down in the interests of the country,” The Daily Star quoted her as saying Saturday.
Los Angeles, February 28: Tiger Woods Gatorade deal scrapped. When ace golfer Tiger Woods apologized recently to his family members and fans there were expectations that the controversy would die down. But nothing like this has happened.
Another marketer of Woods has dropped him. Gatorade has dropped the disgraced golfer as from the list of endorsement deals.
A representative for the drink, sold by PepsiCo Inc., has confirmed it. A senior executive of the company had declared in public that it is going to end its relationship with Woods.
SRINAGAR,February 28 :Meet Fayaz Ahmad Dar (name changed), a student of 9th grade at a private school in Srinagar. Fayaz resides in Kashmir’s Gaza Strip — Maisuma — a locality in Lal Chowk witnessing frequent clashes between security forces and stone pelting youth. Fayaz’s story is unlike the boys of his age. He received two bullets in his abdomen on December 11, 2009 on his way to join other stone pelters.
Mumbai, February 28 :FORMER President APJ Abdul Kalam is India’s “ most trusted” person, followed by industrialist Ratan Tata and former police officer Kiran Bedi.
An online survey to identity the 100 most trusted Indians — conducted for Reader’s Digest by market research group The Digital Edge — has thrown up quite a few surprises. The survey, which will be published in the latest issue of the magazine, had sought responses on celebrities from different fields.
New Delhi,February 28: From earning a meagre Rs 2,000 to raking in a princely Rs 5 lakh every month, Shiv Murti Dwivedi alias Sant Swami Bhimanand Ji Maharaj Chitrakoot Wale (39) has come a long way in the past 22 years. Dwivedi, a self-styled godman, was arrested by south district police on Friday for operating a high-profile sex racket. It involved former airhostesses and students.
Washington, February 28: President Barack Obama moved quickly to name a new social secretary to replace Desiree Rogers at the centre of a controversy over two wannabe reality TV stars crashing his first state dinner for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
A day after Rogers, a close friend of the Obamas from their Chicago days, stepped down three months after the embarrassing security breach at the Nov 24 event, Julianna Smoot was appointed deputy assistant to the president and social secretary Saturday.
Srinagar, February 28: An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale hit Kashmir valley in the wee hours today, but there was no report of any loss of life or damage to property, officials said.
“The 5.7 magnitude quake, with its epicentre located in the Hindukush mountain range of Afghanistan, hit Kashmir valley at 4:51 am,” Aamir Ali, spokesman of Jammu and Kashmir government disaster management cell, said.
However, there was no report of any casualties or damage to property so far, he said.
–PTI
Chennai, February 28: Housing 1.2 million books, the Rs 170-crore Anna Centenary Library being built by the Tamil Nadu Government, modelled on the famous National Library in Singapore, would be ready for inauguration by June.
The nine-storeyed modern library complex, built on an area of 3.75 lakh sq ft in Kotturpuram area of the city, would also subscribe to about 10,000 e-magazines of several genres.
New Delhi, February 28: Four cops injured in attack, two escapees nabbed later, police order inquiry
Scores of policemen stood near the barricades put up on Sohna road, two kilometres ahead of Palwal court in Haryana, late Saturday afternoon.
On the spot where the two barricades stood, a police bus taking 51 prisoners from Bhondsi jail to Palwal court for hearing came to a sudden halt around 10.30 am and 16 prisoners, most of them charged with robbery and kidnapping, escaped.
They left behind at least four injured policemen and several questions for the Haryana Police.
Chandigarh, February 28: Resenting the filing of a murder case against the Dera Sacha Sauda head by the CBI, the sect supporters today went on a rampage setting ablaze four trains and around 37 vehicles, including 27 buses, and vandalised property in several places in Punjab and Haryana.
Tension ran high in many towns in the two neighbouring states as police were put on high alert and Haryana requisitioned 1,500 para-military personnel to deal with the situation.
Mumbai, February 28: The Shiv Sena, which recently blasted Sachin Tendulkar for his statement on Mumbai, is now batting for him. Party executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday backed Chief Minister Ashok Chavan’s view that Sachin should get the Bharat Ratna.
Chavan had on Friday said his government would recommend the award for Sachin, who crossed another milestone with the first double century in ODIs earlier this week.
Tehran, February 28: An Iranian lawmaker has called on the country’s military authorities to impose a deadline for Russia to deliver the S-300 missile defense system to Iran.
A long time has passed since Russia signed a deal with Iran to sell the S-300 system to the Islamic Republic, Majlis (Parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Deputy Chairman Hossein Sobhaninia said on Saturday.
New Delhi, February 28: His name is Khan. And he, like the protagonist of a recent blockbuster, is also fighting the system to establish his innocence after he was dismissed from the Indian Army, which alleged that his late father had links with Osama bin Laden. He is afraid the army may challenge his reinstatement.
The Armed Forces Tribunal has scrapped an Indian Army order dismissing Naib Subedar Fayaz Khan.
Khan has now moved the Supreme Court, apprehending that the army may challenge the tribunal’s order restoring his service.
Rome, February 28: Tens of thousands of Italians have taken to the streets of Rome to protest a court decision to adjourn Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s trial for a month.
Tens of thousands of Italians congregated on Saturday in Piazza del Popolo in central Rome to protest against Berlusconi under a banner reading “Enough. The law is the same for everyone.”
Organizers put the turnout at 200,000.
Berlusconi is on trial on bribery charges. He is accused of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to a British lawyer in exchange for false testimony in the mid 1990s.
Tehran, February 28: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has called on Muslims across the globe to fulfill their obligations and pledge solid support for the Palestinians and their cause in the campaign against the Zionist regime.
Tehran, February 28: After the captured leader of the Jundallah terrorist group disclosed his ties with the US, Iran says the support of the so-called advocates of human rights for terrorists shows their dishonest approach.
“Ties between this terrorist group and security services of the so-called advocates of human rights including the US, Britain and certain other countries indicate that they are not honest about their claims of having respect for human rights,” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Saturday.
Washington, February 28: US President Barack Obama announced that he is ready to come to terms with Republicans if they prove to be serious about it, but maintains that his health care overhaul has to go forward.
Two days after an all-day bipartisan summit, Obama held his weekly Internet and radio address. His comments during the address were the latest indicators that Democrats are trying to plow sweeping health care legislation through Congress with no Republicans on board.
Washington, February 28: A massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck Chile early yesterday, killing at least 210 people, bringing down homes and hospitals, and setting off a tsunami that triggered warnings and evacuations across the entire Pacific.
Kolkata, February 28: Trinamool Congress (TC) chief Mamata Banerjee today urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to roll back the hike in prices of petro products.
“The hike in the prices of the petroleum products will affect the common man who are already burdened with high prices. Everyone should protest against the price hike.
“I request the Prime Minister and Soniaji to withdraw the hike,” she told reporters here.
“I did not raise the railway fares to protect the interests of the common man,” Banerjee, who holds the Railway portfolio, said.
–PTI
London, February 28: Tony Blair told Gordon Brown he planned to quit as Prime Minister after sinking into a deep depression after the Iraq invasion, the latest extract of an explosive book on New Labour reveals today.