Kabul, May 03: A suicide attack outside a CIA base killed one civilian and wounded two security guards Monday in eastern Afghanistan, an Afghan official said.
The blast happened outside Camp Chapman, the same base that was hit in December in one of the worst attacks in the history of the U.S. intelligence agency, said Mubarez Zadran, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
The base is in Khost province, a dangerous region southeast of the capital.
London, May 03: Joint bank accounts, which newly weds used to open almost immediately after getting married, are losing their appeal as ‘most people like to have their ‘own’ money to spend without having to -justify it to another person’, a new study in Britain has revealed.
The survey by Tesco Bank found that modern couples do not take the plunge for at least two years and one in three couples don’t do it at all, Daily Express reported Monday.
Of those who do get married, 56 percent like to maintain some kind of financial independence and don’t pool their resources.
New York, May 03: Factories in Asia-Pacific cranked up production last month, with Australia surging at its fastest pace in eight years, and mounting inflation pressures pointed to further policy tightening as the economic recovery gathers steam.
Output growth in India eased a tad in April but still held near a 20-month high hit in February while factory activity in South Korea picked up after a brief dip, surveys by HSBC/Markit showed on Monday.
London, May 03: The distraught mother of a 14-year-old Briton, who was severely beaten up by a group of teenagers for his iPod, said the government had made the worst mistake by ‘taking away the rights of parents to chastise their children’.
Tyler Molloy was viciously assaulted by the gang after they stole his iPod. Molloy went into coma for two days and will not be fit enough to return to school until September, Daily Mail reported Monday.
San Salvador, May 03: Six people were killed and one wounded when five gunmen opened fire at a football field in El Salvador, police said.
The incident occurred Saturday in Olocuilta town, 22 km from San Salvador, National Civilian Police officials said Sunday.
Three men died at the spot, two succumbed to injuries while being transported to hospital while the sixth man died while undergoing surgery, officials said.
New Delhi, May 03: The Rajya Sabha was adjourned twice Monday as opposition members demanded that Telecom Minister A. Raja be dismissed over the alleged irregularities in the allocation of 2G spectrum.
As soon as the house met for the day, members of the AIADMK and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were on their feet, demanding action against Raja. Following the din in the house, Chairman Hamid Ansari adjourned the house for 15 minutes.
Islamabad, May 03: The Pakistani Taliban promise future attacks on major U.S. cities and appear to claim responsibility for an attempted car bombing in New York in three separate videos that surfaced after the weekend scare, monitoring groups said Monday.
New Delhi, May 03: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Monday met UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and demanded the early passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill in Lok Sabha.
Karunanidhi, who is here on a three-visit, met the Congress President at her 10, Janpath residence here and the two are understood to have discussed the latest political situation in the country.
The DMK chief will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh later in the evening.
New Delhi, May 03: The Supreme Court Monday cancelled the bail of mafia don and Bihar politician Pappu Yadav, who had been sentenced to life in the murder case of Communist Party of India-Marxist legislator Ajit Sarkar.
He was granted bail by Patna High Court in February 2009.
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Hong Kong, May 03: Macau police have arrested a trade union leader for allegedly assaulting an Australian man during weekend May Day protests that left 41 people injured, a report said Monday.
Hong Kong daily The Standard said police charged Lei Sio-kuan, president of the Macau Workers Power Union, with wounding following the Saturday clashes which saw riot police use water cannon and pepper spray on demonstrators.
Protesters fought back with stones and bottles, local media said.
Mumbai, May 03: The true extent of the Hindutva terror network, whose trail was being followed by slain Maharashtra top cop Hemant Karkare, is getting unravelled only now.
The then ATS chief, Karkare, while investigating the 2008 Malegaon blasts case, had reportedly developed certain leads on the involvement of Hindutva organisations in the attacks across the country. Had these inputs been followed in other blast cases, including those of Ajmer dargah and Hyderabad’s Mecca Masjid, much breakthrough could have been achieved, sources say.
Mumbai, May 03: Bollywood brat Salman Khan, who’s unpredictable behavior is pretty well known recently stunned everyone when he refused to go by the script prepared for him. The script was prepared for a Television awards function for which Salman was supposed to be interviewed by Vidya Malvade, who was the host of the show.
Salman was given the elaborate script prepared by the show’s organizer’s which he took with him to the vanity van to read but returned after sometime saying that he would not be able to follow the script.
Mumbai, May 03: The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark index, Sensex, fell by over 140 points or 0.80 per cent in opening trade today on profit booking and a weak trend on other Asian bourses.
The 30-share index, which had gained nearly 179 points in the previous two sessions, was down 140.87 points, or 0.80 per cent, to 17,417.84 points in opening trade.
Stocks of information technologies, metals and oil and gas sectors were under pressure, pulled the Sensex down.
The wide-based National Stock Exchange index Nifty also declined by 46.55 points, or 0.88 per cent, to 5,231.45.
Tehran, May 03: As the United Nations hosts a nuclear disarmament conference in New York, Iran calls on nuke-armed countries to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
“Countries which possess nuclear arsenals but pay no heed to non-proliferation of [nuclear] weapons should immediately join the NPT,” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told the Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA) on Sunday.
Jaipur, May 03: Rajasthan’s Cong govt says previous regime hid role of Hindutva outfits. THE PROBE into the October 2007 Ajmer Dargah blast acquired political overtones on Sunday, with Rajasthan home minister Shanti Dhariwal alleging that the state police under former chief minister Vasundhara Raje of the BJP kept the involvement of Hindutva outfits under wraps.
Mumbai, May 03: The actress will continue her lessons in Mauritius
After doing a diving scene in Housefull, Deepika Padukone now plans to take up scuba diving and become a certified diver.
She began lessons during the making of Housefull and will continue them during her Mauritius schedule of Break Ke Baad.
A source close to Deepika says, “She loves swimming in the ocean and after doing deep-sea diving in Puglia (Italy), she now wants to take it up seriously and get a certificate.
Mumbai, May 03: It was co-star Bobby Deol’s idea to help her shoot the scene in horror flick Help
While shooting for horror flick Help, Mugdha Godse gulped down the jitters with lassi.
Thanda le lo!
She had her co-star Bobby Deol to thank. The Punjab da puttar made sure that the cooling drink did the rounds on the sets. “There were a lots of lassi glasses available on the sets,” she says.
Mumbai, May 03: Devgn reserves the biggest room in a Goa hotel whenever he shoots in the state
What Ajay Devgn wants, he gets. In this case, a suite at the Hotel Intercontinental The Lalit on Palolem beach, Goa.
For comfort’s sake
The actor was put up in that particular room through the shoots for the earlier Golmaals, his home production All The Best and continues taking up residence there, while his Golmaal 3 schedule is on.
Bangalore, May 03: Following the controversial sex scandal allegedly involving God man Nithyananda and Tamil actress Ranjitha, the latter’s advocate has issued a press statement which says that Ranjitha has decided to quit public life and spend time with her family in Kerala.
According to the note, the actress was led into severe depression after the leaked video clippings which caused her to take the decision. It also states that Ranjitha was not questioned by the Karnataka police.
Kabul, May 03: A car laden with explosives has hit a convoy of Afghan forces, near a foreign troops base, wounding one Afghan in the town of Khost in southeastern Afghanistan.
Taliban Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the bomber used a car laden with a huge quantity of explosives in the blast.
“There was a suicide car bomb near a NATO facility in Khost city. So far at this stage, we only know that one local person has been injured,” said local government Spokesman Mubariz Zadran.
“The bomber detonated near a water-tanker that was entering the base.”
Islamabad, May 03: A woman has been killed and three others injured in a grenade attack targeting the residence of a local peace committee in Swat Valley, northwest of Pakistan.
The bomb ripped through the house of Roshanzada, a member of local Peace Committee in Kabal area of Sangarserai in Swat Valley on Sunday, leaving one woman dead and three more people injured, Pakistani police officials told Press TV.
The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital and police cordoned off the area, starting an investigation into the blast.
Mogadishu, May 03: A hand grenade explosion at a mosque in Somalia’s southern city of Kismayo has killed at least two and injured more than 11 others, eyewitnesses and officials said.
The explosion took place in the al-Shabab controlled port city on Sunday night when worshippers were praying.
Eyewitnesses said that the explosion was caused by a hand grenade hurled at the mosque, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Al-Shabab officials said no one from their group has been injured in the attack.
London, May 03: The UK government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has expressed concerns about the use of stop and search operations on Muslim citizens by British police.
“Stop and search has a particular community impact and I have been concerned not only about the exercises of police in the past, whether foul or do not foul in the civil liberty agenda, but I have been concerned too about the fact that perhaps this proportion of Muslims have been stopped and searched, which should not have occurred,” Lord Alex Carlile told Press TV’s Face to Face program last Thursday.
Tehran, May 03: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says there is no need for Tehran to gain the trust of Western nations since Iran abides by international regulations.
Arriving in New York to take part in a conference reviewing the 40-year-old Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), President Ahmadinejad also insisted that Iran considers disarmament an influential factor in global security and will accordingly pursue the matter.
Hyderabad, May 03: (Siasat News) Telugu Desham will not take part in the forth coming by elections as per the statement of telangana telugu desham forum leaders the decision to the effect has been taken.
Since telangana telugu desham forum favours the formation of separate telangana state and since this forum does not want to harm to cause of statehood, thus decision has been taken.