Month: May 2010

Siasat Pre-Eamcet Model Test 2010 on 16th May

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Hyderabad May 03: (Siasat News) Daily Siasat and M.S. Education Centre will together prepare students for the 13th siasat Pre-Eamcet model test 2010. by the test aspiring students will be able to take admission in the engineering and the medicine courses of the government and the private college.

The test will be conducted on 16th may 2010 at 2pm till 5 pm the students who have submitted this applications for Eamcet 2010 will be eligible to attend the test.

——Siasat News

Abbas to meet Obama this month

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Gaza, May 03: Acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas says he would meet US President Barack Obama in Washington before the peace conference.

But Palestinians say if the illegal settlement construction is not halted, no negotiations — direct or indirect — will be resumed between the Palestinians and Israelis.

The negotiations which were expected to start in March were delayed by Israel’s announcement of a settlement construction project on occupied land near East Jerusalem al-Quds.

JEM to quit Sudan peace talks

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Mogadishu, May 03: The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) warns it may abandon peace talks following a military crackdown on its stronghold by the Sudanese government.

Ahmad Hussein Adam, the spokesperson of JEM said on Friday that the Sudanese government used helicopters and gunships to attack the groups` positions in Jebel Jalik, located 25km South of Jebel Marra in Western Darfur state.

The government has put an end to the ceasefire with the never-ending aggressions on JEM positions, Adam said.

25 killed in Mexico Drug violence

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Mexico, May 03: The latest round of bloody drug-related violence has claimed 25 more lives in Mexico’s Chihua-hua state, bordering the United States.

On Sunday, Seven of the slayings took place in Ciudad Juarez, dubbed Mexico’s murder capital. That brings to 62 the number of people killed in the city over the past week alone.

The 18 other slayings overnight included four people fatally shot by automatic weapons in a bar in the town of Camargo, near the state capital Chihuahua City, and two women whose bodies were found stuffed in the trunk of an abandoned car in the same town.

Miley Cyrus doesn’t plan the future

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London, May 03: Teen sensation Miley Cyrus has revealed she refuses to think about the future as she likes to take each day as it comes.

The 17-year-old singer-actress says she goes with the flow and although she has a tough work schedule, she won’t let her personal life be so organised, reports fashion.ie.

Kate Moss to marry Jamie Hince?

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London, May 03: British supermodel Kate Moss has fuelled rumours she is engaged to wed her rocker boyfriend Jamie Hince after she was snapped sporting a diamond band on her ring finger.

The English beauty has been dating the musician since 2007 and the rocker was rumoured to have proposed during a party for her 36th birthday in January this year.

Now gossip about an impending wedding has stepped up after Moss was photographed wearing a massive diamond ring on her left hand during an outing in London recently, reports contactmusic.com.

——IANS

Taliban leader vows revenge on US

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Kabul, May 03: Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud has vowed in a new video to attack the United States within a month in revenge for the death of other militant leaders.

“The time is very near when our fedayeen (devotees) will attack the American states in the major cities,” SITE quoted Mehsud as saying.

He said Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) would attack the United States “for having martyred many of our great Muslim leaders, including Baitullah Mehsud and many respected brothers from Al-Qaeda”.

China orders tighter school security after attacks

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Beijing, May 03: When classes resume in China this week, police officers and vans will be stationed outside school gates in the bustling southwestern city of Chongqing while newly installed video surveillance and intruder alarms will be keeping watch over classrooms in eastern Fujian. Guards patrolling school premises in southeastern Jiangxi will carry police batons and pepper spray.

Soren stays CM for now, BJP sets conditions

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Ranchi, May 03: The Jharkhand government has got temporary respite following the crisis created when the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha voted against the cut motion brought by ally BJP. On April 28, the BJP parliamentary board had decided to withdraw support from the state government, led by Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) President Shibu Soren. However, the decision has been put in abeyance after the BJP leadership had a discussion on this with alliance partners JMM, Janata Dal (United) and All-Jharkhand Students’ Union Party.

We’ll fight Cong: Mamata

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Kolkata, May 03: A day after the Congress released its list of candidates for the forthcoming polls in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee broke her silence. She accused the Congress of “supplying oxygen to an ailing CPI(M)”.

Banerjee released a full list of 141 candidates for the civic polls on Sunday after the Congress released its list of 88 candidates on Saturday, rejecting Mamata’s offer to contest in 24 of the seats. “I gave 25 seats after discussing with their leaders but they split the alliance.

No hand in Ajmer blast: RSS

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New Delhi, May 03: India’s radical Hindu outfit Rashtriya Swamsevak Sangh (RSS, or National Volunteer Corps) refuted allegations of its involvement in a 2007 blast at a revered Muslim shrine in northwestern Ajmer, which killed three people.

The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) in northwestern Rajasthan state said that they have arrested two suspects named Chandrashekhar and Devendra Gupta in connection with the blast that rocked the shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisty in Ajmer town of the state.

Kasab sings hindi songs in his cell

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Mumbai, May 03: Hours ahead of 26/11 verdict, gunman’s been belting out Bollywood hits in his cell

These days he’s been on song. Literally.

Alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Qasab has been hooked on to the song, John, Jani, Janardhan, sources at the Arthur Road jail said.

 

Mystery senior helped Madhuri

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New Delhi, May 03: As the Madhuri Gupta espionage case turns murkier, it seems someone higher up in the ministry of external affairs (MEA) might have helped her get a posting in Pakistan despite her track record being far from satisfactory. An Islamabad posting is not approved on the basis of personal likes and dislikes and the person’s background is carefully scrutinised.

China’s central bank hikes banks’ reserve minimum

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Beijing, May 03: China has ordered banks to raise the amount of money they hold in reserves for a third time this year in a new effort to dampen inflation pressures in the world’s third-largest economy.

The measure, announced Monday, comes as the government tries to cool a credit boom without raising interest rates, which might slow China’s economic rebound. Economic growth surged to 11.9 percent in the first quarter of the year and the government is trying to cool a surge in housing and other prices fueled by massive bank lending.

Chiru’s Telangana tour in June

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Hyderabad, May 03: Setting at rest speculation on his tour in Telangana, particularly in the backdrop of a change in the party’s stand for a united State, Praja Rajyam president K. Chiranjeevi stated that he would undertake the trip in the first week of June, in all likelihood.

Speaking after releasing the publicity material, including a video CD, on his proposed ‘Polavaram Sadhana Yatra’ from May 5 to 16, he said the schedule would be finalised after his meeting with leaders of the party district committees in Telangana.

K’taka Minister Halappa resigns

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Kolkata, May 03: Karnataka Food and Civil Supplies Minister H. Halappa on Sunday resigned following allegations against him of sexual assault.

Halappa faxed his resignation to the office of Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, who is currently out of station.

The Minister dismissed the report carried by a leading Kannada daily.

“The allegation is not true. It’s a political conspiracy against me. There are one or two of our own people and those of the opposition (who conspired against me)”,

Halappa told reporters in Bangalore on Sunday.

Minister raped friend’s wife

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Bangalore, May 03: Even as excise minister MP Renukacharya’s alleged sex romps with a nurse, Jayalakshmi, is still fresh in public memory, the BJP government in Karnataka was put to yet another embarrassing situation.

Food and civil supplies minister Haratalu Halappa resigned following a report in a Kannada daily that alleged that he had sexually assaulted a friend’s wife in Shimoga.

Seizing the issue, opposition Congress and Janata Dal (S) demanded immediate arrest of the minister and a CBI probe into the incident. Both the parties threatened to launch a state-wide agitation.

BJP minister reigns on Rape charge

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Bangalore,May 03 : Power corrupts everone more so who used to teach the idelogy of RSS ,Once they tasted power BJP at the centre was one partu with maximum corruption charges,.
Even as excise minister MP Renukacharya’s alleged sex romps with a nurse, Jayalakshmi, is still fresh in public memory, the BJP government in Karnataka was put to yet another embarrassing situation on Sunday.
Food and civil supplies minister Haratalu Halappa resigned following a report in a Kannada daily that alleged that he had sexually assaulted a friend’s wife in Shimoga.

Now, a Malayalam film starring Amar

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New Delhi, May 03: Former Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh will play a Hindustani Classical singer in Malayalam film Bombay Mittai, which also stars Bollywood star Dimple Kapadia. The film, shooting for which began Sunday, also stars actor-dancer Neelambari Perumal, daughter of former chief of Sri Lanka’s North East Provincial Council Vardaraja Perumal.

Singh said he was excited to be acting alongside Dimple, who plays his wife in the film. He said as a young man he would bunk law classes to watch her films.

Was Sohrabuddin targeted for spoils

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Ahmedabad, May 03: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that has arrested deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Abhay Chudasama for allegedly conspiring to eliminate Sohrabuddin Sheikh is, however, yet to figure out why exactly Sohrabuddin could have been targeted.

But according to a source familiar with the development, Chudasama wanted to take revenge after Sohrabuddin did not give him his share from a huge extorted amount in 2004. Shorabuddin finalised a deal in lakhs with a city-based businessman but did not give any money to Chudasama.

Posing as Jagan, caller asks MLA to pay up

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Hyderabad, May 03: A person who has been trying to extort money from Secunderabad Cantonment MLA P Shankar Rao by introducing himself as Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy was nabbed by the Musheerabad police today.

Police told that Shankar Rao received a telephone call today from the stranger who said “I am YS Jagan speaking’’. Shankar Rao, who was in disbelief, asked the caller what he wanted.

Diya denies rumours Shoaib marriage plans ?

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Mumbai, May 03 : Its is like beeline linking pakistani cricketers and indian actress ,the story is more than 40 years reena roy,dimple kapadia ,sania mirza and now diya mirza .Though actress Dia Mirza claimed that reports about her imminent marriage to Pakistani fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar were baseless, the Pakistani media was claiming to have proof to the contrary.One news organisation in the neighbouring country even claimed to have confirmatory quotes from the actress on this breaking news.

Two terror suspects held

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Hyderabad, May 03: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has reportedly picked up a top militant belonging to Hyderabad from Karnataka and brought him to the city on Sunday.

Sources told that the terrorist was captured at Davengere in Karnataka early in the morning following specific information. Not willing to disclose his name, they said the jihadi was from Hyderabad and had been on the most wanted list for the past several years.

Pakistan Taliban leader ‘threatens US in new video’

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Islamabad, May 03: Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud has appeared in a new video issued months after his reported death, vowing revenge attacks on the United States, US monitoring groups said Monday.

Mehsud threatened to retaliate against the United States within a month for the killing of Islamist and Al-Qaeda militant leaders, in the nine-minute video allegedly made on April 4, after his supposed death in January.

AERB sent info on Mayapuri radiation to IAEA

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New Delhi, May 03: Atomic Energy Regulatory Board has said it sent full information on the radiation problem in Delhi”s Mayapuri locality and categorised it as level four on the International Nuclear and Radiation event Scale (IENS) denoting high radiation exposure to more than one person.

An AERB official said “The entire incident was reported to the International Atomic Energy Agency under Incident Reporting System (IRS) as per mandatory requirement of the global nuclear watchdog and Illicit Trafficking Data Base (ITDB) of the agency”.