Month: June 2010

I have a thing for older men: Gabriella Cilmi

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London, June 02: Australian singer Gabriella Cilmi has revealed that she wants an older, handsome and witty guy who can also cook well.

“I think I have a thing for older men like Robert Downey Jr… Tall, dark and handsome. Someone who cracks me up, makes me laugh, someone intelligent, someone who can cook, (as) I can’t at all… so yes, someone who can cook better than me. That’s very important,” the femalefirst.co.uk reported quoting the “Woman On A Mission” hitmaker.

Defeated Federer laments gloomy Paris power shortage

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Paris, Jun 02: Shell-shocked Roger Federer’s mood was as dark as the Paris gloom as his dreams of a second French Open success were crushed by Swedish sledgehammer Robin Soderling.

One year on from condemning four-time champion Rafael Nadal to a first career defeat at Roland Garros, Soderling was back to his gatecrashing best, sending 14 aces and 19 forehand winners flashing past the world number one.

Jaya’s disproportionate assets case adjourned to June 14

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Bangalore, Jun 02: A special court here today adjourned the trial in the disproportionate assets case against former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to June 14.

When the case came up for hearing before Judge B M Mallikarjunaiah, the counsel for Jaya sought over 10 days time stating that certified copies of necessary documents were still not ready.

However, Special Public Prosecutor B V Acharya argued that all the requisite documents had already been given and “the reason was just a pretext to seek adjournment.”

How to Prevent Hiring Disasters

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Harvard JUN 02 : A carefully crafted hiring process can help avoid most mishaps. Adele Lynn, founder and owner of The Adele Lynn Leadership Group and author of The EQ Interview, urges that companies regard hiring as more of a science than an art, or worse a leap of faith.

Prevention is the best medicine

Smoking rises in Karachi’s girls schools

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Karachi, June 02: Sixteen percent of students in Karachi’s girls schools smoke, a habit that annually causes some 100,000 deaths in Pakistan, says a leading health official.

“According to recent research, smoking in girls schools of Karachi has risen to 16 percent,” The News Wednesday quoted Nadeem Rizvi, head of the chest diseases department at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical College and president of the Pakistan Chest Society, as saying.

India, US working hard on Headley case

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Washington, June 02: India and US have been “burning the mid-night oil” and working very hard on the David Headley case, America’s top envoy to New Delhi said today, hoping that Indian investigators will “soon” get to quiz the Pakistani-American who has confessed to plotting the Mumbai attacks.

Mumbai under attackHowever, Timothy Roemer, who was here to attend the first cabinet-level Indo-US strategic dialogue, was tight-lipped —
like other federal officials — about the questioning of the 49-year-old LeT operative by an Indian investigators’ team
which is in the United States.

Madhur Bhandarkar hasn’t signed Amisha, Jiah

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Mumbai, June 02: The renowned Bollywood filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar has urged the people not to follow whatever the grapevine says.

Madhur Bhandarkar, who has won three National Awards, is currently working on his next flick titled Dil Toh Bachcha Hai Ji. The director of many serious films like Chandni Bar, Page 3, Fashion and Traffic Signal, is now going to try his hand at comedy genre.

Pranab congratulates Mamata for ‘excellent performance’

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New Delhi, June 02: Senior Congress leader and Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday congratulated Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee for the ‘excellent performance’ of her party in the West Bengal civic polls.

Pranab, who is also the chief of the Congress in the state, accepted the failure of his party in the elections held to 81 municipal bodies, including the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), ahead of next year’s crucial assembly polls.

Smoking rises in Karachi’s girls schools

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Karachi, June 02: Sixteen percent of students in Karachi’s girls schools smoke, a habit that annually causes some 100,000 deaths in Pakistan, says a leading health official.

“According to recent research, smoking in girls schools of Karachi has risen to 16 percent,” The News Wednesday quoted Nadeem Rizvi, head of the chest diseases department at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical College and president of the Pakistan Chest Society, as saying.

Indian cops nabbed with hashish in Nepal

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Kathmandu, June 02: Two Indian policemen have been caught with hashish in a border district in Nepal, the official media said.

Indra Bhanu Rai and Umesh Yadav, two policemen employed in the Badauni police station in India’s Uttar Pradesh state, were arrested in Nepal’s border district Kapilavastu after they were found to be carrying 700 gm of hashish, the Gorkhapatra reported Wednesday.

Hashish is the purified resinous extract of the hemp plant and used as a hallucinogen.

During a police check at the border bus station Monday, the two men tried to flee but were caught.

Political Interest In the Garb of Religion

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Hyderabad, June 02: (Siasat News) Tafeez Ul Quran Al Kareem Educational Society’s nomenclature gives this impression that through this society the teachings of islam are being indoctrinated or the muslim children are having the chapters of the Holy Quran memorized.

Al-Qa’ida’s No 3 killed by US drone strike

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Islamabad, June 02: One of Osama bin Laden’s most senior lieutenants who was in charge of al-Qa’ida’s Afghan war was killed in a US air strike, it emerged yesterday on the eve of a “peace jirga” aimed at ending the country’s brutal conflict.

The assassination of Mustafa Abu al-Yazid inside Pakistan with missiles fired from an unmanned drone last month was greeted as a great success by Nato. The veteran Egyptian born jihadist was one of the founder members of al-Qa’ida and was regarded the third most powerful figure in the organisation.

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Maruti sales at record high as cars buck usual dip

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New Delhi Jun 02 : Consumers grabbing new models; companies report very high sales, in reversal of usual pre-monsoon dampener.

New models and overall revival in demand have helped car manufacturers to buck the trend of low sales in the first quarter (April-June).

Recently, three new models were introduced in the compact car category, the largest selling segment in India. This includes the Chevrolet Beat, Ford Figo and Volkswagen Polo and the new WagonR.

Whites not allowed – for a job in Britain

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London, June 02: Whites seem to have been barred from applying for a job in a British city, with a job seeker saying he was excluded for ‘being white’.

Bristol City Council has been accused of discrimination as whites were not allowed from applying for two 18,000 pounds a year jobs, Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

The management training posts for graduates are an effort to recruit more minority employees, but this move has been criticised by white graduates looking for work.

Fresh I-T notice to Vodafone

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New Delhi Jun 02 : The telecom company claims it has no liability in any event.

The Income Tax (I-T) Department today said it had the jurisdiction to tax the $11.1-billion Vodafone-Hutchison Essar deal of February 2007.

“We have jurisdiction over taxing Vodafone. Jurisdiction order has been issued …we will send the tax demand to them within a few days,” Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Chairman S S N Moorthy told PTI.

Child dies in accidental fire in Kathua

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Srinagar, June 02: A boy was killed in an accidental fire by his 10-year-old cousin in Basohli area of Kathua district, police said here today. The incident occurred at village Palai in Basohli area, about 120-kms from here, in Kathua last evening when Sonu was fiddling with a country made gun of his father.

The gun suddenly went off hitting his 6-year-old cousin Abhi Jamwal, who died on the spot, they said. Jamwal had come to the house of his maternal uncle a few days back.

Reality shows get more eyeballs than money

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Mumbai Jun 02 : Fiction serials with smaller budgets and loyal viewers fetch better returns for channels.

Couch potatoes and advertisers may want reality shows on television (TV) to last throughout the day.

TV show producers, however, face a different concern. Reality shows are a high-cost proposition for general entertainment channels (GECs) and few of them make money, if at all.

Britain’s plan to recruit Indian doctors falls through

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London, June 02: Britain wants to recruit junior doctors from India after their exodus from the country due to tightened immigration rules caused a shortage but the Home Office is not in agreement.

The National Health Service (NHS) is reported to have interviewed doctors from India and even sought the help of the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) in its recruitment drive.

The BAPIO stipulated that the doctors should be allowed to stay and get training for between three and four years, rather than the two-year limit currently in place.

40 bodies found in Mexico mass grave

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Mexico City, June 02: At least 40 bodies, including that of a prison warden, were found in a mass grave in Mexico’s Guerrero state, the state attorney general’s office said.

The body of Daniel Bravo Mota, 53, warden of Iguala prison, was identified after forensic tests, spokesman Albertico Guinto said Tuesday, adding that the mass grave, an abandoned mine shaft, was found near Taxco city.

Mota was kidnapped last month along with prison psychologist Ignacio Suastegui Perez by a group of heavily armed men.

SEZ sizzle returns with economic revival

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New Delhi June 02 : With the domestic industry showing signs of steady recovery and merchandise exports stablising, special economic zones (SEZ) are again getting prominence in boardroom discussions and strategy plans of corporate conglomerates. Six new proposals for setting up SEZs would be coming up in the meeting of the Board of Approval (BoA) on June 8.

As many as 12 SEZ projects were surrendered between December 2008 and March 2009. But, no SEZ was surrendered since then.

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Crime In Hyderabad (2.6.2010)

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Abductors of a minor arrested

Hyderabad, June 02 (Siasat News): A minor girl was abducted from Kauvaguda in Shamshabad on May 29.

According to the Shamshabad rural inspector Ravichandra, an auto driver Srisailam, 21, resident of Kauvaguda, with the help of his associates Ramesh, Ranjeet, Babu and Srikant, brought the girl from Kauvaguda to Shamshabad by auto rickshaw.

From there, he took the girl to Bhadrachalam by car and married her.

Theatre actress Uzra Butt, sister of Zohra Sehgal, dies at 93

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Islamabad, June 02: Legendary theatre personality Uzra Butt, sister of Indian actress Zohra Sehgal, has died in Lahore at the age of 93.

Butt, whose last performance on stage was in 2008, had been ailing and bed-ridden for some time, her friends said.

She celebrated her 93rd birthday with friends and family on May 22. She passed away on May 31.

Five persons sentenced to life imprisonment in murder case

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Munger(Bihar), Jun 02: A fast track court today sentenced six persons to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on each of them in an eight-year-old murder case. Additional District and Sessions Judge Gyanchandra Gupta held five persons, Ramji Mandal, Subodh Mandal, Visho Mandal, Hilan Mandal and Shetal Mandal guilty of killing Yodhi Mandal on August 15, 2002, when he was on his way to watch the Independence Day function.

India gold futures hits new record

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Mumbai Jun 02 : India gold continued its record-breaking spree on Wednesday morning taking support from a weaker rupee, though prices were steady overseas, analysts said.

The most-active August contract on the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) hit another record high at 18,850 rupees per 10 grams, before easing a tad to 18,828 rupees at 10:42 a.m., still up 0.60 percent.

The Indian rupee gave up early gains and turned weak on Wednesday weighed by losses in the euro against the dollar. A weak rupee makes the dollar-quoted asset expensive.

–Agencies

Katrina attends Just Chill singer’s wedding

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Mumbai, June 02: Bollywood’s lucky mascot Katrina Kaif is one of the most sought after stars in Bollywood, thanks to all the hard work she’s put in since her debut. And she does manage to strike the right balance between work and family affairs.

Katrina Kaif recently took time out from her busy schedule to attend Bina Kak’s daughter Amrita’s wedding in Jaipur. Amrita, who sung the hit song “Just Chill” from Maine Pyaar Kyu Kiya recently got married on May 29, 2010.

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