Month: July 2010

Avantika – Imran’s Unusual Girlfriend

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Mumbai, July 02: Just the day before we had updated you about a crazy female admirer biting Imran Khan’s hand during a promotional event for IHLS last Saturday in Dubai.

When we asked Imran about the same, he instantly replied,
‘It was at a night club in Dubai. The whole thing was taken out of context. I was shaking hands with a lot of people outside. She held my hand and was trying to pull me. I don’t think she was trying to hurt me.’ Sonam cheekily added, ‘She just took the chocolate boy tag too seriously.’

Sharad Yadav calls on youth to join Bharat Bandh

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New Delhi, July 02: Accusing the central government of betraying the interests of the common man, Janata Dal-United (JD-U) president Sharad Yadav Friday urged the youth to come out on the streets July 5 for a nationwide shutdown against rising prices.

Talking to reporters here, Yadav said opposition parties had given a call for ‘Bharat Bandh’ to protest the “complete failure of the government” in controlling prices.

“I want to call upon all youngsters, especially students, to come out on the streets in protest against the rising prices,” Yadav said.

People want to know from PM secrets of reform: JD(U)

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Patna, July 02: JD(U) today slammed the Manmohan Singh government for the move to free the price of diesel from government control and wondered what type of reforms the Centre was carrying out.

“According to the PM, the economic reforms can’t be halted at this stage… it implies that the increase in prices of petro products is a step in the direction of reforms…” JD(U) National Spokesperson Shivanand Tiwari said.

Trisha can’t get enough of Mumbai’s night life

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Mumbai, July 02: Trisha Krishnan, one of the leading ladies down south can’t seem to get enough of the city ever since she started shooting for her Bollywood debut –Priyadarshan’s ‘Khatta Meetha’.

Says Trisha, “Mumbai truly never sleeps. It feels so safe to just take a stroll even in the middle of the night. I especially love binging on the street food here”.

Trisha who stars alongside Akshay Kumar in Khatta Meetha has been singing the praises of the city right from the street food and the night life, to the people and their lifestyle.

More detained in Kurla rape and murder cases

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Mumbai, July 02: Seven person were today detained for questioning by police, a day after a teenager was arrested in connection with rape and murder of a minor in suburban Kurla.

Javed Rehman Shaikh (19), a technician with a cable operator, was arrested yesterday on charges of raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl in suburban Kurla last month.

After brief questioning of Javed, “we have picked up seven persons to probe their role in all the three cases,” a police official said.

BJP will decide if Modi, Varun will campaign: Gadkari

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New Delhi, July 02: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Friday said his party will take its own decision whether Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Lok Sabha member Varun Gandhi will participate in the campaign for the coming Bihar assembly polls.

“We have the right to decide which all leaders of the BJP should campaign in Bihar. We will decide it at the appropriate time and implement it,” Gadkari told IANS.

Opp accuses Mayawati of pushing political agenda

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Lucknow, July 02: Opposition parties today accused UP Chief Minister Mayawati of trying to push her political agenda by naming after dalit icon Shahuji Maharaj the new district carved out of Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha constituency Amethi.

Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi said that it would have been better had the district been named Amethi as the area is identified by this name the world over.

Russian spy suspect suddenly changed

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Washington, July 02: The former husband of alleged Russian spy Anna Chapman spoke today of his suspicions that she was being “conditioned” by shadowy contacts during their marriage.

The flame-haired 28-year-old is one of 11 people accused by the United States of working as secret agents for Russia’s intelligence service, the SVR.

–Agencies

Iron ore loot on since 2004-04: Yeddyurappa

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Bangalore, July 02: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today said in the state Assembly that the “loot” of iron ore has been going on unchecked since 2003-04 and favoured an inquiry into the matter.

Hitting back at the Opposition after it sharpened its attack on government on the issue, he said “the loot of iron ore has been going on since 2003-04 and it happened during the regimes of H D Kumaraswamy, N Dharam Singh and even during my tenure.”

Case registered against TRS MP Vijayashanti

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Hyderabad, July 02: A case has been registered against popular South Indian actress and MP Vijayashanti of Telangana Rashtra Samithi for allegedly making inflammatory remarks.

Banaraja Hills police have registered a case against her for allegedly making inflammatory remarks while addressing an election meeting of party workers at the TRS office here on Wednesday.

The meeting was organised in connection with July 27 by-polls to 12 Assembly segments in the Telangana region. She had allegedly made the remarks against those opposed to the formation of a separate Telangana state.

3/4 Billion Dollar Pay-Off To Keep Her Mouth SHUT

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Johannesburg, July 02: Elin Nordegren Squeezes Tiger Woods For 3/4 Billion Dollar Pay-Off To Keep Her Mouth SHUT, Former Swedish model, Elin Nordegren, just won the lotto of divorce settlements and Tiger Woods is footing the bill.

Unfortunately, you won’t read about her version of the Tiger Woods story in the paper, or hear Howard Stern riff on it on Sirius radio, or see her crying her head off next to Oprah. Not at all. Tiger Woods paid near $750 Million to keep her mouth shut.

How do we recognise people at first glance?

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London, July 02: Scientists have tried to explain how human beings recognise faces of their own kind at first glance — be it a nice waitress in the coffee shop around the corner, the bus driver or colleagues at the office — but not those of other species.

Monkeys also possess the remarkable ability to differentiate faces of group members and to extract the relevant information about the individual directly from the face.

Student arrested for sending threat mail to school

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Kolkata, July 02: The CID today arrested a student of Heritage School here for allegedly sending a mail to the principal threatening to blow off the school building.

Rakesh Singh, a student of the Heritage School, was arrested from his residence at Bangur in the outskirts of the city for sending the mail last Wednesday, CID sources said.

The CID, after being informed by the principal about the threat mail, conducted an investigation and found that the mail was sent by Singh.
–PTI

Maoist leader Azad had gone ‘missing’ in March

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Hyderabad, July 02: Top Maoist leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad, who was killed by police in Andhra Pradesh early Friday, had apparently gone ‘missing’ four months ago.

The politburo member and chief spokesperson of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) had gone ‘missing’ March 12. The Maoist outfit had alleged that the Special Investigations Bureau of Andhra Pradesh Police had picked him up and it even threatened revenge if security forces harmed him.

20 child abuses another catholic priest

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Sydney, July 02: In the wake of embarrassments for child abuse scandals, another Catholic priest has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in jail for sex attacks on 25 children during almost two decades.

The 67-year-old Australian Catholic priest, John Sidney Denham, was sentenced to 19 years and 10 months on Friday after pleading guilty to a range of charges, including multiple counts of indecent assault against boys aged five to 16 at schools in Sydney and New South Wales between 1968 and 1986, AFP reported on Friday.

Judge Helen Syme has described some of the offences as sadistic.

Turkish fighter jets strike northern Iraq

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Ankara, July 02: Turkish fighter jets have launched airstrikes on targets in northern Iraq, which is seen as the hotbed for Kurdish militants’ activity, Turkish military says.

The warplanes bombed Kurdish separatist targets in the Qandil Mountains and the Hakurk region of northern Iraq, the Turkish General Staff said in a statement on Friday.

“It was observed that targets were successfully hit in the airstrike,” the statement said.

The warplanes returned to Turkey safely and no casualties have been reported yet, it said.

Barack Obama ranked 15th best US President

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Washington, July 02: Barack Obama has been ranked as the 15th best president of the United States, two ranks below Bill Clinton in a new poll which is topped by Franklin D Roosevelt.

Obama’s immediate predecessor, George W Bush, has been ranked at 39 out of 43 presidents of the US listed in the Siena College poll that surveyed 238 presidential scholars at colleges and universities.

The poll had asked scholars to rate the nation’s 43 chief executives on 20 attributes ranging from legislative accomplishments to integrity and imagination, a media release said.

Pawar returns, rejects talk of divide in world cricket

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Mumbai, July 02: Sharad Pawar today arrived from Singapore after formally taking over as the ICC President and rubbished suggestions that rejection of John Howard’s candidacy for the vice-President’s post would divide world cricket.

Pawar, who succeeded Englishman David Morgan, returned here this morning after taking charge as President during the ICC Executive Committee meeting in Singapore.

Maoists looted Ak47s in Narayanpur attack

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Hyderabad, July 02: The outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) has put the number of its cadres killed in the ambush in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district Tuesday at three and claimed that the rebels looted 27 sophisticated weapons, including AK47s, from the slain security men.

“The weapons recovered from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) helped the Maoists increase their weaponry by eight AK47s, eight INSAS rifles, three SLRs, two two-inch mortars and 2 LMGs,” a statement released by the CPI-Maoist said Thursday night.

Madonna setting wrong example for young girls

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Toronto, July 02: Australian pop icon Helen Reddy has blasted Madonna for setting the wrong example for young girls who want to dress like her.

“The I Am Woman” hitmaker, who has retired from music since releasing her Grammy-winning hit in 1970, was left shocked during a recent shopping trip for innerwear as the store’s selection was too racy. And Reddy blames the Madonna for inspiring girls to dress like strippers.

“I was in London earlier this year, and… I go into the women’s lingerie department, and they’ve got pasties – you know, like strippers wear,” Reddy said.

Hyderabadi Biryani for Kareena

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Hyderabad, July 02: Hyderabad is famous for its cuisines and how could anybody skip Biryani. For those who thought the stunning Kareena Kapoor keeps away from food to maintain her figure –think again!” The queen of Bollywood whose currently in Hyderabad shooting for Rohit Shetty’s ‘Golmaal 3’ has taken a break from her diet to freak out on the local biryani that was top on her crave list.

12-year-old boy rapes girl older than him

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New Delhi, July 02: In a shocking incident, a 12-year-old boy raped a 14-year-old girl in the Tilak Marg area of central Delhi, police said Thursday.

The incident took place in the servants quarter of an Indian Administrative Service official on Bhagwan Das Road Wednesday, police said.

“The boy has been arrested and sent to a juvenile home,” an official said.

A rape case was registered after the girl’s medical examination, he said. As per the complaint filed by the girl’s parents, their daughter was raped when she was alone in the quarter.

Entire Srinagar district under curfew

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Srinagar, July 02: Sensing trouble ahead of a proposed march by separatists, authorities on Friday brought the entire Srinagar district under curfew even as they gave no relaxation in curfew-hit areas of south Kashmir.

With overnight protests in the city and an abortive attempt by activists of a woman separatist outfit to take out a march to Pather Masjid in defiance of curfew yesterday, District Magistrate, Srinagar, Mehraj Ahmad Kakroo announced imposition of curfew in the entire Srinagar district this morning in a television address.

45 feared drowned as boat capsizes

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Bettiah, July 02: One person was killed and 45 others were feared drowned when an overcrowded boat capsized in the turbulent Gandak river in Bihar’s West Champaran district Friday morning.

The police said the overloaded boat was going to Bhagwanpur from Ranha village when it capsized near Ghoria Ghat.

One body has been fished out from the swollen river while local divers searched for 45 missing persons.

Senior district officials were supervising the rescue and relief operation, the police said.

-PTI

S M Krishna on visit to Mauritius, Mozambique

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New Delhi, July 02: External Affairs Minister S M Krishna embarks on a four-day visit to Mauritius and Mozambique from Friday to further strengthen relations with the Indian Ocean Rim countries.

In Port Luis, Krishna will hold talks with his Mauritius counterpart Arvin Boolell on a range of issues, including on renegotiation of the Double Taxation Avoidance Treaty (DTAA).

Krishna will seek to enhance strategic dialogue with the island nation as also to deepen economic and cultural ties.