Mumbai, July 02: What do you expect when a big star like Aamir Khan join social networking site? Thousands of crazy fans trying to have a piece of him, right? That’s what exactly happened on June 29 when Aamir joined the micro-blogging site Twitter. His followers almost touched 50,000 in just two days and over 70,000 on the third day, but there was lots of confusion among his fans.
London, July 02: “Harry Potter” actress Afshan Azad, who plays Padma Patil in the wizard franchise, has accused her father Abdul Azad and brother Ashraf of threatening to kill her.
The 22-year-old was allegedly attacked by her two family members at her home in Manchester in May this year, reports contactmusic.com.
Her father and brother allegedly began arguing with Afshan over her boyfriend and demanded she should end the relationship. When she refused, they attacked and left her badly bruised.
Adilabad, July 02: In a major blow to the Maoists, their top leader and spokesperson Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad was gunned down by state’s elite anti-Naxal force Greyhounds near Adilabad early Friday.
Initial reports suggest that a fierce encounter took place between the forces and the Maoists near Jogapur in Adilabad district; about 300 km from here, following which Rajkumar was cornered and neutralised.
Another Maoist guerrilla as Chanderan was also killed. Police recovered an AK-47, a 9mm pistol and two kit bags from the scene of the gunfight.
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New Delhi, July 02: The Home Ministry, which holds visa power on applications from Pakistanis, is bringing in stringent eligibility conditions to keep out “unwanted elements”.
Norms proposed by the Intelligence Bureau introduce an income criteria whereby only applications from those with monthly income exceeding Pakistani Rupees 25,000 would be entertained. An educational qualification at least High School would also be a must, IB sources said.
Kuala Lumpur, July 02: A Malaysian Indian man and his Chinese wife have given up work to search for their two-year-old daughter who went missing about a month ago while on a walk with her mentally-ill grand-aunt.
G. Chandramohan, 24, and his wife Wong Lai Lan, 21, have said their daughter Nisha could have been found on the day she disappeared if a system such as the proposed Nationwide Urgent Response Information Network (NURIN) alert was in place.
Hyderabad, July 02: Kareena Kapoor can never ever fend off speculation over what she chomps on and her meals continue to remain a national conversation piece.
And while there is talk that Bebo is extra fastidious over her food intake, fearing calorie gain… nothing could be further than the truth!
Reportedly, Kareena went all bananas over the local Hyderabadi biryani during her shooting stint of ‘G3’ in the Andhraite city. Post filming, Bebo would unabashedly rush off to gorge on the local fare to her heart’s content.
Washington, July 02: U.S.-born Yemini cleric had a “direct operational role” in the Christmas Day airline bomb plot and is a legitimate target to capture or kill, officials say.
Michael E. Leiter, the head of the National Counter-terrorism Center, would not define what Anwar al-Awlaki’s alleged “direct operational role” was in the failed attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Dec. 25, 2009, The Washington Times reported Thursday.
But it would make anyone a legitimate target for U.S. intelligence agencies to capture or kill, he said.
Fake cops dupe jeweler
Hyderabad, July 2 (Siasat News): Three men posing as cops snatched 1.5 kg of gold ornaments from a Gujarati merchant at Tank Bund and escaped on two motorcycles on Thursday.
The merchant Praveen Babulal Soni, native of Ahmedabad, supplies gold ornaments to city jewelers.
The fake cops approached him on the pretext of questioning him, grabbed his bag containing gold and immediately fled the scene.
Man stabs wife for infidelity
Hyderabad, July 02: Osmania University (OU) in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, has invited applications for Post-Graduate Engineering Common (PGEC) Admissions 2010. A.P. State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE), Government of A.P., has entrusted the responsibility of conducting PGEC Admissions – 2010 to Osmania University for the academic year 2010-11.
Mumbai, July 02: From Dilip Kumar’s fiery crusader-editor role in “Mashaal” to Amitabh Bachchan’s recent portrayal of a principled newspaper owner in “Rann”, actors down the ages have played journalists, good and bad. The trend continues with two forthcoming films, “Tere Bin Laden” and “Knock Out”.
“Tere Bin Laden”, a tongue-in-cheek comedy, tells the story of an ambitious young reporter, played by Pakistani singer-turned-actor Ali Zafar, who is desperate to migrate to the US to pursue the American dream.
Hyderabad, July 02: Former minister and senior Congress leader Mohammed Ali Shabbir on Thursday threw his proverbial hat in the ring by announcing that he remains in contention of an Assembly seat.
Talking to media persons, the former Minister said that he would not hesitate to face the electorate in the forthcoming by-polls.
Mr Shabbir said that his supporters were keen to see him back in the state Assembly, “fighting for their rights and development”, and if the High Command directs him to contest, then he would willingly do so.
Cairo, July 02: Egyptian Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa is traveling on Thursday to attend the 47th Conference of the Islamic Union, to be held in the U.S. city of Chicago from 1 to 5 July.
Participating in the event will be prominent politicians, academics, scholars and influential public figures.
Gomaa is scheduled to deliver a speech next Saturday before 12,000 Muslim and non-Muslim Americans, in which he will explain that compassion is an Islamic value explicitly mentioned in the Koran and reiterated in the Sunna (the sayings and practices of the Prophet Mohamed).
Hyderabad, July 02: Congress MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy is likely to go ahead with his controversial ‘Odarpu yatra’ from July 8 though the party high command is yet to accord a formal permission to it.
“There is no change in the schedule. He will resume his yatra from July 8. The family members of late Rajasekhara Reddy explained the need to resume the yatra to Sonia Gandhiji when they met her in Delhi recently. The yatra is being started as we feel that she is not opposed to it,” state Congress secretary A Rambabu, a close associate of YS Jagan, said in Hyderabad.
Mumbai, July 02: Well-known Indian silver screen icon Suchitra Sen has been admitted in hospital with a respiratory infection and chest jamming.
A reputated silver screen star Suchitra Sen has been admitted in hospital with a chest problem and respiratory infection.
She is held in the intensive therapy unit of a private hospital and in observation. The condition of Suchitra is stable now.
Hyderabad, July 02: The sight of an old woman, lying unconscious beside the gates of the Osmania General Hospital since the last two days, is disturbing to say the least.
The unidentified woman, aged around 55, has been lying outside the gates of the biggest government hospital in the city since Tuesday. She was dropped off at the gates by some unidentified persons and has been unable to make the last few yards inside the hospital and obtain treatment.
Mumbai, July 02:Director Sajid Khan, who has two hit films in his kitty, is of the opinion that films are made purely for entertainment and do not have the power to change lives or make any impact on the society.
“Films don’t change lives, nor are they made to change anything, their only purpose is to entertain. Cinema is a medium which makes you forget your worries and present a world which you can never be a part of,” Sajid told PTI.
According to Sajid, this is the reason why films which have been hugely successful are a figment of imagination.
New Delhi, July 02: The media has rightly exposed the heinous crime of killing people under the guise of protecting the ‘honour’ of the caste or community. This monstrous practice reported from some states of India goes to show that there is something seriously amiss in our socio-cultural ethos.
Mumbai, July 02: Here’s more proof that Salman Khan will do anything for his friends. The actor will make a special appearance in actress Deepshikha’s directorial debut, Yeh Dooriyan.
Gushes the actress, “So many people dream of directing Salman and I have the opportunity to do so in my first film.” Khan has promised to shoot for the movie after returns from Sri Lanka where he is currently filming for Ready.
“I told him that I was turning producer-director and gave him a brief outline of the story. I asked him if he’d do a special appearance, he readily agreed,” says Deepshikha.
Jammu, July 02: The Jammu and Kashmir government has sealed the presses of three newspapers in Jammu for “printing inflammatory material”.
The printing presses were sealed Thursday night and the publications suspended indefinitely on the orders of Jammu Deputy Commissioner M.K. Dwivedi.
“According to him, three newspapers (The Shadow, Early Times and Glimpses of Future) were publishing inflammatory material,” said a notice served on the three English newspapers published from Jammu.
Johannesburg, July 02: Asamoah Gyan says Ghana are ready to become the first African side to make it to the semi-finals of a World Cup by beating Uruguay Friday at Soccer City.
“All the African continent are behind us and the whole of Ghana. We know how to soak up the pressure,” Gyan said in Johannesburg Thursday ahead of the quarter-final clash.
“We have got an opportunity to put to the whole world what we are capable of doing by qualifying for the semi-finals.”
Hissar, July 02: Nineteen honour killings between April 9 and June 30. That translates to 80 days. Roughly, one murder every four days. Clearly, north India is waging an undeclared war against love.
You might think, along with Khap officials, honour killings have to do with caste. But the real casualty is love. None of the murdered couples married by arrangement. Scratch the skin of caste, and out comes love, bleeding. Deep down, the real enemy of Khap is an emotion.
Washington, July 02: In a move that is being seen as a way to recruit more US-born terrorists, militant outfit Al Qaeda launched what it is calling its first English language online magazine.
The magazine, called “Inspire”, was posted on radical Islamist websites, the CNN reported citing SITE Intelligence Group, an organisation that tracks terror groups.
The launch of the magazine, however, did not go smoothly as only three pages of what was billed as a 67-page magazine appeared online. A fourth page showed nothing but garbled images.
Abu Dhabi, July 02: Around 45,000 families in the United Arab Emirates will get free dry fruits and other food items that are consumed by Muslims observing the month-long fast during Ramadan.
Under the project “Ramadan Supplies for 2010”, the Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Charity Foundation in cooperation with the ministry of social affairs will distribute 11 food items through 24 centres across the UAE.
Ramadan is considered the most auspicious month in the Islamic calendar.
–IANS
Mumbai, July 02: Locals claimed they nabbed 25-yr-old, and not the 19-yr-old arrested yesterday
Have the police got the right person? Or is there is more than one rapist-killer involved?
The confusion continues to prevail.
On the one hand, four Kurla residents — Musa Alam, Azal Rehmani, Afzal Usman and Sayyed Mohammed Ali — claimed last morning that they had helped nab a suspect and handed him over to the police. They claimed the man is around 25-30 years of age.