Month: July 2010

Bihar leader at large after mercilessly beating youth

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Patna, July 27: Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Shambhu Saran Rai was absconding Tuesday, a day after he thrashed a youth for allegedly attempting to rape a minor girl in Vaishali district.

Rajesh Mahto, in his early 20s, was hoisted on bamboo sticks Sunday and beaten up by Rai, the secretary of the JD-U district unit, in Mansoorpur Halaiya village, about 40 km from here. Rajesh is battling for his life at the PMCH Hospital here.

Andhra bypolls: 10 per cent polling till 9 am

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Hyderabad, July 27: About ten per cent polling was reported till 0900 hours with no untoward incident from anywhere in the 12 Assembly constituencies in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh where by-polls are being held today.

The polling started at 0700 hours in the 12 constituencies, including five seats where ballot papers are being used. The polling will continue till 1700 hours.

The Election Commission is using 3-G mobile phones and other latest communication devices to obtain up to date information on polling.

Man poisons mother’s coffee

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Washington, July 27: A 43-year-old man tried to poison his mother with coffee laced with a kitchen cleanser.

Jessie Vasquez walked into a fire station in Dallas and told one of the firefighters: “I just put poison in my mother’s coffee”, Fox News reported.

While one of the firefighters called police, paramedics rushed to the house of Vasquez’s mother.

Maria Vasquez answered the door and told police she had already swallowed one cup of coffee.

I was too thin for films: Aisha’s Ira Dubey

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Mew Delhi, July 27: Her bikini sequence in ‘Aisha’ has gained her plenty of new fans but actress Ira Dubey says that in the past she was often rejected for being too thin.

The actress plays Pinki Bose, the fearless fashionista who is best friend to Sonam Kapoor’s Aisha in the film and had the last laugh as her slim frame helped her carry off the bikini.

Iran condemns new EU sanctions

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Berlin, July 27: Iran Tuesday condemned stricter sanctions levelled by the European Union (EU) as neither constructive nor effective, and warned that the move would only complicate the nuclear dispute.

“These sanctions would neither help resumption of negotiations nor change the will of the Iranian nation to pursue its legitimate nuclear rights,” ISNA news agency quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast as saying.

The EU foreign ministers Monday approved a list of sanctions which go well beyond the measures approved by the UN.

Rihanna to make film debut with ‘Battleship’

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Los Angeles, July 27: Pop singer Rihanna is set to make her film debut with Universal Studios’ “Battleship” along side Alexander Skarsgard and Taylor Kitsch.

The deal was announced Monday, reports variety.com.

Director Peter Berg is expected to soon begin shooting the live-action movie based on the naval combat board game.

The production house has decided to release “Battleship” on May 25, 2012.

Kitsch, who also works with Berg in the NBC series “Friday Night Lights,” stars as a naval officer who leads the fight. Skarsgard will play his brother.
–IANS

Elements in Pak helping al-Qaeda: White House

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Washington, July 27: The US today said that it was not at all surprised by the stunning release of classified documents by the Wikileaks on war against terror which says there are safe havens in Pakistan and elements in that country’s establishment are helping al-Qaeda and Taliban.

Responding to a volley of questions from reporters at his daily news briefing, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that these American concerns remains.

“The direction of our relationship with Pakistan, based on steps that we’ve asked them to take, has improved that relationship,” Gibbs said.

No blank cheques for Pakistan: US

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Washington, July 27: Downplaying the WikiLeaks revelations about links between Pakistan’s spy agency and terrorist groups, the United States has said there are no blank cheques for Islamabad and it must do more to eliminate terrorist safe havens.

“We have certainly known about safe havens in Pakistan; we have been concerned about civilian casualties for quite some time – and on both of those aspects we’ve taken steps to make improvements,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters Monday.

No blank cheques for Pakistan: US

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Washington, July 27: Downplaying the WikiLeaks revelations about links between Pakistan’s spy agency and terrorist groups, the United States has said there are no blank cheques for Islamabad and it must do more to eliminate terrorist safe havens.

“We have certainly known about safe havens in Pakistan; we have been concerned about civilian casualties for quite some time – and on both of those aspects we’ve taken steps to make improvements,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters Monday.

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Salem gets 5 star facilities in jail: Maha HM

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Mumbai, July 27: Maharashtra Home minister Ramesh Bagwe had exposed the reality of high-security Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai.

Bagwe on Monday, Jul 26 had informed the assembly that there were shocking lapses in the jail.

Gangstar Abu Salem got home-cooked food in violation of court orders and had a five-star bathroom in jail.

Salem was shifted out of the prison on Saturday after he was attacked by a rival gangster.

He was attacked during breakfast time on Saturday, Jul 24 with a sharpened spoon inside the jail, allegedly by Mohammed Dossa.

CI With Illicit Affair Escapes From Village

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Nalgonda, July 27: A police circle inspector, who had an extra-marital affair with a woman, ran away after the villagers locked him up in a house, in Taskanigudem village under Chundur mandal on Monday.

According to the information, Lakshman Naik, the police officer, was in the house of the woman with whom he had illicit affair, when the villagers caught him. The angry villagers locked him up in the house and complained the matter to the SP.

The officer, however, ran away from the back door, by the time police arrived there. He is absconding since then.

——-NSS

BJP Holds Congress Responsible For Suicides

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Hyderabad, July 27: Expressing grief over the death of Chakali Srinivas, who set himself ablaze over Telangana sentiment, the BJP national executive member, Mr Bandaru Dattatreya, on Monday held the Congress party responsible for the suicides of innocent youth for the sake of Telangana.

He said that Srinivas, who succumbed to injuries in the Yashoda Hospital here on Monday, was demoralized over the lavish distribution of money by the ruling party to win the by-elections.

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Scientists inch towards finding “God particle”

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Paris, July 27: Scientists working with particle accelerators in Europe and the United States said on Monday they may be closing in on the elusive Higgs Boson, the “God particle” believed crucial to forming the cosmos after the Big Bang.

Researchers from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project near Geneva said in just three months of experiments they had already detected all the particles at the heart of our current understanding of physics, the Standard Model.

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3,000 terrorists for battel India, Pak Taliban

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Islamabad, July 27: Pakistan’s Taliban claims it has organised 3,000 terrorists for its declared battle against India , the Taliban spokesperson tells Tahir Ali in Islamabad .

The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan has declared it is training terrorists to launch an attack on India.

The TTP is the Pakistan counterpart of Afghanistan’s Taliban and has been blamed for several terror attacks in that country.

TTP spokesperson Azam Tariq told this correspondent in a telephone interview that the TTP has vowed to capture “Hindustan”.

Apart from initial commotion, business as usual at Parkwood

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Hyderabad, July 27: It was business as usual at the Parkwood International School on Monday, apart from a little commotion.

The commotion was the result of the school management stopping the District Education Officer to enter inside the premises, and also parents protesting against the shocking events which occurred recently.

The DEO turned up at the school gates to for inspection into its affairs after one of the Directors was arrested for sexually molesting a Class XI student and impregnating her.

Why BJP won’t raise Amit Shah issue in Parliament

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New Delhi, July 27: The Bharatiya Janata Party has decided not to press the Amit Shah and Gujarat issue in Parliament but instead focus on moving an adjournment motion on price rise to put the government in a spot.

The move on price rise would have the support of the Left parties as well as a number of other parties, who would not be inclined to support the BJP on the issue of Amit Shah.

Modi Govt. offered prime plots to judges

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Ahmedabad, July 27: Sheela Bhatt lifts the lid off a Gujarat government scheme, piloted by Law Minister Amit Shah, currently in the dock over the Sohrabuddin encounter, to offer prime plots cheap to judges

Three months before his arrest in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, former Gujarat Minister of State for Home and law minister Amit Shah had offered prime land near Ahmedabad to all judges of the Gujarat high court on behalf of the state government at a price considerably lower than the prevailing market rate.

Families stretch across India-Pakistan divide

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Mumbai, July 27: Every time Tasleem, who lives in Mumbai, makes a call on her mobile to her mother in Karachi she receives a text message from her service provider urging her to be on alert. She should “exercise caution” when calling someone in Pakistan, the message tells her, as the information she shares “can be misused.”

“It doesn’t happen when I call London,” Tasleem said with a laugh.

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Harsher punishments for spurious seed sellers mooted

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Hyderabad, July 27: Minister for Agriculture N Raghuveera Reddy on Monday called for laws to be more stringent against manufacturers, suppliers and sellers of spurious seeds.

Mr Raghuveera Reddy said that he will lead a delegation from the Agriculture Department to meet Union Minister for Agriculture Sharad Pawar in New Delhi to press for this demand.

Talking to media persons, Mr Raghuveera Reddy said that the delegation would leave for the National Capital on July 27 and meet Mr Pawar the next day.

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Court decision on disputed Ayodhya land in September

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Lucknow, July 27: A special bench of the Allahabad High Court Monday concluded the hearing related to ownership of a disputed land in Ayodhya to which Hindus and Muslims have made rival claims for over a century. The decision is likely to be delivered in September.

While Hindus claim the land to be the site of the birthplace of their revered deity Lord Ram, Muslims have asserted their right over the same as the site of a 16th century mosque claimed to have been built by the first Mughal emperor Babur in the ancient town of Ayodhya, about 120 km from here.

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Babu meets Sharad Yadav, Karat

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New Delhi, July 27: As part of his attempts to garner the support of leaders of National parties on the issue of construction across river Godavari as part of the Babli project by the Maharashtra government, Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu on Monday met Janata Dal (United) leader Sharad Yadav.

According to reports, Mr Naidu urged Mr Yadav to lend his support to the TDP’s fight over the issue.

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Ahmadinejad Denies Aiding Taliban

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Tehran, July 27: Pakistan isn’t the only one of Afghanistan’s neighbors mentioned in the leaked documents. Iran is also accused of helping the Afghan insurgents. But is it? News correspondent Richard Roth put that question to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran today — in an exclusive interview.

An aide sitting out of camera range gestured his irritation at our question about Afghanistan. Ahmadinejad just flatly rejected the explosive charges.

“You don’t deny Mr. President that Iran supports the Taliban?” Roth asked?

Polling begins on dull note in Telangana by-elections

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Hyderabad, July 27: Polling began on a dull note and amid tight security in the by-elections to 12 assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh’s Telangana region Tuesday.

About 10 percent polling was recorded in the first half-an-hour, officials at the Chief Electoral Office here said.

The polling began at 7 a.m. at 2,783 polling stations in the constituencies spread over five districts.

Ballot papers were being used in five constituencies where the number of candidates exceeded 64 while in the remaining seven segments Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) have been deployed.

BJP alleges govt officials biased against T-parties

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Hyderabad, July 27: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader on Monday met Chief Electoral Officer IV Subba Rao and complained to him that government employees in Nizamabad Urban Assembly constituency were showing undue favour towards one particular political party.

After submitting a memorandum to the CEO, Mr Vidyasagar Rao alleged that the government officials in general and the Revenue Divisional Officer in the district was acting in a biased manner against pro-Telangana parties.

Iraqi Militants Stealing Blood for the Injured

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Baghdad, July 27: Members of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia have been holding up blood banks and hospitals at gunpoint, stealing blood for their wounded fighters rather than risk having them arrested at medical facilities, according to Iraqi doctors, employees at health centers and the Sunni insurgents themselves.