Month: December 2010

Lindsay Lohan Gets Ready For New Life In New Year

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Los Angeles, Deceember 31: Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan will finally move out from within the boundaries of the Betty Ford Clinic in California and return home. According to reports in the media, the actress’ rehabilitation term has come to an end. However, LiLo will not return to her home in New York. Rather her father Michael Lohan is getting ready a new home in Los Angeles to welcome his daughter after a three month stint at rehab. Reports suggest that Lindsay Lohan will be staying in Los Angeles with her mother Dina and three younger siblings.

Maniac sets girl afire and commits suicide

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Sangareddy (Medak), December 31: In a stunning incident of love lunacy, a maniac has poured kerosene on a girl and set her on fire, for spurning his overtures and committed suicide. The ghastly incident occurred in Medak on Thursday.

According to police, Sasidhar Reddy, a resident of Pothireddypally village has been stalking Aparna. As she has spurned his overtures, he poured kerosene on her and set her afire. He has jumped to his death from a building later. While the maniac died on the spot, the girl was being treated for critical burn injuries in a hospital here.

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Class, gender concerns at night shelters

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New Delhi, December 31: In the bone chilling winter when finding a place to sleep becomes an utter necessity, many homeless people in the national capital are making a deliberate choice of not sleeping in night shelters due to concerns of class, gender and personal hygiene among others.

A sizeable chunk of the roughly estimated one lakh homeless in the national capital are ready to brave the chill but are not very enthusiastic about using the night shelters set up for them.

Cold conditions relent in Punjab, Haryana

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Chandigarh, December 31: Biting cold conditions relented in several parts of Punjab and Haryana with minimum temperature going up by upto 5 notches, even though rains lashed the region.

In Chandigarh, mercury rose by 4 notches above normal and settled at 9.7 deg C, MeT office said here today.

In Punjab, minimum temperature increased in Amritsar and Patiala districts by 5 degree C and settled at 9.4 deg C and 11 deg C respectively. Ludhiana had a minimum of 9.4 deg C, up by 3 notches.

MPTC quits TDP and supports Jagan

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Ongole, December 31: Ms Dappili Anasuyamma, MPTC of Kanchipalli under Giddalur mandal on Thursday resigned from the TDP and announced her decision to support Mr Jagan Mohan Reddy. She also resigned to her MPTC post. She said that she had total confidence on the leadership of Mr Jagan and would be joining his party.

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Couple ends life after killing kids

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Tirupati, December 31: A husband and wife ended their lives after killing their two children in a pathetic incident in the pilgrim town on Thursday.

The bodies of the four were found in the MSR Lodge near DAR Mahal. The deceased were identified as residents of Bangarupalem of Chittoor district.
Police feel that financial problems might be responsible for their extreme step.

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First Indians to run around the world in 365 days

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Hyderabad, December 31: A couple in Hyderabad decided to do just that and ended up running around the world in 2010.

Bored of running in marathons in cities, Uma and Krishna Prasad decided to explore the world and finally rounded up their journey in Antarctica, thus becoming the first Indians to complete marathon runs across seven continents in the same calendar year.

Uma Chigurupati, Managing Director, Krishna Estates said, “When we came to know that Antarctica run is in December, we thought of doing all the other runs before that in this calendar year itself.”

JPC logjam: Speaker to meet non-BJP parties today

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New Delhi, December 31: In a bid to end the logjam in Parliament over (JPC) probe into the 2G spectrum scam, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar will Friday meet the leaders of the Left and other non-BJP opposition parties.

Today’s meeting comes a day after the Speaker held consultations with the senior BJP leaders. However she failed to achieve any breakthrough since the main Opposition was not ready to move an inch from their demand of a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the 2G spectrum scam.

Jindal the most popular Governor in US: Poll

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Washington, December 31: Indian-origin Louisiana leader Bobby Jindal is the most popular serving governor in the United States, an opinion poll has said.

Jindal has an approval rating of 58 percent, while 34 percent disapprove of his job, shows a survey by Public Policy Polling.

One of the top ranking Republican leader of the country, Jindal is seeking re-election next year.

Jindal is closely followed by Jodi Rell of Connecticut, who has an approval rating of 55 percent.

Heart and lung patients benefit from indoor plant intervention

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Washington, December 31: A new study from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and Sweden’s Uppsala University revealed that a plant ‘intervention’ improve the well-being of patients in a difficult rehab process.

Ruth Kjærsti Raanaas, Grete Grindal Patil, and Terry Hartig studied the effects of an indoor plant intervention amongst 436 coronary and pulmonary patients at a Norwegian rehabilitation centre.

Results showed that patients’ overall physical and mental health improved during the programme, but the presence of new plants did not increase the degree of improvement.

CM to open ‘Numaish’ on Jan 1

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Hyderabad, December 31: The 71st All India Industrial Exhibition 2011 will be inaugurated by the Chief Minister Mr N Kiran Kumar Reddy at 5 pm on January 1. The 45-day annual ‘Numaish’ will be having about 2500 stalls this year, including the Central and State Government departments and Public Sector undertakings.

2011 a unique year

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New Delhi, December 31: Year 2011 is unique! This new year will witness dates having only one number in its date, month and year six times.

Add a date with its month and year, the total digit reads one six times. The date is November 11, 2011. When date, month and year will be 11-11-11.

This combination of date, month and year comes once in a century.

Such figure with only one digit in its date, month and year will be witnessed four times in 2011. And this starts from the very first day of the new year which reads — 1.1.11.

Senior advocate Kannabhiran passes away

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Hyderabad, December 31: Noted civil rights activist and senior advocate KG Kannabhiran died on Thursday. His final rituals were performed at Marredpally yesterday night. He is survived by his wife, a son and two daughters.

Panchayatraj minister K Jana Reddy, revolutionary writer Prof. Varavara Rao, balladeer and Telangan Praja Front chief Gadar were among the personalities who paid homage to the civil right activist.

AR Rahman & Danny Boyle Once Again Create Magic!

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New Delhi, December 31: After the phenomenal success of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, Director Danny Boyle has once again teamed up with Fox Searchlight Pictures, producer Christian Colson, writer Simon Beaufoy & music maestro AR Rahman for an action drama starring James Franco.

Justice Balakrishnan should quit chair of NHRC: SDPI

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Bhopal, December 31 (Pervez Bari): Social Democratic Party of India, (SDPI), national president E. Abubacker has stated that Justice K. G. Balakrishnan does not have the moral right to continue in the chair of National Human Right Commission, (NHRC). He must resign and face investigations in the event of allegations raised against his relatives, that they have illegally amassed properties when he was the Chief Justice of India.

First Muslim player replace captain Ponting

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Sydney, December 31: It has been a watershed moment for Australian cricket.

The sport-crazy country’s national team has been humiliated during the Ashes series against an England side they would once routinely embarrass.

Australia’s crushing innings and 157-run defeat in Melbourne marks the end of a golden period where the team had dominated the game for the best part of a decade.

Chavanni goes out of favour

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Delhi, December 31: Throw a 25 paisa coin at them and you’ll know that even beggars can be choosers. It had in any case lost whatever little value it had now the government has decided to withdraw it from circulation altogether.

Come June 30, and the 25 paise coins will cease to be legal tender in the country. The days of ‘chavanni’ will truly be over.

“The minimum denomination coin acceptable for transaction will be 50 paise from that date,” the Finance Ministry said in a statement Thursday.

Sonia destroying Hinduism: VHP

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Pune, December 31: Ashok Singhal has alleged that Sonia was destroying Hinduism and that she was “deputed by the Vatican.”Freelance Jobs China Wholesale Discount Shopping Cordless Headphone Discussion

Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origin as well as her influence over the nation has again caught the attention of the orthodox community, but in a negative way – especially as it has to do with the ‘secular’ approach..

Nitish emerges hero, Lalu-Paswan fade in political oblivion

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Hyderabad, December 31: Landslide victory of National Democratic Alliance in Bihar assembly elections held in October-November this year giving NDA government a second term marked total approval by the people for policies floated by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar aimed at’development with social justice’.

On the other hand, Lalu-Paswan duo faced severe drubbing
as RJD-LJP alliance led by them fared poorly in recent electoral husting which pushed both the leaders in political oblivion.

Priyanka-Shahid Engagement plans go haywire!

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Mumbai, December 31: Bollywood beauty Priyanka Chopra and sweet looking lad Shahid Kapoor are reportedly to exchange the engagement ring on New Year.

According to sources, the couple is going to exchange engagement ring in a hotel in Chandigarh.

Shahid is currently in Chandigarh and is busy in shooting for his father’s upcoming venture ‘Mausam’. There are reports that Priyanka will be accompanying Shahid on the evening of the New Year’s first day.

We’ll achieve Telangana state come what may: TRS

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Hyderabad, December 31: Asserting that “no force on earth” could stop the Telangana movement, Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief K Chandrasekhar Rao said they would rest only after achieving statehood for the region.

“No force on earth can stop our movement now. This time we will rest only after taking Telangana. There is no question of resting without taking Telangana state,” he said.

Rao was addressing TRS workers hours after the Justice Srikrishna Committee submitted its report on the statehood issue to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in Delhi.

No night trains in Maoist-hit areas till Jan 6

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Kolkata, December 31: The restrictions on movement of passenger trains during night in Maoist-affected areas of West Bengal, Orissa and Jharkhand will continue till Jan 6, the South Eastern Railway said in Kolkata on Thursday.

“In view of security reasons, running of passenger trains on Kharagpur-Adra, Chakradharpur-Rourkela and Kharagpur-Tata section will continue to remain suspended up to Jan 6 from 10pm to 5am,” a railways release said.

Accordingly, some train services have been diverted, re-scheduled and regulated, it said.

Activist Shahid Siddiqui honoured

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New Delhi, December 31: Indian Confederation of NGOs in association with UN recently presented the 5th Annual KARMAVEER PURASKAAR and KARMAVEER CHAKRA, India’s most prestigious civilian award for social work recognising individuals who are pivotal in leading change, beyond their business and profession, by being committed at individual levels to work on social issues.