Month: June 2011

Man rapes 2 sisters, jailed

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Moga, June 04: A city court here awarded seven years rigorous punishment to man who for raping two sisters of Dala village in the district.

Additional Sessions Judge Harpal Singh also imposed a fine of Rs 5000 on Jugraj Singh yesterday.

However, two other accused Gurtej Singh and Jagjit Singh were acquitted by the court.

Gurtej Singh, a neighbour of the victims, had introduced them to Jugraj Singh.

Jugraj along with his accomplices took the two sisters to Nainadevi in Himachal Pradesh where he raped them two years back.

Ilyas Kashmiri killed in drone attack

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Peshawar, June 4 (IANS) Pakistani terrorist leader Ilyas Kashmiri has been killed in a drone strike in South Waziristan, a media report said Saturday.

Kashmiri was killed in the strike that killed at least nine militants, the daily Dawn quoted BBC Urdu service as reporting.

Kashmiri was the chief of the Harkatul Jihad al-Islami (HuJI).

Muslims for votes, others for posts: Minorities sick of Congress paying lip service

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Hyderabad, June 4: How far minorities would remain as just vote bank for Congress party? The Congress party which claims sympathy towards minorities has always paid lip service however injustice was done to minorities when it came to giving representation in government institutions.

Congress high command has finalized names for almost all important vacant posts in the state but no Muslim name has been considered for any important post.

Crime In Hyderabad (4.6.2011)

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Woman missing with children

Hyderabad, June 4 (Siasat News): A woman along with her three children is missing from Badam Galli of Old Malakpet.

According to Chaderghat police, Atia Fatima, 30, along with her three children went missing since May 29. In the meantime, Atia Fatima’s father Habeebuddin has lodged a complaint in Chaderghat police station and the police has already started the search operation.

America’s Islamic Madrasas

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Watching his son sitting in his classroom decorated by cartoon characters, projects and artworks, Syed Shahzad, whose 13-year-old son Shayan attends Houston’s largest Islamic school, was very proud of the level his son reached in memorizing Qur`an and Islam’s true teachings, Houston Chronicle reported.

“I’m blessed with this kid,” said Syed, Shayan’s father, who moved to the US from Pakistan when he was 12.

“At his age, I didn’t know anything.

Post matric scholarship hiked

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Hyderabad, June 4: The Central government has decided to revise the post matric scholarship scheme for ST students. It has also been decided to include more castes and communities in central OBC list.

In a CCEA meeting presided by prime minister the proposal of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs to substantially hike the post-matric scholarship amount and other benefits of ST students and disabled was approved.

Mr. P Chidambaram said that this revision will come into effect from July last year.

Teachers job Mela tomorrow

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Hyderabad, June 4: There are scores of teachers’ posts vacant in innumerable private schools of the twin cities Hyderabad, Secunderabad and also Rangareddy recruitment on which begins from the beginning of new academic year.

Teachers Job India.com had organised a mega teachers job fair in this connection in which more than 500 teachers were appointed on the spot.

Schools charging exorbitant fee to lose recognition

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Hyderabad, June 04: City schools will lose their recognition if they charge exorbitant fees this academic year (2011-12). The district administration has decided to put a leash on the managements of state board, ICSE and CBSE schools in the city who have already announced a hefty hike in their fee structure even before the commencement of the academic year.

Posing nude for PeTA gets item girl ‘noticed’

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Mumbai, June 04: Item girl Liza Malik, who made headlines recently after claiming that she had been getting calls to fix IPL matches, now finds herself in the midst of another controversy.

The Nari Samman Sangathan, a Mumbai-based NGO fighting for women’s rights, has taken strong objection to Malik posing nude for the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA’s) campaign against the use of leather balls in cricket. It has called her participation in the campaign obscene and a means of garnering cheap publicity.

A diet that can spice up you sex life

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London, June 04: Add ginseng and saffron to your diet since both are proven performance boosters, according to a new scientific review of natural aphrodisiacs by researchers from the University of Guelph.

You can also indulge in wine and chocolate, too, but know that their amorous effects are likely all in your head.

Also, stay away from the more obscure Spanish fly and Bufo toad. Though purported to be sexually enhancing, they produce the opposite result and can even be toxic.

7,000 people a day still catching AIDS: UN

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United Nations: About 7,000 people are being infected with AIDS each day and about half of the 34 million people with HIV do not know they have it, according to a UN report released to mark the disease’s 30th anniversary.

The UNAIDS agency said more money, less waste and smarter programs are urgently needed to consolidate gains made in the war on AIDS and HIV.

The report highlighted spectacular progress made in the 30 years since US epidemiologists, in a study released on June 5, 1981, described the cases of five young homosexuals whose immune systems had been destroyed.

Loss always hard to swallow

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New Delhi, June 04: The French Open final loss is hard to swallow, admits Sania Mirza, but the Indian tennis ace also has a sense of immense satisfaction at finishing runners-up in the women’s doubles event given the way she was struggling for form and fitness a few months ago.

French Open 2011

“A loss is a loss at any stage and initially it hurts. But when I look back at where my career was a while back, there is a feeling of immense satisfaction at what I have managed to achieve,” Sania, who was battling a career-threatening wrist injury not so long ago, said.

T Cong MLAs in a fix as TDP decides to move no confidence motion

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Hyderabad, June 4: As Telugu Desam party has decided to move no confidence motion against the government the Telangana Congress MLAs have got into hot waters.

Telangana Congress MLAs are urged to vote against the government since Congress party has not taken any decision regarding Telangana so far.

Aamir, Imran clash

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Mumbai, June 04: Imran Khan, Aamir KhanMore PicsAre Aamir Khan and Imran Khan speaking different languages?

Aamir Khan has confidently backed a script and produced a film – Delhi Belly, that stars his nephew Imran Khan. Now, it’s well known that Imran insisted that he be auditioned for the role and the youngster even underwent a look test. Aamir is naturally impressed by all this.

Protest Alleged Demolition of Mosque

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New Delhi, June 04: A group of representatives of prominent Muslim bodies demonstrated near the Prime Minister’s residence to protest against the alleged demolition of a mosque and madarsa near the President’s estate.

Unhappy over what they claimed was a demolition without any notice or warning, the group staged a dharna, asking the Prime Minister to address their concerns.

The mosque and the madrassa, they said, was located less than a kilometre away from the President estate’s stable and was brought down three days back without any notice.

RSS Behind Baba Ramdev’s Fast: Digvijay

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New Delhi, June 04: Stepping up his attack on Baba Ramdev, Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh today alleged that RSS was behind the yoga guru’s indefinite fast.

Frowning upon the protest action by the Baba, Singh agreed with a questioner that the Yoga guru was playing politics. “If you want to teach yoga, I have no problem ,but if you want to do politics, then join the fray”.

Singh, who has been speaking against Ramdev despite a virtual gag order by the party, alleged that it has been crystal clear that the RSS volunteers were behind the Baba’s protest action.

Minor gangraped in moving cab, teenagers, driver arrested

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Mumbai, June 04: Four teenagers and a taxi driver arrested for allegedly raping victim over the past three months

Four teenagers and a 44-year-old taxi driver have been arrested for allegedly gangraping a minor girl several times in a moving cab over the past three months.

The accused would pounce on the girl whenever they got an opportunity

Japan seizes $4.4 billion in Gaddafi assets

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Tokyo, June 04: Japan has frozen $4.4 billion in assets belonging to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his entourage under the terms of a UN Security Council resolution, a report said on Saturday.

The assets included bank savings, the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported citing data of the finance ministry, without giving fuller details. A spokesperson was not immediately available to comment on the report.

`Pakistani journalist’s killers wanted to set an example’

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Islamabad, June 4: The killers of Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad made no attempt to hide his body as they wanted to make his death “an example for other journalists”, a police official said.

Shahzad, 40, was kidnapped in Islamabad Sunday and his body, bearing marks of severe torture, was found dumped in a canal in Punjab province Tuesday.

He is widely believed to have been seized by intelligence officials for alleging inhis article that terrorists attacked a key naval base in Karachi May 22 after the navy refused to free sailors held for suspected militant links.

Police firing in Bihar

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Patna, June 04: A lingering dispute over land acquisition for an under-construction glucose and starch factory in Bihar’s Araria district between the factory owners and villagers turned violent on Friday. Four protesting villagers were killed and about 10 others were injured in the ensuing firing by the police.

A woman and a child were among the four killed in the firing that took place in the private factory’s premises near the northern Bihar town of Forbesganj in Araria. The injured, admitted at a hospital in Forbesganj, were reported to be in a stable condition.

I am responsible for my failed affairs

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New Delhi, June 04: HE DOESN’T need to take his shirt off for a woman — and many a man as well — to want to pounce upon him.

Koel too couldn’t resist herself when she had with her the delectable Salman Khan on the couch, which expanded into a luxurious red bed.

Baba’s Demands V/s Government Response

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A desperate government’s efforts failed today to achieve any breakthrough with Baba Ramdev deciding to go ahead with his indefinite fast here from tomorrow amidst indications that a compromise was likely in a day or two.

For nearly five hours, two senior union ministers Kapil Sibal and Subodh Kant Sahay negotiated with the yoga guru over his demands on eradication of corruption at a posh hotel, a venue totally different from Delhi airport where two days ago these two ministers with two others had attempted to placate him.

Perfume gives second wife away in Saudi

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Jeddah, June 04: A woman who became suspicious of her husband after he began arriving home smelling of perfumes he had never worn throughout their ten-year marriage finally confronted him and discovered he had taken a second wife.

After the man succumbed to his spouse’s bombardment of questions and confessed to the truth, his wife promptly walked out of their decade-long union.

She returned, however, when he paid her SR10,000 in compensation and she agreed to accept the new person in their marriage.

-Agencies