Warangal, June 01: In an act of mob justice, a youth was burnt alive by angry villagers right in the presence of cops after he allegedly raped a girl.
The girl, who initially resisted the attempts of the accused, is battling for her life after the youth hit her with a hammer on her head. This macabre incident took place in Raghunathapally in Zaffargadh mandal of Warangal district on Tuesday.
Washington, June 01: Urban children who are bullies or have conduct problems at school are more likely to have sleep-disordered breathing or daytime sleepiness, which may play a role in their aggressive behaviour, according to a new research.
Researchers looked at elementary school students who had exhibited conduct problems like bullying or discipline referrals and found that there was a two-fold higher risk for symptoms of sleep-disordered breathing, particularly daytime sleepiness among these students.
Mumbai, June 01: Rahul Bose has always been unreservedly straightforward and doesn’t mince words when it comes to the tougher questions. The actor was in town recently to honor his commitment with an NGO and talks about films, offbeat cinema, kissing a man for his film “I Am” and much more. Excerpts …
Love life- “Non-existent”
New York, June 01: ‘Gossip Girl’ star Blake Lively is threatening to sue any publication which reprints fake photos that claim to be the actress, 23, in the nude.
A spokesperson for Blake Lively has said that the photos of Blake Lively which have just surfaced on various websites are 100 percent FAKE. Blake has never taken nude photos of herself.”
Some saucy shots of a blonde woman in her birthday suit have hit the web – and they’re rumoured to be of Gossip Girl star Blake Lively.
The pics popped up recently on image hosting site ImageShack, and have spread like nudie wildfire.
Raipur, June 01: The man alleged to be one of India’s richest and most corrupt bureaucrats is not only still in service with the Chhattisgarh government but insists he is innocent.
Babulal Agrawal, a 1988 IAS officer of the Chhattisgarh cadre, dismisses with contempt media reports that he has piled up a mind-boggling amount of illegally earned money.
A Masters in Political Science who is Secretary for Cooperatives in the state, Agrawal said the Income Tax department was wrongly clubbing his and his family’s wealth.
Chennai, June 01: For the first time perhaps in India’s banking history, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is conducting a probe based on a whistleblower’s complaint about certain alleged irregularities at the Mangalore-based public sector Corporation Bank.
According to the sources, a two-member team from the CVC camped at Corporation Bank’s headquarters May 9-14 to probe the complaint and senior bank officials deposed before it.
New Delhi, June 01: A partial solar eclipse will be seen in Siberia and northern China today but the sky gazers in the country will be a disappointed lot as it will be midnight here.
The partial solar eclipse will be seen at sunrise in Siberia and northern China when the penumbral (lighter outer shadow of earth) first touches earth at 00.55 am IST, Apoorva Malhotra of Space Technology Education Private Limited told PTI.
This eclipse will not be visible in India, he said, adding, observers in eastern Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina will witness it.
Bangalore, June 01: Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Wednesday hoped an Indian astronaut would walk on the Moon in 2025 and on Mars by 2035.
“I believe an Indian astronaut will walk on the Moon in 2025 and on Mars by 2035. The Indian space agency should attempt to put an Indian on Moon and Mars between 2025 and 2035,” Kalam said at a function here.
Karachi, June 01: Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi has urged President Asif Ali Zardari to save cricket from the “clutches” of the Ijaz Butt-led Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
Afridi told IANS from London Wednesday that he is hoping that Zardari, who is PCB’s chief patron, will intervene and resolve the latest crisis to have hit Pakistan cricket.
New Delhi, June 01: The Supreme Court Wednesday reserved its verdict on a petition by Sikkim High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran challenging the framing of charges by the Judges Inquiry Committee (JIC) probing allegations of corruption, land grabbing, disproportionate assets and misbehaviour against him.
Justice Dinakaran has contented that the JIC has framed the charges beyond the scope of its jurisdiction.
Islamabad, June 01: Officials say the helicopter was carrying four personnel — including the head of the provincial paramilitary force when it crashed into the Indus River, a Press TV correspondent reported on Wednesday.
A local police officer says it caught fire in mid-air and plunged into the river.
A rescue team has recovered one body from the wreckage but was not able to identify it.
The exact cause of the crash is being investigated. The helicopter was reportedly flying in bad weather and went down in a dust storm when visibility was poor.
Bhubaneswar, June 01: Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh today said that he was not an enemy of Orissa regretting that the media did not see the positive side of his ministry.
“It is unfortunate that my media friends highlight ”nos” of my ministry and do not see positive side of the things. I am not against the state,” Ramesh said during the inauguration of North East Bio-diversity gallery at the Regional Museum of Natural History, where Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik was also present.
New Delhi, June 01: Government today said no decision has been taken on its joining a lawsuit in New York filed by victims of 26/11 terror attack suing Pakistan”s spy agency ISI and LeT founder Hafiz Saeed for their involvement in the incident.
“No decision has been taken. I think there are advantages and disadvantages…No decision has been taken on that,” Home Minister P Chidambaram told reporters while noting that recently the Home Secretary G K Pillai had indicated that a decision to join a lawsuit would be a “political call”.
Bahrain, June 01: Activists using the social networking website Facebook called on Bahrainis to stage anti-regime protests in the main streets and squares on Wednesday as a state of emergency imposed during a March crackdown on protesters has ended.
Kuwait city, June 01: A European man plunged to his death from the sixth level in Kuwait while trying to climb to his girl friend’s apartment after she rebuffed him, a newspaper in the oil-rich Gulf emirate reported on Wednesday.
The unidentified man, on a visit to Kuwait City, had a relationship with the European woman before she decided to dump him following an argument, the Arabic language daily Alanba said.
“He tried to reach her by mobile phone but she did not answer his calls and messages…he went to the door but she did not open,” the paper said.
New Delhi, June 01: A senior IAS officer is suspected to be involved in the 16,000-acre land scam near Kandla Port Trust in Gujarat, CBI today told the Delhi High Court while recommending to the government his removal from the Ministry of Shipping for a fair and impartial probe.
Patna, June 01: After the ouster of co-operative minister Ramadhar Singh, opposition RJD today trained its gun at Bihar Urban Development Minister Prem Kumar and demanded his sacking as he was an absconder in a case in his native Gaya district.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar should seek the minister”s resignation or sack him if he did not do it on his own as in the case of Ramadhar Singh, RJD spokesman Shakeel Ahmed Khan told reporters here.
The government’s most recent targets are women.
“They took me from my work,” one woman says. “And from the beginning, they slapped me on my face, on my head, shoulder.”
The woman agreed to be recorded in an interview with NPR only if she could whisper, in English, so that authorities wouldn’t recognize her voice.
She had been detained, beaten, then let go. When she met with NPR, she was limping from pain.
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Tripoli, June 01: Powerful explosions rocked Tripoli as NATO on Wednesday pressed its air war amid Libyan charges it has killed 718 civilians and reports that British ex-special forces soldiers are advising the rebels.
NATO allies today agreed to extend the campaign in Libya for another 90 days, prolonging the mission until late September, the alliance said.
“NATO and partners have just decided to extend our mission for Libya for another 90 days,” said NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Lucknow, June 01: Under the shadow of apparent differences between some of its top leaders, BJP top brass will meet here from tomorrow to chalk out the strategy for the 2012 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, where the party has lost its moorings over the years.
Senior leaders including former deputy prime minister L K Advani, party chief Nitin Gadkari, former presidents Rajnath Singh, M M Joshi and Venkaiah Naidu besides chief ministers of BJP-ruled states will attend the meeting spread over four days.
New Delhi, June 01: Veteran Congress leader ND Tiwari Wednesday refused to appear before the Delhi High Court and moved an application that he cannot be forced to give blood sample for DNA test in a paternity suit filed by a 31-year-old man who says Tiwari is his biological son.
Sanaa, June 01: Yemeni medical officials say at least 41 people have been killed in overnight shelling and street battles between government forces and rival tribal fighters in the capital.
Witnesses say that in addition to street fighting, Presidential Guard units shelled the headquarters of a brigade responsible for guarding sensitive government institutions. Army officers who have defected to the opposition say the government suspected the brigade commander was about to join the movement to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Hyderabad, June 01: Congress MPs from Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh have again extended their deadline for the central leadership to table a bill in parliament to carve out a separate Telangana state.
With the June 1 deadline coming to an end, the MPs held a meeting here to chalk out their course of action and decided to give another month’s time to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government to make a clear-cut announcement on their demand.
Bangalore, June 01: A 29-year-old actress has been taken into custody on the charge of attempted prostitution, police said.
She had acted in two Kannada films and three television serials, police said. The name of the actress, who was detained yesterday, was not provided by the police.
A 40-year-old woman, a pimp, who had acted in two teleserials, and two men were also taken into custody, police said.
The trio was detained when they came to a hotel along with the actress for allegedly helping her indulge in prostitution, police added.
London, June 1 (IANS) A woman in Britain, in search of a perfect soulmate, has married for the ninth time as all her previous attempts failed miserably.
The longest of 56-year-old Pat Higgins’ marriages lasted five years and the shortest just five days. She spent 8,000 pounds (over $13,000) on her eighth wedding, which lasted just two months.
This time Pat has married a toyboy who is 32 years junior to her, The Sun reported Wednesday.
Mark Sanderson is a supermarket worker.