Month: July 2011

China, July 04: According to the business news website, Beijing approached a fund that buys stock from former Facebook employees to see if it could assemble a stake large enough “to matter.” Moreover, Citibank is rumored to be trying to acquire as much as $1.2 billion of stock for two sovereign wealth funds, one from the Middle East and the other Chinese. Business Insider reports a third source, from a “very influential” Silicon Valley investment bank, confirms that Citi is representing China.

Jeddah, July 4: A delegation comprising of various NRI organizations and individual personalities on Friday evening met Pravin Mistry, Air India’s manager for the Western Region of Saudi Arabia and explain to him various problems faced by the Indians. The delegation demanded better services and free baggage allowance for Zamzam water through Air India flights.

Social worker Moazzam Ali Ifteqar who is also the president of Gulf Telangana Employees Forum (Jeddah) led the delegation. He is running a campaign demanding free baggage allowance for Zamzam for the past one month.

Mumbai, July 04: Katrina Kaif is thrilled that one of her long standing desires has finally been fulfilled by dear friend and producer of her forthcoming film, Farhan Akhtar. Katrina has been allowed to edit a part of Farhan’s underproduction film, “Don 2″, which is a sequel to “Don” and that has certainly brought a smile to Kat’s face.

The fact that consumption of pork is prohibited in Islam is well known. The following points explain various aspects of this prohibition:

1.   Pork prohibited in Qur’an

New Delhi, July 04: In a shocking case of apathy in Kannauj, a woman is forced to give birth on the road after a hospital refused to admit her, allegedly because she didn’t have enough money.

The poor pregnant woman was allegedly denied admission in a district hospital in Kannauj, uttar Pradesh. She was forced to give birth on the roadside. The newborn survived.

The victim’s husband alleges the nursing staff demanded of Rs 15 hundred bribe which he could not afford. He alleges that they manhandled his wife and told them the foetus was already dead.

New Delhi, July 04: Cricket is a religion in India and affirming this is the fact that a temple dedicated to Indian top three cricket players Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Yovraj Singh, is being constructed in a village in Bihar.

This cricket temple a first of its kind will provide an opportunity for fans of cricket’s Gods Sachin, Dhoni and Yuvraj to offer prayers and worship them if they like it.

The construction of the temple is a brainchild of Bhojpuri actor-cum-singer Manoj Tiwari, who is an avid cricket fan.

New Delhi, July 04: The hearing in the 2G spectrum scam, which was held up due to the summer break in the district courts here, is all set to resume on Monday.

The high-profile accused in the case, including former telecom minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi, Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Usman Balwa and 11 others, will appear before special CBI judge OP Saini, who is exclusively dealing with the case after the Supreme Court’s directions.

The court had held the last hearing in the case on June 10.

Hyderabad, July 4: State CPI has expressed deep concern over rampant scams and irregularities at the centre. CPI has warned to lay siege on all the district collectorates on July 11 against scams, irregularities, corruption and seeking separate Telangana statehood. It alleged that the governments of centre and the state have completely failed in putting a curb on scams and irregularities. It stated that Congress led UPA government at the centre, by adopting dual standard on Telangana issue, is hurting the sentiments of Telangana people. Mr.

New Delhi, July 04: Another sex scandal has rocked Kerala. A man has been arrested for trying to sell his daughter to the sex trade in Kothamangalam.

Police said the fourteen-year-old victim was sexually exploited in cars and autorickshaws for the past three months.

The police were tipped off by an anonymous caller and it was then that they nabbed the girl’s father. Two other men were also arrested in the case.

The victim was rescued and taken to a government hospital.

Petaling Jaya, July 04: As many as 11,809 or 73% of all rape cases reported in the country involved children aged 18 and below, and in most cases the crime is committed by family members such as fathers, stepfathers and uncles.

Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Khalid Abu Bakar, who revealed the statistics, said from 2006 to 2010, 11,809 out of 16,159 rape victims were children, with 54% aged 16 and below, while another 19% were aged 16 to 18.

New Delhi, July 04: There is no consensus yet again on the Lokpal bill. Anna Hazare may rethink his August 16 fast as political parties push back civil society saying Parliament will decide shape of the Lokpal bill.

There is no clarity on who will eventually create the final draft of the Lokpal bill. A crucial all-party meeting called by the Prime Minister to end the deadlock proved inconclusive. Parties now say its not civil society but Parliament that would determine the shape of the Anti-corruption law.

New Delhi, July 04: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the human resource development ministry to urgently intervene after a textbook allegedly depicting Prophet Mohammed (SAW) provoked protests in Uttar Pradesh, triggering concerns over its impact on national security. National security adviser Shiv Shankar

Menon has written a letter to HRD minister Kapil Sibal, informing him that the PM has sought urgent “remedial” action after meeting key Muslim leaders, top government sources told HT.

Ahmedabad, July 04: In a damage-control exercise, the Narendra Modi government has said that all “crucial” intelligence bureau records relating to the 2002 riots were intact and available and only some of “temporary” nature have been destroyed.

“The SIB records pertaining to communications that took place during the 2002 riots have been classified as of permanent nature and have not been destroyed and are available,” a home department official told PTI.

Bangkok, July 04: The Pheu Thai Party led by the sister of ousted fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra on Sunday swept the general elections in Thailand, paving the way for its leader Yingluck Shinawatra to be the country’s first woman Prime Minister.

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva conceded that Yingluck had won the nation’s election and congratulated her for being the first female Prime Minister.

New Delhi, July 04: Days after a trial court judge Brijesh Kumar Garg’s visit to Tihar brought to light special benefits being extended to certain high profile inmates including Suresh Kalmadi, an internal probe has confirmed that jail norms were violated by some officials.

The report by the trial court judge had indicated that some inmates were getting more privileges than others. And some reports claimed that the jail superintendent S C Bharadwaj was found having tea and snacks with the sacked CWG organising committee chief.

Hyderabad, July 04: Four rebel legislators of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) from the Telangana region Sunday began a two-day fast for unity among parties and leaders fighting for a separate Telangana state.

A day before MPs, state ministers and legislators of the Congress party and legislators of TDP are scheduled to submit their resignations, TDP legislators launched their hunger strike at Indira Park here.

Hyderabad, July 04: Making it clear that they were not going to backtrack, Telangana Congress MPs, MLAs and MLCs on Sunday asserted that they would submit their resignations en masse on Monday even as the party counselled patience, asking them to “rise over emotions and view things dispassionately”.

“We are not quitting the party. We have decided to resign for the sake of Telangana. We humbly request again that Telangana be given, Ponnam Prabhakar, Karimnagar MP, told reporters in Hyderabad.

The Madhya Pradesh government’s move to do away with the one per cent quota for displaced Kashmiris in all government colleges has not gone down well with Kashmiris across the nation. Many have called it yet another discrimination meted out to them.

Bilal, PHD Scholar, said, “We are Indians but they don’t treat us as Indians. There is lot of discrimination against us.”

Another Kashmiri student Dawood Ahmad said that the Madhya Pradesh government’s decision will just add to the woes that they are facing.

London, July 04: A painting by Leonardo da Vinci that reportedly sold for just £45 at an auction in 1958, has now been estimated to be worth a staggering £120 million. The oil on wood panel painting, named ‘Salvator Mundi’, or ‘Saviour of the World’, shows Christ with a raised right hand as if in blessing and his left hand holding a globe.

Although its existence was known for half a century, it had been attributed to a pupil of da Vinci, but now a group of experts has established that it was by the master himself.

Mumbai,July 3:IF YOU thought relatively younger people like golfer Tiger Woods, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and US congressman Anthony Weiner can be in news for their illicit sex romps, think again.

The “ older” ones are not done yet.

Silvio Berlusconi, the hyper- sexed Italian premier, is 74 and can make love amazingly, five times a day.

“ Bunga Bunga Berlo” is an ideal candidate for sexologists to define if there is a cut- off age when a man should “ retire”. They say one is as old as one thinks.

Mumbai, July 04: SHAH RUKH Khan has chosen to get his knee surgery done in Mumbai instead of in the US, as he wants to keep a check on the ongoing promotion of his upcoming superhero flick Ra. One . The promotional activities for the movie need him closer to the city and considering the ambitious actor and producer that he is, he doesn’t want to be away from all the action.It is well known that SRK needs to undergo a knee surgery, which has been scheduled to take place in the last week of July.

Mumbai, July 04: The entire star cast of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar, Katrina Kaif and Kalki Koechlin has taken to the road.

As a part of the unique promotional strategy designed by director Zoya Akhtar and her team, they will make a road trip from Mumbai to Delhi and halt in between too.

The trip starts from Bandra, Mumbai on July 7, with stopovers at Surat, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Ajmer, Udaipur and finally to end the journey in Gurgaon, on July 10. Our source said, “They will possibly drive 1500 kms on their own.

Mumbai, July 04 : NOTORIETY is turning out to be Maria Monica Susairaj’s ticket to stardom.On the day she walked out of Byculla Central Women’s Prison in Mumbai and appeared in a primetime- grabbing press conference, publicity- savvy Ram Gopal Varma announced he wanted to cast her as the heroine of his next film.

Gold ornaments, gold and silver coins, stone studded crowns, idols and figurines inlaid with precious stones and jewels estimated to be worth a whopping over Rs 90,000 crore have been found from the cellars of Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple here.

The inventory list of jewellery after the opening of the chambers, some locked up for several decades, on Supreme Court orders, is expected to go up substantially.

Jammu, July 04: In Srinagar The Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) police have busted a sex racket in Srinagar and arrested 13 persons, including four women.

According to J&K police, the arrests were made recently following a tip off. The flesh trade racket was allegedly being run from Hotel Nida in Iqbal Park, Srinagar.

Muzaffar Ahmad, investigating officer told Mumbai Mirror that 10 people were arrested from the hotel. “Three more were arrested later. Investigations and on and we expect more arrests,” he said.