Month: September 2011

London, September 26: The proportion of young people admitting to having had unprotected sex with a new partner has risen over the past two years, according to a study.

A study of British 16 to 19-year-olds has shown 61% have had sex, with 43% of those who were sexually active admitting to having had sex with a new partner without using contraception compared to 36% in 2009.

Of those who admitted having had unprotected sex with a new partner, 23% said they had done so because their partner did not like using contraception, with 15% saying they had been drunk and forgot.

Somalia, September 26: The attacks took place on Sunday against the Hoosingow, Diif, and Taabto districts near the southern city of Afmadow, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Local elder Ahmed Kulmiye said hundreds of frightened families had started fleeing the area.

Two similar US-operated aircraft also reportedly crashed inside and along the coastline of the southern Kismayu port city, which is located some 500 kilometers to the south of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Government officials described one of the aircraft as a spy drone and the other a destroyer.

New Delhi, September : CBI is likely to advance its arguments on Monday in a Delhi court on a Law ministry report that a firm should have more than 10 percent stakes in another for being termed an associate, a plea taken by 2G scam accused Reliance Telecom and Swan Telecom.

Special CBI Judge O P Saini had earlier asked CBI to place on record the report of the Ministry of Law and Justice given to the Department of Telecommunication on the issue of “associate” companies.

Hyderabad, September 26: Congress party has conducted a huge meeting ‘North Coastal Congress Gharjana’ at RK beach in Visakhapatnam on Sunday evening, which also marks the official merger of PRP. Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, PCC President Botsa Satyanarayana, Minister Darmana Prasada Rao, Chiranjeevi, Allu Aravind and many other local and state leaders have participated in this meeting.

Devarapalli, September 26: YS.Jagan Mohan Reddy will continue his Odarpu Yatra from Devarapalli in Krishna district today and will conclude his tour at Vijayawada city, where he will conduct a meeting (Maha Dharna) on October 1st in support of crop-holiday declared by formers. During this last leg of Odarpu Yatra he will unveil number of statues of his father late YSR in several villages and address the people.

Nizamabad, September 26: Patients, particularly pregnant women, are worst affected by the ongoing Sakala Janula Samme (general strike), which entered its 13th day on Sunday.

Lack of transport (trains, buses and even autos) has adversely affected poor pregnant women who are unable to reach the nearest town or Nizamabad district headquarters to get periodical medical check-ups.

Private doctors who have also been extending their full support to the separate statehood cause and are taking active part in the movement, too confirmed that gynecologists have no work during the strike.

Mumbai,. September 26: An alleged top Naxal commander from Chhattisgarh has been apprehended in a swift operation in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district, police said today.

The accused Somaji Ayutu Made (30), commander of Aheri Militia Dalam who hails from Parainar in Dantewada, had crossed the border for treatment and local purchases, they said.

Acting on a tip-off, Gadchiroli police arrested him yesterday, police said.

Ajmer,September 26 :Life of an ordinary citizen specially the poorer sections of the society is becoming very difficulty the latest example is the dog entering the labour room and eating the new born kid.At a time when the government has just launched a special scheme for expectant mothers and newborns in the state, a street dog managed to enter the labour room of the government hospital at Kishangarh town and took away a newborn on Saturday. The body of the infant was later recovered by the hospital staff and relatives.

Srinagar, September 26 :With annual exams less than a month away, they have unnecessarily wasted my 12 days of study.” These were the first words of Shariq Ahmed to his father when he was released by the Jammu and Kashmir Police at Kishtwar last night, less than 24 hours after the cops had secured his remand for a further six days.

London, September 26: Queen told William to throw away wedding guest-list London: Prince William was devastated when he found out his friends were left out of his wedding guest list in favour of dignitaries. His grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, however, asked him to throw it away and start making the list again.

The 29-year-old William was “horrified” at the wedding plans drawn up by palace officials media reported.

“I was given this list of 777 names – dignitaries, governors, all sorts of people – and not one person I knew,” William said.

New Delhi, September 26: “The act of falling in love cannot be punished in the way other criminals are punished”. With this observation, a trial court acquitted 22-year-old Sanjay of Jahangirpuri on charges of raping his 15-year-old girlfriend, although it held him guilty of kidnapping as he had not taken the consent of her parents.

New Delhi, September 26: Bharatiya Janata Party official spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday appealed to United Progressive Alliance Government not to play with the sentiments of four crore people of Telangana.

Participating as chief guest in the round-table conference organized by Telangana Joint Action Committee in New Delhi, Ravi Shankar said that the democratically elected government should respect the aspirations and sentiments of region people. “It is not good for government to water down the agitation with coercive methods,” he said.

London, September 26: A hacker penetrated a British woman MP’s voicemail and left a sexually offensive message that asked callers whether they had recently indulged in a sex act, a media report said Sunday.

The hacker also disabled the House of Commons telephone system, the Daily Mail reported.

Claire Perry, Tory MP for Devizes in Wiltshire, 117 km from London, said she found her voicemail had been changed.

New Delhi, September 26: Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday alleged that the Centre was running parallel governments by misusing Raj Bhavans in non-Congress ruled states and Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal was acting under pressure from the Congress.

Addressing a well-attended Maha Rally near RAF Ground on the outskirts of the city on Sunday afternoon, Modi said the BJP had resolved to carry on its public campaign for the Governor’s recall for her “anti-Gujarat decisions”.

New Delhi, September 26: A three-wheeled rickshaw hardly seems the vehicle of choice for traveling thousands of kilometers and crossing 14 countries.
Yet the “Flying Rani,” a black-and-yellow auto rickshaw with a 175 cc engine, managed the trip from London to New Delhi, forging up steep slopes and through yawning potholes, with only one minor mishap.

“It has driven 10,200 kilometers and only got one flat tire,” said Sanjay Sharma, 44, a UK-based IT professional, at the end of his epic journey to raise money for cancer patients.

Hyderabad, September 26: The Telangana Industries Association has called for a 48-hour bandh for all industries located in Telangana region from Sunday-midnight in support of on-going Sakala Janula Samme, the general strike.

According to association president Sudhir Reddy, over 10,000 medium and small enterprises would remain close for two days from Monday onwards. Lakhs of employees engaged by these industries would participate in agitation demanding statehood for Telangana.

New York, September 26: After a 45 meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, an angry Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee declined comment on the 2G controversy as it was sub judice and he first needed to talk to “our valued colleague” Home Minister P. Chidambaram.

Like Manmohan Singh, he too suggested that Sunday’s meeting was essentially to brief the prime minister about his interactions in the US and not about a finance ministry note to the PMO on the then finance minister’s role in the auction of the 2G spectrum.

Mumbai, September 26: Salman-Katrina starrer Ek Tha Tiger is facing protests from local people in Ireland, where it is being shot, reports Irish newspaper Evening Herald.

Hyderbad, September 26: Kolkata Knight Riders’ captain Gautam Gambhir said he hoped his team would not repeat the mistakes of Sunday’s match against Somerset, which they lost by five wickets.

Kolkata Knight Riders lost to Somerset the Sunday’s match in a Group B fixture of the Champions League T20 here.

” The way they (Somerset) batted in first six overs, they took the game away from us. But we did very well to take the game to last over. There are lot of positives from this game. And, in the coming game we should not do the mistakes which we made today,” said Gambhir.

Hyderabad, September 26: The South Central Railway has resumed its services across Telangana region on Sunday evening.

Soon after the announcement made by the Telangana Political Joint Action Committee Prof M Kodandaram that the ‘Rail Roko’ agitation would not be extended, the SCR released the schedule of trains to be operated under its jurisdiction.

Hyderabad, September 26: Handlooms and Textiles Minister Dr P Shankar Rao on Sunday expressed his ire over the unilateral decisions being taken by Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy without taking the Cabinet into confidence.

New Delhi, September 26: After getting a gash near his eye while shooting for Rohit Shetty’s ‘Bol Bachchan’ a few days back, actor Abhishek Bachchan has now injured his finger on the sets of the same film in Jaipur.

The 35-year-old actor, who received six stitches for his previous injury, now has a hairline fracture on his finger. “…I fractured my finger. It’s what I would like to call a sympathy wound,” Abhishek wrote on Twitter.

Hyderabad, September 26: The Telugu Desam Party Telangana Forum on Sunday asked the Congress and Telangana Rashtra Samithi to boycott the Banswada by-elections to be held on October 13.

In a letter addressed to both the Congress and TRS, Forum’s convenor Errabelli Dayakar Rao said that all political parties together can build pressure on the Centre to announce statehood of Telangana by boycotting the by-elections. He demanded that the both the parties withdraw their candidates from the fray.

Washington, September 26: US President Barack Obama is manipulated by the powerful Israeli lobby that wields major influence amongst American government and media circles, a political analysts tells Press TV’s US Desk.

“As long as we are doing Israel’s bidding and as long as the Israeli lobby controls the American government and the American media to the extent that they do, the American people can plan on paying more outlandish taxes and continue funding Israel’s lobby,” said Mark Dankof, a former US Senate candidate, on Saturday.

Ahmedabad, September 26: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had got “spoiled” in the company of Congress.

“Congress party had become a burden for our country. It has rotten, which is now visible in its public image,” Modi said at a public gathering at Vastral, city outskirts.