Agra, September 06: Actress Katrina Kaif on Monday visited the shrine of Sheikh Salim Chisti to offer prayers and untie the sacred thread, which she had tied during the shooting of her forthcoming film Mere Brother Ki Dulhan.
Dressed in a black suit and a green scarf, Katrina arrived very early at the dargah and offered a chadar. Assisted by Khadim bhai and Shanu, she then untied a ‘dhaga’ (sacred thread) as fulfilment of her “mannat”.
Hyderabad, September 06: Nearly 1,600 software professionals have been left in the lurch with an IT company shutting its doors here on Saturday without paying them salaries for four months.
The employees lodged a complaint with the Madhapur police after learning that the company CEO, Murali Radhakrishna, was absconding.
New delhi,September 06 :And that’s precisely what US ambassador David Mulford’s confidential cable to Washington tried to elaborate on at the end of his five- year eventful stint in India.
In fact, Mulford told his bosses that New Delhi looked at America with a glint of suspicion and detest as it held Uncle Sam as partial arbitrator on Kashmir.
Lucknow,September 06 : Politicians have so much of ill gotten money and they never cease to be manipulative, even when behind bars.Former UP minister Amarmani Tripathi, who is serving a life sentence in the Varanasi Central Jail for the murder of poetess Madhumita Shukla, had been out of the prison for the past two months.
Tripathi, a fair- weather ally of all major political parties in UP, including the BSP, SP and BJP, had secured an admission at Sir Sunder Lal Hospital in Banaras Hindu University ( BHU) after two other hospitals had stated he was perfectly fine.
Hyderabad, September 06: The CBI has finally begun a crackdown on the Reddy brothers of Bellary. The agency on Monday arrested former Karnataka tourism minister and BJP MLA Janardhan Reddy and his brother-in-law Srinivasa Reddy. The two have been remanded to judicial custody in Hyderabad.
Janardhan Reddy, however, insisted that he in innocent. “The truth will prevail,” he said.
New Delhi,September 06 :After finding fertilizer in majority of fruits and vegetables even the baby Milk that you get in the market may not be safe with a a study revealing that high levels of microbiological organisms and Coliform bacteria were present in packaged fullcream milk.
The study was conducted by Consumer Voice and 12 brands of milk — Amul, Mother Dairy, Reliance, Paras, Delhi Milk Scheme, Milkam, Vita, Aarey, Parag, Verka, Sanchi and Saras — were tested in an accredited laboratory. All the brands had total plate counts more than the permissible range.
Washington, September 06: Former president George W Bush says he experienced no pleasure when he heard about the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, mastermind of Sept 11, 2001 terror attacks.
“He was sitting in a restaurant in Dallas when the Secret Service told him that President (Barack) Obama wanted to speak to him. He then learned about the assassination,” documentarian Peter Schnall told CNN on Monday.
Islamabad, September 06: A battered al Qaeda suffered another significant blow when Pakistani agents working with the CIA arrested a senior leader believed to have been tasked by Osama bin Laden with targeting American economic interests around the globe, Pakistan announced on Monday.
Jakarta, September 06: A powerful earthquake jolted the western Indonesian island of Sumatra early on Tuesday, killing a 12-year-old boy and sending people streaming from houses, hotels and at least one hospital in panic.
The magnitude 6.6 quake was centered 60 miles (100 kilometers) southwest of the city of Medan and 62 miles (110 kilometers) beneath the earth’s crust, according to the US Geological Survey.
The quake rattled people from their sleep in towns and villages across the island’s northern tip.
Washington, September 06: Americans, Tuesday, are generally more willing to believe that US policies in the Middle East might have motivated the 9/11 terror attacks on New York and the Pentagon, according to a new poll.
Reflecting some important shifts in US public opinion over the past decade, the poll by Pew Research Centre found that the public’s views are more evenly divided today in response to the question, “Why do they hate us?”
Bastrop, September 06: A roaring wildfire raced through rain-starved farm and ranchland in Central Texas on Monday, destroying nearly 500 homes during a rapid advance that was fanned in part by howling winds from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee.
At least 5,000 people were forced from their homes in Bastrop County about 25 miles east of Austin, and about 400 were in emergency shelters, officials said.
Bangalore, September 06: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested mining czar and former Karnataka minister G Janardhan Reddy and his brother-in-law and Managing Director of Obalapuram Mining Company (OMC) B Srinivasa Reddy.
New Delhi, September 06: Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who had undergone a surgery for an undisclosed ailment in the US, may be back in the country as early as tonight, reports claimed on Tuesday.
64-year-old Sonia has recovered well after the surgery on August 4. Her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is with her in the US, will accompany her back.
There is still no word on the reason for the surgery Sonia underwent and her treatment remains a well-guarded secret.
New Delhi, September 06: Former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh has a date with a Delhi court on Tuesday after receiving summons in the cash-for-votes scam. The Delhi Police had recently chargesheeted him and five others.
Eleven calls made by Sanjeev Saxena to Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh’s residence is one of the key reasons why Delhi Police has suggested that Amar Singh played a key role in the cash-for-votes scam. The chargesheet submitted in a Delhi Court names Singh and five others.
New Delhi, September 06: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today left on a two-day visit to Bangladesh that is expected to put the bumpy bilateral ties in a new trajectory through signing of deals in a range of sectors including extradition of sentenced persons, connectivity, power, exchange of enclaves and border management.
However, the visit has been clouded by the uncertainty over the signing of an accord on sharing of waters of Teesta River following strong reservations expressed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who pulled out of the visit.
New Delhi, September 06: A 20-year-old youth was arrested for confining and raping a teenager here, police said Monday.
Lalit Kumar, who hails from Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad city, fled with a 15-year-old girl after convincing her that he was in love with her, police said.
The girl, a class 8 student and resident of Kotla Mubarakpur in south Delhi, went with him to get married. However, Lalit Kumar confined her in a room in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh and raped her, police said.
New Delhi, September 06: On a day when students across the nation were celebrating Teachers’ Day and giving flowers and cards to their teachers, an 18-year Class 10 student of a government school here slapped his teacher and threatened to kill her if she went to the police, police said Monday.
Vishnu, a resident of Ambedkar Nagar, threatened to kill Nisha Kashyap when she told him that she will lodge a police complaint against him, police said.
The incident took place in the afternoon in the premises of Jose Marti Sarvodaya Vidyalaya in sector-12 in R.K. Puram.
London, September 06: British Foreign Secretary William Hague has confirmed that Britain has sent a team on a diplomatic mission to Libyan capital Tripoli.
A diplomatic team, led by acting Special Representative Dominic Asquith, reached Tripoli Monday, Hague was quoted as saying by Xinhua.
Hague said the team included staff from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for International Development (DFID). It would join a small FCO-led advance party that was deployed to Tripoli last week.
Mumbai, September 06: Poor Emraan Hashmi! There seems to be no getting away from the “serial kisser” tag despite his many protestations and he’s back to locking lips in his forthcoming film “The Dirty Picture”.
If people wish to remember him for his on-screen kisses, so be it, says the somewhat exasperated actor who has for long been looking for an image change.
Hyderabad, September 06: Housing Minister Kanna Lakshminarayana clarified that the state government had no role in the investigations or arrests being carried out by the Central Bureau of Investigation in various cases.
Hyderabad, September 06: Twenty six out of 29 MLAs, who switched loyalties to YSR Congress party, met the Speaker Nadendla Manohar at his chambers on Monday and appealed him to accept their resignations.
Hyderabad, September 06: The Central Bureau of Investigation found 30 kilograms of gold and Rs 3 Crore in cash during the searches at former Karanataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy.
New Delhi, September 06: YSR Congress Party president and Kadapa MP Jaganmohan Reddy on Monday asked the media to question Bharatiya Janata Party for the arrest of former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy.
Talking to media persons, Jaganmohan Reddy said that he would not react on the arrest of Gali Janardhan Reddy as he belonged to BJP. “Why are you asking me about Gali Janardhan Reddy’s arrest? It is better to pose this question to BJP. It is not me, but it is the BJP which must respond on the issue,” he said.
Hyderabad, September 06: Suspended TDP MLA Nagam Janardhan Reddy was arrested by the police when he tried to take out a rally from Gunpark to Ambedkar Statue at Tank Bund here on Monday. He was protesting against the inordinate delay in acceptance of resignations submitted for cause of Telangana state by the Speaker Nadendla Manohar.
Hyderabad, September 06: Congress MLAs from Kadapa district Veera Shiva Reddy and Vardharajula Reddy on Monday wondered over the statement of Kadapa MP Jagan Mohan Reddy disassociating himself with the former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy after the latter’s arrest in the mining scam.