Month: October 2011

London, October 07: Actress Salma Hayek, married to French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault, loves being financially independent.

“I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence. I don’t ever want to have to depend on anyone completely,” contactmusic.com quoted the 45-year-old as saying.

“But when I have troubles sometimes, it’s nice to have someone there to help,” said the actress, who has a four-year-old daughter with Pinault.

—IANS

Ahmedabad, October 07: A local court on Friday adjourned the pronouncement of order on the maintainability of the remand revision application filed by the Gujarat government seeking custody of arrested IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, till October 10.

Principal Session judge G.N. Patel said he was unable to complete the order and it would now be pronounced on Monday.

Mumbai, October 07: Emphasising that he is targeting any specific person or political party, veteran social activist Anna Hazare has said that he has been targeting the evil inside lawmakers belonging to various political parties.

Makkah, October 07: Every pilgrim, on arrival at any of the Kingdom’s airports, seaports or border posts, will receive a digital smart card with all information of the pilgrim saved on it, the Cars General Syndicate told Okaz/Saudi Gazette Thursday.

A digital map service will also be launched to monitor buses on the Internet and detect technical glitches, breakdowns, and if buses are abiding by the routes assigned to them. This is to keep a check on the performance of 17 transport companies that are providing 19,000 buses during this Haj season.

Chennai, october 07: This cake takes the cake, so to speak, for its sheer length and weight — 100 metres and 1000 kgs.

The French Loaf, the country’s largest bakery chain, today unveiled India’s longest eggless, chocolate cake, which was created for a noble cause.

The cake measures 333 ft and is reckoned to be the longest in the world.

Mumbai, October 07: Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgn, Kangana Ranaut, Lisa Haydon and Arjun Rampal

Director: David Dhawan

Rating: *1/2

At some point in this pointless parody of all of David Dhawan’s Tom and Jerry comedies from the past, Devgn and Dutt, playing a pair of warring, snaping, snarling, sneering con-persons, call for each other. ‘Chetan? Bhagat? Chetan? Bhagat? ….”

In that pause between the last blast and the next you know the script writer (Yunuz Sajawal) is thinking of how to carry the plot to the next gag.

Mumbai, October 07: Right now, Kareena Kapoor has her kitty full but filmmakers are wary of signing the actress in 2012 as rumours are rife that Bebo will tie the knot with Saif Ali Khan.

Apparently, Kareena is not impressed by this weird logic of directors and producers and with Saif Ali Khan recently losing his father, Tiger Pataudi, the actress is in no mood to talk about her wedding. However, the ˜Chammak Challo” sizzler made it loud and clear that she will continue to act even after marriage.

Mumbai, October 07: Recently actor John Abraham made a remarkable comeback with commercial cinema. His latest film ‘Force’ received a warm welcome at the Box Office and was declared an instant hit.

Apparently, filmmakers want to make its sequel and want no one else but Vidya Balan opposite John in the film.

Interestingly, many directors wanted to cast Vidya and John in their films ever since the two set the screen on fire in Nikhil Advani’s ‘Salaam-E-Ishq’ way back in 2007.

Islamabad, October 07: John Stockwell, ex-CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, also worked for the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) under George Bush (Senior) spent 13 years in the agency. He testified before the Congress that during the Cold War era, over 6 million people have died in the CIA covert wars.

New Delhi, October 07: Narendra Modi completed 10 years as Gujarat Chief Minister on Friday.

BJP is organizing several programmes to mark ten years of Modi’s rule, who took oath as Chief Minister on 7 October, 2001 in Gandhinagar. He replaced the then Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel who was asked to step down by the BJP central leadership.

Since then, he has won two Assembly polls with 2/3rd majority in Gujarat, and three Assembly polls personally contesting from Rajkot, Maninagar and Maninagar.

Washington, October 07: A US grandmother was convicted of first-degree murder Thursday and sentenced to 35 years in prison for tossing her 2-year-old granddaughter from a pedestrian bridge at a shopping mall.

The jury rejected Carmela dela Rosa’s insanity defense. Prosecutors said she threw Angelyn Ogdoc off a 45-foot-high skywalk like a “piece of trash” last November because she was angry at her son-in-law for getting her daughter pregnant out of wedlock.

Islamabad, October 07: Saudi Arabia has played an important role in maintaining peace and stability in this region, especially in Afghanistan, said Pakistan Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.

Talking to mediapersons after witnessing joint military exercise Al-Samsaam-IV between Pakistan Army and Saudi Land Forces near Jhelum in Pakistani Kashmir, General Kayani said that Saudi Arabia still has a role to play in Afghanistan and in regional security.

Riyadh, October 07: There has been a fall of 12 per cent in the wealth of 14 Saudi rich families during the first three quarters of the current year.

The overall value of their assets fell to 98.4 billion Saudi riyals from 111.5 billion riyals during the period between January 1 and September 29, 2011, according to the latest figures released by Al Joman Centre for Economic Consultancy.

The Al Rajhi family is the Kingdom’s wealthiest non-royals.

San Diego, October 07: A Muslim-American woman who was removed from a plane in San Diego last spring sued Southwest Airlines on Thursday, alleging she was discriminated against because she was wearing a head cover.

Irum Abbasi, a psychology graduate student at San Jose State University who is a US citizen, filed the lawsuit in federal court in San Diego, said her lawyer James McElroy.

Abbasi, a mother of three, was taken off the San Jose-bound flight in March as it was about to depart after a flight attendant thought she heard her say “it’s a go” on her cellphone.

New Delhi, October 07: Muslims in general may be opposed to the creation of a separate Telangana state but analysis of region-wise employment figures for Andhra Pradesh shows that in the 10 districts of Telangana region, Muslims and OBCs have suffered the highest loss of Rs 41.50 in rural per capita income between 1993-94 and 2004-05.

Washington, October 07: Steve Jobs – creative ‘genius’, Apple Co-founder and innovative businessman. These are just some terms the grieving public have tagged to Job’s name.

Tecca.com gives you a closer look into Jobs life with these 8 things that you probably did not know about Steve Jobs:

1. Early life and childhood

Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955. He was given away at birth by his mother who wanted him to be adopted by college graduates.

Praying the congregational prayer of Jumu’ah is an obligation upon every male, free, resident Muslim who has reached the age of puberty. It is not compulsory upon travellers, slaves or women but will still count (in reward) for anyone of those who attend it; Jumu’ah is also waved for people with excuses, such as sickness or fear.

Washington, October 07: A group of religious castoffs has been attacking fellow Amish, cutting off their hair and beards in an apparent feud over spiritual differences in the deeply traditional community, a sheriff said.

Members of a group of families disavowed by mainstream Amish have cut the beards off men and the hair off a half-dozen or more men and women, Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla said. He said the cutting apparently was meant to be degrading.

Mumbai, October 07: A frail but robust Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Thursday attacked the Congress and Sonia Gandhi, mimicked leaders like Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and took potshots at many other leaders, including Anna Hazare, and the judiciary and media.

Addressing the party’s annual Dussehra Rally at Shivaji Park late in the evening, the 85-year old Thackeray, imitating the prime minister, said that ‘what Manmohan Singh speaks nobody understands and ditto with Chief Minister Chavan’, who he mimicked.

London, October 07: Former Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt agreed to score no runs in an over during a crucial game against England as part of a betting scam, a court heard on Thursday.

Butt, 26, was allegedly taped confirming that he would deliberately bat out a maiden over on the final day of last year`s Oval Test match, which was a chance for his side to win their first game of the series.

Girl commits suicide for no clothes on Dassera

Hyderabad, October 7 (Siasat News): A girl was so disgusted on the day of Dassera as her parents could not buy her new clothes. According to Additional Inspector, Mushirabad Mohd. Riyazuddin,the deceased Shravanthi, 18, was the resident of Johari Nagar, Mushirabad.

She was the daughter of one Elliah. When she realized that his year she won’t get the new clothes on Dassera, she took the extreme step of committing suicide by consuming pesticides.

Lucknow, October 07: Life for students at Darululoom Deoband, one of the world’s most influential Islamic seminaries, has changed little in the past 150 years, and its staff want it kept that way.

A cradle of conservative Muslim thought in north India, Deoband was recently and reluctantly flung into the public spotlight by an internal showdown between a new reform-minded rector and the school’s traditionalist old guard.

The struggle over the seminary, founded in 1866, was closely watched across the Muslim world.

Koraput, October 07: At least 17 people were killed and 15 others injured when a tipper truck carrying Dussehra revellers overturned near Dasamantapur in Orissa’s Koraput district today.

Superintendent of Police Anoop Sahu said the accident occurred when around 40 people were returning home this morning in the tipper after watching a ‘jatra’ (folk theatre) in a nearby village.

The victims, including women and children, were crushed beneath the vehicle after it overturned and local people had to pull out the victims, Sahu said.

Buenos Aires, October 07: A 6.2-magnitude temblor Thursday jolted northern Argentina but there was no report of damage or casualties media reported.

The quake took place at 8.12 a.m., and its epicentre was located at 24.1812 degrees south latitude and 64.2501 degrees west longitude, about 130 km from the city of Salta, the National Institute of Seismic Prevention said.

The tremor was felt in the northern provinces of Jujuy, Tucuman and Santiago del Estero.

—Agencies

Hyderabad, October 07: With a majority of government employees, including those working in district treasury offices in the Telangana region, barring Hyderabad, participating in the general strike, salaries could not be disbursed to about 80 per cent of employees in the region.