Tehran, November 08: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Zionism resembles a transplanted liver that the body has rejected and therefore it is doomed to collapse.
“Israel is fated to disintegrate and its collapse will occur in the near future, IRNA quoted President Ahmadinejad as saying in an interview with Egyptian daily al-Akhbar on Monday.
Washington, November 08: United States President Barack Obama has urged lawmakers from both Democrat and Republican parties, to approve a package of tax credits for businesses that hire military veterans.
Obama announced a new “veterans’ gold card” program in which former US military personnel can receive customized job search at career centers, The Washington Post reported.
This week, the US Senate is expected to consider tax credits for businesses that hire unemployed veterans or injured vets who have been out of work.
Mumbai, November 08: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena Chief Raj Thackeray said that he was a “political bachelor” and did not need any “alliance”.
Attending the launch of a matrimonial site at a suburban hotel on Monday evening, Raj Thackeray said, “Politically I am a bachelor since nobody wants to have an alliance with me unlike some others who need two partners. There is no point in registering my name anywhere.”
Shiv Sena has formed an alliance with RPI apart from BJP. Raj Thackeray expressed his anger against Shiv Sena with the statement.
Moscow, November 08: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned against the consequences of any military attack against Iran over the country’s nuclear program.
“It would be a very serious mistake fraught with unpredictable consequences,” Lavrov said on Monday.
“Military intervention only leads to a multiple rise in casualties and human suffering,” he was quoted as saying by AFP.
Lavrov added that there can be no military solution to the Iranian nuclear issue.
New Delhi, November 08: A special Mumbai court is likely to give its order on Abu Salem’s application to halt the trials against him in India. This comes after the Lisbon High Court had cancelled Salem’s extradition plea in September for having breached extradition terms.
The CBI in its reply to the TADA court stated prosecution against Salem can be stopped only if it is notified by the Supreme Court or by the Centre’s order.
New Delhi, November 08: A mentally challenged teenager gave birth to a premature baby after allegedly being raped by a CRPF personnel.
The baby died on November 6, a day after being born. The girl was staying in a hostel for the mentally challenged which is located next to a CRPF camp Warangal. The police have registered an FIR against the unidentified CRPF personnel.
Police suspect that the victim was raped in collusion with the hostel warden.
Although the girl was raped in April this year, an FIR was lodged only on the October 29 after the girl was admitted to a hospital.
Mumbai, November 08: Former US President George W Bush arrived here this evening on a “personal visit” and checked into the iconic Taj Mahal hotel in South Mumbai.
“A private jet carrying Bush and his entourage landed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport sometime back. He is in Mumbai for some personal work,” a senior IPS official told PTI.
The 65-year-old Bush and his team checked into the Taj Mahal hotel where he is likely to attend an event tomorrow, police said.
A Quick Response Team (QRT) has been deployed outside the hotel for his security, they said.
Washington, November 08: Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said that the country’s nuclear weapons are very hard targets and can never be attacked by the United States.
“I don’t think it is possible from my purely military perspective for anyone, including the United States, to attack them that easily,” Musharraf told Fareed Zakaria of the CNN in an interview.
New Delhi, November 08: Saffron-clad social activist Swami Agnivesh, who had bitter fallout with anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare, has agreed to be a part of reality show Bigg Boss which is into its fifth season. According to Agnivesh’ s close aide Manu Singh, the activist is likely to enter the Bigg Boss house on Tuesday.
Bharuch (Gujarat), November 08: Ruling out differences between himself and senior party colleague L.K. Advani, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today accused the media of playing into the hands of the ruling Congress and sensationalising news.
Addressing a rally here today as part of Advani’s ‘Jan Chetna Yatra’, he reacted to reports of friction between him and the BJP veteran and said these had been created by the media during its coverage of the Yatra yesterday.
Mumbai, November 07: She may have evaded the bikini but has to flaunt tank top and shorts for a sequence in the film. She has convinced producer Aditya Chopra that the bikini is not essential for the scene where she was supposed to flaunt one, the issue is far from resolved.
Apparently the core team of Dhoom 3 continued to persuade the actress to take forward the tradition of bikini-clad leading ladies in the flick.
Hyderabad, November 07: On the eve of Bakri Eid, the demand for sacrificial goats yesterday saw an astronomical surge with each animal selling for at least three times the actual price, much to the delight of cattle breeders who have been camping in the city for the past three weeks.
Cattle breeders sold thousands of goats of various breed yesterday and generated at least three times more than the actual price for each animal they sold Bannur goats, normally priced at for Rs 4,000 each, fetched Rs 15,000.
It’s fair everywhere
Kuwait City, November 07: A Gulf Arab woman living in Kuwait was accused by her son of indulging in vice and pushing her three daughters to do the same, a newspaper said on Monday.
The unnamed boy told police he had known that his mother had been involved in “obscene acts” for a long time and that he tried many times to deter her.
“When she started to push her three daughters to do the same, he lost patience and went to the police, who have opened an investigation into the case,” the Arabic language daily Alwatan said.
-Agencies
Mumbai, November 07: Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur says working with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in ” Bandit Queen” brought him closer to god.
“Working with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was the closest I got to god,” Kapur wrote on microblogging site Twitter.
The late music maestro had composed music for Kapur’s 1994 film based on the life of dacoit Phoolan Devi, who was gunned down in 2001.
The composer tuned soulful numbers like “Sanware tore bin”, “Mora saiyaan to hai pardes” and “Sajna tere bina”.
Muzaffarnagar, November 07: Darul Uloom Deoband has advised Muslims against celebrating birthdays, contending in a fatwa that Islam does not permit such a practice which is a “tradition of western countries”.
Responding to a query of an AMU student, Darul Uloom said that Islam does not permit such celebrations as they are against the Shariat law.
The query was made in reference to the birthday celebration of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the founder of the Aligarh Muslim University.
Moscow, November 07: Tens of thousands of Muslim men knelt shoulder-to-shoulder in prayer on the freezing streets of Moscow on Sunday to celebrate the religious holiday of Eid al-Adha.
Estimates of the number of Muslims living or working in the Russian capital run from 2 million to as high as 5 million, but the city only has a few mosques.
Jerusalem, November 07: Israeli president Shimon Peres warned on Sunday that an attack on Iran is becoming increasingly likely, days before a report by the UN’s nuclear watchdog on Iran’s nuclear programme.
“The possibility of a military attack against Iran is now closer to being applied than the application of a diplomatic option,” Peres said.
“We must stay calm and resist pressure so that we can consider every alternative,” he added.
Hyderabad, November 07: Telangana activist Konda Lakshman Bapuji, who has been on a Satyagraha over the past six days at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, is planning to launch an indefinite hungerstrike if the Centre fails to give a positive response to the statehood demand.
In another incident, the police on Sunday forcibly ended the indefinite strike of former Andhra Pradesh minister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy and shifted him to Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad.
Mumbai, November 07: Shah Rukh Khan’s magnum opus Ra.One has finally hit the theatres and the reactions have been extreme, but the King chooses to maintain a brave stance.
“I don’t really bother about the collections. I am happy with the success of the film. I have been told by my business partners we did good business. I am happy that people are talking about the film, be it good or bad,” says the Baadshah of Bollywood.
The film’s release, however, has provided him with no respite from his hectic schedules.
Hyderabad, November 07: The race for the mayor’s seat has hotted up with corporators from the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) indulging in hectic lobbying for the coveted post. The competition is equally keen for the deputy mayor’s post as Congress corporators flock to the offices of senior leaders to lobby for a seat. It may be recalled that MIM has submitted letters to the Chief Minister and the PCC president making it clear that the party wants the mayor’s post in accordance with the agreement between the Congress-MIM alliance.
Vishakapatnam, November 07: While Hyderabad Metro Rail project doesn’t seem to go on rails in the near future, the port city could have a metro network of its own in the coming three years if everything goes as per plan.
Hyderabad, November 07: Eid-al-Adha is one of the important festivals of the Muslims. It means, the ‘Festival of Sacrifice’, remembering Ibrahim’s spirit of sacrifice, conforming to the command of Allah. It is celebrated on the 10th day of the 12th month, Dhu a-Hijjah. It occurs after the Hajj pilgrimage, which, is the fifth pillar of Islam, undertaken by the Muslims,
Jalandhar, November 07: As a symbolic protest against the recent fuel price hike yoga guru Baba Ramdev rode a bicycle along with his admirers at Jalandhar.
The yoga guru said that the common man was struggling to cope up with the rising fuel prices and in the future people would eventually abandon their vehicles and walk to their destinations.
Hyderabad, November 07: The proposal of Hyderabad March focusing the need of Telangana statehood in the second week of November is unlikely to become a reality if the present developments on the political front are viewed thoroughly.
Though the Political JAC of the Telangana led by Prof.Kodandaram has announced such a march in the Hyderabad city during the second week of November, there are no such indications now subsequent to the deferment of the Sakala Janula Samme by the employees and other unions.
Mumbai, November 07: The two Khans, Salman and Shah Rukh, who have been on a rough equation since their spat at a party way back in 2008 are Bollywood’s most glorified enemies. However they try not to ignite their angered fire at most occasions when poked by media.
But recently it was Salman’s sister Alvira who made an attempt at adding fuel to the fire.