Month: January 2012

Mumbai, January 04: Looks like Bollywood is going to see a number of stars heading to alter this year. While Ritesh-Genelia and Kareena-Saif have made it official, another couple who might take the plunge in 2012 is Rani Mukerji and Aditya Chopra.

Yash Raj film’s scion and filmmaker Aditya Chopra was spotted at the Mumbai Airport recently returning from a family holiday in London. Aditya and his family were spotted along with Aditya’s rumoured girlfriend, actress Rani Mukehrjee.

New York, January 04: A New York man arrested for attacking an Islamic centre and a Hindu place of worship with firebombs has confessed to his role in the incidents that caused outrage over the weekend, citing personal grudges with people at the targeted locations.

The 40-year old, whose identity has not been released yet, was arrested on Tuesday after the police tracked down his car that was seen at the site of the attacks through surveillance cameras as well identified by few witnesses, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

Mumbai, January 04: Was Not Bothered with Reactions I’d Get Sunny LeoneSo far, all that we got of the Indo-Canadian adult film actress Sunny Leone was at Bigg Boss 5. Now that Sunny has been evicted from the house, in a recent interview, she speaks of having no regrets whatsoever with her choice of profession.

Since the adult film industry in India is still a taboo, it was quite expected that Sunny would be judged by her fellow inmates at Bigg Boss’s house. However, when she revealed her true identity to them, they in fact, took it in pretty well.

Mumbai, January 04: Nargis Fakhri SIZZLES in the MaldivesThe gritty New Yorker with a yen for travel returns to her roots and reveals her idea of a perfect date, her fondness for ‘Hinglish’, doing an action film, and kicking some serious butt in Harper’s Bazaar January 2012 issue!

Mumbai, January 04: The Shiv Sena and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) have braced for facing the ‘mini-assembly’ election.

The MNS, widely seen as the game changer in the civic elections, is all set to shake the might of BMC rulers and the party’s arch rival Shiv Sena.

“Though it is difficult to predict the numbers, the MNS will win a sizeable number of wards,” said Shirish Sawant, general secretary of MNS.

New Delhi, January 04: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday declared the dates for the Class X and Class XII exams.

The exam for class X will commence on March 01, and will end on March 26.

Whereas, the class XII exam will start on March 01 and end on April 13.

–Agencies

New Delhi, January 04: Five labourers were on Wednesday killed and four injured when the roof of a building collapsed after agas cylinder exploded in Mundka area of northwest Delhi.

The incident took place in Railway Colony in Mundka at7:25 am when some of the labourers were engaged in cooking,police said.

The one storey structure was weak and collapsed soon after the explosion, they said.

The labourers were rushed to the Sanjay Gandhi Hospital where five were declared brought dead.

–PTI

New York, January 04: A New York man arrested for attacking an Islamic centre and a Hindu place of worship with firebombs has confessed to his role in the incidents that caused outrage over the weekend, citing personal grudges with people at the targeted locations.

The 40-year old, whose identity has not been released yet, was arrested yesterday after the police tracked down his car that was seen at the site of the attacks through surveillance cameras as well identified by few witnesses, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

Sharjah, January 04: At a time when thieves are target valuables, cash and gold…a Pakistani man has confessed to stealing blankets. And not a few but six truck loads full, worth about Dh200,000.

He allegedly stole 500 boxes of blankets from a warehouse in Sharjah Industrial area. He was nabbed while transporting them to warehouse in Dubai.

The warehouse owner said he had lost the main key to the warehouse earlier and believes the 29-year-old suspect used a spare key to enter the place.

Investigations are on. The motive behind the crime is not known yet.

Hyderabad, January 04: Municipal Corporator representing Ahmednagar Municipal Division, Mr. Majid Hussain is allegedly involved in some criminal cases registered in Humayunnagar police station. In 2011, Majid Hussain had assaulted Mr. Madhukar Swamy Inspector of Police, Humayunnagar. Police had registered a case number 46/2011 under section 307 (attempt to murder) etc.

Another case was registered against for assaulting Praja Rajyam leader Shaik Mannan Sayeed. The corporator has obtained stay order from the court in these cases.

Tehran, January 04: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says attempts to Judaize al-Quds (Jerusalem) will only speed up the pace of the downfall of the Zionist regime of Israel.

“Zionists, who have no faith in religion or even God, now claim piety and intend to take away the Islamic identity of the Holy Quds,” Ahmadinejad said during a meeting with the Turkish-Palestinian Parliamentary Friendship Group in Tehran on Wednesday.

Baghdad, January 04: New details have been discovered by an Iraqi fact-finding mission about a November 2011 car bombing in Baghdad that apparently targeted Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a military official says.

Iraqi military spokesperson in Baghdad Major General Qassim Atta said on Tuesday that the mission would be announcing the results of its findings in the coming days.

On November 28, 2011 security officials said two people were killed in a car bombing at an Iraqi parliament parking lot inside Baghdad’s Green Zone.

Washington, January 04: US government on the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) will not weaken the nation’s resolve to pursue its goals and rights.

Ramin Mehmanparast added that CBI sanctions only aim to increase political pressure on Iran and part of a propaganda campaign against the country because there are no banking ties or trade exchange between the two countries.

“Countries which act under US pressure must realize that they will eventually forfeit their national interests under illegitimate US pressure and [in order] to serve US interests,” he added on Tuesday.

New Delhi, January 04: With the threat of terrorism looming large in the minds of all, the famed and notorious terror group, the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) is employing new tricks in the trade to spread terror across the world. It has been reported that they are raising a group of 21 female terrorists at its training camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir for carrying out sabotage activities in India. The revelation was made by Army sources.

Jerusalem, January 04: Israel has approved the construction of about 300 new Jewish settlement units in occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem).

Tel Aviv has already given the green light for the construction of one thousand settlement units in East al-Quds, which was annexed by Israel following the Six-Day War of 1967.

The Israeli announcement came on Tuesday, a few hours before Tel Aviv and Palestinian Authority (PA) envoys met in the Jordanian capital Amman.

Hyderabad, January 04 (INN): About 1,500 delegates from 30 countries will take part in the three-day partnership summit 2012 to be held at the HICC from January 11 to 13.

The focus of the summit will be on tourism and investment opportunities in the state and high level business networking , according to a CII press release.

Global Economic Shocks,: Perfect Storm Ahead?, India-Africa joining Hands, India and China: A new Dynamic, News Drivers of Development,. The India and USA promise, Partnership for Progress are some of the important events the seminar will host, the release said.

Hyderabad, January 04 (INN): Minister Shankar Rao is at it again!

The Handlooms and Textiles Minister continued to embarrass the Kiran Kumar Government when he said that there were many irregularities in allotment of houses in his constituency.

“There are many irregularities in the allotment of Indiramma Houses in my constituency of Secunderabad Cantonment,” he told reporters here on Tuesday. “While 1,520 houses have been sanctioned in my constituency under the Indiramma Housing scheme, there were irregularities in nearly 1,000 houses,” he said.

Mumbai, January 04: Bollywood’s item girl Rakhi Sawant, known for making headlines with bold statements, seems to have taken a fancy for politicians. After confessing she has a soft corner for Rahul Gandhi, she is now praising Raj Thackeray.

“I respect Raj-ji a lot. He is a very good man and his team is equally good. He is doing a great job… He is helping the poor. I always say that Raj-ji is like a brother to me,” the 33-year-old controversy queen said while attending a screening of “Don 2″ along with cancer patients.

Mumbai, January 04: Recently, there was a debate on an international newspaper’s Web site about whether Indians are racist.

I won’t discuss the finer points of the debate here simply because the topic itself is flawed. Just like every country in the world, there are some Indians who are racist and some who aren’t.

To debate, or to claim one country is more racist than the other, is an exercise in futility.

Having said that, there is no denying that a good number of us are in love with white skin.

The US occupation of Iraq resulted in the loss of countless civilian lives in the country. This file photo shows an Iraqi woman mourning the loss of her relative.

A senior Iranian military commander has condemned the Unites States for its unjustified invasion of other countries and for inflicting poverty, grief and frustration on them.

Hyderabad, January 04: As per the promise made by the Chief Minister Mr N Kiran Kumar Reddy to provide one lakh jobs in the private sector by the end of December, 1,01,082 jobs have been created so far. Of this 76,908 have been provided employment through the EGMM, MEPMA – 14,826, Technical Education department – 2,258, employment and training department – 7,090. Of the 76,908 jobs created by the EGMM, 53,580 have been provided training, 20,048 have been provided direct employment while 3,280 have been provided self employment.

Tehran, January 04: The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces says any aggressive measure against Tehran will have serious consequence due to the country’s outstanding military might.

Speaking at a Tuesday parade of naval units that participated in the Velayat 90 naval drills near the Strait of Hormuz, Major General Hassan Firouzabadi said any party that threatens the Iranian nation “will have to pay a heavy price.”

New York, January 04: American police today erected a security tower and stepped up surveillance around an Islamic centre and a Hindu temple that were among four sites fire-bombed here in arsonist attacks termed by authorities as hate crimes and also released the sketch of a suspect.

Molotov cocktails were hurled at the four locations last night, with bombs damaging property but no serious injuries were reported.

Hyderabad, January 04 (INN): GHMC Mayor Mohammad Majid Hussain expressed hope that the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation would be a slum-free zone in the next few years.

Islamabad,January 04 :Taliban’s supreme commander Mullah Mohammad Omar now in hiding has put pressure on his groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan to form a new grouping which has pledged to stop targeting Pakistani security forces and instead focus attention on US-led troops in Afghanistan.
“Following the intervention of one-eyed Omar, the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban formed a joint five-member shura or council with other Pakistani militant groups on Sunday to oversee an end to attacks on Pakistani forces,” The News daily quoted its sources in the Taliban as saying.