Month: January 2012

Pune, January 02: Doctors have advised Anna Hazare one month’s rest, putting a question mark over his plans to campaign against the Congress in the forthcoming Assembly polls in five states. The activist, admitted to hospital with chest congestion, is also suffering from osteosporosis, a disease of the bones, a doctor said.

“For one week, he is advised complete bed rest. Thereafter, we will re-assess his condition. We have told him he should take rest for one month, not strain himself,” Hazare’s physician Parag Sancheti, also the owner of Sancheti Hospital, told reporters.

Sivaganga, January 02: Students and teachers of a private matriculation school were evacuated following an anonymous call at Manalur near Thirubhuvanam in Sivaganga district of Tamil Nadu, today. The correspondent of Alagu Malar matriculation school received an anonymous telephone call about the bomb threat in the morning. This prompted the school management to declare a holiday. The teachers and students were immediately evacuated from the campus.

New York, January 02: The family of a Muslim man who died while trying to save lives during the 9/11 attacks was shocked after receiving a notification that the name of their son would not be found among first responders at the National Memorial in Lower Manhattan, appearing next to a blank space with those with “loose connections” to the World Trade Center.

Shimla, January 02: Tibetan religious head and 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje has been made an accused in the seizure of unaccounted foreign currency last year from a Himachal Pradesh monastery where he is residing, police said here Monday.

‘During the course of investigation, the police came to the conclusion that the Karmapa had a role in the currency row,’ Himachal Pradesh Director General of Police D.S. Manhas told reporters.

He said the Karmapa’s name was included in the charge sheet as an accused. He is the 10th accused named in the formal set of charges.

New Delhi, January 02: The CPI(M), which has accused the UPA government of “subterfuge and sabotage” in not allowing voting on Lokpal Bill in Rajya Sabha, on Monday said Trinamool Congress was part of the “orchestration” that helped the government.

“They (Trinamool) have been running with the hare and hunting with the hounds. They should have opposed it in the Union Cabinet of which they are a part.

They should have opposed it in Lok Sabha. Not having done that, they connived with others to ensure that the Bill is sabotaged,” senior CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said here.

Kolkata, January 02: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Monday mocked at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s “transformational initiatives” to empower people and fight corruption, and blamed the policies of liberalisation for graft.

Beijing, January 02: Chinese authorities have demolished a mosque in China’s northwest, sparking clashes with angry Muslim protestors.

“Two police officers and two villagers got injured and several villagers were taken away by the police, but I don’t know how many,” a police officer surnamed Ma told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Monday, January 2.

Kabul, January 02: An Afghan official says a 15-year-old girl severely tortured for months by her in-laws who wanted to force her into prostitution will be sent to India for medical treatment.

Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi said today that Sahar Gul’s mother-in-law and sister-in-law were arrested and her husband was being sought.

The case has shocked Afghanistan.

President Hamid Karzai has said that whoever used violence against Gul will be punished.

Mumbai, January 02: Kareena Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor bonded big time at an awards event held recently.

A pancchi informs that when Bebo was asked about Vidya Balan walking away with all the laurels for her performance in her recent release, cousin Ranbir swung to her rescue and said that those questions were not at all necessary.

The awards will be telecast as part of the new year celebrations on the small screen.

-Agencies

Mumbai, January 02: Midnight soccer with daughter Suhana proved to be a painful game for superstar Shah Rukh Khan as he hurt his ribs while playing.

“Have hurt ribs. Holiday soccer career nipped in the bud…bah!! Now to indulge in reading & videogames. Hurts only when I laugh or breathe,” Shah Rukh wrote on social networking site Facebook.

The actor is holidaying in Dubai with wife Gauri and children Suhana and Aryan, and is enjoying the “luxury of nothingness”.

Islamabad, January 02: The political scene in Pakistanappears to be heating up, with the cricketer-turned-politicianImran Khan’s Tehrik-e-Insaf party indicating that it is opento an alliance with former military ruler Pervez Musharraf.

The party’s new vice-chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshisaid a decision on forming an alliance with Musharraf’s AllPakistan Muslim League will be taken in due course of timeafter considering circumstances.

Bidar, January 2: Maulvi Mohammad Faheemuddin member majlis Shura Jamat-e-Islami Hind Karnataka made it clear that Jamat-e-Islami Hind doesn’t regard politics a prohibited tree but the time is not favourable yet. He was talking to news persons at Jamat-e-Islami office Bidar.

He told that Jamat-e-Islami will enter politics when the situation becomes favourable. However 7 candidates who gained Jamat-e-Islami’s support won in the district Panchayat and Grampanchayat elections.

Nizamabad, January 2: Former member of board of governor Urdu academy Syed Najeeb Ali advocate, president district minority department Javeed Akram, president Millat Welfare society Maulana Kareemuddin Kamal, former MFC director Omer Sattar, president district Congress G Gangadhar made representation with P. Sudharshan Reddy, Minister for Major and Minor Irrigation regarding arrests of innocent Muslim youth from the past few months.

Ambala, January 02: Ten children on their way to school were among 11 killed and 20 others injured when the bus carrying them collided head-on with a truck amid heavy fog on Saha-Shahabad road near here this morning.

Police said visibility was poor due to a thick blanket of fog in the area and the two vehicles collided head-on. The victims were in the age group of 5 to 8 years and were students of Arjun Public School, a private school located near Saha,

Mumbai, January 02: “I am who I am,” says Sunny Leone. The Indo-Canadian porn star, the latest to be evicted out of reality show “Bigg Boss 5”, says she did not try and use the platform to promote her “business”.

It was reported that the Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC) cautioned channel Colors to ensure that Leone does not use the show to her advantage, following complaints over her appearance on the show.

But the 30-year-old is nonchalant.

Mumbai, January 02: Priyanka Chopra plays an upcoming actress and Shahid Kapoor plays a struggling music composer from the 1960s in Kunal Kohli’s film.

And Kohli insists she’s a happy character. “Neither Priyanka nor Shahid is in an unhappy space in the script. The fact that they’re both intrinsically happy people helped, ” says the director.

Hyderabad, January 2: When I went through the waqf gazette I found the mention of two mosques in Karwan, Kulsoompura. When I surveyed the entire Kusloompura locality I didn’t find even the sign of a single mosque let alone two. I didn’t loose hope and continued the search. With much difficulty I found the address of a mosque. I learnt that one of the mosques is occupied by a non Muslim and the mosque is inside his house. I reached the house.

Hubli, January 02: Karnataka’s women and child welfare minister C C Patil assumed tones of a moral policeman said, “I personally don’t favour women wearing provocative clothes and always feel they need to be dignified in whatever they wear.” He also said women should know how much skin they should cover.

Mumbai, January 02: After being typecast as the village belle in ‘Dabangg’, Sonakshi Sinha has finally dared to shed her inhibitions. In her upcoming film ‘Lootera’, the voluptuous beauty found an opportunity to give herself a makeover.

Sonakshi would be seen doing a very intimate scene with co-star Ranveer Singh in Vikramaditya Motwane’s film ‘Lootera’.

Washington, January 02: A political analyst says Russia and China consider a US military action on Iran as an attack on their own borders and a threat to their own national security.

“The US is assuming that Russia or China will not respond militarily, but they’ve been wrong before,” Shamus Cooke wrote on the Global Research website.

Mumbai, January 02: Actresses are known to have gone to extreme limits to attain an envious figure, but for Sonam Kapoor it’s hot yoga!

Bubbly girl Sonam, it appears has made her mind to set the screen on fire by donning a sexy two piece in the sequel to her latest film. And therefore, the leggy beauty is leaving no stone unturned to achieve that hour glass figure.

Sonam is known to have got into hot yoga for a perfect bikini body.

Tehran, January 02: Iran’s Ambassador to Iraq Hassan Danaei-fard says the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq paves the way for further expansion of ties between the two neighboring countries.

During their military occupation of Iraq, US forces made extra efforts to impede any enhancement of Tehran-Baghdad relations, so developing ties among the neighboring states went ahead rather slowly, Danei-fard said on Sunday.

The Iranian envoy, however, emphasized that Tehran spares no effort to expand its relations with Baghdad in all fields.

Hyderabad, January 02: “If there is no government in the state, the people will be relieved of some problems. The government is supposed to solve the problems. But the present Congress government is complicating the matters further,” Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N Chandrababu Naidu has said.

Hyderabad, January 02: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday cancelled the bail of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Y Srilakshmi in an illegal mining case.

The court directed her to surrender before the special court for Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) cases before January 6.

The High Court order came on a petition by the CBI, challenging a special court’s December 2 order that granted bail to Srilakshmi.