Month: January 2012

Kuwait City, January 24: Kuwaiti police arrested a teacher for raping a school boy many times before the crime was discovered by the boy’s father.

The sports teacher at a school in Kuwait City confessed that he had a relationship with the boy for a while before the student told his father under pressure, the Arabic language daily Alwatan said.

“The teacher said the affair started when the teacher lured the boy into a room at the school to do massage for him,” the paper said.

New Delhi, January 24: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court against Karnataka High Court’s order refusing to stall the Lokayukta police’s probe against him.

The Lokayukta police is probing charges that he dereserved forest areas in ecologically fragile zones during his tenure as chief minister during 1999 and 2004.

The court had, however, quashed charges of mismanagement of state-owned Mysore Minerals Ltd (MML) against him. MML is the nodal agency of the state for supply of iron ore to various firms, thereby causing loss to the firm.

Baghdad, January 23: At least ten people have been killed and 38 others injured in twin car bomb attacks in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, as the violence gets momentum in the volatile country.

The first bomb targeted a group of workers waiting for jobs early Tuesday morning while the second went off near a traffic intersection and outside a bakery half an hour later, both in the northeastern Sadr City area of Baghdad, an Iraqi interior ministry official said.

A total of ten people were killed and 38 more, including two women and a child, were injured in the assaults, he added.

Gaza, January The Israeli air force claimed that its warplanes targeted “an arms factory” in the center of the Palestinian territory and also three tunnels allegedly used for smuggling contraband.

Israel regularly targets the Gaza Strip, killing and injuring Palestinians. Most of the victims are women and children.

The Palestinians of the Gaza Strip are living in what is called the “world’s largest open-air prison” as Israel retains full control of the airspace, territorial waters, and border crossings of the territory.

—-Agencies

Islamabad, January 24: Unknown militants have attacked a state-run school in Khyber Agency in northwest Pakistan, killing a security guard and injuring two others.

Officials told Press TV that the militants also detonated a bomb inside the building of the state primary school in Sheikh Mal Khei area of the tribal region early on Tuesday.

The school building was completely destroyed over the blast, they said. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mumbai, January 24: Veena Malik, the Pakistani starlet, who made headlines last year for allegedly posing nude for FHM magazine is currently in India to shoot for her Bollywood film ‘Mumbai 125 km’. And shooting an action sequence with the actress turned out to be a nightmare for her co-star Vedita Pratap, who was brutally beaten up by Veena.

London, January 24: “Sharia law itself is inherently positive towards women”, the head of a law firm’s new Sharia division has claimed.

The comment coincides with a Bill before Parliament which seeks to tackle the discrimination suffered by women under Sharia law in England and Wales.

The Arbitration and Mediation Services (Equality) Bill would remove any doubt that sex discrimination law applies to arbitration services.

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Aina Khan, head of the Sharia law division at Manchester-based Russell Jones and Walker, says that Sharia law in itself is not the problem.

Adelaide, January 24: Former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting today became only the third batsman in the history of Test cricket to score 13,000 or more runs during his century knock against India in the fourth and final Test on Tuesday.
Ponting continues to be the third highest run-scorer in Test cricket behind Sachin Tendulkar (15432) and Rahul Dravid (13039).

Ponting is gradually closing in on Dravid and will have a chance to topple the India batting great if he is picked for the upcoming West Indies tour.

United Nations, January 24: The UN human rights watchdog on Tuesday expressed “deep disappointment” that the Obama administration has not lived up to its promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, where individuals continue to be detained “indefinitely” in clear breach of international law.

Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said with its failure to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, the US government has “entrenched a system of arbitrary detention.”

Hyderabad, January 24: Section 144, prohibiting assembly of more than five persons, has been imposed on the town for three days following repeated clashes between two groups over damage of the statues of BR Ambedkar in the town and its surrounding villages by some miscreants on Sunday night.

Hyderabad, January 24: Muslim Congress leaders on Monday called on chief minister Mr. N Kiran Kumar Reddy and demanded to raise minority budget upto 1079 crore for the year 2012-13.

Chief Minister assured sympathetic consideration on the matter.

A delegation of Muslim leaders led by Mr. Mohammad Sirajuddin met chief minister.

After detailed confrontation on the problems of minorities, Muslim leaders had passed a resolution to make representation for rise in the minority budget upto 1079 crore which is less than 1 percent of the total state budget.

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Hyderabad, January 24: State visit of general secretary AICC and incharge Andhra Pradesh, Ghulam Nabi Azad has boosted the morale of state party leaders and activists and the party has been reinforced with it.

Commenting upon Ghulam Nabi Azad’s state visit, former state minister and coordination committee member Mohammad Ali Shabbir told that GN Azad has shown special interested in ensuring effective implementation of schemes and developing synchronization between party and the government.

Hyderabad, January 24: The elections of All Minority Employees Welfare Association (Al-Mewa) Andhra Pradesh were held on January 21, at conference hall, Commissionerate of family welfare.

Mr. Ahmedullah Khan Sabri, state associate president of Telangana regional commission was the election officer.

On the occasion Mohammad Rafiuddin has been appointed as president, PV Prasad as associate president and S M A H Qaudri has been appointed as general secretary.

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Jaipur, January 24: Ending the suspense, Jaipur Literature Festival organisers today said the video session with the controversial author Salman Rushdie will take place as planned after Rajasthan government gave the go ahead.

“We have received information that there was no requirement of any permission,” Festival producer Sanjoy Roy told reporters. The five-day festival ends today.

Hyderabad, January 24: With the Telangana Rashtra Samiti keen to focus on the 2014 general elections and the other affiliates divided on the best possible way forward, sharp differences have surfaced between the constituents of the Telangana Joint Action Committee on how to keep up the pressure on the government to achieve Telangana statehood. TRS president K.

Washington, January 24: The US Monday added Bank Tejarat, Iran’s third largest bank, on its blacklist for sanctions, citing its links to the Islamic republic’s nuclear bomb efforts.

The Department of Treasury alleged that the bank provides financial services to several Iranian banks and firms already put under international sanctions for their involvement in Iran’s weapons of mass destruction proliferation activities, reported Xinhua.

Hyderabad, January 24: Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani left for Johannesburg South Africa, on the invitation of some institutions of Islamic finance and Jamiatul Ulama of South Africa.

He will attend the Sharia advisory board meeting of some Islamic finance institutions of Durbin and Johannesburg. He will address scholars of Johannesburg, Durbin and Cape Town.

He will also deliver key address at a seminar of organization of Muslim doctors.

Chandigarh, January 24: Leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said author Salman Rushdie should have been allowed to come to India and given police protection.

“He came to India during the Vajpayee government… Obviously, he should have been allowed,” Jaitley, a senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, told reporters in Chandigarh referring to Rushdie calling off his visit to the Jaipur Literature Festival due to security fears.

Jaitley slammed the Congress government in Rajasthan for a “fake” police report to prevent Rushdie’s visit.

Jakarta, January 24: A young female student on her way to home was gang-raped by six men while she was travelling in a public transport van in Jakarta, media reports said.

Asia One News reported that first she was hit on the back of her head which made her unconscious and then the men raped her.

After the rape, they dumped her near a railroad track in an unconscious condition.

The victim’s friend told Kompas.com that after she awakened, she was shocked to discover what had happened to her.

Srinagar, January 24: A BSF officer was killed while six other security personnel went missing after being hit by an avalanche near the LoC in Kupwara district on Tuesday.

Sub-Inspector Narendra Kumar died while five Armymen and a BSF constable were missing after the avalanche struck this morning, a BSF spokesman said.

“A snow avalanche struck Furkian top in Kupwara at 7.20 am. Five Armymen and two BSF jawans were hit by the avalanche,” Defence Spokesman Lt Colonel J S Brar said.

London, January 24: The UN’s nuclear watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has said it was sending a team to Iran between Jan 29 and 31 “to resolve all outstanding substantive issues” as the European Union (EU) slapped an oil embargo on Tehran over its nuclear programme, BBC reported.

The IAEA, in November last year, said in a report that it had information suggesting Iran had carried out tests “relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device”, sparking the decision by the US and EU to issue tougher sanctions.

Kano, January 24: Explosions and gunfire were heard early Tuesday coming from an area near a police station in the Nigerian city of Kano, where coordinated attacks and gun battles last week killed at least 185 people.

An AFP correspondent heard some 15 blasts and gunshots coming from the vicinity of a mobile police headquarters. Details were not immediately clear. One resident reported a similar account.

Washington, January 24: Dismissing the remarks by the Pakistani military on the November 26 deadly NATO cross border strike, the US on Monday said it stands by its own investigation that it was not an unprovoked firing by the US-led forces.

“This (Pakistan military remarks) does not change our believes in the validity of the findings. The statement that this was an unprovoked attack by American forces is simply false,” Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt John Kirby said.

Islamabad, January 24: Pakistan’s ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha held a secret meeting with former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in Dubai and advised him not to return to the country, according to a media report Tuesday.

“Gen Pasha, who has remained very close to the former President, held a meeting with (Musharraf) in Dubai and advised him not to return to the country as the situation is not conducive for his return,” a source was quoted as saying by Dawn News channel.

Adelaide, January 24: Pace-bowling legend Wasim Akram is exasperated with the way British press has been harping about the bowling action of Pakistan`s off-spinner Saeed Ajmal and termed as “stale” the pressure tactics of the home media.

Ajmal took a 10-wicket haul in the Pakistan`s impressive 10-wicket win over world number one Test team England in the Dubai Test.