A Pakistani court on Monday sentenced Osama bin Laden’s three widows and two of his daughters to 45 days detention for illegal residency and ordered their deportation as soon as possible.
Their lawyer Muhammad Aamir said the period of detention began on March 3, when they were formally arrested on charges of illegal entry and residency in Pakistan and that they would continue to be held at their villa in Islamabad.
AS Kiran Kumar, Distinguished Scientist and Associate Director, Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad, assumed office of its Director, taking over the charge from Dr R R Navalgund.
Kiran Kumar joined SAC/ISRO in 1975. He has made immense contribution to the design and development of Electro-Optical Imaging Sensors for Airborne, Low Earth Orbit and Geostationary orbit satellites starting from Bhaskara TV payload to the latest Terrain Mapping Camera and Hyperspectral Imager payloads for Chandrayaan-1 mission, according to an Indian Space Research Organisation statement.
Revised estimates of the potential impact from an earthquake off Japan’s southern coast show much of the country’s Pacific shore could be inundated by a tsunami more than 34 meters (112 feet) high.
A government-commissioned panel of experts says a tsunami unleashed by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake in the Nankai trough, which runs east of Japan’s main island of Honshu to the southern island of Kyushu, could top 34 meters.
An earlier forecast in 2003 put the potential maximum height of such a tsunami at less than 20 meters (66 feet).
Pakistan is working to improve its international ties, including those with India, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said addressing the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) in China, it was reported here Monday.
The three-day forum is being held in Boao, a scenic town in China’s Hainan province.
Besides Gilani, the participants include Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Karim Masimov, Iranian Vice President Mohammad-Javad Mohammadizadeh, Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai.
Following the leak of a TYBCom paper, a three-member committee was set up and their findings were released yesterday. Three professors have been suspended and the college has been fined Rs 1 lakh following the probe.
On March 27, when students came to appear for their Business Economics examination at BNN College, they were instead given the Marketing and Human Resource Management (MHRM) question paper for an examination scheduled for the following day (March 28).
Around 510 students at BNN College were given out the papers accidentally.
A man whose lies helped to make the case for invading Iraq – starting a nine-year war costing more than 100,000 lives and hundreds of billions of pounds – will come clean in his first British television interview tomorrow.
“Curveball”, the Iraqi defector who fabricated claims about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, smiles as he confirms how he made the whole thing up. It was a confidence trick that changed the course of history, with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi’s lies used to justify the Iraq war.
In Saif Ali Khan’s recently released spy-thriller Agent Vinod, several old songs apparently were used without due permission from the producers or the labels that own the rights to the soundtracks.
This has resulted in Saif and his co-producers having to cough up extra cash, a lot more than they would have had to, had they adhered to the regulations.
Three songs in particular were used in the film Aasmaan Pe Hai Khuda from Ramesh Saigal’s Phir Subah Hogi (1958), Meri Jaan Maine Kaha from Ramesh Behl’s The Train and Rakamma from Mani Ratnam’s Thalapathi (1991).
The death of an army officer and his wife, which was seen as suicide till now, has taken a serious turn. The South Delhi police have found a note, apparently written by the officer, blaming two of his superiors behind his extreme step.
Senior inspector’s inebriation causes irked public prosecutor to summon his superior, while advocates standing near him claim he was reeking of alcohol, seniors to initiate inquiry
For all of its campaigns against alcohol-related improprieties, here’s news that is sure to leave the city’s cops red in the face. On Saturday, Senior Inspector of the Kanjurmarg police station Rajkumar Sukhadev Wakale was pulled up at the High Court by a public prosecutor for showing up for a hearing under the influence of alcohol.
Yuvraj Singh, who made a telling contribution in India’s World Cup triumph a year ago, says he never expected to do well in the mega cricketing event.
The joy of winning the title and getting the Man- of- the- Series award was, however, short- lived for Yuvraj, who was diagnosed with lung cancer and had to go to the United States for treatment.
HOLDING the Indian Overseas Bank ( IOB) guilty of not following the Reserve Bank of India ( RBI) norms for payment of money to the legal heirs of an account holder after his death, a Delhi district consumer forum has asked the bank to pay ` 10,000 as damages to the widow of one of its customers.
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum ( Central) held the bank guilty of deficient service for not paying the money to the widow, Seema Thakur, of Bansi Lal Thakur, who had his account with the bank.
Petrol prices in Goa have dropped down to Rs.54.96 since Monday, the cheapest in the country, an official said.
Long queues were witnessed at most petrol pumps with bikers and car owners opting to tank up, instead of regulating their fill of fuel.
“They are saying that the prices of petrol are again going to be increased by the central government,” said Narayan Gaonkar, who was queued up at a Bhartiya Petroleum petrol pump in Porvorim.
The slashing of rates by Rs.11 was a promise given by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in its election manifesto.
The country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India Monday reported highest ever monthly sales in March at 1,25,952 units, 3.28 percent jump from 1,21,952 units in the same month last year.
For the entire 2011-12 financial year however, the company’s sales declined by 10.80 percent to 11,33,695 units from 12,71,005 units in 2010-11, Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) said in a statement.
In March 2012, the Delhi-based firm reported highest ever domestic sales at 1,12,724 units, an increase of 2.08 percent over 1,10,424 units in March 2011, it added.
Illicit liquor suppliers arrested
(Siasat News): Task Force has arrested three persons from Dhoolpet in connection with supplying of illicit liquor and seized liquor packets from their possession.
It is said that Babloo Singh, 35, Ramesh Singh, 26 and Raju, 25 hail from Dhoolpet and used to supply the illicit cheap liquor to various places of the city.
Yesterday night, they were supplying a load to Sangareni colony of Saeedabad where they were arrested by Task force and later handed over to Saeedabad police.
Army Chief General VK Singh will meet Defence Minister AK Antony to discuss procurement projects for the Army, their first official meeting days after his letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the poor state of defence preparedness got leaked. The meeting will be held to discuss the capital acquisition projects of the Army which will be attended by General Singh along with the top brass of the Defence Ministry, Ministry officials said.
It’s an ornate but not lavish two-story house tucked away at the end of a mud clogged street. This is where Pakistan’s intelligence agency believes Osama bin Laden lived for nearly a year until he moved into the villa in which he was eventually killed.
The residence in the frontier town of Haripur was one of five safe houses used by the slain al-Qaida leader while on the run in Pakistan according to information revealed by his youngest wife, who has been detained.
The international model and now one film old Bollywood actress, Nargis Fakhri does not like the tinsel town – Mumbai as much as she likes the national capital, New Delhi. She finds the city best for the shopping purpose.
In a candid interview, the Rockstar actress told about Delhi city of having many perks over other cities she has shot in, she said, “I love Delhi! It’s such a cool city. Not only do you guys have lots and lots of space (which makes us really envious), but you have this great markets. For a foreigner like me, markets are really fascinating.”
There were speculations made about adult star Sunny Leone that she will exit the porn world after getting a brake in Bollywood but the actual picture tells a different story!
Sunny clarifies that she will continue being associated with the adult film industry in the US post ‘Jism 2’. Though she reportedly revealed that she has not shot any porn movie after her stint in reality show Bigg Boss but she never claimed that she will not do it the future.
Majlis-e-Ulema-e-Zakireen, in a press note said that Mr. Syed Ahmed Kazmi is a senior journalist. It is taken for granted in the field of journalism that the senior journalists are trustworthy and responsible.
Hafiz Peer Shabbir Ahmed, state president of Jameetul Ulema, A.P. and MLC wrote ad letter to all the Muslim countries not to accept halal certificate issued by Imam of Juma Noor Masjid, Frankfurt, Germany. Mr. Hidayathullah Jameel.
Shobha Yatra was taken out on the occasion of Sri Rama Navami from Rani Avanthi Bai Lodh Bhavan, Gangabowli
Dhoolpet to Hanuman Vijayamshala, Hanuman Tekdi.
The yatra started at 12 noon. It travelled from Purana Pul, Chudi Bazar, Begum Bazar, Feel Khana, Siddiamber Bazar, Gowliguda, Kothi, Andhra Bank Sultan Bazar Circle and reached Hanuman Viyamshala. Nearly 30 thousand Hindu fundamentalists participated in this processions.
After the one-side communal riots in Sangareddy, peace prevails. Curfew was relaxed between 8 am and 6 pm. On the whole, the situation was peaceful. No untoward incident occurred anywhere in the town. People are cooperating for maintaining peace. When curfew was relaxed, people came out of their houses to buy essential commodities.
The decision to lift curfew will be taken after observing the law and order situation today. Arrests are going on in connection with the communal riots erupted on Thursday night. Muslim community is disturbed on the arrests of innocent Muslim youths.
A moderate earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale hit sea off Japan’s Fukushima prefecture on the Honshu island on Sunday, said Japan Meteorological Agency(JMA).
The epicentre of the temblor, which struck at 11.04 pm (local time), was initially determined at 37.1 degrees north latitude, 141.3 degrees east longitude with a depth of 50 km, Xinhua reported.
Though tremors were felt in Tokyo, no alert for tsunami was issued.
–IANS
It was felt in the meeting of the All Minorities Employees’ Welfare Association of Mahboobnagar that Prof. Kancha Ilaiah’s article written about the conspiracies to doup the Muslims is realistic. It is true that a conspiracy was hatched to defeat the Muslim candidate Mr. Syed Ibrahim for which convener of JAC Prof. Kodandaram, BJP and TRS are equally responsible. The convener of Joint Action Committee is spreading panic among the Muslims.
The advice given on a TV Channel by Prof. Kodandaram to the Muslims to be careful is dangerous. What does it mean?
Mishti Doi or sweet yogurt is a dish popular in Bengal and Orissa. But mostly it is difficult to make it at home as curd does not set well if you add too many ingredients to it. But you can make this delightful, creamy preperation at home by following this simple recipe.
Ingredients:
½ litre full cream milk
2+ 3 tsp sugar
4 tsp raisins
½ cup curd
½ tsp cardamom powder
Procedure: