The IPL cricket season 2012 began on April 4 and will continue till May 27. As the cricket fever catches on so do the betting and gambling. So there is no doubt that the old City is turning into a major cricket betting hub. It’s a multi-crore game that is being played out in the city these days. Sources reveal that as many as 2,500 bookies are on the job across Hyderabad fixing bets to the tune of crores everyday.
Bollywood actor Sonakshi Sinha, 24, finds 36-year-old Australian cricketer Brett Lee yummy.
Though Shatrughan Sinha’s daughter is not an avid cricket fan, but she is crazy about Brett Lee.
Sonakshi says, “I quite like watching Brett Lee. I have been crazy about his looks since I was a young girl. He is so yummy.
“I must say, although he is 36 years old now, he has still managed to be an eye candy for a lot of girls, young as well as older women, for a very long time”, says the Dabangg girl.
Indian Muslim Relief and Charities (IMRC), a US-based organization, has built 60 schools in the remote villages of coastal Andhra Pradesh and plans to construct 40 more to provide spiritual education to Muslims.
Under its platform, Rural Educational and Economic Development (REED), the organization has not only constructed the buildings of basic multipurpose one-teacher schools but also appointed trained Telugu-speaking teachers.
In an attempt to woo people of Bihar origin settled in the state, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said the image of Bihar has to be “restored” and its glory “re-established”.
“Image of Bihar has taken a beating in spite of that state’s contribution for development of the country,” he told a gathering of migrant workers in Surat at a function, organised by the people of Bihar origin, to mark the centenary celebrations of their settlement in Gujarat.
Senior US lawmakers say the Taliban militants have grown stronger in Afghanistan since the United States increased the number of its troops in the violence-scarred country in 2010.
“I think we both say that what we found is the Taliban is stronger,” Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein told Fox News Sunday in an interview joined by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, who backed up her statement.
The two recently returned from a trip to Afghanistan.
At least 17 people, including five women and five children, were killed early Monday in a head-on collision between a jeep and a truck near Punjab’s Moga town, 170 km from Chandigarh, police said.
The victims, who were devotees from Daulatpura village in Moga district, were returning from a shrine in Nanaksar near Jagraon town.
The accident took place on the Ludhiana-Ferozepur highway around 2 a.m.
Police said 14 people were killed on the spot while three others died in a hospital in Moga.
Facing criticism over her foreign visits, President Pratibha Patil on Sunday said there has been a “misconception” and wanted people to ascertain the factual position.
“Right now, there has been a misconception so far as the visits of the President are concerned…The President does not go at his/her own will. The Government gives a suggestion on the places the President should visit,” Patil said in an interview to a TV channel.
She said the people of the country should respect the President’s post and ascertain the factual position before raising questions.
Former BJP president Rajnath Singh on Sunday said the Presidential candidate should not be disputable in any manner and favoured a person acceptable to the whole country.
“The candidate for the post of President of India should be above caste, religion and colour and he should not be disputable in any manner with no stigma of corruption, favouritism and political vendetta,” said the BJP MP from Ghaziabad.
He was speaking to media at his residence here today.
According to army officials, the convoy was passing through Amin Picket, a security post on a hilltop outside Miranshah, the capital of North Waziristan, when “dozens” of militants assaulted the soldiers on Sunday morning.
“Militants hiding there opened fire on the soldiers with AK-47 assault rifles and RPGs,” said a senior army official, who asked not to be named.
“Three gunship choppers were called in but the militants even fired rockets at the choppers.”
The attack left nine troops dead, including one officer, and 12 others were wounded.
On the horizon of Hyderabad Moon made its full appearance with maximum brightness due to the nearest distance from the Earth. It was at 3,56. 954 km from the Earth.
It was looking bigger in size than usual. The darkness of night was transformed into broad daylight. Many high rise buildings such as Makkah Masjid Charminar, Naubath Pahad, Assembly buildings, Golconda Fort etc. were looking extra bright last night. Many families went to their farm houses to spend moonlit night there.
Voting has started in polling stations across Syria as about 7,195 candidates, including independent and opposition figures, are running for 250 parliamentary seats.
The Syrian government has assured that it will provide all cities across the country with any requirements for the elections.
Syrian Interior Minister Mohammad Ibrahim al-Sha’ar visited several polling stations in the capital, Damascus, on Sunday.
The elections are part of the reforms promised by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Chanting slogans and holding placards during the demonstration on Sunday, the protesters called for resignation of country’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and supported top judges’ decision to punish the premier.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court convicted Gilani for his refusal to write a letter to Swiss authorities to revive money laundering cases against President Asif Zardari, which dated back to the 1990s.
Senior bureaucrats are perturbed on the discriminatory attitude of the State Govt. in targeting only the IAS officers for various scams leaving the top politicians. They have a feeling of insecurity. Most of them prefer seeking deputation to Central Govt. positions or they want to go on leave.
Bio-Diversity meet is being held in city of Hyderabad in October 2012. Govt. is trying to make it a memorable event. To commemorate the event, Govt. Proposes to setup a Bio-Diversity Museum.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday said she wanted to know West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s “vision of the future”.
“I want to know from the chief minister of West Bengal her vision of the future… I come with a belief that India can compete with anybody, anywhere,” she said at a gathering at the La Martiniere school for girls here.
A 10-year-old Argentine girl was found by Brazilian police seven years after she was kidnapped by her father, authorities said.
The discovery of the child occurred this March in the western city of Dourados, but was only reported now by the media after the authorities, having confirmed her identity, handed her over to representatives of the Argentine Embassy.
Nearly 11,000 firearms surrendered by their owners were destroyed by the government as part of a programme to reduce the number of weapons in Argentina, officials said.
“We have now reached the figure of 160,531 firearms taken out of circulation,” said Justice Minister Julio Alak, who supervised the destruction of the weapons Saturday at a steel mill in Campana.
The firearms destroyed were the latest lot gathered under the National Voluntary Surrender Program, the Justice Ministry said in a statement.
World leaders including US president Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron Sunday night congratulated Francois Hollande on his victory in the French presidential elections.
In a phone call made to Hollande after the results were announced, Obama said he looked forward to working closely with the French president-elect and his government on a range of shared economic and security challenges.
Two wanted terrorists of the Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) have been killed in a US air strike in a mountainous region in Yemen, a media report said.
Fahd al-Quso al-Awlaki and his nephew Fahed al-Akdam were killed Sunday in the air strike in southeastern Shabwa province, Xinhua reported.
Al-Quso was jailed in Yemen in 2002 for his involvement in attacking US Navy destroyer USS Cole in the country’s Aden port, in which 17 American sailors were killed.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for an early general election in four months’ time, BBC reported.
The vote is expected to take place in September, a year before Netanyahu is required by law to seek a new mandate.
Netanyahu leads a centre-right coalition which includes his own Likud, and the Labour party of Ehud Barak. He has been prime minister since 2009.
According to opinion polls, Netanyahu is the most popular politician in Israel.
Six people including an Indian have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the trafficking of at least 47 victims in South Africa, a media report said.
The 47 people were rescued from Limpopo province, Xinhua reported citing police official Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi. All the victims were from Ethiopia, and were in good health, he said.
The six arrested include and Indian and five Ethiopians, he said. Their identities were not known.
Mexico City has started distributing 483,000 masks to residents who might need protection from the ash being spewed by the Popocatepetl volcano.
The Federal District’s Public Safety Secretariat activated its strategic plan Saturday, distributing the masks and starting a series of “talks on the preventive measures that should be taken” by the 8 million people living in the capital’s boroughs.
Socialist Party leader Francois Hollande who defeated incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy in Sunday’s decisive presidential runoff in France, has never held a government post at the national level.
The bespectacled Hollande will be the second left-wing president, after Francois Mitterrand, founder of the French Socialist Party, served two seven-year terms as president from 1981.
He is regarded by many as an affable moderate whose quiet — some even say dull – manner contrasts sharply with the intensity and glamour of conservative president Sarkozy, BBC reported.
At least 17 people, including five women and five children, were killed early Monday in a head-on collision between a jeep and a truck near Punjab’s Moga town, 170 km from Chandigarh, police said.
The victims, who were devotees from Daulatpura village in Moga district, were returning from a shrine in Nanaksar near Jagraon town.
The accident took place on the Ludhiana-Ferozepur highway around 2 a.m.
Police said 14 people were killed on the spot while three others died in a hospital in Moga.
YS Vijaya Lakshmi, YSR Congress party honorary president and wife of late chief minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy has assured the people that her son would continue all the schemes initiated by her late husband.
Talking to the media here on Sunday, she said that YSR had dreamt of providing free New Delhi quality education to every poor child in the State. It was also his dream that children of the poorest of poor should occupy high positions in the society. She pointed out that IIIT was set up by him only to encourage poor children to gain higher education.