An automated teller machine (ATM) of the State Bank of India, reportedly containing Rs. 10 lakh, caught fire in Ghaziabad on Thursday, police said.
The incident took place at the Sanjay Nagar branch of the bank around noon.
Two fire tenders controlled the fire suspected to have been started by an electric spark.
Branch manager Sukhendra Singh said: “We have not assessed the loss till now but the ATM machine used to contain lakhs of rupees.”
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Suspected Maoists on Thursday opened fire on a Chhattisgarh minister’s house in Kondagaon district, killing one security guard, police said.
Women and Child Welfare Minister Lata Usendi was not in the house when three suspected Maoists, riding a motorcycle, fired at it this afternoon, Additional Director General of Police Ram Niwas said.
The security guard Narsingh Markam was seriously injured and succumbed in hospital, he said.
The assailants took away the weapon of Markam.
In the wake of the spot-fixing scandal that has rocked IPL, former Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi said that it was a mistake not to include all the players in the auction as it has encouraged corruption, black-money transactions.
“You`ve got to understand that when we set up the league, it was in 2008, very early. We were trying it out and we did the system for three years,” said Modi.
After several failed attempts from restaurant owners, Bulgaria’s Parliament has finally adopted a total ban on smoking in indoor public places.
The ban, which was approved today and comes into force one June 1, has stirred discontent among many Bulgarians, at least 40 per cent of whom are believed to smoke.
Bulgaria’s smoky restaurants and cafes are at the heart of the social life in this traditional tobacco-growing European Union country of 7.3 million.
It was 18th may 2007 which changed the description of Mecca Masjid as a monument of Qutub Shahi era to a standing example of saffron terror, khaki torture and state apathy. Today fifth anniversary of the terror bombing that took place inside the historic mosque during Friday prayers, claiming nine lives and the police firing on the Muslim protestors soon after claimed five more. Coincidentally, today is Friday.
In a relief to Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy-owned Sakshi newspaper and television channel, the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday granted an interim stay on implementation of the state orders banning government advertisements to the media group.
The state government had on May 10 ordered a freeze on releasing advertisements to Sakshi newspaper and Sakshi channel.
Actress Aditi Rao Hydari, is one bold actress, Bollywood has found. Yeh Saali Zindagi saw her doing a bold scene and also string of kissing scenes. However, the actress says, doing bold scenes is not a big deal, but will be on her own terms.
“I’ll think carefully before doing a bold scene. I wouldn’t do it just like that, it depends on the script, the director,” the 33-year-old said.
According to Aditi, one shouldn’t worry about the cencor board but the audiences.
Amid the opposition demand to make divorce more women-friendly, the government on Thursday approved fresh amendments in a bill pending in Rajya Sabha to give the wife a clearly defined share in husband’s immovable residential property.
A meeting of the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, took up new amendments to the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill introduced in the Rajya Sabha earlier this month.
The government also decided to retain the mandatory six-month cooling-off period, which the bill had proposed to do away with in case of divorce with mutual consent.
Over 62 newborns have died in the past three months at Srinagar’s only pediatric hospital GB Pant. The hospital is facing an acute shortage of trained staff and medical equipment.
“As an administrative measure, immediately Dr Javed Chawdhary, who is the Medical Superintendent Incharge of the Hospital, is being attached with Medical Education department,” M K Dwivedi, Commissioner-Secretary of Health and Medical Education, told reporters.
Yoga guru Ramdev’s trusts have lost their exemption from payment of Income Tax and have been slapped a notice of Rs 58 crore demand on the sale of their Ayurvedic medicines.
The I-T notice, for the assessment year 2009-10, on Haridwar-based Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust, Divya Yoga Mandir Trust and Bharat Swabhiman Trust have been slapped on the income of Rs 120 crore which the department has held as “commercial activities”, sources said.
She is a former Miss World, a successful Bollywood star and married to the son of one of India’s best-loved stars. She found international fame in the Hollywood film Bride and Prejudice, and Julia Roberts billed her as the world’s most beautiful woman.
Thanks to the notoriety such fame and fortune has brought her, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has become one of the most admired and revered women in India, and indeed the world. But such fame has come at a cost for the 38-year-old star, the Daily Mail reported.
Gaza, Israeli tank fire wounded seven Palestinians in a farm field east of Gaza City on Thursday, Palestinian medical and security officials said.
A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces initially denied tank fire was used in an operation against suspected terrorists approaching the border fence near the Karni crossing.
However, the IDF later confirmed that an initial investigation “suggests” that tank shells were fired.
Separately, Israeli forces carried out small operations in or near Gaza on Thursday morning, with officials on both sides giving conflicting accounts of events.
Tehran, Iran is taking on one of the world’s biggest Internet giants, threatening to sue over something that is not on its maps.
On state-run Press TV, the Iranian regime warns it may take legal action against Google for not labeling the Persian Gulf.
It’s the latest volley in what one expert calls a “war of words” that has waged for decades over the waterway that borders Iran and several Arab countries.
Iran previously lashed out against the U.S. military for calling the waterway the Arabian Gulf.
A 13-year-old girl was raped allegedly by her residential school teacher, who was arrested after he tried to get her unborn child aborted in Fatehpur Chaurasi area, police said today.
The incident came to light earlier this month when she took ill after the teacher and a cook in Kasturba Gandhi
residential school tried to get her unborn child aborted, police sources.
After the class VI student fell ill she narrated the incident to her family and her father filed an FIR against
teacher Harnarian and cook Anuradha, police said adding that two accused have been arrested.
The top secret and precise scale model of Osama bin Laden’s Pakistani hideout that was used to plan the American SEAL raid that killed then al-Qaeda chief has been made public.
Placed on a table in the Pentagon headquarters’ hallway, the one inch to seven feet model looks like an exact photocopy of the Abbottabad building that the 54-year-old then most wanted terrorist lived in for five years before his death on May 1 last year.
New Delhi, The Air India crisis entered its 10th day Thursday as the impasse between agitating pilots and the management continued and the carrier’s losses mounted to Rs.188 crore.
‘We are currently operating under the contingency plan, in which we are operating a bare minimum number of international operations by clubbing flights to destinations in Europe and the US,’ a senior official of Air
India’s operations arm told IANS.
Yoga guru Ramdev today said people of the country should have voting right in the Presidential poll.
“It is unfortunate that only few are entitled to vote in the Presidential poll, the entire nation should have a
participation in the process,” Ramdev told reporters during a two-day yoga camp at Arjun stadium here.
Whether it is a political or a non-political person in the race, the common man should have their say in the entire
process, he said.
He further went on to say that people should also have the right to decide their Prime Minister.
Even as suspense continues over Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s attending the BJP national executive meeting here beginning from May 24, the party’s Mumbai unit is confident that the “esteemed” leader will attend the conclave.
Modi is the member of the national executive and all the members have been invited. He is our esteemed leader and
we are confident that he will come,” Mumbai BJP president Raj Purohit told a press conference.
He said the two-day event will be a ‘no-frills’ affair due to severe drought situation in Maharashtra. Earlier,
A six-year-old girl was today raped allegedly by a 22-year-old youth in Bombay colony at Nandgram here, police said.
The minor was playing when the youth, a neighbour, entered her house and took her away on the pretext of buying
her food from the market,” SSP Ghaziabad Preshant Kumar said.
The accused then raped her in a deserted house in the colony and left her unconscious, he said.
Rape was confirmed after medical examination of the victim, he said, adding that the name of the youth will be
disclosed soon as he is pending arrest.
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India will raise the issue of bringing LeT founder Hafiz Sayeed, the mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, to justice at the forthcoming Home Secretary-level talks with Pakistan on May 25.
replying to a question from reporters during a visit here, Union Home Secetary R K Singh said the subject will be
brought up along with the other issues with Pakistani authorities at the coming Home Secretary-level discussions.
Saeed is one of the most wanted persons in India for his involvement in various terrorist acts in the country,
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday rubbished demands of reservation for Muslims on the basis of religion and said the idea cannot work as it is not permitted by the Indian Constitution.
“Even if we want to do it (reservation on the basis of religion), we can’t do it because it is not possible due to the guidelines in the constitution of our country. But we will try to bring in more and more backward sections of the community under reservation for the overall development,” said Banerjee while addressing a programme here.
Home Minister P. Chidambaram, who is known to be fluent in Tamil and English, stunned the Lok Sabha Thursday when he addressed the house in Bhojpuri, receiving praise from Speaker Meira Kumar, who comes from Bihar, for his effort.
Chidambaram was replying to a calling attention motion on the need to include Bhojpuri, the native tongue of Bihar, in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution to accord it the official language status.
“Hum sabke bhawna samjhat bani (I understand the sentiments of all of you),” Chidambaram said during his reply to stunned silence from the members.
Keen to attract students from India, China and other countries, a leading Italian university has decided to teach its courses exclusively in the English language, signifying a major shift in Italy’s higher education sector.
Amidst increasing global competition in the higher education sector, top officials of the Politecnico di Milano, established in 1863, believe that if it retains Italian as its language of instruction, it risked isolation and will not be able to compete as an international institution.
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Pappu rote hue, ‘Pehle pata hota to shadi bhi loan le ke karta’.
The presiding judge in the UN trial of Gen Ratko Mladic has delayed indefinitely the presentation of evidence that had been scheduled to start later this month due to “errors” by prosecutors in disclosing evidence to defence lawyers.
Alphons Orie said today he was delaying the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal case due to “significant disclosure errors” by prosecutors who are obliged to share all their evidence with Mladic’s defence team.
He says judges are still analysing the “scope and full impact” of the error.