Month: June 2012

Aarushi case: SC rejects Nupur Talwar’s review plea

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The Supreme Court Thursday rejected dentist Nupur Talwar’s petition for review of its earlier order that she and her husband Rajesh be tried for the murder of their daughter Aarushi and their domestic help Hemraj. It also turned down the plea for further investigation in the case.

The court, however, allowed Nupur Talwar to move a fresh bail plea as the Allahabad High Court earlier rejected her application. While Nupur Talwar is lodged at the Dasna jail in Ghaziabad, her husband, also a dentist, is out on bail.

Be strong to fight frustration, Mamata tells students

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Stating that life was full of challenges, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday urged the student community to develop mental strength to fight frustration.

“Life is full of challenges but I never thought I cannot…I always believe I can. Why should you get frustrated? One should never lose his mental strength. Swami Vivekananda used to say strength is the medicine for all diseases. I urge you all not to get frustrated but develop strength to fight,” said Banerjee.

Pakistani kills ex-girlfriend with hammer

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A jobless Pakistani national bludgeoned his Filipina ex-girlfriend to death with a hammer after a split with the 37-year-old mother of his two-year-old daughter, a British court heard.

The court heard that 28-year-old Muhammed Niazi savagely murdered Charito Cruz in September 2011 after discovering she was flirting with an ex-boyfriend on Facebook.

He became depressed and asked police to deport him. But he was turned away and told to contact the Home Office, the Daily Mail reported.

UN observers shot at in Syria: Ban

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UN observers trying to reach the scene of the latest reported massacre of Syrian villagers were shot at with small arms, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday.

Speaking at the UN General Assembly on the latest situation in Syria, the secretary-general called the new massacre “shocking and sickening”, Xinhua reported.

The unarmed monitors from the UN Supervision Mission in Syria were initially denied access to the massacre site in al-Qubayr village in the country’s northern Hama province, and “were shot at with small arms” while trying to get there, Ban said.

Another explosion in Allahabad, five kids injured

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Five children were injured Thursday when a bomb went off in a village in this Uttar Pradesh district — the second blast in about a fortnight, police said. All five are out of danger.

The children, residents of Ghoorpur village, were taking their cattle to graze when they spotted a “ball like object” and picked it up. Minutes later there was a deafening explosion in which Mausam Yadav, Sushma Yadav, Jyoti Yadav, Sashi Yadav and Ajay Singh — all aged between 7 and 12 were injured.

Yemen’s consulate to boost historic ties with Hyderabad

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Yemen’s historic ties with Hyderabad are set to get a boost with the Arab nation planning to set up an honorary consulate in the city.

Ausaf Sayeed, India’s ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Yemen, said persons of Yemeni origin in Hyderabad had been representing for a full-fledged Yemeni consulate. However, Yemeni authorities were considering setting up only an honorary consulate.

An eminent person of Yemeni origin will be appointed as an honorary consul, Sayeed told IANS on phone from Sanaa.

TDP declers oscar to Vijayamma in acting

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Telugu Desam Party leader Shobha Rani has declared Oscar Award for the YSR Congress honorary president Y S Vijayamma “for her acting with glycerin-aided tears at losing her husband in an accident and having her son in jail”.

Talking to the media here on Thursday, she alleged that all the tears of Vijayamma were for winning the by-elections. She said that the good name Vijayamma earned as a good housewife had evaporated after she started supporting her son, who was involved in criminal activities. She posed some questions to Vijayamma and her daughter Sharmila.

Jagan Case : Sabita Confers with Kiran for 2 hours

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Home Minister P. Sabita Indra Reddy on Thursday met Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy in the CM’s camp office and conferred wit him for over two hours. Sabita Reddy’s meeting with the Chief Minister attained importance as six ministers, who had received notices from the Supreme Court in connection with the YSR Congress chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s disproportionate assets case, were being called by the CBI one after another for inquiry.

Jagan luring MLAs with money: Naidu

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TDP Chief N. Chandrababu Naidu has alleged that Prathipadu former MLA Mekathoti Sucharitha tendered her resignation to the Assembly taking Rs 10 crores from YSRCP Chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. He also alleged that Jagan was influencing the MLAs to tender resignations by declaring packages to them.

Nearly 90 killed in new massacre in Syria

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Opposition activists and Syrian government forces clashed with each other in al-Qubayr village in the country’s northern Hama province, leading to the death of at least 86 people, a media report said Thursday.

The toll figure was declared by Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees, RIA Novosti reported citing Al Jazeera.

The government, however, said nine people were killed by a “terrorist group”.

Both the opposition and the government have accused the other of being responsible for the deaths.

Woman killed over a goat in Beng

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Enraged over a neighbour’s goat nibbling some plants in his garden, a man battered to death the owner of the animal in West Bengal’s south Dinajpur district, police said Thursday.

“Khojamani Das, 42, was beaten to death and her daughter Mamuni was injured by one Bimal Mondal. He was arrested Thursday,” said an officer.

Das’ goat entered Mondal’s garden Tuesday evening and nibbled some of the plants. When Mondal went to Das’ house to complain an altercation ensued, following which the man pounced on the woman, battering her to death, police said.

Digvijaya hits out at Ramdev, asks him to declare his ‘black money’

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A day after Congress appeared going soft on Ramdev, party general secretary Digvijay Singh today hit out at the yoga guru asking him to first declare how much black money he possesses before launching a campaign to bring back ill-gotten wealth stashed abroad.

“Everything of whatever I had said about Ramdev and Anna Hazare in past has come out to be true. There is a notice by ED on tax evasion against Ramdev. He (Ramdev) himself is in the dock but keeps talking about bringing black money back. First he should declare how much black money he has,” Singh told reporters.

Commercialization of Education

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Today education sector is completely commercialized. Since the education has been commercialized the relationship between students, teachers and educational institutions has become purely materialistic. Student has become a customer, teachers have become professionals and educational institution has become a supermarket and money is the prerequisite to benefit from it.

Akshay Kumar not ‘Rowdy’ in real life

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After tasting success with his latest action packed film “Rowdy Rathore”, Bollywood star Akshay Kumar is back to his clean-shaven, gentlemanly image and says he does not like to be associated with the word ‘rowdy’ in real life.

“Real life is different than reel life. In real life I am no longer a puppet as I am in reel life. I am a thoroughly different person in real life. Kicks and punches are the reel life stuff. I wonder why the word ‘rowdy’ is being used for me,” said Akshay, who was in the capital last night to attend Aaj Tak Care awards.

HC order no setback for me, says Chidambaram

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Home minister P Chidambaram on Thursday said that the Madras high court order “is not a setback for me but for the petitioner” even as the government and his party defended him from opposition onslaught.

Government and Congress on Thursday came in defence of home minister P Chidambaram rejecting opposition demands for his resignation in the wake of the Madras high court order that declined to dismiss a petition challenging his election to Lok Sabha in 2009.

Law minister Salman Khurshid ridiculed the BJP for demanding Chidambaram’s resignation over the issue.

All India Bright Students Award for school students

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Aligarh Educational Society is organising written test for All India Bright Student Award, on June 10. Students who have passed 8th, 9th & 10th class are eligible. Exam can be written in Urdu, English or Telugu.

Results will be announced on June 15. Prize distribution will be held on June 18.

Written test will be conducted at Babu Khan Estate, Basheer Bagh. Applications can be submitted online at aibsa.net. For more details log on to aibsa.net or call on 66627866 or 66637866

Siasat news

TET KEY released

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Initial KEY for Andhra Pradesh teachers Eligibility Test APTET has been released and the same can be accessed from http://aptet.cgg.gov.in.

APTET exam was conducted on June 1. Candidates can file their objections on the website till June 12. Candidates have to file objections typing their hall ticket no. date of birth and booklet code.

Objections filed by post or through telephone will not be accepted. Final key will be released on June 15.

Siasat news

Sensex up for 4th straight day, ends at 1-month high of 16,649

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Spurred by the government’s steps to push infrastructure development and an appreciating rupee, stocks rose for the fourth straight day on Thursday with BSE Sensex climbing 195 points to a one-month high of 16649 amid investors betting on fresh stimulus by global central banks.

After gaining 434 points yesterday, the 30-share index opened with a 100-point gain on strong Asian cues.

RIL targets to double operating profit; invests Rs 1 lakh crore

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Battling a sharp dip in output at its showpiece gas field, Reliance Industries on Thursday announced plans to invest Rs 100,000 crore across energy, retail and telecom businesses in the next five years to double operating profit.

RIL aims to increase revenue from retail business by as much as six times in 3-4 years and is targeting a ten-fold increase in sales from its shale gas business in the US, Chairman Mukesh Ambani told company shareholders here on Thursday.

Vernon Philander is South African Cricketer of the Year

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All-rounder Vernon Philander swept Cricket South Africa`s Gala Awards, bagging three top awards, including the `Cricketer of the Year` honour at the Sandton Convention Centre here.

Philander was also named the `Test Cricketer of the Year` and to put an extra cherry on the top, he also won in the national popularity stakes by fans who made him CSA Fans` Cricketer of the Year with their online votes.

French Open 2012: Sania-Bhupathi in final, Paes-Vesnina knocked out

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India`s Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi reached their maiden French Open mixed doubles final but Leander Paes and his Russian partner Elena Vesnina were knocked out of the event here Wednesday.

Mirza and Bhupathi outplayed Galina Voskoboeva and Danielle Bracciali 6-4, 6-2 to enter the mixed doubles final. They will face the Polish-Mexcian combine of Klaudia Jans-Ignacik and Santiago Gonzalez in the title clash at the Roland Garros.

The unseeded pair of Klaudia and Santiago caused a shocking upset beating the fifth seeded pair of Paes and Vesnina 7-6 (7-2), 6-3.

Google unveils its new digital mapping service

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Google, on Wednesday, unveiled its new digital mapping service in order to be more convenient and convincing for the users.
In a live event , Google demonstrated 3D models of individual buildings and entire cities. The new features were shown off to members of the press on an Apple iPad, rather than an Android-based tablet.

Besides providing 26 million miles of driving directions, Google’s maps will now include imagery of most of the world’s neighborhoods.

Is Microsoft buying Nokia?

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Finnish telecom giant Nokia, considered among the most trusted brands in India, is going through a bad patch with its shares at an all-time low, triggering speculation that it may be acquired by Microsoft.

Once the most valuable companies in Europe, the mobile telecom equipment firm has seen its share prices fall to 2.20 euros in recent days — the lowest since the mid-1990s.

The weekly Helsinki Times in its latest edition said the Nokia stocks were now below book value — a situation described as “worth more dead than alive” rhetorically.

US warns that it has reached ‘limit of patience’ with Pak

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In the strongest warning so far to Pakistan, US today said it is reaching the limits of its patience with Islamabad for allowing terrorist safe havens, specially the dreaded Haqqani network.

The warning was sounded by the Defence Secretary Leon Panetta who on an unannounced visit to Afghanistan declared,”It is difficult to achieve peace in Afghanistan as long as there is safe havens for terrorists in Pakistan”.