Month: September 2012

A former head of Pakistan’s main investigation agency on Friday offered a peek into the probe of the 2008 Mumbai attack, saying sleuths had uncovered two LeT training camps in Sindh province that were used by militants involved in the assault on India’s financial hub.

Tariq Khosa, who supervised the probe of the Mumbai incident while heading the Federal Investigation Agency, said investigators had found the Lashkar-e-Taiba camps at Thatta and Karachi, the capital of Sindh province.

These camps were used by those involved in the attacks, he said.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday said there was no battle going on between him and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on security for sarpanches and empowering of panchayats.

“Have to love the media’s priorities when my imaginary battle with Rahul (Gandhi) is more important than what the President (Pranab Mukherjee) says in Kashmir,” Omar wrote on micro-blogging site twitter.com.

London Olympic bronze medallist shuttler Saina Nehwal today experienced the thrill of flying in an Indian Air Force aircraft, and described the experience as “dream come true”.

She flew in ‘Kiran Jet Trainer’ for about 20 minutes, after taking off from the training academy in Dindigul on the outskirts of the city.

“It’s a great honour. It was dream come true for me to fly. Everyone in their childhood dream of joining either Air Force or Army. We dream of becoming one of them.

Britain’s Health Protection Agency has published an early genetic sequence of the new respiratory virus related to SARS that shows it is most closely linked to bat viruses, and scientists say camels, sheep or goats might
end up being implicated too.

So far, officials have only identified two confirmed cases and say the virus isn’t as infectious as SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which killed hundreds of people, mostly in Asia, in a 2003 global outbreak.

With less than 48 hours left for the proposed ‘Telangana March’ at Tank Bund here on September 30, the Andhra Pradesh Police on Friday reiterated its warning of initiating stern action against law breakers even as it appealed to the organisers to put off the march.

With Tamil Nadu reeling under severe power cuts daily and banks being closed for half-year accounts Saturday, tax-payers are hoping that the central government would extend by a month the deadline for tax remittance and filing returns, said chartered accountants.

A bomb disposal expert was killed Friday in Pakistan’s Peshawar city while attempting to defuse an explosive device, Geo News reported.

The incident took place in Budh Bair area of the city when bomb squad veteran Hukam Khan, in his late 50s, successfully defused one bomb but was killed when another exploded as he tried to make it safe.

Three police officers were wounded in the blast.

A tribal woman in Narayanpur district has claimed that she was gangraped by four unidentified armed men wearing uniforms.

Narayanpur SP Mayank Srivastava said that a case has been registered in this regard.

According to the woman, she was raped in the forest between Turtha and Karepal by four armed men on 18th of this
month.

The 45-year old victim initially did not file police complaint on the advice by her family members. But a few days
ago, she took ill and a health worker in the area who learnt about the incident alerted the police yesterday.

The BJP Friday sounded the poll bugle and demanded Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s resignation over coal block allocations, saying the government could fall before 2014, when the next general elections are due.

“I am confiddent the BJP would form the next government. It is time to give a new direction to the country’s politics,” party chief Nitin Gadkari said while addressing the 1,200 delegates attending the BJP’s national executive and council on the concluding day of its three-day session in this town on the outskirts of Delhi.

The death of two girls of a British-era convent school in Shimla Friday became murkier when their parents blamed school authorities. The parents said the girls did not die accidentally, but committed suicide after being “mentally harassed” by their teacher.

Class 6 students Shakshi Thakur and Nancy Thakur of the Convent of Jesus and Mary were found dead near the school Monday. At that time, police said the girls died when a speeding vehicle hit them.

Curtains came down on the 72-hour political crisis in Maharashtra with NCP chief Sharad Pawar accepting the resignation of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar here Friday. The party will now inform Chief Minister Prithiviraj Chavan to accept his resignation, Sharad Pawar said.

The union agriculture minister, however, turned down the resignations tendered by 19 other Nationalist Congress Party ministers. They will resume their duties as usual from Sturday, he added.

A four member gang, including a woman, was arrested by the city police for cheating the unemployed youth by promising them with a job in Indian Railways and collected money from them. Addressing a press conference, City Police Commissioner J Poornachandra Rao said that based on a private school teacher who was cheated by the gang the accused were arrested yesterday. Two members of the gang were Armed Reserve Constables working in visakhapatnam rural District. The Commissioner said the four accused conspired together.

Bowing to the pressure of Telangana Political Joint Action Committee, the State Government on Friday gave its permission to the Telangana March.

In a veiled attack on Arvind Kejriwal, Anna Hazare today said “politics has split” the anti-corruption movement and the pro-party group has gone against his will.

Hazare also decried efforts to link him with some parties and “communal” outfits, in an apparent reference to
allegations that he is closing ranks with RSS through yoga guru Ramdev to run the anti-corruption movement after the split with the Kejriwal-led group.

Stung by Narendra Modi’s remarks on delay in delivery of Aakash tablets, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal has asked the Gujarat chief minister to keep education away from politics and sent him a couple of these low-cost devices.

“Your statement has disappointed me. Education is a collaborative venture beyond the pale of politics and we need to work together in the best interest of the children of the country,” Sibal said in his letter to Modi sent along with the devices on September 26.

A little boy was injured when a mobile handset which he had put into his mouth exploded suddenly last night, at Shajapur tehsil’s Pagravat village near here, hospital sources said today.

The ten-year-old Chetan Singh studying in the fifth class was rushed to the M Y Hospital here after he lost some
of his upper teeth, injured his lips and lower jaws, sources said.

After immediate treatment, the boy was admitted to ward number 18 where his condition was stated to be stable,
sources said.

The brand of the mobile handset was not revealed in the medical report, sources said.

A bandh was observed in the predominantly Muslim Juhapura area of the city today to protest against the controversial anti-Islam film made in the USA.

Retail shops, eateries, auto-rickshaws among others joined the bandh. Educational institutes, however, were kept
out of it,” social activist Fazal Bahelim told PTI.

Local Muslim organisations had called the bandh.

There was no untoward incident, a police official said.

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Actress Mahek Chahal, born and brought up in Norway, is excited to hear that Hema Malini has the honour of being on a Norwegian stamp. She says Hema Malini deserves more recognition.

“I have grown up watching Hemaji’s films. When I got the news of this felicitation by the country that I call home, I was extremely elated. She deserves many such honours,” the 33-year-old said in a statement.

“I wish I could have been a part of the Bollywood festival (in Norway), which happens every year, as it would have been such a great moment to see Hemaji receive this felicitation,” she added.

Saudi Arabia has started expelling 1,100 Nigerian women pilgrims for violating the kingdom’s rule prohibiting Muslim women from entering the country without a male guardian.

The government-run el-Eqtisad website quotes an unnamed Saudi official today as saying the women were detained after landing at the international airport in Jiddah.

Yesterday, 171 were sent back and the rest will be returned to Nigeria.

The report says some of the women have been detained since Monday.

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1) The battle of Mutah which Prophet (s.a.w.) led was against the ..…

A) Romans

B) Persians

C) Russians

D) Indians

2) Who was a “gifted” orator (speaker) among the following four?

A) Umar (r.a.)

B) Abu Bakr (r.a.)

C) Uthman (r.a.)

D) Ali (r.a.)

Ahead of the proposed ‘Telangana March’, a group of pro-Telangana activists on Friday allegedly set ablaze two toll plaza booths on the Outer Ring Road (ORR) near Gachibowli here, even as students pelted stones at police on Osmania University (OU) campus again.

Umar Gul emerged as an unlikely batting hero as Pakistan came back from the dead to pull off a nerve-wracking two-wicket victory over South Africa in their opening Super Eights match of the ICC World Twenty20 here today.

Chasing a target of 134 on a difficult Premadasa strip, Gul produced a blistering 17-ball 32 while Umar Akmal scored an unbeaten 43 to guide the team to a thrilling victory with just two balls to spare.

A 49-year-old chef from Los Angeles faces life in prison for murder after he told police he boiled his wife’s body for four days to hide the evidence, a media report said.

According to the Daily Mirror, David Viens stuffed his wife’s body in a 55-gallon drum of boiling water and kept it submerged with weights.

In a recorded interrogation presented by prosecutors at the trial in Los Angeles, Viens was heard saying he cooked the body of his 39-year-old wife, Dawn, in 2009 until little was left but her skull.

A ten year old boy was injured when a mobile handset which he had put into his mouth exploded suddenly last night, at Shajapur tehsil’s Pagravat village near here, hospital sources said today.

Chetan Singh studying a fifth class student was rushed to the M Y Hospital here after he lost some of his upper teeth, injured his lips and lower jaws, sources said.

–Agencies