Month: October 2012

Actress Lindsay Lohan was reportedly assaulted by a man inside a hotel room here.

She told police that she was assaulted inside W Hotel here early Sunday morning by Christian Labella, 25, a man she met at Manhattan nightclub 1Oak.

According to Lohan, Labella had taken photos of her on his cell phone while they were hanging out at the hotel with a couple of her friends in her 15th floor room. When she saw the photos on his phone, she confronted him and took his phone.

Lohan said Labella then threw her on the bed, causing scratches, and even punched her.

Despite a ban, use of pen drives has emerged as the main threat to cyber security in defence forces as it is responsible for over 70 percent of such breaches in the three Services.

The use of pen drives as an easy-to-carry storage device has increased in the recent past and internal reports have confirmed that over 70 percent cyber security breaches in the armed forces are due to their unauthorised use, Army officials told here.

“These pen drives, which are mostly manufactured in China, have emerged as a big threat to our cyber security systems,” they said.

The Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly Monday unanimously passed a resolution condemning the anti-Islam film that has evoked violent reactions in some Muslim countries.

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said the state cabinet had already condemned the film that has hurt the feelings of millions of Muslims across the world.

“We have already condemned the film in the cabinet,” Abdullah told the 10-day autumn session of the state assembly which started here Monday.

Every ninth person in the world is aged 60 and above and their numbers will increase to one in five by 2050, numbering two billion elderly, a UN agency has concluded.

Those over 100 years of age too will witness an exponential 10-time growth from 316,600 in 2011 to 3.2 million by 2050, the ‘Ageing in the Twenty-First Century : A Celebration and A Challenge’ report said.

Six members of a family, including four minor children, were charred to death in a fire that engulfed their house at nearby Thoppuvalasai on Monday morning, police said.

The deceased included a man, whose wife is working abroad, his four minor children aged between 13 and one and his father, police said.

All the family members were asleep when the fire broke out, police said, adding that the cause of the fire is being ascertained.

–PTI

Warming oceans and climate may have an unexpected side effect – shrinking fish. Their body weight could decline by 14-20 percent in 50 years, says a Canadian study based on computer modelling of 600 ocean fish species.

The University of British Columbia (UBC) study provides the first-ever global projection of the potential reduction in the maximum size of fish in a warmer and less-oxygenated ocean.

Arvind Kejriwal on Monday played down criticism by Anna Hazare of his anti-corruption group getting into politics, saying there was no fight between the two and they were combating graft through different routes.

Mr. Kejriwal, who met Mr. Hazare for the first time after they split on the question of forming a political party, said, “We came to meet him as he is in Delhi. We have a relationship.

Those who smoke and drink heavily may develop pancreatic cancer at an earlier age than those who don’t, according to a new US study.

Researchers from the University of Michigan Health System found that heavy smokers with pancreatic cancer were diagnosed around 62 years and heavy drinkers at age 61 – almost a decade earlier than the average age of 72.

The on-going violence against the Rohingya people is part of a very sinister and calculated national project towards ethnically cleansing through the state sponsored pogrom that has already resulted in the estimated deaths of tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims. Nearly a hundred thousand Rohingyas are internally displaced, who are also denied access to food and shelter.

The Myanmar government and the Rakhine state administration are guilty of practicing an apartheid policy towards the Rohingya people. They are also guilty of committing crimes against humanity.

Jharkhand high court today rejected a bail petition moved by former chief minister Madhu Koda in a money laundering case against him pertaining to Rs 1,340 crore.

Justice H C Mishra, who had on Friday reserved the order, dismissed the petition after the counsel of the ED objected the petition on the ground that there was direct involvement of Koda in the case.

Koda contested that only Rs 20 crore was detected by the probing agency and how could the case sustain to the tune of Rs 1,340 crore and that he was not related, directly or indirectly, in the case.

In The Name Of Allah, The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful!

Several educational institutions in Telangana region, including in Hyderabad, were closed on Monday following a bandh call by pro-Telangana groups.

Telangana student unions, including Osmania University Students Joint Action Committee gave a bandh call on Monday, protesting the alleged highhandedness of police during the ‘Telangana March’ in support of the separate statehood demand on Sunday.

State Road Transport Corporation said it had not cancelled bus services, but rescheduled them in some areas of Hyderabad.

Usayd bin Hudayr (r.a.) said that he was once reciting Surah Al-Baqarah while his horse was tied next to him. The horse started to make some noise. When Usaid stopped reciting, the horse stopped moving about. When he resumed reading, the horse started moving about again. (This happened thrice) Meanwhile, his son Yahya was close to the horse and he feared that the horse might step on him. When he moved his son back, he looked up at the sky and saw ‘A CLOUD RADIATING WITH LIGHT THAT LOOKED LIKE LAMPS.’

Six people, five Germans and a Chinese national, died and 14 passengers were injured after a tourist bus collided with a truck and caught fire Monday near here, police said.

The bus was carrying a group of German tourists and was driving on a pivotal expressway linking Beijing with Shanghai when the accident happened at 8.30 a.m., reported Xinhua, quoting the police.

The tour group was organised by the Beijing-based China Youth Travel Service.

Witnesses said they saw a few people escape the flames.

A photo posted on the web showed the whole vehicle engulfed in flames.

All praise for Yuvraj Singh’s small but notable contributions in World Twenty20 campaign so far, skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said the all-rounder, who returned to cricket after beating cancer, is an indispensable part of his T20 line-up.

Yuvraj, playing his first international event after recovering from a rare germ cell cancer, has been in decent form both with the bat and ball besides making his mark as an agile fielder.

Kingfisher Airlines faced fresh turbulence with about two dozen flights being cancelled following a strike by maintenance engineers, an airport official said Monday.

Aircraft maintenance engineers, whose aircraft airworthiness clearance is mandatory for any flight to take off, struck work suddenly Sunday night over non-payment of salaries and dues for almost six months.

A Kingfisher spokesperson confirmed the development and said: “They have been threatening, and even manhandling the employees who are reporting to work as usual.”

The Trinamool Congress rally here Monday was not just a dharna but a “protest” and aimed at giving voice to the ‘aam aadmi’, the party said.

“It is not a dharna, it is a protest rally. All our MPs will protest, but I have not brought anyone from Bengal,” Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool supremo and West Bengal chief minister, said.

Coming out in support of former state minister Amit Shah, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday termed his arrest as “unfortunate” and claimed that he was falsely implicated in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.

“Judiciary is not under the government and is independent. Therefore, the state government need not comment on it. It is unfortunate he (Shah) was falsely implicated in the case and sent to jail, which is most unfortunate,” Modi told TV channels in Gujarat during his month-long yatra.

The son of a minister in the West Bengal government suffered severe burns when he tried to set himself on fire at his residence here early on Sunday.

The police said Sayan Biswas, 22, son of minister for horticulture and food processing Ujjal Biswas, poured petrol on himself and lit a match stick.

His father rushed to save him and burnt his hand in the process, additional SP of Nadia district Arindam Dutta-Chowdhury said.

Sayan was taken to the Krishnagar Shaktinagar District Hospital and later referred to the Apollo Hospital in Kolkata.

Two CRPF jawans were Monday seriously injured after being shot at by Maoists during a combing operation in the forests of West Midnapore district.

District SP Sunil Chowdhury said that joint security forces were involved in a fierce gunbattle with the Maoists in Goaltore area’s Metla forest since last night during which R L Reddy and Bijoy Mahalakshmi were shot at in the morning.

The two jawans have been rushed to the district hospital in a critical condition, he said.

Police suspect that some Maoists have also been injured in the exchange of gun fire.

–PTI

Police adopted a new method to keep off the students of Osmania University to prevent them to take out a rally to go to Necklace Road.

Authentic sources informed that police used 150 tear gas shells but under the cover of it, the police used 25 stun grenades due to which police succeeded in to limit their movement out of campus.

Enraged by his father-in-law’s refusal to return cash and jewels that he had handed over for safe-keeping, a man strangulated his wife to death and later hanged himself in Mungeli district, Chhattisgarh, police officials said Saturday.

Sub-divisional Officer of Police, Mungeli, JPN Singh said, “Bodies of a young couple were found in the house of their relative. The deceased have been identified as Pramod Satnami (25) and his wife Tulsi Satnami (23). The incident occurred at Saragaon village, Lormi Tehsil, Mungeli district, about 100 km from the state capital.

Giving the details of Telangna March police commissioner Anurag Sharma told that police demonstrated extraordinary patience.

He blamed the leftist organizations for violence which took place at Necklace Road yesterday. Mr. Sharma told that although the leaders of Telangana Political Joint Action Committee had given an assurance that the March would be peaceful but violence broke out.

Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mr. Vayalar Ravi watched Telangana March directly on the TV in New Delhi. They were in contact with CM and State Congress President. They also received reports from time to time from intelligence and MP’s of the Congress Party. Central Govt. is having an eye on Hyderabad in view of the Bio-diversity conference to be held here today. Mr. L. Rajagopal, Mr. P. Goverdhan Reddy & Dr. K. Keshava Rao also were in touch with Mr. Azad. Mr. V. Hanumantha Rao wrote a letter to Ms.

The Trinamool Congress will never ally with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA or join any front that includes the Left, party general secretary Mukul Roy has said.

But the former railway minister did not rule out the possibility of reconciling with the Congress party if it decides to scrap foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail and the diesel price hike.

“If the Congress rolls back FDI in retail and the fuel price hike, then they can approach us,” Roy told IANS.