Month: February 2013

An American man caught having sex with his neighbour’s mare has been sentenced to jail on charges of public lewdness and criminal trespass.

Andrew Mendoza from Wharton county, Texas, confessed to police he “messed” with his neighbour’s mare after he was stood up by his girlfriend, The Sun reported.

The 29-year-old man, however, said he was only trying to make it pregnant with a “horse-man baby”.

“I was at my house waiting for my girlfriend to call. I told myself that if she didn’t call me, I was going next door and mess with the neighbour’s horse,” he said.

A woman in Britain opened a loaf of bread to make a sandwich for her 10-year-old child, but discovered inside it a blood-covered needle used by a heroin-taking man.

The woman bought the bread in Pendleton, Greater Manchester. When she noticed the syringe, she handed it in to police, the Daily Mail reported.

Police used DNA tracing to track down 61-year-old David Rodgers of Salford, Greater Manchester, the Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard.

A fast-track court Tuesday began the trial against the five accused in the Delhi gang-rape case, around 50 days after the 23-year-old woman’s brutal rape, as the father demanded death penalty for the five men and a juvenile accused.

“All the six accused should be hanged,” the father said at a press conference here, stressing that he would pursue the case till the end.

In a major fillip to its efforts to provide employment-related news to people, the government Tuesday released the Urdu e-version of its Rozgar Samachar, which Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari said was part of the government’s efforts to create more jobs.

Releasing the Urdu e-version of Rozgar Samachar or Employment News at an event here, Tewari said the site is visited by lakhs of people.

A confidential memo obtained by media and published Tuesday spells out the US government’s legal justification for killing US citizens linked to Al Qaeda.

The memo offers a rare look at one of the most secretive policies of President Barack Obama’s administration.

“The president has authority to respond to the imminent threat posed by Al Qaeda and its associated forces, arising from his constitutional responsibility to protect the country,” as well as the right to national self-defence and congressional authorisation for military force against Al Qaeda, the 16-page document reads.

Forensic experts Tuesday recorded the voice of MIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi in a court, which also extended his judicial custody till Feb 19 in a hate speech case.

Another court dismissed his bail plea in another hate speech case while he got bail in a seven-year-old case of manhandling an official.

Experts of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory recorded the legislator’s voice as he has reportedly claimed during the interrogation that the voice in the video footage of his speech is not his.

The Gujarat High Court today asked the state government whether it had taken steps in the past 20 years to ascertain social and educational backwardness of Muslims and other minorities of the state.

The question was raised by the five-judge full bench of the court during the hearing on PILs over the central government’s scheme for pre-metric scholarship to students belonging to minority communities.

–Agencies

Locals took to streets in Bhopal on Tuesday after the local police recovered a mutilated body of an eight-year-old girl near the residence of the state Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta.

The girl had gone missing on Sunday evening, after she went to the Bhopal fest, and her parents had lodged a missing complaint with the police.

Raju, a relative of the deceased minor girl, said the police buried the body without informing the family.

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will attend the Kumbh Mela being held in Allahabad on February 12.

“Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Allahabad on February 12 to take a holy dip in the river Ganga during the Kumbh Mela,” sources in the Chief Minister’s office said.

There were reports that VHP and some Hindu religious groups close to the Sangh Parivar might discuss Modi’s candidature at a conclave during the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad.

India were tonight knocked out of the ICC Women’s World Cup after suffering an upset 138-run drubbing at the hands of Sri Lanka in a crucial Group A encounter here.

Chasing a challenging total of 283, the hosts put up a pathetic show to be bowled out for 144 in 42.2 overs at the Brabourne Stadium.

Incidentally, this was India’s first defeat to Sri Lanka in 18 matches, having won their previous 16 encounters with one ending in no result.

Pakistan is a “fake” country which was created artificially by the Britishers who started the “bogus two-nation theory”, Press Council of India chairman Justice (retd) Markandey Katju said here on Tuesday.

The former Supreme Court judge was confident that in next 15-20 years India and Pakistan would reunite and a strong, powerful, secular and modern minded government would come to power.

He condemned the recent war hysteria created by media in the wake of beheading of an Indian soldier by Pakistanis troops in a cross LoC attack in Jammu and Kashmir.

On Monday, the Commissioner’s Task Force of East Zone raided “Global Overseas Educational Consultancy” at Himayath Nagar and nabbed three persons for doing illegal Visa processing work by preparing fake documents which are required to be produced by the visa applicants in support of their applications at the time of interview and to procure VISA to U.S.A, U.K. and Canada.

The accused were identified as Gengu Sandeep, Sandadi Srinivas Reddy and Akula Srinivas. The trio and the seized documents were handed over to the Narayanguda PS.

Robbers struck at the house of a doctor in Kavi Nagar area of the district and decamped with cash and valuables, police said today.

The burglars entered the house of Mukesh Tyagi, a dentist, through the window when the family had gone to Delhi to attend a marriage last night.

On returning home this morning, they found their house burgled and informed the matter to police, they said.

In its complain before police, the family claimed Rs 65,000 cash, besides some jewellery, was found missing from
their home, they said.

A youth was shot dead in the Loni area here following an argument at an engagement function, police said today.

Rajat (29) was shot dead by a group of men outside his house in Sangam Vihar Colony here last night, police said.

The deceased had attended his friend’s engagement party where he got into an argument with some guests at the
function, they said.

The argument heated up but other guests settled the matter, they said.

However, some of them later went to Rajat’s house, beat him up and then shot him, they said, adding, he died on the spot.

A Justice Department document has said it is legal for the government to kill US citizens abroad if it believes they are senior al-Qaeda leaders continually engaged in operations aimed at killing Americans.

The confidential memo, first reported yesterday by NBC News, provides a legal rationale behind the Obama
administration’s use of drone strikes against al-Qaeda suspects.

The 16-page document says that delaying action against individuals continually planning to kill Americans would
create an unacceptably high risk.

Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh today appealed to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to make public the viability reports of the proposed Narmada-Kshipra river linking project.

Till date the chief minister has not provided the detailed project report and cost benefit analysis about the
project,” Singh said in a letter to Chouhan, the copy of which he has forwarded to media.

The foundation stone for the project, supposed to provide drinking water to 70 cities and 7,000 villages in the state, was laid by the chief minister recently.

A fine all-round performance from Marizanne Kapp helped South Africa crush Pakistan by 126 runs in their last league match and qualify for the Super Six stage of the ICC Women’s World Cup, here today.

South Africa rode on Marizanne’s unbeaten 150-ball 102 to post 207 for five in their alloted 50 overs after electing to bat and then shot out Pakistan for a paltry 81 in 29.4 overs to finish the league with two points from three games.

Pakistan remained winless in the tournament after having lost their other two Group ‘B’ games to Australia and New Zealand.

A day after their decision to disband the Kashmir’s all-girls rock-band following the fatwa (decree) from the Grand Mufti of Jammu and Kashmir, a member of the band on Tuesday said that though they are feeling bad but will not sing in future.

“We have mutually agreed to call it quits because of the people of Kashmir and our Grand Mufti sahib. He is Islamic scholar and he might be right suggesting us not to sing, we respect him,” said one of the three band members.

The 670-km East-West Corridor in Assam is expected to be completed by December 2014, Union Transport Minister C P Joshi said today. despite challenges of law and order as well as weather conditions, said So far 431 km of the corridor in Nagaon-Daboka-Lanka-Udali section has completed, while another 63 km length is likely to be ready by June this year, he told reporters here.

Work at Jalukbari junction near Gauhati University is likely to be completed by November this year and the
Brahmaputra bridge near it by December next year, he said.

Finance Ministry today relaxed the norms for depositing funds in the bank accounts of beneficiaries under the Direct Benefit Transfers (DBT) scheme.

In the case of schemes covered under DBT, where the fund flow is directly from the Central Government to the
beneficiaries’, the intimation from the bank or National Payments Corporation of India (Aadhaar Payment Bridge System) regarding deposit of funds in the beneficiaries’ bank accounts may be treated as a Utilisation Certificate,” a Finance Ministry circular said.

An ex-BPO employee along with his two associates were arrested for allegedly murdering his wife,police said here today.

The woman’s husband and the other accused, who killed the her on Sunday night, had cooked up a story before the police that two robbers had strangled her.

However, the statement of the employee’s three-year-old son who was in the car with his six-year-old brother of not seeing anybody fight in the car led the police to doubt the accused’s claims.

Rose cultivators in Maharashtra are rushing to ship off their consignments to America and Europe following a rise in demand as Valentine”s Day draws closer.

Cultivators in Amble village in the Mawal region near here are busy packing roses to ensure that the consignment is shipped to each destination on time.

The Mawal region is one of the hubs for flower production and producers pack roses in an attractive manner.

A woman was allegedly stripped naked on the orders of a panchayat in Pakistan’s Punjab province to settle a dispute over an extra-marital affair.

According to the victim Kalsoom Mai, the incident occurred last week in Muzaffarghar district, 400-km from
Lahore.
Kalsoom, a resident of Qasba Gujrat, told police her relative Mohammad Bilal and others had tortured and stripped
her in the presence of local residents.

Kalsoom’s husband Muhammad Nawaz was allegedly having an affair with Bilal’s wife.

Ingredients

¾ cup Sugar
½ cup All-Purpose Flour (Maida)
Salt (to taste)
3 cups Milk
3 Egg Yolks
2 tbsp Butter
1 tsp Vanilla Essence
½ cup Coconut (grated)
2 tbsp Coconut Flakes (for decorating)

How to make Coconut Custard

Take sugar, flour, salt and milk in a saucepan.
Cook it on low a flame for 20 minutes, or until it thickens. Stir the mix continuously.
Mix in egg yolk and cook it for another 5 minutes.
Take the saucepan off the flame.
Add butter, vanilla essence and grated coconut.
Transfer the mixture to serving bowls and refrigerate until it is set.

Six Spanish women tourists have been raped in the famous Mexican tourist resort of Acapulco by an armed gang who broke into their rented beach bungalow as they slept, a media report said here.

Five masked men raped the women after tying up their partners with telephone cords and the elastic from their bikinis, the Daily Mail reported.

The rapists, however, spared a Mexican woman who was staying with the group.

Acapulco Mayor Luis Walton has condemned the crime and promised to catch the attackers.