Justice (retired) T. Jayaram Chouta, who has been appointed by the Board of Control for Cricket of India (BCCI) to head a commission of inquiry to look into spot fixing allegations in the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), said Monday that he could not and would not comment on the issue till the membership of the committee is complete.
(IANS) Actress Ameesha Patel is so impressed with choreographer Shiamak Davar and his style of dancing that she calls him the “pioneer of new dance forms”.
“Shiamak (Davar)ji is a pioneer of new dance forms. Earlier, dance uses to be typical Bollywood, but it is Shiamak, who has brought the modern dance forms mixed with filminess,” Ameesha said here at an event organised by Shiamak where her “Shortcut Romeo” co-sar Neil Nitin Mukesh was also present.
The two were there to promote Susi Ganeshan directed thriller “Shortcut Romeo”.
A man who molested a mentally challenged girl here eight years ago has been sentenced to six months imprisonment by a Delhi court, which reduced the one year jail term awarded to him earlier.
Additional Sessions Judge Pawan Kumar Jain took a lenient view towards Delhi resident Raj Kumar and modified the jail term of one year awarded by a magistrate to six months, saying he has been facing agony of trial for the past eight years.
Scores of well-wishers and supporters assembled at the residence of DMK chief M. Karunanidhi here on Monday to wish him on his 90th birthday.
On the occasion, Karunanidhi remembered his predecessors and placed wreaths at the memorials of the founder of the DMK party, late Arignar Annadurai and Periyar.
Karunanidhi has served as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on five separate occasions. He holds the record of winning his seat in every election in which he has participated, in a political career spanning more than 60 years.
Police in West Bengal”s Assansol District are investigating an alleged honour killing of a boy and girl. Both were found hanging from a tree and the bodies have been sent for a post mortem. In India, there are no official figures of men and women shot, lynched, stabbed or poisoned by their families or communities in recent years. The Supreme Court had called for an end to customary practices which promote “honour killings”, saying the brutal tradition of parents killing their children to protect their so-called reputation is “barbaric” and “shameful”. (ANI)
Channel Nine has retained the rights to broadcast international cricket in Australia for the next five years. Channel Nine will pay 450 million dollars in cash and contra advertising to televise home international matches between November and February in the richest television agreement in cricket”s history. According to the Age, Channel Nine won the deal over Network Ten by exercising its last-rights privilege from its previous contract with Cricket Australia. The new deal will be formally announced by Cricket Australia in Melbourne on Tuesday afternoon. (ANI)
The Samajwadi Party (SP), which provides outside support to the Congress-led UPA Government, on Monday said the Centre should not bring the Food Security Bill as it would distress the farmers.
Samajwadi Party leader Naresh Agarwal said that the government is moving towards mid-term polls by deciding to bring in the Food Security Bill.
Over a week after Delhi Lokayukta indicted Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for allegedly misusing government funds in an advertisement campaign ahead of the 2008 Assembly polls, a complaint has been filed before a court here seeking registration of FIR against her and others.
The complaint moved before a Special court seeks lodging of FIR against Dikshit, some ministers, directorate of advertisement and publicity in the Delhi government and officials of its department of Finance.
A first-of-its-kind, non-surgical circumcision device that could forestall the spread of AIDS in Africa has reportedly received approval from World Health Organization.
According to The New York Times, The PrePex is the only circumcision method, aside from conventional surgery, to gain approval from the international health organization.
WHO reportedly gave its approval to the device on Friday, Fox News reported.
Dr. Eric P. Goosby, the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, subsequently told the paper that the device would “truly help save lives.”
We know that there are many health benefits of getting enough sleep, and that the negative impacts of sleep deprivation can be severe.
But many of us have a tough time actually making it happen by following earlier-to-bed schedules.
People who are night owls and shift workers do have more medical and mental health problems, but it’s not clear if this is just the genetic makeup of night owls or that those who stay up late have these issues, Michael Breus, Ph.D., told the Huffington Post.
A new study has shown that death rates from breast cancer can be slashed further by extending drug therapy for longer.
Researchers have found that women who took the drug tamoxifen for ten years rather than the usual five halved their risk of dying from the disease, the Independent reported.
Discovered in the 1960s, Tamoxifen has transformed the treatment of breast cancer and resulted in nearly 50 per cent fall in death rates in the last 30 years.
Egypt’s highest court has declared that the Islamist dominated legislature and constitutional panel were illegally elected.
The Supreme Constitutional Court said that the legislature’s upper house can not be dissolved till the lower chamber is re-elected later this year or in 2014.
News 24 reports that the ruling has contributed more to the nation’s political instability since the overthrow of authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak two years ago.
The constitution has already dissolved after completing the charter.
Mumbai Police have arrested Pune-based bookie Kishore Lalchand Badlani alias Kesu Pune at Mumbai airport. Badlani was reportedly in constant touch with D-gang members and bookies in Pakistan. Earlier, two officials from the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) were due to meet jailed cricketer S. Sreesanth in Delhi on Monday. “The officials are Sreejith Nair is a criminal lawyer by profession and the Alappuzha district secretary of the KCA, and the other represents the district (Ernakulam) from which Sreesanth hails,” KCA secretary T. C. Mathew.
The Rohingya community in Myanmar who are being held in squalid camps and even beaten up, have been told that there is only one way out – by identifying themselves as Bengalis.
Zia Ul Haq, along with nine other Rohingya Muslims, was handcuffed and dragged to the nearby railway tracks, and then beaten up by the police at three in the morning and was apparently threatened to identify themselves as Bengalis – a term suggesting they are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
London, June 3 (ANI): England”s one-day cricket team coach Ashley Giles is hopeful that his wards will emerge victorious in their Group A encounter with Australia in the ICC Champions Trophy when they meet later this week at Edgbaston. Giles believes that it will enhance the team”s confidence and increase expectations for the semi-finals of the tournament, reports The Mirror. Giles said that all eyes are on the Ashes series, which begins in Nottingham from July 10.
An Indian origin scientist and her team have made a breakthrough that could lead to development of artificial livers for transplantation.
The liver can indeed regenerate itself if part of it is removed. However, researchers trying to exploit that ability in hopes of producing artificial liver tissue for transplantation have repeatedly been stymied: Mature liver cells, known as hepatocytes, quickly lose their normal function when removed from the body.
Choreographer Tara will now be directing a movie. The film Barrister Shakar Narayan was today formally launched.
Tara, who is very popular as a choreographer, will be directing the movie which has Raj Kumar as the hero. The film is being produced under Choudeswari Devi Pictures banner.
The film runs on love and comedy tracks. Launched at Prasad Labs, the film is likely to be released next month. (INN)
Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party, was elected the speaker of Pakistan’s National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, Monday.
Sadiq became the 14th speaker of the National Assembly after securing 258 of the 313 votes polled in the 342-member National Assembly, reported Xinhua, citing outgoing speaker Fahmida Mirza.
Hours before the election, the outgoing Pakistan Peoples Party withdrew its candidates for the positions of speaker and deputy speaker.
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The Telangana Political Joint Action Committee leaders met BJP National President Rajnath Singh here on Monday. The BJP president was here to address a public meeting.
The TJAC leaders told Singh that Congress has been dragging its feet on the Telangana issue and never honoured its word. “The sacrifices of the people for Telangana will not go futile and we will come to power in the Centre and give Telangana,” Singh assured them. (INN)
The State Government has revived the Women Commission and appointed Tripurana Venkataratnam as its President.
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has taken the decision to revive the Commssion. Other members of the Commission include Paruchuri Jamuna, Sunitha Krishnana, Malliswari, Kasturi and Feroze Begum. (INN)
Zee News editor Sudhir Chaudhary Monday moved the Delhi High Court seeking anticipatory bail in a fresh forgery case registered against him for telecast of a show on coal blocks allocation allegedly on the basis of forged papers.
The programme hinted at Jindal Group’s alleged connection with the suspected wrongdoings in the coal blocks allocation.
Chaudhary’s plea came up before Justice R.V. Easwar, who posted the matter for July 3.
The Telagnana Rashtra Samithi has criticized the State Government for its education policy which has become very dear and out of reach to the common man and demanded a white paper on the issue.
The High Court has adjourned the bail case in the OMC case to June 4.
The bail petition of former Karnataka Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy and Srinivasula Reddy has been adjourned to Tuesday. They have moved the bail petition after Janardhan Reddy completed his questioning in Bangalore. He is charged with illegal mining in the Karnataka-Andhra border.
State Mineral Development Corporation and other officials are also facing charges along with Gali Janardhan Reddy. (INN)
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy will be the chief guest at the 181st State Level Bankers’ Committee on June 4 at 11.30 am at Hotel Taj Krishna here.
Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy on Monday made it clear that his government under the guidance of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has been effectively implementing the party policies for all-round development of the weaker sections. He also pointed out that his government had enacted a law for effective implementation of the SC, ST Sub-Plan towards this end.