Month: June 2013

Pregnant Kim still having botox?

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Socialite Kim Kardashian, who is expecting her first child, is reportedly so obsessed with her looks that she is undergoing botox treatment even during her pregnancy.The 32-year-old is due for delivery in July, but she is said to have become so obsessed with the thought of remaining young-looking, that she is getting the cosmetic treatment to keep her skin smooth, reports contactmusic.com.

“She’s still getting injections even though she’s seven months pregnant,” an insider told In Touch Weekly magazine.

Thief steals over $900,000 from Moscow bank

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A thief has stolen 30 million rubles (around $940,000) from a bank in Moscow, police said.The suspect Saturday entered a branch of Sberbank, the Russian state retail bank, deactivated the alarm system and left the building some 10 minutes later with a huge bag of money, video recordings showed.

The robber also took the keys from the bank’s safe, police said.

Investigators believe a bank employee was the suspect’s accomplice, who duplicated the keys and told him how to deactivate the alarm system.

Earthquake jolts Taiwan

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A 6.7-magnitude earthquake jolted Nantou county in Taiwan Sunday, Xinhua reported.

The epicentre, with a depth of nine kilometres, was monitored at about 23.9 degrees north latitude and 120.9 degrees east longitude.

Turkish protesters attack PM office, 7 injured

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Beijing, Jun 2 (Xinhua-ANI): About 5,000 protesters attacked Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan””s office with stones in Istanbul on Saturday night, leaving at least seven policemen injured. An eyewitness told Xinhua that fury protesters attacked the office of Erdogan in Besiktas on the European shore of the Bosporus and some windows were broken. Special police forces rushed to the scene and used tear gas and high-pressured water gun to disperse the protesters.

8 in 10 Brits support arming rebels in Syria, says poll

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Eight in ten people in Britain believe that the government must facilitate the rebels with arms, a new survey has revealed.

The poll results have come amid Britain’s support for lifting the arm ban on Syrian regime, the Guardian reports.

According to the report, while only 24 percent have supported giving weapons or arms to the military forces fighting President Bashar al-Assad”s army, 58 percent of the public were in favour of offering humanitarian aid.

De Villiers says beating India in first Champions Trophy clash ”key to success”

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South African captain AB de Villiers has said that beating India in their first ICC Champions Trophy clash is the key to success in the eight-nation tournament. South Africa, ranked No.1 in the world in Tests but just fourth in one-day internationals, have long been known as chokers for their inability to turn talent into trophies, the Daily Star reports.

Ajmal says Pak focusing on Champions Trophy after putting rest to 2010 betting scam

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Pakistani spin star Saeed Ajmal has said that Pakistan is determined to put the corruption scandal of 2010 behind them and focus on the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy and the rest of the 2013 season.

The Champions Trophy marks Pakistan”s first return to England since three of the tourists” squad, former captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammed Amir were first identified as being involved in a betting scam, the Daily Star reports.

Al-Qaeda plot to use and smuggle chemical weapons foiled by Iraqi intelligence

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Iraq”s military intelligence authorities have arrested five men, linked to Al- Qaeda, for manufacturing chemical weapons and plotting to smuggle them to Europe and North America. The military intelligence authorities monitored the activities of the men for three months in which three workshops that manufactured chemical agents were uncovered, reports BBC.

The chemical agents included sarin and mustard gas, and these agents could be used on a target from a safe distance of 1.5km. Military intelligence authorities have also recovered remote controlled toy planes from the workshops.

Wikileaks employee claims Assange adopted ‘once despised’ behaviour

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Sydney, June 2 (ANI): A Wikileaks spokesperson has said that the organization’s founder Julian Assange has become everything he ‘originally, rightly, despised.’

Spokesperson James Ball’s claims come amid investigation over sexual allegations on Assange by two women, News.com.au reports.

Ball said that Assange is not entirely venal and his problem lies in ‘noble cause’ corruption as he believes ‘he is the good guy’ despite behaviour that he might condemn in others.

Admissions in progress in B.Sc agriculture

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According to the notification of Acharya N G Ranga Agriculture University, students who have passed diploma in agriculture polytechnic (ICRISAT 2013) can take admission in B.Sc. agriculture course. 10 % percent seats are reserved for them. For forms and other details log on to www.angau.ac.in. The last date to submit filled in application is June 15, 2013. For further details call on phone no. 9849534930.

Siasat news

Screening test for admission into merit classes

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The screening test for admission into merit classes from VII to X class, will be held on Sunday, June 2 at 10 am at New Model High School, Doodh Bowli under the supervision of Dr. Hasanuddin Ahmed IAS (retd.).

Student from any school can appear the test. Scholarship will also be provided.

Siasat news

Ali Yawar Jung National Institute offers various courses

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Ali Yawar Jung Institute for the hearing handicapped, southern regional centre, Secunderabad invites applications from the eligible candidates for taking admission into various courses such as B.SC. (ASLP), M.Sc. (ASLP), DHLS, B.Ed special education and D.Ed. the last date for submission is June 14. For more details contact on 040-27753385.

Siasat news

Bombay Mercantile Bank to provide foreign exchange to Hajj pilgrims

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Central Hajj Committee of India has assigned Bombay Mercantile Bank the responsibility of providing forein exchange to 1.25 lakh Hajj pilgrims going for the Holy pilgrimage through Hajj committee.

According to Managing Director Bombay Mercantile Bank Mr. Shaikh Mushtaq Ali Ahmed, Hajj aspirants will leave for Hajj from 21 embarkation points. Branches of Bombay Mercantile Bank will be set up at various cities and counters will be set up at each embarkation point for providing Saudi Riyal in exchange of Indian currency. Mr. Lal Jan Pasha is the chairman of BMC.

Siasat news

Salma Haseena tops Chennai schools in SSLC

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S.A. Salma Haseena has topped the Chennai schools in the SSLC exams held in March/April 2013. She secured 491 marks out of the total 500. Salma is the daughter of a junior engineer with Southern Railway. The results of Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) exams were released yesterday. Continuing the trend the girls outperformed boys with 93.7 pass percentage.

Siasat news

EC defends power to disqualify candidates for false poll accnt

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Strongly opposing government’s stand, the Election Commission has asserted that it has the powers to disqualify a candidate for lodging false accounts of election expenditure.

Submitting its affidavit in the Supreme Court in the paid news case of former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan, the EC had made its position clear and aggressively defended its powers against the Law Ministry submission that the

Commission does not have the powers to disqualify a candidate on account of filing wrong election expenditure accounts.

Muslim man pleads guilty for plotting Prince Harry”s murder

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Close on the heels of the brutal slaying of British soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, a man has confessed that he wanted to kill Prince Harry. Ashraf Islam, 30, was charged with threats to kill the third in line for the throne, and was arrested in London. According to the Mirror, Islam pleaded guilty before the Uxbridge Magistrates” Court after an investigation carried out by the Metropolitan Police”s Counter Terrorism Command.

AP’s Health Minister DL Ravindra Reddy sacked

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A day after he held talks with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi over the revamp of his Council of Ministers, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday night removed Health Minister D L Ravindra Reddy from the cabinet for criticising government programmes.

D L Ravindra Reddy, a bitter critic of the Chief Minister, is the second minister after P Shanker Rao to be sackesd from the Kiran Kumar Reddy Cabinet.

There are indications that one or two more ministers may meet the same fate soon.

Hagel mixes business and memories in Asia trip

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Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel’s first trip to Asia as Pentagon chief has been a bit of a walk down memory lane for the former infantry soldier.

Forty-five years ago, as the Vietnam war raged on, Army Spc. Hagel and Nguyen Tan Dung were on opposite sides of
combat serving in the Mekong Delta both wounded more than once as they battled for their countries.

This weekend the two men, now America’s defence secretary and Vietnam’s prime minister, met at the start of an
international security conference here, working to help build America’s growing military partnership with Vietnam.

Polling underway for Haryana civic polls

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Polling for the election of councillors of seven municipal corporations and two municipal committees in Haryana is underway on Sunday.

The municipal elections are being held in Ambala, Panchkula, Karnal, Panipat, Hisar, Rohtak and Yamuna Nagar (all municipal corporations) and Farukh Nagar (Gurgaon) and Kalanaur (Rohtak), Haryana’s State Election Commissioner Dharam Vir said.

Du Ba Du programme on June 9

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Du Ba Du programme is being organized by Siasat daily and MDF on Sunday, June 9, from 10 am to 4 pm, at Mumtaz College Malakpet, to make the marriages of Muslim girls and boys easy and to settle the marriage alliances on the spot.

Protesters claim win as police leave Istanbul square

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Thousands of protesters in Istanbul were celebrating victory early today after police withdrew from the square at the centre of one of the largest demonstrations against Turkey’s Islamist-rooted government.

Rights groups denounced police violence, with Amnesty International saying that there had been two deaths, while Turkey’s Western allies Britain and the United States called on the government to show restraint.

Taksim Square has become the epicentre of demonstrations that have left dozens injured — hundreds according to