An Assistant Professor of the city-based Osmania University (OU) has been arrested on the charge of harassing female students, police said today.
Shiv Shankar was nabbed two days ago by the sleuths of Central Crime Station, a wing of Hyderabad Police.
He would get friendly with female students and then harass them, a senior police officer said.
——PTI
A key bookie in IPL spot-fixing scandal, today retracted before a Delhi court from his confessional statement recorded by the police saying it was given under “pressure”.
Jitendra Jain, alias Jeetu, filed an application before the court requesting it to take action against erring police officials for “mis-using their official powers and recording the false confessional statement under threat and pressure”.
The sexual abuse of children in developing countries is increasingly being live-streamed on Internet services such as Skype, Britain’s online child protection agency warned today.
Paedophiles are increasingly targeting poor families abroad, exchanging access to live video images of children in exchange for payment, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) said.
The agency said live-streaming emerged in 2012 as a means of producing and distributing indecent images.
India has been and will continue to be a strategic partner of the US, an American official said today, asserting that Secretary of State John Kerry is looking forward to continuing the positive bilateral relationship.
Kerry, who travelled to India during his just concluded Asia trip, “enjoyed every aspect of his visit,” State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki told reporters.
Insurgents unleashed a new wave of attacks today in Iraq, killing at least 53 people, officials said, the latest in a surge in violence across the country that has raised concerns over a return to sectarian bloodshed.
Also, seven militants were killed. There was no claim of responsibility for the attacks, mostly car bombs in Shiite areas.
Al-Qaeda’s Iraq branch, which has been gaining strength in recent months, frequently targets Shiites, security forces and civil servants in an effort to undermine the Shiite-led government in Baghdad.
Several hundred protesters stormed a police station in southern Ukraine today after authorities initially failed to arrest one of two policemen implicated in the rape of a young woman.
The outrage prompted Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych to order a top-level enquiry into the gang rape of 29-year-old Iryna Krashkova.
Residents of Vradiyivka in the southern Mykolayiv region hurled firebombs, bottles and stones as they attacked the police headquarters in the early hours today.
Shots could be heard as police used tear gas against protesters, some of whom were covered in blood.
An earthquake Tuesday killed six children and left 14 others trapped when a mosque collapsed during a Koran reading session in Indonesia’s Aceh province, bringing the confirmed death toll from the disaster to 11. The strong 6.1-magnitude quake left hundreds more injured as it rocked a region that was devastated by the quake-triggered tsunami of 2004.
The earthquake reduced houses in parts of Aceh to rubble, set off several landslides and badly damaged roads.
A member of the Sri Lankan cricket team tried to open the cabin door on the British Airways flight from St Lucia to Gatwick while the plane was at 35,000ft, as reported by the Dailymail.
As per the report in the leading daily, the unnamed drunk Sri Lanka A cricketer tried to open the exterior door before telling British Airway cabin crew on board the Boeing 777 that he had mistaken it for the toilet.
Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma on Tuesday kicked up another controversy with his barbs at friend-turned foe Mulayam Singh Yadav, saying that the SP chief was not even fit to sweep the Prime Minister’s residence, drawing instant rebuke from the Congress.
“Yadav wants to become Prime Minister. He should first try to get the job of a sweeper at the residence of the PM,” 77-year Verma said at a programme in Uttar Pradesh’s Faizabad.
He prefaced his remark by alleging that the Samajwadi Party was a party based on “lies and fraud” and that it will be finished by the Congress.
BJP on Tuesday demanded removal of Jharkhand Governor Syed Ahmed accusing the administration in the state under President’s rule of failing to rein in left-wing extremism and dealing with other law and order matters.
We are deeply shocked and grieved at the death of police personnel in the Maoist attack in Dumka. A district police captain falling to bullets shows the total failure of the state administration under President?s rule,? BJP’s state unit President Ravindra Rai told reporters here.
Over 11,000 people are feared to be still missing in the flash-floods and landslides in Uttarakhand, NDMA Vice-Chairman Shashidhar Reddy said today.
Reddy said as per the official data, the count of missing people has reached only upto 3,500 to 3,700 but more than 11,000 people are feared to be missing in the state.
According to the NDMA’s recent data, rains and floods had affected 4,200 villages in Uttarakhand besides damaging 2,397 houses and 194 bridges.
So far, 580 people have lost their lives and officially 3,500 continue to be missing.
Three weeks after his arrest in the actress Jiah Khan suicide case, Suraj Pancholi, son of Bollywood actor Aditya Pancholi, was released from prison today after the Bombay High Court granted him bail.
Suraj, granted bail yesterday, walked out of the Arthur Road Jail in central Mumbai at about 5 pm. His family members had been busy since yesterday to complete the bail-related formalities.
Granting relief to Suraj, the HC had observed that the 22-year-old aspiring actor can’t be held solely responsible for the “impulsive” act of his actress-girlfriend.
An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered in Gandhi Nagar area of Worli in central Mumbai during the wee hours today, police said.
The deceased lived with her family on a footpath, police said.
According to police, the victim’s parents found her missing when they woke up in the morning, after which they started searching for her.
Her body was found 100 ft away from their hut among plants near the footpath at around 6:30 AM, they said.
Locals informed the police who rushed the girl to Nair hospital where she was declared dead on arrival.
Police at Rome’s Fiumicino airport arrested three people carrying 22 kg of cocaine as they came in a flight from Brazil.
The drugs are estimated at over five million euros.
A Cypriot and a Ukrainian had hidden the drugs beneath false bottoms in the luggage they checked into the aircraft’s hold.
The third suspect, a Brazilian who said she was on a pilgrimage to Italy, had concealed the narcotics in her hand-luggage.
–IANS
A traffic warden in a northern Italian town wounded the local mayor in a gun attack and also injured her deputy.
Cadano al Campo mayor Laura Prati was hit in the abdomen and the arm in the attack at the town hall while deputy mayor Costantino Iametti was injured in the head.
Both officials were rushed to a hospital after the ambush, in which witnesses said the traffic warden used a submachine gun, a sawn-off shotgun or a pump-action shotgun.
The VareseNews website named the traffic warden as 61-year-old Giuseppe Pegoraro, who was earlier suspended from duty for suspected fraud.
Air Arabia, the first and largest low-cost carrier in the Middle East and North Africa, has been awarded the best low-cost airline in the region at the Skytrax World Airline Awards 2013.
The award, given recently at the Paris Air Show, recognises the airline’s commitment for providing the best quality, low cost travel.
The Skytrax World Airline Awards are voted for by air travellers from 160 countries across the world. This wholly independent survey covers 200 airlines, from large international groups to smaller domestic carriers across all classes of travel.
Following is the scoreboard of the Sri Lanka innings, against India, in the third match of the Celkon Mobile Cup tri-nation ODI series at Sabina Park here Tuesday.
Sri Lanka:
Upul Tharanga not out 174
Mahela Jayawardene c Yadav b Ashwin 107
Angelo Mathews not out 44
Extras (b 1, lb 6, w 16) 23
Total (for one wicket in 50 overs) 348
Fall of wicket: 1-213 (Jayawardene, 38.4 overs)
Bowling:
Shami Ahmed 10-0-68-0
Umesh Yadav 8-0-64-0
Ishant Sharma 9-0-68-0
Ravindra Jadeja 9-0-55-0
Ravichndran Ashwin 10-0-67-1
Virat Kohli 2-0-9-0
Suresh Raina 2-0-10-0
–IANS
Sri Lanka beat India by a huge margin of 161 runs in the third ODI of the Celkon tri-nation series at the Sabina Park here Tuesday.
India, chasing a huge target of 349, were bowled out for 187 in 44.5 overs after Ravindra Jadeja remained unbeaten on 49 and Suresh Raina struck 33.
For Sri Lanka, Upul Tharanga made a massive unbeaten 174 while Mahela Jayawardene made 107.
–IANS
Congress-free India will be created under the leadership of BJP President Rajnath Singh and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, BJP national general secretary Amit Shah said today.
“We have offered prayers to create a Congress-free India under leadership of Rajnath Singh and Narendra Modi,” Shah told reporters at a temple here.
He was here to view to take part in a meeting of local BJP leaders.
–Pti
Pakistan Tuesday rejected as completely baseless the comments and “ideas” attributed to it by Afghan officials relating to alleged “power-sharing formula” with the Taliban or attempting to “bring fiefdoms to Afghanistan”.
Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Irshad Ahmadi said in Kabul Monday that Pakistan suggested the Afghan government share power with the Taliban as part of the end game, reported Xinhua.
Ahmadi claimed that Pakistan’s security adviser Sartaj Aziz floated the proposal in his meeting with Afghan Ambassador Umer Daudzai in Islamabad Friday.
The Prime Minister Office (PMO) on Tuesday dismissed media reports about the disagreement within the government or between the Ministers and Prime Minister over the India-UAE bilateral air services agreement on the Jet Airways-Etihad deal.
A study has revealed that pre-training glycemic level has considerable effect on exercise-induced improvements.
According to a research letter by Thomas P. J. Solomon, Ph.D. of the Centre of Inflammation and Metabolism, Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues, although moderate-intensity aerobic exercise can improve glycemic control, individuals with ambient hyperglycemia (high blood glucose) are more likely to be nonresponders.
The controversy over the CBI questioning Intelligence Bureau officer Rajendra Kumar in the Ishrat Jahan shootout figured in the consultative meeting of the home ministry Tuesday with the BJP members stating that she and her associates killed in the incident were members of terror outfit Lashker-e-Taiba.
The issue was raised by BJP MPs Vinay Katiyar and Yogi Aditya Nath.
The BJP leaders alleged Ishrat Jahan was a terrorist as her name had figured in the website of LeT.
1 in 3 men pretend to look more intelligent and cultured than they really are, a new study revealed.
But only 14 per cent of women admitted that they try to act more educated than they are in reality, the Daily Express reported.
The survey, which was conducted by the internet search engine Ask Jeeves, found that twenty per cent of fake intellectuals pretended to favor Beethoven over Beyonce.
The study also discovered that talking loudly about politics, re-tweeting a social media post on metaphysics or pretending to be a wine buff, were other little acts of make-believe.
Actress Madhuri Dixit, who ruled the hearts of many in 80s and 90s with films like ‘Tezaab’, ‘Parinda’ to name a few, believes there is no fixed formula for success.
The ‘dhak dhak’ girl, who got married in 1999 to a US-based surgeon, had acted in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Devdas’ in 2002 before taking a break and made a comeback in Aditya Chopra’s home production ‘Aaja Nachle’ in 2007.
“I think there is no mantra for success. One just has to be positive and keep doing good work. One must keep moving forward and not think much,” Madhuri told reporters here at an event.