Month: July 2013

Passenger arrested for striptease during flight

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Toronto-based transgender artists stripped off mid air after they felt offended by the “inappropriate” questions a flight attendant asked them.

Nine Arsenault and Lexi Sanfino, who decided to shock the air hostess by their naked act on the WestJet flight last Friday, said that the attendant asked them to teach how to do makeup, saying that ‘You know, because you used to be guys, right?,’

News.com.au reported.

So, Sanfino decided to get revenge by strutting down the aisle, topless.

Modi”s Uttarakhand visit a ”publicity stunt”: Shivanand Tiwari

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Senior Janata Dal (United) leader Shivanand Tiwari on Tuesday lashed out at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, and said that his Uttarakhand visit was a cheap publicity stunt. “We do not believe in cheap publicity like what Narendra Modi did trying to be a superhero. The Bharatiya Janata Party is hence cheap and just not responsible. Why is Narendra Modi getting desperate?

Brit model says she was fired over breast size

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A Brit model was fired from her job because at 32A cup size, she was reportedly a little too voluptuous for the people at Dior’s liking, it has been revealed.

The average woman in the UK is a 36D.

Victoria’s Secret model Jourdan Dunn, 22, took to Twitter on Monday to reveal that she had been fired from the high profile Dior Couture runway show in Paris, despite being one of the most popular models of the moment, Stuff.co.nz reported.

US blacklists Myanmar general over NKorea arms deals

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The United States placed a Myanmar general on its sanctions blacklist today for arms deals with North Korea that violated a UN Security Council embargo on buying weapons from Pyongyang.

The US Treasury named Lt General Thein Htay, the head of Myanmar’s Directorate of Defence Industries, for the sanctions, saying he was involved in buying North Korean military goods despite his government’s support of the Security Council ban.

It also said he acted on behalf of the Directorate of Defense Industries, which was already on the US sanctions blacklist for arms deals with North Korea.

Pakistan govt advised to tackle terrorism to revive economy

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Pakistan Government needs to take up the issue of terrorism on a priority basis if it wants to revive the country’s economy, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said.

In a statement issued by JUI-F’s spokesman Jan Achakzai, Rehman urged the newly elected Nawaz Sharif government to prepare a comprehensive ‘national anti-terrorism strategy,’ as only the federation could take effective measures to restore peace.

NSA whistleblower Snowden withdraws application for political asylum in Russia

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Former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden aborted his intention to ask for political asylum in Russia, Kremlin said Tuesday.

“He withdrew his application to stay in Russia,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

On Monday, Snowden, acting via his solicitor, handed a refugee application to the Russian authorities in a Moscow airport.

He has been in the transit area of the Sheremetyevo airport for eight days after arriving here from Hong Kong.

Eight IAS officers transferred in Andhra Pradesh

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Andhra Pradesh government tonight transferred eight senior IAS officers and assigned postings to five other bureaucrats.

M G Gopal, a 1983-batch IAS officer, has been appointed Executive Officer of the prestigious Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD).

He will replace L V Subrahmanyam, who will take over as Principal Secretary (Health), a post in which he served earlier as well, official sources said.

Prasanta Mahapatra, a Special Chief Secretary rank officer of the 1980 batch, has been made Director General of MCR Human Resources Development Institute.

Sex tape destroyed my faith in men, says Paris Hilton

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Paris Hilton has admitted that she shudders in horror when she recalls how it felt when her explicit sex tape- recorded by her ex boyfriend Rick Salomon- became public.

Getting candid about the trials and tribulations of her life in the limelight on US reality TV, the hotel heiress said that it was the most painful thing she has ever went through in her life, the Mirror reported.

The 32-year-old star said that it was not any random person who released the tape but her boyfriend, whom she really loved and trusted.

Ex-refugee Ahmed eligible for Ashes after officially becoming Oz citizen

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Pakistan-born leg spinner Fawad Ahmed has become eligible to play in the Ashes after he was officially announced as an Australian citizen on Tuesday. According to the Guardian, Ahmed, who applied for refugee status when he came to Australia four years ago, played for Australia A in their England tour, but under eligibility rules he had to receive full citizenship before he could be considered for Ashes selection.

Japanese surgeons successfully transplant parts of mum’s lung into 3-year-old son

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Part of a mother’s lung has been successfully transplanted into her 3-year-old son in the world’s first middle lobe transfer from a living donor.

According to Okayama University Hospital, the operation made the troubled boy, whose lung function was declining, the youngest lung recipient in Japan, the Japan Times reported.

Lead surgeon, Takahiro Oto, said at a press conference after the operation that the boy’s artificial heart and lung has been removed, and he has begun to breathe with the transplanted lung.

Lagadapati to quit politics if ‘T’ is created

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Vijayawada Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal here on Tuesday blamed the Telugu Desam party for the likely division of the State.

Speaking to the media, Lagadapati said the pressure on the Union government on Telangana State formation had increased only after the TDP submitted a letter expressing its willingness to division of the State.

CPI demands probe into visakha manyam scam

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CPI State secretary Dr K Narayana has demanded that the State government order an inquiry into the “Visakha Manyam scam” in coffee, rice and other products.

Speaking to the media here on Tuesday, Narayana alleged that the State and Central governments were adopting dual standards on the Telangana issue. He demanded that the government prove its sincerity by dismissing tainted ministers from the Cabinet. He also asked the government to pass a unanimous resolution in the Cabinet to cancel the Bauxite agreement at Manya Seema. (NSS)

Four-Tier Security for PR polls: DGP

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Director General of Police (DGP) V Dinesh Reddy has said four-level security will be provided to Panchayat Raj elections to be held very soon.

Speaking to the media after a review meeting on law and order situation at DGP office here on Tuesday, the DGP said there was a chance violence erupting in the villages during PR elections. He said they would ask the Centre for additional forces and also forces from the neighboring States.

Killing Girl Child is Anti-Social: CM

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Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy has said killing a girl child is anti-social act.

Inaugurating “Bangaru Thalli” scheme here on Tuesday, the Chief Minister said change should begin at home. He questioned the parents as to who gave them the right to kill a girl child. Stressing the need for a radical change in the society, he said since the last 20 years, around one crore infant girls were done to death either before or after birth. He said that in between 2005 and 2011, a total of 70,000 girls had died. Female feticide is not a correct step, he told parents.

Mopidevi taken to NIMS for back pain

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Former minister Mopidevi Venkataramana, who was lodged at the Chanchalaguda Jail, was taken to NIMS hospital after he complained of back pain.

Mopidevi, who was arrested in the Vanpic case related to the Disproportionate Assets case of Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, was rushed to the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences from the Chanchalguda Jail after he sought better treatment. He is also suffering from high blood pressure and other health problems.

It may be mentioned that earlier Mopidevi was taken to Osmania General Hospital after he complained of chest pain. (INN)

Gautami Express gets one additional Sleeper Class Coach

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The South Central Railway has permanently augmented Train No. 12738 / 12737 Secunderabad – Kakinada Town – Secunderabad Gautami Express with one additional Sleeper Class coach.

Accordingly, Train No. 12738 Secunderabad – Kakinada Town Gautami Express is permanently augmented with one additional Sleeper Class coach Ex. Secunderabad from Tuesday. Similarly, the Train No. 12737 Kakinada Town – Secunderabad Gautami Express is permanently augmented with one additional Sleeper Class coach Ex. Kakinada Town from Wednesday.

TDP looking for cheap publicity

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Criticising TDP for trying to politicise the Uttakahad relief work, YSR Congress has said that the Leader of Opposition has been trying to cover up his laxity in attending to the people’s problems by making an issue out of the natural calamity.

Manmohan, Sharif to meet in September?

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Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are likely to have their first meeting in September in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, a Pakistani media report said. However, Indian officials said they had no information about such a meeting.

The influential Dawn newspaper quoted Sharif’s Special Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz as saying that Prime Minister Sharif and Prime Minister Singh were likely to meet in September in New York.

Mulayam not even fit to sweep PM’s residence: Beni

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Union Minister Beniprasad 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 SP was a party based on “lies and fraud” and that it will be finished by the Congress.

Pak rejects Afghan government’s claim on Taliban

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Pakistan on 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.

CBI names Bansal’s nephew, nine others in bribery case

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The CBI Tuesday named former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal’s nephew and nine others, including a then Railway Board member, in the charge sheet filed in a Delhi court in the cash-for-post scandal.

The then Railway Board member Mahesh Kumar and Vijay Singla, nephew of former railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, have been named as accused in the charge sheet.

Delhi girl kidnapped, raped by neighbour

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A 16-year-old girl was kept hostage by a neighbour for four days in a house here and raped, said police Tuesday. The attacker and one of his friends have been arrested.

The victim, a Class 7 student from Kalyanpuri in east Delhi, was lured away from her home by her neighbour Chandan, 24, and kept hostage at his friend’s house and raped, police said.

“The girl’s parents approached us June 21 saying she was missing,” said a police officer.

Four days later, police rescued the girl from the house of Chandan’s friend, Pramod, which is located a few kilometres from the victim’s house.

UN chief concerned over escalating conflict in Syria

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday expressed grave concern over the escalating violence in Homs, Syria, renewing his call for a political solution that “remains the only way out of this tragedy”, reported Xinhua.

“The secretary-general calls on the warring sides to do their utmost to avoid civilian casualties and to allow immediate humanitarian access, as well as opportunities for trapped civilians to leave without fear of persecution,” said a statement issued by his spokesperson.