Month: July 2013

Ishrat case: Rajendra Kumar not to be named in first charge sheet

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Special Director of Intelligence Bureau, Rajendra Kumar will not be named in the first charge sheet to be filed by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on July four as the agency will be seeking more time from court to probe the conspiracy angle in the fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan and others.

“We have promised the Gujarat High Court that we will file a charge sheet on July 4 in this case and we will maintain our time limit. We will file a preliminary charge sheet,” CBI Director Ranjit Sinha told reporters on the sidelines of an Interpol conference here.

Non Bailable Warrant to 11 TDP MLAs

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Railway court has issued non-bailable warrants on eleven TDP MLAs for
participating in the rail-roko called by the TRS in 2011.
2 TRS MLAs have appeared before the court in the same case on Monday. It may be recalled that the railways had imposed restrictions on anyone trespassing or damaging the railway properties. Several MLAs, MPs, leaders and cadres had violated these orders and stopped trains. Cases were registered for violation of the orders in vogue. (NSS)

Kashmir: Policeman killed in encounter with militants

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A policeman was killed and two other security personnel were injured in an encounter with militants in Pulwama district of south Kashmir today.

The encounter took place at Tral during a counter-insurgency operation launched by the security forces following information about the presence of militants in the area, a police spokesman said.

A policeman has been killed while another cop and a CRPF jawan sustained injuries in the exchange of fire with the militants, the spokesman said.

India to have satellite-based navigation system by 2015

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India will have its own navigational systems like couple of other countries by 2015 and its space agency is in a fast production mode to roll out six more satellites for this purpose, said an official Monday.

“All the seven satellites of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) are identical and the space agency will be rolling them out. Already the second one is getting ready for the year-end or early 2014 launch,” an official at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) told IANS preferring anonymity.

A momentous week of US decisions impacting Indians

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From the passage of a comprehensive Senate immigration bill to a series of US Supreme Court rulings on minority voting rights to gay marriages, it was a week of momentous decisions with wide implications for Indians.

The Senate immigration bill passed with a 68-32 vote with 14 Republicans joining all the 54 Democrats, for one, is a mixed bag for India with IT service companies like TCS, Wipro and Infosys and US companies doing business with them complaining about higher fees for H1B and L1 visas for highly skilled workers.

If parents divorce early, impact on child is greater

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The earlier the parents divorce in a child’s life, the more significant is the impact on relationships as the child matures, reveals a new study.

Those who experience parental divorce early tend to have more insecure relationships with parents as adults than those who experience divorce later, researchers say.

“By studying the variation in parental divorce, we are hoping to learn more about how early experiences predict the quality of people’s close relationships later in life,” Chris Fraley of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign said.

For hundreds, search for missing family members continues

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Photographs of loved ones taken on happier, merrier occasions, showing a family get-together or celebrations now adorn the walls at relief camps, railway stations and bus stands. For the many hundreds of kin, photographs are the one way to trace their kin still missing even after a fortnight-long rescue and evacuation work carried out in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand.

No Ranveer-Madhuri item number in ‘Ram Leela’?

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The grapevine is abuzz that Madhuri Dixit will perform yet another item number, this time with Ranveer Singh in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s “Ram Leela”. But sources reveal there are no such plans and no space in the movie for an item song.

“We don’t know where these stories of an item song with Madhuri and Ranveer Singh started. The truth is, there is no truth to these rumours,” said the source.

Madhuri was recently seen gyrating to “Ghagra” with Ranbir Kapoor in “Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani”, but if the source is to be believed, there’s no scope of such a number in “Ram Leela”.

Pakistan’s ties with India, China dynamic: Daily

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Pakistan’s relationship with India and China is dynamic and needs “considerably more than an occasional affirmation of mutual respect”, a Pakistani daily said Monday.

An editorial in the News International said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s remarks Saturday regarding relations with India carried “substance”.

Nawaz Sharif said that he intended to continue a policy of pursuing close relations with India and this would be a “hallmark” of his government’s “foreign policy outlook”.

Boxer Amir Khan left petrified by new wife’s driving

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Boxing champion Amir Khan was shaken up after his wife took him for a road trip around his home town of Bolton in her gleaming new sports car.

Khan gifted the 72,500-pound black Mercedes SL to Faryal, 21, to celebrate their wedding, the Daily Star reported.

Faryal, who married the Brit ring king in May, is from New York and is used to American road rules.

The two-time world light-welterweight champion, 26, tweeted: “Just took Faryal for a drive in her new car.”

He further wrote that his wife normally used to drive on the opposite side of the road in USA.

———ANI

Aaradhya joins grandpa Big B to meet his fans

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Amitabh Bachchan greets hundreds of his well-wishers outside his residence Jalsa here every Sunday but it was a little different this time! His little granddaughter Aaradhya, along with her parents Aishwarya and Abhishek, also joined the megastar.

Big B posted a photograph on his blog srbachchan.tumblr.com, showcasing the 18-month-old zapped by the attention of the crowd. Aaradhya was, like most times, in her mother’s arms.

Meanwhile, Amitabh and Abhishek waved at the fans with a smile on their faces.

Charles stars in Windies narrow win over India

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Johnson Charles scored 97 off 100 balls helping the West Indies to a one-wicket over India in the second Tri-Nation One-Day International (ODI) series at Sabina Park here Sunday.

Charles smashed four sixes and eight fours as the West Indies overhauled India’s 229 for seven by scoring 230 for nine in 47.4 overs.

Darren Bravo too played a crucial innings of 55 runs, forging a 115-run stand with Charles for the fourth wicket after the Windies had lost three early wickets.

India set to launch its first dedicated navigation satellite

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The Indian rocket that at midnight will deliver the country’s first navigation satellite is being readied for its mission with its second stage getting fuelled at Sriharikota, a senior official at Indian space agency said.

“The countdown is progressing well and the filling of the liquid fuel in the second stage is going on fine. The weather is good and we do not see any hitch in the mission,” the official at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) told IANS Monday.

The 64.5 hour countdown began at 7.11 a.m. Saturday.

Wife bats for Kerala ex-minister facing sex scandal heat

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The wife of beleaguered former Kerala minister Jose Thettayil Monday came out in support of her husband, stating that he was not involved in the alleged sexual exploitation of a woman.

A 30-year-old woman recently alleged that the former minister and his son Adarsh repeatedly sexually exploited her last year and the visuals of the alleged acts were telecast by TV channels here.

Thettayil’s wife Daisy held a brief press conference and said that her husband was innocent.

Working hard on financial connectivity between ASEAN, India: Salman Khurshid

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Ahead of the India- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Post Ministerial Conference, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Monday said that the government was working very hard on achieving physical, digital and financial connectivity between ASEAN and India.

“I want to take forward the certain thing, a potential growth in trade and investment. We are working very hard on physical, digital and financial connectivity between ASEAN and India,” Khurshid said.

India to discuss bilateral trade, border issue with China on sidelines of ASEAN meet

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Ahead of the meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Monday said that the two leaders were expected to discuss bilateral trade and make some progress towards resolving the border issue.

Khurshid is meeting Wang on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-India Ministerial level meeting in Brunei.

Congress, BJP start blame game over ongoing flood relief operations

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Following the war of words on social networking sites, leaders of Congress Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have started to blame each other for the sluggish relief operations in flood hit Uttarakhand.

While the rescue operations in the flood-ravaged state are still underway, following the unprecedented catastrophe due to flash floods and landslides, political leaders trafficked the social networking sites with flaying comments.

Digvijay on AP visit; meets Congress office bearers

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AICC General Secretary Digvijay Singh, who has recently been appointed as in-charge for Congress affairs in Andhra Pradesh, had a meeting with the office bearers of the state party unit here today.

On his maiden visit to Hyderabad after his appointment, Singh interacted with state Congress leaders at Gandhi Bhavan, APCC headquarters here.

Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and APCC president Botsa Satyanarayana were present on the occasion.

During the meeting, Singh spoke about organisational matters like gearing up the party machinery in the districts, APCC sources said.

Saudi Arabia jails seven for inciting protests via Facebook

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Saudi Arabian court has reportedly sentenced seven men five to ten years in prison on charges of inciting protests by using Facebook. According to BBC, the men were arrested in September last year but their trial began this year in April and they were charged for posting online messages to encourage protests, although they were not accused of directly taking part in demonstrations.

CID probe ordered into chopping off girl’s hand

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Bihar government today ordered a CID probe into the chopping off the right hand of an eight-year-old girl at a railway station here three days ago, police said.

Director General of Police (DGP) Abhayanand ordered the CID probe into the alleged attack on Uzma Ara in a bylane near Rajendra Nagar Terminal after her mother Nasreen Khatun approached Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for justice at his Janata Durbar.

After giving a patient hearing to Khatun, Kumar directed her to meet the DGP, who, too, was present at the Janata

Indian businessman helps free hapless inmates in UAE jails

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Moved by their plight, an Indian businessman in the UAE has helped nearly 3,700 prisoners from several nations who had served their sentences but remained in jails in the country for lack of money, by paying off their
debts and buying them air tickets for home.

Firoz G Merchant, owner of a jewellery company, has already secured the release of about 3,700 prisoners since
2011, including 500 this year – spending an estimated Rs 6 crore and plans to pay off the debts of another 1,000 inmates later this year.

Child artistes go through performance pressure: Sana Saeed

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Sana Saeed, who shot to fame in her younger days with her role of Shah Rukh Khan’s daughter Anjali in ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’, believes it is difficult for child artistes to make a mark in Bollywood when they grow up.

Certain things are always expected of a child artiste and people tend to compare them with their earlier films.
Child artistes have to go through a lot of performance pressure when they grow up,” Sana told PTI.

Sana was recently seen playing a supporting role in Johar’s ‘Student of the Year’. The actress comes from the

Assange and Ecuador say whistleblower Snowden ‘marooned’ in Russia Home

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa have said that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is ‘marooned’ in the Russian airport’s transit area due to his passport being revoked by the US authorities and Russia being indecisive about his fate. According to the Washington Post, Snowden appears to be stranded on the airport because of the legal limbo Russian and Ecuadorean authorities have been trapped into.

Assange says nothing can stop whistleblower Snowden from revealing more about US ‘snoop-op’

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has reportedly said that nothing can stop NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden from revealing more about the US led ‘snooping programme’. Snowden has been stuck in the transit area of Moscow’s Shermetyevo Airport as his passport has been revoked by the US authorities and Ecuadorean government has cancelled the ‘invalid and unauthorized travel documents’ issued by one of its officials.

Remittances of illegal Pakistani workers limited under new Saudi labour laws

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More than 50,000 illegal Pakistani workers would face deportation after July 3 under new labour laws in Saudi Arabia.

The illegal workers are not only bread-winner for their families, but also play a key role in the economy in the form of remittances.

Under the new labour laws, overseas workers are restricted to work for their sponsors only in the field registered in their residence papers.

According to Express Tribune, remittances from foreign workers are important to the economies of countries such as the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.