Photos show rape and sex abuse in Iraq jails

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London, May 28: Photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse which US President Barack Obama does not want released include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse, Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Thursday.

The images are among photographs included in a 2004 report into prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison conducted by US Major General Antonio Taguba.

Taguba included allegations of rape and sexual abuse in his report, and on Wednesday he confirmed to the Daily Telegraph that images supporting those allegations were also in the file.

Internet Serves Da’wah in Brazil

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Brasilia, May 28: In a vast country like Brazil, the inte is emerging as the most effective tool to spread the message of Islam, says a leading Muslim scholar in the South American nation.

“The inte is one of the most successful contemporary da`wah tools,” Al-Sadiq Al-Othmani, head of the Islamic Affairs Department at the Center of Islamic Da’wah in Latin America, told.

“That’s why I encourage scholars to spread the word to broader masses through the web, especially in such a vast country.”

CM angry over encroachments

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New Delhi: After the trifurcation issue, MCD officials were on the receiving end of the CM’s displeasure on Tuesday for the increasing encroachments and unauthorised constructions springing up in Delhi.

The review meeting, which saw the entire top brass of the civic authority as well as NDMC turn up, also had issues relating to Commonwealth Games 2010 such as removal of hoardings, encroachments and improvement of sanitation as other main topics of discussion.

City boy gets 98.6% in CBSE

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Mumbai,May 27: It’s an irony of sorts that, while the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) pass percentage for the Chennai region – which includes Mumbai has been inching upwards over the last three years, the pass percentage for Maharashtra is marginally lower than what it was in earlier years.

The CBSE Board announced its results for the Class X board examinations in three regions, Chennai, Ajmer and Panchkula, on Tuesday.

Mumbai cong to fund Slumdog kids’ homes

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Mumbai,May 27: : The Mumbai Regional Congress Committee (MRCC) led by Kripashankar Singh will bear the cost of the two Mhada tenements to be allotted to Slumdog Millionaire child stars-Mohammed Azharuddin and Rubina Qureshi. Each tenement has a carpet area of 180 sq ft and costs Rs 3 lakh.

The decision was taken in New Delhi. Speaking to TOI, Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh said, “I requested CM Ashok Chavan to expedite the process of allotting houses to these actors.

Govt names directors of six new IITs

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New Delhi,May 27: The government on Tuesday announced the names of directors of six new IITs five months after TOI first reported the matter.

While U B Desai will be director of IIT, Hyderabad, M K Surappa will head the one in Ropar. Sudhir Kumar Jain will head the one in Gandhinagar, Madhusudan Chakraborty in Bhubaneswar and Anil Bhowmick in Patna. Prem Kumar Kalra will be the director of the IIT located in Rajasthan.

HRD ministry sources said that the Cabinet clearance has been secured and the new directors have been given the appointment letters.

Tigress enters home to escape cyclone fury

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New Delhi,May 27: A family hit by the ferocity of cyclone Aila in a village near the Sundarbans had a bigger shock awaiting them when they found a full grown tigress crouching in their home.

Pintu Mirdha and his family members in Jamespur village under Gosaba police station in South 24 Pargana district were trapped in their home encircled by flood waters as the cyclone raged outside on Monday.

As the water level rose, Pintu was petrified to find the predator in one of the rooms.

MBA student murdered in Qutab Area

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New Delhi,May 27: On the day he was supposed to fly to Switzerland on a study trip, a 26-year-old MBA student was found brutally murdered in south Delhi in what appears to be a case of rivalry in love.

The body of Anand Tiwari, a fourth semester student at Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM), was found in the bushes inside Sanjay Van area of Qutab Institutional Area on Tuesday morning, with his head badly battered.

90 arrested in child porn sting

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Paris, May 27: A French police official says 90 people have been detained in a nationwide sweep of suspected consumers of online child pornography.

The official says Tuesday’s operation stemmed from the 2004 arrest of an 18-year-old man who was running a child pornography ring.

The teenager, from the northern city of Clermont, traded pornographic photos and videos of children as young as babies. He has since been incarcerated.

Salman throws Katrina out of his life

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Mumbai,May 27: Salman Khan finally seems to have taken a final stand on ladylove Katrina Kaif. After repeatedly proposing her for marriage and being turned down each time, Salman seems to have had enough of Katrina Kaif.

He is now trying to remove Katrina’s memories from his house and has started removing all her belongings from his house.

Salman who recently left for London to shoot for his upcoming movie Veer made sure none of Katrina’s memories were left in his Galaxy Apartments den. Salman shares the apartment with his family and Katrina used to be a regular visitor.

Down the memory lane with Kimmy Katkar

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Mumbai, May 27: Once sex symbol, now glam-mom. In her first interview in years, Kimmy Katkar opens up on her gritty fight for her son’s life and life after Bollywood

For starters, she was never Kimi. “It’s Kimmy Katkar. Someone spelt it wrong and it stuck. I hated it, ” says Katkar. She of the arched eyebrows and long legs, desi Jane to an eminently forgettable Tarzan, Jumma to a lusting Amitabh Bachchan in Hum, has just welcomed me to her home with a cool glass of iced tea.

Akram says Pakistan hungry

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Karachi, May 27: Former Test player Sanjay Manjrekar put his money on defending champions India but pace great Wasim Akram reckons Pakistan, mostly bereft of international cricket, would be hungry for success in next month`s ICC World Twenty20 in England.

Manjrekar had no doubt that Mahendra Singh Dhoni would lead the most formidable squad to try and defend the title they won in 2007 even though he was candid enough to admit it doesn’t necessarily mean they would win the title again.

Katrina leaves Salman in a lurch

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Mumbai,May 27: Bollywood’s real life couple Katrina and Salman have been together since 2003 but haven’t tied the knot yet. And it seems that the couple is not thinking of walking down the aisle in the near future as well.

Katrina who is currently riding high on a popularity wave with promising projects like Ajab Prem Ki Ghajab Kahani, De Dana Dan and Rajniti is more keen to concentrate on her career. Salman on the other hand has already made a mark in the industry.

“Welcome to a restaurant where waiter’s are monkeys!”

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London, May 27: How about visiting a restaurant for dinner, and being greeted by monkey waiters!

Kayabuki restaurant in remote countryside of Japan is flocked with guests from all over Japan who come to see its “monkey” staff.

The most popular monkey is six-year-old Fuku-chan who greets guests and brings them hot towels at the end of their meal.

“He has these airs and graces that make him look just like a French waiter at a posh restaurant,” the Sun quoted a diner as saying.

YSR announces portfolios, Sabita first woman Home Minister

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Hyderabad, May 27: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy’s adopted sister P Sabita Indra Reddy was elevated and made the new Home minister, the first woman in the state to hold the crucial porfolio once held by her late husband.

Sabita(46), a Mines and Geology minister in the previous Rajasekhara Reddy ministry, follows in the footsteps of her late husband Indra Reddy who was the Home Minister in the N T Rama Rao Cabinet in 1994-95. Like in the past, the chief minister will have the sensitive law and order subject.

Friends or Foes?

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Mumbai, May 27: Salman Khan probably feels it is high time he buries the hatchet between him and Shah Rukh Khan.

I mean, half his family is on best of terms with SRK. Maybe, he figures, it’s time he let bygones be bygones. What else could be the reason behind his decision to appear on one of SRK’s shows.

Gunman attacks Saudi bus carrying foreigners

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Riyadh, May 27: A gunman in a speeding car opened fire on a bus carrying five foreigners in eastern Saudi Arabia, but no one was injured in the incident, the interior ministry said.

The bus was traveling in the Gulf coast petrochemical hub of Jubail when it was fired on from an overtaking car, said ministry spokesman General Mansur Al Turki.

The shots shattered the rear window in the bus but neither the Pakistani driver nor the passengers – three Britons, one Saudi, and one Syrian were injured, he said. The five men all work for the same company, which was not identified.

Iraq’s Alcohol-drinking Youth

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Baghdad, May 27: The consumption of alcohol in on the upswing in Iraq, particularly among its younger generations from different social classes and genders. “I and my friends are used to leave college and get some snacks with bear in a local restaurant at Mansour district,” Khalid, a business school student in Baghdad, told.

“There is nothing to do in this country and we have to find nice ways to have fun with our friends. The alcohol is just a detail and can help us get some relaxation from the tough life.”

France Muslim school condemned to death

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Paris, May 27: France’s oldest and most successful Muslim school is on the verge of collapse over financial problems, with many pointing the fingers at the government for denying it the same grants given to all faith schools.

“We are collapsing under the weight of our debts,” Yvonne Fazilleau, the headteacher of Réussite (Ibn Rushd) school, told.

The school has debts to the tune of €300,000 and is on the brink of bankruptcy.

“Last week our accountant said to me: ‘We are penniless’.”

Fazilleau says the school managed to stay afloat last year through charity.

I am not a nude or topless model

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New York, May 27: Salman Khan’s ‘special’ friend and Hollywood actress Claudia Ciesla is livid. And very rightly so! The Indian media has incorrectly ‘termed’ her a nude and a topless model. In an exclusive interview to a reporter, Claudia poured her heart out:

“I had done just one shoot 4 years ago and that too for a very prestigious international publication. That was at the beginning of my career, and while I won’t say it was a mistake; I may add in hindsight that it was an indiscretion.”

‘SIX WAYS TO KILL CLASSMATE’: Schoolgirls make YouTube video

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A cartoon YouTube video set to a Hannah Montana song made waves over the weekend for its whimsical depiction of numerous ways to murder a sixth grade schoolgirl.

The video was made by girls at a Spanaway, Washington school who apparently had a falling out with a classmate, Piper. The clip carries illustrations of Piper being shot, made to commit suicide, thrown off a cliff and poisoned.

“I was horrified,” Beth Smith, Piper’s mother, told KING5.

Aamir-SRK meet up

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Mumbai, May 26: All those who think that after their high profile meet to resolve the producers-distributors’ ongoing strike against the multiplex lobby Aamir Khan Aamir and Shah Rukh KhanMore Pics
and Shah Rukh Khan haven’t come together again; here’s a piece of news.

The two actors who sent flashbulbs into a tizzy on April 7 at a hotel in Mumbai, met again at a suburban studio a few days ago to catch up with the producers and check what exactly is the status on the strike.

72-yr-old held for raping maid

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New Delhi, May 26: A 72-year-old wholesale fruit dealer has been arrested for allegedly raping his 20-year-old domestic help. Police said Thakur Das raped his maid of six years on May 14 at his Punjabi Bagh house in West Delhi.

“She was found in a semi-conscious state near Das’s house on May 14. She could not identify herself initially.

She was taken to a hospital where doctors confirmed that she was raped. A case was registered against unknown persons on the same day,” said a senior police official, not authorised to speak to media.

CBSE class X results to be announced today

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New Delhi, May 26: The Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE) will declare the results of Class X for Ajmer, Chennai and Panchkula regions on Tuesday.

However, the results of other regions and Delhi will be announced by the end of this month.

The results will be put up on the website www.cbse.nic.in and www.cbse.results.nic.in .

The schools can also get results by giving their school code and email-id by registering themselves. Students can get their results on their e-mail address by registering themselves on the web sites: www.results.nic.in.

20K apply for 800 affordable flats

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Mumbai, May 26: The possibility of an affordable home not only eludes the vast middle class in the private sector, but also the Central public sector employees across the country, reflecting the gross shortage of houses.