Mumbai, May 01: Contrary to reports, Shahrukh Khan is not planning to sell his IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) which has performed shockingly poor in the ongoing tournament so far.
The passion that he puts in his work, SRK poured that in building up his IPL team, right from choosing the cheerleaders for KKR to the team’s extensive publicity campaign. But the team hasn’t performed up to the expectations of SRK and its many KKR fans.
Mumbai, May 01: So what if his last two movies were duds? Akshay Kumar still demands an amount that can make any producer’s jaw drop.
Something like this happened with writer Rumi Jaffrey while directing the comedy film ‘Life Partner’. According to some reports, Akshay Kumar was approached to play one of the lead characters and the actor apparently made his dates available for the movie.
Ahmedabad, May 01: The Supreme Court-constituted Special Investigation Team, probing certain Gujarat riot cases afresh, on Friday filed a chargesheet in Naroda Gam case in which BJP leader and former state minister Maya Kodnani is one of the prime accused.
“We have submitted a chargesheet against the accused in a local court here. The charges have been framed under IPC Sections 120 (B) for criminal conspiracy, 302 for murder, 307 for attempt to murder, 395 and 397 for loot and 143 to 147 for rioting,” a senior official in the SIT said.
Chennai, May 01: The Crime Branch CID police have sought the help of the Andhra Pradesh police in identifying a man in his thirties who was among the four people killed in the collision of two trains at Vyasarpadi Jiva railway station in Chennai on Wednesday.
Peoria, May 01: A man who was locked up without charges for years pleaded guilty on Thursday to training in al Qaeda camps and coming to the United States on a mission for the terrorist group the day before the September 11 attacks.
Ali al-Marri, 43, admitted to one count of conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organisation. A second charge of providing material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organisation was dropped.
Riyadh, May 1: An eight-year-old Saudi girl got divorced from her 50-year-old husband after the marriage drew severe criticism, the girl’s lawyer said Thursday.
Abdullah al-Jeteily said that the court in Onayza city approved the divorce decree after several officials in the region talked with the husband.
Two request by the girl’s mother for a divorce were rejected before, and one judge ruled that the girl would be able to file for divorce herself only after she reaches puberty.
Hyderabad, May 01: With the prospects of a hung assembly looming large and the need for a consensus coalition chief minister in that event, former PCC
president K Keshava Rao has become the latest Telangana Congress backward class (BC) leader whose name is doing the rounds for the top post. Keshava Rao, a former journalist is however a Rajya Sabha MP and had not contested the assembly polls.
New Delhi, May 01: This could be the worst health crisis facing the world in 90 years.
With the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday raising its People wait outside a mobile clinic in Mexico City to get tested for swine flu. (Reuters Photo)
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Cairo, April 30: An eight-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia who was secretly married off by her father to a man several times her senior was granted a divorce after years of legal haranguing, according to local press reports Thursday.
The prince of Qassim province, where the girl’s hometown of Unaizah is located, interfered to divorce the girl after a judge refused her mother’s second appeal for a divorce ruling that the child-bride would have to wait until puberty to do so.
Chennai, April 30 : The CB-CID wing of the Tamil Nadu Police, which took over the investigation into yesterday’s mysterious train mishap here, will probe all angles including sabotage behind the incident.
“It is too early to comment on the cause of the accident. Is it mischief or sabotage, it cannot be said now, but we are probing all angles since we are keeping our options open,” CB-CID ADGP Archana Ramasundaram told PTI here today.
Karachi, April 30 : At least four persons were killed today in fresh clashes between two ethnic groups in this southern Pakistani port city, taking the toll in two days of widespread violence to 27.
Several parts of Karachi continued to be tense as armed members of the two groups clashed with each other and burnt at least 10 shops. Four persons were killed in incidents of firing today, TV channels reported. Twenty-three people were killed in clashes yesterday.
Gangtok, April 30: Long queues were seen outside polling booths in Sikkim, where elections were underway Thursday for the one Lok Sabha and 32 assembly constituencies.
The situation was peaceful with no reports of any untoward incidents, police said.
There were more women than men in the queues which started forming even before the polling centres opened at 7 a.m. Young voters, many of them exercising their franchise for the first time, were also seen lining up with great enthusiasm.
Panaji, April 30: A children’s court here has ordered framing of charges against Rohit Monserrate, son of Goa Education Minister Atanasio Monserrate. Rohit is accused of raping and sending vulgar messages to a minor German girl.
Setting aside the arguments put forth by Rohit’s counsel, Goa Children’s Court president Desmond D’Costa observed that there was sufficient reason to indicate the involvement of Rohit in the rape of the 14-year-old German girl.
Ahmedabad, April 30: About 20 percent of Gujarat’s voters exercised their franchise in the first three hours of polling in all 26 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state Thursday, poll officials said.
Chief Minister Narendra Modi cast his ballot at 9 a.m. at a booth in Ranip, under the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency.
Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial aspirant L.K. Advani is the party candidate from Gandhinagar.
Mumbai, April 30: Film stars, industrialists and other celebrities may have turned up but the 10 parliamentary constituencies in Mumbai and Thane notched only 5.5 percent voting in the first three hours of polling for the final phase of Maharashtra’s general elections Thursday.
However, the turnout is expected to increase later in the day as people finish their morning chores before stepping out to vote, a polling official said.
London, April 30: Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan has flown to India from South Africa to cast his vote in the 2009 general elections. Actress Shilpa Shetty regrets that she won’t be able to exercise her franchise this time because of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Siliguri, April 30: There was a poll boycott in two booths of West Bengal’s hill district of Darjeeling though enthusiastic queues of people were seen elsewhere under a thick blanket of fog and intermittent rain Thursday.
Fifteen to 20 percent votes were cast in the first two hours of the polls for the only Lok Sabha constituency of the district – Darjeeling – from where Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) heavyweight Jaswant Singh is trying his luck.
Ahmedabad, April 30: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has made Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in charge of recording turnout at booth number 124 of Amraiwadi locality in Maninagar constituency during the Lok Sabha polls underway Thursday, a party source said.
As per tradition, BJP workers are put on poll duty at various booths to record the turnout of voters and report to their seniors after voting ends.
Modi has been asked to monitor booth number 124 that serves two housing societies at Amraiwadi. The area falls under his assembly constituency Maninagar.
Gandhinagar, April 30: BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate L K Advani today sought a fixed term for Lok Sabha and state Assemblies and wanted voting to be made compulsory with elections to be scheduled in the month of February.
“I suggest that political parties and the Election Commission should think over whether we can change the Constitution for a fixed tenure for Lok Sabha and Assemblies,” 81-year-old Advani said after casting his vote here.
“We are following the UK pattern which does not suit us and we should change it,” he told reporters.
Wellington, April 30 : A 75-year-old New Zealand man has been jailed for two years on 27 charges of possessing objectionable images, mainly of young boys in sexual poses or acts, following a tip-off from police in Germany, news reports said Thursday.
The Department of Internal Affairs said that Edward Kent of Christchurch was the oldest person to be prosecuted for possessing sex pictures obtained via the Internet.
Kathmandu, April 29: As Nepal’s ruling Maoist party continued its war with the army, pushing for the ouster of the controversial army chief, the UN has expressed concern, saying strained ties between the major political parties could block the long-awaited unification of the Maoists’ guerrilla fighters with the state troops.
Mumbai, April 28: Preity Zinta’s Kings XI Punjab won the match against Vijay Mallya’s Royal Challengers in Durban as also against Shilpa Shetty’s Rajasthan Royals yesterday. Preity is apparently very happy with her team’s tremendous performance as they beat out Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals in yesterdays match. A close friend of Preity reveals, ”Preity always feels that winning against any team is an entire teams effort and she is very proud of her team for having put on winning efforts.
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Beijeng, April 28: The Khunjerab Pass connecting China and Pakistan has so far been used for joint security drills and a small amount of trade between the
two countries. For the first time, the historical pass is being opened up for tourism as the two nations intensify their people to people contacts.
Hyderabad, April 28: Charlapally jail officials on Friday found a prisoner possessing a cell phone. According to prison officials, one of the jail wardens
found a cell phone in the trouser pocket of Mohammed Shamin Gali, 29, during a search.
Tirupati, April 28: Congress candidate for Chittoor assembly constituency C K Jayachandra Reddy alias C K Babu was arrested on Monday following a complaint
lodged by TDP leaders at Yadamarri police station in Chittoor.
The TDP leaders complained that CK was involved in the attack on the house of a TDP MPTC member Chitti, which was destroyed by a mob in Dasaravaripalle village on the night of April 24. The MPTC member alleged that CK along with 40 other Congressmen was involved in the attack on his house.
Based on his complaint, police arrested CK. He was later released on bail.